Mattress shopping can be a major pain in the ass. Something that Casper, a newly launched sleep startup, wants to remedy. The supposed solution? One single, painstakingly engineered mattress for the masses. Read more... Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/lGgxeEub_d4/the-mattress-gets-reinvented-and-stuffed-in-the-trunk-o-1566175652 Related Topics: Mt Everest david letterman Heartbleed rooney mara Oil Pulling Continue reading

The internet is a fire hydrant of content. Keeping track of the pages you enjoy is a pain. A team of UK design students has a conceptual solution: Amoeba, an electronic monocle that files away the pages you find most interesting, as measured by your biofeedback response. It's the emotion-tracking... Continue reading

Angela Ahrendts, incoming SVP of Retail at Apple, seems to be taking her time leaving her current post as CEO of Burberry, and the company has yet to announce her departure date. Ahrendts is supposed to start this spring, and is available to leave Burberry starting this month, having finished... Continue reading

Like ghosts? Then you'll love Poveglia, a small, deserted island in the Venetian lagoon that's going on the auction block next month. It's been called "the island of madness," "Hell," and "the most haunted place on Earth." You'd just love it to pieces. Read more... Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/hKNdepHU_G8/the-most-haunted-place-in-the-world-is-for-sale-1563528219 Similar Articles: Bracketology... Continue reading

Verizon's latest DVR is less set-top box and more home media server: with six tuners and a 1TB hard drive, you can add a second DVR unit to record up to 12 channels at once and feed 10 TVs at any given time. Read more... Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/z-RBlLHdr0o/verizons-quantum-tv-dvr-records-up-to-12-channels-at-o-1555932485 Category: mila kunis... Continue reading

Google today announced that it is (for better or worse) finally going to get rid of that annoying "show images" button in Gmail. The gist is that embedded images will be routed through Google's severs and then transcoded, ensuring you won't get hit with any malware. If you're worried about... Continue reading

Brain surgery is intricate, high-stakes work. So mastering it on a real, live patient, with an attending physician breathing down your neck and watching your every move, certainly can't be easy. Enter the 3D printing industry, which has already played a major role in medicine, from churning out noses and... Continue reading

Everyone knows by now that Americans aren't thrilled about the use of domestic drones. So if you're a government agency and decide to invest many thousands of taxpayer dollars on surveillance drones, it'd be good if you checked to see if you can actually fly them first. Read more... Source:... Continue reading

Say goodbye to the flood of meme pictures in your feed Facebook is always actively tweaking its algorithms to display just the right content in your News Feed, and the latest change is to a focus on articles and news. Interaction with news-based articles suggested and shared in the News... Continue reading

Think Los Angeles at rush hour is bad? Try doing it half-blindfolded with nothing but a radio and a few blinking lights to show you the way. That's how pilots navigate the invisible highways in the sky, and there's a beautiful design that makes it all work. It only took... Continue reading

Copyright © 2013 NPR. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. IRA FLATOW, HOST: Imagine a time, before space shuttles, planes and cars, when the new technological breakthrough was the hydrogen balloon. What could these new flying machines do? Cross an ocean?... Continue reading

If you've ever thought Twitter was a silly name, be grateful that's what they settled on. During the research for a new book about the site, Nick Bilton has unearthed some of the early name and logo ideas, and they... they aren't pretty. Read more... Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/ONmjLbqo4e0/twitter-was-almost-called-smssy-and-almost-looked-awfu-1462822850 Similar Articles: Miss... Continue reading

Officials work at the scene near the Jackson County District Attorney's office after an explosion shattered windows and damaged the buildings interior Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013, in Medford, Ore. Officers say they found a burning propane tank in front of the prosecutor's office after an explosion they believe was an... Continue reading

Florida State defensive back Jalen Ramsey, top, jumps into the arms of teammate Nate Andrews after Andrews ran back an interception for a touchdown against Wake Forest in the first half of an NCAA college football game in Winston-Salem, N.C., Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond) Florida State defensive... Continue reading

GENEVA (AP) — Iran's plan to cap some of the country's atomic activities in exchange for selective relief from crippling economic sanctions has been accepted by six world powers, the country's chief nuclear negotiator said Thursday. The upbeat comments from Abbas Araghchi, reported by Iranian state TV, suggest that negotiators... Continue reading

BERLIN (Reuters) - A vast trove of modern art seized under Germany's Nazi regime, including works by Picasso, Matisse and Chagall, has been discovered in a Munich apartment among stacks of rotting groceries, German magazine Focus reported. The 1,500 art works, missing for more than 70 years, and discovered by... Continue reading

Apple CEO Tim Cook enjoys touting the high ratings of his company's products in areas like usage, customer loyalty, and customer satisfaction, but he may not be so thrilled about the latest rankings from J.D. Power. For the first time since the firm started measuring customer satisfaction for tablets, Apple... Continue reading

Tired of long podcasts? Clockwise is a podcast that's done in 30 minutes or your money back! Every week we welcome two guests to discuss four tech topics in 30 minutes. Plus each week we'll thrown in a bonus topic that's utterly off topic. This week our guests are PCWorld/TechHive... Continue reading

Paramount and MTV Films' Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa -- featuring Johnny Knoxville and child sidekick Jackson Nicoll -- easily topped the Friday box office with an estimated $12.6 million, putting the outrageous R-rated comedy on course to win the weekend with as much as $29 million. After staying at No.... Continue reading

"We are lonely but never alone" makes an equally appropriate slogan for both big city and digital living. With infinite possible connections at both our physical and virtual fingertips, why do so many people feel so isolated from the rest of the Earth's seven billion human inhabitants? Filmmaker Paul Riccio... Continue reading

The identification of the DNA markers associated with aging has brought us one step closer to the ever-elusive Fountain of Youth. UCLA geneticist Steve Horvath just published details about the discovery, and says that this could actually lead to drugs that reverse the process of aging. Read more... Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/EZMW04joIhs/discovery-of-dna-biological-clock-could-get-us-closer-1449089144... Continue reading

We all do it. Every single thing they tweet sends you into a symphony of groans and sighs, and yet—you can't quite bring yourself to end the pain. And if you're being totally honest, you actually kind of like it. Maybe it's masochism, maybe it's the need to fuel your... Continue reading

Bibiano Fernandes became One FC’s interim bantamweight championship with his win over Koetsu Okazaki last May, but he won’t feel the real champion until he beats Soo Chul Kim. Kim was sidelined after his TKO victory over Leandro Issa last year when he claimed the 135-pound title, and the bantamweights... Continue reading

As Republicans and Democrats have battled over reopening the federal government and raising the federal debt ceiling, one idea that keeps coming up is a repeal of the 2010 health law's tax on medical devices. While the idea has drawn support from members of both parties, experts say it's still... Continue reading

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