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Sochi, Sodastream, Snow Woes, and More

Feb 01, 7:00PM

Sochi, Sodastream, Snow Woes, and More

If you didn't spend this week stranded on an icy highway, you spent it reading about people stranded on an icy highway. But there was plenty of other stuff going on, including our review of LG's puzzling curved phone and a troubling look at the incomplete state of Sochi's Olympic facilities. Here's what went on this week.

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How to Bet on the Super Bowl Online (Without Getting in Trouble)

Feb 01, 6:05PM

How to Bet on the Super Bowl Online (Without Getting in Trouble)

The legality of online sports betting exists in a sort of shrouded grey fog of possibly questionable behavior. However, there are still plenty of quality offshore operations that are willing to take your bets and pay out your winnings. If you want to know how to bet on sports online—like, say, for the Super Bowl—we'll tell you.

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How To Deep Fry Without A Deep Fryer (And Make 5 Super Bowl Treats)

Feb 01, 6:00PM

How To Deep Fry Without A Deep Fryer (And Make 5 Super Bowl Treats)

For a lot of us, just thinking about the Super Bowl elicits a craving for deep-fried goodness. If you're without a dedicated fryer, don't fear. Modernist Cuisine at Home will show you how to achieve the same effect with a handful of conventional kitchen tools you just might have lying around.

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Help NASA Find Baby Solar Systems Forming Deep In Our Universe

Feb 01, 5:00PM

Help NASA Find Baby Solar Systems Forming Deep In Our Universe

NASA scientists are poring over their most detailed snapshots of our universe, searching for the hallmark shapes that indicate a planet being formed. And you can help them, even if you never got that Ph.D. in astronomy, just by hopping on the Disk Detective website.

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Why the FCC Can Save Net Neutrality

Feb 01, 4:00PM

Why the FCC Can Save Net Neutrality

The Electronic Frontier Foundation's recent post on Net Neutrality started off well. It rightly noted that "[v]iolations of network neutrality are a real and serious problem: in recent years we have seen dozens of ISPs in the U.S. and around the world interfere with and discriminate against traffic on their networks."

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Watch Fermilab's Astoundingly Massive Neutrino Detector Being Built

Feb 01, 3:00PM

The Department of Energy's Fermilab is building a gargantuan detector to examine uncharged subatomic neutrinos that can blast through the earth unimpeded. The 14,000-ton detector in Minnesota will capture neutrinos shot from a cannon over 500 miles away. Watch how they build a huge catcher's mitt for subatomic particles.

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The Pebble smartwatch is getting an app store, set to go live on Monday at 1PM EST.

Feb 01, 2:30PM

The Pebble smartwatch is getting an app store, set to go live on Monday at 1PM EST. The timing coincides nicely with the debut of Pebble Steel, which began shipping on January 28th. [Pebble via Slashgear]

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How To Turn the Settlers Of Catan Board Into a Globe

Feb 01, 2:00PM

How To Turn the Settlers Of Catan Board Into a Globe

If you've played every expansion available, and have mixed up the rules six ways from Sunday, but are still finding yourself bored of The Settlers of Catan, here's a hail mary pass that might just make it interesting again. It involves turning the game's 2D board into a 3D sphere that Instructables user PenfoldPlant calls the Catanosphere.

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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Volans

Feb 01, 5:00AM

And this is your brain on LSD, it's a good thing.

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Impressive 3D brain scan shows every neuron connection in a brain

Feb 01, 3:30AM

Impressive 3D brain scan shows every neuron connection in a brain

If you look at the wires behind your entertainment console, you're going to see different colors tangled up with different things leading to different places you forgot existed. It's an awful ugly mess. Seeing the brain is like that, only the opposite because in its chaos is beauty. Just look at the 3D brain scan above that shows every synapse, it's like a 3D Jackson Pollock painting.

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How to crush a soda can without using any physical force

Feb 01, 2:45AM

How to crush a soda can without using any physical force

Crushing cans with your bare hands or stepping on them with your full body weight or shooting them with a bb gun are all fun ways to destroy an aluminum can. What might be most fun is letting it crush itself. How? Magical pressure.

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Pranking people into thinking you're an Apple Store employee is funny

Feb 01, 2:00AM

When you walk inside an Apple store and start swiping one of their iPads, a clingy, colorful shirt wearing person usually attaches themselves to you and gives you the verbal rubdown of the features. It's part of the Apple Store experience! But what if that Apple Store employee was a fake? What if they scared you away with rumors of diseased products, advice to buy Android phones and unbelievable steals? Well, it'd be pretty damn funny.

