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The Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 Is Faster Than Every Other Graphics Card

The new Sapphire Radeon HD 5970—based upon the acclaimed ATI HD 5970 chipset—is the new world’s fastest graphics card. Its 3DMark Vantage score is an insane 22,000. https://gizmodo.com/ati-radeon-hd-5970-the-worlds-fastest-graphics-card-5407231 The overclocked ATI GPU runs at 850MHz, which is supported by 4GB of GDDR5 RAM (itself, clocked at 1,200MHz). And all this hardware necessitates three fans an…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Put A Shark Brain In A Battleship, And You Could Defeat Almost Anything

Turns out the best pilot for a battleship is a shark brain. Just transplant right into the brain interface bowl on the bridge, and you’re in business. As long as you don’t forget the dorsal fin. For some reason, shark brains just can’t get adjust to having a ship body unless they can feel that…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Pirate Bay Buyer Also Offered Over $27 Million to Mininova

Global Gaming Factory’s purchase of The Pirate Bay was surprising. But even more surprising is that they offered an even bigger sum to Mininova, one of the other huge public BitTorrent trackers. https://gizmodo.com/pirate-bay-bought-out-suddenly-respects-copyrights-5304354 Apparently, GGF and Mininova had a contract good to go, based on Mininova escaping their court case unscathed. That didn’t happen, and…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Comedy Central’s Zombie Social Worker Wants To Get You Off Brains

The new comedy animation Ugly Americans is full of important lessons. Check out the first couple clips, and learn why finding an undead roommate on Craigslist is always messy, and why sleeping with your demon boss is a mistake. Here’s the official synopsis: The series follows Mark Lilly (voiced by Matt Oberg), a social worker…

Television Meredith Woerner

The Porn Detection Stick Is Like the Hot Tub Time Machine for Smut

We have good news and bad news. The bad news is that the Porn Detection Stick, a simple USB dongle, will legitimately, automatically scan your hard drive for pornography. The good news is, well, times have changed. The Porn Detection Stick, by Paraben, is a $100 thumb drive stuffed with Windows-compatible image detection software. Give…

Tech News Mark Wilson

In The Future, You’ll Play Tetris On Your Skin

A group of researchers has created “Skinput,” a device that turns your body into a touchscreen by sensing movements in your skin and muscle. Witness the future of the mobile – literally in the palm of your hand. Researchers Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft Research are presenting a paper about Skinput next month at the…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The iPad Could Make Emergency Calls…So Will It?

Hunting around in the iPhone/iPad SDK, one developer spotted this option to make an emergency call. The above was easily achieved by enabled a passcode lock, and then entering it incorrectly about 5 times. You can then slide for a emergency call. So does this mean the iPad will make emergency calls? Possibly. There are…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Watch Mad Scientist Neeson Play With Christina Ricci’s “Undead” Body

If everyone thinks you’re dead, what’s to stop Liam Neeson from burying you alive? At least that’s what this mad-scientist funeral director tries to pull with Christina Ricci, after she wakes up. Check out After.Life’s first trailer. Christina Ricci plays Anna, a girl who suffers from a tragic accident and wakes up in Eliot Deacon’s…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Oooooohmmmmmmmmmmmultiball!

My wife and I joined the NYC pinball league two weeks ago. I wonder if they would let me play using this brain-computer interface, which was shown at CeBit in Germany. [io9] Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images https://gizmodo.com/is-there-some-way-to-be-a-telekinetic-pinball-wizard-wi-5484135

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Nightmare On Elm Street Director Seeks Nasty Superheroes Next

Sam Bayer – the director of the upcoming Nightmare On Elm Street reboot and Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” – has a new project idea. He wants to tackle ultraviolent superhero series The Boys, by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. In an interview with Shock Til You Drop, Bayer expressed interest in directing a film…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Nokia and Alpine Team Up For Ovi Maps Integration In Cars

Ovi Maps has been a focal point for Nokia in the last few weeks since they gave it all away for free, so it’s not surprising a hardware company wants to use their turn-by-turn navigation for cars. https://gizmodo.com/nokia-is-nok-nok-nokking-on-tomtoms-door-with-free-turn-5453520 If you’ve got an Alpine car system with a dashboard or speakers, then you’ll be able to…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

LEGO. Stop Motion. Lightsabers. Important.

Just as I’d play LEGO Star Wars, I’d gladly watch a full feature LEGO Star Wars movie—assuming it’s as well-executed as this clip. Enjoy the brick gore. [BricksinMotion via Kotaku] https://kotaku.com/lego-star-wars-force-unleashed-5484360

Tech News Mark Wilson

Spoiler Onslaught For Captain America, Iron Man 2, Tron Legacy, Transformers 3 And Lost!

