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Further Evidence of Samsung’s Blatant iPhone Envy: Need More Bouncy Fun Stuff

A 94-page document issued into evidence tonight, in the ongoing debacle that is Apple vs. Samsung, supplies further evidence that Samsung was pea green-eyed with insatiable jealousy over Apple’s super fun phone design, as compared to the less animated and playful Android products. 46 [TheVerge]

Tech News Molly Oswaks Aug 10

Do You Password Protect Your Phone?

Dirty pictures, dirty texts, top secret work info, contact information for who knows who—our phones are like little vaults containing all our most super top secret important info. And yet… A good friend of mine recently woke up to find he’d left his phone (a Blackberry, sucker!) at some girl’s apartment, in a state of…

Privacy & Security Molly Oswaks Aug 10

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Bane vs. Cable Guys

Bane was already one of the most terrifying villains of the Batman universe, even before Christopher Nolan made him scary and unintelligible. But even though he can rough up Dark Knight like few others, he may have just met his match—like the rest of us—in the cable guy. Full video below; is it wrong that…

Tech News Splitsider Aug 10

Download This iPhone Tethering App Before It Gets Pulled from the App Store

If you want an iPhone tethering app, go download DiscoRecorder, a $2 ‘voice recorder’ app that 9to5Mac says comes with a hidden tethering feature. Yep, that means you can get your computer onto the Internet with your iPhone’s data connection. Sweet. The video above explains how to set up the tethered connection but basically you’re…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 10

You Won’t Believe What This GoPro Camera Captured Underwater

You’re going to watch this video and your jaw will drop. In fact, you’ll probably think it’s fake. Or CGI, at least. But nope, it’s completely real. A group of guys went fishing and dropped a GoPro Hero 2 camera inside a custom-made torpedo to record the ocean underneath them. What the camera recorded was…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 10

If Fonts Had Voices They Would Sound Like This

In this hilarious video, Jonathan Garcia of The Minute Vlog gave voices to fonts. It’s eerily on point—I always imagined Arial to be a pompous, stuffy guy with an English accent and Comic Sans to be a numbnut. But I want more! What would Futura sound like? Gotham? I want all fonts to have voices…

Tech News Casey Chan Aug 10

How Sports Photographers Shoot the Best and Hardest Assignment of Their Career: The Olympics

Reuters has put together a short video, featuring interviews with its team of photographers and photo editors, about how they are able to capture the incredible images taken of the athletes at the Olympic Games. These are the shots we’re all wallpapering our computers with and emailing back and forth amongst friends. They’re iconic, seemingly…

Tech News Molly Oswaks Aug 10

The Latest Source of “Profanity” in Schools: Daniel H. Wilson’s Robopocalypse

Every now and then, a parent complains about their child being exposed to a science fiction book that contains challenging ideas or language — most notoriously, last year there was the whole kerfuffle over Ender’s Game. But the latest outcry is over what might be the most unexpected text of them all: Robopocalypse, the robot…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Aug 10

Study shows “safety net hospitals” are often as good as affluent ones

The journal Health Affairs has put together a special issue in the wake of the Supreme Court upholding the Affordable Care Act, looking specifically at hospitals that service the impoverished and the uninsured. These hospitals have been doing surprisingly well for themselves. With these hospitals poised to accept the bulk of the newly-insured under the…

io9 Tim Barribeau Aug 10

Whirling Stairs, Low-Tech Typewriters, an OCD Coffee Maker and More

No, this isn’t the beginning of a Jack Kerouac bio-pic—this is the dopeness our eyes feasted our eyes on this week. https://gizmodo.com/who-knew-an-oversized-sewing-box-could-make-such-an-awe-5933604/ Who Knew an Oversized Sewing Box Could Make Such an Awesome Desk? At first glance, the Klippen Klappen desk looks like a small box on a metal base that wouldn’t serve much purpose…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Aug 10

This Eye of Sauron cosplay will burn into your very soul

Gaze your eyes on this ingenious bit of Lord of the Rings cosplay — and then try think of anything else for the rest of the day. [via Fashionable Geek]

