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Giz Explains: Why Do Air Conditioners Weigh So Much?

As you shove an air conditioner into your window to ward off the summer heat, you may wonder why such a small appliance is so incredibly heavy. If you thought it was some conspiracy to break your back and your window sill at the same time, you’d be wrong. Air conditioning units are laden down…

Tech News Kelly Jun 21

Nokia’s New Bluetooth Gear Automagically Pairs With NFC-Enabled Phones

Great. More Bluetooth audio gear. But the Nokia Play 360 speaker and Wireless Music Receiver are a bit different: they use NFC technology to automatically pair itself with NFC-enabled phones, which is pretty neat. Nokia says all you have to do is tap your NFC phone against either device, and it will automatically pair. No…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jun 21

The easiest math conjecture it took 74 years to prove

The Collatz conjecture is also known as the “3n + 1” problem. It’s an easy problem to explain and check, and has been tested up into the nineteen figure range. But it’s only now that anyone has come forward claiming a proof that it always works. The Collatz conjecture was first posed in 1937. It’s…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Jun 21

Pictures Were Amazingly Recovered from a Camera That’s Been in the Ocean for 4 Years

Peter Govaars stumbled across this camera frame (SD card attached) on a California beach. Curious about its whereabouts, he cleaned the card, plugged it in and found over a hundred photos taken in June 2007. That’s 4 years ago. I can’t believe an SD card could still be readable after years and years in the…

Tech News Casey Chan Jun 21

The Exomount Will Mount Your Phone to Damn Near Anything

A simple car mount that won’t fall mid-drive is all anyone really needs. Still, there’s something to be said for one that can stick firmly to almost any surface. I’d take it everywhere. It’d be embarrassing actually. [Exogear]

Tech News Kwame Opam Jun 21

Guillermo del Toro Wants to Direct Maleficent. Hollywood, make this happen!

Now this this is the kind of rumor we can get behind. Could Guillermo del Toro’s Disney movie be the infamous film from the POV of the villainess from Sleeping Beauty? Perhaps GDT’s dismissal from The Hobbit left our favorite director alone with a burning desire to film dragons (and you may recall, Maleficent turns…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jun 21

Facebook, Why Would You Go and Take Down Roger Ebert’s Fan Page? (UPDATED)

Roger Ebert pissed off more than a few people with his comments yesterday about Ryan Dunn’s death (allegedly, the Jackass star was drunk driving). Apparently enough people complained (or trolled) that Facebook took Ebert’s page down. Ebert took to Twitter, posting this: Facebook has removed my page in response, apparently, to malicious complaints from one…

Social Media Adrian Covert Jun 21

Time Capsule Upgraded to 3TB; Airport and Macbook Air Refreshes Close Behind? (Update)

There’s been a lot of speculation about all three of these products, but Apple is putting some of them to rest by making with the upgrades. That’s right; Apple finally bumped Time Capsule to 3TB. How much longer until cheaper Airport Extremes and Sandy Bridges MBAs? All three product lines have been wanting of some…

Tech News Kwame Opam Jun 21

The Powers TV show finds its Deena Pilgrim. Plus Vincenzo Natali explains why his Neuromancer movie will live up to William Gibson’s novel!

Darren Aronofosky is making a Noah’s Ark movie, but that doesn’t mean he’s making a religious film. We try to sort out what’s going on with Doctor Who. Plus a new behind-the-scenes look at Cowboys & Aliens! Spoilers from here on out! Top image from Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Star Trek 2 I think…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jun 21

Watch This Guy’s Steering Wheel Frighteningly Fall Off In the Middle of a Race

In the middle of a drag race, the steering gearbox inside this funny car broke off. Like, literally. It makes for a terribly amusing few seconds as you watch the driver panic and hold on to an invisible steering wheel. Thankfully, everyone was okay! The fun starts around the :18 second mark.[BuzzFeed]

Tech News Casey Chan Jun 21

EcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger

This week on TreeHugger, a public urinal feeds plants with pee, shark attacks ocean robot, beer cans recycled into a surfboard, giant OLED globe is *amazing*, funky solar lamps, floating pools, and more! From 72 Recycled Beer Cans Comes a Sweet Surfboard Rich Morrison has made what is most likely the first ever functioning surfboard…

Tech News Max Behrman Jun 21

Final Cut Pro X Is Available in the Mac App Store Right Now

If you’ve been waiting for Final Cut Pro X, complete with its fancy new overhaul, you can go and buy it now in Mac App Store. $300. [Apple via 9to5mac] https://gizmodo.com/next-week-could-bring-final-cut-pro-x-and-new-thunderbo-5811920

