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This Week's Top Comedy Video: Infinite Jest
Jun 29, 1:00AM
David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest is one of those encyclopedic books that you'd be proud to say you actually finished. Just don't suggest it as a title for your book club. Trust us.
The Aloof Blackjack Player Who Created Our Digital World
Jun 29, 12:00AM
Every digital device you use operates on a string of ones and zeroes, the binary "yes/no" decision at the foundation of modern computing. It's a concept so fundamental to our modern day that we rarely stop to wonder where it came from. But it's all the work of one man: Claude Shannon, whose fascinating story you've likely never heard.
Tennis: Origins
Jun 28, 11:00PM
Just like overuse of HDR makes for unrealistic, homogenized, uncreative photography, over-production in music can leave you with a slick, perfect-pitched piece of unimaginative trash. Every now and then, you need to flush your ears out with something honest and un-monkeyed-around-with. For me, that means Tennis.
What it Takes to Shoot Jaw-Dropping Photos Inside Giant Caves
Jun 28, 10:00PM
Photographer Chris Higgins has been fascinated by caves ever since he was a kid. When he found that words weren't enough to describe the beauty of what he saw in the caves he explored, he began photographing them. Now, he shoots heart-stopping underground images, and the guys from JOBY followed along to see how much hard work that takes.
Most People's Concept of Net Neutrality Hasn't Existed for Years
Jun 28, 9:22PM
Welcome to Reading List, Gizmodo's Saturday afternoon collection of the best and smartest writing from around the web this week. Today, we've got smart takes from The New York Times, Wired, and Ars Technica.
Proof That Some Infinities Are Bigger Than Others
Jun 28, 9:00PM
The always-excellent Vi Hart (previously ) gives one of the most engaging explanations of multiple infinities we've come across in some time.
This Weird Morphing Skin Could Make Future Vehicles Super Aerodynamic
Jun 28, 8:00PM
This strangely alive-looking blob isn't a prop from a sci-fi movie. It's a smorph, a morphing material that could make the cars, trains and airplanes of tomorrow extremely aerodynamic, using the same trick that helps golf balls fly faster and straighter.
Awww, the Little Google Maps Guy Is Wearing His Soccer Gear
Jun 28, 7:30PM
World Cup madness is sweeping the internet—even the little yellow guy on Google Maps is wearing his soccer gear. And according to commenters, he's wearing the uniform of whatever nation you view him in. Commenter toschlebelge shows us Google Guy's German outfit ; what's he wearing in your lands?
Today, France Is Still Cleaning Up Hundred-Year-Old Bombs From WWI
Jun 28, 7:00PM
A century ago today, the first shots of WWI were fired. It was the first modern conflict, fought with fatally efficient technology. Even today, crews must safely destroy bombs left untouched for a century. Erik Olsen traveled with one of those crews for The New York Times, bringing us a video glimpse at the delicate task of cleaning up history.
Watch NASA's Flying Saucer Test Flight Live, Right Here, Right Now
Jun 28, 6:07PM
NASA is about to send this sci-fi flying pie into the far reaches of Earth's atmosphere, then watch it fall back to earth. The testing starts at 2:15 PM EST, and we've got a live feed for you right here after the jump.
Aereo, Smartwatches That Don't Suck, HDR Ruining Photography, and More
Jun 28, 6:00PM
What a week! We got to ogle everything Google showed at I/O, we learned that cops can't search your smartphone without a warrant, and we learned about BugJuggler, the car-flinging giant robot you see above . Let's take a look back at the best stuff we wrote this week.
Pinball, Swords, Bad Air: What's Not Ruining Our Cities This Week
Jun 28, 5:00PM
Long-suffering pinball fans can finally play free in Oakland. Swords are being returned to their rightful owners in New York City. And America is breathing better air than we have in a decade. Sometimes we like to look at the brighter side of urban life. It's our peek at What's Not Ruining Our Cities Anymore.
How to Break Your Smartphone Addiction
Jun 28, 3:20PM
A couple of reports published during the course of last year suggested we unlock our phones anywhere between 110 and 150 times every single day. That's a lot of checking, often done habitually without any deliberate thought or goal.
