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You know what's great about cheap, shitty beer? The cheap part. The end. Sure, it's fun to be nostalgic about the first beer you ever drank or whatever, but if someone leaves a bunch of crappy beer in my fridge, I just want to use some kind of magic spell to turn it into something delicious. Could such a thing be possible? More »

Whether you are or not, everyone just wants to be loved and envied. No, shh, it's true. And thanks to the ease of the internet, you can finally realize the dream. Here's how to be the center of Twitter attention. More »

This week's Internet-based teapot tempest swirled around the venerable TED talks, which were accused by one presenter of censoring his talk because he spoke truth to power and talked about income inequality. More »

Until just a few years ago, manned spaceflight was the exclusive sandbox of not just nations, but of the world's select superpowers—the countries with enough disposable income to say, "F-ck it. Let's go to the Moon." Those days are over, sadly, slowly smothered by shrinking budgets and realigning priorities. More »

Facebook is public now. And that means you're going public too. Facebook has to make you share more. It has to make you expose more of yourself. It has to do all those deeply creepy it's already doing, but more more more. It is going to sell you to advertisers, to shareholders, to anyone it can. More »

Facebook money money stock Facebook NASDAQ hoodie Zuckerberg Facebook. There's a lot of noise today, but amid the foam-mouthed financial babble, here are some funny things instead. Instead of becoming rich, let's laugh today. More »

It's Facebook IPO day! After months of SEC reviews and roadshows and profiteering, FB will finally take its place in the Nasdaq menagerie when markets open at 9:30 EST. Time to start digging up your backyard bullion stash, right? Wrong. For the average guy the Facebook IPO is strictly Like, don't touch. More »

The world's most amazing digital photography company isn't Canon or Nikon. It's a tiny company in Tucson, Arizona: Spectral Instruments. They make the craziest digital cameras on the planet. This one has a dynamic range so incredibly big that it can photograph both the sun and the stars in broad daylight. More »

Verizon dropped the bad, bullshit news yesterday: It's killing all grandfathered unlimited data plans next year. Thanks to a statement from Verizon to the NY Times, we know exactly how it plans to do so. The answer? You can keep the plans, but it makes absolutely no financial sense to do so. More »

Former Pentagon senior policy analyst F. Michael Maloof claims that Israel is using the same ultra-secret stealth H-60 Blackhawk helicopter that US Special Forces used to hunt down bin Laden. How is this possible? More »

Scott Hanselman is a Microsoft programmer, stand-up comedian, and author. And now, he is a philosopher of computer iconography. The bane of his existence? It's the Icons whose real world analogues no longer exist. Here are five of the worst offenders. For the rest of the list, be sure to visit Scott's blog. More »

Maybe you're bored with your remote control. Maybe you have delusions of being an actual, spell-flingin' wizard. Whatever the reasons may be, the Kymera Magic Wand remote exists, and aspires to make your television watching a little more magical. Is it just a bunch of hocus pocus? More »

LG's newest LED member of its Cinema 3D line is packed to the gills with features and functionality including native support for Netflix and HuluPlus, sharing media from mobile devices and PCs, and Internet access, but you're going to have to keep vampire hours to avoid the glare. More »

DARPA may be the Big Dog of robotic cargo transport for now, but that doesn't mean it's the only game in town. A new design from the Italian Institute of Technology may look like the Army's pack-bot but it runs like a Ferarri—or, at least, a skittering, mechanical Ibex. More »

This is weird: these rocks combusted spontaneously inside a woman's pocket, seriously scorching her right leg and hands with third degree burns. They were collected in a beach and look fairly normal. Nobody knows yet why they started to burn with such strong flames. More »

A spectre is haunting startups—the spectre of the brogrammer. Several prominent, quivering articles would lead you to believe the frat houses have emptied into tech, spreading misogyny, keg stands, and chest bumps throughout. This is bullshit. I met one. More »

I'm a huge Netflix fan and I'm happy with how its user interface has evolved lately. The main web screen is good and now they have changed the video player to make it prettier and more useful. Here are all the changes: More »

Unlimited data on Verizon is dead. The death rattle just wheezed out during Verizon Communications CFO Fran Shammo's dream-killing presentation at the JP Morgan Technology, Media and Telecom conference. Everyone with a grandfathered unlimited data plan will be forced to switch to a tiered plan when they upgrade to LTE. It's absurd, warrantless, and sadly, typically, aggressively anti-consumer. More »

You might think of tapeworms as awful parasites that find their way into your intestine, grow as big as 50 feet long, and cause horrible gastrointestinal issues. But that's only one step of a larger infectious chain the tapeworm is a part of. The alien life-form doesn't only cause crippling stomach pain; it could also debilitate mental capacities if they find their way to the brain. More »

You might not have heard of Ken Murphy, but you are probably familiar with his work. It's awesome. He hacks typical Radio Shack items to create blinking bug sculptures and analog synthesizers that sound like Atari video games. More »

Finding love online isn't easy. The prospect of meeting Mr. or Ms. Right seems to turn everyone into porn star used car salesmen. Luckily for you, dear dater, Vice's Brian Moylan knows exactly what everyone's lying about. More »

Using a frame within a frame is one of the easiest ways to spice up a dull photo. And with Photoshop, it's also a way to create something totally mind-bending. These 20 Shooting Challenge entries celebrate both schools of thought. More »

Web startups are made out of two things: people and code. The people make the code, and the code makes the people rich. Code is like a poem; it has to follow certain structural requirements, and yet out of that structure can come art. But code is art that does something. It is the assembly of something brand new from nothing but an idea. More »

You might find this hard to believe: not everyone owns an iPhone or one of the several thousand decent Androids for sale or even a Windows phone. Crazy! But what's even more insane is the number of shockingly horrible dumbphones major US carriers are still selling like it's 2006. Here are the worst of the worst. More »

Tablets may be the next big thing in mobile computing, but don't count out ultrabooks just yet. At least not until you've given Lenovo's Thinkpad X1 Carbon—a feather-weight, carbon fiber workhorse a closer look. It's tough, it's light, and you don't have to be an office drone to crave it. More »

Over the weekend, I flew to LA to attend the wedding of my mother's cousin, a beautiful ceremony, right on the ocean, at a hotel in Santa Monica called Shutters. Vows were exchanged and champagne flowed and as soon as we were seated inside for dinner, I was hit with a world of ridiculous. More »

When you die and you're lowered into your grave, you might as well do it in style. If you were a brewer, why wouldn't you be buried in a beer bottle? Crazy Coffins lets the deceased and their families do just that, with some of the wildest eternal resting places you've ever seen. More »

HTC's new line of phones is kinda, like, the best. The One S (on T-Mobile) is good. The One X (on AT&T) is very, very good. The latest addition is the EVO 4G LTE. Can it hang with its brothers? More »

Ask a bunch of the world's best economists—including four Nobel laureates—how to make the world a better place, and they don't just blurt out an answer. They take their time, weigh up impact-per-dollar and make careful decisions. And this is what they came up with. More »

You can broadcast streaming Internet music throughout a house over Wi-Fi using products from Sonos or Grace Digital. But it gets expensive. Instead, why not make send the tunes to the basic FM radios you already own? More »