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New Website Seeks To Convince Of Darwin’s Faults

Do science and faith always have to be at odds? You may not believe so, but the intelligent-design-happy Discovery Institute is ready to teach you otherwise — I mean, “help you explore the question” — with their new website, faith + evolution. The website itself presents itself as entirely impartial: According to noted biologist Richard…

io9 Graeme McMillan May 29

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I love bacon, do you love bacon? Well, do you love bacon enough to smear it on everything you ingest, including free empanadas? If you do, just don’t forget to wipe your hands off before handling all these new beautiful, discounted gadgets. Computers and Peripherals: • HP TouchSmart IQ504 Desktop w/ 22″ touchscreen, 2 GHZ…

Tech News Andi Wang May 29

A Week in the Life of an Apple App Store Reviewer

From John Gruber’s diary of an App Store reviewer: “Not sure what a ‘lingam’ is, but if it means what I think it means, just thinking about it is making mine swell. Jackpot. Rejected app for inappropriate content.” Tragicomedy ’cause it’s true: [Daring Fireball, Image via Joy of Tech]

Tech News Matt Buchanan May 29

How To Comment: Link To Comments

Have you ever wanted to link to a specific comment on Gizmodo to share with beloved Friends? It’s much easier than you think, here’s how: https://gizmodo.com/how-to-comment-follow-your-friends-5187388 To generate a link to a specific comment all you have to do is click the Time & Date under the commenter’s username and the URL in your browser…

Tech News Christopher Mascari May 29

The Death Of Newspapers And Malls Proves That The Cylons Really Did Have A Plan All Along

We haven’t yet created deadly Cylon centurions whose single red eyes are bent on our destruction. But we’ve definitely seen how our fervor for technology and invention has led us to some unintended consequences, Battlestar Galactica writer Mark Verheiden tells CNN. CNN ran an article about how our optimism about technology has changed since the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders May 29

Korean BBQ Taco Truck Twits Its Way Through Your Hood

I have the best Mexican taco truck parked at all times a few blocks from my home, but I wouldn’t mind following this Korean BBQ taco truck in Twitter to see when it comes around here. I used to consider Twitter rather useless, but this is something that I can definitely use, like the BakerTweet,…

Tech News Jesus Diaz May 29

I Could Spend All Day at the Canon Camera Museum

I wish every company who made gadgets did this: The Canon Camera Museum is a comprehensive virtual tour of Canon’s camera history. Every DSLR, film camera and point-and-shoot, the history of Canon design and technology, random trivia, it’s all there. [Canon via Retro Thing via Wired]

Tech News Matt Buchanan May 29

Expedition Party Wrap Up

Giant giraffes and African themed food and drink were a plenty on Tuesday night for the History Channel’s viewing of Expedition Africa. The series, created by Survivor’s Mark Burnett, chronicles the adventures of four explorers on their journey deep into African terrain. Three out of the four explorers attended our roof-top viewing, but who knows…

Tech News Chrissie Lamond May 29

Kim Jong-il Has More Twitter Followers than You

I didn’t want it to come to this. But if enriching uranium is the only way I can amass a decent threshold of Twitter followers, then so be it. [Gary Varvel via Newlaunches]

Tech News Mark Wilson May 29

The Many DVD Covers Of The Middleman

How do you explain the awesomeness of The Middleman, ABC Family’s shortlived series about a young artist who gets apprenticed to the world’s most strait-laced superhero? That’s the dilemma Shout Factory faced in creating a cover for the DVD set, and they considered a dozen psychedelic options. Gallery below. Honestly, the only thing that’s wrong…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders May 29

President Obama Welcomes the Cyber State

Today US President Obama announced plans for a “cyberspace strategy” that includes everything from possible offensive cyberwar strategies to education. It also contains a little-discussed “identity management” plan that makes me wonder if Facebook profiles are about to become the new Social Security cards. The big news right now is who will be running Obama’s…

io9 Annalee Newitz May 29

MSI X340 Review: The Unemployed Man’s MacBook Air

It’s impossible not to be at least a little impressed with the MacBook Air, but who can spend almost $2,000 on that laptop? The solution? The MSI X340, a $900 MacBook Air. And it’s a great idea…in theory… First, let’s focus on what the X340 gets right. It’s a 13-inch (16×9, 1366×768) laptop that weighs…

