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Could you stop tornadoes before they start?

The past few days have seen hundreds of tornadoes touching down in the southeastern United States, driven by massive storms. We talked about the megastorms with atmospheric scientist Karen Kosiba, whose work is showcased in documentary Tornado Alley. Kosiba is a researcher at the Center for Severe Weather Research in Colorado, where she studies ground-level…

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AT&T Isn’t Letting Users Download BlackBerry Bridge, Here’s How to Get It (Updated)

For some silly reason, AT&T is not supporting BlackBerry Bridge—the lifeline of the BlackBerry PlayBook. Remember, in order for the PlayBook to access email, contacts, and calendars, it needs to be “bridged” to a BlackBerry via the BlackBerry Bridge app. Without access to BlackBerry Bridge, AT&T is effectively neutering the tablet for AT&T BlackBerry users.…

Tech News Casey Chan

Get Your 2011 Gadget Forecast Here

Certain gear starts generating buzz long before it actually hits the shelves, and it sucks to have to sit around and wait for it to arrive, especially when, as is so often the case, the expected release dates are shrouded in mystery. Do you hold out until the bitter end, then stand in line all…

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See the lights of Tokyo, before and after the earthquake

YouTuber Darwinfish105 (who made that stunning time-lapse video of Japan’s Gundam statue) now shows us the lights of Tokyo before and after March’s earthquake and tsunami. The metropolis’ lights have dimmed due to power shortages and energy conservation efforts. https://gizmodo.com/this-giant-gundam-time-lapse-video-makes-an-excellent-c-5607693 [Darwinfish105 via Pink Tentacle]

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Air Traffic Controllers Go From Napping to Movie Watching

The Federal Aviation Administration, the country’s top federal agency for documenting instances of unauthorized nappy time, has yet another embarrassing incident on its hands. This time, the air traffic controller wasn’t asleep—he was just watching a terrible Samuel L. Jackson movie. (But not the one about the snakes on the plane. We were disappointed, too.)…

Tech News Seth Abramovitch

Taco Bell’s Beef Is Actually Beef: Lawsuit Dropped

The lawsuit that accused Taco Bell of only having 36% beef in their seasoned beef has been dropped. Taco Bell says no money exchanged hands and that they weren’t changing any products either. Taco Bell estimates they spent $3 to $4 million dollars combatting the false accusation in advertising. Go ahead and order your Gorditas…

Tech News Casey Chan

Pentax Continues War Against the Human Eyeball with Custom Rainbow Supernova DSLR

Some shocking news! Not only does dinosaur retailer Tower Records still exist (in Japan), they’re responsible for this so-ugly-I-kind-of-like-it limited edition K-r DSLR. It looks like it was submerged in the boiling blood of the 1990s, but it’s kinda charming! It’ll also run you $1,100 plus the cost of importing from Japan. You may want…

Tech News Sam Biddle

What I Am Legend would have looked like with non-CG monsters

Here is video proof that I Am Legend would have been a lot better with practical monsters. Watch this makeup test for an I Am Legend plague zombie, that the film-makers passed over in favor of a CG army. Steve Johnson, whose behind the scenes work on The Abyss and in Ang Lee’s Hulk we’ve…

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Sonos Adds Support for Airplay and Finally Brings Their Controller App to Android

After being teased for some time, wireless multi-room music extraordinaire Sonos has finally put out their Sonos Controller app for Android. Which means if you have a Sonos, you can control your whole home setup with your Android phone (or tablet). Specific to Android, you can use voice search to play songs and your phone’s…

Tech News Casey Chan

TEPCO Starts Pumping Extremely Radioactive Water from Fukushima

The dicey task of extracting tens of thousands of gallons of water—two million times as radioactive as the stuff poured into the Pacific—has begun. It’s unclear where exactly this water is headed, but removing it is crucial. The highly dangerous water will be removed in order to make room for—drumroll—more radioactive water, with the ultimate…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Alfonso Cuarón’s astronaut thriller Gravity is finally ready to go. Plus Chris Hemsworth explains Thor’s Marvel movie future!

