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Our brains can be logical and compassionate — just not at the same time

The human brain is unquestioningly an amazing thing. But for all its strengths, it can be pretty glitchy at times. And indeed, as new research from Case Western Reserve has revealed, our brains have two very important functions that tend to work quite well – just not simultaneously. It turns out that when we’re being…

io9 George Dvorsky Nov 1 '12

Watch the trailer for Decay, a zombie movie shot at CERN, home of the Large Hadron Collider

What if the Large Hadron Collider created zombies? Writer and director Luke Thompson had this very idea, and got the incredibly cool folks at CERN to allow him to film his $3,000 zombie movie inside their world. Spoilers ahead… According to Wired, CERN’s officials absolutely don’t endorse this film, but they’re still pretty awesome for…

Trailers Meredith Woerner Nov 1 '12

Aldous Huxley’s Predictions for 2000 A.D.

There seems to be two occasions when people most enjoy making predictions: anniversaries (think the American Bicentennial, New Year’s, etc) and dates that include round numbers (any year ending in zero). Such was the case in 1950 when many people halfway through the 20th century enjoyed predicting what life would be like in the year…

Tech News Matt Novak Nov 1 '12

Behold a “beard tax” token from the beard-hating days of Imperial Russia

Under the rule of Russian tsar and notorious beard-hater Peter the Great – which ran from 1682-1725 – men sporting facial hair were subjected to a beard tax that afforded them a token informing strangers that they were honest, tax-paying hairballs. As Erik Jensen explains in a 2003 article from the journal Tax Notes: For…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Nov 1 '12

How to model a white hole in your kitchen sink

When light or matter is consumed by the overwhelming gravitational pull of a black hole, neither has any chance of escaping. In a white hole the opposite is true; light and matter can escape, but there’s no chance of them getting back in. What’s interesting is that you’ve actually simulated the latter scenario in your…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Nov 1 '12

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Tech News Gizmodo Nov 1 '12

This Prosthetic Foot and Ankle Move With Incredibly Lifelike Motions

Developed by researchers at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium, the Ankle Mimicking Prosthetic-or AMP-Foot 2.0 is not only designed to give wearers an incredibly natural and lifelike gait, it also features an energy harvesting system to put a natural spring back into someone’s step. Your average prosthetic uses a spring or elastic to store…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Nov 1 '12

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We’ve seen it in countless movies, but the reality is grittier and more miserable than any overblown disaster flick. Sludge everywhere, small hills of dead rats, stairs that descend into tunnels full of filthy water… New York City flooded after Sandy is a dreadful place. This huge collection of images is heartbreaking.

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 1 '12

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Believe it or not, this picture is real: those beautiful arcs of light are a result of ice crystals in the sky diffracting photons as they stream toward Earth. [Bad Astronomy, Image by David Hathaway]

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 1 '12

The optical illusion that works on different species

Most optical illusions tend to work only on humans, whereas animals shrug them off and see the real world. There is one effect that works on humans and animals both. It shapes how many animals see colors – even if they see completely different colors than we do. The Bezold-Brucke Effect is a well-established optical…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Nov 1 '12

Game of Thrones set photos reveal two crucial characters!

Some set photos reveal a lot more glimpses of Daenerys’ journey in season three of Game of Thrones. There’s also your first shocking look at the Necronomicon in the new Evil Dead film, and a tantalizing glimpse of Terry Gilliam’s weird new movie. Felicia Day is coming back to Supernatural! And are we getting the…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Nov 1 '12

“The Flex Duo system… allows one to split the oven with a ceramic divider to create two separately controllable cooking cavities, complete with their own convection fans.” Whaaaaa the future. [oveninfo.com]

“The Flex Duo system… allows one to split the oven with a ceramic divider to create two separately controllable cooking cavities, complete with their own convection fans.” Whaaaaa the future. [oveninfo.com]

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 1 '12

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mikevdesign: Krang o’ Lantern. This would have gone great with my TMNT honeydews.

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 1 '12

Clever Software Lets You Re-Use Your Old Touchscreen Devices As One Giant Display

If you’re constantly upgrading to the latest and greatest devices by now you’ve probably got a small collection of unused smartphones and tablets waiting for a buyer on Craigslist. But don’t sell them just yet. Researchers at the Tokyo University of Technology have developed a brilliant piece of software called Pinch that can turn a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Nov 1 '12

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Court Demands Apple Rewrite Its 14-Point, Arial Apology to Samsung The UK court that forced Apple to publicly apologize to Samsung in the form of a letter on its website is wagging its finger at Cupertino once again. Apple didn’t really do what it was told, so get ready for The Apple Arial Apology: Redux.…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Nov 1 '12

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Gadget Torture Porn: Watch iFixit Tear Apart a Virgin iPad Mini A day after Halloween, the gadget dissectors over at iFixit have gotten their hands on an iPad mini. Downloading apps? Watching videos? Please. That’s for fuzzy bunny amateurs. These guys are doing what they always do: going Hostel on some gear. Follow along! We…

Tech News Brian Barrett Nov 1 '12

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Casey Neistat Rode His Bike Though Hurricane Sandy and Made Us This Video Following Twitter like it was a verbal TV, I saw that Casey Neistat was out in Sandy. I tell ya, that guy has a pair of waterproof brass balls. Hollered at him to ask if he’d shoot a little video for us,…

Tech News Gizmodo Nov 1 '12

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Engineers Promise a Single Tweak That Could Double Your Phone’s Battery Life One of the single biggest things that chews through your phone’s battery is a component called a power amplifier. It’s a vital piece of technology that turns electricity into radio signals – but now a team of engineers from Cambridge, Massachusetts, says it…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Nov 1 '12

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Apple to Moto: Your Wireless Patents Are Worth $1 Per iPhone, Tops Ahead of a contract trial due to happen next week, Apple has declared that it’s willing to pay Motorola for a license to its wireless patents. It is, however, only prepared to stump up $1 per iPhone. FOSS Patents reports that Apple’s lawyers…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Nov 1 '12

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Build Your Own Apple Fusion Drive For Your Old Mac Apple’s fancy new Fusion Drive promises to couple an SSD with a traditional hard drive for large-scale storage with lightning fast boot up and program launches. But a developer found Mountain Lion already packs support for Fusion Drive, meaning that with an SSD, a hard…

Tech News Sam Gibbs Nov 1 '12

Our brains can be logical and compassionate — just not at the same time

Watch the trailer for Decay, a zombie movie shot at CERN, home of the Large Hadron Collider

Aldous Huxley’s Predictions for 2000 A.D.

Behold a “beard tax” token from the beard-hating days of Imperial Russia

How to model a white hole in your kitchen sink

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This Prosthetic Foot and Ankle Move With Incredibly Lifelike Motions

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The optical illusion that works on different species

Game of Thrones set photos reveal two crucial characters!

“The Flex Duo system… allows one to split the oven with a ceramic divider to create two separately controllable cooking cavities, complete with their own convection fans.” Whaaaaa the future. [oveninfo.com]

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Clever Software Lets You Re-Use Your Old Touchscreen Devices As One Giant Display

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