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Detroit Police Have Given Up on Burglar Alarms

The Detroit Police Department has had enough. After pouring so much money and manpower into responding to false alarms, they’re finally giving up. Before they come to your door to save you, you had better be able to verify a crime is in progress. The DPD has every reason to be frustrated. According to Detroit…

Watch Milla Jovovich suffer from “face blindness” in her new thriller

Poor Milla Jovovich, she hit her head and can no longer remember the faces (just the faces) of everyone around her. Which stinks, because she JUST saw the face of a serial killer. Watch the trailer for the ridiculous thriller Faces in the Crowd and learn all about prosopagnosia, aka “face blindness.” Look, we’re in…

Australia Collar Bomb Suspect Arrested in Kentucky of All Places

Remember a couple weeks ago when some nutter strapped a bomb to a young Australian woman’s neck? Well, they think they’ve got the guy, and he was in hiding in the boonies in Kentucky. https://gizmodo.com/police-now-trying-to-defuse-bomb-strapped-to-teenage-gi-5827266 The FBI has arrested Paul “Doug” Peters, the Australian man who was the prime suspect in the captivating Collar Bomb…

What the Facebook Like Button Looks Like Around the World

I’m sad I don’t live in a country where I can press the Arr! button to Facebook like something. Heck I’d even prefer Synes godt om, Gefallt mir and Imenipendeza. WHAT ARE ALL THESE AWESOME LANGUAGES AND WHY IS OURS SO BORING. I mean, Like just seems so inadequate and unlikable now. I do, however,…

Steven Moffat teases old monsters and a new companion on Doctor Who. Plus tons more from the sets of The Dark Knight Rises and The Avengers!

Alfonso Cuarón is doing his best Stanley Kubrick impression in his stranded astronaut epic Gravity. David Tennant discusses his sleazy, vampire-fighting magician in Fright Night. Plus why Conan the Barbarian had to be R-rated — and Jean-Claude Van Damme fights aliens! Spoilers from this point forward! Top image from Fright Night. The Dark Knight Rises…

Rollerblading In These Salt Mine Tunnels Is Like Entering the Death Star in Return of the Jedi

This video of a guy in Rollerblades zooming down the tunnels of a salt mine in Poland is absolutely insane. It’s not accelerated, just filmed as is in the Wieliczka mine, near Krakow, Poland. The name of the guy is Greg Mirzoyan, but he’s so badass he could be Darth Vader’s son instead of the…

Starbucks Is Giving Away Free Apps In Store

Similar to what Starbucks has done for iTunes music, the coffee chain on every corner will start giving away free iOS apps to their customers. Just pick up a ‘Picks of the Week’ card near the cash register and punch in the code on the App Store. It’s pretty much the exact same system as…

If Only All Apple Stores Looked as Cute as This Fake Chinese One

Most of the fake Apple stores have been forced to remove the branding and pretence that they’re the real deal, but MICGadget tracked down yet another one in Zhongshan which almost looks like a cute little gas station. https://gizmodo.com/china-shuts-down-those-22-fake-apple-stores-5830863 Hilariously, they’re also using Apple’s old “Think Different” slogan on the back of their business cards,…

Swype Gets a Little Better

Swype was really the first replacement keyboard for Android that Droid owners could show off to their snarky, iPhone-wielding pals to make them a just a little jealous. Today it’s getting better. Starting at 9am EST, folks who are rocking the Spint Nexus S 4G will be the first to sample the newest update for…

The View From the London Olympics’ Diving Board Looks Piss-Your-Speedos Scary

Another London 2012 Olympics venue’s been checked off the list, and Zaha Hadid’s aquatic center is quite simply the most stunning yet. All swimming events, plus diving and water polo will be held here in front of 17,500 spectators. https://gizmodo.com/londons-olympics-basketball-stadium-looks-inflatable-bu-5811685/?tag=olympics Not to mention the millions of viewers tuning in from around the world on their…

Will.i.am Hosts Dean Kamen’s Robotics Championship

As the story goes, the Black Eyed Peas’ frontman Will.i.am was just cruising on his Segway, thinking about technology and stuff—when he decided to call up Dean Kamen and got hoodwinked into hosting the FIRST Robotics Championship. Now in its 20th year, the annual competition puts kids against one another in the robotics arena—only this…

Long Beach Police Frowns on Your “No Apparent Aesthetic Value” Photos

Your hipster photos of peeling paint and cracked pavements? The Long Beach police are actually stopping photographers from snapping pics of objects with “no apparent aesthetic value.” Have they never heard of beauty being in the eye of the beholder? https://gizmodo.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-photographer-these-days-5822953 According to police chief Jim McDonnell, who spoke to The Long Beach Post, if…

Steve Jobs’ Biography Expected November 21st, and Will Contain 40 Interviews With the Man Himself

Along with blabbing the release date of the book, retailer Barnes & Noble has also done us a favour by sharing the book cover (pictured) and a description of the 448 pages, as scribed by his official biographer, Walter Isaacson. Jobs reportedly gave Isaacson a long leash to work on, with the full book description…

Microsoft Opens Up About Windows 8 On New Dev Blog

Wanting the inside track on the next iteration of Windows, which is expected next year? Microsoft’s launched a new blog written by the engineering team, and while they don’t give away too much yet, there are some aspirational words: https://gizmodo.com/the-shape-of-windows-to-come-5807146 “Windows 8 reimagines Windows. That’s a big statement and one that we will return to…

Apple Presents Misleading Evidence in German Case Against Samsung

Apple filed an infringement complaint against Samsung and won an injunction that halted European sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1. Unfortunately for Apple, the images of the Samsung Galaxy Tab it submitted to the German court were inaccurate. https://gizmodo.com/apple-blocks-galaxy-tab-10-1-sales-in-the-whole-eu-5829152 Online publication Webwereld.nl poured through the legal filing and discovered the images of the Galaxy Tab…

What Is A Gustnado? (Hint: It May Have Collapsed The Indiana State Fair Stage)

Last weekend, a deadly tragedy struck the Indiana State Fair when the main performance stage collapsed during a freak storm. A witness to the event captured this terrifying moment on video. https://gizmodo.com/terrifying-video-of-the-deadly-indiana-state-fair-stage-5830685 After looking at the weather data and videos of the event, at least one meteorologist believes a gustnado may be responsible. So what…

The Only Lens Tutorial You’ll Need (Plus: Vikings)

Lenses. They’re your most powerful photographic tool, if you know how to harness their mighty power (and manage not to shatter them). And you know what? Chances are that even if you think you’re a lensmaster, you’ve still got a lot to learn. And these guys are going to teach you. https://gizmodo.com/were-sorry-borrowlenses-or-the-gear-that-got-us-thro-5729762 Vimeo’s Blake Whitman…

Steve Kondik, Cyanogen of CyanogenMod fame, joins Samsung Mobile

There’s more big news in the Android world tonight. Steve Kondik, otherwise known as Cyanogen of the popular CyanogenMod ROM, has joined Samsung Mobile as a Software Engineer. https://gizmodo.com/google-is-buying-motorola-5830842 According to his Facebook account, Kondik will use his position at Samsung to make “Android more awesome.” And he also confirmed CyanogenMod will not disappear, it’ll…

The Dark Knight Rises Set Videos

Disney’s “Project X” in 1966

It’s easy to forget — even for a Disney nerd like myself — that before Walt Disney died of lung cancer in December of 1966, EPCOT (the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow) was supposed to be a real city. The code name “Project X” was given to the undertaking that would eventually become Walt Disney…