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Yahoo’s Redesigned Email Is Seriously Broken (Updated)

Yahoo Mail got a pretty extensive (and familiar looking) redesign last week, but it seems there are some serious problems under that freshly-painted hood. And folks on Yahoo’s bug reporting board sure aren’t happy about it. https://gizmodo.com/the-new-yahoo-mail-could-not-look-more-like-gmail-1442430816 As ZDNet reports, some users are seeing addresses disappear from contacts lists or sent messages being erased from…

Banksy Sold $225,000 Worth of Art at a Central Park Stall for $420

You missed it. On Saturday, Banksy set up a nondescript stall on the edge of Central Park, where he sold stencilled prints for $60 a pop. The monkey with a sign, the guy with the flowers, the rat with the smirk—all the classics were there. Too bad nobody wanted them. Over the course of the…

Report: These Are Sony’s New 24- and 36-Megapixel Alpha Cameras

DigitalCameraInfo has reportedly gotten ahold of the specs and images of two of Sony’s new Alpha digital cameras, the A7 and the A7R. We don’t know how they shoot yet, but they sure look nice. The A7, pictured above, will supposedly have 24 megapixels, and cost around $1700 for just the body. In the top…

NYC pedestrians ignore art worth millions being sold for $60 a piece

These black on white canvasses are signed Banksy originals, each of them worth tens of thousands of dollars. Yesterday, the British artist tried to sell them for $60 each in Central Park and failed. Only three people actually bought something, for a grand total of $420. The actual cost: an estimated $224,000. Banksy has said…

Huge Machines Hurl Artificial Storms Deep Inside This NASA Hangar

The colossal wind tunnels at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, have been used for decades not only to test the aerodynamism of planes, but also to subject submarines to simulations of turbulence and drag in aquatic environments. Seen in these archival photographs, courtesy of the U.S. Library of Congress, the wind tunnels—Langley was…

A Hand-Built Amusement Park in the Middle of the Italian Forest

A documentary called Ai Pioppi, released by Fabrica, directed (and scored) by Coleman Guyon, and written by Luiz Romero, documents the incredible story of Bruno, an Italian restauranteur who, in his spare time, is hand-building an entire amusement park in the woods. “Hidden among the trees of an Italian forest,” Romero explains, “Bruno has been…

Microsoft isrolling out a third update for Windows Phone 8—the most distinctive feature of which is support for 5- and 6-inch displays at 1080p resolution. Brace yourselves for monstrous Windows phones.

Windows Phone 8 Finally Gets Support For 1080p

Windows Phone 8 is finally getting support for 1080p, in the third update to the platform, announced today. That’s the biggest part of the update, but there are a few other minor tweaks to Windows Phone 8. First off, you’ll now have another row of tiles, so you can have more content on your home…

If you’re a Galaxy S4 user desperate for an update, then you might want to grab SamMobile’s latest leaked build of Android 4.3. If you don’t mind the faff of installing it, that is.

Report: Advertisers Could Track You Via a Smartphone’s Accelerometer

Careful how you handle your phone: researchers have been testing out new surveillance techniques, and they think that you could easily be tracked around the web using your phone’s accelerometer. That might sound a little cooky, but according to the SFGate security researcher Hristo Bojinov has discovered that it’s possible to distinguish between individual devices…

HTC One Max: Shiny Aluminum, 5.9-Inch Screen and a Fingerprint Scanner

HTC’s zapped its flagship One design with its embiggening rays, and scaled the One Max up to gigantic proportions. At 5.9-inches, it’s in that scary land where it’s either a really large phone, or a phablet. We’re not quite sure HTC knows what it is either. On sale by the end of this week, the…

Is This Nokia’s Lumia 2520 Tablet?

Nokia’s will-they-won’t-they relationship with the tablet form factor looks to finally be coming to an end, with the Finnish company getting a big old “THEY WILL” badge, if news of the Nokia Lumia 2520 tablet is to be believed. Serial leaker @evleaks has snapped a shot of what he claims is Nokia’s first Windows 8…

How a Math Professor Predicted the Government Shutdown

To many of us, the government shutdown is inexplicable: a crazy situation, brought about a minority faction over a bill that’s already been passed into law. But for math professor Peter Turchin, it wasentirely predicable. New Scientist writes that Turchin, who applies math of complex systems to political instability, saw the situation coming in his…

Type:Rider Is a Mobile Game That Teaches You About Typograhy

We love typography at Gizmodo, so it’s no surprise that we’re rather taken by Type:Ride—a mobile game that let’s you solve riddles and puzzles while learning about fonts along the way. Available for iOS and Android, the game see players explore the history of typography as two dots: an umlaut or colon, depending on how…

Facebook has announced a new alpha program for its Android app, so super-early adopters can excitedly try out new features. Be warned, though: even Facebook engineer Christian Legnitto says it’s “not for the faint of heart.”

Fearless Felix Supersonic Space Jump Still Awesome One Year Later

Today is the anniversary of brave Felix Baumgartner’s space jump. His heart was racing at 185 beats per minute when he jumped from an altitude of 127,852 feet, then started to spin at 60 revolutions per minute and kept spinning for 13 seconds after jumping, reaching a maximum vertical speed of Mach 1.25. An incredible…

Is This LG’s New Curved Banana Phone?

There are only two ways to curve a phone. Well, too main ways. Samsung’s repping the horizontal axis approach with its Galaxy Round. But someone’s gotta go banana-style, right? According to leaked renders dug up by Engadget, LG is on it. Welcome to the weird future. There’s little known about this phone, thought to be…

Sonic 3’s Ice Cap Zone Theme Played on Floppy Drives is Totally Rad

When I was little, I was a huge Sega fanboy. Sure Mario is great and all, but Sonic was where it was at. Looking back, I’m not sure the gameplay holds up that well but you can’t deny there were some great tunes. And this is one of them, and even better on floppies. Put…

Netflix Is Trying To Make Partnership Deals With Cable Providers

According to The Wall Street Journal, Netflix is trying to initiate negotiations with cable companies like Comcast and Suddenlink Communications to integrate a streaming app in their set-top cable boxes. It will be interesting to see how this plays out given that cable companies have been worried for years about streaming services stealing viewers. Netflix…

Which Governments Prioritize Privacy and Which Lay On the Spying?

Privacy is on everyones’ minds in the U.S. since revelations about the NSA exploded. You can’t talk on the phone about some casual pot smoking anymore without your friend making the, “Hi NSA!” joke. And apparently for good reason. So Backgroundchecks.org pulled together a bunch of sources to make a global privacy scoreboard and rank…