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You Could Be Eating Genetically Engineered Frankenfish Without Even Knowing It

In 2008, after what has been referred to as an “unusually severe storm,” a Panama facility for genetically engineered AquAdvantage® Salmon lost its first commercial-size batch of fish. The entire batch—poof!—vanished. The salmon were created at a facility on Canada’s Prince Edward island by fertilizing the eggs of non-GE Atlantic salmon with milt from GE…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Will Someone Please Teach Chuck Grassley How to Put His iPhone on Silent? (Updated)

Official Worst Tweeter Chuck Grassley today further proved his technological ineptitude, when in the middle of his own speech on the senate floor, the senator’s iPhone began to ring, interrupting his discussion of some unspecified “standards.” Grassley looks plainly irritated as he roots around his pants pocket for the offending device. After three rings, much…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

There Is a House Sprouting From Atop This 7-Story Building

Fallen Star, a cottage built from scratch and permanently joined to an existing building on the campus of UC San Diego, is the latest piece of work from South Korean installation artist Do Ho Suh. Seven years after the artist’s initial sketch, Fallen Star is ready for visitors; the 70,000-pound house opens to the public…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

How Streaming Music Will Change Culture for the Better

Forget, for the moment, about how much Spotify pays out to artists. Focus instead on the nature of those payouts. In the olden days (i.e. 20 years ago), recording artists had to convince you to fall for their music once – just long enough to buy a CD. Since the inception of pop music as…

Tech News Eliot Van Buskirk - Evolver.fm

Loopcam: Make GIFs, Spread ‘Em Everywhere

GIFs are wonderfully fun. But they’re even better when you can pass them around to your friends. Loopcam is an app that lets you create these little animated snippets and make sure everyone you know on Tumblr gets to see them too. What does it do? It lets you create and share gifs in a…

Tech News Leslie Horn

The Desk You’re Actually Encouraged to Scribble All Over

If you’re a brainstormer, or are prone to compulsive list making, then Miguel Mestre’s My Desk is probably your type of design object. Centered around a giant 100×70 centimeter sketchpad, the desk will let you go back to the drawing board again, and again, and again, and again. Just don’t put anything on it. Or…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Is Canon’s First Pancake Lens Ready for Its Close-up?

According to Canon Rumors Friday could bring the announcement of Canon’s first ever pancake lens, a 40mm f/2.8 piece of glass. And considering the flattened beauties are all the rage right now, we hope that’s the case. Pancake lenses are known for being small, lightweight, and just plain pretty, although they generally cannot match the…

Tech News Michael Hession

This Simple Gas Pump Nozzle Screen Could Save Millions of Liters of Dripped Gas

Spilling gas on your shoes after you fill your car seems like just a small annoyance. But it happens to everyone, and apparently all that wasted fuel adds up to about half a billion liters of fuel lost every year. An epidemic this simple mesh cap promises to solve. Created by a Canadian company called…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Unedited: This CO2-Powered Gauntlet’s Claims of Crushing Prowess Are Unimpressive

It might look like a bad-ass start to your own Iron Man suit, but on closer inspection this $3,300 CO2-powered Exo-Gauntlet on Etsy won’t quite give you Tony Stark-like superpowers. In fact, its claims of crushing cans, plastic cups, and bruising arms don’t exactly seem like they’ll make any our superhero fantasies come true. And,…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

This Beautiful Device Turns Your iPhone and Android Into an Ultra-Thin Laptop

This is the ClamBook, a super-sleek, airier-that-Air thingamajig that has a 16:9 widescreen, a keyboard, and a battery. It will turn your iPhone or Android cell into a beautiful, ultra-thin laptop. Obviously, not as powerful as a real laptop, but as useful as many. There are no many technical details about it yet, though. They…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Is This Google’s Nexus Tablet?

Though it might look like the original iPhone, this could possibly, maybe, actually be the Nexus Tablet that Google has been working on. Phone Arena received these pictures and believe that the images are leaked shots of Google’s upcoming tablet made by ASUS. It’s possible, of course, the Google and ASUS lovechild tablet has long…

Tech News Casey Chan

Bigpenis, and 6.5 Million Other Sad, Stupid Leaked LinkedIn Passwords

LinkedIn weakly admits still denies it was hacked, despite the fact that you can download a 270 MB list of all its hacked passwords. Was yours part of the list? That depends—was your password cockmaster? Find out below. The database check, LeakedIn (get it?) will let you check your password to see if it was…

Privacy & Security Sam Biddle

Lost Report of Lincoln Assassination Physician Found After 147 Years

Dr. Charles A. Leale, a young army surgeon on leave for the evening, was the first physician to reach President Lincoln’s side at Ford’s Theater and the first to prognosticate the President’s demise, “His wound is mortal. It is impossible for him to recover.” However his full account of the events on April 14, 1865…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

