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Google Sticking NFC Decals Across Five US Cities

Google’s IRL “Places” tech—a radio-tagged sticker that you can scan with a compatible phone for venue deals and info—is spreading. And that’s a great thing! The big push is hitting Austin, Portland, Las Vegas, Madison, and Charlotte, NC. https://gizmodo.com/google-wants-to-kill-yelp-with-a-dose-of-nfc-5710848 As more phones get NFC superpowers, we hope (and expect) the tech to really take off.…

Tech News Sam Biddle

The 10 wackiest celebrity guests on Smallville

Smallville has been on the air for ten years, so plenty of famous folks have popped up on this Kryptonian soap opera. Here are ten of the more memorable guest spots, including the time Amy Adams depicted an obese vampire. 10 & 9.) Evangeline Lilly as an extra and Ian Somerhalder as Adam Knight Before…

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World War Z could start shooting next month!

Sounds like Brad Pitt’s movie adaptation of Max Brooks’ oral history zombie novel World War Z had a last minute infusion of cash. The production has just hired Cinematographer Robert Richardson (Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds). This is great news. Bleeding Cool is reporting that Richardson has been hired as DP on World War Z, which…

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NYT Paywall Deflecting up to 30% of Reader Traffic

In non-surprising news that confirms everything we already knew about human beings and the internet, a study by Experian says the NYT’s post-paywall traffic was down between 11% and 30% in the twelve days after the wall went up. [Experian]

Tech News Sam Biddle

Show Your Green Credentials Off With a Bamboo Laptop Briefcase

Ignoring for a second just how heavy and cumbersome this bamboo MacBook case would be (not to mention you can’t squeeze a power cable or your sandwich in there), these SILVA Limited cases are simply stunning. Handmade from a single sheet of bamboo, the inside is lined with felt to protect those valuable MacBooks. A…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

YouTube Prankster Gets Two Months In Jail

Remember Evan Emory? The 21-year-old from Muskegon, Michigan was facing 20 years in prison for manufacturing child porn for a YouTube comedy video. He got 60 days in jail for the prank. http://gawker.com/5763674/singer-faces-20-years-in-prison-for-youtube-prank-on-kids Emory posted a comedy video to YouTube edited to make it appear that he was singing a sexually explicit song to a…

Tech News Adrian Chen

Why humans are all much more related than you think

All humans can trace their family tree back to a surprisingly small group of common ancestors. Every person on Earth’s most recent common ancestor might have died less than 2000 years ago. A Question of Proper Breeding When we get right down to it, we must face the truth that we’re all hopelessly inbred. It’s…

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Shooting Challenge: The Golden Hour

There is a time every day when the world is just a touch more beautiful. It’s during what’s called the golden hour (or magic hour), when the sun’s angle is just so that shadows soften and colors warm. The Challenge Take a photo during the golden hour, which is actually two hours—the first and last…

Tech News Mark Wilson

10 Tools to Help Run Your Way Back Into Shape

If your winter was anything like mine, then you spent it lazing about indoors while eating everything in sight. And that’s totally cool, but you probably gained a few unwanted pounds as well. Now that the weather’s getting warm, and you can no longer hide beneath layers of clothing, it’s time to get back in…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Win This Portable Grill, Cook Delicious Meat Products Anywhere

Spring is the perfect season to break out the lawn chairs, unfurl the Slip ‘N Slide, and fire up the ol’ barbie. Uh, except that you live in a walk-up studio with bars on all of the windows. Well, if you take this short survey then email the last question to [email protected] with “Portable Grill…

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BlackBerry Boss Angrily Storms Out of a BBC Interview

RIM’s Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis is on a roll with expressing his feelings of anger/hurt/outrage, as shown in a NYT interview yesterday and now a cut-short video with the BBC, which dared to ask about the “security problem” of the last year which saw BlackBerry services temporarily terminated in the Middle East and India. https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-boss-has-a-meltdown-as-he-asks-why-people-ar-5791136 After…

Privacy & Security Kat Hannaford

Physicists Build Big Bang in a Box

Sitting on a bench at the University of Maryland is the first-ever desktop model of the Big Bang. Don’t worry, the 20-micrometer-wide device simulates how light behaved and time flowed at the universe’s spark, not the explosion itself. It could someday help explain why time marches in only one direction. “What we have done, with…

