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What's Your Proudest Online Accomplishment?

Mar 15, 9:00PM

What's Your Proudest Online Accomplishment?

The internet is the place to pump your ideas out and hope they'll resonate with someone somewhere. When digital strangers agree with your opinions, fawn over your pictures, or laugh at your jokes, it feels good, man. What was your biggest internet hit?

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Would we ever see a world in which Titanfall mechs rule the Earth?

Mar 15, 8:28PM

Would we ever see a world in which Titanfall mechs rule the Earth?

Concept designer Al Crutchley has a lot of cool machine in his mind, from ekranoplanes and mechs to flying infantry and missile batteries orbiting in the Asteroid Belt. Would we ever see a world in which such machines are real? It's something like Titanfall coming to the future of Humanity?

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This week in Tech Reads: internet drones, bee brain surgery, the continued search for Flight 370, an

Mar 15, 8:00PM

This week in Tech Reads: internet drones, bee brain surgery, the continued search for Flight 370, and more.

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Navy Virtual Reality, NiceBooby.Net, Fake UberFacts, and More

Mar 15, 7:00PM

Navy Virtual Reality, NiceBooby.Net, Fake UberFacts, and More

Well this was a hell of a week. We blew the lid off of NBC's collection of dirty-name URLs, debunked 24 hours' worth of fake UberFacts, toured China's largest ghost city, and more. Let's take a look back, shall we?

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Lego Robot With a Smartphone Brain Shatters Rubik's Cube World Record

Mar 15, 6:00PM

Lego Robot With a Smartphone Brain Shatters Rubik's Cube World Record

Cubestormer 3 is a robot with just one job—to solve a scrambled Rubik's Cube as swiftly as possible. Today, at the Big Bang Fair in Birmingham, UK, it did the task in an astounding 3.253 seconds, faster than any human or robot in the world. Just look at that thing go.

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Shamrock Science Will Help You Get Lucky on St. Patrick's Day

Mar 15, 5:00PM

Finding a four-leaf clover is supposed to be all about good luck, but who says you can't boost your odds? The super-nerds at Scientific American are here to tell you exactly how to find a four-leafer using science, rather than superstition.

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Train Your Brain to Get Smarter, Faster

Mar 15, 4:00PM

Train Your Brain to Get Smarter, Faster

Though we can't all hope to match Sherlock Holmes' preternatural deduction abilities and knack for witty repartee, with a little practice you can build a Mind Palace just as lavish as the famed detective's. Here's how you can improve your memory and reasoning skills in your free time.

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Torrent Site Popcorn Time, Shut Down Yesterday, Is Alive Again

Mar 15, 3:00PM

Torrent Site Popcorn Time, Shut Down Yesterday, Is Alive Again

That was quick. After closing up shop yesterday among the usual copyright questions , and just a week after its first launch, Popcorn Time is back. TorrentFreak has the story of how the project, abandoned by its founders, will live on at the hands of YTS developers.

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Malaysian Prime Minister: Missing Plane Was Deliberately Diverted

Mar 15, 2:00PM

Malaysian Prime Minister: Missing Plane Was Deliberately Diverted

In a news conference on missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 today, Prime Minister Najib Razak declared that the plane was deliberately diverted from its prescribed route to Beijing, flying up to seven hours after takeoff, says The New York Times. Malaysian authorities have released a map plotting the plane's last satellite signals somewhere along two large arcs crossing Asia.

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Google Play Made it Slightly Harder to Blow Money on In-App Purchases

Mar 15, 1:00PM

Google Play Made it Slightly Harder to Blow Money on In-App Purchases

Good news for habitual in-app spenders (or their parents): Android Police says Google's newest Play store update lets you curb spending by opting to require a password for every in-app upgrade. It may not actually stop you, but hopefully it'll make you stop and think. Maybe.

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Ball of fire illuminates Earth in unbelievable photo taken from space

Mar 15, 6:47AM

Ball of fire illuminates Earth in unbelievable photo taken from space

This truly outstanding photo taken from the International Space Station shows the Japanese HTV-4 spacecraft illuminating the Earth's clouds as it disintegrates in the atmosphere during re-entry. Unbelievable shot.

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Stunning Titanfall intro sequence makes me wish there was a full movie

Mar 15, 6:20AM

Stunning Titanfall intro sequence makes me wish there was a full movie

Not only is Titanfall, the video game that everyone can't stop talking about, an incredibly fun game that surpasses the hype , it also has this fantastic cinematic intro sequence that makes me almost wish I could watch the movie version of Titanfall instead of playing the video game.

