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This Week's Top Comedy Video: Amazon's Mystery Product, Revealed
Jun 08, 1:00AM
This week, Amazon put out a teaser video of people reacting to a mystery product the company will reveal on June 18th. The first version of the video never showed the product, but we got our hands on the uncut video. Now you can see exactly what those smiling people had their fingers in.
This Is Why You Don't Hide Under A Tree During A Lightning Storm
Jun 08, 12:00AM
Via the US National Weather Service comes this staggering footage of a lightning bolt making matchsticks of a tree in Upstate New York.
The First Vine From Outer Space Packs One Earth Orbit Into Six Seconds
Jun 08, 12:00AM
Astronaut Reid Wiseman tweeted this Vine shot from an observation window on the International Space Station this week. It shows one full orbit of the ISS around planet earth. It's the first Vine recorded from outer space, and it's literally out of this world.
New Android Feature Wakes You Up For Your Bus or Subway Stop
Jun 07, 9:30PM
Android Police just discovered a cool new Google Now feature: when you're taking public transportation, you can set an alarm to make sure you don't sleep through your stop. No more waking up stranded at the end of the line!
Transit Strikes and Corruption: What's Ruining Our Cities This Week
Jun 07, 9:00PM
Another crippling transit strike for San Francisco! A mayor stealing the money that Venice should be using to save itself from flooding! It's a depressing look at What's Ruining Our Cities.
OS X Yosemite, iOS 8, Woz the Tetris Whiz, and More
Jun 07, 8:00PM
It started with WWDC, Apple's annual conference where it announces all the year's new software stuff. It ended with Detroit decay and Steve Wozniak telling us about his tenure as the World's #1 Tetris Player. What a week it's been! Here's all the good stuff you might've missed.
Stadium-Sized "Beast" Asteroid Will Nearly* Smash Into Earth Tomorrow
Jun 07, 7:00PM
Asteroid 2014 HQ 124, a.k.a. The Beast, is a football stadium-sized behemoth, estimated at nearly a quarter of a mile wide. And on Sunday, it's gonna come perilously close to our beloved home planet. How close? Just a mere 777,000 miles away. In space terms, that's about as close as it gets.
Soviet Doctors Cured Infections With Viruses, and Soon Yours Might Too
Jun 07, 6:00PM
In the Soviet Union, western antibiotics couldn't make it past the Iron Curtain. So Eastern Bloc doctors figured out how to use viruses to kill infectious bacteria. Now, with antibiotic-resistant bugs vexing doctors, that eerie yet effective method might come our way. In post-antibiotic world, infection cures you!
Piano mysteriously washes ashore under New York's Brooklyn Bridge
Jun 07, 5:41PM
A baby grand piano has mysteriously appeared under the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, right on the Manhattan side of the East River. Everyone in the city is speculating about its origin: Some people think it may be a viral marketing action, others think it may be an art project, but nobody really knows why or how it got there.
How to Outfit Your Entire Home With LED Light
Jun 07, 5:00PM
Now that incandescents have gone the way of the dinosaur and everybody's generally agreed that CFLs are terrible, it's finally the dawning of the age of LED. And there has been no shortage of bulb makers stepping up with offerings to hang in your house. Here are some of the latest and greatest options available on the market today, and where to put them.
Report: Google Nearby to Bring Android Next-Level Contextual Awareness
Jun 07, 4:00PM
AndroidPolice got an exclusive look at an alleged new feature that's said be coming soon to Android devices: Google Nearby, a next-level contextual awareness suite that would give Google-powered devices an even deeper understanding of where you are and what you're doing, no user interaction required.
NASA's Using Space Laser to Download Video From Orbit at Gigabit Speeds
Jun 07, 2:00PM
NASA's latest data download just covered way more distance, and contained way more awesome, than any earthbound file transfer: the agency beamed a high-def video down from the International Space Station this week using a high-powered laser. Go ahead and give your WiFi router a good stern look.
