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Twitter Can Predict the Stock Market Six Days In Advance

The secret of the bull and the bear are in the bird and the whale: Twitter can be used to predict the stock market behavior with an accuracy of 87.6%. In other words: Justin Bieber controls the world’s economy. This is the paper summary by Indiana University’s research team Johan Bollen, Huina Mao, and Xiao-Jun…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 19 '10

This Is What Steve Jobs Means When He Says Android Is F*cked Up

I agree with Steve Jobs when he says that Android is a complete mess when it comes to OS maintenance and developers targeting and testing for different models. These are the charts he was talking about. https://gizmodo.com/shit-my-jobs-says-earnings-call-edition-5667183 This was Tweetdeck’s reply to His Steveness’ mention: But no matter what Tweetdeck developers say, the fragmentation of…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 19 '10

Dying star’s final, fleeting moments of life revealed in planetary nebula

NGC 6210 is a planetary nebula formed from the death of the star inside it. This image captures the star in the very final stages before its afterlife as a white dwarf, previewing the fate of our Sun. The term “planetary nebula” is really a huge misnomer, because they have nothing to do with planets…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Oct 19 '10

Feds to Telecoms: Stop Upgrading so We Can Wiretap More Easily

Current law mandates that telecoms allow the government to snoop on you when deemed necessary. But with blazing advances in what telecoms offer, the government is left behind. They want to catch up. Their solution? Tougher law. A governmental task force made up officials from the Justice and Commerce Departments, FBI, and intelligence community all…

Privacy & Security Sam Biddle Oct 19 '10

Psychedelic Steve Jobs Made of Old Apple Ads

If I hadn’t written this article—published on Brazilian magazine ALFA—I would have read it just for the amazingly trippy illustration by Chavis Tsevis, whose famous mosaic portraits we have published before. It’s trippy pretty. https://gizmodo.com/steve-jobs-apple-collage-looks-impressive-372516 ALFA is a Brazilian men magazine published by Editora Abril. They asked me for a Steve Jobs portrait slightly different…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 19 '10

WebOS 2.0 Now Official, Arriving On Palm Pre 2 “In the Coming Months” In US

It’s always nice when rumors actually hold up: HP just officially introduced the world to webOS 2.0 and confirmed its flagship handset, the Palm Pre 2. So this is why HP spent all that money. Let’s take a quick spin. https://gizmodo.com/leaked-webos-2-0-shots-show-a-bevy-of-new-features-5632031 Much of what we saw in those leaked webOS 2.0 screen shots has been…

Tech News Brian Barrett Oct 19 '10

Discover an Object’s Pantone Color Code With This $650 Handheld Gadget

I’m a little surprised Pantone needs to bother with a $650 color-reading device when their $10 iPhone app already does the job (and more), but for professionals involved in the creative scene this will fast become the must-have gizmo. I suppose one of the reasons Pantone’s Capsure device costs so much is because it can…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Oct 19 '10

Gothic supersoldiers of the galaxy in epic video from Russian band Unreal

Having a crappy day? This can’t help but lift your spirits by capturing everything that is truly awesome about cheesy scifi, and giving it to you in one glorious, CGI-spangled package. This video showcases Unreal’s 80s music vibe, as well as a big theme in 80s scifi: The supersoldier with a soft, human heart. Also,…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 19 '10

This Is the Largest SATA Drive In the World

It just looks like any other, but this WD Caviar Green is three terabytes, using 750GB-per-platter. At just $240, it comes just in time to upgrade my backup storage unit. WD® Now Shipping the World’s Largest Capacity SATA Hard Drives WD Caviar® Green™ 3 TB Hard Drives Support the Continuing Demand for Increased Capacity in…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 19 '10

Olivia Wilde explains Tron Legacy’s hundred year backstory. Plus Eliza Dushku wants to be a Ghostbuster!

Tron Legacy might be about Sam Flynn looking for his father, but Olivia Wilde explains why it’s also about her character meeting her personal God. Eliza Dushku says she wants to make the rumors of her ghostbusting into reality. Spoileriffic! Tron Legacy: Olivia Wilde explained some of the particular challenges that her character, the computer…

Television Alasdair Wilkins Oct 19 '10

EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger

Robot cars that drive themselves, steampunk furniture made from naval mines, a house (and everything in it) made entirely of paper, robotic legs that help paraplegics walk again, and making gadgets more like guts. Bike Doctor App Empowers Mobile Bike Repair (Video) Spearheaded by Andreas Kambanis of London Cyclist (one of the worlds most popular…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Oct 19 '10

What Really Happens When you Leave a Happy Meal Out

If you haven’t seen the original video of a McDonald’s Happy Meal lasting six months with no perceivable decay, you should! Then watch this video a Gizmodo/Consumerist commenter made that shows a much more likely—and humorous—outcome. https://gizmodo.com/video-six-months-of-the-everlasting-happy-meal-5662271 I think it’s high time we started seeing more of these, and if you make your own send…