The Wild Journey of a Packet: How the Internet Works

The internet is vast and complex, and most users are completely oblivious to its inner-workings (which are amazing, by the way). If you find yourself in the dark, perhaps this video will help. Created by the World Science Festival, There and Back Again: A Packet’s Tale is the story of what happens each and every…

Tech News Michael Hession

This Razor Dirt Rocket Bike Is Your Hog Wild Deal of the Day

When I was a kid I had a little orange scooter. It was completely foot-powered—no motor or anything because that just wouldn’t have ended well. But I always craved more speed from their gas-powered cousins. Now as an adult, I would love to jet around on a motorcycle, but without the special license and training,…

Tech News J.D. Levite

The Cash Register of the Future Wraps the iPad in Beautiful Bamboo

You can add the cash register to the list of endangered technologies that tablets and smartphones are killing off. But the iPad and Square-powered Cashbox promises to give them one last hurrah before they completely fade away. The lovely wooden enclosure includes an iPad connected to a Square reader, which makes swiping credit cards a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Army Scientists Build a Better Battery

Single-cell batteries have an inherent design limitation that prevents them from producing more than 4 volts—they simply can’t do it, there isn’t enough energy density to produce that extra bit of output. That is, until now. “This is what you would call a quantum leap,” Army researcher Arthur Cresce said in a press release. “We’ve…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Twitter’s New Bird Logo Is So Different You Might Not Even Notice It

Twitter introduced a new, updated bird logo today and it’s ever so slightly different from its previous bird logo. The color is a shade darker, the beak is a bit higher and it looks more like a soaring dolphin than a buoyed whale. According to Twitter: Our new bird grows out of love for ornithology,…

Tech News Casey Chan

Google Has Its Own Fleet of Airplanes to Map the World in 3D

Talking about what goes into its improved 3D maps, Google casually mentioned today that it uses a fleet of airplanes to repeatedly fly over cities, shooting photos at 45-degrees and from directly overhead. That’s cool tech, and all, but, like, Google has its own damn fleet of airplanes. The data from the planes is combined…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

These Incredible Lego Beasts Liven Up Iowa State’s Reiman Gardens

Reiman Gardens, the 14 acre park that serves as entrance to Iowa State University already supports a wide variety of local wildlife. But this summer, the gardens will host another type of menagerie—one made entirely of Lego. As part of the “Nature Connects” exhibit at Iowa State, Certified Lego Builder Sean Kenney and his team…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

You Could Be Eating Genetically Engineered Frankenfish Without Even Knowing It

Will Someone Please Teach Chuck Grassley How to Put His iPhone on Silent? (Updated)

There Is a House Sprouting From Atop This 7-Story Building

How Streaming Music Will Change Culture for the Better

Loopcam: Make GIFs, Spread ‘Em Everywhere

The Desk You’re Actually Encouraged to Scribble All Over

Is Canon’s First Pancake Lens Ready for Its Close-up?

This Simple Gas Pump Nozzle Screen Could Save Millions of Liters of Dripped Gas

Unedited: This CO2-Powered Gauntlet’s Claims of Crushing Prowess Are Unimpressive

This Beautiful Device Turns Your iPhone and Android Into an Ultra-Thin Laptop

Is This Google’s Nexus Tablet?

Bigpenis, and 6.5 Million Other Sad, Stupid Leaked LinkedIn Passwords

Lost Report of Lincoln Assassination Physician Found After 147 Years

The Wild Journey of a Packet: How the Internet Works

This Razor Dirt Rocket Bike Is Your Hog Wild Deal of the Day

The Cash Register of the Future Wraps the iPad in Beautiful Bamboo

Army Scientists Build a Better Battery

Twitter’s New Bird Logo Is So Different You Might Not Even Notice It

Google Has Its Own Fleet of Airplanes to Map the World in 3D

These Incredible Lego Beasts Liven Up Iowa State’s Reiman Gardens

Roku’s 2025 Streaming Stick HD Is 40% Off to Compete With Amazon Fire TV Stick During Spring Sale

Epstein Victims Sue Google, Claim AI Mode Exposed Personal Information

‘Wicked Spot’ Is a Fun, Sapphic Rom-Com That Yeets a Witch Into the Magical World of Influencer Culture

Anthropic and OpenAI Just Gave Us a Glimpse Into the Future of Model Pricing

Amazon Slashes 63% Off Acer Aspire Desktop for a Limited-Time Spring Sale, With Keyboard and Mouse Included

Smart Glasses Now Have One of the Vision Pro’s Best Features

Marvel Just Put ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2 in a Very Weird Place in the MCU Timeline

Trump Drops $1B to Kill 2 Wind Farms, Then Watches a Bigger One Go Online

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

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

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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