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Add Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10.1 and Android 4.1 to the list of products Apple claims violate its patents. [Bloomberg]

Watch a NASA Astronaut Describe the Complexities of Photography in Space

Donald Pettit is, as well as being a NASA astronaut, an exceptionally keen photographer—which is why he has over 10 top-of-line DSLR cameras littering the International Space Station. In this video, he talks about the complexities, and joys, of photography in space. Donald gets to grips with the fact that zero-g photography is inherently different…

Overcharged Pay-As-You-Go Data Users To Be Refunded by AT&T

The FCC has announced that AT&T has agreed to refund customers who were unfairly pushed from their original pay-as-you-go wireless plans into monthly data contracts. AT&T began mandating monthly data plans back in 2009, but promised customers already buying wireless data through them on a pay-as-you-go basis that they would be “grandfathered” into the new…

Hot on the heels of Staples, apparently RadioShack is getting in on the act, too. So. Many. Delivery options. [Geekwire]

Help Site Confirmed Physical Google Wallet Card

After last week’s leaked news about Google launching its own physical credit card to sit alongside Wallet, a new help site seems to have confirmed the search giant’s intentions. https://gizmodo.com/google-wallet-looks-like-it-s-getting-a-physical-credit-5956330 The site—which has now been modified—contained references to the yet-to-be announced card, explaining on an “Eligible Devices” page that all Android devices with Android 2.3.3…

Pixar Names Its HQ After Steve Jobs

Pixar has renamed part of its headquarters—in fact, the studio’s main building—after Steve Jobs. It’s easy to forget that Jobs had a non-Apple side, but in fact he invested heavily in Pixar before it became profitable, and this serves as a permanent reminder. [Pixar News via 9to5mac]

What an iPad and Microsoft Surface Parody Commercial Looks Like

Cheery piano music and then *drop* DUBSTEP BOW WAH KEKEKEKE CHIGGCHIGGCHIGG BADOOM chop your stupid hand off music. It’s kind of hilarious to see the two tablets (and its ad strategy) next to each other, no? Kind of like seeing a Mitt Romney and Barack Obama dual commercial or something. The ad parody was made…

Your President for the Next 4 Years Barack Obama Just Probably Tweeted the Most Popular Tweet of All Time

After the networks gave the presidential victory to President Barack Obama, his Twitter account sent out a few tweets talking about the victory. One of those tweets has been retweeted so much in the past hour that it’s very probably the most popular tweet of al time. The tweet, a touching Twitter picture (#nofilter) of…

The Stoner Channel: Monty Python’s Galaxy Song Redux, “Extreme” Mountain Unicycling, and Where Not to Hide a Kilo of Coke

Eric Idle and Brian Cox Sing the Galaxy Song For as much as we like to tell ourselves otherwise, the human race is little more than a tiny smear on the windshield of the Universe. Don’t believe me? Listen to this. [The Register] You’ll Never Guess Where This Guy Tried to Hide 2.5 Pounds of…

How Mitt Romney’s Plane Gets Stripped of Mitt Romney Now That He Lost

We all know that Air Force One transports the President around but what about the presidential candidate? Well for Mitt Romney, he used an airplane from a small airplane company in Michigan who will get it back now and have to “de-Romneyize” it: strip the logos, change the seats and clean it up. The airplane,…

Megaupload’s New Website Me.ga Has Already Been Shut Down

Kim Dotcom has been hyping up Megaupload’s new website Mega for so long that it seemed like a given that the file sharing site would come back bigger and badder. But it doesn’t look likely because Me.ga has already been shut down by Gabon, a small country in Africa that controls the .ga domain. https://gizmodo.com/megaupload-s-new-website-is-me-ga-5956369…

How Did Science Fiction Change Your Political Views?

When I was fifteen, I saw Terry Gilliam’s movie Brazil for the first time. It broke my heart and my brain. Especially during the dream sequence when Sam Lowry flies through the clouds, his wings a glorious steampunk fangle, and suddenly skyscrapers erupt out of the Earth, sucking him and the woman he loves into…

Watch a Vodka Bottle Inside a Liquor Store Accidentally Catch on Fire from Sunlight

In a ridiculous fire story that even firefighters couldn’t believe, a vodka bottle acted as a magnifying glass for sunlight to burn through a liquor store. Seriously. As the cardboard started smoking, the ceiling fan fanned the fire, which then heated the vodka bottles enough so that the bottle caps popped off which gave more…

A Sad Woman Lost Her Entire Life Savings in the Facebook IPO and Now Wants Her Money Back

A lot of average joes put on their faux-finance cap during the Facebook IPO and hoped it would get them rich. Everyone uses Facebook therefore everyone wants to buy Facebook stock, the logic went. Yeah, it didn’t work out that way. I’m sure a lot of people lost money. One poor woman, Uma Swaminathan, lost…

On Revolution, the answer to every problem is to let the kids die. Especially the whiny ones.

Last night’s episode of Revolution was pretty action packed, and as far as I could tell, there were two major themes: 1) Kids are a liability. They will screw you up every damn time, and if left to their own devices will do a half-assed reenactment of the Star Trek episode “Miri.” 2) Power corrupts,…

Who Has the Worst Technology Gimmicks in Their Election Night Coverage?

Cable news is typically a spewing valve of yelling heads in strategically fair and balanced suits screaming franken-words that sound intelligent but really only exist to make your blood curdle and/or ooze out of your ears. A lot of people hate that. I don’t because they’re all freaking hilarious when it comes to using technology.…

Radiohead: Electioneering

Later tonight, we’ll be finished with the 2012 election. Finally and thank god. We’re all probably feeling a little cynical right now, which makes Radiohead’s Electioneering particularly relevant. Honestly, the OK Computer track is a pretty good summary of the way a lot of us feel about the political process—we’re often faced with the choice…

Xbox SmartGlass for iOS Is Now Available

After launching on Android over a week ago, Xbox SmartGlass is now available for iOS. Go grab it on your iPhone or iPad so you can control your Xbox in a whole new awesomer way. The new SmartGlass app is actually an update to the old Xbox Live app, which is a little weird but…

An Ode to the Retro Delights of Analog Media

Yes, there is an insufferable culture of cool surrounding art forms of the past. We get it, you’re retro. But that doesn’t mean things like super-8 film, VHS tapes, and vinyl records should be outright dismissed. PBS’s always fun Off-Book series returns with a nicely un-pretentious overview of how people use analog media in the…

Ten People To Follow on Twitter for Election Night Only

If there’s ever an occasion to have a one night stand on Twitter, this is it. It’s the night of the 2012 Presidential Election, and a few key people are sure to have something to say as the evening unfolds. Here’s a look at the names we’ll be checking over the next few hours. Try…