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A Wookiee Jedi takes a crash course in lightsaber construction while Donatello takes April on a date!

This week in the world of cartoons, young Jedis learn to make lightsabers on Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes returns, the Ninja Turtles play with monkey brains, and we get the season finale of Transformers: Prime! Adventure Time is off for a couple of weeks, while DC Nation continues it’s unusually…

io9 Keith Veronese Nov 3 '12

Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Plastic Paradise is a documentary by Angela Sun about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch at Midway Atoll. It shows how plastic is ruining nature, causing birds and animals to die and polluting the waters. It’s pretty bad. The documentary analyzes the change that inventing plastic has had on our lives and tries to answer the…

Tech News Casey Chan Nov 3 '12

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Romney Pours a Glass of Water

With this election looming, it’s important to keep two seemingly contradictory ideas in your head: First, that voting is essential. And second, that laughing at politicians is an essential part of democracy. Especially when it’s Mitt Romney. The rest of this week’s top comedy videos, including some still spooky Halloween-themed fun, can be found over…

Tech News Splitsider Nov 3 '12

Twitter Is Trying to Be Instagram By Adding Photo Filters

Instagram created the photo sharing social network right under the feet of Facebook, Flickr and Twitter. Facebook decided to buy it and Twitter is now trying to replicate Instagram by adding photo filters of its own (Flickr is just… sad). The NYT reports that Twitter will “introduce filters for photos that will allow people to…

Tech News Casey Chan Nov 2 '12

Pretty Famous Celebrity Wears a Dress with 2,000 LED Lights That Shows Her Tweets

Nicole Scherzinger, who’s famous for once being a singer for the Pussycat Dolls but is still famous because she’s smokingly attractive, wore a Twitter Dress to an event. Not a dress designed by Marc Jacobs or Alexander Wang but a dress with 2,000 LED lights that display Tweets sent to her. The dress which has…

Tech News Casey Chan Nov 2 '12

The TSA Finds Weapons in the Darndest Places: Knives in Foot Powder, Knives in Lipstick and More

People, why do you hide weapons when you fly. You’re just asking for trouble! And seriously, is there a need to wrap knives in foil and then hide it in a bottle of foot powder? Or put a knife inside lipstick? Here are the weapons the TSA found in the weirdest places. People think they’re…

Privacy & Security Casey Chan Nov 2 '12

IMDB’s Top 250 Movies in 2 1/2 Minutes

If you can name all the movies in this quick hitting list (there is actually 303 movies in all) in order, you deserve free popcorn or something. Jonathan Keogh stitched this video together and it combines the top movies in IMDB’s venerable top 250 list. How many have you watched? Keogh says: From what I…

Tech News Casey Chan Nov 2 '12

Confirmed: Fleshlight Is STILL Developing an iPad Case You Can Have Sex With

You were getting worried, weren’t you. It’s been the better part of a year since we confirmed that the iPad sex toy case was going to (probably) be a real thing. I was worried. So we checked in with Fleshlight, who told us, Yes!-This is still going to be a thing! A Fleshlight spokesman told…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Nov 2 '12

The iPad Mini’s Screen Isn’t Retina But Its Pixels Are Super Small Compared to the iPad 2

The biggest beef that people will have with the iPad Mini (other than price, that is) is that it doesn’t come with a pixel dense Retina Display. It’s the only new iOS device-iPad 4, iPhone 5, iPod Touch-that doesn’t have one. But it turns out, its screen is still much better than the iPad 2…

Tech News Casey Chan Nov 2 '12

Movember, Amazon Cloud Drive Photos, and More

It’s been a really long week but we’re not done yet-as usual, here’s our latest edition of the best Android apps of the week. Movember: Have you joined our Gizmovember team yet? If not you should. And you can do it all right from the official Movember Android app. Free Amazon Cloud Drive Photos: If…

Tech News Leslie Horn Nov 2 '12

This 750-Pound Cannon Fires Delicious Tacos 200 Feet Because Texas

Taco Cannon? Taco Cannon. Created by the mexican restaurant Torchy’s for this weekend’s Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, this modified t-shirt cannon will be making several scheduled appearances. All the video of this thing in action on YouTube suck. If you shoot or find something better send it to us. [Upproxx and TMDaily]

