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What the Hell Happened to Apple’s Attention to Detail?

Oh Apple, as much as I love you—yes Phil, you know I do love you—you can really piss me off sometimes. No, I’m not talking about iOS’ serious privacy problem or the obnoxious nature of some of your Apple spokepeople. https://gizmodo.com/ipad-is-the-future-5506692 I’m talking about your current careless attitude towards the really important things. You know,…

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Two Million Dead Americans Can Vote, 51 Million Alive Americans Can’t

According to a new study, there are about two million dead Americans listed on active voter registries. Not only that, but one out in every eight registrations is either invalid or inaccurate. I can’t wait for Voting Dead Season 3. The snafu doesn’t stop there: three million voters can vote in multiple states, 12 million…

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Photoshop CS6 Can Magically Move Around Any Object In Your Photos

When Adobe Photoshop Senior Product Manager Bryan O’Neil Hughes showed me the new content-aware features of CS6, my mouth opened like an imbecile out of complete disbelief. You can basically move objects around your image freely and effortless. It’s black magic! Here’s a video of what I saw. First you see the new clone-stamp like…

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Any iPhone App Can Steal Your Contacts Now—Against Steve Jobs’ Will

Someone found out that Path—and most probably other apps—was stealing your contacts’ information from your iPhone and iPad without telling you about it. This happened because of Path’s greediness, but also because Apple is not protecting your privacy as it should. https://gizmodo.com/paths-big-mistake-updated-5883395 The fact is that any app can do the same right now. And…

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Casablanca: The Best Love Movie Ever—And Possibly the Best Movie, Period

Every year I watch Casablanca and Singin’ In the Rain. I need them. They make me happy. Singin’ In the Rain is just silly, lighthearted and flawlessly directed, sometimes visually surreal and abstract, always a joy. Casablanca has it all and, on top of that, it’s the perfect lovers movie. It’s also the perfect heroic…

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David Bowie: Heroes

So, Valentine’s Day. Personally, I don’t give a damn. Every day should be your Valentine’s Day or else you aren’t truly living. This comes from a guy who has been married three times and truly fell in love at least twice. But if you must have a song for your Valentine’s, you can’t go wrong…

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The Next-Generation MacBook Pro 2012

Have no doubt about this: Apple is revamping their MacBook Pro line in 2012 in a radical way—not merely evolutionary. We know this not because of the usual rumors, but because there is no way this will not happen. This is what we expect. A radical but logical change When Steve Jobs said that the…

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The Two Faces of Lego Frodo—Plus My Precious Gollum Minifig

I love all the new Lego Lord of the Rings’ minifigs, but I have one favorite: Gollum. They truly captured his creepy nature, yet he still looks cute. My favorite detail, however, are the two faces of Frodo, showing his transformation through the story. https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-videos-of-the-new-lego-lord-of-the-rings-sets-5884547 Here’s Gollum, holding his precious fish and pissed off. My…

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I Just Fell In Love With iCade’s New Retro NES-Style Gamepad for iPhone and iPad

If you loved the latest iCade controllers for iPhone and iPad, you are going to want to have sex with their new iCade 8-Bitty, a Nintendo-style gamepad controller with eight buttons. https://gizmodo.com/the-rad-icade-mobile-icade-for-iphone-and-icade-core-j-5874342 The iCade 8-Bitty has surfaced at NYC’s Toy Fair 2012. Like the iCade controllers, the 8-bitty connects to your iPhone, iPad and iPod…

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Lego Bruce Wayne Transformation Into Batman Transforms Adults Into Giddy Nerdy Kids

The new Lego Batcave is so neat. It is modeled after the original comicbooks and uses the classic blue Batman. Its coolest feature is the Bat-Gear part, where Bruce Wayne turns into Batman. It’s so stupidly neat that it’s funny. It’s fairly large—690 pieces—and includes Bruce Wayne, Batman, Robin, Poison Ivy and Bane minifigs. The…

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These New Cool Lego Stormtroopers Minifigs Are Incredibly Detailed

Among all the Lego surprises at Toy Fair 2012, there’s a cool new Star Wars set called Droid Escape. It’s the pod in which C-3PO and R2-D2 use to land on Tatooine in the original movie. It includes these two stormtroopers, which are amazingly detailed. Check out the clothing and the painting job. It’s hard…

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Exclusive Videos of the New Lego Lord of the Rings Sets

Lego has some really cool new stuff at their NYC Toy Fair booth, but I pounced on the new Lord of the Rings sets right away. I was able to record them quickly for your nerdgasmic pleasure. https://gizmodo.com/lego-lord-of-the-rings-sets-first-look-they-are-awesom-5882399 Here are all the details and my impressions: 9489 Gandalf Arrives The simplest of all the new…

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A 787 Dreamliner Drew the Boeing Logo Across the United States

What you’re looking at is the real-time geographic tracking information of flight ZA236 as it was coming back to its home base in Washington state. It flew across the United States, drawing this gigantic Boeing logo. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner was going under an airframe pairing test using the the General Electric GEnx-1B engine. It…