Steam Summer Sale Day 10 and the Best Deals for June 28, 2014
Jun 28, 2:30PM
Steam Summer Sale Day 10 is packing in deals on Goat Simulator, Shadowrun, Broken Age, Among the Sleep, CloudBuilt, Mercenary Kings, TowerFall, and more. It's one of the better selections so far.
Facebook Experimented on Random Users to Study Newsfeed Emotions
Jun 28, 2:00PM
Spend time with a Debbie Downer, and you'll likely end up feeling blue. Turns out, the same is true digitally: Facebook's new study says this "emotional contagion" works just as strongly through your News Feed—which they discovered after tinkering with the emotional content of nearly 700,000 random users' feeds.
Aereo Will Shut Down Service at 11:30 AM EST Today
Jun 28, 1:34PM
In a blog post published just this morning, Aereo CEO Chet Kanojia announced that the streaming cloud-based TV service will go dark at 11:30 AM EST today. The move responds to this week's Supreme Court decision that called Aereo's particular type of service illegal. The fight's not over, but Aereo's defeat is a crushing defeat for cord cutters. Here's why.
If Einstein Had Never Been Born, Would We Still Have Nuclear Weapons?
Jun 28, 1:00PM
Albert Einstein and his equation E=mc² are famously connected to the modern atomic age. But as nuclear historian Alex Wellerstein writes in this counterfactual account of history, the great physicist mattered less than you'd think in the invention of the nuclear bomb.
This machine erases entire trees out of existence in seconds
Jun 28, 6:50AM
Remember those giant shredders that can chomp on anything, from cars to fridges? This mechanical monster is basically a smaller version of those, attached to an excavator arm. It can disintegrate any tree in seconds. If there's ever a zombie apocalypse, I want to have one of these.
This liquid burger probably has more calories than a real burger
Jun 28, 5:22AM
Pornburger calls this The Liquid Diet, a White Castle infused Bulleit Rye patty "stirred with spicy pickle juice, a splash of tomato water, a dash of liquid smoke" that you can suck on with a bacon straw. Now you can have burgers when you go out to dance and drink, and drinks when you go out of for brunch or lunch.
The world's largest firework fills the sky with hundreds of explosions
Jun 28, 2:48AM
It costs $1500, measures in at about 4 feet in diameter and causes an explosion in the sky almost half a mile long. It's the infamous Yonshakudama firework from Japan and if you can somehow snag the sky lighting cannonball before July 4th and shoot it up at your local park, you'd probably become king of America.
This pile of trash actually hides a stunning portrait
Jun 28, 12:34AM
What looks like a random steaming pile of trash is actually a clever piece of art that combines to create a stunning portrait. Made by artist Benard Pras, each item in the pile is strategically placed so that if you look at it from the right perspective, it looks like a painting. But if you see the junk pile from any other angle, you just see a pile of trash.
That Time Some of the Greatest Minds in Comedy Got to Talking
Jun 28, 12:00AM
"Inside the Actor's Studio" is, I think we can all agree, a major snooze-fest—what with James Lipton's monotonous droning and all. But if you want to get inside the minds of Hollywood's elite comedians without falling asleep, look no further than the Nantucket Film Festival's Comedy Roundtable.
Here's a wonderful new animation from a Disney animation legend
Jun 27, 11:45PM
Even though I love today's 3D animation movies made with CG, there's something about seeing old fashioned hand-drawn animation that makes me feel like I'm peering into another world of breathtakingly fluid characters dancing on paper. Former Disney animator Glen Keane was a master at such animation and is responsible for creating characters we adore like Ariel, Aladdin, Beast and more. Watch his latest animation, Duet, which debuted at Google I/O, below.
Grimes' New Song Is A Solid Contender For Song Of Summer
Jun 27, 11:00PM
Grimes has a new song, "Go" featuring Blood Diamonds. It is different than her other songs because it was supposed to be a Rihanna song, but Rihanna turned it down (for what?).
Reframe Roundup: This Week's Best Photography Posts
Jun 27, 10:40PM
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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