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An Android Porn App Takes Your Photo and Holds It to Ransom

Users of the “Adult Player” Android app are in for a shock: it’s emerged that the Android app has been secretly taking photos of users – and wants their cash in exchange for deletion. The Register reports that security firm Zscaler was first to spot the app, which presents itself as a normal video playing…

Tech News James O Malley - Gizmodo UK

Packed Like Sardines in a Can

From this point of view it seems that one cannot fit a knife between two planes in the crammed hangar bay of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, where sailors perform maintenance on F/A-18 Super Hornets. Let’s play! How many aircraft can you count in this photo? [Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Ryan McFarlane/U.S.…

Tech News Attila Nagy

Report: Apple Rejected Justice Department Demands for iMessages

The fight between law enforcement and tech companies about encryption and privacy is getting nastier than ever. According to a report from the New York Times, the Justice Department obtained a court order for real-time messages between suspects using iPhones to communicate, but Apple didn’t comply. The Times reported on the “standoff” between Apple and…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

Would You Buy an Android Tablet If It Only Cost $50?

According to a rumor from the Wall Street Journal, Amazon is readying a $50, 6-inch Android tablet for a launch before Christmas this year. The company hasn’t had runaway success with its existing line of Android tablets, so it’s clearly hoping that cutting the price can get a few more people on board. The company’s…

Tech News Chris Mills

Please Stop Naming Your Children After Guns

The debate over gun control in America has popped up a lot in the past few years, but I never thought it would eventually have this impact. Parents are naming their children after guns. And they’re doing it so frequently that the name Gunner (with the help of Gunnar) even made the Top 200 list…

Tech News Leah Becerra

Android Pay Can Be Tricked Into Running On Some Phones Right Now

Android Pay should be rolling soon, but if you can’t wait for soon to get here, there are ways to get the app working on your phone now. Well, kind of… Google Play Services 8.1 has already started to appear on some handsets, which makes sense because that update is necessary to run Android Pay…

Tech News Leah Becerra

Watch What Happens to This Drop of Water When It Hits Hot Oil

Oil and water truly don’t mix, and this is especially true if you try to throw water on an oil fire to quench the flames. Instead, it just goes BOOM! That explosive reaction makes this a favorite demo for science lectures. The Royal Institution in London did it in 2012 to promote its annual Christmas…

Tech News Jennifer Ouellette

Replacing Subway Lines With High-Speed Moving Sidewalks Sounds Terrifying

London has the oldest subway system in the world: great for tourism, but sometimes not-so-great for commuters. There’s all sorts ofsensible plans to upgrade the city’s public transport, but here’s one particularly outside-the-box solution: a 15mph moving sidewalk, looping 17 miles under London. What could go wrong! Architecture firm NBBJ has come up with the…

Tech News Chris Mills

Apple’s Latest Hiring Spree Suggests It’s Upping Its AI Game

Apple kick-started the mobile digital assistant thing with Siri some years ago, but it’s Google who mostly run the machine learning show, with its creepily efficient Google Now service. Based on its jobs postings, Apple wants to play some catch-up ball. According to a Reuters report, which analyzed Apple job postings, the company is looking…

Tech News Chris Mills

Changes Keep Coming in Masters of Sex

Masters of Sex spent two seasons building the Masters and Johnson relationship, and the first nine episodes of the third season testing what might break it. Unhappy children? Unexpected pregnancies? Johnson sleeping with other men? Unexpected fame? Flashing a gorilla? Starting projects without your partner’s approval? So as we enter the final four episodes of…

Tech News Diane Kelly

This Is Your Brain On Google’s Deep Dream Neural Network

Ever since Google unveiled its Deep Dream algorithm, people have been having a blast feeding all manner of images into theprogram. It was only a matter of time before some enterprising neuroscientist thought to run a couple of brainy MRI images through the software. Juan (“Zeno”) Sanchez-Ramos did just that (above). A neurologist by training,…

Tech News Jennifer Ouellette

Earth View Has the Perfect Photo to Replace your Old Wallpaper

Google’s got your next digital wallpaper right here. Earth View is a collection of 1,500 of the most striking satellite view photographs that can be found in Google Earth. The best part is all the images are free to download and use on your own gadgets. There’s also an extension for Chrome that will give…

