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“Director’s Cut” of the 1990 Captain America movie coming in May

Just in time for the release of Marvel’s huge new Captain America film, you’re going to get a new expanded edition of the much-reviled 1990 version, director Albert Pyun tells io9. Pyun’s Captain America movie was supposed to be a relatively big-budget feature, until the financial backers pulled out a few days into shooting. As…

Shooting Challenge: Repeating Flash Gallery

I took this picture with a Canon 7D on a tripod, a remote control to fire the camera and an external 580ex ii flash that I fired 3 times in my hand… one thing i notice when i saw the picture on the computer and did not showed very clear on the camera is that…

Japan Crisis Update: All Six Reactors Now Connected to External Power

This is a bit of good news: The Tokyo Electric Power Company has managed to connect power lines to all the reactors at their Fukushima nuclear power plant. This doesn’t mean that power has been reestablished in its entirety, however. In fact, only limited power functions—such at the lighting in reactor 3—have been activated again.…

Searching for Godzilla

Over the past few weeks, we’ve sought to understand the science behind the unfolding disaster in Japan. But a fascinating statistic from Wikipedia shows that hits on “Godzilla” jumped tremendously after the disaster too. What does this say about us? As we struggle to assimilate news about the quake, tsunami, and nuclear power plant leaks…

New Photo Shows How They Are Cooling Down Fukushima

This photograph of Fukushima’s reactor 4—just released by the Tokyo Electric Power Company—shows how they are pouring water inside the reactor building. See that red crane? That holds the hose straight up to the top of the reactor building. Since the outer shell is almost destroyed, it’s relatively easy to pour the water in. [Tepco]…

Please Stop Making 3D Phones

The Evo 3D shouldn’t come as a surprise—we’ve seen the LG Optimus, and know the onslaught of 3D-everything is unstoppable. But inevitability of something doesn’t make it good. In fact, 3D phones, fundamentally dumb, make us cringe. https://gizmodo.com/sprint-evo-3d-the-ridiculous-3d-phone-you-might-actual-5784492 Let’s reflect for a moment on why 3D is forcing its way upon our eyeballs in the…

A brief history of Lex Luthor’s cake-stealing antics

In a recent issue of Superman, it’s revealed that Lex Luthor was reprimanded as a child for stealing 40 cakes. What you may not know is that the supervillain has had a long, terrible history of pastry larceny. In last week’s Superman #709, we learn via flashback that a juvenile delinquent Lex Luthor once absconded…

Sprint Evo 3D: The Ridiculous 3D Phone You Might Actually Want

Three Dees and Four Gees. That’s the Evo 3D. But it’s more than that: The screen’s a killer 4.3-inch, 960×540 auto-stereoscopic display, meaning it’s almost as high-res as the iPhone 4 and pulls off 3D tricks without glasses (like Nintendo’s 3DS). Inside, you’ve got a dual-core 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8660 processor, so it can play…

Sprint’s HTC Evo View Tablet Is a Big Aluminum 4G Phone

Remember the HTC Flyer? Now Sprint’s got it, dubbed the View, and it’s… pretty much exactly the same. Identical specs (7-inch, 1024×600 screen, 1.5 Ghz Snapdragon CPU, 1.3 MP front-facing cam)—only now it’ll hook onto Sprint’s 4G network. https://gizmodo.com/htc-flyer-the-aluminium-android-tablet-that-plays-cons-5760120 It’ll hit this summer, but no word on pricing. If it’s stuck to a contract, it…

50% of People Lose Their Remote in Their Couch

Logitech says that the average living room is home to 4 remotes which really means you’re 4 times as likely to misplace those pesky do everything controllers. But where oh where do they go? According to a poll conducted by Logitech, these are the most popular places people found their lost remote: • 49% found…

There might be two billion Earth-like planets just in our galaxy

The recent exoplanet spotting by NASA’s Kepler probe revealed there might be more than a million Earth-like planets in our galaxy. Now a new estimate says as many as 1 out of every 37 sun-like stars has an Earth-like world. When we last checked in on exoplanets, astronomers had set 500 million as a conservative…

Brad Pitt’s World War Z movie could die if it doesn’t get cash, fast

Despite zombies’ current popularity, the film adaptation of Max Brooks’ bestseller World War Z can’t seem to get off the ground. Paramount is desperately looking for a co-financier to help pay for Z’s $125 million budget. The end-of-the-world zombie movie has been shambling around Hollywood for years. After picking up Quantum of Solace’s March Forster…

This Person Is Entirely Insane or Completely Correct (or Both!) About Cellphones

How many numbers do you have stored in your phone? Fifty, a hundred, more? Well, they’re the people for whom your phone is a great convenience-they know that they can call you and wherever you are, even if you don’t pick up, they have asserted their presence as a part of your day. You are…

10 Ridiculous Wonder Woman Storylines the Television Show Should Totally Include

NBC’s new Wonder Woman TV series is making a good effort to be ridiculous. There’s the costume. There’s the insane pilot script. But creator David E. Kelley will have to raise his game to be as nuts as the comics. Seriously, we feel as though Kelley is trying to make Wonder Woman more campy and…

Verizon Thunderbolt 4G

The Thunderbolt 4G is the first honest-to-goodness 4G phone on Verizon, the first LTE smartphone you can buy in the US. In other words, it’s the fastest phone—connection-wise—that you can buy right now. And holy crap, is it fast. At the same time, it’s a phone that feels incredibly familiar because it is: a steroid-infused…

It’s Not Just Google That Will Enforce the NY Times Paywall

Sure, there’ll be various ways to jump over the NY Times paywall, but technically you’ll only be allowed five articles a day going through Google—and all other major search engines, confirms their Communications Manager. [TechCrunch] https://lifehacker.com/how-to-keep-reading-the-ny-times-for-free-updated-5783043

New Xperia Play Commercials Have Enslaved My Soul

Now listen, I don’t normally praise ads. They’re meant to sell us shit, and there’s nothing really noble about that. But. But. Kristen Schaal’s new promos for Sony Ericsson are some of the greatest things I’ve ever witnessed. Boob stab. Maybe it’s the fact that some marketing asshole with a PhD knew that her quirky…

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Magnify Your iPhone to be a Kindle Sized Tablet with This Lens Case

Big phones and small tablets are en vogue but the iPhone and iPad are still stuck with a 3.5-inch and 9.7-inch screen. Apple won’t make something in the middle for you so take it upon yourself and strap on a magnifying lens case to your iPhone. Nulogia’s Tarsier 2.0 is a flat lens that hangs…

Development of a Great App: Evernote

How often do you find yourself cruising through the apps on your smartphone and wondering: How did they do that? Welcome to the Great Apps series, inspired by the Intel AppUpSM developer program. Today, we give you the story of Evernote, that increbible, life-organizing app that aims to be your “outside brain.” Evernote started its…