Reviews Mark Wilson May 29

This Is What the Most Leaning Building In the World Looks Like

This is the Capital Gate, a 525-foot tall tower that leans 18 degrees to the west, 14 degrees more than the Tower of Pisa. And unlike many of these spectacular projects, this one is actually well underway in Abu Dhabi, as you can see in this image: https://gizmodo.com/capital-gate-tower-is-four-times-as-crooked-as-the-lean-5071026 The building—which will house a 5-star Hyatt…

Tech News Jesus Diaz May 29

Windows 7 vs. Windows Vista, SSD Edition

A lot of the hype around Windows 7 is predicated on how well it’ll run on modest hardware, especially SSD-equipped netbooks. It certainly feels faster than Vista, but HotHardware’s battery of disk benchmarks confirms: it really, really is. https://gizmodo.com/windows-7-runs-so-much-better-than-vista-on-a-netbook-5133092 Their conclusion: Platter based hard drives and high-end solid state drives, all run faster on Windows…

Tech News John Herrman May 29

Is Star Trek A Religion?

Star Trek has long been described as a cult phenomenon…but is it an actual cult? Some anthropologists think so. Following the example of anthropologist Margaret Mead, they lived among the natives and studied their rituals-that is, they went to Star Trek conventions and fan clubs. Here’s what they found. Their conclusions? Writes cultural anthropologist Michael…

io9 Mark Strauss May 29

The Other Half Of Next Year’s All-New Doctor Who Cast

The time-traveling Doctor has a new traveling companion: the BBC announced Karen Gillan, 21, will star opposite Matt Smith in the 2010 season of Doctor Who. (Following in the footsteps of Freema Agyeman, who also got a major part in the show after playing a minor one.) Gillan previously appeared in last year’s “Fires Of…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders May 29

Car Controlling App Is Fake, But Fun Anyway

I’m glad this dumb—and fake—car controlling iPhone applications are not real, but this one is particularly well done and it’s fun to watch. [Thanks Michael]

Tech News Jesus Diaz May 29

Mid-Twentieth Century Rubber Recycling

Those aren’t missiles. They’re actually used beverage containers, made of rubber, which these mid-century factory workers are recycling into devices for fighter pilots in World War II. According to Shorpy, this photograph was taken in February 1942, in Akron, Ohio, in a Firestone Rubber facility. Accompanying the photograph is this information: Conversion. Beverage containers to…

io9 Annalee Newitz May 29

And Women Claim Size Doesn’t Matter

They’re all like “it’s about the quality of the sound, not the size!” and then you catch then at the Beatlemania exhibition in Hamburg and they break your heart. A journalist tries out giant headphones during a press preview of the ‘Beatlemania’ exhibition on May 28, 2009 in Hamburg, northern Germany. The exhibition on the…

Tech News Adam Frucci May 29

Transgenic Mice Engineered With A Human Gene For Speech

A team of German scientists have created a batch of transgenic mice with a human gene for speech. Could they be the prototypes for future hyper-intelligent rodents? The researchers wanted to shed light on how humans developed our language capabilities, including the intricate thought and muscle coordination which allowed us as a species to develop…

io9 StephenGoldmeier May 29

New Website Seeks To Convince Of Darwin’s Faults

Gadget Deals of the Day

A Week in the Life of an Apple App Store Reviewer

How To Comment: Link To Comments

The Death Of Newspapers And Malls Proves That The Cylons Really Did Have A Plan All Along

Korean BBQ Taco Truck Twits Its Way Through Your Hood

I Could Spend All Day at the Canon Camera Museum

Expedition Party Wrap Up

Kim Jong-il Has More Twitter Followers than You

The Many DVD Covers Of The Middleman

President Obama Welcomes the Cyber State

MSI X340 Review: The Unemployed Man’s MacBook Air

This Is What the Most Leaning Building In the World Looks Like

Windows 7 vs. Windows Vista, SSD Edition

Is Star Trek A Religion?

The Other Half Of Next Year’s All-New Doctor Who Cast

Car Controlling App Is Fake, But Fun Anyway

Mid-Twentieth Century Rubber Recycling

And Women Claim Size Doesn’t Matter

Transgenic Mice Engineered With A Human Gene For Speech

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