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What Is a Hangover?
Jan 01, 5:00PM
Yippee! Let's poison ourselves with beverages that will make us violently ill! It was your battle cry last night, and today you're paying the price. But what is that hangover you're experiencing, exactly?
This Roomba-Riding Baby Is the Perfect Way to Start 2014
Jan 01, 4:00PM
We here at Gizmodo enjoy a rich, vibrant history of tiny creatures riding Roombas. So naturally, we can think of no better way to welcome Baby New Year than with an actual baby. Riding a Roomba. Straight into 2014 and into our hearts. Our clean, dust-free hearts. [@hellogiggle via Kyle Wagner]
The World's 19 Weirdest Hangover Remedies
Jan 01, 3:00PM
When you travel the world, having a few drinks with your hosts is a great way to get a sense of the local culture. But excessive alcohol consumption can cause physiological consequences. Don't worry—a hangover is universal, and your new friends probably already know a way to cope with it.
I just don't get tired of seeing awesome photos of rocket launches
Jan 01, 2:48PM
I love rocket launches photos, especially when they are as awesome as this photo by Pat Corkery, featured by the US Air Force.
This pickup truck is made of ice and you can actually drive it
Jan 01, 2:25PM
Behold the first self-propelled ice sculpture ever—a truck made of ice that actually works! It's a real truck, using 11,000 pounds of ice over a regular truck chassis complete with engine and electrical system. Check out the videos to see how they built it—and how it melted.
Polar Bear! The 4 Best Places to Take a Frigid Dip This New Year's Day
Jan 01, 2:00PM
It's New Year's morning—you've got a champagne hangover and half an ill-advised Meat Lover's pizza on your nightstand. What could possibly make this day better? For some, it's jumping into an ice-fringed ocean.
4.6 Million Snapchat User Names and Phone Numbers Leaked (Check Yours)
Jan 01, 8:38AM
Oh dear. In an inauspicious start to 2014 for both Snapchat and its users, a website appears to have published user name and phone number information for 4.6 million accounts.
The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: All the Way
Jan 01, 5:00AM
Happy 2014 everybody! Now take a tip from famed poet Charles Bukowski and stop half-assing your way through those new years resolutions.
How to Order Fresh Food Online
Dec 31, 11:30PM
Services like Seamless, Grub Hub, and Eat 24 are lifesavers when you're hungry and don't feel like cooking, but they only serve prepared fare. So what do you do when you want to make your own meal but can't bother going to the supermarket yourself? Place your order with one of these helpful online grocers and get your goods delivered right to your door.
This clear purple sea creature is proof the ocean is where aliens hide
Dec 31, 11:10PM
Say hi to the Portuguese man o' war. It's purple, it's clear, it looks like a balloon, it's painfully venomous, but it's not a jellyfish and you wouldn't have to convince me too hard that it's from an alien world. This Portuguese man o' war, which other than being a fantastic name, washed up on a beach to freak people out (and to expose the alien hideout that is the ocean).
Is the Internet More Vulnerable To Physical Attacks Than To Hacking?
Dec 31, 11:00PM
The Obama administration has been stoking the fires of fear about a cyberattack on America's infrastructure for well over a year now, but a little-discussed physical attack on a power plant earlier this year suggests we shouldn't ignore more traditional threats.
8 Urban Stories You Might Have Missed in 2013
Dec 31, 10:30PM
Rob Ford, CitiBike, Bay Area tech woes, China's crippling smog: You've seen all the big headlines for cities this year. But here are a few of the urbanism stories that might have flown under your radar.
Happiness is seeing happy dogs happily stick their heads out of cars
Dec 31, 10:16PM
Let's end the year on a happy note. And happiness is this photo series by photographer Lara Jo Regan. Called Dogs in Cars, it's photo after photo of well, dogs sticking their heads out of moving cars. Is there anything in the world more joyful than seeing that? I don't think so.
