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Apple Will Allow You to Fix Your iPhone with Used Parts After All

The company reversed a policy that makes installing second-hand components a hassle. It'll be easier to buy a used iPhone.

Gadgets Florence Ion

Baby With Heart Defect ‘Probably Saved’ by Experimental Stem Cell Injection

Doctors at the Bristol Heart Institute are developing stem cell-based patches that could better repair heart defects in infants.

Health Ed Cara

Samsung Finally Unveils Self-Repair Kits, But Only For a Few Phone Models

The tech company now lets users buy genuine parts for the Galaxy S20, S21, and Tab S7+ models, though this initiative is somewhat limited compared to others.

Gadgets Kyle Barr

Meta’s Trying to Blame TikTok for Popularizing Its Own Poisonous User Trends

The company reportedly hired Republican-aligned firm Targeted Victory to plant negative articles and attempt to influence public opinion against TikTok.

Tech News Mack DeGeurin

This Isn’t a Piece of Art. It’s an Aerial View of a Trash-Filled Landscape

At first glance, the photo above may look like a painting collaboration between Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. That’s what I thought when I saw it and was drawn to the bright streaks of orange covering the landscape. However, the reality is far more disgusting and alarming. This is not art: It’s an aerial view…

Earther Jody Serrano

This Obviously Fake Nvidia RTX 4090 Is Ridiculous and Perfect

April Fool’s is the worst holiday, but this is one stunt we can get behind. Someone built an obviously fake Nvidia RTX 4090 and 4090 Ti to get into the spirit—and to poke fun at the current graphics cards situation—and it’s so ridiculous it has to be seen to be believed. Spotted by PCMag, Denmark-based…

Gadgets Joanna Nelius

Watch how 3D printers 3D print 3D printer parts to make more 3D printers

Like how some animals can regenerate limbs or like how humans can, uh, make babies, 3D printers can 3D print the 3D printer parts necessary to make more 3D printers. Thankfully, they still require some living person to put these parts together because if they didn’t, they could just start eliminating us one by one…

Sploid Casey Chan

So You Want To Ride Your Motorcycle Around The World

Want to go the long way round? Or just find some forest trails and go motorcycle camping? This is where you get started. You’d think this would be easy to explain. You’re interested in adventure motorcycling, some of that travel the world with only what you can carry stuff that everyone in the motorcycle world…

Tech News Justin W. Coffey

Here’s a Leaked ‘Space Gray’ Version of the Next Full-Sized iPad

We’ve already seen a possible ‘Space Gray’ version of the upcoming iPad Mini 2 floating around and now it’s time for the big brother version to get covered in gray steel too. https://gizmodo.com/leaked-ipad-mini-2-casing-shows-a-possible-space-gray-1359100602 This gray is different than the usual silver seen on full-sized iPads mind you and if real, it would match up color-wise…

Tech News Casey Chan

Leaked iPad Mini 2 Casing Shows a Possible ‘Space Gray’ Version

So with the iPhone 5S, Apple introduced a new ‘Space Gray’ color that is its new black. Not in that tired fashionista way where trends are considered the new black but in a completely literal way in that Apple is calling its black ‘Space Gray’. So maybe it’s not surprising that a supposedly leaked iPad…

Tech News Casey Chan

The Most Grotesque Fanless CPU Cooler I’ve Ever Seen

Official description: “The Zalman CNPS FX100-Cube is fanless and noiseless CPU cooler, which does not draw dust or generate vibration due to its passive operation.” Unofficial description: LOOK AT THIS FREAKING MONSTER HEATSINK! Made of copper and aluminum, this 1.94-pound (880 gram) cooling thingamajig works with 77W TDP (Thermal Design Power) processors, “including Intel’s i7-3770K.”…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

How To Build the Best Lego X-Wing Ever

Rejoice, fellow Lego nerds, because Mike Psiaki just sent me the instructions and a part list for the best Lego X-Wing model ever created. Yes, my friends, now you can build your own. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-best-lego-x-wing-model-ever-5862041 A while back you wrote a piece about my Lego x-wing model. I figured it might be of interest that I…

Movies Jesus Diaz

Pentagon’s Lightning Gun Sold for Scraps on eBay

There was a time, not all that long ago, when the Pentagon sank tens of millions of dollars into remote-controlled lightning guns that it hoped would fry insurgent bombs before they killed any more troops. Now, disassembled parts from the one-time wonder-weapons are being sold on eBay. At least one buyer snatched up the gear,…

Tech News Noah Shachtman - Wired

iFixit Teardown Reveals How the Nintendo 3DS Works

With three cameras, iFixit reckons “this is the most camera-laden device we’ve ever taken apart,” but what exactly is inside that Japanese 3DS? As we know, it uses two cameras for recording 3D, but also displays 3D footage through a parallax barrier layer. iFixit explains that: “A layer in the top LCD responds to adjustments…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

It’s Amazing How Many Parts and Pieces Are Inside a Typewriter

I’m literally shocked at how many parts are inside a typical typewriter. I really thought it would be one of the easiest gadgets to make, I mean, who knew there were so many connectors, screws, wires, cables and a million other metal objects I can’t even describe. Just take a look at the picture and…

Tech News Casey Chan

Microsoft Kinect Gutted: Four Microphones, Two Cameras, And One Very Important Fan

Oh my! When the folks at iFixit tore down a Microsoft Kinect they found a strong little fan among the many, many sensors. They suspect that Microsoft’s a bit paranoid about heat dissipation after the Xbox 360’s red-ring-of death problems. https://gizmodo.com/xbox-kinect-review-its-a-brand-new-console-5680205 If you’re curious about what’s inside this sleek little gadget, here’s a summary courtesy…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Apple Really Doesn’t Want You To Tear Apart A MacBook Air

The folks at iFixIt rushed to tear down the new MacBook Air, but they discovered that Apple apparently really doesn’t want you to poke around the gadget. It’s full of proprietary parts—right down to the screws. Here are the highlights of the teardown according to iFixIt: * The flip-open port door has been scrapped and…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Apple TV’s Guts Contain 8 GB Of Flash Storage

As usual, the folks at iFixIt have torn down the latest Apple gadget. They were happy to find that the Apple TV was ridiculously easy to disassemble and contains the same 8GB NAND flash chip that we’ve seen in iPads. According to iFixIt, this is what you should know about the teardown: * The Apple…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

So This Is What A Tattoo Machine Is Made Of

I’m not scared of needles but tattoo machines are sorta intimidating. I just never knew what the hell the rest of the nuts and bolts were. Now that I know it’s just o-rings, yokes, and armature bars, I’m totally inking myself. [DataViz]

Tech News Casey Chan

Intel’s Latest Processor Has Graphics Capabilities Built In, Probably Still Won’t Frighten Competition

Intel will be showing off a new chip design dubbed “Sandy Bridge” next week. This clever little part will be Intel’s “first chip design that has graphics capabilities built into the processor” and is supposed to frighten AMD and Nvidia. The basic idea is that it should give the company a cost-advantage while marking a…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

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Apple Will Allow You to Fix Your iPhone with Used Parts After All

Baby With Heart Defect ‘Probably Saved’ by Experimental Stem Cell Injection

Samsung Finally Unveils Self-Repair Kits, But Only For a Few Phone Models

Meta’s Trying to Blame TikTok for Popularizing Its Own Poisonous User Trends

This Isn’t a Piece of Art. It’s an Aerial View of a Trash-Filled Landscape

This Obviously Fake Nvidia RTX 4090 Is Ridiculous and Perfect

Watch how 3D printers 3D print 3D printer parts to make more 3D printers

So You Want To Ride Your Motorcycle Around The World

Here’s a Leaked ‘Space Gray’ Version of the Next Full-Sized iPad

Leaked iPad Mini 2 Casing Shows a Possible ‘Space Gray’ Version

The Most Grotesque Fanless CPU Cooler I’ve Ever Seen

How To Build the Best Lego X-Wing Ever

Pentagon’s Lightning Gun Sold for Scraps on eBay

iFixit Teardown Reveals How the Nintendo 3DS Works

It’s Amazing How Many Parts and Pieces Are Inside a Typewriter

Microsoft Kinect Gutted: Four Microphones, Two Cameras, And One Very Important Fan

Apple Really Doesn’t Want You To Tear Apart A MacBook Air

Apple TV’s Guts Contain 8 GB Of Flash Storage

So This Is What A Tattoo Machine Is Made Of

Intel’s Latest Processor Has Graphics Capabilities Built In, Probably Still Won’t Frighten Competition

AI Training Data Giant Mercor Is Reportedly Looking to Buy the Work You Did at Your Old Job

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Judge Kills Lawsuit Against Infamous Study That Might Have Increased Teen Suicides

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