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This Crazy Giraffe Floor Lamp Could Be a Pixar Mascot

A floor lamp isn’t typically a place you’d expect to find a lot of personality, but this one showcased at the Milan furniture fair has plenty of it. You’d half expect to see it prancing around on screen before a Pixar movie. Fittingly named “Giraffe” and desgined by Bernhard | Burkhard, the lamp’s extendable neck…

Tech News Eric Limer

What’s the One YouTube Video You Think Everyone Should Be Required To Watch?

If you had the chance to decree that everyone—everyone—would have to watch one YouTube video all the way through and pay attention the entire time, what would it be? It could be something important, historic, funny, dumb, or just something that no one else seems to like nearly as much as you do and you…

Tech News Eric Limer

The Stolen Computer That Traveled to Iran, A Box to Change Guitars Forever, The Navy’s Drone-Killing Laser Gun, and More

Kick back and relax with some of our cream of the Internet crop this week. We’ve got a giant hornets nest you’ll be glad you’ve never seen in person, a phone that’s (probably) bigger than your penis, lasers, the future of guitars, time machines, the key to six packs and more. Check it all out…

Tech News Eric Limer

It’s Super Easy To Try Facebook Home on Your Unsupported Android Phone

Facebook Home is here, and although it’s not tied to its flagship hardware, the list of phones that officially support it is kind of underwhelming. If the phone you have isn’t listed, have no fear: you can try out Facebook Home too, and the workaround is pretty easy. https://gizmodo.com/go-get-facebook-home-for-android-now-5994518 The process is almost identical to…

Social Media Eric Limer

Why Your Cell Phone Doesn’t Have a Dial Tone

In addition to the long curly cords, and the part where they are permanently attached to a wall, old-fashioned landlines have something else that we’ve lost in the cell phone revolution: a dial tone. What happened to that thing? Dan Goldin of Makers Alley just happened to be reading The Idea Factory when he came…

Tech News Eric Limer

Give Your Laptop and Smartphone a Spring Cleaning

It’s officially spring, so why is your computer still moving like it’s half frozen? After all those long winter nights surfing shady sites, it’s no wonder. Here’s how to give your most important devices a spring cleaning fit for a May Queen. Clean It Out The first thing you’ll want to do is clear out…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

These Are North Korea’s Favorite Things To Pirate

When North Korea isn’t busy shooting missiles into the sea or photoshopping its navy to make it look a little less pathetic, it takes to a very global hobby: torrenting. TorrentFreak took a peek into exactly what the would-be-supervillian nation-state likes to pirate and, well, they’ve got to get their surveillance software somewhere. https://gizmodo.com/how-far-can-north-koreas-missiles-actually-reach-5993715 With…

Tech News Eric Limer

Photoshop Has Changed the World

Can you imagine a world where Photoshop doesn’t exist? A world where we can take every picture at face value and believe that there was no airbrushing, no retouching, no nothing? I can’t. Photoshop has made it impossible for me to not question what I’m seeing and at the same twisted time has also redefined…

Tech News Casey Chan

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Tom N Jerry

And you thought the Warner Bros. cat and mouse duo had outlandish chase sequences? Psh. This CGI reboot by Brian Jin combine Tom and Jerry’s slapstick humor with an anime motiff and Michael Bay-caliber explosions as the duo wreaks havoc on an airport’s security installment (and takes down a terrorist for good measure).

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

I Love This Girl Who Splices Herself Into Awesome Facebook Cover Photos of Movies and TV Shows

Like the wonderful Libby Cooper before her, this girl is just beyond awesome. She remixes her Facebook Cover Photo so that her profile picture pops up seamlessly in movie sequences, TV shows and video games. It’s perfect. https://gizmodo.com/this-girl-has-the-best-facebook-cover-photos-5972714 Anyone with that kind of dedication to this kind of silliness will always be worthy of a…

Social Media Casey Chan

This Week’s Top Comedy Video: The Lineup

When you’re the one guy in the police lineup who doesn’t know everyone else, chances are it’s gonna be a bad day. Especially if you’re stuck there with these bozos. The rest of this week’s top comedy videos, including a goodbye, a fortune, and Seth Rogen, can all be found over at Splitsider. Other highlights…

Tech News Splitsider

What Famous Ads Would Look Like Today

It’s funny how fondly we look back at classic ads—print, commercials, anything—compared to how we react to ads today. That Apple 1984 commercial? Perfection. Those old VW Bug print ads? Soooo cute! Today? Ew banner ads. Ugh Flash. ZOMG what happened to my ad block!? There’s no room for art in advertising anymore because we’ve…

