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Dalí Museum Looks As Crazy As His Paintings

These are the stairs of the new Salvador Dalí museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. Encased in 18-inch thick concrete walls, it can resist a 165mph Category 5 hurricane without blinking. The director of the museum says that the architecture “combines elements of the classical and the fantastical,” like Dalí’s own work. I will believe it…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Microsoft Anti-Blur Algorithm Saves Photos From Your Annoyingly Shaky Hands

Whether it’s nervous jitters or a bumpy road, it’s easy to inadvertently ruin a snapshot with blur. But a team at Microsoft Research is using the same motion detecting tech found in your iPhone to lend an artificially steady hand. Utilizing only “inexpensive gyroscopes and accelerometers,” the Microsoft algorithm precisely measures the small levels of…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Quantum electron submarine holds the key to real, practical nanotechnology

In order to achieve levels of nanotechnology depicted in science fiction, we need to build machines one atom at a time. We’re not there yet, but now we’ve got a powerful, indirect way to manipulate individual atoms. Before this new breakthrough, the closest we had gotten to individual atom manipulation was to rather clumsily push…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Silicon Compound That’s Quicker To Melt Could Make For Cheaper Gadgets

A team of MIT researchers has discovered a new silicon compound that—get this—melts as it gets cooler, some 500 degrees Celsius lower than silicon’s natural melting point. The researchers think it could eventually yield less expensive electronics. While most materials transform from a solid to a liquid as they heat up, in some special cases…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Digital Storm’s 3D BlackOPS Package Wraps Your Games Across 5760×1080 3D Pixels

For anyone looking to dive into the world of 3D gaming head first, Digital Storm’s 3D Vision Surround BlackOPS package is a fine place to start. For $2800, you get the BlackOPS Assassin and three 3D-ready, 1080p Asus displays. https://gizmodo.com/digital-storm-blackops-assassin-a-cool-ride-in-a-fast-5537199 If you’re going for immersive gaming, it’s probably better to just take the plunge instead…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

PowerPad Uses Used Shower Water to Help Your Water Heater Stay Efficient

The Power Pad is a contraption that you stand on while you shower, recycling hot water to lower the energy usage of your water heater. Clever! By running the hot water over cold water that’s pumped through the pad, it pre-heats water your heater has yet to warm up. With a warmer starting temperature, that…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Inside AT&T’s National Disaster Recovery Batcave: Who AT&T Calls When the Death Star Explodes

When the World Trade Center collapsed, it took out a critical AT&T switch, crippling service. It was restored in 52 hours—including the time to drive a caravan of eighteen-wheelers from Atlanta to a lot in Jersey City. *** It’s hot, and muggy, like it usually is in Georgia at the end of July. There’s no…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

This sentient, biomechanical jungle is the anti-Skynet

The Transcendent City is a gorgeous short film by Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Richard Hardy about an artificial intelligence network that coexists with its ecosystem. It’s a welcome break from the presupposition that AI overlords would scorch the Earth. In this film, machines are able to do what us meatbags can’t — achieve perfect…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

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Basically, a giant battery. AT&T’s command center thermometer. Really. A trailer being born. This is the flag from AT&T’s WTC command center

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Batman and Wonder Woman get married, for real

Wonder Woman and Batman have tied the knot at last. They were surrounded by their closest superhero friends, plus Yoda. The best man? Robin, naturally. Check out what could easily be the best geek wedding of the summer. The Daily Mail has all the details about Neil and Sharon Vaughan amazing genre wedding. But we’ve…

io9 Meredith Woerner

PS Move Ultimate Boxing Gloves Will Make You a Safer Virtual Brawler

As much fun as it will be unleashing your motion-detected fists of fury via PlayStation Move, nothing will ruin the illusion faster than hurling your controller through your TV screen. CTA Digital’s glove peripheral will help keep the peace. Even though stronger television screens are on their way, the safety-minded fighting game enthusiast doesn’t want…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Those $200 Million Ansel Adams Garage Sale Photos? Yeah, They’re Fake

Oops! Turns out the negatives found at a garage sale that were purported to be lost Ansel Adams snaps worth $200 million were actually taken by somebody’s Uncle Earle. Still, nice eye, Uncle Earle. [Petapixel via Animal via Daily What] https://gizmodo.com/45-yard-sale-find-turns-out-to-be-200-million-worth-o-5597729

Tech News Adam Frucci

Oregon Scientific ATC9k Helmet Camera

Oregon Scientific‘s new ATC9k sports camera has a double Mctwist’s worth of tricks, starting with 1080p at 60 frames per second, GPS, accelerometer and water resistance to 60 feet. It also has the LCD, visual effects (like negative and vivid picture modes) and 5mp cameras. There are mounts for handlebars and helmets, and a slightly…

Tech News Brian Lam

It’s Shark Week! Eureka and Warehouse 13 cross over! And Stan Lee searches for superhumans!

