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Why Your Wife Remembers Everything Barry White Sang

Want your wife or girlfriend to remember that you need the car on Saturday, drop your voice a few octaves. NPR reports that research conducted by Kevin Allan of the University of Aberdeen King’s College in Scotland determined that women are more likely to remember something when spoken to in a low-pitch voice. In the…

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Gmail’s New Mobile Features Are Perfect for Vacations

You’re on your way to out of the office, free as a bird for the next two weeks. Except that you forgot to set your Gmail auto-response and your phone keeps blowing up with messages. The Google webapp adds features that will help keep you sane. The much-needed additions are multiple-user sign in, mobile signature,…

A stunning, luminescent view of the Milky Way Galaxy from the Himalayas

With all the light pollution that most of us encounter on a nightly basis, it can be easy to forget why we call our galaxy “The Milky Way.” Fortunately for us, there are photographers like Anton Jankovoy who trek to remote regions of Nepal at elevations of 8,000 meters to capture images like the one…

Think Inside the Box: The Ultimate NAS Showdown

The NAS box. It’s not particularly sexy or groundbreaking, but network-attached storage is an obvious solution for a common need. And here’s the very best of the bunch. A modern NAS, as the hub of your home network, can offer many advantages. Its terabytes of storage can provide not only easy backup for your devices,…

7 Tools to Turn Your Dog Into a Pet of the Future

Your dogs are taking over your gadgets. They scratch at your iPad, step on your laptop keyboard, and chew on your headphones. They need some gadgets of their own. Ones they can actually use. We got you covered. Garmin Astro GPS Dog Tracking System If your dog breaks out of the house or yard a…

Ka-Bar ZK-Pestilence Chopper Knife Lightning Review: Murders Plants and Zombies

Honestly, I was expecting a blade marketed for use in zombie killing—seriously, that’s what the ZK stands for—to be just a flimsy toy built more for show than for actual work. Boy, was I wrong. Like It’s got solid heft, for only weighing about a pound. The blade is front-weighted, heavier at the tip than…

Night Surfing With LEDs Is Even Cooler Than It Sounds

Surfing is difficult enough during the day when you can actually see the waves (and sharks) coming. To do it at night, you need a big brass pair like professional surfer Aritz Aranburu. And a self-illuminating surfboard doesn’t hurt. Shot at Mundaka in Northern Spain, this Pukas board is one of only four currently in…

New Glimpses of The Avengers from the Captain America DVD Trailer!

The Captain America DVD and Blu-ray will have a new sneak peek at the culmination of all of Marvel’s superhero movies, The Avengers. And there are some tantalizing glimpses in a new DVD trailer. Including this iconic shot of Iron Man with explosions going off behind him. Check out some more screencaps, including the S.H.I.E.L.D.…

Help Scientists Gauge Earthquake Strength with Did You Feel It?

If games and puzzles aren’t filling your spare time, why not spend your extra minutes contributing to science instead? Here’s a quick way to send data to the US Geological Survey when an earthquake happens near your location. The USGS has a wonderful opportunity for you to contribute data quickly and efficiently if you ever…

This Sounds Like My Ideal Social Network

What’s better than Facebook, or Google+, or Twitter, or any other social network you can join? How about: not that. Or more specifically, how about Not Google Plus, an antisocial network we can all get behind. To help ease the transition, maybe just see if you can’t get all your friend groups to stand around…

Of Course AT&T’s New International Messaging Plans Would Be Ass Expensive

AT&T just announced their new international SMS plans and they’re ridonkulous: 200 messages for $30 and 500 messages for $50. Hah! 50 bucks! Just for sending texts! Who in the half brain hell would sign up for that? Okay, it’s a better deal than what AT&T previously offered, which was $0.50 per text (50 texts…

A little power corrupts way more than absolute control

The British historian Lord Acton once observed, “All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” It’s a powerful sentiment, a warning against placing trust in dictators…but it might also be wrong. It’s those with just a little power you have to watch out for. That’s the finding of researchers at USC, Stanford, and…

Scientists discover bisexual squid of the deep

Until today, little was known of the mating practices of deep sea squids. Most of them live more than 400 meters beneath the ocean’s surface, making it very difficult for humans to observe their behavior in the crushing darkness. But now, with the help of robot submersibles, researchers have discovered that the deep sea squid…

Indie Strategy Bundle of Games Is Your Therapeutic Gaming Deal of the Day

I just came back from California. Sunny Cali-for-ni-ay where the absence of weather means it’s always great weather. I ate In N Out a bazillion times. I drove in traffic. I listened to Dr. Dre. I watched Clayton Kershaw pitch. I didn’t surf, but I could have! I didn’t smoke out, but I should have!…

Tweeting Photos via SMS Could Revolutionize News

If you own a smartphone, the possibility of tweeting a photo via SMS probably means nothing to you. But, if you’re still rocking a regular mobile phone, or in a country that has no mobile Internet access, sending photos via SMS is exciting news. https://gizmodo.com/twitter-might-be-the-most-important-photo-sharing-servi-5807449 Twitter announced the new “share a photo via text” feature…

Mango Is Coming to Windows Phone in a Week or Two

Mango, you sweet juicy OS update you. We can’t wait to taste you. When are you going to come to Windows Phone? According to Microsoft, we can expect Mango to start rolling out “in the next week or two” When Microsoft starts rolling out Mango, they’ll update their Where’s My Phone Update? page for you…

DNA Proves Your Fancy Suit Isn’t a Fake

Wool from Yorkshire in Northern England is so fabulous that bad guys want to counterfeit it. So wool merchants are shooting it up with proprietary DNA to prove it’s the real thing. Applied DNA Sciences provides the anti-counterfeiting service, which involves a proprietary method of injecting the fabric with a unique botanical DNA during manufacturing.…

Avast, mateys: It turns out “pirate talk” is based on lies propagated by Disney

Hey everyone, we need to talk. There’s really no easy way to put this, so I’ll just give it to you straight. Disney lied to us; pirates almost definitely didn’t talk like, well, pirates — at least not like the salty dogs and scalawags in Hollywood that we’re all familiar with. “There isn’t much in…

Rick Perry Doesn’t Care if You Die?

We already know that Texas Governor and U.S. presidential candidate Rick Perry is hostile towards science. Did you know he also doesn’t give a rat’s ass about your health? Perry is flouting the scientific process and public safety by pushing Texas authorities to be lenient with their oversight of “adult stem cell” therapies. Does that…