Tech News Casey Chan

Justin Bieber Has the Fakest Twitter Followers

Not to enrage the Bieber Nation or Beliebers or whatever Bieberian name tweens and post-tweens call themselves now, but it looks like a lot of the people who follow him on Twitter are fake. In fact, he has the highest number of fakeout Twitter followers out of the top 10 Twitter accounts. 16.7 million accounts…

Tech News Casey Chan

Leaked Details of Twitter Music Show That It’ll Connect to Spotify, Rdio, iTunes and More

Though reports had pointed towards Twitter releasing Twitter Music today, all we got was a landing page. Thankfully, designer Youssef Sarhan managed to pry some details from Twitter Music’s source code. Because of his awesome sleuthwork, we now know a lot more than we did before. Like how Twitter Music will let users connect with…

Tech News Casey Chan

Oscar Peterson Trio: C Jam Blues

Let’s go waaaay back for this one. Almost half a century ago, in 1964, the legendary Oscar Peterson Trio performed this great rendition of Duke Ellington’s “C Jam Blues” in Denmark. While Peterson could (and often did) burn through standards at breakneck speed, he lets this tune stretch out – displaying his famous Art Tatum-influenced…

Tech News Robert Schoon

Finder Codes, Ninja Jamm, and More

This week’s collection of apps went all over the place in terms of content. If you’re someone prone to bouts of amnesia during daily activities, there’s plenty to cure what ails you down below. Aspiring musicians and video chat-junkies won’t be disappointed either. Everyone else: maybe next week. Finder Codes: We all lose things once…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

Burner, Facebook Home, and More

This week saw a lot of iOS favorites finally coming to Android users. Even better, Android users got something an iPhone may never see: the no-longer-mysterious Facebook Home. Burner: You may already be familiar with the iPhone version of this disposable phone number app, but Burner has just opened up its brave, new, anonymous world…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

Status Board, Mail Pilot, and More

Productivity don’t come cheap—at least this week. Apps hitting costs in the double digits are practically unheard of, but this week saw not one but two apps offering to make your life better if you’re willing to cough up the cash. The choice is up to you. Status Board: Information-hungry iPad users are in luck…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

FAA: No, You Can’t Take Down a Plane With an Android App

Remember how the internet got itself all riled up a few days ago when it found out that it would only take one rogue Android user to hack and take over an entire plane? Yeah, about that—it’s not true. https://gizmodo.com/how-a-single-android-phone-can-hack-an-entire-plane-5994356 When Hugo Teso gave his demonstration at the Hack In The Box security conference, he…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

KFC Original Recipe Boneless Chicken: A Brief Review

KFC is putting original recipe herbs and spices on boneless chicken. We ate it. What Is It See name. Or, a big chicken tender. Design Bigger than strips! Also browner. Using It These actually do taste like original recipe, though they’re a little drier than regular chicken pieces or other strips. PROBABLY BETTER THAN POPEYE’S…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

This Crazy Giraffe Floor Lamp Could Be a Pixar Mascot

What’s the One YouTube Video You Think Everyone Should Be Required To Watch?

The Stolen Computer That Traveled to Iran, A Box to Change Guitars Forever, The Navy’s Drone-Killing Laser Gun, and More

It’s Super Easy To Try Facebook Home on Your Unsupported Android Phone

Why Your Cell Phone Doesn’t Have a Dial Tone

Give Your Laptop and Smartphone a Spring Cleaning

These Are North Korea’s Favorite Things To Pirate

Photoshop Has Changed the World

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Tom N Jerry

I Love This Girl Who Splices Herself Into Awesome Facebook Cover Photos of Movies and TV Shows

This Week’s Top Comedy Video: The Lineup

What Famous Ads Would Look Like Today

Justin Bieber Has the Fakest Twitter Followers

Leaked Details of Twitter Music Show That It’ll Connect to Spotify, Rdio, iTunes and More

Oscar Peterson Trio: C Jam Blues

Finder Codes, Ninja Jamm, and More

Burner, Facebook Home, and More

Status Board, Mail Pilot, and More

FAA: No, You Can’t Take Down a Plane With an Android App

KFC Original Recipe Boneless Chicken: A Brief Review

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Samsung Slashes $350 Off 49″ Odyssey Curved Gaming Monitor to Clear Out Stock on Amazon

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