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Usually when you hear “sex” and “Trojan” in the same sentence, it means someone’s being safe. Not so much in the most recent jack-off site hijacking: People checking out RedTube, one of the most popular porn sites, are in danger of identity theft. Hackers have infected the site’s source code to redirect to malware used…
You peer warily out of the single window in your zombie-proof steel box. The street seems deserted—except for a lone figure who is staring at you from a distance. Is it 2079, in the years after the Great Drought Plague!? No, it’s 2015 in Royal Oak, Michigan, and that zombie is a curious local Fox…
If you stop and think about it, Tetris is less a puzzle game, and more a simulator that has players building virtual forts using randomly-shaped couch cushions. Except that in real life they don’t disappear when you’ve completed a layer, nor do these giant Tetris cushions that finally fulfill the game’s true living room couch…
Yeah, you read that header right. This isn’t just Batman atop a giant Robot dinosaur mount, said robot dinosaur mount eats criminals and stores them in its belly jail cell. I… I don’t know what to say. The CybeRex as it is known – because apparently when he stopped calling everything he used the ‘Bat-something’,…
I love Innocent, the new track by Hundred Waters—a band from Gainesville, Florida, that sounds more European than American. This song sounds to me like a genetic experiment between old school Goldfrapp—think the amazing Utopia—and something Kate Bush. Ish. The video is excellent too. Hundred Waters is a band from Gainesville, Florida. You can buy…
The President of the United States can mass-message the entire phone-carrying nation at the same time whenever he deems it necessary, as a Wall Street Journal video reminded us today. Unless you’re carrying around a very old device, your phone has a specified capability* that makes sure official POTUS messages can always go through, no…
Happy birthday Photoshop! You might be turning 25 this week, but you don’t look a day over 20. (We suspect you’ve had some photoshopping done.) It’s no secret that Adobe Photoshop didn’t invent image manipulation. People have been dramatically altering photos since the invention of photography itself. But Photoshop pushed image tinkering into the digital…
Every nerd born before 1990 knows the Jurassic Park hacking scene. “It’s a UNIX system—I know this!” Now, thanks to some nostalgic developers, you too can hack into the mainframe. A newly developed game mimics the 3D interface that Lex conquered to save everyone from the dinosaurs over 20 years ago. It’s pretty fun! It’s…
Chalk this one up to ‘how on earth have they not done this before’, but seriously: How has this not been done before? Look at that giant, spinning Mjolnir! That’s great. There have been Thor toys that throw the legendary Mjolnir around before, yet somehow there’s never been a version of it with a Thor…
So how many ports on a USB hub are too many? There’s no answer to that question because no matter how many you have, you’ll always need at least one more. But Brando’s new 49-port USB charging hub should keep you satisfied for at least a little while. Stop and think about just how many…
Think you know your Google? The search giant adds new features to its main portal on a regular basis, some of which you may have missed, like the ability to roll a die or toss a coin. Here are our favorite Google search tricks that have been introduced in recent months. It’s possible that not…
Nobody’s ever been able to make a perfect copy of Christ the Redeemer, the towering statue of Jesus that watches of Rio de Janeiro. That’s largely because the sculpture is sitting on the top of a craggy hill near a windy coastline. What to do? Call in the drones. A team of experts recently created…
We’re all about games that get kids off the couch and away from their touchscreens, and Chrono Bomb does just that by challenging players to be a near-invisible cat burglar while they collect cards and avoid trip wires that could immediately set off a ticking time bomb. The game comes with 28 feet of string…
The new Star Wars movie is still months and months away, and Disney did a fantastic job of keeping tie-in toys and other merchandise hidden away at Toy Fair this past weekend. There was the occasional glimpse of what will be hitting toy stores this fall, though, and Spin Master has just posted a short…
It’s not uncommon to bum a smoke, a ride, or a piece of gum from a friend, but if a new Indiegogo campaign is successful, you might soon be able to bum a little bit of power for your phone as well. The Juicer is a simple double-headed microUSB cable that lets you transfer power…
It’s not been long since NECA gave us the first, wonderful Alien figure using Sigourney Weaver’s likeness as Ellen Ripley, but she’ll soon be getting the coolest accessory to kick ass in: A properly-scaled Power Loader that, although much tinier than the massive replica we saw recently, is still a great bit of kit. https://gizmodo.com/necas-jonesy-action-figure-also-comes-with-a-great-ripl-1683247291…
I grew up watching James Bond films. My favorite part was always the same: the part where “Q” would outfit our hero with the latest in spy technology. Ralph Osterhout also grew up loving Bond — but he took it to the next level. He spent his life building real spy gadgets, for operators in…
War on social media? Reality shows on Mars? A Facebook for your face? All this and more in BitStream, your digest of all the best news tidbits and rumors of the last 24 hours. The Battle Against ISIS Gets a Glorified Social Media Editor The embittered battle against ISIS is making nations rethink how to…
There are many cool wingsuit videos out there, some show crazy close calls, others insane stunts, but this is the first time I’ve seen something like this. This video, shot in slow motion with several cameras, it’s so beautiful and relaxing that it makes me want to try it. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow…
In 1982, the much-loved and sadly now defunct BBC TV show Tomorrow’s World took a look at “one ordinary finger and one rather extraordinary TV screen.” The result are touching, in more than one sense of the word. Marvel, as this chap’s finger renders ASCII text onscreen before your very eyes (QPR, for what it’s…
