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Time Warner Temporarily Cutting the Number of Streaming Channels on Their iPad App

Remember that awesome iPad app from Time Warner that streams 32 channels of live TV? Apparently it was too awesome, because the overwhelming usage caused their servers to crash. So they’ve temporarily paired their offerings down to 15 channels. [9to5mac]

What if Your Phone Could Automatically Chop a Single Video Recording into Chapters?

The idea-centric brains at Nokia Beta Labs have been working hard on some cool ideas for video recording on smartphones. Like this automatic bookmarking feature, where a shift in scene creates a new chapter in a video without ever cutting. So in one shot, you can record four different things, then when you play the…

Gullible Brits Believe You Can See Gravity, and That Light Sabers Exist

You’ve got to wonder about the sanity of some of the 3,000 surveyed people who believed that light sabers actually exist—and that memory erasers, in the style of the Men In Black neuralizer, are being used. One fifth of the people polled at the National Science and Engineering Week in Birmingham believe light sabers are…

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Top Stories of Today, March 16, 2011

The Rainbow Clouds of Everest | Light reflects off of minuscule ice crystals in the cloud’s vapor as they pass behind Earth’s highest peak. (Photo by Oleg Bartunov) This Is the Actual Sound of the Japan Earthquake, Captured Underwater This is the actual sound of the Japan 9.0 earthquake, recorded in real time by the…

The largest full moon in almost 30 years will light up the night sky this Saturday

On Saturday March 19, we will be treated the largest full moon in some time. Don’t worry about this perigee moon causing tidal weirdness — this extra-large moon will simply be 14% bigger and 30% brighter than apogee moons. Notes NASA: The best time to look is when the Moon is near the horizon. That…

EvoMouse: Any Flat Surface Is Now Your Multitouch Trackpad

We’ve seen virtual keyboards before, but not many virtual trackpads, if any in the consumer space. EvoMouse is here to change that, bundling their input device in the cutest piece of plastic possible. Essentially, you place the toy dog on the surface of your choosing, and its eyes beam out two infrared beams which track…

OS X Lion Has an Interactive iTunes Screensaver

According to those on Reddit (and Macgasm), OS X Lion has an interactive screensaver feature that allows you to play tracks it throws up on the screen from iTunes. Think of it like visual shuffle. [Reddit via MacGasm via TheNextWeb]

Attack the Block: The Alien Invasion Movie You’ve Been Waiting For

People need to know about Attack The Block. Why? Because Joe Cornish’s taut chase movie has raised the bar for alien invasion films everywhere. Hey Hollywood, you’ve been bested by a bunch of 16-year-old Brit brats. Minor spoilers ahead… While you may not know director Cornish by name, you’ve definitely seen his work. The long…

This Music Video Was Shot Entirely With iPad 2s

How crappy are the iPad 2’s crappy cameras? Not all that crappy, with the right directorial panache, if this music video by Eddy is to be believed. It was shot (not edited) with four iPad 2s in the hours after the tablet’s release, though the crew had one rigged up to a steadicam and another…

Halftone for iPhone

If you’re into the app game even a little bit, you probably have something for fancying up the photos you take with your phone. There’s a wealth of options. But Halftone does something a bit different—it dresses your photos up as surprisingly faithful reproductions of comic strips of yore. What is it? Halftone, $1, iPhone.…

2.3 Million Internet Explorer 9 Downloads Is Still Kind of Impressive

Microsoft is excited to let all their fans know that Internet Explorer 9 was downloaded 2.3 million times in the last 24 hours. As Ryan Gavin writes, “That is over 27 downloads every second, or over 240 downloads every 9 seconds.” That’s impressive, but maybe that’s not such a huge number. It should be noted…

Bradley Cooper gives us the plus side of taking experimental (and possibly fatal) brain drugs

You may remember Bradley Cooper from such rugged roles as Will Tippin from Alias and Face from The A-Team. In Friday’s pharmaceutical thriller Limitless, he plays a luckless everyman who develops hyper-intelligence thanks to an illicit brain drug. In Limitless, Cooper plays author Eddie Morra, who takes a black market, non-FDA approved cognition enhancer known…

The Hype is true: Birdemic really is the most ludicrous horror movie in years!

People have made all sorts of claims about the movie Birdemic: Shock and Terror. The rhetoric has soared like a swarm of killer birds, driven mad by unknown forces. But we’ve seen Birdemic, and we’re here testify about its greatness. Just check out the amazing clip reel we’ve prepared for you. You’ve got the absolutely…

Iapetus is Saturn’s amazing disappearing moon

Of all the hundreds of moons in the solar system, none are weirder than Saturn’s satellite Iapetus. We’ve already talked about its walnut-shaped ridge, but that’s nothing compared to the weird optical illusion that lets it disappear from our telescopes. Astronomer Gian Domenico Cassini first sighted Iapetus in 1671. The problem was that he could…

The Rainbow Clouds of Everest

There aren’t many sights in nature more breathtaking than Mt. Everest—especially when put against the unexpected backdrop of these stunning rainbow clouds. Captured by photographer Oleg Bartunov on a recent journey through the Himalyas, the phenomenon is the result of light reflected off of minuscule ice crystals in the cloud’s vapor. That, or Michael Bay…

This Is the Amazon App Store…Apparently

The German site Android News claims to have the first screenshots of Amazon’s App Store for Android. But what does it reveal, exactly? Besides looking like an app store shoehorned into Amazon’s web UI, it appears Amazon will not only sell select apps at a lower price than the Android Market, but they will also…

How to make a book fetishist fall in lust with an e-book reader

I am a book fetishist. I love the feel of an old book, its soft pages and slightly musty smell. The frayed edges of its hard cover. And I love the starchy slab of a new paperback. How can decidedly unsexy e-book readers ever quench my book lust? Well, it turns out that they can…

What Would it Be Like if North Korea Successfully Invaded the US?

Gamers will remember the Burger King (Burger “Town”) level in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 where you were fighting off an invading force on US soil. As tacky as it sounds, there are few things more representative of Americana than a fast food place. If you’re like me, your mouth dropped and you took…

World’s Largest Online Pedophile Network Busted

194 sickos were arrested and 670 pedophile suspects have been identified in what is believed to be the biggest bust of the world’s largest online pedophile network. Those sick bastards participated in an online forum named boylover.net (70,000 members) where they discussed their twisted fantasies, which wasn’t exactly illegal, but became illegal when they moved…