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HTC is apparently planning to roll out Android 4.3 to One handsets in the US by the end of September—which is actually pretty good going consider the OS only launched in July.
Some images need little in the way of introduction. This one shows a soldier climbing a rope ladder attached to a helicopter above infested waters. Soldier. Rope ladder. Helicopter. Sharks. Wow. Originally captured way back in 1996, this images was recently picked from the US National Archives in honor of Shark Week. The original caption…
Thunderbolt 2 is barely a real thing yet, but that hasn’t stopped ASUS rolling out the first product on the market to use the interface. Now, you can buy a motherboard that sports the super-fast data link. The Z87-Deluxe/Quad ATX motherboard is the first to offer Thunderbolt 2, which combines four 10Gbps Thunderbolt channels into…
If you’re into tweaking and fiddling with your gadgets but don’t have the time to start a big project from scratch, the new Iris drone from 3D Robotics could be up your street. While 3D Robotics—the company run by ex-WIRED editor Chris Anderson—tends to concentrate on the maker community, it’s now decided to sell a…
Instagram is getting defensive: it’s trying toshut down apps that use “Insta” or “Gram” in their name. So long, fakers.
It’s the middle of August. It’s hot. You want to break open every fire hydrant you see. You view ice cubes as a precious resource. You see air conditioning as the greatest invention ever created. You can’t wait to forget that you are a sweaty pig. You are jealous of these three guys in Russia…
Because who wouldn’t want to blast away at Doc Brown, Paul Kersey, and Theo Huxtable in a Space Harrier-skinned third-person shooter?
Artists, illustrators, and designers of all kinds rely on Wacom’s line of drawing tablets. Up until now, the devices only worked as peripherals. But Wacom’s new line of fully self-contained tablets are the only devices you need to make art just about anywhere. The Cintiq Companion is Wacom’s attempt to integrate its own powerful stylus…
Okay, so, um, here’s your perception warping, good times stomping news of the day: Finding Nemo is a damn lie. Not in a oh fish can talk sort of harmless lie but in an oh my god Nemo would grow up to bone his dad sort of awful lie. The Fisheries Blog broke down the…
You can instantly recognize the opening credits of famous TV shows anywhere. Even if you replaced the characters and show title with technology like ElectRoulette did. That means the periodic table in Breaking Bad becomes acronyms in Texting Bad, The Simpsons turn into The Smartphones, How I Met Your Mother becomes about tagging mom and…
Tonight, after months of blood, sweat and tears a team of students from Wilmington, Delaware, broke the Guinness World Record and built the world’s tallest Lego tower. For the students, this victory was personal. They struck a powerful blow to their Lego arch-rivals, previous record-holder, the city of Prague. The American Lego tower stands over…
It’s never a good idea to mix guns and alcohol unless you’re using guns to shoot at alcohol. And we’re not talking about just popping pellets at empty beer cans, we’re talking about our friends at RatedRR firing AK-47s and AR-15s at full bottles of wine and champagne to create a bubbly (sorry) explosion. Watch…
Unlike their female relay runners kissing on the mouth, these rainbow-painted Russian Army tanks are just a happy mistake. Sadly, almost nobody—especially the military—is celebrating the gay cause in a fascist country that is actively prosecuting LGBT people. https://jalopnik.com/a-sexually-confused-russia-paints-its-tanks-rainbow-col-1168035698
A new study suggests that kinetin, a chemical frequently used in anti-aging creams, could be used to develop a treatment for Parkinson’s Disease. Forget regenerating your youthful skin—this chemical could be used to reverse the cell-death that causes, the deadly disorder which afflicts more than a half-million people in the United States. According to the…
Good god, how did evolution get to this horrible creature, this demonic caterpillar “that eats living flesh”? Everything about it is repugnant, the kind of stuff you could only imagine in horror movies and videogames. https://gizmodo.com/a-guide-to-the-ravenous-hellbeast-that-is-the-carnivoro-1032957256
Google’s YouTube app is getting a functional, stylish makeover Android today. Along with an updated, Google Now-esque, card-based design, you’ll also be able to enable your ADD by playing videos while looking for others, and devouring whole playlists. Bet Microsoft is jealous. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-is-super-pissed-at-google-for-breaking-its-yo-1150559202 In the new version of YouTube, all you have to do is…
Compact fluorescent bulbs might be magnitudes more energy-efficient than their incandescent counterparts, but they’re also all kinds of industrial and ugly looking. And if you don’t have a lamp or fixture that hides them under a shade, consider Guus Oosterbaans’ approach to making them considerably less of an eyesore. Like moths to a light source,…
Can you clean 40 lines of Tetris in 19.68 seconds? I can’t, but look at this guy breaking the 20-second barrier for the first time ever. The last time the world was so amazed was when Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier. It’s so freaking insane that this cat is freaking out. https://kotaku.com/this-incredible-20-second-tetris-game-must-be-seen-to-b-1167881897
After a successful Indigogo funding campaign and a closed trial period, design startup Whirlscape is finally making its Minuum Keyboard available to the public—giving you all the screen space you need by condensing your full, QWERTY keyboard into one, itty bitty line. What does it do? Minuum gives you all the keys you need in…
On August 14th, the amazing, hovering F-35B made its first, vertical, at-sea night landing on the USS WASP. We’ve seen it hover before, and even do a vertical take off, but man, nothing quite compares to the sheer night-vision, sci-fi awesomeness of this clip. https://gizmodo.com/watch-a-supersonic-jet-hover-with-breathtaking-stillnes-5496766 This successful test is just one of many stepping stones…
