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A Striking Animated Short Made With Nothing But Sticky Notes

Apr 05, 9:30PM

You don't need amazing computer graphics, bowel-jiggling surround sound, or eye-popping 3D effects to make a powerful film. In fact, all you really need is a tall stack of yellow sticky notes and a black pen. And a whole lot of talent. Luckily, the 15 animators who helped make this short film had all of those in abundance.

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Oh Good, Yelp Now Suggests Businesses Based on Emoji

Apr 05, 8:30PM

Oh Good, Yelp Now Suggests Businesses Based on Emoji

Emoji is strangely useful, whether you're recapping wildly popular TV shows or sending your friend a smiling pile of poo when real words fail you. Until now, this lexicon was probably inscrutable to machines. Those days are over: Yelp's mobile app now suggests businesses when you type tiny pictures in the search bar.

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This week in Tech Reads: coal, animal actors, wasteful government spending, and more!

Apr 05, 7:00PM

This week in Tech Reads: coal, animal actors, wasteful government spending, and more!

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Reframe Roundup: This Week's Best Photography Posts

Apr 05, 6:50PM

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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Report: Android TV Will Be Google's Next Big Set-Top Box Push

Apr 05, 6:41PM

Report: Android TV Will Be Google's Next Big Set-Top Box Push

The Verge just revealed that Google may venture into set-top TV devices with the as-yet-unannounced Android TV. Quoting internal documents, the report indicates Google is planning a device like Roku or the new Amazon Fire TV to put Android in your living room.

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Captain America, Amazon Fire TV, World's Strongest Man, and More

Apr 05, 6:00PM

Captain America, Amazon Fire TV, World's Strongest Man, and More

A lot of stuff happened this week, whether it was new streaming TV devices being revealed or a new superhero sequel's debut. From a tearjerker time capsule story to a day at the World's Strongest Man competition, we've gathered our best stories of the week right here for you. It's a Saturday brunch buffet of the week's best writing!

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Shipping Container Tailgate Party Is the Pinnacle of Pop-Up Design

Apr 05, 5:00PM

Shipping Container Tailgate Party Is the Pinnacle of Pop-Up Design

Football season may be months away, but that doesn't mean we can't daydream about tailgating. Forget about the rickety old camp grill and cooler in the back of your van: the future of tailgating is boxGATE, a brilliantly overkill pop-up party that unfolds from a shipping container. It's the Transformers of tailgating!

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Make the Switch from Windows XP

Apr 05, 4:00PM

Make the Switch from Windows XP

As of Tuesday, the venerable Windows XP operating system is going kaput. Microsoft is pulling update support for the OS, leaving it vulnerable to rapidly mutating cyber threats. There's precious little time to make sure your computer isn't left to the wilds of the Internet. Here's how to make the jump to the modern era of personal computing.

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The A-10 Warthog looks especially cool in this photo

Apr 05, 4:00PM

The A-10 Warthog looks especially cool in this photo

It must be the combination of the steel grey palette, the black accents, and their patches and rivets, but these two A-10s look especially cool and futuristic to me in this photo. Like they can be piloted by this guy:

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Dissecting the Tech Behind March Madness

Apr 05, 3:00PM

Dissecting the Tech Behind March Madness

Sports and technology are usually thought of as estranged dance partners just a half measure out of sync, but there's an elegant waltz between the two that's been going on for years behind the scenes. And maybe nowhere more so than in the lead-up to March Madness.

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Chinese Ship Detects Signal in Search for Flight 370

Apr 05, 2:06PM

Chinese Ship Detects Signal in Search for Flight 370

The Associated Press reports that a Chinese ship involved in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has detected a "pulse" today in the southern part of the Indian Ocean. While Chinese news agencies say the signal is the same type emitted by flight data recorders, the Australian government agency coordinating the search has not yet confirmed the report.

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Will.i.am Says His Amazing Smartwatch Is Totally Real, Coming in July

Apr 05, 12:59PM

Will.i.am Says His Amazing Smartwatch Is Totally Real, Coming in July

Musician/Intel employee /iPhone accessorizer will.i.am appeared on a British TV show yesterday showing off his self-produced smartwatch, which he says has completely replaced his phone. If we're to believe everything we see on TV, it's pretty impressive.

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Dog saves his owner's life smelling her cancer

Apr 05, 6:38AM

Dog saves his owner's life smelling her cancer

This is Max the dog and his human mom Maureen. An amazing BBC Earth report tells their story: Max became depressed when he started to smell the cancer that Maureen was developing inside her breast. It's a really incredible tale.