This week, television gives you Shark Week, plus the debut of Stan Lee’s documentary on real-life mutants. Warehouse 13’s Claudia and Eureka’s Fargo hook up twice! Superman fights a frost giant! Plus an animal uprising, True Blood and Futurama! Today: It’s Shark Week! The week when instead of television jumping the shark, the shark jumps…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Amazon’s New Kindle All Sold Out

Amazon’s new thinner, lighter, grayer, and most importantly cheaper Kindles are all sold out on Amazon.com. This goes for both the $139 Wi-FI-only model and the $189 3G-equipped one. Ebook reader pricing sweet spot: achieved! [Amazon] https://gizmodo.com/thinner-and-lighter-kindle-comes-with-wi-fi-and-starts-5598900

Commerce Kyle VanHemert

What old-school Green Lantern character will cameo in the movie?

The word is a certain cosmic Green Lantern character will appear in 2011’s GL flick. He’s not a household name, and his inclusion signals that filmmakers aren’t straying from the wackier side of the GL mythos. Who is it? According to Comic Book Movie, it’s Krona, an Oan scientist whose single-minded desire to witness the…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Touring the World’s Spam Factories In Real Time

If you’ve ever wondered where all those Nigerian princes and male performance enhancement professionals live, you’re going to want to take a closer look at this: an interactive map that shows where spam originates in real time. The map is part of Google’s Postini Threat Identification Network, which identifies “malicious IPs” in real-time to head…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Farewell Gizmodo, Sort Of

After four years, thousands of posts and countless phallic puns, I’m leaving one of the world’s greatest jobs in attempt to pioneer new projects. And I’d love it if I could coax a few of you to come along. If you enjoy Shooting Challenges, then I think my first new site may be in and/or…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Stare into the black eyes of Seth Rogen’s alien, Paul

Nick Frost and Simon Pegg’s alien adventure movie Paul promises to be E.T. for grown-ups. But everyone wants to know what kind of totally CG-ed extraterrestrial Seth Rogen is lending his voice to? Now you can see it for yourself! Bleeding Cool has a screen shot of Paul, who is indeed the “classic” Grey alien,…

io9 Meredith Woerner

How to Get iPhone 4 FaceTime Working Over 3G

Apple artificially limits the use of Facetime—their videoconference software for the iPhone 4—to Wi-Fi use. Good thing we have independent developers to make it work under 3G too. This is how to do it: https://gizmodo.com/what-is-iphone-4s-facetime-video-chat-5557484 1. First you need to jailbreak your iPhone 4. This is a very easy procedure: Just go to this page…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Dalí Museum Looks As Crazy As His Paintings

Microsoft Anti-Blur Algorithm Saves Photos From Your Annoyingly Shaky Hands

Quantum electron submarine holds the key to real, practical nanotechnology

Silicon Compound That’s Quicker To Melt Could Make For Cheaper Gadgets

Digital Storm’s 3D BlackOPS Package Wraps Your Games Across 5760×1080 3D Pixels

PowerPad Uses Used Shower Water to Help Your Water Heater Stay Efficient

Inside AT&T’s National Disaster Recovery Batcave: Who AT&T Calls When the Death Star Explodes

This sentient, biomechanical jungle is the anti-Skynet

at&t ndr gallery

Batman and Wonder Woman get married, for real

PS Move Ultimate Boxing Gloves Will Make You a Safer Virtual Brawler

Those $200 Million Ansel Adams Garage Sale Photos? Yeah, They’re Fake

Oregon Scientific ATC9k Helmet Camera

It’s Shark Week! Eureka and Warehouse 13 cross over! And Stan Lee searches for superhumans!

Amazon’s New Kindle All Sold Out

What old-school Green Lantern character will cameo in the movie?

Touring the World’s Spam Factories In Real Time

Farewell Gizmodo, Sort Of

Stare into the black eyes of Seth Rogen’s alien, Paul

How to Get iPhone 4 FaceTime Working Over 3G

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