http://www.gizmodo.co.uk Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:00:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/dead-man-charged-10-for-not-paying-virgin-media-bill/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/dead-man-charged-10-for-not-paying-virgin-media-bill/#comments Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:15:36 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=161215 Virgin Media has made the rather enormous error of sending out a bill to a dead man, also cheekily adding a £10 late payment fee. Why not turn up at the funeral and prise the rings off his fingers to pay for his TV debts, you cold-hearted automatons? The bill demand popped up on Facebook, [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/dead-man-charged-10-for-not-paying-virgin-media-bill/feed/ 21 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/whoa-did-google-maps-just-reveal-a-bloody-gruesome-murder/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/whoa-did-google-maps-just-reveal-a-bloody-gruesome-murder/#comments Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:30:48 +0000 Casey Chan http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=158613 Google Maps, the all seeing eye that can find naked pranksters, possible donkey hit and runs and other more serious crimes, may have just stumbled upon a bloody crime scene. The image shows what looks to be two people dragging a corpse and leaving a bloody trail on a pier. After seeing the picture, our [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/whoa-did-google-maps-just-reveal-a-bloody-gruesome-murder/feed/ 16 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/rss-inventor-couldnt-care-less-about-google-readers-death/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/rss-inventor-couldnt-care-less-about-google-readers-death/#comments Sun, 17 Mar 2013 17:00:11 +0000 Eric Limer http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=151036 The impending death of Google Reader has sparked much wailing and gnashing of teeth, petition-signing, alternative-seeking, and rending of garments. But what about the people who made RSS? Dave Winer, one of the fathers of the both RSS and the blog, couldn’t give less of a shit. He posts on his blog: I won’t miss [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/rss-inventor-couldnt-care-less-about-google-readers-death/feed/ 10 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/new-social-network-for-the-dead-lets-you-rememberharass-the-deceased/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/new-social-network-for-the-dead-lets-you-rememberharass-the-deceased/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:00:53 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=146437 A new and rather poorly designed social network going by the name of Departed Life wants to make remembering dead people a new kind of internet fun, with its remembrance portal letting users set up memorials to the deceased. Once logged in with a Facebook account, users are then able to search existing memorial pages [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/new-social-network-for-the-dead-lets-you-rememberharass-the-deceased/feed/ 5 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/the-odds-of-dying-in-a-freak-accident-are-higher-than-you-think/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/the-odds-of-dying-in-a-freak-accident-are-higher-than-you-think/#comments Sat, 16 Feb 2013 18:00:14 +0000 Casey Chan http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=143647 When I hear that someone died in some freak accident that involves fireworks or pavements or parked cars or wild animals, I wonder to myself, what the hell are the odds of that freaking happening? The good thing? They’re pretty high! The bad thing? It really, really sucks for that poor soul who’s 1 in 50,729,141 [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/the-odds-of-dying-in-a-freak-accident-are-higher-than-you-think/feed/ 2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/how-many-heartbeats-does-each-species-get-in-a-lifetime/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/how-many-heartbeats-does-each-species-get-in-a-lifetime/#comments Sat, 09 Feb 2013 11:00:24 +0000 Casey Chan http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=141929 Have you ever wondered how many heartbeats an average person has in their lifetime? What about for cats or dogs or other animals? Turns out because of metabolic rates and size of different species, each animal gets around a billion beats. Around being the operative word, of course. Humans and chickens are outliers in that [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/how-many-heartbeats-does-each-species-get-in-a-lifetime/feed/ 6 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/gas-leak-causes-fatality-at-korean-samsung-plant/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/gas-leak-causes-fatality-at-korean-samsung-plant/#comments Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:00:48 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=138795 A gas leak at a Samsung semiconductor plant in Hwaseong, Korea, last night killed a worker—and local news sources are suggesting that a