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New Tron Legacy footage shows the digital drama inside Tron City

Last night, we watched a collection of new Tron Legacy clips, which showcased Daft Punk’s cameo and disc wars — but most importantly, the drama between programs and humans. Can the new Tron’s characters compete with its bright neon visuals? Let’s get one thing straight before we continue — Tron Legacy is sexy as hell.…

Frito-Lay Cancels Louder-Than-Combat-Jet Snack Bags

Frito-Lay is pulling their Sun Chips 100% Compostable bags after receiving “consumers’ feedback about the bag’s noise level.” Well, since they are louder than a combat jet, I’m not surprised. Here’s why: Hi, Heidi, Thank you for contacting Frito-Lay to share your thoughts about the SunChips compostable package. Frito-Lay is taking steps to improve the…

Hungarian toxic sludge kills 4, injures at least 120 — and it may be headed for the Danube

The horrifying, heartbreaking pictures of Ajka, Hungary, look like a natural disaster, like Hurricane Katrina. But they’re not. This flooding is the result of a deadly spill from an alumina plant whose reservoir burst open. Warning: dreadfully upsetting photos below. According to AP, Hungary declared a state of emergency in three counties, after the toxic…

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US and Europe divided on NATO’s role in future cyberwars

With the Stuxnet virus wreaking havoc on Iranian nuclear plants, NATO is divided on how to prevent and respond to future cyberattacks. Americans advocating a more proactive stance on combating cyber-ne’er-do-wells, an approach America’s NATO allies are skeptical of. The debate stems over provisions in NATO’s new Strategic Concept, or the doctrine outlining NATO’s function,…

I Just Retweeted a Kidney

The last place I imagined being was in an operating room following the minute-by-minute highlights of the significant kidney surgery being performed on Brian’s dad. I’ve never met Brian’s dad. And that’s not much of a surprise. Brian lives in another state and is a private person. At times in his life, I’ve described him…

Time-Traveling Historians and Resurrected Concubines in October’s books!

October brings several long-awaited treats to your bookshelf, including a new Culture novel, the sequel to Connie Willis’ Blackout, and Scott Westerfeld’s Behemoth. Plus spying Victorian streetwalkers and Miles Vorkosigan! Here are the October releases you can’t skip. Behemoth, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse) The sequel to Leviathan follows Deryn (a girl pretending to be a…

Get Anyone Naked With the Pic Bubbler iPhone App

Perverts rejoice, for someone has released an iPhone bubbling app. Its name is Pic Bubbler, and it allows you to see anyone naked by using an optical trick and your twisted brain. I tried it. It works. Pic Bubbler is very easy to use. First, you load an image of someone in their swimsuit—woman or…

“If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer”: Guillermo del Toro’s words to live by

“I’m going to sit, because I’m fat. I hope you’re drinking stuff,” Guillermo del Toro said as he took the stage at Portland’s Baghdad Theater & Pub. Ostensibly he was there to read from his new book… but he digressed. What really happened was this: del Toro talked about his book for like 10 minutes,…

The Glif Stand and Camera Mount Is the Sidekick Your iPhone 4 Deserves

The Glif is one impressive little piece of plastic. It can stand your iPhone 4 up in portrait mode. It can prop it up in landscape. And it has a built-in camera mount for attaching your iPhone to a tripod. It’s just a small piece of injection molded plastic that’s shaped like a bottle opener.…

Quite possibly the most ridiculous Tales from the Crypt story you’ll ever read

October is here, and our minds are turning towards horror comics, particularly old-school titles like Tales from the Crypt. Here’s one of TFTC’s most absurd tales. It’s about two lovers at Mardi Gras, one of whom has a dark secret. There’s so much to love about this 1953 story from Tales from The Crypt 38…

It’s possible to conceive a son without a father…if you’re a chimera

The embryos of a male and female twin can sometimes fuse into a single fetus with both male and female sexual organs. Now an imaginative biologist has figured out how this could lead to conceiving a son without a father. Any organism that undergoes this fusion process is known as a chimera. Chimeras can be…

A Cobra Helicopter Slicing the Air

After seeing the helicopter under the fiery Kopps-Etchells Effect, Gizmodo reader Carlos sent us his recent pictures of this Cobra helicopter slicing the air. I took these a few months ago on base. It was so humid you can see the blades cutting the air producing a vortices. You are probably familiar with this phenomenon.…

RED Gives Up Making Consumer Cameras, Saying “We Had No Idea What We Were Doing”

They might be struggling with how to position themselves in the market, but at least RED is willing to jump onto their message boards and update everyone on what they’re doing. A lot of companies could learn from that transparency. Still, it’s not at all surprising that the delayed prosumer Scarlet camera is going to…

Top Gun director getting $150 million for cop-torturing evil-Batman film?

“Evil batman” Nemesis creator Mark Millar claims that Tony Scott’s movie adaptation of his ultra-violent comic Nemesis has a budget of $150 mil. Plus, his anti-hero Nemesis WILL be keeping the infamous white suit. That’s one pricey bloodbath. [MTV]

Rockoon Soars 40km in the Sky, But Has Further to Go if it Wants to Reach the Moon

No, I’m not trying to say “raccoon” through a candy-filled mouth. That’s really what Romania is calling their rocket-balloon, which is an entry in Google’s Lunar X competition, to be the first vessel to send a robot to the moon. If successful, the Aeronautics and Cosmonautics Romanian Association team (ARCA) wins $30 million, but the…

Classical Music Lovers Get an iTunesesque Store of Their Own

It’s not impossible to browse and discover good classical music online—but it’s very, very difficult. The iTunes selection is limited, and the sound quality of downloaded music isn’t up to Tchaikovsky. Sony aims to fix that with Ariama, a music store devoted the classics. Ariama’s greatest appeal might lie less in its selection—it’s not promising…

A massive week for comics: a Tron sequel, Buffy, Deadpool, and more!

Wednesday, October 7, is a big day at your comic shop. Marvel unleashes a tsunami of autumn releases (including Tron Betrayal and Deadpool MAX), a Joss Whedon-penned Buffy hits, and the second issue of Alan Moore’s Cthulhu comic is out. This week is absolutely bonkers for Marvel, as an absurd amount of first issues debut…

Super Microphone Can Listen To Any Conversation On the Court

Click to viewThat big yellow circle attached to the bottom of the Lakers’ jumbotron? It’s a new super microphone that can zoom into any conversation with perfect clarity. Listen to it pick up the guy chewing bubble gum next to Phil Jackson. The AudioScope, developed accidentally when two former University of Oslo physicists were working…

Chuck slams us with the awesome retail poetry stylings of Jeffster!

Well, that didn’t take long. In last week’s Chuck, the Buy-More’s biggest problem was excessive efficiency. But this week, we’re already back to Jeffster poetry slams, and sheer insane retail failure. Thank goodness! Spoilers ahead… Honestly, I’m just going to pretend that this was a Chuck-and-Sarah-free episode. Zachary Levi and Yvonne Strahovski may have had…