TLDR: 9 Paleofuture Stories From 2013 You Swore You'd Finish Later
Dec 31, 10:04PM
From the story of Upton Sinclair's failed utopian community in New Jersey to that post about DARPA actually trying to build Skynet in the 1980s — these were the longform stories that you swore you'd finish one day but never got around to. Well, here's your second chance.
Track The Exact Location Where These Wood Fixtures Were Felled
Dec 31, 10:00PM
Ninebyfour is a limited edition of 79 light fixtures, each made from a single piece of Stadshout, or "city wood": timber felled around Amsterdam's public spaces and destined for the chipper, but saved here to be transformed into something new.
This Year, Canada Spent $14,000 Asking People If Superheroes Can Fly
Dec 31, 9:40PM
Can superheroes leap over tall buildings? Can they become invisible? Can they walk through walls? Can they fly? These are the types of cutting-edge questions asked in a recent study commissioned by Canada's armed forces. Weird, huh?
This camera stabilizer seems to defy the laws of physics
Dec 31, 9:21PM
Though it may look fake and unreal and impossible and not allowed on Earth, the camera stabilizer in the video is completely real. You can't make it shake. It's like magic decided to defy physics and ignore gravity. All I want to do is park myself in front of a mirror and do as many twists and turns and spins as possible to see if I can get the camera off track. Like this guy.
The Best Gizmodo Stories of 2013
Dec 31, 9:08PM
We've posted thousands of pieces in 2013, so to pluck out a few dozen and to call them our favorite is in some ways impossibly arbitrary. But that doesn't mean we didn't try.
What Are Your Tech Resolutions for 2014?
Dec 31, 8:30PM
We all have our standard, age-old New Years resolutions. Quit smoking. Work out more. Come to terms with ever present self hatred. But there's more to life than just health and wellness. There are computers! And social networks! So is this the year you finally kick Facebook? (Yeah right!) Or maybe the year you stop staring at your phone constantly? (Probably not!) What are your hopeless tech resolutions for 2014?
The Number of People Killed in Covert Drone Strikes is Down 50 Percent
Dec 31, 8:00PM
As another year comes to a close, another batch of sobering numbers about the United States' semi-secret drone war is in. They're actually not as bad as they used to be.
Can Radar and RFID Stop Drivers From Killing Cyclists?
Dec 31, 7:30PM
Last month, London reached a grim milestone: Six cyclists were killed within 14 days, sparking a massive "die-in" protest. London isn't alone; 176 cyclists or pedestrians were killed in NYC last year. The rapidly rising death toll is spurring a race to build a technology to warn drivers before they hit someone on foot or bike.
A Map of the 124 United States of America That Could Have Been
Dec 31, 7:00PM
The fact that we've kept the number of U.S. states relatively static is nothing short a miracle—there have been hundreds of attempts at state secession over the years. But what if they had all succeeded? This brilliant map depicts that alternative universe, where the U.S. is broken up into 124 different states that stretch from sea-to-shining-sea.
The Complete List of Everything Banned by Mayor Michael Bloomberg
Dec 31, 6:23PM
Michael Bloomberg leaves office tomorrow after 12 years as New York City's mayor. No mayor in recent memory has added so much to a city. Or taken so much away. To remember him properly, here's a list of everything Bloomberg banned during his time in office.
Drunk Driving and The Pre-History of Breathalyzers
Dec 31, 6:01PM
Drunk driving combines two of America's favorite pastimes: getting absolutely hammered and driving an automobile. But before the invention of the modern breathalyzer in the 1950s, determining if someone was too intoxicated to operate a motor vehicle was incredibly subjective. It took decades for law enforcement technology to catch up with one of our most pervasive crimes.
Mystery Steam Over Fukushima Could Be Sign of Another Meltdown
Dec 31, 6:00PM
The newest update in the highly disconcerting series of devastating failures that is the Fukushima cleanup effort is troubling to say the least. Tepco has confirmed that (unexplained) plumes of steam have been rising from the mangled remains of Reactor Building 3. In other words, there's a chance Fukushima could be in the middle of another meltdown.
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