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What Kind of Photographic Trickery Is Going On Here?

Left side of the photo: adorable 4-year-old pancake chef is blinking. Right side of the photo, in the reflection: his eyes are wide open. Whoa. Viral marketing for the The Last Exorcist? Not exactly. https://gizmodo.com/stripping-chatroulette-girl-turns-into-she-demon-5616956 The prevailing theory, from BoingBoing commenter nickelrocket: resolution pixels on the chip load from L to R (or R to…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Our Gadgets Wouldn’t Like Us When We’re Angry

Here’s a comforting truth: the next time your gadgets make you angry enough to pout, stomp, and scream, know that you’re not alone. In fact, you’re in the majority. A recent survey by Harris Interactive showed that 60% of Americans were driven to yell or swear at a gadget out of frustration. Which frankly seems…

Gadgets Brian Barrett

THIS BILLY MAYS TRIBUTE IS PITCH-PERFECT

Somewhere in heaven, Billy Mays is selling cloud fluffers and wing wax like nobody’s business. Here on earth, the best we can do to pay our respects, vandalize our keyboards, and never forget the loudest man in showbiz. [TNW]

Tech News Brian Barrett

The Pakistani flooding as seen from space: an explosion of water

You’ve probably seen the horrifying pictures of the 20 million victims of Pakistan’s unprecedented flooding of the Indus River. But this false-color image from NASA’s Terra satellite really drives home the extent of the devastation wrought by rising water levels. And here’s a “before” pic: More at the link. [Earth Observatory]

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Six months on the International Space Station leaves astronauts as weak as kittens

Speaking of rapid aging, a new study found that just six months on the International Space Station caused super-fast deterioration in astronauts’ muscles, leaving them as weak as people twice their age. According to the Associated Press, “the accelerated space aging is temporary: Astronauts’ muscles recover after a few months back on Earth.” But the…

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This Week’s Best Apps

In this week’s totally radical app round up: wasting time on the mobile web, simplified; music videos, enjoyed; battleships, sunk; appointments, maintained minimalistically; monsters, evaded (and blasted); your childhood fear of puppets, worked through, and much, much more! iPhone To view these on one page, click here https://gizmodo.com/iphone-apps-gallery-5618147 Android To view these on one page,…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Star Wars? Not at NASA

Science fiction doesn’t always translate into science. Centauri Dreams’ Paul Gilster explains why NASA’s current research focus has nothing to do with the technologies we see in classic space operas like Star Wars. I had started today’s entry – on dark energy – only to be sidetracked by a short piece in Space.com that almost…

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Watch the Last Exorcist venture out of his depth in 2 new clips

The Last Exorcism, coming out August 27, is the rarest of beasts: a Satanic horror film that feels fresh and really horrifying. Check out a couple of clips that showcase this film’s nasty unpredictability. Reverend Cotton Marcus and his documentary crew arrive in the middle of nowhere, searching for the farmhouse where the supposedly possessed…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Thieves, Please Do Not Steal This Unique One-Piece City Bike

Denmark! The birthplace of the LDN bike, designed by KiBiSi, which has a unique one-piece shape that’s as stylish as it is weird. Its frame is made from carbon fiber sheets formed and layered to make a stiff and lightweight one-piece monocoque structure. LDN’s form is derived from a wishbone, linking all the necessary components…

Tech News Jason Chen

Android Apps August 20th

Trillian Beta: The decently popular desktop IM client Trillian now has its own Android app. Whitson from Lifehacker says: http://lifehacker.com/5617661/trillian-beta-released-for-android-is-already-the-best-im-client-out-there The first and best thing about Trillian, at least if you’re a desktop user, is that all you need to do is sign in with your Astra account to get all your accounts, custom names,…

Tech News Casey Chan

When someone dies of old age on scifi TV, it’s never natural causes

Hint: If you’re watching a science fiction/fantasy TV show and someone shows up, apparently dead of old age… it’s always something else. Prematurely aged stiffs showed up on two different Syfy shows recently, but aging-to-death has been a time-honored trope. We were spurred to think about this after noticing that recent episodes of Warehouse 13…

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25 Websites Hooters Won’t Let You Ogle

