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Hulu Has a New Video Games Channel

Expanding its reach ever so slightly from TV and Movies, Hulu now has a video games hub, which will feature trailers, reviews and gameplay footage for numerous games. And while that doesn’t inspire awe quite yet, it could someday become home to a solid collection of video tips and walkthroughs. [Hulu]

The Taliban Mistakenly Outed Every Single Person on Its Mailing List

If you didn’t already know that the Taliban had a mailing list, your mind is already blown. But here’s a solid one-upper: the Taliban spokesperson accidentally CC’d everyone on that list in an otherwise pedestrian email, outing some people who likely didn’t want the world to know they were subscribers. According to ABC News, the…

Lytro Images Will Soon Have 3D Perspective Shift and Live Filters

Lytro’s founder Ren Ng has always maintained that there was potential in light field photography far beyond the main refocusing trick that the Lytro Camera launched with. And when the latest Lytro desktop software update hits on December 4th, we’ll get to see a couple more of those tricks: perspective shift and living filters. Perspective…

Yes, Microsoft Paid to Make This Terrible Xbox Live Ad 10 Years Ago

Once upon a time, online console gaming was a novel thing. And a singular, cohesive, online community built around a console was downright mindblowing. Enter Xbox Live, which turns 10 this week. To celebrate its new online system, Microsoft made maybe the corniest, ever-so-slightly racist, ad to introduce everyone to Xbox Live and all its…

Spotify Is Testing a Web Player That We’ll Probably See Next Year

If you’ve been looking for a way to stream Spotify tracks without having to use the standalone app, that day may come sooner than later: Spotify has confirmed with us that they have begun testing the feature with a small audience. A web-based version of Spotify has been a rumor for awhile now, and rumblings…

5 Things To Love About Nokia’s New Maps

Nokia’s rebranded mapping service will soon arrive on iPhones and and Android devices, under the moniker of Here. For Android users this isn’t a huge deal, but for iPhone owners living in the age of iOS 6, it could change a lot. Nokia’s maps, on other platforms, have been fantastic. https://gizmodo.com/nokias-new-mapping-service-is-coming-to-ios-and-android-5960189 The apps aren’t quite…

Scosche Now Has Lightning Accessories for Damn Near Any Situation

Think about anything you need to do regarding your gadget charging needs. Need to power an iPhone 5? What about a fourth-gen iPad? An Android phone? Some weird gadget with a strange USB port? Need to charge at home? In the car? Hate tangled cables? Scosche has addressed all of these scenarios with its latest…

Coming Soon to Vimeo: Paywalls

Early next year, Vimeo will introduce a new feature to its PRO account holders. In short, those users will be able to charge for their videos on a per view (or per whatever) basis. It’s a move that could either attract a whole different class of known independent filmmakers or amass a sizable mountain of…

Tech’s New Most Meaningless Spec: PPI

HTC’s new Droid DNA smartphone has plenty of qualities that make it intriguing. It has a quad-core Snapdragon chipset. It crams a 5-inch display in a body nearly the size of a One X or Galaxy S III. Its Super LCD 3 technology trumps the Super LCD 2 that made the HTC 8x display so…

What Are You Reading While You Wait in Line to Vote?

If you believe in the power of voting, chances are you’re going to head to a polling place sometime between now and the end of the day to cast your ballot. You’ll probably be waiting a few minutes as well. With that in mind, we tossed together 10 election day pieces for you to save…

Have You Had Any Problems With Electronic Voting?

It’s election day. Some of you have the fortune of being able to vote electronically, thus removing any confusion over whether or not that chad was hanging. Well it’s supposed to remove confusion in theory. Have you voted yet? Was it some form of an electronic ballot? Did you notice anything sketchy? Let’s talk about…

NYC Residents Can Vote at any New York State Polling Place Tomorrow

If you’re a resident of NYC or Westchester, Long Island and Rockland counties, you can submit an affadavit ballot for the presidential and US Senatorial elections at any polling place in the state of New York you like tomorrow. You can’t vote in local elections, but it’s still useful for those who’s living and transportations…

Starting tomorrow at 6p EST, stories on the NYT and WSJ sites will be free until Wednesday night. Election! [Mashable]

Web-Based Instagram Profiles Are Here and They’re VERY Facebook-esque

Up until now, Instagram profiles have only been viewable from the app (or through some sort of a third-party site/client). But AllThingsD reports that you’ll now be able to fire up any web browser and have access to any public Instagram account, making it approximately 1000000% easier to stalk people using the service. Oh, and…

CBS Shows Will Stream on Hulu Plus Next Year

CBS is home to many shows in which some unsuspecting individual with a special gift helps law enforcement agencies solve crimes once a week. And if you happen to be a fan of these shows, but don’t like watching them over broadcast or using the CBS site, there’s good news: they’ll stream on Hulu Plus…

ShadowMe Lets You View Anyone’s Twitter Feed From Your iPhone

Stop pretending like you’re not a social media stalker. That person you have a crush on. That head honcho you interviewed with. That celebrity you’re utterly obsessed with. Thanks to ShadowMe, you can now use your iPhone to see what they see on Twitter. It’s similar to what Tweetdeck already does, but, you know, shrunken…

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The Clear To-Do App Is Now Available on Mac If you were a fan of Realmac’s Clear to-do app for iPhone—in all it’s minimal, gesture-filled UI glory—you’ll be happy to know that the app is coming to OS X on November 8, with iCloud support so that it will sync seamlessly with your phone. And…

Here Are Criterion’s Scariest High-Brow Horror Films

Click to viewTraditionally, scary movies are very, very campy in the best of ways and not always considered brilliant without some sort of qualifier. Of course, many of the films in the Criterion Collection are classics, and that happens to include some horror films. As such, their film nerds put together a list of the…

Welcome to the Bizarro NMA World In Which Star Wars and Disney Fight to the Death

Any NMA take on Disney’s acquisition of LucasFilm is bound to be very strange, but the finished product is even stranger than you could imagine. Backroom deals made in a strip club. Yoda strong arming George Lucas. Woody, Buzz Lightyear and the Avengers brawling with Yoda, Darth Vader and Han Solo. And Ronald McDonald? Just…

Paper for iPad Now Lets You Sketch With a Pressure Sensitive Bluetooth Stylus

Paper is one of the iPad’s best proof of concepts when it comes to apps taking advantage of what the hardware can do. Now, it just got a little better. Not only does the app have a new color mixer tool, allowing you to create custom colors to your heart’s content, but it also works…