Tech News Adrian Covert Jun 21

LulzSec ‘Obtained’ the Entire 2011 UK Census (Updated)

Calling the UK Government illiterate, LulzSec says they have the 2011 UK Census in its entirety, and that they plan to leak the entire thing when they finish formatting it. Uh oh. Greetings Internets, We have blissfully obtained records of every single citizen who gave their records to the security-illiterate UK government for the 2011…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jun 21

19-Year Old Alleged LulzSec Hacker Arrested in England (Updated)

British police dealing with digital crime have apprehended a 19-year-old in Essex, England, accused of participating in LulzSec’s recent rash of bold online assaults. This would mark the first time an actual human’s been nabbed since the Lulz riot started. The investigators, working with FBI authorities as well, ZDNet UK reports, arrested the teen under…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jun 21

Nokia N9: Beautiful Hardware, Zombie Software

Nokia took a striking piece of unibody hardware, coupled it with a 3.9-inch curved glass touchscreen display, removed all the buttons, and topped it with an 8-megapixel Carl Zeiss camera and NFC. Incredible. It’s called the N9. But! This amazing little phone is running MeeGo, not Mango. Meaning it’s basically dead before it even launches,…

Tech News Kelly Jun 21

Nobody Needs a $100,000 Razor

Ukranian sapphire blade that stays sharp for a year. Iridium handle. Magnetic connectors. There are many unnecessary aspects about this razor, but none moreso than the price. $100,000. [Book of Joe via Born Rich]

Tech News Adrian Covert Jun 21

What Happens to a Decommissioned Nuclear Power Plant

Nicholas Jackson over at The Atlantic has a great piece about the tear down of the Zion nuclear power plant in Illinois that was permanently deactivated in 1998 after both of it’s reactors were accidentally/coincidentally shut down. But even when done properly, complete removal isn’t so simple. According to Jackson, there are two stages to…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jun 21

The Next Windows Phone: It’s Pretty Great

Pleasant. That doesn’t sound like much of an accomplishment, or a benchmark or like, impressive. But the truth is, most technology isn’t pleasant. The new Windows Phone is. Very much so. It feels alive. Everything bounces. Everything swoops. Everything flips. Every single action is lushly animated. It just doesn’t sweat the details—blood was spilled. The…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jun 21

Are Rising Gas Prices a Cure For Obesity?

There may be one benefit to the rising cost of gas. It could make Americans less fat. Some economists like Dr. Charles Courtemanche, from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, suggest a dollar increase in gas could curb driving and slash the obesity rate by 10%. Other economists believe five million obese adults could…

Tech News Kelly Jun 20

The Least Boring Park Visitors’ Center You’ve Ever Seen

You know that greeting center at your local park, with the lame green placards and the sad row of vending machines? Well the Ruth Lilly Visitors Pavilion at the 100 Acres Art & Nature Park is the beastmode version. The pavilion, described as a meditation on the convergence of building, land, and art, is actually…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Jun 20

Giz Explains: Why Do Air Conditioners Weigh So Much?

Nokia’s New Bluetooth Gear Automagically Pairs With NFC-Enabled Phones

The easiest math conjecture it took 74 years to prove

Pictures Were Amazingly Recovered from a Camera That’s Been in the Ocean for 4 Years

The Exomount Will Mount Your Phone to Damn Near Anything

Guillermo del Toro Wants to Direct Maleficent. Hollywood, make this happen!

Facebook, Why Would You Go and Take Down Roger Ebert’s Fan Page? (UPDATED)

Time Capsule Upgraded to 3TB; Airport and Macbook Air Refreshes Close Behind? (Update)

The Powers TV show finds its Deena Pilgrim. Plus Vincenzo Natali explains why his Neuromancer movie will live up to William Gibson’s novel!

Watch This Guy’s Steering Wheel Frighteningly Fall Off In the Middle of a Race

EcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger

Final Cut Pro X Is Available in the Mac App Store Right Now

LulzSec ‘Obtained’ the Entire 2011 UK Census (Updated)

19-Year Old Alleged LulzSec Hacker Arrested in England (Updated)

Nokia N9: Beautiful Hardware, Zombie Software

Nobody Needs a $100,000 Razor

What Happens to a Decommissioned Nuclear Power Plant

The Next Windows Phone: It’s Pretty Great

Are Rising Gas Prices a Cure For Obesity?

The Least Boring Park Visitors’ Center You’ve Ever Seen

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