Tron Legacy releases another picture, Iron Man 2 leaks tie-in book covers, and Transformers 3 redesigns Bumblebee. V’s Anna has some alarming reveals, and Warehouse 13’s Claudia gets a suitor. Plus Captain America, Doctor Who, Fringe, FlashForward and Lost spoilers. Captain America: This 1940s superhero film is looking for extras in London, but is also…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Verizon Customers Are Amidst a Nationwide Data Blackout

If you’re a Verizon customer and your phone isn’t connecting to data this morning, it’s not just you. Verizon has confirmed that its data is down across the nation, though apparently NY is doing just fine. UPDATE Your make/model of phone has nothing to do with the problem, as everything from Blackberries to Droids are…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Lomo LC-A+ Camera Goes High-End With 24-Carat Gold Finish

Lomo cameras (back in the day) were popular as they were cheap as chips and almost disposable, made from just flimsy plastic. Now, they’re coated in 24-carat gold and in limited edition runs of 130 pieces. It’ll still produce the same dreamy photos full of saturated colors and vignetted corners, but at $600 a piece…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Layar, the iPhone’s Best (Augmented Reality) App, Is Back In the App Store

After it was pulled in December due to some bugs, Layar is back in the App Store, available for iPhone 3GS users. https://gizmodo.com/dear-new-layar-3-0-you-got-me-at-beatles-5417946 Just in case you need a run-through, Layar—which is also available on Android—is an augmented reality app which lets you discover people and places around you, based on different layers you select.…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Honda’s Space-Age Eco-Friendly Trike Gets Filmed From Every Angle

Seen through the eye of the YouTube gloryhole is Honda’s eco-friendly trike, which debuted this week at the Geneva Motor Show. https://gizmodo.com/hondas-eco-friendly-trike-of-the-future-5478974 While it’s just a concept, it’s on display at the show where the battery-powered three-wheeler is being ogled by people OTHER THAN US. It makes me slightly teary at the thought. [Electricpig]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Cast Zombie Shadows On Your Walls and Hope Simon Pegg Can Save You

Simon Pegg may’ve confirmed they’re never making a sequel to Shaun of the Dead, a TV series, or a radio show based on the zombie-fest, but this zombie shadow cast only costs $15. Tempted? You bet! [MakersMarket via Boing Boing]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Bets Being Taken By UK Bookmakers On Next Console To Suffer From “Global Glitch”

UK bookies Paddy Power doesn’t have much faith in the state of console gaming. After the PS3’s spectacular shitstorm of a failure this week, they’re putting odds of 11/8 on it happening again. The Xbox 360 meanwhile has 7/4 odds. https://gizmodo.com/error-8001050f-takes-down-playstation-network-5482365 Sweet, innocent little Wii, which never hurts anyone with downtime—just a few broken plasmas…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

AT&T’s CEO Explains Why There’s No Contract for the 3G iPad

People have been thinking long and hard for well over a month now whether they’ll buy the Wi-Fi version which is available this month, or wait for next month’s 3G model. Which is why AT&T says they’re not making you get a 3G contract. Chief executive Randall Stephenson said at an investor conference yesterday that…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 Is Faster Than Every Other Graphics Card

Put A Shark Brain In A Battleship, And You Could Defeat Almost Anything

Pirate Bay Buyer Also Offered Over $27 Million to Mininova

Comedy Central’s Zombie Social Worker Wants To Get You Off Brains

The Porn Detection Stick Is Like the Hot Tub Time Machine for Smut

In The Future, You’ll Play Tetris On Your Skin

The iPad Could Make Emergency Calls…So Will It?

Watch Mad Scientist Neeson Play With Christina Ricci’s “Undead” Body

Oooooohmmmmmmmmmmmultiball!

Nightmare On Elm Street Director Seeks Nasty Superheroes Next

Nokia and Alpine Team Up For Ovi Maps Integration In Cars

LEGO. Stop Motion. Lightsabers. Important.

Spoiler Onslaught For Captain America, Iron Man 2, Tron Legacy, Transformers 3 And Lost!

Verizon Customers Are Amidst a Nationwide Data Blackout

Lomo LC-A+ Camera Goes High-End With 24-Carat Gold Finish

Layar, the iPhone’s Best (Augmented Reality) App, Is Back In the App Store

Honda’s Space-Age Eco-Friendly Trike Gets Filmed From Every Angle

Cast Zombie Shadows On Your Walls and Hope Simon Pegg Can Save You

Bets Being Taken By UK Bookmakers On Next Console To Suffer From “Global Glitch”

AT&T’s CEO Explains Why There’s No Contract for the 3G iPad

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