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Celebrate Seinfeld's 25th With The Story Behind the Show About Nothing
Jul 07, 12:00AM
While we were busy celebrating America's birthday, another anniversary snuck by us: on July 5th, Seinfeld turned 25 years old. And despite being old enough to drink, smoke, and drive a rental car, the show is still a nearly-universal cultural reference. The one-hour documentary Seinfeld: How it Began is required watching for any die-hard fan.
Pomplamoose: Come Together
Jul 06, 11:00PM
Beatles covers are maddeningly tricky. Stay too close to the original, and it comes off fawning. Muck around too badly, and you've desecrated a musical shrine. How do you take a song by The Greatest Rock Band Ever, Ever™ off the pedestal and safely play around with it? Befuddlingly, Pomplamoose nailed it.
Evleaks says that Verizon is set to offer prepaid 4G LTE starting on July 17th. $45 will get you unl
Jul 06, 10:56PM
Evleaks says that Verizon is set to offer prepaid 4G LTE starting on July 17th. $45 will get you unlimited talk and text and 500MB of data a month, while data jumps to 1GB for $55 or 3GB for $65. [Evleaks]
Nobody Knows How to Rescue These Poor Stranded Boeing 737s
Jul 06, 10:00PM
On Thursday, a freight train derailment near Superior, Montana sent three Boeing 737 fuselages tumbling into the Clark Ford River . Today, the cracked and scraped airplane bodies still litter the river's shores, and officials don't know how they're going to remove them.
The TSA Is On the Lookout For Electronics That Won't Turn On
Jul 06, 9:00PM
The Transportation Security Administration, our wand-waving friends on the other side of the airport security line, have a new target: cellphones and other electronics that won't power up. At certain airports, if your device won't turn on, it—and maybe you—won't get on that plane.
The Books Everyone Starts and No One Finishes, According to Amazon
Jul 06, 8:00PM
Picking up a book is gratifying: look at me, not reading dumb listicles on the internet! Finishing a book, however, is a challenge. Which of this summer's top-selling books have the highest reader attrition? Dr. Jordan Ellenberg has a semi-scientific way to find out, using buyer-generated info from Amazon to identify this year's most unread book.
The Deliciously Complex Science That Makes Barbecue So Tasty
Jul 06, 7:00PM
Here in the U.S., it's the last day of a three-day weekend that's synonymous with barbecue. Anyone can try his or her hand at barbecuing; hell, all you need is meat, a grill, and some open sky to sully with fragrant food-smoke. But there's some mouth-wateringly complex science involved in that process, as the folks at It's Okay to Be Smart explain.
Smartwatches, Secret Pools, a Month With a 10-Year-Old Phone, and More
Jul 06, 6:00PM
Happy Sixth of July! The fireworks have all blown up, the beers have all been consumed, and the hot dogs have all been eaten. And you're probably still suffering from it. Look, just kick back and relax, and check out the best stories we wrote this week. You'll recuperate eventually.
Now YouTube Is Shaming ISPs For Slow Streaming Video
Jul 06, 5:00PM
Sometime in the past few days, YouTube started showing a new error bar on slow-loading videos. "Experiencing interruptions? Find out why," it implores. Clicking through takes you to Google's Video Quality Report page, comparing streaming quality of your local ISPs. If your provider's slow, Google wants you to know.
Watch The World's Tallest Water Slide Test Its First Human Riders
Jul 06, 4:00PM
The Verrückt, the world's tallest water slide, has finally started testing with real, live humans. And the first drop in this POV footage is absolutely terrifying.
Report: NSA Is Storing Tons of Data From U.S Citizens and Non-Targets
Jul 06, 2:48PM
The Washington Post just published a huge NSA investigation. The findings, sadly, are unsurprising, but the scope is massive: nine out of 10 messages intercepted by the NSA come from regular folks, not targets, and those private conversations and photos have been living in plain view on NSA databases. Just 'cause you're a citizen doesn't mean you're safe.
A Tantalizingly Brief Glimpse Inside Fabien Cousteau's Underwater Lab
Jul 06, 2:00PM
Fabien Cousteau just concluded his 31-day underwater research mission , where six scientists studied coral reefs in a small chamber 63 feet underwater off the coast of Key Largo. The long-term underwater residence gave them a firsthand glimpse of some never-before-seen underwater phenomena, as Cousteau told PBS's Hari Sreenivasan in this all-too-short interview from the ocean floor.
