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The Tiny Seahorse’s Tail Could Help Create A New Type of Armor

Seahorses are amazing little creatures—the males give birth, they swim upright and they’re incredibly adorable. But did you know that the seahorse is one of the toughest little creatures on our tiny little world? In recent tests, researchers have found that the tail of the underwater equine can be compressed to about half its size.…

Would You Trust One Company to Oversee All of Your Passwords?

Last Friday at Interop, Paypal’s chief information security officer, Michael Barrett, let it be known that passwords were dead. “Passwords, when used ubiquitously everywhere at Internetscale are starting to fail us.” Given recent events surrounding Twitter account hacks and security breaches all over the web, Barrett isn’t completely wrong in his sentiment that passwords are…

5 Wearable Concepts Worth Taking a Chance On

Wearable gadgets are everywhere, and it’s not just the big boys who are looking to get in on the action. A handful of smaller and, in some instances, unique takes on the burgeoning trend are popping up on crowdfunding sites like Indiegogo and Kickstarter. Here are five of the most promising activity trackers of the…

First Gravity Trailer: In Space, Silence Is Scarier Than Aliens

The thought of being ditched at sea isn’t as terrible as being left behind in space. At least when you compare the trailers for Open Water and Alfonso Cuarón’s latest, Gravity. The synopsis for this space odyssey goes something like this: Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle…

Why Is YouTube Censoring David Bowie’s SFW New Music Video?

Here we go again. After Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” video was pulled from YouTube last month, David Bowie’s latest video from his new album “The Next Day” has been pulled from YouTube for violating the site’s Terms of Service as pointed out by Billboard. But it’s unclear why for a number of reasons. https://gizmodo.com/not-safe-for-youtube-how-google-draws-the-line-between-5993806 While…

Fitbit Flex Review: Peer Pressure Sucks

Fitbit’s One is arguably one of the best activity trackers available today and, yet, less than seven months since it hit the street, Fitbit has decided that a stripped down version worn on the wrist was something the market’s been clamoring for. Back in ’77, Bert Lance first uttered the immortal phrase “If it ain’t…

All Things D is reporting that Spotify has acquired Tunigo, a music discovery engine with a popular Spotify app, for an undisclosed sum. Basically, hopefully, one day soon Spotify will offer up its own killer recs for new music.

In case you were wondering, Apple just pushed out an update for iOS (v 6.1.4) with an “Updated audio profile for speakerphone”.

Google Glass 101: How Glass Currently Works

It’s one thing to see what others are doing while wearing Glass but we’ve yet to see what the interface actually looks and behaves like. That is until now. https://gizmodo.com/these-are-the-first-videos-being-shot-with-google-glass-5994862 Google has just released a new how-to video on getting acquainted with Glass. Tapping and swiping along the touchpad will get you in and out…

Jawbone’s Acquisition of BodyMedia Is (Sadly) All About Patents

Like the smartphone patent wars of yesterday, there’s a new arms race happening and it’s all about wearables. Similar to the spats going on between Google, Apple, Microsoft and smartphone makers, it won’t matter to me or you. At least not anytime soon. Earlier today Jawbone announced that it was acquiring BodyMedia, a 14-year-old health…

Jawbone Syncs Up With 10 New Partners, Acquires BodyMedia

Jawbone is acquiring BodyMedia, makers of health monitoring armbands, for over $100 million. No further details have been made public about the deal. In other news, Jawbone is also opening up its API to third party developers for cross-app pollination. Version 2.5 of the iOS UP app, now includes 10 integrated services from IFTTT, LoseIt!,…

Look at SpaceShipTwo’s Rocket Ablaze

In case you missed it earlier today, Virgin Galactic successfully performed its first rocket-powered test flight of the SpaceShipTwo. In other words, space tourism is nigh. https://gizmodo.com/today-might-be-virgin-galactics-first-rocket-powered-t-484341889

Pacific Rim’s Latest Trailer Is Even Better Than the First

When we first saw Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim back in December, it was just a tease filled with robots, creatures, loud noises and explosions. And now we have a little more insight into both the mechs and creatures from a new trailer cut with scenes from Con-exclusive footage. Pacific Rim drops in theaters July…

Today Marks Virgin Galactic’s First Rocket-Powered Test Flight

Earlier this month, Virgin Chairman Richard Branson announced at the launch of Virgin America’s new route through Newark that his other flying endeavor would be hitting a huge milestone this month: Its first rocket-powered test flight. From the looks of Virgin Galactic and Branson’s Twitter feeds this morning, it looks like that time has come.…

Of the 418.6M cellphones shipped last quarter, more than half were smartphones at 216.2M, a first, according to IDC.

You can now “create and edit drawings” and even access Docs, Sheets and Slides offline. [Google Drive]

The team behind Glass has a very special Easter Egg for Glass owners: A creepy panorama team photo! [Valleywag]

Watch Levi Sherwood “Shaolin” Backflip His Motorcycle At 1000 FPS

Levi Sherwood is a professional freestyle motocrosser that hails from New Zealand. He’s also the reigning Red Bull X-Fighters champion, which is a freestyle motocross competition that sees these guys flipping and jumping and, generally speaking, doing really crazy shit on their bikes for people all over the world. The video above was presumably shot…

How Spotify Got Itself a New Logo

It’s not uncommon for a company to redesign its logo over the years (or decades) but for a startup like Spotify who hasn’t been around that long (compared to Microsoft, for instance), it was rather unusual to see the streaming music service ditch its quirky logo for something simpler last month. And with the new…

Yahoo also updated its iPad mail client today with all sorts of new UI wizardry. And it’s just as pretty as the Weather.