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A river near an industrial town in Russia has turned suddenly blood-red. But it’s not an omen of something mystical wrong in the cosmos. Rather, the source of the problem is probably a leaky factory upstream. Several photos of the river’s blood-red hue were captured on Instagram by residents aound Norilsk, Russia yesterday. Although the…
Forget fancy cameras in your iPhone, or iOS 10, or the lack of a headphone jack. The real thing to celebrate out of today’s iPhone 7 announcement is the end of the piddly ass 16-gigabyte iPhone. That dreaded “out of storage warning” will now be a thing of the past…at least until you load up…
Apple ditched the headphone jack in favor of just using the Lightning port. So now, of course, there’s a dongle to replace the headphone jack. Apple will include one with every new iPhone 7. https://gizmodo.com/apples-airpods-are-the-tiny-wireless-ear-buds-of-the-fu-1786292905 Good ol’ Timmy Cook over at Apple really had a chance to charge us, the common man and woman, and…
When Apple stopped including disk drives on its desktop computers, the world barely batted an eye. When DVD-ROMs were removed from the MacBook, few cared. But the loss of the headphone jack on the iPhone 7 is a clear indicator that the apocalypse is upon us. But don’t freak out just yet, we’re going to…
I love headphones, always have. That’s probably because for most of my life, I was hearing impaired. Headphones were the only way for me to hear music the way it was supposed to be heard—the treble, the bass, and everything in between. But I don’t want to be tethered to my laptop and phone: I…
After months of speculation, rumors, and some excellent reporting, Sony’s latest Playstations are finally here. Sony announced the new consoles at a press event in the Playstation Theater in New York City today. Hosting a major tech event the same day as Apple day seems like a risky move, but Sony’s event was packed with…
Apple just wrapped up its special media event in California, where it launched the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus and some other new hardware. This was easily one of the biggest technology events of the year and there were plenty of huge announcements you’ll want to know about. In typical form, Apple worked closely…
A blue-ribbon panel commissioned by the Obama administration has released a report describing 10 transformative research strategies designed to increase the speed at which cancer research is conducted—but it’s not clear if US Congress will commit the necessary funds. The 28-member Blue Ribbon panel presented its report to the National Cancer Advisory Board earlier today.…
The 3.5mm headphone jack that has existed in audio players for 100 years is no more. Apple ditching the headphone jack had been rumored for some time, but it was unclear what the company was going to do to replace it. In part, it’s all about the lightning port—and lightning buds will ship with the…
For nearly a decade, the iPhone has been the gold standard of mobile photography. No other company has come close to making a phone camera as consistently great as the iPhone’s. Now, Apple has once again established its dominance with the iPhone 7’s new camera. The iPhone 7’s camera can now take DSLR-quality photos thanks…
After more than a year of speculation, Apple’s new iPhones are finally here. Predictably named the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, Apple’s twin gadgets are glass-and-aluminum reflections of what has come before. But in the few places where Apple does makes some changes, it makes them count. https://gizmodo.com/everything-apple-announced-today-1786299295 For the first time ever, the new…
The Apple Watch was destined to be a disappointment when it launched in 2015. Many prophesied that it’d usher in a golden age of wearables, much like the iPhone did for smartphones. But that didn’t really happen. Maybe the Apple Watch Series 2 can change the narrative. To kick things off, Tim Cook spent tons…
Some movie scenes are unforgettable, and Steven Spielberg’s reenactment of the Normandy Landing is one of them. Every shot feels chaotic, with indiscriminate bloodshed consistent with this brutal event. But as Nerdwriter1 explains in the video below, Spielberg’s filmmaking choices are anything but random. For starters, he’s a student of history. In order to capture…
Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto appeared on stage at today’s Apple Event to announce the introduction of Super Mario to the iPhone. Super Mario Run appears to be a Temple Run-style platform game, Nintendo’s first proper game that doesn’t run on one of its console platforms. The company previously announced plans for iOS games back in…
Here’s the new iPhone 7. Apple just tweeted it out before Tim Cook had the chance to announce it during the keynote taking place right now. An hour earlier, Amazon blew the lid off the iPhone 7 by releasing its specialized accessories page. Apple has since deleted the tweet. Another tweet saying that the iPhone…
It seems like Amazon just accidentally released its specialized page for iPhone 7 accessories—an hour before Apple was set to announce the new phone. The pictures include one iPhone with the rumored dual back-facing cameras. It also includes a link for Bluetooth headphones, which probably confirms the long rumored removal of the headphone jack. The…
Researchers from the UK and Spain have shown that spiders are capable of tuning their webs, allowing these eight-legged critters to receive specific information about their environment, including the presence of prey, potential mates, and the structural condition of the web. Similar to the strings of a finely tuned instrument, each strand of spider silk…
The Most Magical Place on Earth has started scanning the fingers of three-year-olds in an effort to prevent ticket fraud, because you can never be too careful about tiny babies that have only just started communicating properly. The Orlando Sentinel reports that children between the ages of three and nine will now have their fingers…
On April 10, 1940, British submarine HMS Tarpon and its crew of 50 were sent to Norway to intercept Nazi merchant vessels. They were was never heard from again. Now, after 76 years, the sub has finally been found. An investigation of the remarkably well preserved vessel shows it didn’t go down without a fight.…
We’ve all been there. Endlessly searching, and searching, and searching for something to watch on Netflix. Ugh, do I really want to watch Stranger Things a third time? That’s why AllFlix created a simple solution—just leave it to chance. The Chrome extension keeps things simple by letting you choose whether to include movies, TV shows,…
