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SayHi Translate: An Interpreter Inside Your iPhone

If you’re traveling in Brazil and you’d like to ask your cab driver which bar in Rio serves the best caipirinha, you’re going to need to know Portuguese. Thumbing frantically through a phrasebook is difficult, and you might not string the sentence together properly. And would you even understand your cabbie’s answer? SayHi Translate solves…

Tech News Leslie Horn Apr 24 '12

100 Albums Every Science Fiction and Fantasy Fan Should Listen To: 71-100

Science fiction and fantasy have colonized every corner of pop culture — especially the world of music. From awesome movie soundtracks to science fiction-inspired rock operas, genre stories have always gone along with sonic landscapes. You can’t really know science fiction and fantasy without knowing the music these genres have inspired. So we’ve compiled the…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders and Cyriaque Lamar Apr 24 '12

Sriracha Lollipops Are a Wonderful Invention

Sriracha is the most complete condiment. You can put it on almost anything—eggs, pizza, noodles, sandwiches. Don’t get me started. But some Sriracha fanatics out there had the ingenious idea to put the delicious, delicious Thai hot sauce into a lollipop. It’s a wonderful twist on Atomic Fireballs. A bag of four is $10, but…

Tech News Leslie Horn Apr 24 '12

The first 4,000,000 digits of Pi, visualized in a single image

Pi is what’s known as an irrational number, which means that its decimal representation is both infinite and non-repeating. We’ve been using computers to calculate the digits of Pi for decades. In 1949, John von Neumann and his colleagues used ENIAC — the world’s first general-purpose electronic computer — to calculate Pi to the 2,037th…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Apr 24 '12

Shooting Challenge: BlackWhite 16

Hey, Perfect timing on the contest! I shoot film so the processing and scanning never seem to match up for a entry. Shot this one while doing some bike riding around Denver. I stumbled upon a cool looking plastic chair. I moved it out into the nice spring sun to get a cool shadow snapped…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Apr 24 '12

Shooting Challenge: Gallery 15

Camera: Sony SLT-a35 Lens: 18-55mm with +10 enlargement filter and 16 point star filter ISO 500 (used flash for reflection) f/4.5 Being fans of photography, my wife and I like to experiment with various aspects of the art. I was having fun taking shots with a new 16 point star filter I got and on…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Apr 24 '12

Shooting Gallery: BlackWhite 14

This picture was shot on a Canon T3i using the kit 18-55mm IS Lens. The focal length was 29mm and I shot this in Aperature mode with an F-Stop of 4.5. I did the Black and White conversion in Adobe Camera Raw. I adjusted the exposure and tone scale before converting it to grayscale and…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Apr 24 '12

Shooting Challenge: Blackwhite 13

“Urban Escape” Summer temperatures have reached SoCal, it hit 100 degrees the other day in Studio City. The shade from this tree quickly gave me a quick escape of the radiating heat of the concrete jungle in Los Angeles. I shot this with my Canon 60D, Canon 50mm f/1.4 lens at ISO 100, 1/20 f/13.0.…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Apr 24 '12

Fourth U.S. Case of Mad Cow Disease Discovered in California

The USDA has confirmed that a new case of mad cow disease has been discovered in dairy cow in central California. There is no reason to panic, though. The meat did not enter the food system and the carcass will be destroyed. This is the fourth known case of mad cow disease in the U.S.…

Tech News Leslie Horn Apr 24 '12

Shooting Challenge: BlackWhite12

Five days old Eihem Born on April 17th, I’m his uncle to him, I hope Eihem will have a much better life than what I did. Do anyone else want to eat his foot? because when I ever see a small cute soul I just want to eat it. Of course I don’t meant it…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Apr 24 '12

Shooting Challenge: BlackWhite 11

London Marathon, Greenwich NIKON D3100 F-stop:- f/5 ISO:- 400 Exposure Bias:- 0 Step Focal Length:- 18mm Aperture:- 3.6 I should have moved out of his way but I was shocked to see Charlie running around again. There were many shots I could have entered but his one stood out as he seemed to be the…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Apr 24 '12

Apple Hauls Insane $39 Billion Revenue Despite Selling Fewer iPhones and iPads

The important thing to know about the last three months of Apple making money, the results of which were just announced, is that the company did not do as well as the previous quarter, but did way better than last year and than pretty much anyone else who produces and sells products. The raw numbers,…

