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Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Plastic Paradise is a documentary by Angela Sun about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch at Midway Atoll. It shows how plastic is ruining nature, causing birds and animals to die and polluting the waters. It’s pretty bad. The documentary analyzes the change that inventing plastic has had on our lives and tries to answer the…

Tech News Casey Chan

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Romney Pours a Glass of Water

With this election looming, it’s important to keep two seemingly contradictory ideas in your head: First, that voting is essential. And second, that laughing at politicians is an essential part of democracy. Especially when it’s Mitt Romney. The rest of this week’s top comedy videos, including some still spooky Halloween-themed fun, can be found over…

Tech News Splitsider

Twitter Is Trying to Be Instagram By Adding Photo Filters

Instagram created the photo sharing social network right under the feet of Facebook, Flickr and Twitter. Facebook decided to buy it and Twitter is now trying to replicate Instagram by adding photo filters of its own (Flickr is just… sad). The NYT reports that Twitter will “introduce filters for photos that will allow people to…

Tech News Casey Chan

Pretty Famous Celebrity Wears a Dress with 2,000 LED Lights That Shows Her Tweets

Nicole Scherzinger, who’s famous for once being a singer for the Pussycat Dolls but is still famous because she’s smokingly attractive, wore a Twitter Dress to an event. Not a dress designed by Marc Jacobs or Alexander Wang but a dress with 2,000 LED lights that display Tweets sent to her. The dress which has…

Tech News Casey Chan

The TSA Finds Weapons in the Darndest Places: Knives in Foot Powder, Knives in Lipstick and More

People, why do you hide weapons when you fly. You’re just asking for trouble! And seriously, is there a need to wrap knives in foil and then hide it in a bottle of foot powder? Or put a knife inside lipstick? Here are the weapons the TSA found in the weirdest places. People think they’re…

Privacy & Security Casey Chan

IMDB’s Top 250 Movies in 2 1/2 Minutes

If you can name all the movies in this quick hitting list (there is actually 303 movies in all) in order, you deserve free popcorn or something. Jonathan Keogh stitched this video together and it combines the top movies in IMDB’s venerable top 250 list. How many have you watched? Keogh says: From what I…

Tech News Casey Chan

Confirmed: Fleshlight Is STILL Developing an iPad Case You Can Have Sex With

You were getting worried, weren’t you. It’s been the better part of a year since we confirmed that the iPad sex toy case was going to (probably) be a real thing. I was worried. So we checked in with Fleshlight, who told us, Yes!-This is still going to be a thing! A Fleshlight spokesman told…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

The iPad Mini’s Screen Isn’t Retina But Its Pixels Are Super Small Compared to the iPad 2

The biggest beef that people will have with the iPad Mini (other than price, that is) is that it doesn’t come with a pixel dense Retina Display. It’s the only new iOS device-iPad 4, iPhone 5, iPod Touch-that doesn’t have one. But it turns out, its screen is still much better than the iPad 2…

Tech News Casey Chan

Movember, Amazon Cloud Drive Photos, and More

It’s been a really long week but we’re not done yet-as usual, here’s our latest edition of the best Android apps of the week. Movember: Have you joined our Gizmovember team yet? If not you should. And you can do it all right from the official Movember Android app. Free Amazon Cloud Drive Photos: If…

Tech News Leslie Horn

This 750-Pound Cannon Fires Delicious Tacos 200 Feet Because Texas

Taco Cannon? Taco Cannon. Created by the mexican restaurant Torchy’s for this weekend’s Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, this modified t-shirt cannon will be making several scheduled appearances. All the video of this thing in action on YouTube suck. If you shoot or find something better send it to us. [Upproxx and TMDaily]

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Google Search, Beamr, and More

We might be doing things a little bit differently this week, but it doesn’t mean we’re skipping out on our usual round of the week’s best iPhone apps. Google Search: This app got a lot of love this week-Google updated it to include the Knowledge Graph, meaning you can speak it a question and it…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Path, The xx, and More

A natural disaster hit our city on Monday, but the apps of the week don’t sleep. Path: The social network that limits your friend count to 150 just landed on the iPad. It’s not just a sized-up version of the app-it also features a new landscape mode that shows the top news from today in…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Victoria’s Secret Saved the National Guard’s Skin From the Hurricane Sandy Blackout

