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MacRumors has laid its hands on a couple of images purporting to show the inside and rear shell of the next iPhone. The images seem to show the same logic board that appeared in a leak earlier this week. While the main chip isn’t conventionally branded with an Apple A-series prefix, the date stamp suggests…
The Guardian has obtained a series of documents which reveal that, while the NSA is expected to “minimize” collection of data suspected to belong to US citizens, any “inadvertently acquired” domestic communications can still be kept and used without a warrant. US officials have been at pains to insist that the NSA is only supposed…
A Tokyo court has ruled that Samsung infringed Apple’s patent for “bounce-back” at the ends of pages scrolling screens—which disagrees with the US Patent and Trademark office’s call that the patent is invalid.
Miami Heat won the 2013 edition of the NBA against San Antonio Spurs in the finals’ seventh game. The score: 95-88. LeBron James, with 37 points, was named NBA Finals’ MVP (Most Valuable Player) for the second time too. Photo by Getty Images.
Things change over time. Famous logos morph from black and white text into ornately embossed colorful graphics. Home screens go from a few icons to pages and pages. Phones go from bricks with numbers to slates with touchscreens. It’s just what happens. Little tweaks become overhauls. Just look at how your favorite soda cans have…
My Halloween costume dillemas have been solved in the course 0f three and a half adorably techno-filled minutes by London-based composer and DJ Postino. Now, to make a deer suit of my very own.
Soda is teeth sweeteningly delicious. That is undeniable. Slushies capture all that is good with soda but adds tongue tingling snowflakes into the mix. It’s absolutely perfect for the summer. But how can we soda sipping peasants experience the rare beauty of slushies at home? With a little bit of magic and a bit more…
On first glance, you probably thought these images were four different pictures stitched together with Pic Stitch for Instagram or something. I don’t blame you, it looks like a perfect windowpane. But what’s crazy is if you look closer, these four images are actually just one single photograph. What. Here’s a look of the set,…
Soccer celebrity David Beckham caused a riot in Shanghai when he appeared at a university there to play a demonstration football game with the school’s team. At least seven people were hurt when the crowd stampeded to get a better look at Beckham.
The world hasn’t ended yet, contrary to John Hodgman’s predictions. But because the coming global superpocalypse hasn’t happened, we can all experience Ragnarok. No not that Ragnarök. This one is just a John Hodgman special, streaming exclusively on Netflix as of today. The hour-long “film” is taken from Hodgman’s national book tour promoting his utterly…
A bearded wildman attacked a passing car with a spear on Tuesday, leading to the weapon becoming lodged in the vehicle’s fender and the arrest of 56-year-old Jeffrey Jones in Sacramento. https://oppositelock.kinja.com/man-throws-spear-at-car-does-passable-capt-caveman-im-514530587
If you think about how connected we are—smartphones in our pocket, computers on our laps, internet at our fingertips—it might be reasonable to assume that we kind of, sort of already are cyborgs. Can you imagine if someone in the past saw a person wearing Google Glass today? He’d totally believe that person was half-robot.…
Beijing is one of the earliest still-existant cities planned around a grid: the old city is organized around a chessboard-like matrix of alleys, known as hutong, that date back at least a millenium. But as developers in Beijing scramble to built modern towers in the urban core, hutong are disappearing. German photographer Christopher Domakis has…
Video for Instagram may be the talk of the photo app world today, but let’s not forget the smaller guys doing some incredible work. And Exbel from indie developer Yaser Almajed is one of them. What does it do? Lets you combine two different photos, one you’ve taken and one of Exbel’s extensive collections of…
The metal detector we’re all used to walking through at courthouses and airports got its start as the usual machinery made to keep the worker under the boot of the employer. The Germans created metal detectors as a more time-efficient method of searching workers leaving the factory.
Today we walk through metal detectors to get into courthouses, airports, and even concert venues. But back in the 1920s the first walk-through metal detectors weren’t invented for finding weapons (or nail clippers), they were invented for searching would-be thieves. Primitive handheld metal detectors date back to the 19th century, but it wasn’t until the…
Who will be the new heroes of the next Star Wars trilogy? There are many clues within the casting call from Disney/Lucasfilm—tough teen-aged girls, middle-aged military men and a cranky 70-year-old man who sounds like an elderly Han Solo. https://gizmodo.com/official-casting-call-reveals-the-characters-in-star-wa-517782093
Are you planning an early summer lakeside knife fight? To ensure you have the upper hand grab one of these floating cork knives. But really, how clever is this $26 blade? It’s summer, so you’re (hopefully) going to be spending a lot of time by the water. Maybe you’re fishing. Maybe you’re tending to the…
It’s no secret that a smaller version of the Galaxy S4, known as the Galaxy S4 Mini, is on its way. Nor is it hush-hush that a camera/phone hybrid known as the Galaxy S4 Zoom is coming. While there’s still no information about when these will make these over to the States, we just got…
Stock markets tumbled again today on continued worries about the U.S. government slowing down its steady purchases of U.S. bonds—the economic recovery hasn’t been strong or sustained enough to survive without the Federal Reserve constantly creating money to buy its own bonds. http://gawker.com/thanks-to-fear-of-the-feds-upcoming-actions-and-some-tr-521408295 The Dow Jones index is down 354 points, a drop of 2.4%…