For reasons I’ll get into at a later date, Matt, Barrett and I are currently working from a Hooters in midtown Manhattan with free Wi-Fi. Here are 25 sites their content filter will not let us access. maxim.com fleshbot.com collegehumor.com playboy.com thesmokingjacket.com erowid.org fhm.com thebeergoggler.com egotastic.com funnyordie.com thefrisky.com youtube.com nerve.com last.fm 2girls1cup.com vimeo.com urlesque.com myspace.com…

Privacy & Security Adam Frucci

iPad Apps Gallery

Elements: Dropbox is our favorite way to keep files synced across multiple machines, bar none, but its apps sadly don’t do text editing. The universal app Elements fills that role, letting you cleanly edit text and quietly keep it in sync. There have been a few Dropbox-enabled text editors for the iPad, but none quite…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

iPhone Apps Gallery

Monster Dash: A new running game from Halfbrick, the makers of Fruit Ninja—do I even need to keep going?—Monster Dash sends you scurrying as a tiny little cartoon man blasting away at a whole army of vampires, mummies, and other assorted baddies. Simple but highly enjoyable. $1 Nook: Oh Barrett… Barnes and Noble already had…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Turtles could hold the secret to human immortality

All animals eventually grow old and die. It’s an inevitable fact of life – except when it isn’t. Some animals, like tortoises and lobsters, never grow old, and learning their secrets could let humans live as long as they want. For most animals, there are three basic ways they can die: disease, injury, or old…

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Tales From the Recession: The Ins and Outs of Manhattan’s $200,000 Fish Tanks

If you hate your life, pause, and consider that it could be much worse: “I get calls at quarter to 12 on New Year’s Eve,” says Ralph Ammirati, who tends to the maxed out aquariums of New York’s megarich. The NY Times paddles into the at once incredibly cool and incredibly grotesque world of people…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Neptune will soon complete its first orbit around the sun since its discovery in 1846

Today, Neptune’s in perfect opposition to the sun, meaning in a straight line with the sun and Earth, and brightest at midnight. It’s also at its closest to Earth, and nearing the end of its first orbit since its discovery. It’s pretty amazing to think that it’s taken over 160 years for Neptune to orbit…

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A Retina Display-Matching WebOS Device Is Sneaking Around

For the second time this month, an app developer has caught an unreleased WebOS 2.0 device with a 640×960 display using their wares. There’s no telling whether it’s a new WebOS phone, or something else entirely. Apple’s darling Retina Display is, of course, not a resolution, but a pixel density, so the same dazzling graphics…

Tech News Sam Biddle

The Price of Perfect Cell Service: A Collapsing Apartment Building

Good cell service is hard to come by, especially in NYC, but five bars won’t do much good when you’re DEAD. Some New Yorkers are convinced that the AT&T and T-Mo antennas on their roof are bringing the building down. The tenants of 165 Pinehurst Avenue in New York City have a dilemma: they have…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Searching for reality at the Philip K. Dick festival

Last weekend, hardcore Philip K Dick fans trekked to the high Rocky Mountains for a festival of Dickian dimensions. There were Dick scholars, biker bars, library lectures, Techgnostic side-trips with Erik Davis, and an epic, weekend-long attempt to define reality. Phil Dick’s science fiction often features characters alienated by the technology that surrounds them, overwhelmed…

Books & Comics David Gill

What Kind of Photographic Trickery Is Going On Here?

Our Gadgets Wouldn’t Like Us When We’re Angry

THIS BILLY MAYS TRIBUTE IS PITCH-PERFECT

The Pakistani flooding as seen from space: an explosion of water

Six months on the International Space Station leaves astronauts as weak as kittens

This Week’s Best Apps

Star Wars? Not at NASA

Watch the Last Exorcist venture out of his depth in 2 new clips

Thieves, Please Do Not Steal This Unique One-Piece City Bike

Android Apps August 20th

When someone dies of old age on scifi TV, it’s never natural causes

25 Websites Hooters Won’t Let You Ogle

iPad Apps Gallery

iPhone Apps Gallery

Turtles could hold the secret to human immortality

Tales From the Recession: The Ins and Outs of Manhattan’s $200,000 Fish Tanks

Neptune will soon complete its first orbit around the sun since its discovery in 1846

A Retina Display-Matching WebOS Device Is Sneaking Around

The Price of Perfect Cell Service: A Collapsing Apartment Building

Searching for reality at the Philip K. Dick festival

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