Like everything else in lower Manhattan, Hurricane Sandy knocked out power at the Nation Guard’s armory. The 69th Infantry Regiment would’ve been screwed. Victoria’s Secret saved their asses. Here’s how the servicemen got their groove back. Every year, the lingerie company tapes its fashion show at the regiment’s armory, and this year, it happened to…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Most Of Your Hurricane Sandy Knowledge Is Coming From A Man Who Doesn’t Believe In Global Warming

If it’s not already, the Wikipedia page on Hurricane Sandy will become the most widely viewed internet resource on the storm. And as PopSci discovered, it’s being largely controlled by a 56-year-old, unemployed Floridian who doesn’t believe in rising global temperatures. Ken Mampel, a one-time disaster reporter by trade, began editing the page on October…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

Our intern, Nick Stango, on Windows Phone

“You’ll love Windows Phone. It’s so alive!”

Tech News Leslie Horn

What Are You Doing Once Your Electricity Is Back?

Americans all over the East Coast (or at least between a few states of it) are without power, slowly losing sanity and hygiene. Who will charge their phones? What did light bulbs look like? They don’t remember. But we asked them what they’re gonna do when the juice flips back on, and they have very…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Power Is Being Restored Through Lower Manhattan Right Now!

People are cheering on the streets! Seems like Con Edison is going to make it and the entirety of Manhattan will haver power today. We are still updating our Sandy story liveblog here. I’ve never been so happy to see a traffic light! This is really good news. It means that the subway power-up of…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

How To Make Kick-Ass Emergency Cocktails Out of Whatever’s in Your Pantry

When the lights went out in a good portion of NYC and New Jersey, people holed up in their homes, and a lot of drinking occurred. If my Twitter feed is any indication, roughly 80 percent of those not in immediate danger got drunk. But even if you’re stuck at home, dipping into the emergency…

Tech News Brent Rose

Downtown Goes Dark on Foursquare

As saltwater poured into Manhattan, Manhattanites fled to higher, electrified ground like Wi-Fi rats. But other than tweets, we had no proof-until now. New Yorkers’ Foursquare checkins, charted by the company itself, show a massive exodus northward, out of the Dead Zone and into techie comfort. The difference of only a few days-from October 27th,…

Tech News Sam Biddle

So, Maybe This Climate Change Stuff Isn’t So Funny

After this week it’s hard to think that Mitt Romney’s joking dismissal of climate change at the Republican National Convention isn’t going to have some effect on his presidential campaign when the election dust settles. [Forecast the Facts via Matt Buchanan]

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Romney Pours a Glass of Water

Twitter Is Trying to Be Instagram By Adding Photo Filters

Pretty Famous Celebrity Wears a Dress with 2,000 LED Lights That Shows Her Tweets

The TSA Finds Weapons in the Darndest Places: Knives in Foot Powder, Knives in Lipstick and More

IMDB’s Top 250 Movies in 2 1/2 Minutes

Confirmed: Fleshlight Is STILL Developing an iPad Case You Can Have Sex With

The iPad Mini’s Screen Isn’t Retina But Its Pixels Are Super Small Compared to the iPad 2

Movember, Amazon Cloud Drive Photos, and More

This 750-Pound Cannon Fires Delicious Tacos 200 Feet Because Texas

Google Search, Beamr, and More

Path, The xx, and More

Victoria’s Secret Saved the National Guard’s Skin From the Hurricane Sandy Blackout

Most Of Your Hurricane Sandy Knowledge Is Coming From A Man Who Doesn’t Believe In Global Warming

Our intern, Nick Stango, on Windows Phone

What Are You Doing Once Your Electricity Is Back?

Power Is Being Restored Through Lower Manhattan Right Now!

How To Make Kick-Ass Emergency Cocktails Out of Whatever’s in Your Pantry

Downtown Goes Dark on Foursquare

So, Maybe This Climate Change Stuff Isn’t So Funny

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

Good News! You Can Finally Change That Ridiculous Gmail Address

ExpressVPN Just Launched ExpressAI: Your Prompts Are Now Invisible

VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

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Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

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