cover-up by Sammy could be behind the incident. Yonhap News is reporting that a 132-gallon tank of hydrofluoric acid began leaking last night at the plant. An initial leak apparently occurred at [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/gas-leak-causes-fatality-at-korean-samsung-plant/feed/ 2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/what-is-the-most-dangerous-place-on-earth/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/what-is-the-most-dangerous-place-on-earth/#comments Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:00:56 +0000 Eric Limer http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=136765 The Antarctic? The top of Mount Everest? The bottom of the ocean? In the middle of your parent’s kitchen during a political argument on any given holiday? All good guesses, but none are quite right. Between environmental hazards, plagues, and other human beings, the world is a dangerous place, sure. But what locale takes the [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/what-is-the-most-dangerous-place-on-earth/feed/ 5 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/the-void-of-losing-someone-you-dont-know-in-memory-of-aaron-swartz/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/the-void-of-losing-someone-you-dont-know-in-memory-of-aaron-swartz/#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:00:47 +0000 Mark Bao http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=134750 I didn’t know Aaron Swartz personally. We never spoke, not in person nor by email. Yet, his suicide over the weekend has left a big hole in the world for me. I found my own sadness baffling. I didn’t know the guy. Why did I, deep down, feel such a void in the world? The reason [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/the-void-of-losing-someone-you-dont-know-in-memory-of-aaron-swartz/feed/ 27 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/former-reddit-co-owner-and-internet-activist-aaron-swartz-commits-suicide/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/former-reddit-co-owner-and-internet-activist-aaron-swartz-commits-suicide/#comments Sat, 12 Jan 2013 19:00:05 +0000 Eric Limer http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=134717 Former Reddit co-owner and founder of DemandProgress, Aaron Swartz commited suicide at the age of 26 in New York City yesterday, according to reports by The Tech. Swartz had been battling criminal charges related to his attempts to make JSTOR archives public and had been facing up to 50 years in prison and $4 million [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/former-reddit-co-owner-and-internet-activist-aaron-swartz-commits-suicide/feed/ 7 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/microsoft-killing-messenger-on-march-15th/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/microsoft-killing-messenger-on-march-15th/#comments Wed, 09 Jan 2013 11:45:12 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=133755 You only have nine more weeks to glory in the history of Microsoft’s chat tool, with the company announcing plans to entirely kill off Messenger by March 15th. You’ll have to have switched over to Skype by then if you want to carry on chatting with your old MSN buddies, or living in China — [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/microsoft-killing-messenger-on-march-15th/feed/ 14 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/its-super-easy-to-lock-people-out-of-their-facebook-accounts-by-claiming-theyre-dead/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/its-super-easy-to-lock-people-out-of-their-facebook-accounts-by-claiming-theyre-dead/#comments Sun, 06 Jan 2013 10:00:31 +0000 Eric Limer http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=132491 In this new world of social media, plenty of your accounts are going to soldier on after you die. Get ready. But in the meantime, it’s easy—too easy—to convince Facebook just about anyone is dead, at which point the site will lock down the account as a memorial until the supposed corpse argues otherwise. The [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/its-super-easy-to-lock-people-out-of-their-facebook-accounts-by-claiming-theyre-dead/feed/ 9 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/12/sound-system-coffin-lets-audiophiles-rock-out-for-eternity/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/12/sound-system-coffin-lets-audiophiles-rock-out-for-eternity/#comments Sat, 15 Dec 2012 20:00:32 +0000 Andrew Liszewski http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=128010 It almost looks like an over-the-top prank by the Onion, but this £19,000 coffin—equipped with speakers and a wireless streaming sound system—is apparently real. Even its name, the CataCombo Sound System, seems like something made up for an SNL commercial parody. But if you can’t bear the idea of spending the afterlife without your favourite [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/12/sound-system-coffin-lets-audiophiles-rock-out-for-eternity/feed/ 8 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/the-mystery-of-sir-james-tillie/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/the-mystery-of-sir-james-tillie/#comments Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:00:08 +0000 Chris Mills http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=119129 Sir James Tillie was, by all accounts, a slightly strange chap. An eccentric Cornish landowner, he had a rather unique burial after his death, and to this day the location of his final resting place is a myth. Grave robbers need not fear, however; a new restoration of his mausoleum looks set to reveal the [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/the-mystery-of-sir-james-tillie/feed/ 8 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/banana-boat-sunscreen-might-set-you-on-fire/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/banana-boat-sunscreen-might-set-you-on-fire/#comments Sat, 20 Oct 2012 19:00:08 +0000 Sam Biddle http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=113667 Sunscreen is good for you, and not just because your mom told you so. It can help prevent skin cancer! Unless it’s one of these just-recalled Banana Boat variants, in which case you might die in flames. According to a press release from “Energizer Holdings,” which apparently owns Banana Boat (who knew!), the defect lies [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/banana-boat-sunscreen-might-set-you-on-fire/feed/ 5 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/should-so-called-legal-highs-really-be-legal/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/should-so-called-legal-highs-really-be-legal/#comments Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:30:15 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=110877 In the UK we have a load of drugs, which just skirt the law by roaming into the realm of “legal highs.” Normally these drugs are untested, unlicensed, and potentially lethal, but because they’re not “controlled substances” they’re in a legal grey area. Now a new one, “Annihilation” is apparently putting people in hospital. Should [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/should-so-called-legal-highs-really-be-legal/feed/ 19 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/mass-murder-in-wow-as-exploit-wipes-out-thousands-of-players/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/mass-murder-in-wow-as-exploit-wipes-out-thousands-of-players/#comments Mon, 08 Oct 2012 13:00:53 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=108886 Amazing scenes of death and carnage were witnessed in the pretend World of Warcraft over the weekend, after an exploit of some kind was used to kill thousands of player characters. Players began dying en masse late on Saturday night, with WoW forum posters reporting on the deaths of pretty much everyone in their realms, [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/mass-murder-in-wow-as-exploit-wipes-out-thousands-of-players/feed/ 18 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/09/severely-burned-corpse-identified-by-the-maggots-infesting-her-body/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/09/severely-burned-corpse-identified-by-the-maggots-infesting-her-body/#comments Fri, 28 Sep 2012 22:00:50 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=106735 If you ever come across a body that’s so badly burned you can’t identify the corpse, don’t worry: just keep your eyes open for maggots. Because a police forensics team in Mexico managed to identify a body through maggot ID alone. New Scientist reports that Mexican police found a body that was so badly burned that [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/09/severely-burned-corpse-identified-by-the-maggots-infesting-her-body/feed/ 2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/08/does-america-really-need-to-feature-death-symbols-on-its-military-badges-military/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/08/does-america-really-need-to-feature-death-symbols-on-its-military-badges-military/#comments Wed, 01 Aug 2012 10:00:00 +0000 Jesus Diaz http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=90912 I know that weapons kill. And I know that drones can be particularly deadly. That’s the destructive nature of war, after all. But does the US really need to feature the symbol of death on their military badges? The insignia above is the symbol of the US Navy’s Executive Office for the Unmanned Aviation and [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/08/does-america-really-need-to-feature-death-symbols-on-its-military-badges-military/feed/ 14 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/07/an-urn-shaped-like-your-head-is-the-creepiest-way-to-spend-eternity/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/07/an-urn-shaped-like-your-head-is-the-creepiest-way-to-spend-eternity/#comments Mon, 23 Jul 2012 23:00:28 +0000 Andrew Liszewski http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=88631 Some people spend their lives accomplishing great things so that when they die they’re never forgotten. But the rest of us now have a more couch potato-compatible solution. A company called Cremation Solutions will create an urn that looks like your severed head, so your family and friends will never forget you as long as [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/07/an-urn-shaped-like-your-head-is-the-creepiest-way-to-spend-eternity/feed/ 3