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William Gibson contributes to a new anthology for Japan earthquake relief, available after just one month

You can read a new piece by William Gibson and help donate to the Red Cross efforts in Japan at the same time, thanks to a new anthology that just went on sale at Amazon. The book, 2:46: Aftershocks: Stories from the Japan Earthquake, was organized largely via Twitter and represents a new way of…

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Cloth Masks Trap Gases For Better Filtration

It’s not often a student actually gets to create their idea, let alone have the US Department of Defense sponsor it. But Cornell University student Jennifer Keane’s cloth mask could have major impact on the army; firefighters and countless other professions. Constructed using metal organic framework molecules (MOFs) of clustered crystalline compounds, the hood and…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Where to Buy Cheap Flips Before They Go Extinct

Flips! Dead, killed, gone, and murdered by smartphones. But that doesn’t mean they’re bad little buggers. Hell, for the right discounted price, Flips can still be awesome little video recording machines. Here are the cheapest places to score a Flip before they all disappear. https://gizmodo.com/the-flip-camera-is-finally-dead-your-smartphones-got-bl-5791203 And remember, prices will drop even more as the days…

Tech News Casey Chan

The very best home videos . . . in space

Launching your own short-term space satellite is now pretty easy – you just need a weather balloon and a hardy mobile camera for documentation. Here’s a terrific set of videos showing the successful flights of spacecraft created by ordinary people. Top photo by Alex Baker, from a composite he made of the “thin blue line…

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Is this Tintin’s final, xenomorphic adventure?

Dan Hipp of The Amazing Joy Buzzards has drafted this awesome fake cover to one of Tintin’s never-was adventures. It looks like he’s in for a rough time, but hey, he’s been to R’lyeh and Innsmouth. He’ll come up aces. https://gizmodo.com/tintin-meets-h-p-lovecraft-in-this-mind-bending-mash-u-5696372 I bet in this book we learn that either Thomson or Thompson is a…

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The JawSaw Is Equally Equipped for Tree Grooming and Zombie Defense

The chainsaw, unwieldy as it can be, is a simple enough design to take for granted. The Worx JawSaw, on the other hand, is both cleverly formed, and incredibly formidable looking—whether you’re looking chopping dead wood or undead. The JawSaw is basically a big shredding chainsaw mouth on a stick—electrically powered (no gas to mess…

Tech News Sam Biddle

World War II resistance fighters used government-developed stench as a weapon

It was the early 1940s. A war stretched across the globe. Times were desperate, and there was no method people were too proud to use – including a stink bomb. There are plenty of books, shows, and movies about the French resistance movement during World War II. Other countries are quick to point out that…

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Disposable Camera Concept Projects Silly Photos and Ruins Weddings in One Fell Swoop

Placing a disposable camera or two on each table at a wedding is a surefire way of guaranteeing some hilarious photos. Automate that process with a fun, albeit not-real, camera bowl that receives photos once the disposable cameras are placed on the dock, and watch as the naughty scalliwags’ images are projected onto a nearby…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Google Sticking NFC Decals Across Five US Cities

The 10 wackiest celebrity guests on Smallville

World War Z could start shooting next month!

NYT Paywall Deflecting up to 30% of Reader Traffic

Show Your Green Credentials Off With a Bamboo Laptop Briefcase

YouTube Prankster Gets Two Months In Jail

Why humans are all much more related than you think

Shooting Challenge: The Golden Hour

10 Tools to Help Run Your Way Back Into Shape

Win This Portable Grill, Cook Delicious Meat Products Anywhere

BlackBerry Boss Angrily Storms Out of a BBC Interview

Physicists Build Big Bang in a Box

William Gibson contributes to a new anthology for Japan earthquake relief, available after just one month

Cloth Masks Trap Gases For Better Filtration

Where to Buy Cheap Flips Before They Go Extinct

The very best home videos . . . in space

Is this Tintin’s final, xenomorphic adventure?

The JawSaw Is Equally Equipped for Tree Grooming and Zombie Defense

World War II resistance fighters used government-developed stench as a weapon

Disposable Camera Concept Projects Silly Photos and Ruins Weddings in One Fell Swoop

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