Sam Biddle, Author at Gizmodo

Reminder: Megapixels Don’t Matter

The shocking news of the day—Nokia is making a phone with a 41-megapixel camera—is shocking for all the wrong reasons. It may shoot higher-res than most DSLRs, but that won’t help you at all. Why? After a certain point, megapixels don’t matter. https://gizmodo.com/nokia-808-pure-view-phone-has-a-41-megapixel-camera-fo-5888503 Pencils down, everyone! In the case of the Nokia 808, the point…

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Pinterest: The Last Article You’ll Ever Need or Want to Read

Goddammit if we haven’t heard too much about Pinterest—the word itself is irksome. But for many, that annoyance is doubled by the fact that we don’t even really know what it is. So, let’s figure that out. https://gizmodo.com/please-stop-making-more-pinterests-5887838 We’ve already speculated that Pinterest is mostly for the lay-deez. And a cursory glance pretty much confirms…

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Incredibly Badass Tactical Mug Lets You Strap on Spec Ops Gun Attachments While You Drink

Something it’s nice to jazz up your morning cup of coffee or tea with, say, a stronger brew. Or maybe a little whiskey, hey-oh! But what about night vision scopes, laser targeting, and a tripod mount? The OPMOD Battle Mug is probably the only mug you want to bring with you if you’re both thirsty…

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The Biggest YouTube Porn Fakeouts of All Time

There’s a boring, obscure video on YouTube titled “Pregnancy Booster Clomid (Pregnancy Health Guru).” It has over 174 million views—beating famous songs by Katy Perry, Bieber, and Chris Brown. How? Like dozens of others, it’s pretend porn. This sad, bizarre phenomenon—short videos of awful quality and ostensibly zero entertainment value that have hundreds of millions…

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Astounding Gentleman Shoots Himself in the Stomach Point Blank to Test Body Armor

If you need any further proof that handguns should be illegal or that the human race doesn’t deserve to exist, watch this intrepid amateur scientist blast himself with a 10mm round at point blank. Why? Fer testin’! Somehow he survived the pistol trial, although his chorus of “Fuck, Oh, Fuck” indicates this sure hurt. Strange,…

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A Helicopter’s Blades Transform into Shimmering Halo

Through some sort of optical witchcraft, this Israel Defense Force recon chopper looks pretty magical as the sun sets. It looks like something between fairy dust and a 4th of July sparkler, but this is just a plain old helo rotor with the light hitting it just right—no Photoshop or tricks afoot. [IDF]

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Samsung’s Note Stylus Has Never Looked Stupider

An advertisement is designed to entrance you into giving away your money—but in Samsung’s case, this Note ad is actually a concise, persuasive reason why you should never buy a Note. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-galaxy-note-lightning-review-wait-who-ordered-5886054 The ad itself is a standard test test shtick—an underpaid actor/”ordinary woman on the street” sees how her [insert competitor product] stacks up…

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BuzzFeed’s Fake Twitter Campaign Wins Birthday Lobster Feast for Drug Felon

Did you hear about Robert Mills today? He’s a sad, overly-bearded man who capitalizes with desperation and demands free food from the internet. Viral meme uranium ejaculator BuzzFeed seized upon poor “Robster,” kicking off a social media campaign for the guy. Turns out, he’s a criminal! Robert Mills, who claimed he is “too poor” to…

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Army Officer Teaches You How to Shoot Your DSLR Like a Rifle

If you’re like most people, photography boils down to automatic mode paired with luck. Not for US Army officer Alex Jansen, who wrote up a massive guide to crisp low-light photography based on “the four fundamentals of marksmanship. Snap, headshot. Separated into several sections depending on circumstance—though none for suppressing enemy fire—Jansen walks you through…

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Thieves Snatch Briefcase Full of Secret Drone Documents in Public

Sometimes life imitates art, and sometimes life imitates a series of stupid spy movie cliches: a briefcase detailing a joint French/UK military drone was stolen in Paris. A briefcase! A briefcase full of secret documents. Christ, man. The briefcase in question, belonging to an executive from major French military contractor Dassault (French for “The Assault”),…

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The Foxconn Reality: “Better” Is Still Bad

Week after week we hear Foxconn horror stories, but Apple’s gadget metropolis is just one place inside an enormous country. Detractors say it’s inhumane; defenders say it’s way above the norm. But what does “bad” really mean inside a Chinese factory? Let’s put Foxconn in context. The latest appraisal of Foxconn comes from ABC’s Nightline.…

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Inside Foxconn: TV Crew Enters Apple’s Factories for the First Time Ever

ABC News’ Nightline program delivered what they claimed would be an unprecedented look inside the Foxconntroversy: their TV crew would have unfettered access to facilities and people. So what did they expose? The ABC team, along with members of the Fair Labor Association, toured the plant, occasionally shaking hands with a laborer or being fed…

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Volunteers Needed to Eat Martian Space Food (in Hawaii!)

