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Amazing Martin Luther King, Jr. Portrait Made Entirely of Rubik's Cubes

Mar 29, 10:00PM

Amazing Martin Luther King, Jr. Portrait Made Entirely of Rubik's Cubes

This project is from 2010, but it's such an amazing and unusual achievement it's still worth sharing today. Artist Pete Fecteau created a huge mural commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. out of more than 4,000 individual Rubik's cubes, with each square on each cube hand-arranged to create the detailed image you see above.

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Darth Vader Will Run For President of Ukraine

Mar 29, 9:08PM

Darth Vader Will Run For President of Ukraine

In perhaps the most unexpected turn of events in Ukrainian politics, RT News says that Darth Vader, Sith Lord of the Galactic Empire, has declared himself a candidate in the Ukrainian presidential election. The political force is strong with this one.

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What's Your Favorite Movie or TV Plot That Would Be Obsolete Today?

Mar 29, 8:00PM

What's Your Favorite Movie or TV Plot That Would Be Obsolete Today?

Technology's so great. All this communication capability can put you in touch with your friends and family, no matter where in the world they are. Which blows a giant hole through most of the movie and TV plots written up until, say, the late 1990s. What's your favorite storyline that would never exist in a world with cell phones and internet?

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This week in Tech Reads: emoji, stolen passports, and what happens to our digital avatars when we di

Mar 29, 7:00PM

This week in Tech Reads: emoji, stolen passports, and what happens to our digital avatars when we die. And more!

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Freeways, Wu Tang, Oculus Rift, and More

Mar 29, 6:00PM

Freeways, Wu Tang, Oculus Rift, and More

Between newly-revealed smartphones and surprise virtual reality purchases by Facebook, this was a pretty wild week for tech news. That doesn't mean we didn't have plenty of other stuff to write about, though. Here's the best stuff we did this week.

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Samsung Galaxy S5 Is a Baby Monitor That Reports to Your Smartwatch

Mar 29, 5:00PM

Samsung Galaxy S5 Is a Baby Monitor That Reports to Your Smartwatch

Samsung's new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S5 , has a surprising hidden feature that tech bloggers have just discovered: the phone can double as a baby monitor—provided you've got it paired to a Galaxy Gear smartwatch. And y'know, you don't mind leaving your baby and your phone behind while you're in another room.

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How to Make Your Very Own Supercut

Mar 29, 4:00PM

Along with memes and animated GIFs, the video supercut constitutes one of the three most fundamental formats of Internet cultural reference. But with a bit of dedication and imagination, you could create the next Christopher Walken Dancing.

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One World Trade Security Official Resigns After Daredevil Break-Ins

Mar 29, 3:00PM

One World Trade Security Official Resigns After Daredevil Break-Ins

NY1 news is saying that Daniel Vasquez, assistant security director at One World Trade Center, is resigning after two separate events where thrill-seekers were able to break in to the building.

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Want the Most Booze per Calorie? Skip Liquor and Go For Champagne

Mar 29, 2:07PM

Want the Most Booze per Calorie? Skip Liquor and Go For Champagne

In surprising booze news, Wonkblog's Christopher Ingraham gives an unexpected (and classy) spin to conventional drinking wisdom: if you're looking to get the most alcoholic punch per calorie, don't reach for "the hard stuff." You're better off drinking champagne or sparkling wine.

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Re/code reports that Yahoo is looking to build a YouTube competitor--and that the purple-Y company h

Mar 29, 1:20PM

Re/code reports that Yahoo is looking to build a YouTube competitor—and that the purple-Y company has already begun trying to woo YouTube stars with offers of ad revenue and video promotion that Google's video service can't match. [Re/code]

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Devastated Family Loses Everything They'd Saved on Their DVR

Mar 29, 1:00PM

The Talbott family has suffered a tragic loss. Everything the family had saved for years, all of it disappeared in an instant. Now as The Onion reports, they set to the task of rebuilding their lives after the huge setback of a crashed DVR.

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If Only the Quantum World Really Was Made of Psychedelic Particles

Mar 29, 4:00AM

Take an effervescent trip through a subspace filled with pastel particles and violin solos in Philosophize in It! Chemicalize with It!, the latest music video from Seattle indie producer K Ishibashi's Kishi Bashi project. It may not make a lick of sense but it sure is pretty.

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Formula 1's Advanced Hybrid System Is Coming To Your Next Car

Mar 29, 1:00AM

Formula 1's Advanced Hybrid System Is Coming To Your Next Car

That may look like an ordinary Volvo S60, but it's far from it. Inside that handsome but inoffensive Swedish body is the same technology that helped make Formula One cars so fast in the last few years — the hybrid Kinetic Energy Recovery System . That's good news if you like efficiency and speed.

