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There are a number of amazing gigapixel inaugortation images kicking around the web, but this one is by far our favorite—because it lets you tag anyone you recognize via Facebook. Put online by the Washington Post, you can pan and zoom to your heart’s content until you find your nearest and dearest. Then, you can…
A court filing has just been made public which sheds light on the “no-hire” gentleman’s agreements that have pervaded the tech industry—and reveals how Steve Jobs threatened litigation to prevent companies from stealing his staff. Notably, former Palm CEO Edward Colligan has made a statement which points out that the company was threatened with patent…
Gangnam Style has racked up enough views on YouTube to generate Google $8 million of revenue. Impressive. [Quartz]
Scooters, as a whole, aren’t exactly the coolest thing a person can ride. Maybe you had some ‘fun’ with them when you were a fifth grader but if you brought your scooter to the skate park now? The insults hurled at you would re-arrange the English dictionary. Well, unless, you rode scooters like these guys.…
Cannabis to Stay on Schedule One An federal appeals court put the kibosh on rescheduling cannabis today after a majority decision by the three-judge panel found in favor of the DEA. In October, Americans for Safe Access sued the DEA on behalf of an Air Force vet who was denied services for smoking herb prescribed…
NEX cameras owners should feel a bit better about their purchase after tonight, as Sony just announced two additional E-Mount lenses to pick from—a 20mm f/2.8, and 18-200 f/3.5-6.3 power zoom. The 18-200 actually already exists, but until now it was only available as a kit lens for the VG-30 camcorder. The new lens is…
500px, one of the best iPad apps for finding great pictures, was pulled from the App Store today because Apple is Tobias Funke never nude-levels of prudish when it comes to the naked body. Apparently, the app made it too easy to find pictures with nudity in them so it got kicked out. https://gizmodo.com/500px-for-ipad-look-at-the-most-beautifullest-pictures-5853680 500px…
Nick Douglas of Slacktory shows everybody how Facebook Graph Search, as awesome as it can be, will quickly devolve into a completely inappropriate search engine for finding MILFs, GILFs, pictures taken at the beach and anything of that nature. Basically, it’s going to start innocently with people trying to find others with the same music…
Even though business cards seemed like they would be one of the first things to get killed by some fancy techwiznology, they’ve managed to survive even though the use of dead paper is dying. Everybody has business cards—even the super rich and super famous. Here are a few business cards from people you definitely already…
I think everybody’s goal for 2013 should be to do something so awesome that you’d be included this wrap up video that shows how incredible humans can be. Yes, I understand that making it your life goal to be included in a YouTube video sounds ridiculously silly but watch it, it’s four minutes of extremely…
You saw our friends at Deadspin break the Manti Te’o story last week, right? And probably/maybe the best tweet in the world lobbed at Donald Trump, and Trump’s perfectly petulant responses? Here’s the logical end to an absurd week: Anderson Cooper giving a dramatic reading of Donald Trump’s tweets. https://deadspin.com/manti-teos-dead-girlfriend-the-most-heartbreaking-an-5976517 [CNN]
During Google’s earnings call today, Google executives made it clear that the acquisition of Motorola comes with quite a bit of baggage. More specifically, Google has “inherited a 12-18 month product pipeline” that Google CFO Patrick Pichette says the company is “still working through.” Yikes. The deal, which closed last May for $12.5 billion hasn’t…
Aerial refueling is an invaluable technique, not only extending a jet’s operational endurance, it allows for more and heavier equipment to be carried than would otherwise be possible. Since its inception in the biplane era, this technology has developed into what you see here: two F-35C Lightning II jets attached to the business end of…
Right now, Mega, the zombie file sharing service currently only useful for people with infinite patience and/or dial up Internet, doesn’t offer any sort of password reset or recovery system. If you forget your Mega password, you’re shit out of luck. That’s because the password you use is the master key in decrypting the files…
Going on a trip? Croatia? Sounds nice. No need to worry about your itinerary, just bank on recommendations based on the experiences by people who have already been there using Minube’s Android app. What does it do? Tells you what to see, where to eat, where to go, and where to stay, and gives you…
Last June, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman published a scantly-worded analysis of Estonia’s “incomplete” economic recovery on his NYT blog. Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves was not amused. Now, a Latvian composer has set Ilves’ Twiraide to music. Composer Eugene Birman’s interpretation, Nostra Culpa, will feature two acts and a pair of singers representing Krugman…
How do you keep track of your camera’s lens cap when you’re shooting? Do you carefully put it back in your camera bag for safe keeping, or, like the rest of us, just cram it into the nearest pocket where it’s occasionally forgotten and lost? Flickr user RawSniper1 does neither thanks to a brilliant lens…
Internet deity and Google co-founder Larry Page was just speaking live to investors for Google’s quarterly earnings call, and he sounds horrible. What the hell is going on here? Page’s throat problems aren’t new. Back in July of last year, he had to sit out from Google events, because as a Google spokesperson put it,…
Dropping your iPhone in the drink is always an unfortunate thing but if you drop Gamago’s iOS icon ice cubes ($8) in your glass, you’ll be the opposite of sad because your drink will be cold and your phone safe. Ice bath, good. Damaged phone rice bath, bad. Plus, they’re super fun, even if they…
The problem with robot vacuums like the Roomba is that they’re only designed to deal with dirt on the floor. The rest of your house—from furniture, to counter tops, to shelves—is left for you to clean: a chore made considerably more awesome with this remote control duster. You’ll still have to exert some level of…
