Mario Aguilar

Report: Apple Healthbook Will Track Your Life Down to Every Breath

For a couple months now we’ve been hearing about Apple’s plans to release a new fitness tracking system in the near future called Healthbook. This morning, 9to5Mac reports a lot of details about the rumored health-monitoring app for iOS. The app is impressively exhaustive. How is all of this possible? We’re loathe to say an…

Measles Are Back in New York City Thanks to Anti-Vax Absurdity

Everyone should get vaccinated, and, in recent weeks, measles has given us nasty reminder of why: as of last Friday, 16 cases of the highly-contagious respiratory virus had been reported in New York City. Despite having been officially “eliminated” in the United States since 2000, measles can still make its way back into communities when…

Leaked Controller Suggests Amazon’s Set-Top-Box Will Be a Gaming Machine

Zatz Not Funny just posted images of an Amazon-branded gaming controller that supposedly found its way to the world through an overseas regulatory agency. If real, the controller suggests that Amazon could be planning to use gaming to differentiate its long-rumored set-top-box from the Apple TVs and Rokus of the world. Following the success of…

You Can Help This Band Scam Spotify So They Can Go on Tour

Los Angeles funk band Vulfpeck wants to go on tour, but they’re going to need your help to raise the money. This isn’t some Kickstarter: They’ve made an entirely silent album designed specifically for the purpose of siphoning cash away from Spotify’s treasury. Its a clever stunt, and it just might work. Here’s the deal:…

Nikon 1 V3: A Pricey Mirrorless Camera That Acts Like a Point-and-Shoot

Here’s Nikon’s new top interchangeable-lens compact. The Nikon 1 V3 is a mirrorless camera that hopes to break from the mold by being simpler than the rest. Last year, the company completely redesigned the V2, adding a more substantial grip to the V1’s point-and-shoot-like body. Now, Nikon is ditching that new design—sort of. The grip…

Watch This Supercut of Empty Seinfeld Scenes In Which Nothing Happens

Bless you, LJ Frezza, whomever you are, for piecing together this glorious supercut of building exteriors and empty living rooms from Seinfeld. It’s amazing how much time we spend looking at empty shots in which nothing is happening. Just a building and the sound of a couple of plunky notes played on a bass. The…

​We Have an Irish Whiskey Master Here: Ask Him Whatever You Want

Check your job title at the door—unless it happens to be “Master of Whiskey” for the oldest licensed distillery in the world. In that case, we’d like to know a little more. Today, we’re lucky to have Mr. Gerry Graham from Bushmills here to answer your questions. Anything at all you want to know about…

Why Neil Young’s New Pono Music Player Doesn’t Make Any Sense

Neil Young is a lover of music, and so he has embarked on a well-intentioned quest to improve the quality of digital music. His Pono player is based on a good understanding of the problems with digital music—but its prescription for a solution only half-way makes sense. https://gizmodo.com/neil-youngs-new-pono-music-player-will-cost-400-1540260068 As I discussed in a post last…

A spectacular ring of green flame rolls backward from a rocket launcher being test-fired by Sgt. Scott Hulsizer at the U.S.-run Kaneohe Bay Range Training Facility. [U.S. Marine Corps Flickr]

Conan Explains Bitcoin Once and For All

We have endeavored time and again to explain Bitcoin, but do any of you really understand it? It doesn’t help that the mysterious digital currency keeps disappearing. Thankfully, here’s a Conan O’Brien bit to set the record straight once and for all. OK, so this video doesn’t explain much of anything. But do any of…

Senator Feinstein Asserts That the CIA Spied On Senate Computers

Today, Senator Diane Feinstein backed up reports that the CIA had illegally searched Senate computers in an effort to figure out what the Senate knew about its torture activities. It turns out that the CIA acted exactly the way we expect the CIA to act—and that’s a problem. For those of you catching up, McClatchy…

Samsung Galaxy Devices Now Get a Rad Free Music Service Called Milk

Samsung’s got a new streaming music service called “Milk” that gives free—and importantly, ad-free—tunes to owners of Galaxy devices. The new streaming service is powered by Slacker’s excellent, human-curated catalog and back end. It’s station based radio that learns like any other. What sets it apart is the slick interface that Samsung built. The interface…

TechCrunch reports that your Facebook news feed is getting a design touchup. Nothing major: new fonts, “bolder” images, and a simplified left sidebar. As for the gloriousoverhaul we were supposed to get last year—still no word.

Local Exploration Service Findery Finally Has an App, You Should Try It

Flickr and Hunch co-founder Caterina Fake has been building her location-based exploration service Findery for years, with access only available to a select group of testers. Today,it goes live to the world. There are already slews of apps that use your location to tell you more about what’s going on around you, so why would…

Spotify Just Bought Huge Music Data Company The Echo Nest

Spotify just bought “music intelligence” company, The Echo Nest. In other words, it just bought the data machine that powers rival services like Rdio, iHeartRadio, Nokia MixRadio, Twitter Music and others. The Echo Nest is a “music intelligence” company that uses a combination of machine listening and intense web scraping to build up the databases…

You Can Now Embed Getty Images’ Gorgeous Photos On Your Blog for Free

Getty Images is one of the world’s premiere sources for amazing photos. But if you don’t have the money to pay licensing fees, you can’t use the images. Well now, Getty is making its photos embeddable. Getty Images’ new Embed Tool allows you to insert a huge portion of the wire service’s photos into your…

RuPaul Trolls Pirates With Hilarious Fake Album Leak

If you’re a musician who has worked hard on a new record, it must be pretty frustrating when it invariably leaks on BitTorrent. RuPaul just trolled would-be pirates with a fake leak of the album Born Naked. Every single track on the album features RuPaul admonishing would-be pirates for not paying up. The decoy version…

Here’s a First Look at Microsoft’s Siri-Like Assistant Actually Running

We’ve been hearing for sometime about Microsoft’s forthcoming Cortana assistant, set to arrive in Windows Phone 8.1. Here’s a video that appears to show the new Siri-clone in action. And it looks pretty damn good. The video illustrates much of what’s been rumored: Cortana is a truly personal personal assistant, asking about your interests, tastes,…

China’s Designating Graffiti-Friendly Sections of the Great Wall

What is it about going to a famous place that makes you feel like you need to “leave your mark by defiling the spot with your name?” It’s a particular problem, as you might imagine, at the Great Wall of China. China’s solution? Let people do it—in a few specific spots. The Guardian reports that…

This Guy Modded Out His DeLorean With an In-Dash iPad and It’s Awesome

Today we got our first look at CarPlay, Apple’s answerto the interactive in-car infotainment craze. But YouTuber DMCPat didn’t wait around for the Apple sanctioned iPad integration—he built-in an iPad Mini complete with car-ready UI into the dash of his 1981 DeLorean. Doc Brown would be proud. DMCPat is really into modding out his 1981…