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This Insane Freestyle Nudist Chant Defies All Reason (NSFW)

Apr 05, 4:00AM

Look, I gotta be honest, I've watched this video a good half dozen times already and I still have no clue as to what the hell is going on. I'm assuming that this is what happens when you feed the Internet peyote, but there's really no way to be sure.

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The Next L.A. TV Series, "Bosch," Will Be an Amazon Original

Apr 05, 1:00AM

The Next L.A. TV Series,

A new television series set in Los Angeles just got the green light—but don't look for it on NBC, AMC, or even HBO. No, Bosch—an hourlong drama about a Los Angeles homicide detective—will stream to TV sets, laptops, and mobile devices via Amazon Prime.

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Magic pinball gets perfectly stuck between a bumper and kicker forever

Apr 05, 12:53AM

Magic pinball gets perfectly stuck between a bumper and kicker forever

You can play a pinball machine forever and not have a pinball hit at a more perfect angle than this. Look at it bounce back and forth and back and forth and back and forth forever between a bumper and kicker. If only every pinball game was so easy. According to YouTube user lilmul123, this went on for a few minutes before the bumper's solenoid burned out.

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These wonderful artsy GIFs capture the quiet beauty of doing nothing

Apr 04, 11:58PM

These wonderful artsy GIFs capture the quiet beauty of doing nothing

Some people hate doing nothing. I am not one of those people. The calmness of inactivity peacefully re-centers your soul. It's not boring. It's soothing. And these GIFs wonderfully made by artist Rebecca Mock perfectly capture that accomplished feeling of doing nothing.

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Stem Cell Researchers Just Figured Out How to Create New Embryos

Apr 04, 11:20PM

Stem Cell Researchers Just Figured Out How to Create New Embryos

A team of researchers from the University of Virginia just made scientific history: They figured out how to turn stem cells into full blown fish embryos. In other words, scientists can now control embryonic development, a key to being able to grow organs and even entire organism from stem cells.

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Here's each of the 5,179 on-screen deaths in Game of Thrones

Apr 04, 11:01PM

Here's each of the 5,179 on-screen deaths in Game of Thrones

The best way to catch up with Game of Thrones before Season 4 starts? By watching this amazing supercut of every single on-screen death in the series so far. Made by Digg Video, it's a bloody gore-y mix of swords, spears, arrows, bare hands, etc. ripping apart flesh and ending human life. There's a total of 5,179 deaths in the series. Not that much, right?

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Amazon Dash Is a Magic Wand That Makes Sure You Never Run Out of Stuff

Apr 04, 10:44PM

Amazon Dash Is a Magic Wand That Makes Sure You Never Run Out of Stuff

Amazon just unveiled Dash, a handheld Wi-Fi magic wand thingy that helps you keep your AmazonFresh shopping list forever up to date. Never run out of toilet paper or oatmeal again!

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NASA's About To Release a Mother Lode of Free Software

Apr 04, 10:40PM

NASA's About To Release a Mother Lode of Free Software

If you've been thinking about getting started on the rocket project that's been on your mind for ages, now is a good time to get serious. Next week, NASA will release a massive software catalog with over 1,000 projects. It's not the first time the space agency's released code, but it is the first time they've made it so easy.

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

Apr 04, 10:20PM

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

Smell that in the air? It's the smell of the weekend. The scent of freedom. And the aroma of this week's best new apps. Mmmm, stings the nostrils.

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Watch the Navy parachute team jump and land inside a baseball stadium

Apr 04, 10:11PM

Watch the Navy parachute team jump and land inside a baseball stadium

Because most of us will never take the literal leap of jumping off a damn plane, here's POV footage from the Leap Frogs aka the Navy's parachute team. For the San Diego Padre's home opener, the jumpers took off in a plane and landed right smack inside Petco Park. You can hear the roar of the crowd grow louder as they get closer.

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Oh Great, Surgeons Want To Shove These Robot Snakes Down Our Throats

Apr 04, 10:00PM

Oh Great, Surgeons Want To Shove These Robot Snakes Down Our Throats

In addition to completely freaking us out , it turns out that the robotic snakes being developed at universities like Carnegie Mellonsome serve some practical purposes as well. A company called Medrobotics Corporation will soon begin marketing robot snake-assisted surgical device designed to crawl down a patient's throat. Yeah, that's far less creepy.

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Quakes, Brands, 7-Story Buildings: What's Ruining Our Cities This Week

Apr 04, 9:40PM

Quakes, Brands, 7-Story Buildings: What's Ruining Our Cities This Week

This week! Why a huge earthquake didn't actually cause all that much devastation in Chile. How a not-so-tall building could be the end of a New Orleans neighborhood. And where brands killed Manhattan. Let's take a look at What's Ruining Our Cities.

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