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Everything You Need for a Mass Effect 3 Marathon
You’ve got five days until Mass Effect 3 is out, but if you’re going to hole up in a nerd bunker as soon as it hits, you’ve got some planning to do. Here’s everything you need to spend way too much of your life fighting Reapers and pursuing sex with your squadmates. Mountain Dew Throwback … Continued
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Did Twitter Change the Way Replies Work? (Update 2)
There was a big kerfluffle on Twitter today over speculation that the company had changed the way @ replies work. In a nutshell, some users were reporting that they could no longer publicly reply to conversations. When you reply to someone on Twitter, the message starts off with an @username prefix. But only people who … Continued
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Peeing Frenchman Sues Google Over Embarrassing Street View Photo
Google Street View, long established as a source for photos of unaware naked people, is being sued by a man in France because one of its camera-mounted cars snapped a photo of him pissing into a courtyard on his property and, as any of us surely would, uploaded it to the internet. Although Google blurred … Continued
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The Most Beautiful Online Magazine We’ve Ever Seen
Edits is a magazine about photography. There are a million magazines about photography—the world doesn’t need anymore. But the world needs every magazine that gives a damn about technology to ripoff Edits. It’s stunningly beautiful. The “magazine,” editsquarterly.com, retains the basic familiarity and friendliness of a paper magazine. There are pages. The pages move from … Continued
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Scientists Discover Mysterious Colossal ‘Soap Bubbles’ In the Middle of Our Galaxy
Scientists have discovered two gigantic structures resembling soap bubbles in the middle of the Milky Way, above and below the galactic plane. How gigantic? 25,000 light-years tall, one quarter the size of our galaxy! They are not sure where they are coming from. They suspect they may be “the remnants from a burst of star … Continued
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Cookie Finder for iPhone: GET YOUR GIRL SCOUT COOKIES
My friend once told me his favorite season that wasn’t actually a season (spring, fall, etc.) or a sports season (NFL, NBA, etc.) was Girl Scout Cookies Season. I laughed in front of his face until I realized hey, that’s my favorite non-season season too. And it’s probably yours too. And you’re probably wondering where … Continued
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The Hot Tub Boat Is the World’s Most Luxurious Possible Thing
Imagine this—you’re in a hot tub. Nice! You’re also surrounded by water. Ooh. You’re also out boating, while hot-tubbing, while drinking. All at once. The future is now and it is steamy and very wet. Seattle’s Hot Tub Boats—a creation so brilliant it can pass with a dumb name—are so decadent, they don’t even have … Continued
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Secret Army Bomb Jammers Stolen in Afghanistan
On Jan. 7, someone strolled into a supply room at Camp Eggers, a coalition base near the U.S. embassy in downtown Kabul, pocketed two sets of car keys and walked out undetected. Sometime over the next 24 hours, the thieves drove away with two black-painted, armored Toyota Land Cruisers belonging to the U.S. Army’s 26th … Continued
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Fading Highlighter Makes Textbooks Easier To Sell
Selling your textbooks at the end of a semester to recoup some of their outrageous price tags could get even easier with Quirky’s Fader highlighter. After five months the yellow streaks will disappear completely, netting you top dollar for your pristine books. At the moment Quirky is still putting out feelers for demand, and gauging … Continued
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Our Favorite Laptops, Televisions, Hard Drives, and More
The winter is slowly winding down, and now you are very fat. That’s depressing. But it’s not a serious problem for a few more months, so you may as well sit back and enjoy some awesome gadgets. Here’s the best of the past month (or so): For the full list of Gizmodo favorites, head over … Continued
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Android Apps Can Also Steal Your Photo Library
iOS has been getting hammered because it leaves its users’ photos, and other information, open to apps. Turns out, Android has the same problem. The New York Times Bits Blog got confirmation from Lookout, an Android security company that there is “no special permission required for an app to read pictures.” Once a user agrees … Continued
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Oh My God There Are Real, Functioning Smartphones That Can Make You Think You’re Touching Grass and Rocks
There has been talk of the years of haptics technologies which would allow us to move our hand over a glass touchscreen and be tricked into thinking we were touching a fuzzy material, or some rough surface. But that was all R&D talk. At Mobile World Congress this year, however, AllThingsD found a pair of … Continued
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Exec: Top Gun 2 Is Real and Stars a Plane That Doesn’t Fly (Updated: Drunken Confirmation)
A Lockheed engineer is probably the last person you’d expect to break the news of a Hollywood mega-blockbuster sequel, but here we go! Flightglobal is reporting Top Gun 2 is not only happening, but starring Tom Cruise (!) as an F-35 pilot. Ha! The bizarre news, centered around a movie that doesn’t even have an … Continued
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According to Google, Santorum Is No Longer Most Known for Being a Frothy Mix of Lube and Fecal Matter
Previously, Rick Santorum might’ve been winning caucuses but he was definitely losing Google. Back then, when one searched ‘santorum’ on Google, the top result would be “the frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex.” Haha. Funny. Now? It’s been booted from the top spot. What kind of … Continued
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This Kuhn Rikon 3-Piece Animal Print Cutlery Set Is Your Aww-How-Cute Deal of the Day
These animal print knives are so awful I love them. The blade has a print! What kind of sick and twisted person thought this would be a good idea? How high was he? What’s his favorite color? God, I want to meet him. Actually who am I kidding, no I don’t. Just imagining the pure … Continued
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Hey Microsoft, Please Don’t Let PC Makers Ruin Windows 8
The Windows 8 consumer preview is utterly delightful. But I have a huge suspicion that by the time it ships, it could completely suck. And that’s because the people who make the machines on which it is installed will fuck it right up with a bunch of crap. When you buy a new computer, before … Continued
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Wacom Intuos 5 Hands On: Multitouch Feels Good
If you are as addicted to Wacom tablets as I am, you will like to know that there’s a new Intuos in town, the Intuos 5. [top] https://gizmodo.com/wacom-intuos4-wireless-review-the-joy-of-freedom-5489191 What is new? It’s multitouch, like their simpler Bamboo models. You can use multitouch gestures in OS X and Windows using your five fingers (like zooming in … Continued
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Gravity Tells This Versatile Lamp When To Automatically Adjust Its Glow
Snow Peak is known for its lighting gear that adapts to the needs of campers throughout the day. And their new Tulip Lantern is the smartest yet, automatically adjusting its throw when it detects it’s being used as a hanging lamp. Available on March 9th for $150, the lantern uses the law of gravity to … Continued
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Educational Toys Of Yesteryear Taught Important Atomic Bomb Dropping Skills
Educational toys are a clever way to teach your kids while they think they’re just having fun. Like this old-school airplane toy which was secretly training America’s kids on how to be successful bombardiers for a possible nuclear war. Since those times Matthew Broderick films have taught us that the only way to win a … Continued
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Why Roller Coasters Wouldn’t Exist Without Coal Mining
Humans are strange, thrill-seeking creatures. We crave not just a thrill, but something so terrifying that we think, if only for a moment, that we might not actually survive. For those of us not ready for base jumping in wing suits, roller coasters can fulfill that excitement lust. And the amusement park fixtures may never … Continued
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