Movies Meredith Woerner Aug 10

Science settles some decades-old debates about the best way to swim

As we go into the final two days of Olympic swimming — the men’s open water 10k is today –- scientists are already telling swimmers how to improve their stroke for the next Olympic Games. Two different studies are reconsidering the biomechanics of swimmers’ pulls, a hotly debated topic among coaches and athletes. Top image:…

io9 Michael Ann Dobbs Aug 10

The terrifying history of herbal abortion medicines

As long as people have been getting pregnant, they’ve been looking for ways to end their pregnancies. Sometimes these ways have worked. Sometimes they haven’t. We’re going to take a quick look at the history of abortifacient herbs, and be very, very happy we live in the present. One of the best parts of modern…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Aug 10

Carly Rae Jepsen: Call Me Maybe (Chatroulette remix)

A man in drag trolling people on Chatroulette is the only context in which I could ever stomach “Call Me Maybe.” But what’s disconcerting is that it’s making me enjoy the song itself. Whatever. Fuck it. It’s Friday.

Tech News Adrian Covert Aug 10

19 Google Searches That Led People to Gizmodo Today

Amidst all the “iphone” and “android” and “dealzmodo” searches that send people Gizmodo’s way on a daily basis, there’s usually a smattering of inexplicable incoming traffic. And today’s selection was particularly enjoyable: free food online creepy pig cake i want to sex with phon piano wine glass with tank dvd rewinder orange clogs talking to…

Tech News Brian Barrett Aug 10

Cord Conquering Convertible Lounger Might Be the Comfiest Home Office Ever

You might think an ergonomic Herman Miller chair and a perfectly positioned desk would make for the ideal home workspace. But you’ve been lied to. When you have the luxury of working from home you’re gonna want to put your feet up, and Coalesse’s forthcoming Hosu lounger lets you do just that. It easily transformers…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Aug 10

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Adventure Diary

The British Library is producing a facsimile copy of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s diary from his days as a ship’s doctor in the arctic sea. The Sherlock Holmes creator spent most of a year on the whaler Hope, while still a medical student. It sounds like his time aboard involved lots of falling into icy…

Books & Comics Michael Ann Dobbs Aug 10

Neil Gaiman and Felicia Day help narrate an awesome new fantasy audiobook by Ellen Kushner

If you love clever, whimsical fantasy, you won’t want to miss the new audiobook version of Ellen Kushner’s novel The Privilege of the Sword. There’s nothing better than a Kushner novel on a long afternoon . . . unless it’s listening to a bunch of great voices read the book to you, as you take…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz Aug 10

Burner, Obama for America, and More

It’s Friday, which means for it’s time for a new round of iPhone apps. This time around, we’re giving you plenty of goodness. Between an app that gives you fake numbers, and an iPhone version of one of your old favorite magazines, you’ll have plenty of new titles to download. Burner: We’ve all been in…

Tech News Leslie Horn Aug 10

Full Metal Jacket Diary, Cartoon Network, and More

It’s time for another edition of best iPad apps. This week we’ve got a whole slew of great stuff coming your way. From a Full Metal Jacket diary to a Cartoon Network streaming app, you’ll like what you see. Full Metal Jacket Diary: Matthew Modine, a.k.a. Pvt. Joker, kept a diary at the request of…

Tech News Leslie Horn Aug 10

Further Evidence of Samsung’s Blatant iPhone Envy: Need More Bouncy Fun Stuff

Do You Password Protect Your Phone?

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Bane vs. Cable Guys

Download This iPhone Tethering App Before It Gets Pulled from the App Store

You Won’t Believe What This GoPro Camera Captured Underwater

If Fonts Had Voices They Would Sound Like This

How Sports Photographers Shoot the Best and Hardest Assignment of Their Career: The Olympics

The Latest Source of “Profanity” in Schools: Daniel H. Wilson’s Robopocalypse

Study shows “safety net hospitals” are often as good as affluent ones

Whirling Stairs, Low-Tech Typewriters, an OCD Coffee Maker and More

This Eye of Sauron cosplay will burn into your very soul

Science settles some decades-old debates about the best way to swim

The terrifying history of herbal abortion medicines

Carly Rae Jepsen: Call Me Maybe (Chatroulette remix)

19 Google Searches That Led People to Gizmodo Today

Cord Conquering Convertible Lounger Might Be the Comfiest Home Office Ever

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Adventure Diary

Neil Gaiman and Felicia Day help narrate an awesome new fantasy audiobook by Ellen Kushner

Burner, Obama for America, and More

Full Metal Jacket Diary, Cartoon Network, and More

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