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How to Get Apple’s Black Friday Prices All Year Long

It ain’t easy getting Apple gear at a discount. That’s why Apple’s Black Friday deals cause a fuss, even if they’re unspectacular compared to what other manufacturers offer up. But here’s the secret cheat code: You can get those same deals, more or less, all year long. https://gizmodo.com/apples-black-friday-deals-are-live-5962854 You’ve just gotta buy refurbished. Refurbs have…

Those Skinny New iMacs Go on Sale November 30

You might want to make an addendum to your Christmas list. Those impossibly slender new iMacs go on sale November 30. Announced in September at Apple’s iPhone event, the latest desktop machines are just 5mm thin. The base 21.5-inch model has a 2.7 GHz quad-core processor and starts at $1,300. The 27-incher starts with a…

Everything you need to know about Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World!

Chris Hemsworth explains why Thor: The Dark World is more Viking epic than scifi. Guillermo del Toro drops some engineering knowledge about Pacific Rim’s giant robots. Catching Fire is made for IMAX. Plus a returning favorite in new Fringe set photos! Spoilers from here on out… Top image from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Iron…

Super-Tough Antarctic Bacteria Provide Hope For Alien Life

Lake Vida in East Antarctica is seven times saltier than the sea, 13 degrees celsius below freezing and pitch black. It was a place researchers thought life would never exist—but they were wrong. A team of Antarctic scientists have found a new breed of strange bacteria that live in a completely sealed lake, and have…

Google Found Guilty of Libel Over Search Results

A big hole has been punctured in Google’s usual defence against libel, with an Australian court throwing out the search giant’s argument that it’s just a listing tool. All because it didn’t remove a link to an incorrect web site. The Australian case covers a chap called Milorad Trkulja, who asked a web site to…

Best Buy Canada has let slip that a new slimmer Wii—the Wii Mini—will be available from December 7th. Oops. [Best Buy]

This Is What Happens When a Lion Steals Your Camera

We all worry from time to time about having our tech stolen. But when Ed Hetherington travelled to Zimbabwe for a wildlife photography adventure, he probably didn’t expect to have his camera snatched by a lion. That is, however, just what happened. He was using a Canon 5D Mk II remotely, to capture animals from…

Google’s Play Store website now links your reviews to your Google+ account. Careful what you write! [Tech Crunch]

New York City’s CO2 Emissions, Visualized

In 2010, New York City pumped out 54 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into our atmosphere. That figure’s close to meaningless for most of us, though—so here’s what it would look like if you could actually see it. In this video, made by Carbon Visuals, each blue ball represents one ton of carbon dioxide.…

Verizon Sued By Porn Industry For Protecting Pirates

Verizon is being sued by a group of adult movie companies because it has refused to hand over personal details of alleged BitTorrent pirates. Torrent Freak reports that Verizon is refusing to comply with court-ordered subpoenas—and the porn studios see it as more than simple customer protection. Instead, they believe that the provider is profiting…

Hacked Keycard System Brings String of Hotel Break-Ins

Earlier this year a team of researchers announced that it was possible to hack the keycard systems used in millions of hotel rooms using $50 worth of parts. Now a recent spate of hotel break-ins is being attributed to the attack. https://gizmodo.com/millions-of-hotel-room-locks-have-a-glaring-security-fl-5935808 Forbes reports that a string of hotel room thefts in Houston have been…

Netflix has overhauled the way it hosts content on the cloud. TL;DR: Netflix will work better and hang less. [The WHIR]

Watching a Cheetah Run in Slow Motion Is Still Pretty Damn Fast

Since we’ve already seen how people capture a photograph of a cheetah running at full speed, it makes sense to see the other side: the slow motion footage of a cheetah running. It’s mother naturally beautiful. https://gizmodo.com/if-you-ever-wondered-how-people-take-a-picture-of-a-che-5955108 Here’s how National Geographic pulled it off: Using a Phantom camera filming at 1200 frames per second while…

Here’s the Most Hilarious Prank You Can Pull on Facebook

This Facebook user had a genius idea for a prank: find Facebook users with the same name as yourself, recreate their profile pictures as closely as possible and then send them a friend request. It’s like seeing an alternate version of yourself and it’s freaking hilarious. Ryan Roy, the musician who came up with the…

First official synopsis for Star Trek Into Darkness includes major villain hints!

J.J. Abrams’ second Star Trek movie comes out next May, but we still know remarkably little about it. We haven’t seen any footage yet — although we’ll be seeing a ton, in just a couple weeks. And we still don’t know what villain Benedict Cumberbatch is playing. https://gizmodo.com/first-9-minutes-of-star-trek-into-darkness-premieres-in-5960721 But now, there’s a newly released official…

Did Someone Really Name Their Kid Hashtag?

The problem with kooky people having babies? The names they come up with! Gone are the days of John and Jane, it’s now all about a senseless race to the bottom in idiotic naming. Fallyn, Sharpay, Zebulon and

The Stoner Channel: Skiing Fails, Stretched Stashes, and I’m Not Quite Sure What It Was

Welcome to Cathy’s House, the Insanest Place on Japanese Broadcast Television Oh great, now how am I going to read their lips? [Buzzfeed] Real Skifi Ep 7 – Fail Skier Watch this trio of “urban skiers” (which apparently is a thing in Finland) recount some of their most impressive recent crashes before knocking down some…

Once Upon A Time: Now this is the Girls we want

Once Upon A Time characters continue the long journey of making terrible life choices — but Hot Damn, I love Snow White, Aurora, Mulan and Emma hiking through the wilderness. How excellent would Once be if it was just a bunch of princesses hanging out, getting a little drunk and kissing sometimes? Spoilers ahead… When…

The Lost Pictures Found in Old Motorola Razrs Sold on eBay Are Pretty Epic

Even though we had crappier phones with crappier cameras, most of us still loved to document our not so crappy lives on our phones. New York artist Kyle M. F. Williams bought 44 Razr phones on eBay and found that “half of them still had texts, sexts, pics, and vids.” He put them all together…

The 37 or So Ingredients That Make a Twinkie

If you’ve been nostalgic for Twinkies because you won’t be able to buy them anymore even though you’ve stopped eating them for years, a photographer would like to remind you what Twinkies are actually made of. Some of the ingredients don’t even look like food. Dwight Eschliman, a photographer, decided to create a gallery of…