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Would You Pay Less for Backup Storage You Can’t Immediately Access?

So Amazon Glacier is here as super cheap storage for “data that is infrequently accessed and for which retrieval times of several hours are suitable.” But that’s different from a lot of the storage you might have used in the past. https://gizmodo.com/amazon-glacier-locks-your-data-in-a-fortress-of-solitud-5936507 For your day-to-day life, would you want to take the discounted price Amazon’s…

What Happens to Your Life When the Cloud Disappears?

Steve Wozniak recently lost his calendar. Mat Honan saw his iCloud security breached and his entire digital life was obliterated. In the cloud, when something goes wrong, you are screwed. There are no rules to stop it, no protections in place. There’s no responsibility. Companies like Apple or Google or Microsoft or Dropbox change features…

Why We’re Losing the Password War

LinkedIn, eHarmony, Yahoo—it seems like we hear about a new hack just about every week now. We all know the password rules—don’t use your mom’s maiden name, don’t use your pets name, use numbers and random letters. But despite those guidelines, we could be more screwed than we even thought. Ars Technica has a good…

Fly Fishing Snowboard Bridges Summer and Winter Pursuits

Those who like to stay active all year long probably have a basement filled with gear that can only be used during certain parts of the year. So the folks at Signal Snowboards decided to build something that could be enjoyed whether it was balmy or snowy outside with this versatile fly fishing snowboard. The…

Amazon Glacier Locks Your Data In a Fortress of Solitude

If you’ve got a lot of data that you rarely touch, Amazon wants to put it on ice. Amazon Glacier is a new ultra-cheap cloud storage offering from Amazon Web Services that’s designed for companies—or data-hoarding individuals—who have a lot to stow away for the long haul. The advantages of Glacier are prices as low…

Windows 8 Pro costs $200 at launch, says the Verge. That’s comparable to Windows 7 Pro, so no NEWTHING discount. [Verge]

iPhone 5 Commercial Is a Hilarious Parody Inspired by Us All

My iPhone isn’t so much my phone as it is my SMS and Email Device—which is to say, I talk on the phone not nearly often enough to warrant calling it that. But, hey, the name seems to have stuck. Probably the next most popular iPhone use, generally, is to snap food pics and post…

A Search Team May Have Finally Found Amelia Earhart After 75 Years

Seventy-five years after Amelia Earhart disappeared, people are still looking for her. In fact, just last month, a search team started a search expedition only to leave without discovering Amelia’s wreckage. Or so they thought. The team recently took a closer look at the underwater images they captured and now think they may have found…

The Stoner Channel: Rio Says No to Crack, Growers Say Yes to CO2, and a Boy Searches for His Bunyan

Eclectic Method – Bill Murray Celebrate Bill Murray’s heroic decision turn down the inevitable clusterfuck that will be Ghostbusters 3 with this supercut of his most beloved performances.[Buzzfeed] Rio Drug Dealers Say No to Crack Crack cocaine is more trouble than its worth—for the user, for the larger society, and in Brazil at least, for…

Samsung Says the Minuscule Sales of the Galaxy Nexus Means It’s Not a Threat to Apple

In the other court battle between Apple and Samsung, Apple is accusing the Galaxy Nexus of violating Apple’s “universal interface for retrieval of information in a computer system” patent with its Universal Search. Samsung is saying Apple shouldn’t feel threatened by the Galaxy Nexus because the sales of the phone are so “minuscule”. Really. According…

The Fifty Shades of Lorem Ipsum: NSFW Dummy Text Generator

The Fifty Shades of Grey is the most successful, badly-written book around—so bad, the prose reads more like lorem ipsum dummy text than actual best-selling literature. Fiftyshadesgenerator.com is a single-serving site that offers an alternative filler to your regular TKTKTK. Thank you, Internet, for doing what you do so well. [DesignTaxi]

Leaked iPhone 5 Part Fitting Perfectly Into Leaked iPhone 5 Case Might Mean That This Really Is the Next iPhone

We’ve seen this rumored two-tone, elongated unibody design so many times that it’ll be surprising if the next iPhone doesn’t look like this. And now we have even more possible evidence that this really is the next iPhone: the leaked parts that popped up on Friday fit perfectly inside the leaked iPhone body that’s been…

Clayton Hawkins: 1nternet Friends

Up-and-coming hard pop artist Clayton Hawkins today released the music video (above) for the super catchy song “1nternet Friends,” off his brand new EP, Pixels, (dropping later this month). Gizmodo caught up with Clay, who was happy to spill the story behind Pixels and “1nternet Friends”… On the first day of recording my first solo…

AT&T limiting Facetime over 3G might be a violation of FCC rules says the New York Times.

Where Has This Glow-in-the-Dark Bike Been All My Life?

People have been coming up with all sorts of flashy, bright accessories for cyclists to wear after the sun goes down. But why on Earth has it taken so long for someone to come up with a bike that glows in the dark itself? Well, finally, that bike is here. The Kilo, by Pure Fix…

Happy Birthday, Voyager 2: 35 Years Later, NASA’s Oldest ActiveCraft Crests Into Interstellar Space

Just last week, Voyager 2 became NASA’s longest operating spacecraft, and today, the mighty craft celebrates its 35th anniversary. What a long way it has travelled! Voyager 2 launched on August 20th, 1977, 16 days before its twin Voyager 1 took off. (Yes, we realize that’s confusing.) Voyager 2 and Voyager 1 are 9 billion…

Do You Buy Your Movies and TV Shows from iTunes or Amazon?

I don’t know how I’ve lasted this long on the Internet without deciding to sell my credit card’s soul to either Amazon or iTunes for movie watching and tv show buying purposes but I think it’s come to the point where I should pick one and move on with it. So which should I choose?…

This Is the First Website Ever—Rebooted

Once upon a time, Tim Berners-Lee took the concept of Hypercard and turned into a world of networked pages. Then there was the first website ever, a boring but clean and well-lighted place that started with the title: “World Wide Web”. I love that title and this part: “Everything there is online about W3 is…

Mixel: Make Instant Collages From Your iPhone Pics

A picture can say a lot on its own, but sometimes a story is better told with several images. You can do that by creating digital scrapbook pages with your iPhone pics using Mixel. What does it do? Makes collages out of your photos. Why do we like it? You see a lot of apps…

TV Reporter Ties Herself to a Lamp Post to Broadcast In the Middle of a Typhoon

This would be hilarious if it weren’t so damn scary: this reporter decided to tie herself to a lamp post 20 minutes before typhoon Haikui hit Ningbo, a city on the northeast coast of the Zhejiang province, China. She barely survived, as you can see in this video. [Thanks Karl!]