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Microsoft’s Ad Sales Team Killed Effort To Redefine Browser Privacy

After Microsoft killed Kin, stories swirled attributing its mismanagement to warring fiefdoms inside the company. A WSJ report suggests that a similar conflict curbed an effort to overhaul privacy in IE8, with ad sales winning out over the browser group. https://gizmodo.com/the-real-kin-culprit-internal-microsoft-bickering-5577810 Consider it another example of the dangers of having the same company that makes…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Watch out! It’s a Beholder emergency!

This happens to me all the time. I’m trying to get somewhere on the train, when a giant Beholder comes along and destroys everybody’s minds with psionics. By the time some competent magic users arrive, I’m already late. French artist Guy-Pascal Vallez says he drew this mega-Beholder after having a long conversation about Dungeons &…

io9 Annalee Newitz

These Hidden Animations Only Appear Through a Video Camera

BrussPup, YouTube illusion sensation, has returned with his latest wizardry: a series of zoetrope panoramas that are only visible when viewed both at a certain RPM (thanks, turntable) and at a certain shutter speed (thanks, video camera). Obviously! [YouTube] https://gizmodo.com/a-brief-survey-of-recent-tape-based-anamorphic-illusion-5465883

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Add an External eSATA Port to Your New iMac

This is a great modification if you don’t mind having a hole on the bottom of your new 27-inch iMac 2010: Add an eSATA port to attach an external hard drive. Best part: You don’t have to do it yourself. Maybe some fanboys will faint at the sight of that hole in a Jon Ive…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Robert Rodriguez might direct the Deadpool movie?

Rumors are swirling that Robert Rodriguez is in negotiations for the Deadpool movie. We can see why Rodriguez would want to direct the Deadpool film, the character is a perfect blend of violence and laughs. But should he? [L.A. Times]

Movies Meredith Woerner

Your f’ed-up superheroes update: cokehead Spiderman and incontinent Batman (NSFW)

Man, superheroes have gone through the wringer lately. First, Italian artist Giuseppe Veneziano opened a controversial show that features superheroes behaving badly. Also, Kevin Smith wrote an in-canon comic of Batman peeing his pants. Yes, you read that right. First off, Giuseppe Veneziano has been causing a stir with his recent pop art show in…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Apple’s Magical iPad is Training British Soldiers to KILL

At an artillery school in England, army troops are being taught shooting tactics on iPads, so they’re better prepared when they’re shipped out to Afghanistan. Zombieville, this ain’t. (Hopefully). One of the army training officers spoke to the BBC and explained that it can “if we can use this sort of technology, we can probably…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Behold the best amateur space pictures of the year!

Check out this incredible picture of the Great Orion Nebula. It’s not from the Hubble Space Telescope. It’s the work of amateur astrophotographer Marcus Davies, and it just one of the finalists for this year’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year. When you witness the marvels of the universe that ordinary geeks are able to capture…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Chelsea Clinton’s $15,000 Wedding Porta-potties

If you were a guest at Chelsea Clinton’s wedding, you didn’t poop in just any porta-potty. Oh no, you pooped in one of these: A porcelain toilet that flushes, with a stereo and hot water. The good life. [TMZ]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Mark Millar dishes on the plot of Kick Ass 2. Plus has Patrick Dempsey’s Transformers character been revealed?

Mark Millar talks, at serious length, about Kick Ass 2. Is Patrick Dempsey not a nice man in Transformers 3? Plus Marc Ruffalo talks the Hulk, Jeff Bridges discusses being de-aged, and Frank Darabont talks Walking Dead. Monday morning spoiler-backing! The Avengers: New Hulk Marc Ruffalo explains his interpretation of the character: “He’s a guy…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Your Smartphone Might Replace Your Wallet Soon

AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile are going to war with the plastic in your wallet. According to Bloomberg, the three companies are pushing to make mobile payments—where a wave of your phone replaces a credit car swipe—the new standard. The three may work with Discover and Barclays to test a system in four US cities including…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Computer Supermaterial Could Stop Your Shoes Smelling

Graphene has been heralded as the new supermaterial of our time. It possesses incredible strength and elasticity, while its exceptionally high conductivity and use in flexible semiconductors could soup up computing. If all that weren’t enough, there’s another way that the atom-thick layers of carbon might improve your life: stopping your shoes from smelling. Sheets…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

