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Netflix User Profiles Are Finally Here, This Is How They Work

Today, Netflix started rolling out the user profiles we’ve been hearing about. Huzzah, you can finally share an account with your roommate without your feed getting carpet-bombed by episodes of Jericho. The new feature lets you setup a maximum of five profiles per account. Each account can also be connected to Facebook so that you…

Hulu Is Coming to Chromecast

Chromecast launched with Netflix support, and now Hulu is working on bringing Chromecast support to its iOS and Android apps. There is no official date as to when it’s coming but a Hulu rep said it’s “actively working on it” with Google. Technically, you can already cast Hulu to your TV through the device in…

The Most Expensive Apartments in the World’s Most Expensive Cities

A few days ago Mercer, the global human resources consulting firm, published its current list of the most expensive cities in the world. According to their survey, the most expensive place to station an employee isn’t New York or Tokyo. It’s Luanda, Angola. Mercer looked at 214 cities and created a ranking based on the…

Nvidia Shield Teardown: A Lot’s Crammed Into This Strange Device

Nvidia’s slightly crazy Shield gaming device-cum-tablet is now in the wild, and iFixit has done what it does best and torn the sucker apart. https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-project-shield-hands-on-a-little-less-weird-tha-5974239 Turns out that there’s a lot squeezed into the frame of this hybrid device. As well as packing a serious GPU, it’s got a huge 7350 mAh battery (previous reports…

Sorting Algorithms Are Mesmerizing When Visualized

If you’re under the impression that something as simple as sorting numbers is dull, think again. This visualization lets you see and hear fifteen different algorithms sift their way through a jumbled mess of data—and it’s truly mesmerizing. The video shows the process—and matched “audibilization“—of fifteen different sorting algorithms dreamt up by computer scientists. While…

This Portable, Inflatable Furniture Is Inspired By a Rubber Dinghy

This furniture, dreamt up by German designer Philipp Beisheim, is inspired by inflatable rubber dinghies—which means you can take it anywhere. There’s a side table which has a wooden top supported by an inflatable base, and a stool which is made up from a blow-up seat resting on wooden legs. The inflatable parts are made…

USB Is Getting a 10Gbps Shot in the Arm

The USB 3.0 Promoter Group—honestly, there is such a thing—has finalized the next iteration of Universal Serial Bus, and it’s going to run at a lightning fast 10Gbps. The .1 upgrade will be entirely backwards compatible USB 3.0 and 2.0 kit but will obviously need 3.1 kit to run at full speed. The idea of…

How the Xbox One Is Designed To Be Left Switched on for 10 Years

There’s a reason Xbox One comes in that whopping great 1980s VCR style case, and it’s not because some one in authority at Microsoft went mad. It’s for cooling, to help keep it quiet and reliable—and so you can leave it switched on constantly for the next ten years. According to Digital Foundry, which spoke…

Google has decided to extend Google Sync support for Windows Phone until December 31st—which’ll give Microsoft longer to guarantee its mobile OS plays nice with Google Calendar and Contacts in the future.

Household 3D Printers Can Pay For Themselves in a Year

If you’ve been pondering over whether a 3D printer is a sound financial decision, here might be your answer: researchers have calculated that they can pay for themselves inside a single year. The study, conducted at Michigan Technological University, considered 20 common household items—smartphone cases, a garlic press, a shower head, the list goes on—listed…

Facebook has announced that it’s switching to using https connections for everyone browsing the social network—which should provide an extra layer of security when you’re doing, well, whatever you do on Facebook.

WSJ: A Retina iPad Mini Is ‘Likely’ to Arrive This Year

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple suppliers have been gearing up their production lines in order to churn out a new iPad mini with a high-resolution display—and it could, apparently, arrive sometime this year. According to “people familiar with the matter”, Apple has been working with LG, Sharp and Samsung to source high-res…

Panasonic GX7: A Mirrorless Camera Dream For Serious Photographers

With the Lumix GX7, Panasonic has created a pretty spectacular looking hybrid of all the mirrorless, interchangeable-lens camera technology the company has been developing over the last few years. We can’t wait. The GX7 is supposed to be a follow-up to the excellent GX1, which came out a few years ago, and Panasonic has changed…

Apple Finally Fixed the Bug That Let Fake Chargers Hack Your iPhone

The bug that allowed fake chargers to hack your iPhone has finally been fixed by Apple. Good! But you won’t get the software fix until iOS 7. Apple was alerted of the security hole earlier this year and the hack was demonstrated at the Black Hat hacking convention on Wednesday. https://gizmodo.com/your-iphone-can-be-hacked-with-a-modified-charger-510988017 Apple told Reuters that…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: You Only Live Twice

Uh oh, looks like somebody’s got a serious case of space madness. Either that or Nancy Sinatra’s siren song has already taken hold of his senses. Either way, this stranded astronaut is royally screwed. The creatives over at Wildlife.la crafted this Gulliverian tale of interplanetary exploration and eventual psychosis.

How Many of These 79 Words Can You Actually Pronounce?

I make an ass out of myself at least twice a month from butchering the pronunciation of a word. It’s always embarrassing! There’s only two things you can do when you have no idea how to say something, either quietly whisper but quickly gloss over the word so no one hears you or say it…

These Star Wars Parkour Guys Are Probably Real Life Jedis

If you dress up like a Jedi on a day that’s not October 31st (even if it is October 31st, actually), you’re probably going to be branded a geek. Wear that proudly! But if you dress up like a Jedi and do parkour tricks in the freaking desert like bouncing off rocks and double backflips…

What a Timelapse Would Have Looked Like When Dinosaurs Were Alive

This video is pretty bizarre but hey who doesn’t like dinosaurs, mammoths, dragons, giant bugs and timelapse videos? The timelapse video was shot at Borrego Springs, California, a small town that fiercely protects the darkness of the night sky by regulating outdoor lighting. It’s apparently 1 of 4 communities in the world that are considered…

Brazilian TV shows public blowjob happening live at volleyball game

If you are not at work and don’t mind seeing people having sex, go ahead and watch a blonde woman giving oral sex to a young man surrounded by the rest of the public at an international volleyball game. A Brazilian TV channel captured and broadcasted the event live. Despite what you may think, this…

How Horrified Are You by Your Facebook Search History?

If you’ll recall way back in September, Facebook started keeping track of every single time you compulsively searched for that one (or two, or three, or eight) special person you just can’t get off your mind. But almost as quickly as Facebook search history emerged from the darkest recesses of hell to remind us all…