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This Picture Was Taken Using a Beer Can

When UK photographer Matt Bigwood took a workshop in pinhole photography, he was inspired to create his own, simple project. So, armed with some empty beer cans and a roll of tape, he set out to make a camera. The cans had 5×7-inch pieces of photographic paper inserted into them, a pinhole made in the…

Siri Was Going to be a Droid Feature, Until Apple Stole It Away

Way back in the mists of 2009, before Siri was even a twinkle in Apple’s eye, Verizon was planning to add the app to all of its Android smartphones. Sadly for the carrier, that didn’t last. Siri was destined to be a crowning glory of its Android-toting handsets: the carrier had signed a contract with…

Intel to Stop Making Desktop Motherboards

It’s the end of an era: Intel has announced that, over the next three years, it will wind down production of desktop motherboards to zero. The company will continue to supply chipsets for use by third party motherboard manufacturers—the likes of ASUS, ASRock and Gigabyte—but after 2013 it won’t make more motherboards itself, reports Anandtech.…

Report: Nokia Will Launch a Full-On PureView Windows Phone This Year

Rumors are emerging which suggest Nokia is planning to launch a “true PureView Windows Phone”—codenamed EOS—some time later this year. The Verge claims that the new handset will use a sensor similar to the crazy-ass, 41-megapixel Nokia 808 that delivered on camera specs but not on phone features. At the launch of the 808 Nokia…

Nobody Would See You Coming on This Beautiful Transparent Bike

From certain angles you can barely see this beautiful bicycle—because it’s made from the same strong, lighthtweight and transparent plastic used in fighter jet canopies. It’s the perfect stealth bike. A concept put together by Designaffairs, this bicycle—aptly called Clarity Bike—is built from a polymer called Trivex. First used in helicopter windscreens and then in…

Facebook Tag Everybody You Know in This Gigapixel Inauguration Picture

There are a number of amazing gigapixel inaugortation images kicking around the web, but this one is by far our favorite—because it lets you tag anyone you recognize via Facebook. Put online by the Washington Post, you can pan and zoom to your heart’s content until you find your nearest and dearest. Then, you can…

The No-Hire Emails That Incriminate Apple, Google, Adobe and More

A court filing has just been made public which sheds light on the “no-hire” gentleman’s agreements that have pervaded the tech industry—and reveals how Steve Jobs threatened litigation to prevent companies from stealing his staff. Notably, former Palm CEO Edward Colligan has made a statement which points out that the company was threatened with patent…

Gangnam Style has racked up enough views on YouTube to generate Google $8 million of revenue. Impressive. [Quartz]

What the Hell, Who Knew You Could Ride Scooters Like This?

Scooters, as a whole, aren’t exactly the coolest thing a person can ride. Maybe you had some ‘fun’ with them when you were a fifth grader but if you brought your scooter to the skate park now? The insults hurled at you would re-arrange the English dictionary. Well, unless, you rode scooters like these guys.…

Scoring ‘Scripts, Fighting Words, and How to Tincturate Weed Shake

Cannabis to Stay on Schedule One An federal appeals court put the kibosh on rescheduling cannabis today after a majority decision by the three-judge panel found in favor of the DEA. In October, Americans for Safe Access sued the DEA on behalf of an Air Force vet who was denied services for smoking herb prescribed…

Sony Adds 2 E-Mount Lenses to the Lineup—One Teeny, One Beefy

NEX cameras owners should feel a bit better about their purchase after tonight, as Sony just announced two additional E-Mount lenses to pick from—a 20mm f/2.8, and 18-200 f/3.5-6.3 power zoom. The 18-200 actually already exists, but until now it was only available as a kit lens for the VG-30 camcorder. The new lens is…

Apple Removed a Photo App from the App Store Because Artistic Nudity Is the Devil or Something

500px, one of the best iPad apps for finding great pictures, was pulled from the App Store today because Apple is Tobias Funke never nude-levels of prudish when it comes to the naked body. Apparently, the app made it too easy to find pictures with nudity in them so it got kicked out. https://gizmodo.com/500px-for-ipad-look-at-the-most-beautifullest-pictures-5853680 500px…

How Everybody Will Use Facebook Graph Search (Hint: Inappropriately)

Nick Douglas of Slacktory shows everybody how Facebook Graph Search, as awesome as it can be, will quickly devolve into a completely inappropriate search engine for finding MILFs, GILFs, pictures taken at the beach and anything of that nature. Basically, it’s going to start innocently with people trying to find others with the same music…

This pirate-themed bedroom set is the greatest thing ever

If it’s not enough to watch The Princess Bride over and over again, you can now live inside a pirate fantasy right in your bedroom. This insane pirate bedroom set — which is, for some reason, being marketed to kids — includes everything from pirate curtains and clothes hamper, to bedsheets and rugs. Basically you…

Here Are the Business Cards of Famous People

Even though business cards seemed like they would be one of the first things to get killed by some fancy techwiznology, they’ve managed to survive even though the use of dead paper is dying. Everybody has business cards—even the super rich and super famous. Here are a few business cards from people you definitely already…

Being Human‘s third season changes everything!

Being Human is back with a whole load of changes. The werewolf, the vampire and the ghost are no more. Now it’s more like the human, the zombie and the vampires. Things are very different for our dear little monsters, so let’s just hope there’s room in that rickety old Boston home for everyone. First,…

Sexual fungus could be the key to revolutionizing penicillin

Though penicillin was once a miracle cure for bacterial infections ranging from syphilis to staph, it is slowly becoming obsolete. Bacteria are evolving antibiotic resistance, and medicine is racing to keep up by producing new and different forms of the drug. Penicillin and its derivatives come from a fungus called Penicillium chrysogenum. It’s been difficult…

Watch This Video to See How Freaking Awesome People Can Be

I think everybody’s goal for 2013 should be to do something so awesome that you’d be included this wrap up video that shows how incredible humans can be. Yes, I understand that making it your life goal to be included in a YouTube video sounds ridiculously silly but watch it, it’s four minutes of extremely…

Further evidence that Asians colonized the Americas long before Europeans did

DNA from an ancient fossil reveals that Asians and Native Americans share a common ancestor, which lends further evidence to the theory that people from Asia were the first humans to set foot in the Americas. Researchers in China and Europe sequenced DNA extracted from a 40,000-year-old leg bone (pictured) found in the Tianyuan Cave…

Watch Anderson Cooper Dramatically Reading Donald Trump’s Idiotic Tweets

You saw our friends at Deadspin break the Manti Te’o story last week, right? And probably/maybe the best tweet in the world lobbed at Donald Trump, and Trump’s perfectly petulant responses? Here’s the logical end to an absurd week: Anderson Cooper giving a dramatic reading of Donald Trump’s tweets. https://deadspin.com/manti-teos-dead-girlfriend-the-most-heartbreaking-an-5976517 [CNN]