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Access Your Media From the Cloud on Any Device with QVIVO

Do you have a large collection of movies and songs that you want to access across a wide range of devices? If so, you should check out the QVIVO media player (here’s a free 14-day trial). It stores your media files in the cloud and, as long as you’re connected, allows you to stream them…

Inside the GoPro Hero 3: The Secret To Getting Huge Pictures Out of a Tiny Camera

What the little GoPro Hero 3 lacks in size, it makes up for in big pictures. But what makes that rugged camera work? The teardown scientists over at iFixit took a look under the hood of GoPro’s latest. What did they find? Of course the powerful camera that can capture 4K video is home to…

Bravo Samsung, Your Ad Actually Makes Me Want To Buy a Washing Machine

For some reason washing machine commercials are still stuck in the 1950s. They mainly feature scenarios targeting the suburban housewife who’s struggling to juggle the responsibilities of a busy household: an approach that’s as non-inclusive as it is insulting. So Samsung, we applaud you for thinking outside the box with this brilliant ad for your…

Internet Explorer vs Murder Rate Will Be Your Favorite Chart Today

Like its author says “I know correlation doesn’t imply causation but…” But I think that, in this case, we may be onto something [Twitter] p.s. If you take this seriously, you are an idiot and you should go stick your head up some dark hole.

You Can Get a Cheaper, Personal Version of Basecamp Now

A personal version of Basecamp, the well loved project management system for businesses, is out now for $25. Project management software sounds boring and staid and zzzzzzz and that’s probably about right, but it’s also crucial to, like, getting anything done, so this is nice for anyone who’s got personal side projects they want to…

Giving This Robot a Chainsaw Could Be Mankind’s Greatest Folly

Created as a performance piece for the 2013 Interior Design Week in Cologne, Tom Pawlofsky and Tibor Weissmahr figured it was a great idea to equip an industrial robot arm with a chainsaw to carve stools out of a tree trunk. Thanks to clever programming, the robot is able to carve the stools with absolute…

The Definitive Compilation of Segway Fails

Helmet? Check. Segway? Got it. Total dweeb status? Done and done. Under normal circumstances, it’s hard to look at someone riding the personal transportation system without cracking up. But try watching a series of people falling off of Segways, and it’s utterly impossible to keep a straight face. From what it looks like, the Segway…

Eames House Alphabet Blocks: M Is For “Make Your Kids Cooler”

Terrible aesthetics and children’s toys go hand in hand. Barbie’s “Dreamhouse” is an uninspired architectural disaster, and the font used on most alphabet blocks leaves design-minded parents actually missing Comic Sans. But what’s the alternative? How about a set of alphabet blocks with beautiful typography and iconography that also happen to assemble into a miniature…

12 Months of Xbox Live Gold Are $35 Today

Xbox Live isn’t perrrrfect—we wish the streaming half weren’t still paywalled—but for a lot of us, it’s how we game and stream and basically use our TVs in any way at all. So it’s necessary. And a year of it’s $35 today (usually $60). So that’s a pretty good deal! [Buy via Twitter] https://gizmodo.com/its-time-for-xbox-live-gold-to-be-free-5915635

25 Bizarre Aircraft That Don’t Look Like They Should Fly

Aerospace engineers have come up with some revolutionary forward-thinking amazing straight-up insane designs. Sometimes these dreams never make it off the drawing board, but sometimes—some wonderful times—they become real. And when these alien bodies lift off into the firmament, it’s like watching a spaceship transporting the human race directly into the future. Check these amazing…

Suction Cup Viewfinder Makes Your iPhone Slightly More DSLR-Like

If you’re a professional photographer who’s reluctantly embraced the iPhone as an occasional alternative to your DSLR, you’re gonna love Photojojo’s latest smartphone accessory. It’s a suction cup viewfinder that sticks your iPhone’s display letting you block out all the distractions around you and frame your shots the same way you would with your full-sized…

AT&T just bought Alltel for $780 million to make its coverage better out in the boonies.

A Sea of Cell Phones, Snapping Pics of the First Couple During the Inaugural Slow Dance

In the background of this photo, the Commander-in-Chief and his lovely wife are dancing to Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together” for the Inauguration Ball slow dance. But you can’t really tell. What you see is a swarm of arms and cell phones angling to snap a picture of the first couple in an intimate moment…

Got a 3D Printer? Build Yourself a Loyal Robot Companion

They’re not in every home just yet, but if you’re lucky enough to have a 3D printer at your disposal, a French sculptor by the name of Gael Langevin will let you create more than just plastic trinkets. He’s spent the past year developing a 3D printable robot, and has made the open source plans…

This Interactive Map Lets You Spy on Insecure Webcam Feeds

This new web app mashes together insecure feeds from Trendnet home security cameras with Google Maps to let you spy on people all over the world. It’s horrible, dreadful, disgusting—and utterly compelling. There is no getting around the fact that you are taking a peek into some very, very personal environments here—and if you head…

This Is the First Official Firefox Phone (But It’s Just for Developers)

Mozilla has just announced a Developer Preview Phone that will come sporting its new, in-development Firefox OS. It has basic specs, is just for developers and looks… very, very orange. It features a 3.5-inch HVGA touchscreen, 1GHz Snapdragon S1 CPU, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of storage, WiFi, and a 3-megapixel camera. Like we say, basic.…

Report: Xbox 720 Will Pack an 8-Core AMD Chip, 1.2 Teraflops of Power

How does an 8-core 1.6GHz chip backed by a 768-thread-packing GPU in your Xbox sound? Apparently the Xbox 720, or whatever it ends up getting called, will boast 1.2 teraflops of processing power. Those gun-toting scumbags are never going to look so real when you blow their heads clean-off with your Barrat .50 cal. The…

Leaked Screenshots Suggest HTC’s Sense Skin Will Be Massively Simplified

HTC’s Sense skin for Android has long been a bloated skeuomorphic mess, with aluminum ring pulls, flip clocks and fancy weather animations. If these leaked screenshot are accurate, though, that all looks set to change—for the better. These images were posted by XDA developer mdeejay, who claims to have a working port of the forthcoming…

Intel Launches Budget Ivy Bridge Processors

Now that Intel has its efficient and expensive Ivy Bridge microarchitecture in tablets and computers everywhere, it’s decided to launch a budget-friendly line of processors which use the same 22nm manufacturing process. CPU World reports that Intel is launching three Celeron CPUs, four Pentiums and a new Core i3 processor, which should theoretically be available…

Under the Hood of Facebook’s Graph Search

Facebook’s new Graph Search is an ambitious project, and brings with it the need for some serious computational grunt. Here’s how Facebook is taking on that challenge. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-facebook-graph-search-5976186 Slashdot has a great in-depth article about Facebook’ solution, called the Disaggregated Rack. Though it may sound like an elaborate torture device, it’s actually a clever solution…