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10 Comic Book Characters Who Are Cooler Than Batman

No, Batman isn’t the coolest person in comics. Consider: Batman is a little nutty. There are tons of stories where Batman is portrayed as an uptight dude who doesn’t understand the kids and their loud music. He just turned himself into a corporation. Batman’s sidekicks have included a dog in a cowl. But also, comics…

480GB Retina MacBook Pro SSD Upgrade: Faster, Bigger, More

Regretting your choice of a 256GB SSD for your new retina MacBook Pro? Sorry, you’re stuck with the configuration you bought. But today brings the launch of the Auro Pro, the first SSD upgrade option from OWC. And it’s not a bad deal. For $579, you get 480GB, a pretty USB 3.0 enclosure so you…

Gorgeous new photos show Curiosity, as viewed from Mars orbit, six days after touchdown

These are the first color images of NASA’s Curiosity rover and its immediate surroundings on the Red Planet, released just hours ago. The photographs were recently acquired by HiRISE, the most powerful camera we’ve ever sent to another planet, and holy crap are they stunning. Jaw-dropping, color-enhanced views await you below the fold. Trust us…

Five Apps the World Desperately Needs

We already have apps that can turn your phone into a lighter and one that plays over 30 types of fart. Thanks to the Most Annoying App Ever, you can voluntarily be annoyed. That bullshit actually exists. So, creators of apps, here’s an opportunity for genuine greatness: Five brilliant ideas for apps that can truly…

Prostitutes Turn Airbnb Apartment Into Brothel

Airbnb—the service that allows you to get some easy money by renting your place to strangers—has risks. You know your things can get stolen, your place can get trashed, your sofa can get infested by someone else’s pubic hair—and now, your apartment can get turned into a brothel. Kernel Magazine is reporting that a private…

This Asus Zenbook UX31E Is Your Ultrabook-For-People-Who-Don’t-Want-To-Say-Ultrabook Deal of the Day

Why are Windows laptops so hard to name? Why are they so confusing? Why are the UX31E and the UX31A completely different generations of laptop? And I know no one wants to use someone else’s marketing for their own goods, but why can’t you just call an Ultrabook an Ultrabook? Now we have Sleekbooks and…

New Looper trailer shows off the gadgets in Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s futuristic gangland

This brand new international trailer for Looper shows off the fabulous future life of a Looper. Clubs, drinks, dancing and hover bikes. In Rian Johnson’s time twisty gangster movie, future mobsters send victims back in time to let the Loopers execute and dispose of the body. This is the first real look we’re getting at…

How to write Deadpool (and actually make him funny)

Over the last several years, Marvel Comics’ mercenary Wade “Deadpool” Wilson has gone from tertiary X-Men antihero to one of the publisher’s most recognizable characters. (He’s getting his own video game, for criminey’s sake.) That’s some impressive longevity for a guy who was originally conceived 21 years ago as an in-joke rip-off of the DC…

This Is How Apple TV Could Turn Into an Amazing Cable Box

Six years ago, Apple tried to patent a harmless looking menu for navigating videos. Today, it got that patent. What’s happened in those six years? Apple’s poised to become the biggest TV company in the world—now we’re seeing how. https://gizmodo.com/why-apple-tv-just-became-apples-most-important-product-5931185 The patent, granted for “generating a menu in a video environment for video that can…

Awesome 1900s Dudes in Awesome Suits Mounting Awesome Dinosaur

If you’ve ever visited New York City’s American Museum of Natural History, you’ve seen this Apatosaurus. But did you know it took these dudes in suits (well one suit and three fantastic old-timey outfits) six years to mount the giant? The project started in 1898, and by the time it was completed in 1905, they…

LHC Particle Soup Is the Hottest Thing Mankind Ever Made

Scientists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider say they just temporarily created the hottest man-made temperature by colliding two lead ions. According to a source working on the project, the collision sprung loose a plasma “soup” of sub-atomic gluons and quarks at an estimated temperature of 5.5-trillion-degrees Celsius. We won’t know just how hot the plasma…

Canon recalls 70,000 T4i DSLRs due to faulty rubber grips that cause allergic reactions. [Engadget]

9 Golden Objects, Created By King Midas (And Photoshop)

The 2012 Olympics are over. And, chances are, you didn’t win a gold medal. Luckily, thanks to a bit of Photoshop trickery, you can make anything in your life gold. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-go-for-the-gold-5933342 WINNER: Goldberry I had a choice of eggs, grapes and strawberries and finally went with moist strawberries to get some shine from the lights.…

You Can Register to Vote at 30,000 Feet Now

Thanks to a collaboration with PromoJam and Rock the Vote, Virgin America passengers will be able to register to vote while flying. In theory, you just point your smartphone at the touchscreen and fill out a form. If that sounds too good to be true, well, it sort of is. First off, you have to…

Scientists identify the source of 7,500-square-mile “pumice island”

Australian Naval officer Tim Oscar called the massive chunk of volcanic rock pictured up top “the weirdest thing [he’d] seen in 18 years at sea.” Now, NASA satellite images have revealed the source of the floating raft: a mysterious undersea volcano known as the Havre Seamount. https://gizmodo.com/a-naval-officer-calls-this-the-weirdest-thing-ive-seen-5934104 Everyone knew the mass likely came from an…

An Openly Biased Review of Android Jelly Bean by an iPhone Lover

I’ve never liked Android. It’s an opinion born out of ignorance and bias: The iPhone is the only smartphone I’ve ever owned. I love it, and I think Android is generally an inferior mess. I’m OK with that. But wow, Jelly Bean: the greatest version of Android ever, cold-blooded Apple-killa. Thousands upon thousands of man-hours…

The New SkyDrive Looks Totally Beautiful and Great

SkyDrive got a makeover, just like Outlook. The new Metro SkyDrive is going live today, according to Microsoft’s Inside Skydrive blog. It looks great. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-did-the-impossible-the-new-hotmail-is-fantas-5930358 In addition to the design update, Microsoft also updated the apps for Windows and OS X to full release (they had been previews until now), will release an Android app…

Is The Walking Dead: The Movie in the works?

Rumor now has it that AMC wants to make a movie version of Robert Kirkman’s comic. They’ve already got a very successful television series — we can easily see how this zombie show could spark a two-hour, extra-gory flick. Bloody Disgusting reports that AMC is pursuing a Walking Dead movie, and points out that the…

How Many Fake Twitter Followers Do You Have?

1. Visit Fake Follower Check. 2. Authorize the app. 3. Enter your twitter handle. 4. Wait for the results. 5. ????????? 6. Share below. [via Cnet]

Talk to the Man Who Led Curiosity to the Surface of Mars: Adam Steltzner

By now you probably know his story: he’s the man who went from sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll to science’n’engineering, from playing the bass guitar in the Bay Area to the genius who led Curiosity to the surface of Mars, turning seven minutes of terror into total triumph. https://gizmodo.com/the-inside-story-on-how-nasa-invented-curiositys-insane-5932811 His name is Adam Steltzner, and he’s…