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China's Batty Proposal For an Under-Sea Train to the United States

May 10, 11:00PM

China's Batty Proposal For an Under-Sea Train to the United States

A lone report in China's state-run Beijing Times claims the nation is already in discussions to build an 8,000+ mile railroad connecting China, Russia, Canada, and the U.S.—including a 125 mile undersea tunnel spanning the Bering Strait. Forget taking this with a grain of salt, you're gonna need the whole shaker.

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Disney's Pixelbots Turn a Flat Surface Into a Moving Dot-Matrix Display

May 10, 10:00PM

Disney's Pixelbots Turn a Flat Surface Into a Moving Dot-Matrix Display

When you think of Disney animation, you probably envision cartoons drawn either by hand or computer. You probably don't think of little light-up robots that zip around a tabletop to make dot-matrix designs. But that's exactly what Disney Research came up with in Display Swarm, a research project that makes an animated display out of mini robotic pixels.

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This week in Tech Reads: DIY electronic brain stimulation, a chat with the man who invented the brow

May 10, 9:00PM

This week in Tech Reads: DIY electronic brain stimulation, a chat with the man who invented the browser tab, the strange hi-caffeine soda that fuels Germany's hackers, and so much more!

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Geek.com seems to have spotted an experimental new web Gmail layout that replaces the left-side cont

May 10, 8:37PM

Geek.com seems to have spotted an experimental new web Gmail layout that replaces the left-side control panel with a slide-in menu, uses pins instead of stars, and adds a "reminder" feature—all within a heavily-redesigned layout. No word if this test setup will ever roll out to users. [Geek.com]

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Artist creates detailed Star Wars mosaics using thousands of staples

May 10, 8:34PM

Artist creates detailed Star Wars mosaics using thousands of staples

New York-based Artist James Haggerty creates crazy mosaics out of staples. Thousands and thousands of staples. The amount of detail in his series of Star Wars characters is insane! The Darth Vader piece alone was made with 10,496 multi-colored staples.

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Police finds priceless Van Gogh taken by Nazis hidden in bank vault

May 10, 8:09PM

Police finds priceless Van Gogh taken by Nazis hidden in bank vault

Agents from the Agencia Tributaria—the Spanish IRS—announced the find of a priceless Van Gogh which disappeared from the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Vienna, Austria. Dated in 1889, the painting "Cypress, sky and field" was discovered in a safe deposit box that belonged to a Spanish fraudster.

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FDA Approves First Prosthesis Controlled by Muscle Electrical Signals

May 10, 8:01PM

FDA Approves First Prosthesis Controlled by Muscle Electrical Signals

Dean Kamen's DEKA Arm is an electronic prosthetic that mimics natural arm and hand movement with an amazing level of finesse. It's controlled by electrical signals from the wearer's muscles. This week, the DEKA Arm became the first muscle-controlled prosthetic approved by the FDA for sale to the general public.

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This 4K New Zealand Timelapse Transports You to Lord of the Rings Land

May 10, 7:00PM

This 4K New Zealand Timelapse Transports You to Lord of the Rings Land

Super-sharp 4k video, in the right hands, is powerful technology . Witness the grandeur of New Zealand's dreamlike landscapes, brought straight to you by Martin Heck.

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Get Your Artifacts Identified Today at the Museum of Natural History

May 10, 6:50PM

Get Your Artifacts Identified Today at the Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History is one of Gizmodo's favorite places in NYC, and today's an especially cool day to visit: it's Identification Day, when you can bring in your fossils, unidentified plants, unknown family heirlooms, or just about anything else old or unusual, and have it identified by museum experts. It's like Antiques Roadshow for bones!

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Beats by Apple, Mis-Delivered Drones, Viral Fakes, and More

May 10, 6:00PM

Beats by Apple, Mis-Delivered Drones, Viral Fakes, and More

Well it's been a busy week here at Gizmodo. We've been following the unexpected news around Apple and Beats by Dre, debunking more viral images that are totally fake, checking out awesome tech at Bell Labs, and so much more! Here's what we've been doing all week.

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Make a DIY 3D "Hologram" Like the One That Brought Tupac Back to Life

May 10, 5:00PM

Make a DIY 3D

Holograms are super cool , but they're hard to make at home. Pepper's Ghost, on the other hand, is a relatively simple 19th century optical trick that looks like a 3D hologram and brought a very dead Tupac Shakur back to the stage . And Joey Shanks is here to show us how to rig up a system to bring Pepper's (or Tupac's) ghost to your home.

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How to Get Your Bike Back After It's Been Stolen

May 10, 4:00PM

How to Get Your Bike Back After It's Been Stolen

Bike theft is a major problem throughout America with an estimated 800,000 to 2 million bikes going missing each year. That's a cost of nearly $50 million—and that's just the small minority of thefts that are actually reported. And with ever increasing numbers of urban commuters forgoing cars for bikes, this silent epidemic only stands to get worse.

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A Rare Trip On The Floating Train Yard Of Hudson Harbor

May 10, 3:00PM

A Rare Trip On The Floating Train Yard Of Hudson Harbor

The only two options that freight trains have for accessing the east side of the Hudson River are to cross a bridge in Albany—140 painstaking miles North of New York City—or to ride a rail barge across the Hudson through the highly efficient marine-rail operation run by NYNJ Rail in Jersey City.