Writer Zak Penn explains why The Avengers is like no other superhero movie, while Roberto Orci and Simon Pegg explain where Star Trek is headed next. Plus new Hunger Games cast members, tons of Games of Thrones interviews, and more! Spoilers from here on out! Top image from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part…

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Man Dressed as Mannequin Took Pictures in Women’s Bathrooms

A 22-year-old man in Birmingham, England was arrested recently. His crime? Dressing up like a mannequin, stationing himself in women’s restrooms at the local mall, and snapping smartphone pictures of their feet under the stalls. That’s what we call a triple threat. The mannequin outfit—including a wig and a mask—was apparently convincing enough that he…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Chill Beer Glasses on Hot Days the Lazy Way

For some crazy reason, Miele’s Futura Diamond dishwasher will only be chilling Europeans’ beer glasses this summer. Blame your plumbing, Yanks. But for the Europeans reading this, the special rinse and hold cycle should get those pint glasses positively frosty. Don’t cry too many hot, salty tears of envy though Americans—the Futura Diamond minus-beer-chilling-feature will…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

World’s Smallest Vein Sensor Reads Veins for Secure Access to Laptops

Instead of scanning fingerprints to determine a person is who they say they are (unless they’re holding someone’s dismembered finger, naturally), Fujitsu’s vein sensor does the job…only in a much smaller device, measuring just 29mm wide, 11.2mm tall, and 29mm thick. In fact, the hand doesn’t even have to touch the sensor, with a small…

Privacy & Security Kat Hannaford

The Royal Wedding Will be Televised…Live on YouTube

I just received a royal pigeon bearing the news that Google will be live-streaming the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton on Friday the 29th of April, from 9am GMT (5am EST). Prepare the royal Gifs! [Royal Channel YouTube]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

10 Marvels of Underwater Photography Celebrated by National Geographic

What was the first color underwater photo, and how was it taken? What exactly was Jacques Cousteau’s influence on the underwater photography field? How were photos taken of the Titanic, 12500 feet below the surface? National Geographic has a fascinating little slideshow of the history of underwater photography, though one question it failed to answer…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

How to Save the Tired Angry Birds Game: Add an NFC Hurdle

Let’s face it—we all finished Angry Birds eons ago, and are quite frankly utterly bored of hearing latecomers banging on about it. Rovio’s quit making holiday spin-off versions of the game for a second, and added a genuinely interesting NFC twist. It’s just a shame you need a Nokia phone to play it, really. The…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Google’s Pumped Another $100 Million Into What Will be the World’s Largest Wind Farm

Green issues are obviously close to Google’s heart, as they’ve followed up last July’s move into the renewable energy business with a $100 million investment in Shepherds Flat Wind Farm in Oregon, which you can see being worked on above. It won’t actually be completed until 2012, says Google’s director of green business operations, Rick…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Store More Than 36 Photos on These Film Roll USB Sticks

Perhaps Etsy seller Newfocus should recycle some of those old Kodachrome film rolls and charge even more than $19 for a 2GB stick, and $24 for a 4GB stick. I’d buy one, and I know plenty of other film-shooters would too. [Etsy via CrunchGear]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Hey Look, it’s April 19th, Which Means the BlackBerry PlayBook is on Sale Now

You can saunter on in to Best Buy, OfficeMax or Staples today, or surf over to RIM’s site now, and pick up the 16GB Wi-Fi PlayBook tablet for $500, or the 32GB model for $600 or even the 64GB model for an extra hundred notes. Don’t forget that the 3G and 4G models will be…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Could you stop tornadoes before they start?

AT&T Isn’t Letting Users Download BlackBerry Bridge, Here’s How to Get It (Updated)

Get Your 2011 Gadget Forecast Here

See the lights of Tokyo, before and after the earthquake

Air Traffic Controllers Go From Napping to Movie Watching

Taco Bell’s Beef Is Actually Beef: Lawsuit Dropped

Pentax Continues War Against the Human Eyeball with Custom Rainbow Supernova DSLR

What I Am Legend would have looked like with non-CG monsters

Sonos Adds Support for Airplay and Finally Brings Their Controller App to Android

TEPCO Starts Pumping Extremely Radioactive Water from Fukushima

Alfonso Cuarón’s astronaut thriller Gravity is finally ready to go. Plus Chris Hemsworth explains Thor’s Marvel movie future!

Man Dressed as Mannequin Took Pictures in Women’s Bathrooms

Chill Beer Glasses on Hot Days the Lazy Way

World’s Smallest Vein Sensor Reads Veins for Secure Access to Laptops

The Royal Wedding Will be Televised…Live on YouTube

10 Marvels of Underwater Photography Celebrated by National Geographic

How to Save the Tired Angry Birds Game: Add an NFC Hurdle

Google’s Pumped Another $100 Million Into What Will be the World’s Largest Wind Farm

Store More Than 36 Photos on These Film Roll USB Sticks

Hey Look, it’s April 19th, Which Means the BlackBerry PlayBook is on Sale Now

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