Tech News Brian Barrett Apr 24 '12

Shooting Challenge: BlackWhite10

Camera: Canon Rebel T3 Lens: Canon EFS 18-55mm Lighting: Using the city installed street lamps as they cascaded on the trees at night This photo was taken on the night of Thursday 4/19 outside the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, FL. I took threed dozen photos around the large banyan trees with my…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Apr 24 '12

How to Switch Over to Google Drive Without Ruining Your Life

Like they’ve done in the past with new services, Google is slowly rolling out its new Google Drive cloud storage solution to users of Gmail and Google Documents. So if you’re dismayed that the Google overlords haven’t blessed your account with 5GB of free storage just yet—don’t be. Now is the best time to prepare…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Apr 24 '12

Shooting Challenge: BlackWhite 9

My dog poses for me on two occasions, when I am holding food or when she’s at the door waiting to be let inside. This is the latter, and involved me laying on the floor peeking between the door window shades to catch her looking down at me. And she looks like a stone cold…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Apr 24 '12

This Is What the F-35 Looks Like Heading to War

The F-35, the most expensive, long-running practical joke in American military history, just hit another milestone: aerial refueling with a serious weapon loadout. It’s all for fun, of course, but this under shot shows what it would look like on the way to rain death from above. https://gizmodo.com/the-f-35-is-cleared-to-fly-again-and-still-not-fixed-5832176 The trillion dollar bird above was packing…

Tech News Sam Biddle Apr 24 '12

A 7-year-old now has his own television show: Axe Cop is coming to TV!

Wonderful news, everyone! Axe Cop is getting its own TV show! The internet sensation comic, written by a five-year-old (Malachai Nicolle) and drawn by his big brother (Ethan Nicolle), is the first show to take part in Fox’s new animated late-night Saturday programming block. Vulture is reporting that Fox has greenlit production of an animated…

Television Meredith Woerner Apr 24 '12

SpaceX Will Launch Its Dragon Capsule to the Space Station On May 7

Elon Musk’s private spaceflight program, SpaceX, just announced NASA and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station approved a May 7 launch date for its COTS 2 mission. The mission is a demonstration launch for NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program, where SpaceX plans to blast a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon capsule into space.…

Space & Spaceflight Mat Honan Apr 24 '12

Everything You Need To Turn Your Basement Into Your Own Private Chuck E. Cheese’s

As a kid was there anything better than going to Chuck E. Cheese’s for a friend’s birthday party? Absolutely not. But in hindsight, was it really so great? You had to wait in line for the arcade games, there was usually someone’s younger sibling who wouldn’t stop crying, and every last inch of that place…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Apr 24 '12

Apple Could Build Its Products in the U.S. and Still Make Tons of Cash

You know how Apple makes most of its gear in far-off lands where the people that build them make shamefully little? We always assumed that it had to be like that for Apple to run a successful business. Turns out, that’s not the case at all. A new study from the University of Manchester’s Center…

Tech News Brent Rose Apr 24 '12

SayHi Translate: An Interpreter Inside Your iPhone

100 Albums Every Science Fiction and Fantasy Fan Should Listen To: 71-100

Sriracha Lollipops Are a Wonderful Invention

The first 4,000,000 digits of Pi, visualized in a single image

Shooting Challenge: BlackWhite 16

Shooting Challenge: Gallery 15

Shooting Gallery: BlackWhite 14

Shooting Challenge: Blackwhite 13

Fourth U.S. Case of Mad Cow Disease Discovered in California

Shooting Challenge: BlackWhite12

Shooting Challenge: BlackWhite 11

Apple Hauls Insane $39 Billion Revenue Despite Selling Fewer iPhones and iPads

Shooting Challenge: BlackWhite10

How to Switch Over to Google Drive Without Ruining Your Life

Shooting Challenge: BlackWhite 9

This Is What the F-35 Looks Like Heading to War

A 7-year-old now has his own television show: Axe Cop is coming to TV!

SpaceX Will Launch Its Dragon Capsule to the Space Station On May 7

Everything You Need To Turn Your Basement Into Your Own Private Chuck E. Cheese’s

Apple Could Build Its Products in the U.S. and Still Make Tons of Cash

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