Jamie Condliffe

Netflix Is Thinking of Making Original Movies Now, Too

Netflix is no stranger to making original TV anymore, but it seems it has bigger plans than that: it’s floating the idea that it’ll foot the bill for a “big” movie, which would appear in theaters and on Netflix at the same time. All Things D reports that Netflix’s content boss Ted Sarandos is interested…

New Anti-Predator Material Looks Colder As It Gets Hotter

A team of scientists has created a material that’s enough to confuse fellow researchers and the Predator alike: a substance which looks cold when viewed using infrared light even when it’s getting hotter. Typically, when objects get hotter, they radiate more infrared light—which can be detected using infrared cameras like those found in military goggles.…

This Video Shows Just How Beautiful Mathematics Is

Betrand Russell once wrote that “[m]athematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music.” In this video, Yann Pineill and Nicolas Lefaucheux prove him right. In the triptych video, an equation appears on the left, a technical diagram in the…

Why Are JavaScript Attacks So Dangerous?

You’ve probably heard security articles talk about JavaScript being used to attack websites, but you might not know why it’s quite so dangerous. This video helps explain. It’s all to do with cross-site scripting: a vulnerability that allows hackers to inject client-side script into web pages that are viewed by other users. In the past,…

After months of trials, Nielsen is about to roll out its technology to include online viewing figures in its records, and it’ll lean on social networks to match viewing habits to social demographic.

Watch Six Famous Corporate Logos Evolve Before Your Eyes

Just like the products and services they sell, company logos have a tendency to change over time. In this series of animations by Nick DiLallo, you can see how the logos of six big firms have changed over the years. What’s nice about them is that the way that the transitions are appropriate to the…

20th Century Headlines Rewritten as Linkbait

The online headline is a strange thing indeed when you compare it to the more classical titles that filled the newspapers of the 20th century. So, what if you took major historic events of the last 100 years and rewrote them as linkbait? This is what happens. My favorite has to be “This One Weird…

Obama Was Unaware of NSA World Leader Spying (Updated)

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Obama was unaware that the NSA was spying on world leaders—until an internal White House review revealed that the operation existed. https://gizmodo.com/report-the-nsas-been-spying-on-35-world-leaders-1451598576 The review revealed to the president and this staff that the NSA was spying on 35 world leaders, and since learning about them the White House…

What’s Wrong With Quantum Computing

You’ve heard plenty of people by now—including us—banging on about quantum computers, and how they’re the future of high-performance computing. Quantum computing, we’re meant to understand, is set to change the world. But despite its promise, it’s neither widely available nor particularly useful yet. Here’s why not. Basic Bits First things first, a quick reminder…

You’ve Never Seen a Cell Look Like This

This might look like a bird from Tron just laid an egg in some futuristic nest, but in fact you’re looking at the nucleus of a single human cell. The image shows the nucleus of a lab-cultured monkey kidney cell, lying amongst a network of microtubules. Those hollow filaments provide the cell with proteins, which…

German Telecom Wants Germany-Only Internet Because of the NSA Debacle

As relations between the US and Europe become increasingly strained because, uh, the NSA spied on 35 world leaders, the state-backed Deutsche Telekom has declared that it wants to create a national internet to protect Germany from future privacy infringements. https://gizmodo.com/report-the-nsas-been-spying-on-35-world-leaders-1451598576 Deutsche Telekom is rallying other German communications companies to join forces and shield local…

13- and 15-Inch MacBook Pro Teardown: Wild Guts, Pray They Never Fail

It may only be a few days since Apple announced its new 13- and 15-inch Retina MacBook Pros, but iFixit has already torn the suckers apart. And while the insides are storming, taking them apart is a whole different matter. https://gizmodo.com/the-new-2013-macbook-pro-is-faster-and-lighter-1448869926 It almost goes without saying that both computers are equipped to fly from the…

When the Sense 5.5 update hits your HTC One, good news: you’ll be able to snag an additional 25GB of Google Drive storage. Sweet.

The Sun Spewed Out a Beautiful Solar Flare This Week

The sun emitted a solar flare at 8:30 pm EDT on October 23rd, and NASA captured in all its glory at its Solar Dynamics Observatory. Doesn’t it look pretty? The flare was classified as an M9.4 flare, on a scale from M1 to M9.9, making it one of the strongest M class flares of recent…

What TED Talks Will Be Like When the Zombie Apocalypse Arrives

“In the wake of the zombie apocalypse, innovative ideas have become more important than ever. Watch and take note on how to survive the “human apocalypse” in a special DED Talk presented by a zombie who has seen it all.” This video, put together by Official Comedy, is priceless. Turns out a presentation by one…

Apple has started selling OS X Mountain Lion redemption codes, alongside OS X Lion, for $20 each—so you can still buy the old OS if you need to.

We’ve Finally Figured Out Why Kettles Whistle

This might shock you, but for over a century scientists have been pondering why kettles whistle—and completely failed to find an answer. That’s all changed now, though, thanks to two scientists from the University of Cambridge who have worked out how it happens. The whistle in a kettle is created when steam passes through two…

TiVo has announced that its Roamio Pro and Roamio Plus DVRs will now offer out-of-home streaming, allowing subscribers to watch live and recorded TV remotely over Wi-Fi. It’ll first roll out in the next weeks via an iOS app update, then an Android app and 4G streaming are planned for early next year.

Mac App Store Bug Is Upgrading Illegal and Trial Software For Free

As well as giving away OS X 10.9 Mavericks for free, Apple has also promised to update iWork and iLife gratis, too, for anyone that bought a Mac after October 1st. But there’s a glitch in the system that means people with illegal or trial copies of the software are being given free updates too.…

The Globe and Mailreports that ex-Apple CEO John Sculley is looking into taking control of BlackBerry in order to turn it round. Good luck with that, John.