Tech News Leah Becerra

The Real Reason Netflix Won’t Offer Offline Downloads

Offline downloads are perhaps the most often requested, “holy grail” feature of TV and movie streaming services, and while Netflix may be the leading provider, it’s Amazon and its Prime Instant Video service that’s become the first to offer it. Netflix however remains firm in its stance that it’s not going to offer offline downloads…

Tech News Gerald Lynch - Gizmodo UK

This Artist Creates Eye-Popping “Roomscapes” with a Camera Obscura

Notice something strange about the wall mural in the above photograph? It’s upside down! That’s because it was created using a “camera obscura” — the favored technique of Cuban born artist Abelardo Morell, who has been experimenting with this approach since 1991. Latin for “dark room,” conceptually, a camera obscura is the precursor to the…

Tech News Jennifer Ouellette

Transporting an Enormous Aircraft Carrier, Piece By Piece

BAE Systems has just published an amazing time lapse video showing how the largest section of Britain’s second Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carrier was tossed and towed to Rosyth Dockyard from the dock in Glasgow where it was built. Lower Block 04 is the largest hull section of HMS Prince Of Wales, and the 11,200…

Tech News Attila Nagy

Canon’s New 250-Megapixel Camera Sensor is Wonderfully Excessive

Who said the megapixel war is over? Sure, the headline-grabbing number on most modern-day cameras tends to be ISO. But for more specialized applications — say, reading the serial number on an airplane from 11 miles away — a high megapixel count is still useful. So, to that end, Canon has made a new 250-megapixel…

Tech News Chris Mills

Only Smart People Will Understand the FT‘s Amazing New 404 Page

The Financial Times is the hands-down paper of choice for anyone trying to seem clever in a job interview. So it makes sense that to understand its fantastic new 404 error page, you need a highbrow sense of humor and a solid grounding in economic theory. The 404 pagenow shows a list of reasons, based…

Tech News Chris Mills

This is Why Everyone Should Study Geology

Welcome to Reading List, a weekly collection of great science and technology stories, assembled by Gizmodo, just for you. This week, we’ll ponder the incredible age of the Earth, walk the streets of Atlantic City, search for life on Mars, and meet the man who designed every toy version of the Millenium Falcon that’s ever…

Tech News Kiona Smith-Strickland

Archaic Bell System Pitch Video Offers Topical Branding Advice

All week, the internet has been on fire over Google’s bold decision to transform its logo by axing those pesky and decidedly old-fashioned serifs. Guess what? Telephone companies figured that out decades ago. This 26-minute time warp is an actual pitch video, created by Saul Bass in 1969 to convince AT&T that Bell System telephone…

Tech News Maddie Stone

China Cleaned Up Beijing’s Smog For Its Military Parade, But Of Course It Didn’t Last

It’s no coincidence that the China’s capital city had clear, sunny skies for the country’s huge military parade last week, or that Beijing’s dense smog returned the very next day. The Chinese government took extreme measures to guarantee clear skies for the its display, but it took less than 24 hours for air pollution to…

Tech News Kiona Smith-Strickland

An Android Porn App Takes Your Photo and Holds It to Ransom

Packed Like Sardines in a Can

Report: Apple Rejected Justice Department Demands for iMessages

Would You Buy an Android Tablet If It Only Cost $50?

Please Stop Naming Your Children After Guns

Android Pay Can Be Tricked Into Running On Some Phones Right Now

Watch What Happens to This Drop of Water When It Hits Hot Oil

Replacing Subway Lines With High-Speed Moving Sidewalks Sounds Terrifying

Apple’s Latest Hiring Spree Suggests It’s Upping Its AI Game

Changes Keep Coming in Masters of Sex

This Is Your Brain On Google’s Deep Dream Neural Network

Earth View Has the Perfect Photo to Replace your Old Wallpaper

The Real Reason Netflix Won’t Offer Offline Downloads

This Artist Creates Eye-Popping “Roomscapes” with a Camera Obscura

Transporting an Enormous Aircraft Carrier, Piece By Piece

Canon’s New 250-Megapixel Camera Sensor is Wonderfully Excessive

Only Smart People Will Understand the FT‘s Amazing New 404 Page

This is Why Everyone Should Study Geology

Archaic Bell System Pitch Video Offers Topical Branding Advice

China Cleaned Up Beijing’s Smog For Its Military Parade, But Of Course It Didn’t Last

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