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Shooting Challenge: Neon Signs

Neon signs are like looking at the future through the eyes of the past. They’re incredible, often custom cultural artifacts all around us. And for this week’s Shooting Challenge, photography an incredible neon sign. The Challenge Photograph a neon sign at night (or dusk). Basically, we want it on, not rotting away all depressingly in…

Tech News Mark Wilson

The Most Terrifying Cherry Blossom to Ever Take Flight

By 1945 Allied forces were knocking on Japan’s front door. As the Empire’s military grew increasingly desperate, it began to focus on eliminating the Allies’ willingness to fight—by intentionally crashing manned aircraft in kamikaze attacks. And for pilots aboard one breed of these notorious flying coffin, the MXY-7 Navy Suicide Attacker Ohka, death wasn’t the…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

How Yahoo Smartly Re-Designed Its Search by Not Changing Much

Yahoo search looks different today. It’s likely you haven’t noticed because, well, many, many, many, many people have moved on from Yahoo. To those remaining, or anyone rubbernecking in this morning, it sort of looks like just frumpy old Yahoo, slightly re-organized. But that’s by design. And keeping it visually consistent while improving the overall…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Does the Apple Logo Really Adhere To the Golden Ratio?

I’ve been fascinated with this premise for years now, and this week I saw this popular graphic pop up yet again: I’d seen this graphic debunked, but it wasn’t particularly rigorous, so I decided it was finally time to sit down and answer this for myself definitively. In researching this, the first thing to go…

Tech News David Cole

Your Home’s Wi-Fi Network Could One Day Replace Your Kinect

Gesture recognition systems like the Kinect, or the upcoming Leap Motion, rely on special hardware and require you to be in a specific place to detect your motions. A limitation that researchers at the University of Washington have all but eliminated by instead using the Wi-Fi network in your home to recognize gestures. Unlike the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

TweetDeck Redesign Hits a Tad Early, and Christina’s Gonna Be Pissed

TweetDeck is pushing out an update today! But something went wrong at Twitter HQ, and nobody bothered to review the post announcing the update before it went live. Don’t tell Christina. She’s gonna be freaking LIVID. If you head over to the post now, it’s been taken down. Luckily, we captured the post in all…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

What Changes Do You Most Want to See in Windows 8.1?

So we got another peek at Windows 8.1 this morning. That new search looks great (if you’re cool with Bing), and the Start Screen looks to be a lot more functional as well. But, naturally, we still don’t have answers on a lot of the deeper changes we’d really love to see, like high-DPI scaling…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

This Could Become the Largest Drug Scandal in US Sports History

Major League Baseball wants to suspend about 20 players—including lots of really big names—who allegedly took performance-enhancing drugs supplied by Biogenesis, a Florida anti-aging clinic. It the suspension goes through, it will become the largest performance-enhancing drug scandal in US sports history.

Sploid Jesus Diaz

The Controversial Story of the Arizona Desert’s Real-Life Biodome

Biodome wasn’t just the title of a 90s movie starring Pauly Shore and a Baldwin brother. Two decades ago, it was a real project just north of Tucson where for two years scientists lived inside a three-acre utopian greenhouse called Biosphere 2. What could go wrong? Everything, apparently! Biosphere 2 was and remains an amazing…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Charcoal’s Way More Fun in Liquid Oxygen Than It Is in Your Grill

All the cool kids know that playing with fire is totally awesome, but there’s only so much you can accomplish with the tools available to your everyday pyromaniac. Scientists can have a bit more fun, and this slow motion video of liquid oxygen tossing around a chunk of flaming charcoal is a great chance to…

Tech News Eric Limer

Mona Lisa’s New LED Lighting Shows Her Off Just as Da Vinci Intended

Working with Toshiba, the Louvre has recently completed an upgrade to the Mona Lisa’s lighting which will ensure that the museum’s guests will be able to experience the painting as it was intended to be—no matter the time of day or what else is going on nearby. Concealed in a shelf near the painting is…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Pandora Ditches PS3 and Xbox 360 Apps For a Special HTML5 TV Interface

Starting today, you don’t need to use a standalone application to access Pandora through your Playstation 3 or Xbox 360. The company has built a new HTML5 home for its services that’s specially tailored for your TV. Simply point your console’s browser to tv.pandora.com, login, and you’ll be good to go. The move on Pandora’s…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

