2016 has not been a great year for Samsung, and it doesn’t look like it will be getting better anytime soon. The company just recalled 2.8 million of its top load washing machines, because the machines can basically fall apart during use.Read more...
Lees meerThe CIA-backed data and intelligence firm Palantir doesn’t work with political campaigns, but its CEO would “make an exception” for Hillary Clinton, according to an email from billionaire media magnate Haim Saban released by Wikileaks today.Read mor…
Lees meerBecause the globs of paint are mirrored to create a symmetrical effect and because it looks like the paint is mixing itself on its own without a palette knife, it’s sort of a trip to watch it all get thrown together, like if it was just magicall…
Lees meerYouTube’s ScienceBob somehow managed to get his hands on 315 small plastic containers that once held something called “photography film.” So he did what any mad scientist would do with such a windfall: use them to build an ethanol-powered, Tesla coi…
Lees meerA mounting body of evidence from this colossally sickening year suggests we are living in the end-times. For the skeptics, the willfully naive, the hopeful souls holding out for a better tomorrow, may I present the return of Crazy Frog.Read more...
Lees meerWe already knew smoking was bad for our lungs, but a new study shows exactly how many DNA mutations per cell are caused by sucking on those nicotine sticks. If you’re interested in obsessively quantifying your bad life choices, know that smoking a p…
Lees meerHey, Bay Area readers! Book the day off work and come hang out with Gizmodo and the Real Future team at their annual Real Future Fair in Oakland, CA. Bonus: Ed Snowden.Read more...
Lees meerDamn, this finger puppet is so awesome. Not only does it glow in the dark but its dance moves are so incredible that you’d think it was alive. It just moves so fluidly. Read more...
Lees meerThe MacBook Air was Apple’s everyman computer, but as it slowly sunsets that notebook, we’re looking to Apple for a new vision of the do-everything laptop. The MacBook Air was the computer that businesses issued to their employees, the notebook coll…
Lees meerOfficials in south Florida have been releasing troves of sterile flies in an effort to combat a parasitic maggot that eats the living tissue of warm-blooded animals—including humans.Read more...
Lees meerA new Wonder Woman trailer was released today, which showed us a lot of Diana Prince fighting in various places during World War I. We highly recommend watching it, because it’s amazing. But since details of this movie’s plot have been kept ridiculo…
Lees meerEva Braun’s home movies of Adolf Hitler and other high-ranking Nazi officials are a terrifying time capsule of just how ordinary the most evil men in history can appear. The films show Hitler playing with children, Goebbels goofing around, and SS so…
Lees meerAfter shrinking to exceptionally low levels this summer, the Arctic’s shiny mantle of sea ice is finally starting to regrow. Way, way slower than it normally does.Read more...
Lees meerTired of teaching your older family members how to use their smartphones every time you visit? Just do what YouTube’s Mr. Volt did and build a custom cellphone out of aluminum, brass, and wood with a working rotary dial that’s reminiscent of the anc…
Lees meerThis year’s Adobe MAX conference briefly turned into the strangest hair metal show of the year. Adobe’s principal worldwide evangelist of video Jason Levine stepped on stage to tell people about Adobe After Effects CC—but he gave us so much more tha…
Lees meerFunerals are a $20 billion industry in the United States. And while most people don’t expect a lot of technology at a funeral, the industry is trying to keep up with the times. That means that funeral homes aren’t just selling caskets anymore. They’…
Lees meerThe latest glimpse of the upcoming Wonder Woman movie takes us back in time, to show how an Amazon princess becomes a hero capable of inspiring the whole world.Read more...
Lees meerShortly before 1am last night, the Chicago Cubs clinched their first World Series title in 108 years. Chicago went crazy, Bill Murray and Theo Epstein got sloshed on camera, and J.R. Smith probably got kind of cold. Read more...
Lees meerHello again. So, it’s been 41 days since we’ve heard from Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey. It was on September 23, in a world in which the Cubs still hadn’t won a World Series in 108 years, that we last heard from Palmer. The guy who sold his compan…
Lees meerIf the internet is where you go for a quick pick-me-up, this animated short film by Parallel Studio isn’t for you. It features a series of incredibly unsatisfying situations we’ve all experienced at some point. In the grand scheme of things they’re …
Lees meerAn arrogant genius whose confident snark keeps people distant finds themselves humbled after an accident leaves them gravely injured. The event sets the genius on a journey of self-discovery, in which they learn their talent can be used to help save…
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