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This Year’s Trashiest Store-Bought Halloween Costumes

By Charlie Jane Anders on io9, shared by Cheryl Eddy to Gizmodo

Halloween is the one time of year that most people actually cosplay. But making your own costume from scratch is actually a lot of work. So there’s a whole industry dedicated to making costumes for you… with mixed results. Here are the trashiest and most WTF costumes for 2015.

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Source:: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/EqEsAzvCcAw/this-years-trashiest-store-bought-halloween-costumes-1736063653

      

New, Ultrafast Swimming Drones Are Tiny Ocean Explorers

By Annalee Newitz

The future of drones isn’t in the skies. It’s in the ocean. That’s what the OpenROV team proved in 2012 with their wildly successful remote-controlled ocean-going drone (complete with underwater camera). And now they’re back with the Trident, a sleeker, faster model–which I took for a test swim last week at …

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Source:: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/JDV95xNAtm4/new-ultrafast-swimming-drones-are-tiny-ocean-explorers-1735342168

      

Users have the right to be forgotten online — in some cases, Google search chief says

By Shara Tibken Amit Singhal, Google’s search chief, says teenagers and other people who made small, “innocent” mistakes shouldn’t be chased their entire lives.

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Source:: http://cnet.com.feedsportal.com/c/34938/f/645093/s/4a854245/sc/15/l/0L0Scnet0N0Cnews0Cusers0Ehave0Ethe0Eright0Eto0Ebe0Eforgotten0Eonline0Ein0Esome0Ecases0Egoogle0Esearch0Echief0Esays0C0Tftag0FCAD590Aa51e/story01.htm

      

Marvel’s ‘Jessica Jones’ shows off her superpowers in new Netflix trailer

By Bonnie Burton Superhero-turned-detective Jessica Jones skips the stairs and uses her powers to commute to work much faster.

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Source:: http://cnet.com.feedsportal.com/c/34938/f/645093/s/4a82a7d6/sc/15/l/0L0Scnet0N0Cnews0Cmarvels0Ejessica0Ejones0Eshows0Eoff0Eher0Esuperhero0Epowers0Ein0Enetflix0Etrailer0C0Tftag0FCAD590Aa51e/story01.htm

      

This 500-Year-Old Additive Makes Your Cheddar Turn Pink

By Esther Inglis-Arkell

If you’re the type with enough self-restraint to allow cheese to stay in the fridge for a while, you might be alarmed by the fact that it’s turned pink. Not to worry. It’s probably due to a harmless, and ancient, additive.

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Source:: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/rqifl5EFLXo/this-500-year-old-additive-makes-your-cheddar-turn-pink-1734874136

      

How 80s Computers Create 8-Bit Music

By Adam Clark Estes on 20khz, shared by Adam Clark Estes to Gizmodo

You’ve got to love that 8-bit sound. Blips and bloops and beeps magically merge together to create choppy, nostalgic melodies that remind us how far we’ve come since the first personal computers. But how did those big beige boxes …

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Source:: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/ocB9__eKLnA/how-80s-computers-create-8-bit-music-1735177176