18 Sculptures So Lifelike You’ll Swear They’re Real

We’ve seen scads of hyperrealistic paintings that trick our minds—but what about brain-befuddling sculptures? Meet Australian hyperrealist sculptor, Ronald “Ron” Mueck, who uses silicone and mixed media to create shockingly lifelike figures. https://gizmodo.com/34-hyperrealistic-paintings-youll-swear-are-photographs-5992867 The colors and proportions are nearly perfect on every piece—but what makes them so uncanny is their massive scale. For example, Mueck’s…

Tech News Attila Nagy

US Cellphone Company Now Offers 100% Free Plan With 4G Data

US phone operator FreedomPop is now offering a 100% free cellphone plan that includes “200 free anytime minutes (FreedomPop to FreedomPop calls are unlimited), 500MB of free 4G data, and unlimited free texts every month.” Additional minutes and data cost extra. The only catch: you have to use one of their cellphones.

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Michelle Obama Loses Her Cool: ‘Listen to me or I’m leaving’

After being interrupted by gay rights activist Ellen Sturtz at a fundraiser speech, Michelle Obama moved over to the protester and told her: “Listen to me or you can take the mic, but I’m leaving. You all decide. You have one choice.” The White House has deleted the exchange from the official transcript.

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Take a Look at Windows 8.1 in Action

By now you’ve probably read all about the upcoming OS update that is Windows 8.1, and come to terms with the fact that it’s perhaps not the complete redesign that was rumored, or you were hoping for. Still, this video does at least show you some of the changes you can find in action. https://gizmodo.com/windows-8-1-first-look-little-fixes-same-big-ideas-510444639…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Desperately Wanted Item Of The Day: The 3D-Printed Space Toolbox

This 3D-printed toolbox was designed to store tools for maintaining Europe’s Columbus research module, and now it is on its way to the International Space Station via European Space Agency’s latest ATV resupply spacecraft. (Liftoff is set for 23:52 CEST – 21:52 GMT – today, ESA says.) The main innovation is that it has little…

Tech News Attila Nagy

Is This the HTC One Mini, With a 4.3-Inch 720p Screen?

Following rumors about the future existence of an HTC One Mini, Estonian site forte.delfi.ee claims to be in possession of a device which fits that very description. Spoiler: if it’s real, it’s not that mini. https://gizmodo.com/htc-reportedly-working-on-a-smaller-version-of-the-one-486193927 The purported One Mini sports a 4.3-inch 720p screen, and the site claims it also features a dual-core processor,…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

This Is a Work Station Fit For an Emperor

This, as you might be able to tell, is no normal desk set-up. Designed to provide the ultimate in both comfort and productivity, we introduce to you the MWE Lab Emperor 1510 LX work station—and if you have to ask how much it costs, you probably can’t afford it. Update: Sorry, guys, it looks like…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Holy Crap, This Crazy New Wireless Plan Is Totally Free

We’ve been seeing a whole bunch of hungry little alternative service providers trying to cut into the big boys with low, low prices, but how about free? FreedomPop, the folks behind hotspots and routers that come with free data, just announced the first free wireless service plan. No, really. Free minutes, free texts, and free…

Tech News Eric Limer

Shooting Challenge: Neon Signs

The Most Terrifying Cherry Blossom to Ever Take Flight

How Yahoo Smartly Re-Designed Its Search by Not Changing Much

Does the Apple Logo Really Adhere To the Golden Ratio?

Your Home’s Wi-Fi Network Could One Day Replace Your Kinect

TweetDeck Redesign Hits a Tad Early, and Christina’s Gonna Be Pissed

What Changes Do You Most Want to See in Windows 8.1?

This Could Become the Largest Drug Scandal in US Sports History

The Controversial Story of the Arizona Desert’s Real-Life Biodome

Charcoal’s Way More Fun in Liquid Oxygen Than It Is in Your Grill

Mona Lisa’s New LED Lighting Shows Her Off Just as Da Vinci Intended

Pandora Ditches PS3 and Xbox 360 Apps For a Special HTML5 TV Interface

18 Sculptures So Lifelike You’ll Swear They’re Real

US Cellphone Company Now Offers 100% Free Plan With 4G Data

Michelle Obama Loses Her Cool: ‘Listen to me or I’m leaving’

Take a Look at Windows 8.1 in Action

Desperately Wanted Item Of The Day: The 3D-Printed Space Toolbox

Is This the HTC One Mini, With a 4.3-Inch 720p Screen?

This Is a Work Station Fit For an Emperor

Holy Crap, This Crazy New Wireless Plan Is Totally Free

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