Tech News Brian Barrett Oct 19 '10

Pics and Details Emerge on the Latest AMD Radeon HD 6800 Graphics Cards

Sometime this week two new AMD GPU cards, the 6870 and 6850, will launch. Tested.com’s figured out some of the specs from the images, so if this pic is getting you hot under the collar do check ’em out: [Tested]

Tech News Kat Hannaford Oct 19 '10

Studio Ghibli Theme Tune-Singing Robots Take Requests but Won’t Kill Off Karaoke Just Yet

You might’ve seen yesterday’s divabot, the singing HRP-4C popstar. Using the same voice synthesizer technology, these cute-as-animals PaPeRo ‘bots can sing the Ponyo theme tune, and take other requests. Have you ever seen anything as cute? [TokyoTek via PlasticPals] https://gizmodo.com/meet-the-worlds-first-robot-pop-star-5666855

Tech News Kat Hannaford Oct 19 '10

Google’s Andy Rubin Takes a Pop at Steve Jobs on Twitter in Nerd Language

Android head Andy Rubin must’ve been pretty riled up by Steve Jobs’ comments yesterday about the openness of Android, because he finally sent his first tweet, which you can see above. What does it mean? Why, it’s Android. https://gizmodo.com/shit-my-jobs-says-earnings-call-edition-5667183 TechCrunch has confirmed with a few various people that it is actually Andy Rubin’s Twitter account,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Oct 19 '10

Halve Meeting Times With the Presentation-Sharing and Voting iPad App ‘Meeting Mngr Pro’

Oh, you work in an office where everyone has an iPad? Good for you. Here’s how to spend less time in meetings and more time being productive. The $10 Meeting Mngr Pro app will obviously pay for itself very quickly. Following blogger Seth Godin’s plea for an app allowing for shareable presentations, with a voting…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Oct 19 '10

Facebook Gets a Letter from the Government

The chairmen of the House Bipartisan Privacy Caucus sent that nice young man from Facebook a letter about Facebook’s problems with user information getting leaked out to advertisers through third-party apps. Good for them! I hope it was strongly worded. http://gawker.com/5666325/how-to-stop-facebook-from-sharing-your-information-with-third-parties So, we have a House Bipartisan Privacy Caucus. Did you know? It’s kind of…

Social Media Max Read Oct 19 '10

Roast a Chicken in the Time it Takes to Watch a Friends Rerun With Your Personal Spit Rotisserie

Nothing like making proper takeaway-style meals at home. How many of us have tried replicating Whoppers or Taco Bell burritos on a Tuesday night, when you’re too lazy to hotfoot it over to the drive-in? You can get in on the rotisserie chicken act at—of course—Hammacher Schlemmer, for $130. The machine cooks chooks on a…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Oct 19 '10

This Inflatable Photo Studio Could Also Make For a Cheap Mobile Home For Hungry Photogs

I love that the inventor of this inflatable photo studio was so frustrated at rising studio hire prices in New York, that he built his own portable studio for sidewalk-working—and is now flogging them for $500 each. If that doesn’t show this photographer as having a large dosage of creativity and forward-thinking, then I don’t…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Oct 19 '10

The Instant Coffee Straw

The Open It! instant-coffee-in-a-straw kind of makes me hurt inside. But it is very clever! [Yanko Design via Shot Zombies] https://gizmodo.com/chasing-the-perfect-cup-of-coffee-with-science-5642561

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 19 '10

Twitter Can Predict the Stock Market Six Days In Advance

This Is What Steve Jobs Means When He Says Android Is F*cked Up

Dying star’s final, fleeting moments of life revealed in planetary nebula

Feds to Telecoms: Stop Upgrading so We Can Wiretap More Easily

Psychedelic Steve Jobs Made of Old Apple Ads

WebOS 2.0 Now Official, Arriving On Palm Pre 2 “In the Coming Months” In US

Discover an Object’s Pantone Color Code With This $650 Handheld Gadget

Gothic supersoldiers of the galaxy in epic video from Russian band Unreal

This Is the Largest SATA Drive In the World

Olivia Wilde explains Tron Legacy’s hundred year backstory. Plus Eliza Dushku wants to be a Ghostbuster!

EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger

What Really Happens When you Leave a Happy Meal Out

Pics and Details Emerge on the Latest AMD Radeon HD 6800 Graphics Cards

Studio Ghibli Theme Tune-Singing Robots Take Requests but Won’t Kill Off Karaoke Just Yet

Google’s Andy Rubin Takes a Pop at Steve Jobs on Twitter in Nerd Language

Halve Meeting Times With the Presentation-Sharing and Voting iPad App ‘Meeting Mngr Pro’

Facebook Gets a Letter from the Government

Roast a Chicken in the Time it Takes to Watch a Friends Rerun With Your Personal Spit Rotisserie

This Inflatable Photo Studio Could Also Make For a Cheap Mobile Home For Hungry Photogs

The Instant Coffee Straw

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