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Security Bug Can Wipe Out Your Android Phone By Visiting a Web Page (Update 3)

Beware, Samsung customers! If you have a Samsung Android-based phone running their TouchWiz user interface, your telephone can be wiped out by going to any web page that contains the code “tel:*2767*3855%23” in an HTML frame. Important update: It’s not only Samsung with TouchWiz. Apparently it’s happening with other Android phones too. The vulnerability has…

NASA Publishes the Farthest View of the Universe Yet

NASA has just published the most detailed view of the Universe ever taken. It’s called the Extreme Deep Field—or XDF for short. It took ten years of Hubble Space Telescope photographs to make it and it shows some the oldest galaxies ever observed by humans, going 13.2 billion years back in time. It’s a mindblowing,…

This Is Why RIM Is Going Down

Did you really need to make this video, Research In Motion? Do you think your developers will love you more because of spending I don’t know how many hours in making this… this… I don’t know what this is. We are going to keep loving developers at Research In Motion, all the way to BlackBerry…

Yes, the iPhone 5’s Brain Is Made by Samsung

It’s not a surprise. The A5 chip—the brain of the iPhone 4S—is also made by Samsung. But in the current polarized climate of the Apple-Samsung Wars, it’s worth remembering that the show goes on and the new iPhone 5’s brain is made by Samsung too. https://gizmodo.com/apples-a5-processors-are-made-on-a-3-6-billion-samsung-5868700 iFixit put the chip under an electron microscope and…

12 Deadly Inventions That Killed Their Creators

Technological progress is not the iPhone 5 or the Nexus 7. Technological progress is creating things that nobody has ever seen before, things that push humanity forward. You know, like building a machine heavier than air that freaking flies. Sadly, some times these quests end in disaster. Let’s honor those forgotten geniuses by remembering them…

Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 and Premiere Elements 11 are out for Windows and Mac.

Who Are the Inept Klutzes that Photoshop Victoria’s Secret Catalogs?

Hokay. So—let’s assume that fashion companies must photoshop their ads in the name of perfect aesthetics and traumatizing women everywhere. Fine, do what you have to, fashion companies! But why don’t you hire people who actually know what the hell they are doing instead of using the incompetent morons you currently employ? Just check the…

Iran Shuts Down Google, Will Completely Cut Citizens Off the Internet

While Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is in New York, his cronies at home are shutting every single one of their citizens out of the internet. Their reasoning: ‘we may get attacked by zionist viruses.’ Riiiight. On Sunday, the Iranian state television network announced that Google and Gmail would be blocked “within a few hours.” The…

The Definitive Comparison of Google Maps vs Apple Maps In One Single Image

Apple Maps on iOS 6 is really bad when compared to Google Maps on iOS 5. It has misled people aplenty, the magic flyby is a horror show, and even Apple had to acknowledge it sucks. But nothing comes close to this, the definitive graphic comparison between Google Maps and Apple Maps. Enjoy! [Thanks Eduardo…

The Spectacular Last Flight of Space Shuttle Endeavour In Ultra-HD Video

Famed cinematographer and Gizmodo friend Vincent Laforet went to Los Angeles International Airport to capture the last flight of space shuttle Endeavour using a RED Epic camera at 5K resolution with Canon 800mm 5.6 lens in slow motion—-96 frames per second. I always get sad looking at the space shuttles being ferried to their final…

You Don’t Need a F*cking Case for Your iPhone 5

I’ve never used a case for my iPhone 4. Not even after the back broke for the third time. I didn’t do it because, unlike my grandma, I don’t cover my sofas with plastic. Or unlike idiots, I don’t protect my car’s front with a bra. And while you and the other billion people who…

This Optical Trick Is Annoying the Hell Out of Me

So, here are some lines moving like crazy. Stop moving like crazy, you lines! Oh, here are some squares. “Hello lines, let’s all play nice together!” they say. Now everything makes sense. How did this happen? Eye witchcraft! Thank you for the squares, stupid!

Mars Rover to Study Pyramid Rock of Unknown Origin

NASA’s Mars Rover Curiosity has its first analysis target, an intriguing rock with a pyramidal shape that is now 8.2 feet (2.5 meter) from its current location. The scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory are excited about this and other features discovered by the rover’s cameras. In fact, it seems that they have hit a…

The Never-Built Chicago Spire Seems Like a Great Place to Live—If You’re From Planet Xhuul-Zaan

The Chicago Spire wasn’t going to be the tallest building in the world but, judging by this video, it sure was going to be the most fantastic, teleported-from-the-future skyscraper on Earth. It’s the kind of structure that I can imagine on some alien planet, with an evil and very stylish emperor living on the penthouse.…

Curiosity Took an Earth Rock to Mars

In the 60s and 70s, America spent $109 billion on getting rocks from the Moon back to Earth*. In 2012, America spent a couple billions on moving an Earth’s rock to Mars**. Moving rocks is a lot of fun! Yes, there’s a piece of America on Mars now, people. America, f*ck yeah! Of course, you…

The Most Insane Lego Machine I’ve Ever Seen

Madness. This. Is. MADNESS! Its creator calls this machine the Lego Great Ball Contraption. I don’t know what to call it. Gjhiqjmvcdzz. Askjgsprgnyasdkfnipjreg. Thqruwm—-I’ve no words to describe the awe that I’ve experienced watching this video. It surprised me at every step. I’ve never ever seen any contraption so glorious and crazy. Built in his…

The Most Incredible Volcano Video of All Time

“The most incredible volcano video of ALL time.” That’s how Geoff Mackley—the man in this film—has titled his latest production. After watching it, it doesn’t seem like an exaggeration at all. It’s truly insane. This guy and his two friends are cray. It’s not the first time that Geoff Mackley gets so close to a…

New York City’s Blocks Arranged by Size

French artist Armelle Caron had a very clever idea: take out all the elements from a city grid and line them up, sorted by size. The results are both intriguing and pretty. They also tells a lot about each city. Take New York above and compare it to Istanbul below: Clearly, two entirely different civilizations…

This Looks Like the First Photo of a Fully Working iPad Mini

Knowing the accuracy of the iPhone 5 leaks and the increased number of photos of the 7.8-inch iPad parts from the same sources, I have almost no doubt that this is a real, fully working Apple iPad mini. That means that the launch must be really close right now. https://gizmodo.com/alleged-photos-of-final-iphone-5-leak-just-before-the-e-5942639 The Chinese site Bolopad claims…

Man Trapped in Mud Scooped Out By Caterpillar Machine

Ah, Russia, you neverending source of amusement and absurdity you, please never change. Take this man, who somehow sunk himself into the mud up to his waist and then he couldn’t get out—until the man with the caterpillar decides to scoop him out, complete with all the mud around him. [Thanks Karl!]