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Nokia has a new teaser video on its YouTube page. In it a girl—a very stylish girl—rides her bike along the waterfront of a Finnish neighborhood (well, presumably Finnish). At the end appears the text “Things Are About to Change” with a date: 9.05.12. Of course, this is the date of the Nokia event next…

Samsung Ativ Tab Is a 10.1-Inch, Windows RT Running, Microsoft Surface Challenger

While some PC makers are nervous about building hardware for Windows RT, Samsung’s going for it with the Samsung Ativ Tab. Will it be enough to steer people away from Microsoft Surface? The Ativ Tab has 10.1-inch 1366×768 display, is 8.9mm thick, and weighs 20 ounces. So it’s slimmer and lighter than the last Samsung…

Smartphones Win Size Battle Against Human Penises

Gizmodo alumnus John Herrman’s penis size is unknown, but I’m sure it’s proportional to the size of his genius and this awesome chart proves it. Attenshun, people of the world with average genitals! Today is the day smartphones’ screens became larger than your penis, thanks to the Samsung Galaxy Note II and its 5.5-inch HD…

Shooting Challenge: Something Totally New

We’re very familiar with that surrounding our day to day lives—so much so, that we can be caught in creative ruts. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, I want you to leave that life and photograph something totally new. The Challenge Take a photo of something you’ve never photographed before, in a place you’ve never been…

The FBI Suspected Ray Bradbury of Being a Communist

The FBI file on Ray Bradbury reveals the federal government was investigating the legendary author for being a communist in the 1950s and 1960s. Using a Freedom of Information Act Request, the Huffington Post received a copy of Bradbury’s file, and it turns out the FBI checked Bradbury’s passport records and staked out his house.…

Where the World’s Most Horrible Crap Comes From

I am a man well versed in tacky shit; I spent the lion’s share of my formative years in Tucson, Arizona. If you haven’t been there, Tucson—like most mid-sized touristy cities with a lot of retirees—is filled to the top of its cacti with the kind of poorly made trinkets old people love to vomit…

Here’s Your First Look at a Windows Phone 8 Phone (Updated)

We’re looking forward to seeing what Nokia’s got coming for Windows Phone next week. But in the meantime, here’s the first look at a WP8 phone—one made by Samsung!—from Microsoft’s blog. At first glance, we thought the phone looked like a Galaxy S III, but after looking at these shots from the MS blog, this…

The Ladder Coatrack Is Not for Scaling Scaffolds

You wouldn’t want to climb this ladder on account of it being a coat rack that’s not capable of bearing your weight, but you’ll want to hang your stuff on it. Or maybe you don’t. Maybe you just want to stare at it because it’s so simple and so lovely. Designed by Yenwen Tseng, the…

Toshiba Windows 8 Hybrid Laptop Hands On: Better Than You’d Think

Toshiba might finally have something here. The Satellite U925t is its new 12.5-inch Windows 8 hybrid laptop/tablet, and it looks deceptively good. The U925t has the same design as the weird but endearing U845W ultrabook, though it’s not a super-wide 21:9 ratio. It’s a standard 1366×768 resolution, which is disappointing with 1080p screens flying around…

Do these male snails have the worst parenting arrangement ever?

Male members of the marine snail species Solenosteira macrospira have it tough. Not only do they take on childcare duties, they also have to care for the offspring produced by other dads. To make matters worse, baby snails cannibalize their siblings while they’re still embryos, a behavior the dads are helpless to prevent. Adding insult…

Samsung’s Android-Juiced Galaxy Camera Can Post Photos to Instagram From Anywhere With a Data Plan

The Samsung Galaxy Camera is the company’s latest answer to the great connected camera problem brought on by smartphones. How do you make the perfect Wi-Fi camera? Give it a data plan. What we have here, is the literally the Samsung Galaxy S III stuck to the back of a generic point-and-shoot camera. Seriously. This…

Galaxy Note II: 5.5-Inches of S-Pen Friendly Phablet

We may not be the biggest fans of Samsung’s giant phone movement, but apparently consumers have decided otherwise because Sammy is trotting out the Galaxy Note II: a 5.5-inch brute of a phablet running Android Jelly Bean. And with a screen so big, it promises to be fully compatible with the pressure sensitive S-Pen. In…

The 10 Most Absurdly Bloody Fight Scenes In Science Fiction Movies

Science fiction movies aren’t all about highfalutin spacefaring and benevolent starmen. No, sometimes they’re about putting a mutated martial arts master into a dystopian penitentiary’s comically unsafe meat grinder. Just in time for the lunch rush, here are ten of our favorite scenes that balance goofiness and gore. 1. Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)…

First Samsung Windows 8 Touch Laptop Is Cheaper Than You’d Expect

Samsung’s new Series 5 Ultra laptop doesn’t look like anything special. But that’s the whole point—it’s for people not looking for anything too out of the ordinary, in terms of both specs and price. The Series 5 Ultra is pretty much the same computer as the existing Series 5—just now with a touch panel. It…

Samsung’s New Windows 8 Hybrid Tablets Look Like Galaxy Notes with Keyboards (Updated)

Samsung is really set on making this stylus thing work. The new Series 5 and Series 7 Slate PCs look pretty good—the versions we saw last week weren’t final—but they might have a little catching up to do as well. The Series 5 and 7 look totally fine, by most standards. Pretty good, actually. They’re…

Microsoft Surface Games Will Look Kickass With Unreal Engine 3

For all we know about Microsoft Surface, questions still abound. Nvidia appears to have answered one of them emphatically today though: Windows 8 games are going to look absolutely sick. See for yourself. Above is a Tegra-powered ASUS Vivo Tab RT play running ‘Epic Citadel,’ an Unreal Engine 3-based game that looks smooth and beautiful…

NASA announces new findings on black holes and extreme cosmic objects

In 2009, NASA launched its Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) telescope, an Earth-orbiting infrared observatory designed to map the entire sky in unprecedented detail. WISE surveyed the sky for less than two years, but in that time collected vast quantities of information: It’s been eighteen months since the observatory was decommissioned, and astronomers are still…

This Keyboard’s Thin Display Keeps Your Eyes Focused on Typing For Better Concentration

The Smartype seems better suited for hunt and peck typists who spend more time staring at their keyboard than their displays. But its creators claim its tiny display will actually make even touch typists more productive by allowing them to concentrate on the keys at hand. The Smartype display’s primary raison d’être is to mirror…

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How Our Networks Have Come Under More Surveillance Than Ever

Technology improves. It’s something we know instinctively, but we typically don’t give much thought to how much and how quickly security and surveillance tech is advancing. Ars Technica has a deep look at just that, and its disconcerting implications on the real world. The most state of the art surveillance is made possible by deep…