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1980s Architects Wanted a Restaurant On Top of the Williamsburg Bridge

May 10, 2:00PM

1980s Architects Wanted a Restaurant On Top of the Williamsburg Bridge

The Williamsburg Bridge has spanned the East River since 1903, connecting what's now Brooklyn's most notoriously hip(ster) neighborhood to Manhattan. In the 1980s, the bridge was in serious disrepair—and architects wanted to replace it with a mirror-finish masterpiece topped with a restaurant. Imagine the view!

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This 80 Second Video Shows a Year of Washington Monument Repairs

May 10, 1:00PM

This 80 Second Video Shows a Year of Washington Monument Repairs

A few months ago, we got a glimpse of the amazing restoration work going on at the Washington Monument, which sustained more than 150 structural cracks during a 2011 earthquake. But a new time lapse from EarthCam illustrates the entire project in 80 seconds—and it's awesome.

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Ukrainian tank goes kamikaze on a road near Crimea

May 10, 10:53AM

Ukrainian tank goes kamikaze on a road near Crimea

A car dash cam in Mariupol—an Ukrainian city 310 miles (500 kilometers) from Crimea—captured this tank wreaking havoc through a street, smashing through a billboard, and invading road lanes going in the opposite direction. Luckily, the car driver avoided a potential collision and continued to drive like nothing had happened.

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The power and perfection of a crocodile in one slow-motion jump

May 10, 8:06AM

The power and perfection of a crocodile in one slow-motion jump

It's hard to believe how effortlessly and elegantly this crocodile goes out of the water. It looks like he's actually swimming vertically into the air, as if he weren't aware of the laws of physics and the differences of density between liquid and gas. Impressive animal (that freaks the hell out of me.)

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This new Simpsons couch gag is most people's life in 40 seconds

May 10, 7:13AM

This new Simpsons couch gag is most people's life in 40 seconds

I love this Sunday's Simpsons couch gag because it's really dark comedy—like life itself. Take a look.

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Blending movie scenes with real life

May 10, 1:06AM

Blending movie scenes with real life

Francois Dourlen is a photographer who also has a clever running gag for the Internet to enjoy: he splices in movie and TV shows from his iPhone to make them look as if they're happening in real life. It's not always as obvious as Pam Anderson running on the beach either, sometimes it's as ridiculous as Bruce Willis from Die Hard crawling out of your microwave.

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More than half of the US population lives in this thin border line

May 10, 12:18AM

More than half of the US population lives in this thin border line

Reddit user metricmapsore made this great visualization showing how our country is divided and found that more than half of the entire US population—54% that is—live on the edges of the map. It makes sense, that's where the biggest cities are and thus, that's where the people are. Why would anyone live anywhere else!

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These new skyscraper tilting windows are designed to freak you out

May 09, 11:35PM

These new skyscraper tilting windows are designed to freak you out

Holy crap. The John Hancock Tower in Chicago rolled out a snazzy scary new attraction for people who visit the top of the skyscraper: windows that tilt down to give you a better view of the ground beneath you. It's like a roller coaster ride for those afraid of heights (that would be me). Just stand next to the window and it'll tilt itself down like you're falling.

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These two animated elephant seals basically explain life on a lazy day

May 09, 10:31PM

These two animated elephant seals basically explain life on a lazy day

That stupid bird—it could be a mosquito, a fly, the hot wind, plans I don't want to follow up on, a lost remote, commercials, pop up ads, a computer fan running, whatever—that keeps bothering me when all I want to do is nothing and not move and never think is the absolute worst. These two CGI pinnipeds capture that unwavering commitment to do nothing so perfectly.

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The Strange Beauty of Landscape Painting In the Industrial Age

May 09, 10:30PM

The Strange Beauty of Landscape Painting In the Industrial Age

What kind of work would the legendary landscape painters of the 19th century be making if they were alive today? Look no further than the painter Philip Govedare, who depicts 21st century landscapes transformed by mining, dredging, and human civilization in general.

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The Solar-Powered Fridge of 1937 Made Sunbeams Into Ice Cubes In 2 Hours

May 09, 10:20PM

The Solar-Powered Fridge of 1937 Made Sunbeams Into Ice Cubes In 2 Hours

We often think of solar-powered devices as pretty new. But we've been harnessing the sun since long before the first practical solar cell was introduced back in 1954 . For instance, in these solar-powered contraptions from a 1937 Popular Science film — including the amazing fridge that turned sunbeams into ice cubes in just two hours!

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The FCC Won't Delay Its Net Neutrality Vote After All

May 09, 10:20PM

The FCC Won't Delay Its Net Neutrality Vote After All

Despite a plea from one of its commissioners and much of the public to delay the decision, the FCC will forge ahead with its widely criticized plan for net neutrality—though the plan hardly seems neutral. Chairman Tom Wheeler explained the logic in a letter to over 150 tech companies, begging them to trust the agency to protect the Open Internet. The vote will take place on May 15.

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