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The Mind-Boggling Story of the Galactic Wonder That Didn’t Exist When We Saw It

In 1995, the world was astonished by the image of a group of 4-light-year-tall columns located in the Eagle Nebula, 7,000 light years from here. So unimaginable it was that someone called them the Pillars of Creation. The only problem is that the pillars didn’t really exist. Something had destroyed them more than a thousand…

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This Touchscreen Van Gogh’s Starry Night Is So Stunningly Beautiful It Should Be Made Into an App

Petros Vrellis has turned Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night into an animation that changes when the user touches it. The effect is so beautiful and mesmerizing that I’m now craving an app that would let me do the same. Go to 1:51 to see the interactive part. [Pursuitist]

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George Lucas Now Says That Han NEVER Shot First As He Shoves Star Wars 3D Down Your Throat

I hate history revisionists, but not as much as I hate George Lucas for making Han shoot last. Now, with Star Wars 3D coming, he’s now saying that the scene modification wasn’t a change. He claims that Han NEVER shot first: The controversy over who shot first, Greedo or Han Solo, in Episode IV, what…

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This Chimp Has Better Memory Than Most Human Chumps

The BBC has a new program called Super Smart Animals. In their first episode they showed Ayumu, a chimpanzee that can memorize the location of a random sequence of numbers in less time than it takes a human to blink: sixty milliseconds. Unless you are a savant, you will not be able to do the…

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Einstein Actually Had Excellent Grades

Contrary to popular belief, Einstein wasn’t a bad student at all. Apparently, that’s something that real bad students made up, because he got excellent grades. His certificate of qualification for university matriculation—what in Europe is called A-levels—demonstrates this. The fact is that Einstein was a brilliant student since he was a little kid. He had…

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This Looks Like the Most Difficult Landing In the World Indeed

Flight Global’s Jon Ostrower posted videos of three different kinds of airplane approaches and landings. The first one is the most spectacular, as a Airbus A320 approaches Bhutan’s airport zooming, close to 12,000-foot mountains. Fast forward to 5:39. They plane warns “1,000 feet” but they still can’t see the damn airport strip. It’s like Top…

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The Highest Skyscraper In the World Will Be This 3,444-Foot Turd

Forget about the 1-kilometer-high Kingdom Tower. There will be a building higher than that: the Azerbaijan Tower. It will be fifty meters higher than the Kingdom Tower, have 189 floors and look like a shiny glass, steel and concrete monolith of crap. https://gizmodo.com/the-new-images-of-the-worlds-newest-tallest-building-ar-5828801 The 1.050-kilometer (3,444.88-foot) Azerbaijan Tower will be built on the Khazar Islands,…

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What the Hell Happened to Apple’s Attention to Detail?

Two Million Dead Americans Can Vote, 51 Million Alive Americans Can’t

Photoshop CS6 Can Magically Move Around Any Object In Your Photos

Any iPhone App Can Steal Your Contacts Now—Against Steve Jobs’ Will

Casablanca: The Best Love Movie Ever—And Possibly the Best Movie, Period

David Bowie: Heroes

The Next-Generation MacBook Pro 2012

The Two Faces of Lego Frodo—Plus My Precious Gollum Minifig

I Just Fell In Love With iCade’s New Retro NES-Style Gamepad for iPhone and iPad

Lego Bruce Wayne Transformation Into Batman Transforms Adults Into Giddy Nerdy Kids

These New Cool Lego Stormtroopers Minifigs Are Incredibly Detailed

Exclusive Videos of the New Lego Lord of the Rings Sets

A 787 Dreamliner Drew the Boeing Logo Across the United States

The Mind-Boggling Story of the Galactic Wonder That Didn’t Exist When We Saw It

This Touchscreen Van Gogh’s Starry Night Is So Stunningly Beautiful It Should Be Made Into an App

George Lucas Now Says That Han NEVER Shot First As He Shoves Star Wars 3D Down Your Throat

This Chimp Has Better Memory Than Most Human Chumps

Einstein Actually Had Excellent Grades

This Looks Like the Most Difficult Landing In the World Indeed

The Highest Skyscraper In the World Will Be This 3,444-Foot Turd

Sun’s Latest Outburst Complicates Planned Launch of Artemis 2

Instagram Will Finally Let You Lurk to Your Heart’s Content—for a Price

Popular Sweetener Found in Protein Bars Tied to Stroke, Blood Clot Risk

HBO’s Boss Has Yet to Be Approached About Partnering on ‘Doctor Who’

AI Agent Runs the ‘I’m Being Censored’ Playbook After Getting Banned from Wikipedia

‘Scream 7’ Comes Home With Deleted Scenes We Hope Will Improve the Movie

A QR Code Too Small to See Hints at a New, Non-Annoying Use for the Format

Andy Weir Apologizes After ‘Star Trek’ Comment Backlash

Scientists Discover Hidden Behavior in Water That Helps Explain Why Ice Floats

The ‘Paradise’ Season 2 Finale Paved the Way for a Wildly Sci-Fi Season 3

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets