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Leaked Data Reveals Just How Freaking Expensive It Is to Put Spice Girls and Coldplay Songs in Crappy Movies

One of Hollywood’s top contract management firms was sent scrambling this week after informed of a breach involving a wealth of confidential and proprietary data. Contained in the leak was invaluable information about the earnings of some of the world’s biggest musical talent during the era of Now That’s What I Call Music! 45 through…

Tech News Dell Cameron

Walking Around This Interactive Room Is a Nightmarish Drug Trip Without the Drugs

When you strap on a virtual reality headset, your body has a constant (heavy) reminder that what you’re seeing isn’t real. But what happens when virtual reality spills out into the real world? This tech-filled room is able to warp and bend reality making you feel like you’re tripping on drugs you don’t remember taking.…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

This Clever Camera Trick Lets You Photograph the Invisible World Around Us

When you rub your hands together to create friction and warmth, heat energy radiating off your hand creates air currents. They’re completely invisible to the human eye, but with a simple setup, it turns out your digital camera can reveal this invisible world around us. The technique is known as Schlieren photography, which YouTube’s Veritasium—aka…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

It’s About Time for Another Communist Revolution (If You’re a Mollusk)

The wealth gap is growing. The predators continue to improve their craft, amassing wealth as they evolve to prey on the silent lower class. But the lowly workers continue to be exploited for the fruits of their labor. It’s a situation that’s only gotten worse over time. And scientists are only starting to truly understand…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Uber Sued Over Mishandling the Medical File of a Woman Who Was Raped by Uber Driver

A woman who was raped by an Uber driver in India is suing the company after reports that several senior executives obtained her medical files and used them to sow doubt about her account of the crime. The lawsuit alleges that Uber’s former president of business in the Asia Pacific region, Eric Alexander, obtained the…

Tech News Kate Conger

A French Artist Says He Received a National ID Card Using a Computer-Generated Headshot

With a stunt that will probably see France initiating changes to its National ID card program, an artist named Raphaël Fabre submitted a photorealistic computer-generated image of himself—and he says it was approved without question. To ensure his CG headshot was as artificial as possible, Fabre told Gizmodo that he modeled it by hand using…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

How to Find Almost Anything on YouTube

The number of views YouTube videos get in a single day is up to the billions now, with hundreds of hours of new content uploaded every minute, versus the month it would take twelve years ago when YouTube launched. Searching through that deluge of video can be harder than searching the entire web, so here’s…

Gadgets David Nield

So Uh, Is Tim Cook Running for President, Too?

A gloomy Tim Cook stalks Bloomberg Businessweek’s cover today, and he has some thoughts. Some thoughts that sound suspiciously like a preamble to a “my fellow Americans” speech. Editor Megan Murphy’s conversation with the Apple CEO isn’t substantively different from the sprawling, 10,000-word interview he conducted with the Washington Post last year—whole paragraphs of boilerplate…

Tech News Avery Ellis

How to Hack Your Car With a Nicer Horn That Won’t Instigate Road Rage

Aside from turn signals, a car’s horn is really the only tool a driver has to communicate with other vehicles. (Besides gesticulating wildly out of the driver’s side window, of course.) It’s so loud and abrasive, however, that it always sounds like you’re screaming at other motorists, leading to middle fingers and other unwelcome responses.…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

Head Transplant Scientists Re-Attach Rat Spines, Others Not Convinced

Sergio Canavero wants to transplant a head, and we can’t look away. Despite our continued skepticism, he does seem to be making progress. “Seem” being the operative word here, because others still aren’t convinced by the evidence. Canavero and a team of Chinese doctors at Harbin Medical Center have announced that they’ve successfully severed and…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

I Want This 1923 Prediction For the American City of the Future To Be Real

When the world is descending into chaos, it can be hard to believe that optimistic visions of the future are within our reach. But personally, I think I’ve hit that point where escapist fantasy worlds of tomorrow are the only thing that can ease the stresses of our modern world. This 1923 illustration, for instance,…

Tech News Matt Novak

The Pentagon’s Silicon Valley Outpost Is Bringing “Robotic Wingmen” to the Battlefield

DIUx is an initiative by the Department of Defense that has set up in Silicon Valley to incubate special projects and it’s starting to roll out some fully formed concepts. The latest prototype the program has produced would allow Maverick to fly with a robotic Goose, and it’s totally okay if this wingman dies. https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-just-had-a-hush-hush-meeting-at-the-pentagon-1781413339…

Tech News Rhett Jones

These Are the Colors that Words Make When Used as Hex Code

Hexadecimal format allows us to instruct a computer to display a color using three or six characters. For example, #000 will produce black. But how many words can be created in Hex and what colors do they produce? One intrepid programmer has tackled this problem so that we don’t have to. On their site #COFFEE…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Is It Really Time for Apple to Add Wireless Charging to the iPhone?

Wireless charging has struggled for years to gain ground in consumer electronics. For one hot second, it looked like the option would be available in every smartphone, then manufacturers started to bail out, then it started to come back. And now, we have the biggest confirmation yet that Apple is jumping into the game. Has…

Tech News Rhett Jones

An Unknown Tech Company Tried (and Failed) to Stop the NSA’s Warrantless Spying

In 2014, a tech company stood up to a National Security Agency demand for user data and challenged the legality of a controversial surveillance law that’s currently being debated in Congress. The anonymous company’s challenge was revealed in new documents released today by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in response to lawsuits…

Tech News Kate Conger

118-Year-Old Painting Found in Antarctica Was Hidden By Penguin Shit

Fantastic news: the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust has recovered a 118-year-old watercolor painting from famed polar explorer, Dr. Edward Wilson. The painting was almost perfectly preserved, but hidden among dust, mold, and penguin shit. Apparently, penguins can’t be bothered with fine art. Antarctic Heritage Trust paper conservator Josefin Bergmark-Jimenez found the painting while cleaning…

Tech News Rae Paoletta

Why Do Sick Bodies Turn Poop Into Diarrhea?

Despite thousands of years of pant-crapping history, there’s a surprising amount we don’t know about diarrhea. There’s a couple ways we’ve figured out how to treat the symptom. But lots of scientists’ understanding of diarrhea—from illnesses like traveler’s diarrhea—is more based on intuition than data. An international team of researchers is trying figure out how…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

The Coolest Gaming Gear Shown Off at E3 2017

E3 is here and that means it’s crazy gaming gear time! From Microsoft’s latest Xbox to a tiny Atari 2600, here’s the coolest stuff we saw this week. Microsoft Xbox One X The name reveals someone’s love of the letter X, but the console itself is pretty cool. Six months after Sony launched its 4K…

Tech News Alex Cranz & Andrew Liszewski

How Rich Neighbors May Have Factored Into London’s Deadly Tower Fire [UPDATED]

Experts and politicians are pointing fingers in an effort to explain what caused the devastating Grenfell Tower fire in London that killed at least 12 and injured dozens more on Wednesday morning. Quite unfortunately, all fingers appear to be pointing in the same direction, at a new aluminum rainscreen cladding installed, in part, to make…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Particle Physics Might Make Your Raw Milk Safer to Drink

There are a vocal minority of folks who simply don’t want to drink pasteurized milk. Maybe they’re worried about the nutritional content, or not getting the good bacteria they need. Sure, they’re potentially subjecting themselves to tuberculosis or a Listeria infection, but it’s still a vocal group. One team of researchers from Texas A&M University…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Leaked Data Reveals Just How Freaking Expensive It Is to Put Spice Girls and Coldplay Songs in Crappy Movies

Walking Around This Interactive Room Is a Nightmarish Drug Trip Without the Drugs

This Clever Camera Trick Lets You Photograph the Invisible World Around Us

It’s About Time for Another Communist Revolution (If You’re a Mollusk)

Uber Sued Over Mishandling the Medical File of a Woman Who Was Raped by Uber Driver

A French Artist Says He Received a National ID Card Using a Computer-Generated Headshot

How to Find Almost Anything on YouTube

So Uh, Is Tim Cook Running for President, Too?

How to Hack Your Car With a Nicer Horn That Won’t Instigate Road Rage

Head Transplant Scientists Re-Attach Rat Spines, Others Not Convinced

I Want This 1923 Prediction For the American City of the Future To Be Real

The Pentagon’s Silicon Valley Outpost Is Bringing “Robotic Wingmen” to the Battlefield

These Are the Colors that Words Make When Used as Hex Code

Is It Really Time for Apple to Add Wireless Charging to the iPhone?

An Unknown Tech Company Tried (and Failed) to Stop the NSA’s Warrantless Spying

118-Year-Old Painting Found in Antarctica Was Hidden By Penguin Shit

Why Do Sick Bodies Turn Poop Into Diarrhea?

The Coolest Gaming Gear Shown Off at E3 2017

How Rich Neighbors May Have Factored Into London’s Deadly Tower Fire [UPDATED]

Particle Physics Might Make Your Raw Milk Safer to Drink

Logitech Wireless Keyboard and Mouse Combo Falls Under $25, a Budget Bundle Deal in the Final Hours of Spring Sale

Liquids Crack With an Audible Snap, Study Finds

Dyson V15 Detect Plus Cordless Vacuum Is a Late Spring Sale Deal at a Record Low on Amazon

The New ‘Supergirl’ Trailer Is Filled With Krypto, Lobo, and ’60s Soul

Vaping Comes With a Cancer Risk, Review Finds

ASUS Eye Care Monitor Hits an All-Time Low, Only Hours Left to Grab a 27″ Screen at a 15.6″ Budget Price on Amazon

How to Watch Artemis 2, NASA’s First Crewed Mission to the Moon in 54 Years

KitchenAid 4.5-Quart Stand Mixer Is Back at Its Lowest Price, a Last-Minute Spring Sale Deal Outside Amazon Prime Day

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

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