Instagram might steal your account to give it to a famous person who also has your name
What happens when you have the same name as a popular football star and you also own a potentially highly coveted Instagram handle? Just ask …
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Two Gawker editors resign, act like self-righteous turds on the way out
Last week Gawker helped an escort blackmail an executive at a rival media company when it published a story about his attempts to hook up …
The most incredible trampoline basketball trick you’ll ever see
Given the sheer volume of head-scratching and awe-inspiring video content that fills up the web on a daily basis, it’s not too often that we come …
Captured ISIS leader forced to make ‘Game of Thrones’-style walk of shame
They say truth is stranger than fiction. And sometimes, well, sometimes truth and fiction overlap in the craziest of ways. During the season 5 finale of Game …
Here are the favorite illegal drugs used by history’s greatest geniuses
If you grew up in the ’80s and ’90s, you were always told repeatedly that “winners don’t use drugs.” Except, of course, some of history’s …
John Oliver brutally slams the U.S. for its ridiculous food waste problem
John Oliver has done an incredible job of pointing out hypocrisy around the world since his tenure on Last Week Tonight began last year, but …
Surfer fights off a shark in the most nerve-wracking video you’ll see all week
Sharks are amazing, scary beasts capable of furiously ripping through flesh and humans caught in the water with them are usually easy victims. Based on the …
The biggest indication that Apple Watch is a dud so far
The Apple Watch is easily the best-selling smartwatch ever… but that’s not saying a lot. The question that Apple and all smartwatch manufacturers have had …
YouTube is back with a vengeance and is now more popular than cable
During Google’s recent earnings conference call, Google chief business officer Omid Kordestani said that YouTube is now bigger than any individual US cable network when …
Watch: The best wedding toast we’ve seen all year
It’s summer, which means it’s wedding season. You or your friends have probably already attended or are invited to at least one wedding. There’s going …
Incredible Video: Colorblind man sees new colors for the first time, is overwhelmed
It’s easy for people who aren’t colorblind to take the colorful, rich, and vibrant world we live in for granted. Though it may be hard …
Video: You never want to make an elephant this angry
Making elephants angry is not a smart thing to do, as a video posted on Friday by Barcroft TV makes clear. Apparently a circus went through a …
What’s the most popular swear word in your state? Find out with these maps
Like it or not, life constantly brings you in the sort of scenarios where you need to swear, and thanks to the Internet, you can …
Marijuana breathalyzer being developed to keep potheads off the road
As the social stigma associated with marijuana slowly evaporates with each passing year, it may be just a matter of time before the laws that govern drinking …
Watch in awe as an F-16 fighter jet ascends to 15,000 feet in 20 seconds
One of the most nerve-wracking parts of a flight for many people is takeoff. Once the plane is at cruising altitude, everything’s all right, but …
Hulu may soon charge extra for a feature Netflix offers for free
Ever since Hulu added a premium subscription tier, users have questioned why they still have to sit through advertisements even after choosing to pay $7.99 a …
Mourners wear Death Vader, Beetlejuice costumes at Halloween enthusiast’s funeral
Funerals are always sad occasions but they don’t have to be depressing — remember Jim Henson’s request that mourners at his funeral not wear any …
Some of the best Amazon Prime Day deals are still available
Amazon set a new worldwide online sales record with its special 20-year anniversary Prime Day event. The retailer offered many discounts on plenty of a …
One man’s tragically doomed quest to get off Best Buy’s spam email list
Dealing with spam offers from retailers is one of the more annoying components of managing email these days but for the most part you can …
This magician stumped Penn & Teller with the most beautiful magic trick we’ve ever seen
During a recent airing of Fool Us, seasoned magicians Penn and Teller were positively blown away by a magician who executed some of the best sleight …
How Gawker completely disgusted everyone on the Internet
Gossip website Gawker regularly walks the fine line between entertaining, edgy content and completely unethical, sleazy trash. On Thursday, the website went way, way over that …
Apple reminds us what the Apple Watch is for with four new commercials
After an initial advertising push a few months ago, we haven’t seen much in the way of Apple Watch ads from Apple in recent months. That …
Newly discovered dinosaur rightly nicknamed the ‘fluffy feathered poodle from hell’
A recently discovered dinosaur in China that’s been nicknamed the ‘fluffy feathered poodle from hell’ would make a great new Jurassic World attraction, considering how the …
This amazing video of the Magnus effect in action will make you love science even more
Science can just be so cool. If you want further evidence of this, you should watch an incredible new video of a basketball being dropped …
The most ironic Google job opening ever
Does even Google know how its own search algorithms work? We raise this question because Google is looking for an SEO expert to come on …
These tiny fish can survive in volcanoes and they’re the stuff of nightmares
No matter how technologically advanced we are, we keep discovering wondrous and frightening new forms of life. Just recently, a team of scientists discovered some …
Amazon: Prime Day broke sales records, exceeded Black Friday 2014
You may have hated all the junk Amazon tried pawning off on you this week as part of Prime Day… but you bought it all up …
The ultimate Prime Day humiliation
Amazon’s Prime Day seemed to make the Internet go insane this week, as people both raged against Amazon trying to unload piles of useless junk …
The smartest smart band in the world just got even smarter – and it lasts 6 months on a charge
I love my Jawbone UP3. Quality control issues continue to plague Jawbone, but the device and accompanying app are fantastic. I recently lost 50 pounds in …
EFF launches open source site to help you contact Congress, and to hold Congress accountable
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has long been known as a protector of the free Internet, but the organization can’t do it alone. One of the …