If the thought of calling volcanic rubble in Hawaii home for four months doesn’t appeal to you, just wait, it gets better: you’ll be eating nothing but “flour, sugar, beans, rice, olive oil, dehydrated meat and cheese.” Mars needs taste-testers! The University of Hawaii and Cornell are seeking test subjects for a study that will…

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No, Idiots, Anonymous Isn’t Going to Destroy the Power Grid

The Wall Street Journal and NSA are bleary-eyed with terror over the newest cyber bogeyman: Anonymous is going to cause a blackout! Except they can’t, and they won’t; they’re saying so themselves. So why the misinformation? https://gizmodo.com/nsa-anonymous-could-cause-power-outages-through-cybera-5886805 According to the WSJ, “The director of the National Security Agency has warned that the hacking group Anonymous…

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Brand New iTunes Store on the Way?

Unlike Amazon.com, which is both ugly and hard to use, the iTunes Store is only the latter. Behind all that Apple sheen is a hellish shopping labyrinth—but a makeover might be coming soon. 9to5Mac claims—yeah, anonymous sources and whatnot—that the iTunes Store is getting a total redo. While details are extremely vague (“The new design…

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Science Proves Getting Back with Your Ex Is an Awful Idea

Hey babe, we used to make each other miserable, but it’s been a year, so now we won’t anymore, right? No, says scientific research. A new study from the Kansas State University confirms what we all knew anyway. It’s a lot easier to slip back into an old relationship in the age of Facebook—and a…

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Korea: Keep Your Terrible “Phablets” To Yourselves

LG’s Vu is offensive in virtually every way that an object can offend. It’s called the “Vu,” it has an abhorrent 4:3 screen, and, as BGR has loathsomely coined, it’s a “phablet”. Let it never leave Korean gadget hell. Do you see the look in that woman’s eyes? Her pupils burn with hegemony, her arms—limbs…

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Here’s How Much Better an iPad 3 Retina Display Would Be

Short of kidnapping Tim Cook and waterboarding him, we couldn’t be more sure the iPad 3 will boast a mega-pretty retina display resolution. But buzzwordiness aside, just how much better will the new sharpness be? It makes everything that came before it look puny. See for yourself. iOS developer James Thomson decided to whip together…

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The F-35 Shows Its Missile Teeth for the First Time Ever

America’s F-35 may not be very useful, but it’s still, on paper, one hell of an aerial destruction machine. This freshly-released image from the F-35’s first-ever weapons test shows the punch it’ll pack. https://gizmodo.com/trillion-dollar-plane-grounded-once-again-5880858 Well—the kind of punch it’ll pack if it’s ever used for anything more than tests and photographs. The load up top…

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Special Ops Plane Mysteriously Crashes in Africa (Updated)

The Department of Defense has confirmed that an Air Force U-28A—a plane dedicated to shadowy spec ops—crashed over Djibouti this weekend, killing all aboard. Nobody yet knows what took the commando plane down. Djibouti, Voice of America explains, is home to Camp Lemonnier, the only official military base in Africa—though there are other installations operated…

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Reminder: Megapixels Don’t Matter

Pinterest: The Last Article You’ll Ever Need or Want to Read

Incredibly Badass Tactical Mug Lets You Strap on Spec Ops Gun Attachments While You Drink

The Biggest YouTube Porn Fakeouts of All Time

Astounding Gentleman Shoots Himself in the Stomach Point Blank to Test Body Armor

A Helicopter’s Blades Transform into Shimmering Halo

Samsung’s Note Stylus Has Never Looked Stupider

BuzzFeed’s Fake Twitter Campaign Wins Birthday Lobster Feast for Drug Felon

Army Officer Teaches You How to Shoot Your DSLR Like a Rifle

Thieves Snatch Briefcase Full of Secret Drone Documents in Public

The Foxconn Reality: “Better” Is Still Bad

Inside Foxconn: TV Crew Enters Apple’s Factories for the First Time Ever

Volunteers Needed to Eat Martian Space Food (in Hawaii!)

No, Idiots, Anonymous Isn’t Going to Destroy the Power Grid

Brand New iTunes Store on the Way?

Science Proves Getting Back with Your Ex Is an Awful Idea

Korea: Keep Your Terrible “Phablets” To Yourselves

Here’s How Much Better an iPad 3 Retina Display Would Be

The F-35 Shows Its Missile Teeth for the First Time Ever

Special Ops Plane Mysteriously Crashes in Africa (Updated)

Shark PowerPro Reveal Plus Cordless Vacuum Drops to an All-Time Low, Selling Faster Than Dyson at a Fraction of the Price

The First Trailer for ‘Widow’s Bay’ Welcomes You to a Creepy Horror Comedy

What the New Starbucks ‘Widely Recyclable’ Label Really Means

LEGO Star Wars R2-D2 Quietly Hits a Record Low, Expanding Beyond the Millennium Falcon Deals for a Limited Time

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