Mario Aguilar

Where New York City’s Most Notorious Speeding Ticket Cameras Are Hiding

New York City obviously doesn’t tell citizens where its speed cameras are, but using data on the tickets police issued last year, WNYC tracked down the location of the most absurd traps, including the city’s $2.75 million cash machine. The data shows that about half on New York’s 51 cameras sit in fixed spots, whereas…

The NBA Is Shooting the All Star Game In 360 Video For Samsung Gear VR

If you’ve plunked down for a Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and a Gear VR headset, you’ll be able to watch some rad 360 video from this weekend’s NBA All-Star festivities in New York. Highlight packages from the Three-Point Contest, Slam-Dunk Contest, and the All-Star Game itself will be available through Samsung’s newly launched Milk VR…

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Police Are Trying to Undermine Waze With a Deluge of Phony Cop Sightings

Cops are fighting Waze over a feature that lets users pinpoint where they’ve seen officers on a map, thus using the crowdsourced traffic app to avoid getting in trouble with the law. Now police in Miami are subverting the app by filling it with loads of bogus police sightings. NBC in Miami reports that hundreds…

House of Cards Season 3 Just Showed Up on Netflix For One Magical Moment

ARGH! House of Cards season 3 was up on Netflix for a few tantalizing moments. The new season of the Kevin Spacey vehicle is supposed to drop on February 27th. But something happened and it was live today. We were watching House of Cards! And then just as quickly as it was live, it was…

Here’s What Happens When You Repost the Same Photo to Instagram 90 Times

Artist Pete Ashton just took regramming to a crazy extreme. You’ve seen regrams before, maybe you’ve even done it yourself. While browsing your Instagram feed, you see something you’d like to post yourself, so you take a screenshot, and then you upload that image. For his new project “I Am Sitting In Stagram,” Ashton regrammed…

One Simple Way to Protect Yourself in the Age of Password Dumps

In the last couple of hours three prominent social media accounts have been hacked: The Twitter accounts of Newsweekand Twitter CFO Anthony Noto, as well as the Facebook account of Delta Airlines. And there’s more. There were all those passwords published this morning too! A well-meaning security expert assembled 10 million previously-leaked passwords and released…

Nikon D810A: An Incredible DSLR Camera Modded to Shoot the Stars

The Nikon D810A is a slight modification to Nikon’s existingD810 professional DSLR powerhouse. Its guts have been tweaked to help astrophotographers shoot the beautiful cosmos. Here’s the key change: The D810A’s infrared cut filter has been modified to let the hydrogen alpha spectral wavelength pass through. In other words, the camera’s optics don’t filter a…

How Did You Smash Your Phone?

Phones: They die. Usually at the hands of their owners. I recently wrote about how I drunkenly/stupidly destroyed my last five iPhones. I felt great shame. Several understanding readers called me irresponsible and swore to never read my posts again. Some of my friends told me it was the saddest thing they’d ever read. Then…

Every Smartphone Should Come With Free VR Goggles

LG just announced that people who buy a new G3 smartphone will get a free VR headset to match. That’s an idea we can get behind. This new, cheap VR for G3 hardware is closer to Google Cardboard than Samsung Gear VR, but fits somewhere between the two. The headset is based on the Google…

Raspberry Pi 2 Loses Its Shit When You Blast It With a Camera Flash

One user of the newly available Raspberry Pi 2 computer has discovered a pretty weird flaw with the new hardware: If you shoot the cheapy computer with a camera flash, it shuts right the hell down. In a blog post, Raspberry Pi communications director Liz Upton explains that in the company’s testing, there is indeed…

KickassTorrents Domain Seized, Site Back Up at Its Old Home

The ongoing legal drama of the world’s huge torrent trackers has just taken another turn. TorrentFreak reports that KickassTorrents, one of the most popular torrent trackers that had most recently taken up residence at Kickass.so, is down after an apparent domain seizure. The .so registry has banned Kickass’s domain, according to the domain’s Whois listing.…

The Man Behind Iconic Video Game Music Finally Made a Chiptunes Record

Keiji Yamagishi isn’t a household name but if you were playing video games say, 25 years ago, you know the sound of his erratic musical madness. He’s the composer behind the music in classic games like Ninja Gaiden, Tecmo Bowl, and Captain Tsubasa. Now he’s finally released a record of his own. Retro-Active Pt.1 is…

Got a Chromecast? Check for a $6 Gift From Google Right Now

If you’ve got a Chromecast set up on your network, click this link right now and you should be eligible for $6 from Google just for owning a Chromecast. It’s a Valentine’s Day gift for your Google Play account. I will spend it on renting The Rock or something similarly unromantic. And if you’re not…

This Handsome Bracelet Unrolls Into a Ruler 

We’ve managed to strap computers and and even multitools to our wrists. But what happens if you suddenly need to measure the length of something and you’re far away from your toolbox? You’re screwed! Or you were screwed. No longer, thanks to this clever bracelet that doubles as a bendy ruler. The Wristband Ruler comes…

It Should Be Illegal to Watch Old People React to Virtual Reality Porn

We’ve seen ordinary people react to immersive pornography viewed on the Samsung VR headset. What would your grandma think if she saw it? She would be scandalized right? Well, these videographers went and forced teh olds to react to VR pornography. Observe. It seems likely that these old folks are watching is 180-degree video that’s…

Study Finds Record Labels Take Most of the Streaming Money From Artists

Streaming music is controversial amongst many musicians who claim that they don’t get a fair shake of the revenue that’s being pulled in. A new study of the music industry by the French recording industry confirms suspicions that at least part of the reason artists are getting screwed is because labels are taking all the…

A Smartwatch That Doesn’t Need to Be Charged. Finally.

Swatch, purveyor of inexpensive watches you buy on layovers, plans to release a smartwatch within the next three months that will connect to the internet without needing to be charged. That’s a revved-up idea. The new Swatch will be released roughly at the same time as the hotly anticipated Apple Watch, which reports suggest could…

Here’s Why Your Bank Account Is Less Secure Than Your Gmail

When I log into Gmail, the system texts me a one-time key which I use to verify that it’s me trying to get in and not some jerk who got my login info from a password dump. You’d think my bank would have the same level of protection to make sure bad guys can’t get…

Clever Hack Makes a Guitar Sound Just Like a Video Game 

Whenceforth cometh that unusual guitar shred? What is this strange device that makes a guitar sound like the budget score to a 80s video game? Let me explain. I’ve written about Jeremy Bell’s experiments with trying to cut rapidly between audio feeds before. With his most recent hack, Bell created a little rocker that allows…