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Earlier this week a series of leaked photos showed off what could be Nokia’s full-on EOS 41-megapixel camera. Now, a video from the same source shows the thing in action—and it looks pretty serious. https://gizmodo.com/is-this-nokias-full-on-pureview-windows-phone-511584834 Published by Vizileaks on Twitter, the video shows close-up the lens focusing and the shutter opening and closing on what’s…
Interestingly, Apple’s Russian division has apparently just registered an “iWatch” trademark.
Since it’s become apparent that the NSA has been siphoning off data from phone companies and internet giants—spying on everything from phone records to Facebook—the internet is awash with people ready to make a stand. But what are you going to do? https://gizmodo.com/the-nsa-and-fbi-have-been-spying-on-our-internet-habits-511750202 Are your outraged enough to cancel your Verizon contract, quite Facebook and…
This concept case by Airbus, which pairs up directly with your iPhone, could mean you never lose your bag again. Called Bag2Go, it uses a GPS-tracker, 2G mobile connection, and an RFID chip built directly into the case itself to record its whereabouts. The idea is, primarily, to allow airports to pair its unique ID…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Hugh D’Andrade decided to give the NSA’s logo a makeover following recent events. How very, very accurate. [Hugh D’Andrade via Boing Boing] https://gizmodo.com/the-nsa-and-fbi-have-been-spying-on-our-internet-habits-511750202
Perhaps understandably, the likes of Facebook, Apple, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft et al are all flatly denying allegations that they allow the NSA direct access to their servers. Importantly, that’s not the same as not sharing data with them.
So PRISM totally exists. James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, basically confirmed the Washington Post and Guardian report about how the NSA can pry data from Apple, Facebook, Google and whoever else. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-prism-511875267 Here’s what Clapper wrote about PRISM: The Guardian and The Washington Post articles refer to collection of communications pursuant to Section…
CV Dazzle is the surefire way to both fool closed circuit cameras and look like you got ready for a KISS concert while drunk. In the dark. Having never actually laid eyes on the band but only understood their stage presence from second-hand descriptions sussed from the incoherent ramblings of a blind hobo named Crusty…
Neanderthals weren’t smoking cigarettes. They weren’t breathing in pollution. They weren’t eating processed foods. They weren’t dealing with pesticides. Nope. But apparently, Neanderthals still got cancer. This 120,000-year-old bone fragment reveals a cancerous tumor. Neanderthals, they’re just like us. The case of fibrous dysplasia in this Neanderthal bone is believed to be the oldest tumor…
Sometimes when the music is really good and the sound is really loud and the pill is really potent, you can see what you hear. But that’s just brain tricks. This, however, is real and mesmerizing. Watch how different audio frequencies can create mind blowing visual patterns. It’s a kaleidoscope of sound. It’s basically a…
Though the Nike MAGs are already nostalgically beautiful in their own Back to the Future style, this custom Iron Man version of the Nike MAGs transforms the boot into something even more futuristic. Something that Tony Stark would invent. Something that you could imagine as part of Iron Man’s armor. Something that I so desperately…
Welcome friends! In less than an hour, Apple’s going to take the wrapping off of the all-new, Jony Ive-powered iOS 7, and we’ll be covering it all live, right here. What else are we expecting out of WWDC 2013? New MacBooks, OS X improvements, better iCloud, and maybe even a surprise or two. The keynote…
We live in a world full of cyborgs, though most of us don’t notice it. More than 200,000 men and women around the world wear cochlear implants – devices that look like hearing aids, but which actually convert sounds into direct nerve impulses that travel down the auditory nerve bundle and into the wearer’s brain.…
It was only last month that Trent Reznor popped out of nowhere to surprise announce the first Nine Inch Nails album in half a decade, and already we’ve got this juicy morsel to gnaw on. Damn it’s good to have new Nine Inch Nails. The first single off the first NIN album in half a…
First we found out that the NSA had been keeping track of all of every single US Verizon customer’s phone activity ever since the Boston bombing. Just an hour ago we learned that tech companies were in on the act. And now? The punchline: According to NBC News, every single phone call made in the…
Chinese hackers have been doing their cyber espionage thing for quite a while. In fact, back in 2008, hackers from China hacked two huge whales: the Presidential campaigns of both Barack Obama and John McCain. The hackers managed to steal internal documents from both Obama and McCain. NBC News reports that Chinese hackers wanted to…
Wow. Nothing is sacred. The Washington Post has discovered that the NSA and FBI have teamed up to tap into the servers of nine US tech companies—Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Apple, you name it—and have extracted e-mails, photographs, audio, video, documents and connection logs. They basically have free reign to take whatever they want. And they’ve…
It’s sort of a utopian nerd dream, using the internet to be educated by the best universities in the world. We have online universities now, but they’ve become more targets of mean jokes than legitimate means to further education. But increasingly, that’s beginning to change. Georgia Tech announced the very first online master’s degree in…
Lifejackets, wall fixtures, Nerf guns, orthopedic shoes: all things that make life just that much better and all things that rely on the magical properties of velcro hook and loop fastening systems. Which you might know by the more ubiquitous brand name, Velcro®. Because when you call something “Velcro,” you’re referring to a very specific…
Imagine our world without polar ice caps. The most dismal global warming predictions look something like this new imagery from NASA that shows the mountains of dry old Antarctica without the covering of ice we’ve come to expect. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-what-antarctica-will-look-like-without-all-that-452404119
