Did Tamerlan Tsarnaev Pressure His Younger Brother Into Terrorism?
A fuller portrait of the two brothers suspected of being behind the Boston Marathon bombings is beginning to emerge, and with it a seeming disparity in their attitudes and demeanors. The younger...
View ArticleKim Dotcom Says His iTunes Library Is Worth $20,000
With the recent launch of Mega, Kim Dotcom has been on the upswing lately, at least when he's not getting stranded by a busted helicopter. Recently, he sat down with the Financial Times to discuss his...
View ArticleSen. Flake Promises Gun Control Reform to Aurora Victim's Mom, Flakes
Arizona Senator Jeff Flake felt so bad for Caren Teves, whose son died shielding his girlfriend from bullets in the Aurora theater massacre, that he wrote her a handwritten note in response to a...
View ArticleThe Part-Time Recovery Is Here To Stay
In March of this year, about 7.6 Million Americans were working involuntarily part-time, in that they would rather be working a full-time job instead of the part-time job they have either taken out of...
View ArticleThis Family of Data-Stealing Android Malware Got Downloaded from Google Play...
Everyone knows there's malware on Android, but for the most part it just hides out in the seedier back alleys of the OS. You're only likely to run into it if you start side-loading pirated apps, or...
View ArticleMonster Machines That Mine Bitcoin, How Transformers Are Born, The First...
It's been a long week. Time to kick off your shoes, sit back, and take a little taste of the cream of Gizmodo's weekly crop. We've got possible murders caught by Google Maps, the tale of how...
View ArticleFamous Architect Santiago Calatrava Asked to Pay for Leaky Roof
Celebrated Spanish Architect Santiago Calatrava (whose WTC PATH station is interminably under-construction and insanely over-budget), has now been asked by a Spanish winery to fix a leaky roof, after...
View ArticleWatch Star Wars: Episode IV Distilled Down to 60 Awesomely Animated Seconds
Want to watch A New Hope today? Want to watch it every day? Just can't find the time? This awesome, animated, 60-second speedrun should help. From the folks who brought you high-speed versions of Back...
View ArticleFertilizer Plant Had 1,350 Times The Amount of Explosives It Should Have
The West, Texas fertilizer plant that exploded on Wednesday, killing dozens, was only supposed to have had less than 400 lbs of explosive ammonium nitrate — instead, it had 270 tons of the substance....
View ArticleDo You Still Buy Vinyl?
Today is Record Store Day, complete with a slew of special releases on everybody's favorite antiquated audio medium. Hobbyists everywhere rushed out this morning to stand in line in front of local...
View ArticleWhoops, CBS Got Twitter-Hacked And Spat Out Virus-y Links (Update: There's...
Twitter hacks are an unfortunate reality of everyday social media life. Today, it was CBS's 60 Minutes, 48 Hours, and CBS Denver accounts that took the hit and started dishing out some linkbait-y...
View ArticleImagine If This Crazy Confederate Helicopter Had Actually Been Able to Fly
Back in the 1860s, repeating rifles were a pretty new development. There was a still a lot of horse-riding and open field-fighting. And the Ashokan Farewell played under everything. But the south had...
View ArticleRussia Warned FBI About Tamerlan Tsarnaev Before Bombing
New details about the brothers suspected of being behind the Boston Marathon have slowly trickled out today. Investigators are now focusing on a 2011 trip to Russia by the older brother, Tamerlan...
View ArticleThese Mathematical Lawn Chairs Make It Easy to Solve for Ass
There's an easy solution to your lawn chair equation: making those suckers out of pure math. Well, math and plastic. That kind of abstract design nerdery is exactly what the F3 collection by Fabio...
View ArticleThe Descendents: Myage
When I was in highschool, I became a bassist. Not for love of the four-stringed beast; that came later. No, it's just that everybody needs a bassist and I had no room for drums. Like any...
View ArticleWatch This Poor, Abused Washing Machine Go Completely Insane and Explode
Your washing machine is kind enough to handle your laundry without a complaint. For that it deserves respect. Aussie50 has no such respect. Watch his poor washer tear itself asunder, powerless to...
View ArticleThe Crazy Accurate Thermal Images That Saw Dzokhar Tsarnaev Through a Boat...
There was no small amount of technology that went into the capture of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev, but perhaps none was more impressive than the helicopter-mounted, forward-looking...
View ArticleGuess Something About A High Altitude Balloon And Maybe Win A Trip To Space
KLM is going to send someone into space on an SXC Lynx spaceship in 2014. They're releasing a high altitude balloon tomorrow morning and if you guess the altitude and coordinates of where it will pop...
View ArticlePolice Release Thermal Imaging Video Of Captue of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Police used thermal imaging from a helicopter to monitor Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's movement inside of the boat he had been hiding in, when they apprehended him Friday night. Dzhokhar, who was bleeding...
View ArticleTeach Kids The Alphabet And Remind Them About Paper
It seems kind of ridiculous to integrate an iDevice into crayon and paper drawing time. Some things are sacred. But for kids who are addicted to all of the screens in their lives DRAWNIMAL might be a...
View ArticleUnchill Shooting Injures Three and a Dog at Denver 4/20 Celebration
Loud noises and running cops figure into every paranoid stoner's nightmares, but Denver got both in real life yesterday at their packed pot celebration. The collective mellows of the tens of thousands...
View ArticleIncredible Thermal Imaging Video of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Hiding
While we had previously seen the stunning thermal images that helped police confirm that Boston Marathon bombing suspect was indeed hiding in a boat, under a tarp, in Watertown, Massachusetts, now the...
View ArticleCops Who Pepper-Sprayed, Punched Occupy Protesters Escape DA Charges
After more than a year, the Manhattan District Attorney has finally dished out some slow-moving "justice" to a pair of infamous cops who punched or pepper-sprayed Occupy Wall Street protesters: do...
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