Scientists Have Located the Brain's On/Off Switch for Consciousness
Jul 06, 1:00PM
Every one of us loses consciousness on a daily basis: it's called sleep. But scientists have never understood which part of the brain controls when you're conscious and when you're not. Now, researchers seem to have found it by coincidence while studying an epileptic patient—and used electronic brain stimulation to flip the switch on and off.
This Week's Top Comedy Video: Come Here
Jul 06, 1:00AM
Dude! Get off that dumb computer and come check this thing out! Come here, dude. Seriously. Come here.
Watch Jamie Dornan Before He Gets Huge In 'The Fall'
Jul 05, 11:30PM
If you're done binging on the incredible second season of Orange Is the New Black, then we've got the perfect dessert. Check out the first season of the BBC show The Fall, a spooky drama starring X-Files star Gillian Anderson and Fifty Shades of Grey frontman Jamie Dornan.
Paolo Nutini: Let Me Down Easy
Jul 05, 10:30PM
To many of us, Paolo Nutini is synonymous with his 2006 song "New Shoes." The feel-good hit instantly puts a smile on my face, entices me to throw a pair of squeaky clean new kicks on, and do something I rarely ever want to do, which is move.
Show Us Your Crappiest Fireworks Pictures From Last Night
Jul 05, 9:30PM
Let's be honest: Your fireworks photos probably suck. You were likely crowded in a swarm of sweaty people that proved difficult to angle your phone to the heavens, so instead you were left with a blurry mess.
Daimler's Self-Driving Truck Isn't Good for Nervous Highway Drivers
Jul 05, 8:30PM
Attention Google: Your self-driving car looks wimpy compared to this self-driving beast-turned-truck. On Thursday, German automaker Daimler demonstrated the Mercedes-Benz Future Truck 2025 (that's when it hopes the vehicle will hit the marketplace) to spectators.
Maybe it's Ducking Time to Get Rid of Autocorrect
Jul 05, 8:00PM
Welcome to Reading List, Gizmodo's Saturday afternoon collection of the best articles from around the web this week. What have we got today? Good stuff from Slate, The New Yorker, Outside Magazine, National Geographic, and more.
Hospitals Are Using Credit Card Data To Predict People's Health
Jul 05, 7:37PM
So, this sounds creepy: Some hospitals are identifying high-risk patients by buying loads of consumer data (i.e. credit card purchases, store loyalty programs, etc.) and plugging it into algorithms so they can step in before the customer gets sick. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, it's currently being used by Carolinas HealthCare System, which is using that type of data to survey the health of its two million members.
Watch This Incredible "Transformers" Stop-Motion Movie Right Now
Jul 05, 6:22PM
Save yourself the $12 (or whatever it costs these days) it takes to see the new Transformers movie and watch this instead. A clever YouTube user named Harris Loureiro created an awesome video that blends computer effects and stop-motion features to depict a fight between Optimus Prime and an army of Constructicons.
If the FDA Has Its Way, Drug Companies Could Soon Tweet Side Effects
Jul 05, 5:30PM
Realizing that social media isn't a passing fad, the Food and Drug Administration has finally laid out its highly anticipated guidelines for how drug companies should act on the Internet.
How to Brew Cannabis Tinctures (Eyedroppers Full of Happiness)
Jul 05, 4:00PM
Now that you're good and deafened from last night's Independence Day celebrations, it's time to do something productive with your recovery day—like, say, brewing alcohol-derived cannabis concentrates that will have you melting into your couch all day tomorrow.
Dubai Is Obviously Building the World's Biggest Mall
Jul 05, 3:00PM
Since building something that's conventional is out of the question for Dubai, the second-largest United Arab Emirates city announced today that it's breaking ground on the world's largest shopping mall.
How To Install Android L Preview Right Now
Jul 05, 1:33PM
The next version of Android isn't ready or even properly named yet, but Google has kindly released a Developer Preview of the software so anyone bold enough can take a look at what it offers. All you need is a spare Nexus 5 or 2013 Wi-Fi Nexus 7 that you don't rely on, and the instructions we've laid out below.
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