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Google Is Adding Animated GIF Search

Finding the perfect animated GIF to describe your feelings is about to get easier—Google is adding new filters to image search that let you designate the specific file type you’re looking for. On the results page, there’s a button that says Search Tools. Select that and then under Any Type, you should see an option…

Shooting Challenge: Black & White, Night

I’m currently a grad student in Chicago and I was walking home from my campus to my apartment on Friday night. I took this at the intersection of Hollywood/Lake Shore Drive/Sheridan, it’s the northern entry onto LSD. I love how this intersection is always busy. I took the photo with my iPhone 4s (because I’m…

34 Black & White Photos Of Night

Black and white photography will always have a special aesthetic—but when you mix that look with night? Shadows and highlights marry into a void painted in silver. Here are the stunning results of this week’s Shooting Challenge. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-black-white-night-5990413 WINNER: Rain Room I was in London, England this past week and decided to check out an…

Shooting Challenge: Black and White, Night Gallery 2

It was a chilly night in Miami. My friends and I were sitting down in chairs in Coco Walk, Coconut Grove waiting for other friends to arrive. I remembered the shooting challenge and decided to take some shots. Shooting Summary: Camera: Samsung Galaxy S3 Focal Length: 3.7 MM Aperture: 2.6 Exposure time: 1/30 Iso: 1600…

You Will Desire This Watering Can Even If You Don’t Own Plants

There aren’t many plants in my small NY apartment, but I would throw down for this beautiful watering can out of pure respect for form. Designed by Paul Loebach, the x3 Watering Can combines modernism with industrial-chic for a perfectly proportioned sculptural whole. The name refers to the continuous shape of the metal tube, bent…

Report: Microsoft Is Being Investigated for Bribery

The WSJ reports that the federal government is investigating Microsoft for bribery. According to unnamed sources, Microsoft paid off foreign government officials to get software contracts. According to the report, the DoJ and SEC are looking into anonymous accusations that Microsoft paid off officials in China, Romania, and Italy. Regulators believe that the company may…

The “10 Hidden Positions” in Basketball, in Beautiful Visualizations

Basketball is a complicated sport. It’s got fewer traditional positions than any other team sport, but no less specialization, and far more fluid movement than many others. Two “point guards” can play drastically differently and still play the same basic position. Muthu Alagappan’s research makes some sense of that. Basically, Alagappan looks at what you’re…

Inside the Camera Technology That’s Changing How Basketball Is Played

That video up top is a play from a New York Knicks game agains the Toronto Raptors. It was captured and created using a video system called SportVU, which is licensed by 15 NBA teams from Stats LLC. Basically, they track where every player is for every second of every game. And for the first…

The Tongue Toothbrush Is the Grossest Way to Be Hygienic

Toothbrushes haven’t changed much. Sure some fancy tech wiz brushes spin the bristles themselves but at the end of the day, after centuries of use, we still have to hold the damn thing. Not anymore. The T2T is a hands free toothbrush that you slip onto your tongue to do your teeth cleaning. It’s the…

I Can’t Stop Watching Commenters Face Their Comments in Real Life

Last week on The Fusion Project, two Jalopnik commenters who wrote about the new Ford Fusion were surprised by Top Gear’s Rutledge Wood with an epic experience – a ride down Mulholland Highway’s tight and twisties in a Fusion piloted by rally and X Games champ Tanner Foust. Now, in this second episode, Rutledge surprises…

Apple Is Finally Fixing the iPhone’s Lock Screen Flaw with iOS 6.1.3

After testing it in beta, Apple is finally releasing iOS 6.1.3 to iPhone users. The update finally fixes that gaping hole of a security flaw that let anyone bypass the iPhone’s lock screen even if it had a passcode on it. https://gizmodo.com/ios-6-1-3-beta-fixes-iphone-lock-screen-security-hole-5986001 The software update also has improvements for Apple Maps in Japan. [9to5Mac]

Why Android Updates Are So Slow

If there is one complaint we hear from Android users more than any other, it’s the speed at which software updates arrive. Or don’t arrive. It’s especially tough on tech enthusiasts who read about all the advantages of the new update, but can’t get it on their own devices for six months, if at all.…

The Cheap $40 Roomba Alternative That Doesn’t Suck (But Probably Does)

If the Roomba’s $300 price tag is too rich for your blood, but you’re still on the hunt for a lazy way to clean your floors, OCedar’s roving, spinning O-Duster might just fit the bill. At just $40 the price is right, but there are other costs you have to consider. Namely, that this is…

The Verizon Galaxy Nexus just got an Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean update—finally.

Hacked Bike Headlight Projects Your Speed On the Road Ahead

Unless you’re blasting through red lights and stop signs, you don’t really need to care what speed you’re riding a bike at. But maybe knowing that you’re careening through traffic at a blistering eight miles per hour gives you some kind of thrill. In that case, check out Matt Richardson’s Dynamic Bike Headlight hack. Using…

Continuing yesterday’s theme, our friends over at Jalopnik have compiled 10 more awesome demolition videos. Enjoy.

7 Galaxy S4 Features You Can Get On Your iPhone Today

In addition to its high-end hardware, Samsung’s Galaxy S4 phone comes with a slew of proprietary apps that help improve your health, enhance your photography, control your TV and secure your business data. Though Samsung would certainly like iPhone users to switch platforms for these features, most of them are available in iOS via third-party…

Report: ABC Is Making an App For Streaming Live TV

ABC is reportedly planning an app that will let cable subscribers stream live network TV to a tablet or smartphone, the New York Times says. Lots of networks have apps where you can watch shows with a delay—CBS just released one last week. But this will be the very first time a major network has…

13 Shockingly Creative Ways Drugs Have Crossed the Border

Let’s clear this up right now: drugs are bad, smuggling is a crime, drug lords and their traffickers are black-hearted, vicious, malignant persons. But you have to admit: they’re pretty damn creative. And the means they’ve used to get their product to their customers through the years are nothing short of extraordinary. Here are 13…

First Ever Cellular-Level Video of a Whole Brain Working

This video is the first time scientists have ever been able to image the whole brain of a vertebrate creature in such a way that you can see individual cells and simultaneously how they’re firing and behaving in real time. This is how the brain really, really works—and it’s amazing. The research, published in Nature…