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Most Beautiful Items: March 21 - 28, 2014

Mar 29, 12:00AM

Most Beautiful Items: March 21 - 28, 2014

From churches-turned-libraries, to new uses for old CDs, we have plenty of lovely and awe-inspiring things for you to peep this time around. Check them out in this edition of the most beautiful items of the week.

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Reframe Roundup: This Week's Best Photography Posts

Mar 28, 11:00PM

Reframe Roundup: This Week's Best Photography Posts

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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Playing With These Sonic Animations Is The Most Fun You'll Have Today

Mar 28, 10:40PM

Playing With These Sonic Animations Is The Most Fun You'll Have Today

Okay, here is an addictive Friday afternoon diversion I think you're going to like: Patatap lets you make tunes and pictures with your computer keyboard (instead of boring old words). It's lovely, it's easy, and it's fun—try it below!

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Now Available: 2014 HTC One

Mar 28, 10:30PM

Now Available: 2014 HTC One

HTC's newly-revamped One is a flagship phone with some nice updates to its already sleek design. It's also a brainy barnstormer with some crazy cool camera tech that could be the future of mobile photography . It's available now for $200 on-contract from AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon (sorry T-Mobile, yours won't arrive til April). Or you could go all-out with the unlocked Google Play Edition for $700.

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A Precision-Built Manual Coffee Grinder Paves the Way to a Perfect Cup

Mar 28, 10:22PM

A Precision-Built Manual Coffee Grinder Paves the Way to a Perfect Cup

Making great coffee hinges on many different factors, but one of the most important—and underrated—is the grinder. The Lido 2 is a hand-cranked workhorse that was designed by two coffee obsessives, who engineered it to the highest standards of brewing perfection.

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Gawker Arrest Climate-Change Deniers | io9 The Egyptian Gods' 8 Biggest Dick Moves | Jezebel Behold

Mar 28, 10:19PM

Gawker Arrest Climate-Change Deniers | io9 The Egyptian Gods' 8 Biggest Dick Moves | Jezebel Behold the Grossest, Perviest Picture American Apparel Has Ever Posted | Kotaku You Are Probably Not As Good At Bowling As This Guy | Kinja Popular Posts

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

Mar 28, 10:00PM

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

Good week? Bad week? Weird week? No matter. You'll be playing with your smartphone all weekend anyway, so here's some cool new apps!

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Microsoft Will Leave Email Snooping Up to the Authorities Now

Mar 28, 9:53PM

Microsoft Will Leave Email Snooping Up to the Authorities Now

After last week's uproar over Microsoft's 2012 snooping in a blogger's Hotmail account , the company says it will no longer perform its own email snooping in criminal cases. In an official blog post today, Microsoft Executive Vice President Brad Smith said that, effective immediately, when investigations occur, "we will not inspect a customer's private content ourselves. Instead, we will refer the matter to law enforcement if further action is required." Which sounds like what should've been protocol in the first place.

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The Lick Observatory's Newest Telescope Is an Exoplanet Hunting Robot

Mar 28, 9:40PM

The Lick Observatory's Newest Telescope Is an Exoplanet Hunting Robot

Exoplanets—planets orbiting stars that aren't our Sun—seem to be popping out of the cosmic woodwork now that we know where and how to look for them. The Kepler mission alone has discovered 961 of them, and it's only looking at a tiny sliver of distant space. Just think of how many we'll find when the new James Lick robotic telescope comes online and starts surveying one thousand of our closest solar neighbors.

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Just Flick This Clock's Simple Face Switch To Activate Its Alarm

Mar 28, 9:20PM

Just Flick This Clock's Simple Face Switch To Activate Its Alarm

Dieter Rams left a lasting legacy at Braun that still influences the products the company creates today. Just take a look at this simple analog alarm clock, that's found a clever way to compete with all the other monstrous smartphone docks vying for space on your bedside table.

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This cool pad and pen lets you sketch in 3D using augmented reality

Mar 28, 9:13PM

This cool pad and pen lets you sketch in 3D using augmented reality

Gravity is a pen and pad that allows to sketch in 3D space using augmented reality. The cool patent-pending system hardware and software system has gone through several working prototypes and now they are looking to start manufacturing. Check out the video—it's pretty cool.

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These Brand New Bitters Bring Biodiversity to Your Cocktail

Mar 28, 9:00PM

These Brand New Bitters Bring Biodiversity to Your Cocktail

By day, Rachel Meyer is a plant evolutionary biologist researching crop genomics at NYU. But, by evening and weekend, she is on a mission to get more botany into your cocktail—and she's shared an exclusive new drink recipe with Gizmodo to show how.

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