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Where to Watch Today’s Apple iPad Event Livestream

No need to sit at home biting your nails come 1PM EDT/10AM PDT, because Apple’s given us an nice little surprise in the form of a livestream for today’s big iPad unveiling. If you’re the proud owner of an Apple TV, you should have gotten an update pushed to your device sometime this morning in…

WSJ: Microsoft Is Working on Its Own Version of Google Glass

Microsoft may have not hopped on the smartphone bandwagon especially early, but they aren’t about to be left behind again. According to the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft is already working on its own smartglasses. Yup. Unnamed sources told the Wall Street Journal that prototypes exist, and are actively being tested, but beyond that specifics are…

NYTimes Pays a Visit to Our Friend, the Amazing GIF Machine

Regular readers of our sister blog Deadspin are probably familiar with editor Tim Burke’s incredible GIFing skills. What you might not know is that Burke never misses a moment because he built an incredible eight-monitor computer station that can keep track of every sporting event that’s happening at a given time. Today, the NYTimes has…

Boldy Shower Where No Man Has Showered Before

Traditional aesthetics call for a monochrome shower curtain in your bathroom that elegantly matches the rest of the room’s color motif. But as we all know, Star Trek fans are never much for norms, and there’s no doubt ThinkGeek is going to sell a shuttle bay’s worth of these clever transporter room shower curtain and…

7 Artists Who Create Strange New Worlds Using Nothing But Thread

There’s something otherwordly about the optical illusions a single string—or 3,000 of them—can conjure up in our brains. It’s almost as if a simple fiber installation holds a gateway to a whole other dimension—when, in fact, we’re just looking at lines in space. Here, we take a closer look at seven visionaries who can create…

Scientists Have Created a Disk That Can Store Data for a Million Years

Magnetic disk drive storage was born in the 1950s—thanks, IBM!—but while storage density and power efficiency have rocketed, the lifetime for which data can be stored has remained about the same, at around a decade. That could soon change. A team of researchers from the University of Twente in the Netherlands has designed and built…

Nokia’s ‘Black’ WinPho Update: RAW Photo Support, New Apps and More

The latest update to Nokia’s Windows Phone build (which expands upon Microsoft’s GDR3 release), named Black, brings with it some features you may be surprised to learn Nokia handsets didn’t already contain…but here’s a big one for you: It also brings RAW support, not available on any smartphone before. Both the 1020 and 1520 will…

Breasts Age Faster Than the Rest of a Woman’s Body

The breasts of women seem to age more quickly than the rest of their body, according to new research which uses DNA analysis of tissue and blood to measure the rate of cell decline. As we age, the chemical signature of our DNA changes subtly, with genes becoming more or less methylated (that is, they…

Hands-On With Nokia’s Lumia 1520 and 1320 Phones and 2520 Tablet

The phablet world just saw two new monsters roar into town — Nokia’s mammoth 6-inch, 1080p resolution-screened phone, the Gorilla Glass 2-displayed 1520, and a lower-specced 1320. We’ve been lucky enough to get our hands on ’em. While I’m really partial to Nokia’s Lumia design, the fact that they chose glossy polycarbonate for a 6-inch…

AT&T has announced that it’ll be the exclusive carrier for Nokia’s 6-inch Lumia 1520 smartphone when it arrives in the US.

This Map Shows the DDoS Attacks Happening Across the World Right Now

Yesterday, Google announced Project Shield, a suite of free tools to help small websites stay online during DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks. To accompany it, Google has also made available a live map of DDoS attacks which shows when and where they’re happening. https://gizmodo.com/google-now-offers-free-ddos-protection-1449416865 Put together in conjunction with Arbor Networks, the Digital Attack…

Bloomberg: HTC Is Building a Smartwatch Ready for 2014

Smartwatch rumors seem to a dime-a-dozen these days, and now here’s another: Bloomberg is reporting that HTC has been working on an Android-based smartwatch, According to “people familiar with the matter“, the watch is pegged for release in the second half of 2014. There’s no mention of prices or specs, though the source does mention…

Lumia 2520: Nokia Is Making a 10-Inch Tablet Now, Too

Nokia just revealed its very first tablet, the 10-inch, Windows RT 8.1-running Lumia 2520. As far as tablets go, it’s pretty standard fare. Here’s what we’re working with: 1080p video, a 6.7-megapixel Zeiss lens on the back and a 2-megapixel shooter on the front. It supports 4G LTE and has Microsoft Office built-in. The 2520…

Windows Phone Finally Gets Instagram (And a Bunch More Apps)

Instagram is finally officially coming to Windows Phone via Nokia Lumias, Nokia just announced at Nokia World. Yes, you can finally stop using that silly Hipstamatic workaround. https://gizmodo.com/windows-phone-just-got-instagram-sort-of-744346543 The photo-sharing app will launch on Windows Phone in the “coming weeks.” And to sweeten the deal, Windows Phone is also getting Flipboard, Vine, Temple Run 2,…

Nokia’s Massive New 6-Inch Lumias: My God, It’s Full of Tiles

Just like pretty much every other smartphone maker that isn’t Apple, Nokia is sizing up. Today it took the lid off two new, six-inch display Lumias—the 1320 and the 1520. You might have seen these larger Lumias coming; last week Microsoft updated Windows Phone to support 1080p for 5- and 6-inch screens just in time…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: 8,336,615 (New York)

“We are lonely but never alone” makes an equally appropriate slogan for both big city and digital living. With infinite possible connections at both our physical and virtual fingertips, why do so many people feel so isolated from the rest of the Earth’s seven billion human inhabitants? Filmmaker Paul Riccio explores this phenomenon in the…

What a Chicken Nugget Looks Like Under the Microscope

There is no nugget on a chicken. There are breasts, there are wings, there are thighs, there are drumsticks. But there are no nuggets. So what is the chicken nugget made of then? https://gizmodo.com/the-four-kinds-of-mcdonalds-chicken-nuggets-5987484 We’ve seen the alien pink goop but now it’s time to see what the nugget looks like under the microscope. According…

This Magical Pair of Underwear Can Filter Out Your Fart’s Smell

Here’s technology we can all get behind for our occasionally smelly behinds. Shreddies is a pair of underwear that promises to filter out farts. Seriously, it’s supposed kill your fart’s smell and be able to neutralize odors up to 200 times the stinky strength of the average fart. So even if you have a particularly…

Why We Need to Sleep So Much

One of the universal truths for most humans who appreciate things like comfort and relaxation and a collection of soft feathers and enveloping warmth and rejuvenation is that we love our sleep. It makes us feel good! And sure it wastes a lot of time but we feel like crap when we don’t have enough…

6 Horrifying Parasites That Will Gross You Out

Need an easy way to gross yourself out? Watch this video that describes six different parasites by Asap Science. You have worms that create a nest around your butt hole, parasites that take over the tongue of a fish, ants that can become zombies and a whole lotta other scariness. What’s least comforting is how…