The Most Popular Tweets From @Everyword's Esteemed Career
Jun 07, 1:00PM
Since 2007 , the @everyword Twitter account has been tweeting out every single word in the English language. This morning, after tweeting one word every half hour for for the last seven years, the account will finally shut down. In honor of its completion, here are @everyword's greatest hits:
Calvin & Hobbes' creator has been secretly drawing this comic strip!
Jun 07, 6:42AM
Holy crap! Calvin & Hobbes' creator Bill Watterson has been secretly drawing a comic strip! Nobody knew it except Stephan Pastis, the author of Pearls Before Swine. You're looking at his artwork right above these lines—the first two panels are drawn by the legendary cartoonist, the third by Pastis.
This was the last flight of the first female US Air Force fighter pilot
Jun 07, 5:54AM
A beautiful, crystal clear photo of an F-15E Strike Eagle piloted by Colonel Jeannie Leavitt—the first US Air Force female combat fighter pilot and the first commander of a combat fighter wing. This was her last refueling and her final flight—on May 29, 2014—after 2,600 hours flying this beautiful jet.
Mystery solved: This is the monster that ate that great white shark
Jun 07, 2:24AM
It wasn't the Kraken. It wasn't Godzilla. And it wasn't even a rabid killer whale. The mysterious animal that had killed and eaten the 9-foot great white shark and had stumped scientists turned out to be a super predator feared by even apex predators like the great white shark. So what was it?
This giant drop of water is actually a cake
Jun 07, 12:34AM
If sorcery exists in this world, I'm pretty sure Japan has already discovered it. They can't quite turn water into wine but they can turn it into dessert. That water droplet you see above? It's actually a rice cake dessert, or shingen mochi, that melts in your mouth as you eat it. It's like eating a delicate water balloon that can pop at any second for dessert. Only way more delicious.
Fallen Angels: The Stunning Film Synthesized By Two Cinematic Legends
Jun 07, 12:00AM
The first time I watched Fallen Angels I was trying to wrap my head around what I had just seen. I wasn't lost in the way a sci-fi masterpiece like The Matrix makes you question reality, but in the you've never seen a narrative film told like this kind of way. Director Wong Kar Wai and cinematographer Christopher Doyle approach filmmaking unlike anyone else in the world ever have and ever will.
Watch a lightning bolt hit a car while it's driving
Jun 06, 11:32PM
Boom. A couple was driving their pickup truck on a fairly empty highway when the weather gods decided that their car would be a great target for a direct lightning bolt strike. According to the couple, after getting hit the car's airbags popped out, the electrical system was destroyed, the car door's locked and black smoke started filling the car.
Reframe Roundup: This Week's Best Photography Posts
Jun 06, 11:30PM
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.
An Astrophysicist Explains Our Flying Car Problem
Jun 06, 11:10PM
In a new essay at the New York Times, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester asks the retro-futurist's most daunting question: Where's my flying car?
Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week
Jun 06, 11:10PM
It's starting to feel like summer out there! Go on and get outside. Give your smartphone some fresh air—and some fresh apps.
Black Label Society: Concrete Jungle
Jun 06, 11:00PM
What is is about iconic cities that make people want to destroy them? Whether it's Godzilla curb stomping San Francisco or Tetsuo reintegrating Neo-Tokyo or giant tentacle monsters molesting the Brooklyn Bridge, our popular culture is completely enthralled with the destruction of our most famous monuments.
A Town's Famous Bioluminescent Bay Is Going Dark and No One Knows Why
Jun 06, 10:41PM
For those who've seen it—and photographs don't do it justice—the bioluminescent Mosquito Bay is one of the world's most spectacular natural sights. Tiny plankton known as dinoflagellates light up the water like a glow stick at night. But since January, the glow has faded, throwing the entire Puerto Rican town into a panic.
Animated Map Shows How Paved Roads Spread Across L.A. County
Jun 06, 10:30PM
Is the L.A. of 2014 driving around on a road network built for the L.A. of the 1980s? That's one conclusion two researchers at Arizona State University draw from their above data visualization, which uses building records from the Los Angeles County Assessor's Office to infer the age of the metropolis' roads. Green represents the oldest roads, red the newest.
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