Tech News Mario Aguilar Nov 2 '12

Google Search, Beamr, and More

We might be doing things a little bit differently this week, but it doesn’t mean we’re skipping out on our usual round of the week’s best iPhone apps. Google Search: This app got a lot of love this week-Google updated it to include the Knowledge Graph, meaning you can speak it a question and it…

Tech News Leslie Horn Nov 2 '12

Path, The xx, and More

A natural disaster hit our city on Monday, but the apps of the week don’t sleep. Path: The social network that limits your friend count to 150 just landed on the iPad. It’s not just a sized-up version of the app-it also features a new landscape mode that shows the top news from today in…

Tech News Leslie Horn Nov 2 '12

Victoria’s Secret Saved the National Guard’s Skin From the Hurricane Sandy Blackout

Like everything else in lower Manhattan, Hurricane Sandy knocked out power at the Nation Guard’s armory. The 69th Infantry Regiment would’ve been screwed. Victoria’s Secret saved their asses. Here’s how the servicemen got their groove back. Every year, the lingerie company tapes its fashion show at the regiment’s armory, and this year, it happened to…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Nov 2 '12

Most Of Your Hurricane Sandy Knowledge Is Coming From A Man Who Doesn’t Believe In Global Warming

If it’s not already, the Wikipedia page on Hurricane Sandy will become the most widely viewed internet resource on the storm. And as PopSci discovered, it’s being largely controlled by a 56-year-old, unemployed Floridian who doesn’t believe in rising global temperatures. Ken Mampel, a one-time disaster reporter by trade, began editing the page on October…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Nov 2 '12

Our intern, Nick Stango, on Windows Phone

“You’ll love Windows Phone. It’s so alive!”

Tech News Leslie Horn Nov 2 '12

What Are You Doing Once Your Electricity Is Back?

Americans all over the East Coast (or at least between a few states of it) are without power, slowly losing sanity and hygiene. Who will charge their phones? What did light bulbs look like? They don’t remember. But we asked them what they’re gonna do when the juice flips back on, and they have very…

Tech News Sam Biddle Nov 2 '12

Power Is Being Restored Through Lower Manhattan Right Now!

People are cheering on the streets! Seems like Con Edison is going to make it and the entirety of Manhattan will haver power today. We are still updating our Sandy story liveblog here. I’ve never been so happy to see a traffic light! This is really good news. It means that the subway power-up of…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Nov 2 '12

Isaac Asimov explains his three laws of robotics

For those of you who aren’t familiar with Asimov’s Laws of Robotics: First Law: A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. Second Law: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Nov 2 '12

More Hobbit Character Posters Than You Can Throw an Axe At

A Wookiee Jedi takes a crash course in lightsaber construction while Donatello takes April on a date!

Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Romney Pours a Glass of Water

Twitter Is Trying to Be Instagram By Adding Photo Filters

Pretty Famous Celebrity Wears a Dress with 2,000 LED Lights That Shows Her Tweets

The TSA Finds Weapons in the Darndest Places: Knives in Foot Powder, Knives in Lipstick and More

IMDB’s Top 250 Movies in 2 1/2 Minutes

Confirmed: Fleshlight Is STILL Developing an iPad Case You Can Have Sex With

The iPad Mini’s Screen Isn’t Retina But Its Pixels Are Super Small Compared to the iPad 2

Movember, Amazon Cloud Drive Photos, and More

This 750-Pound Cannon Fires Delicious Tacos 200 Feet Because Texas

Google Search, Beamr, and More

Path, The xx, and More

Victoria’s Secret Saved the National Guard’s Skin From the Hurricane Sandy Blackout

Most Of Your Hurricane Sandy Knowledge Is Coming From A Man Who Doesn’t Believe In Global Warming

Our intern, Nick Stango, on Windows Phone

What Are You Doing Once Your Electricity Is Back?

Power Is Being Restored Through Lower Manhattan Right Now!

Isaac Asimov explains his three laws of robotics

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