2001: A Porsche Odyssey

Porsche’s German museum is the stuff of Stanley Kubrick’s dreams. Well, would’ve been, had he been alive to visit the all-white building, full of clean lines and futuristic-finishings. I don’t care much for cars, but hotdamn I have to visit. The museum opened last year in Zuffenhausen, near Stuttgart, and tells the story of how…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Sprint Gifts 4G Service to Parts of California, Delaware, Florida and Michigan Today

From today, several areas of California, along with Florida, Delaware and Michigan are able to receive Sprint’s 4G service. Anyone for an EVO 4G? https://gizmodo.com/sprint-grows-in-subscribers-for-the-first-time-in-3-yea-5598759 Details below in Sprint’s press release— OVERLAND PARK, Kan.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Today, Sprint (NYSE:S) unveiled 4G service to populous areas of California, Delaware, Florida and Michigan. With today’s launches of Modesto, Calif.,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Gorilla Glass To Protect TVs From Wiimotes Next Year

The Motorola Droid and Dell Streak are just a couple of the gadgets using Corning’s high-strength Gorilla Glass for their displays, but from next year we could be seeing TVs donning stab-proof protection too. https://gizmodo.com/why-even-clumsy-people-like-you-would-have-trouble-brea-5432300 While Corning is yet to sign on any TV manufacturers, they’re hopeful they will have something on the market by…

Television Kat Hannaford

How to Keep Your Coins Safe During a Mugging

I’ve heard stories of muggers turning their noses up at victims’ original-gen iPhones, but this clamshell (secretly hiding your pocket-money) might just cause the thief to take pity and gift you with one of his stolen goods. [DoniDoni via Unplggd]

Privacy & Security Kat Hannaford

20 Free OS Games From Last 40 Years Will Make You Go All Nostalgic

Solitaire. 3D Pinball. DONKEY.BAS. Macintosh’s Puzzle. These are just some of the games listed in Technologizer’s round-up of the best free games included on each operating system since 1971. They’re missing SkiFree though, which robbed many of our childhoods. [Technologizer] https://gizmodo.com/legendary-microsoft-game-skifree-now-free-for-the-iphon-5496352

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Patrick Stewart plays the Sinbad of the future — plus cutie-pie tentacle-arm gals!

Do not miss the first glimpses of Sir Patrick Stewart as the future version of Sinbad. Sadly, it doesn’t have a track-suited stand-up comic, but it does have a cyclops! Plus, Mutant Girls Squad is back with tentacle arms ladies. Sinbad The Fifth Voyage Princess Parisa has been captured, in space? We think. Somehow Patrick…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Under the Red Hood cuts through Batman’s baggage to reveal the dark side of his legacy

The latest DC animated movie is a dark, gritty story about crime lords, psychopaths, sociopaths, and warped understandings of justice and family. It encapsulates everything wrong about comics in the last 25 years – and how to do them right. The trick to enjoying and appreciating Batman: Under the Red Hood is separating it from…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Roboscooper Tackles Tough One-Ounce Jobs So You Don’t Have To

For about $70 and six AAA batteries, WowWee’s Roboscooper, will keep your home’s floors clear of any one ounce objects. Any heavier than that and, well, get off your lazy ass and pick it up yourself. Care to control Roboscooper’s movements a little more closely? Switch from autonomous to remote-control mode and lift tiny object…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Microsoft’s Ad Sales Team Killed Effort To Redefine Browser Privacy

Watch out! It’s a Beholder emergency!

These Hidden Animations Only Appear Through a Video Camera

Add an External eSATA Port to Your New iMac

Robert Rodriguez might direct the Deadpool movie?

Your f’ed-up superheroes update: cokehead Spiderman and incontinent Batman (NSFW)

Apple’s Magical iPad is Training British Soldiers to KILL

Behold the best amateur space pictures of the year!

Chelsea Clinton’s $15,000 Wedding Porta-potties

Mark Millar dishes on the plot of Kick Ass 2. Plus has Patrick Dempsey’s Transformers character been revealed?

Your Smartphone Might Replace Your Wallet Soon

Computer Supermaterial Could Stop Your Shoes Smelling

2001: A Porsche Odyssey

Sprint Gifts 4G Service to Parts of California, Delaware, Florida and Michigan Today

Gorilla Glass To Protect TVs From Wiimotes Next Year

How to Keep Your Coins Safe During a Mugging

20 Free OS Games From Last 40 Years Will Make You Go All Nostalgic

Patrick Stewart plays the Sinbad of the future — plus cutie-pie tentacle-arm gals!

Under the Red Hood cuts through Batman’s baggage to reveal the dark side of his legacy

Roboscooper Tackles Tough One-Ounce Jobs So You Don’t Have To

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