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Watching adorable dogs kissing for the first ti—ok, that's enough

Mar 15, 6:11AM

Watching adorable dogs kissing for the first ti—ok, that's enough

OK, folks, we started this whole strangers kissing viral craze and we have had enough of it. This video of dogs kissing for the first time is the end of this stupid trend. They are not models and they like to sniff each other's butts and that's all we need. Enough is enough, people. Carry on.

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The awesome futuristic vehicle designs of Daniel Simon

Mar 15, 4:24AM

The awesome futuristic vehicle designs of Daniel Simon

I never get tired of Daniel Simon's design work, the man behind the vehicle design in Tron Legacy, Oblivion, the Lotus C-01 motorbike. His classic Cosmic Motors series are amazing.

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Take an Uninhibited Dive into an Artist's Psyche (NSFW: Nudity)

Mar 15, 4:00AM

Performance art of the highest caliber is that which leaves the audience stunned, speechless, and wondering, "Lol, da fuq did i jus watch?" Here is one such example from Natalia Sliwowska.

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Seeing a cat walk on a treadmill chasing food basically sums up life

Mar 15, 3:09AM

Seeing a cat walk on a treadmill chasing food basically sums up life

Seeing a smart cat walk on a treadmill to its plate of food tickles me more than it should. I scream out aww under my constant laughter. I must be a bad person. But let's be honest. Metaphorically, we've all been this cat before. We've seen our goal but we kept walking in place not knowing how to get there. Literally though, we should put a treadmill before every fast food restaurant so it'd motivate us all to be a little more healthy like this cat.

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Why The Blair Witch Project Is Still the Scariest Movie Ever

Mar 15, 1:00AM

On a Friday afternoon in 1999, I went to the matinee showing of a movie that I knew barely anything about. The film ended, the credits rolled, the house lights went up, and no one moved for a very long time. As we stumbled into the daylight, someone verbalized what we were all thinking: Was that real?

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Holy crap, this parrot is actually a woman posing in bodypaint

Mar 15, 12:42AM

Holy crap, this parrot is actually a woman posing in bodypaint

Man, it took me an embarrassingly long time to see her but she's there all right. The picture above is not a parrot but a woman in bodypaint posing so she looks exactly like a parrot. What a fantastic mind trip.

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Most Beautiful Items: March 7 - 14, 2014

Mar 15, 12:00AM

Most Beautiful Items: March 7 - 14, 2014

A beautiful 1960s New York guidebook, crazy scans of amazing insects, and so much more. Welcome, and let us wow you with some of our favorite finds from the worlds of art, architecture, and design from the past week:

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Bored Cats Find Sense of Purpose in Personalized Cat Playgrounds

Mar 14, 11:20PM

Bored Cats Find Sense of Purpose in Personalized Cat Playgrounds

High-end, customizable architecture and design has been on the rise for several years, but it's starting to grow stale. The new trend lies in foregoing personal comfort altogether and extending that luxury to your cat.

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Would You Go For A Ride On This Massive Slip 'n Slide On A City Street?

Mar 14, 11:00PM

Would You Go For A Ride On This Massive Slip 'n Slide On A City Street?

British artist Luke Jerram wants to take over a Bristol high street for an afternoon to set up a massive, 90-meter-long wet and wild joyride. Would you give it a try?

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Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II Turns 20

Mar 14, 10:40PM

Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II Turns 20

Bay Area sound critic Marc Weidenbaum—acoustic historian, noise futurist, music instructor, and writer of a brand new book about Aphex Twin—has been blogging about music, electronics, and everyday sounds at his blog Disquiet here at Gizmodo for the last few months.

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I can't believe that everyone survived these close calls with death

Mar 14, 10:36PM

I can't believe that everyone survived these close calls with death

If you don't cringe and close your eyes a few times watching this seven-minute compilation of close calls with death, you're probably a robot. I just can't believe all these people survived these accidents, sometimes by only an inch.

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These incredible close-up photos of eyes are actually pencil drawings

Mar 14, 10:30PM

These incredible close-up photos of eyes are actually pencil drawings

Check out these hyperrealistic pencil drawings by Redoskin—spotted by Illusion. It's hard to believe that they are not photos.

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A Self-Charging Robot Vac That Remembers Exactly Where It Left Off

Mar 14, 10:20PM

A Self-Charging Robot Vac That Remembers Exactly Where It Left Off

Where as Roomba—arguably the most popular robot vacuum on the market—uses a tried and true pre-programmed algorithm to randomly explore and clean the floors in your home. Neato's robotic vacuums—including its new BotVac—use a built-in laser scanner to map a room and plan out the most efficient cleaning route.

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