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Watch Giz UK Talking About the World’s Cheapest Tablet on Al Jazeera News
Our very own Sam Gibbs, news editor extraordinaire, made an appearance on Al Jazeera news today to discuss the "world's cheapest tablet," which will be sold in India to students for the subsidised...
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Last Surviving Sikh Ninja Master Is Looking for a Disciple
Nidar Singh is the last known master of shastar vidya, a form of Sikh martial arts that involves lots of spinning blades flying around at the same time. It's seriously impressive—and seriously...
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Red Spit is Eating This Steel Bridge
Spitting's a gross habit. Spitting on a bridge hanger and weakening its structural integrity. Well that's just rude and really gross.
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Is a Google Contractor Trying to Destroy OpenStreetMap?
Well, this is bad. OpenStreetMap, the Wikipedia of world maps, has been vandalised, with someone deliberately screwing up its data. Worse, the offending IP addresses seem to be coming from a set...
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Olympus Scandal Results In Top Executive Death
The long running Olympus corruption scandal that saw ties with the mob, hiding loses and executives leaving left and right has taken another sad turn with the apparent suicide of one of its top...
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Corruption, Lies, and Death Threats: The Crazy Story of the Man Who Pretended...
Shiva Ayyadurai, pictured above, is a shimmering intellectual. He holds four degrees from MIT (where he lectures), numerous patents, honours, and awards. He also says he invented email, and there’s a...
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India Is Now the World’s Leading Spam Source
India is now responsible for 9.3 per cent of the world’s spam — up from 8 per cent last year — overtaking the US for the first time, and meaning that it now accounts for more of the email trash than...
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Google Street View Went a Tad Too Far and Fell In a Ravine
Look’s like Google’s really desperate to bring you pictures of literally all the nooks and crannies of the world — so desperate in fact, it’s willing to send one of its Street View cars crashing down a...
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India Thought Jupiter and Venus Were Actually Chinese Spy Drones
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a Chinese spy drone! Oh, and there’s another one! That’s what the Indian Army must’ve thought when they saw two specks of something “spying on them” in the sky. Instead,...
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India’s New Long Range Missile Can Reach Beijing, Europe, and Beyond
India and China are the epitome of frenemies. Their relationship isn’t outright antagonistic, as India’s is with neighbouring Pakistan, but has remained prickly since an ongoing border dispute over...
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A Really Enormous Cyclone Is About To Hit India’s Eastern Coast
A huge storm, cyclone Phailin (pronounced: phie-lin), is approaching the states of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh on the eastern coast of India and will probably also cause heavy rain in neighbouring...
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Check Out Mumbai’s Sparkling, Slum-Bordered New Airport Terminal
It’s been almost three decades since Mumbai’s airport saw a renovation—a long time, for a city that’s seen some of the fastest growth in the world. But on Friday, officials unveiled an £540 million...
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Hats Off to Bill Gates: A Polio-Free India is £137 Million Well Spent
India is now officially polio free according to the country’s health officials, and that’s in no small part due to the philanthropic work of Bill Gates. He and his wife’s charity donated $225 million...
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Maximum City: Dizzying Images of Mumbai’s Sky High Building Boom
Mumbai’s housing market is a series of extremes: There are hundreds of skyscrapers being built, yet more than 60 per cent of its citizens live in slums. Single families occupy immense towers, but the...
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The Worst Air Pollution in the World is NOT in Beijing
There have been lots of stories on Gizmodo lately about the poor quality of China’s air. But, as the New York Times reports, Beijing’s air pollution isn’t even that bad… relatively speaking. “Lately, a...
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