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St. Vincent's New Video Takes Place In a City Fit for Le Corbusier

Feb 01, 2:00AM

St. Vincent is kind of like that girl from high school. You know the one. She didn't care about the popular kids. She wore vintage clothes before they were cool, and she drove to the city on the weekends to see art house flicks with her friends who were already in college. Damn, that girl was cool.

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Adult-sized child made a street legal Little Tikes Car that goes 70mph

Feb 01, 1:11AM

Adult-sized child made a street legal Little Tikes Car that goes 70mph

Do you know what the most disappointing thing about being an adult is? It's not the slow metabolism or the achy joints or the plateau of growth, it's the fact that we're all failures to our childhood selves. We don't eat candy, we don't play with toys and we drive responsible vehicles. Not John Bitmead though, he's the type of full-fledged adult who wouldn't disappoint his childhood self because he made a street legal Little Tikes Car that can zoom up to 70mph.

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Most Beautiful Items: January 24 - 31, 2014

Feb 01, 1:00AM

Most Beautiful Items: January 24 - 31, 2014

The Statue of Liberty's arm, building laws that were meant to be broken, and oh hey is there a Super Bowl tie-in in here somewhere? Imagine that. But that's not all we have to feed your eyeballs this week. Check out the most beautiful items of the week or remain in suspense forever.

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This Week's Best Photo-Related Posts on Reframe

Feb 01, 12:01AM

This Week's Best Photo-Related Posts on Reframe

Did you guys know there is a Gizmodo subdomain where you can go for all things photographic? Yep! It's called Reframe, and it's where you'll find additional coverage of gear, techniques, news, and all kinds of great stuff related to the crafts of photography and videography.

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A Guide to Bitcoin's Legality In Different Countries Around the World

Jan 31, 11:40PM

A Guide to Bitcoin's Legality In Different Countries Around the World

Americans are spoiled—at least where Bitcoin's concerned, we are. While people are free to mine, spend, and speculate on Bitcoin freely here in the States, citizens of other countries aren't so lucky.

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This amazing magic eye music video hides fun secret moving images

Jan 31, 11:36PM

Remember how frustrating those Magic Eye images were when you were a kid? It seemed like everyone but you could see the hidden message. Until you figured it out and rubbed it in everyone's face that they couldn't see it. This video by Young Rival is just like those Magic Eye pictures only it turns the whole hidden message thing into one entire music video. It's so much fun.

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This Week in Time Capsules: Tweets and Teetotalers

Jan 31, 11:24PM

This Week in Time Capsules: Tweets and Teetotalers

This week in our time capsule round-up we have a surprise capsule in Ohio filled with who-knows-what, a social media-based capsule compiled Down Under, and a church capsule in Berkeley warning that the path to Hell is paved with social drinkers.

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Berlin's BoomRoom Plays Sounds Only You Can Hear (and Touch)

Jan 31, 11:20PM

Berlin's BoomRoom Plays Sounds Only You Can Hear (and Touch)

You know how some big rooms have special spots where you can stand and hear someone whisper from a hundred feet away. What if speakers could do that, selectively slinging sounds to specific listeners for specific purposes? You'd never have to wear headphones again!

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Watch a pilot crash his fighter jet and eject at the very last second

Jan 31, 11:08PM

Watch a pilot crash his fighter jet and eject at the very last second

I came across this crazy video today. It shows the crash landing of a Royal Air Force Harrier plane landing at Kandahar back in 2009. Watch as fire engulfs the plane as the pilot tries to control it, jumping at the very last second, when the flames reach the cockpit.

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Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

Jan 31, 11:00PM

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

It's Friday night. Time to cut loose, get fancied up, and go hit the town. Here's some brand new apps to dress up your phone for the weekend.

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New York Wants To Kill All Of Its Invasive Swans

Jan 31, 10:40PM

New York Wants To Kill All Of Its Invasive Swans

Swans: elegant symbols of romantic love or terrorizers of plants, small children, and airplanes? The non-native mute swan has been wreaking enough havoc in New York City that the state's Department of Environmental Conservation wants to declare it a "prohibited invasive species." By 2025, under the proposed plan, there will be virtually no more wild mute swans in all of New York.

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Snow, Snowy Owls, and Lack of Snow: What's Ruining Our Cities This Week

Jan 31, 10:39PM

Snow, Snowy Owls, and Lack of Snow: What's Ruining Our Cities This Week

It's been an especially cold and dreary winter week for just about everyone—except the host city for the Winter Olympics. It's a rather chilly peek at what's Ruining Our Cities.

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Let's Talk About Whatever You Want Right Now

Jan 31, 10:36PM

Let's Talk About Whatever You Want Right Now

It's almost time for the Super Bowl (read: it's almost time for nachos), and when there's a weekend of gluttony on the way, it's extra hard to concentrate at work. NO BIG DEAL. Let's just talk about whatever and stuff.

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