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Facebook Engineer Turns 5-Year-Olds Into Hackers

Carlos Bueno wants your 5-year-old to think like a programmer. By day, Bueno is a Facebook engineer. He helps hone software on the servers underpinning the world’s largest social network. But he moonlights as a children’s author. His first book is called Lauren Ipsum, and it’s a fairy tale that seeks to introduce children –…

Social Media Klint Finley - Wired

This Crazy Optical Illusion Makes Beautiful Celebrities Look Grotesque

Watch this video while staring at the cross in the center, and you’ll see bulbous foreheads, gigantic noses and terrifying eyes. Watch it again while looking at the faces, and you’ll see they’re perfectly normal pictures of attractive Hollywood actors. What the hell? In fact, this is part of a research project by Matthew Thompson…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Say Goodbye to Sony and Samsung TV Sales

If you’re hoping to pick up a Sony or Samsung TV in the sales sometime in the future, you’re out of luck. The Wall Street Journal reports that both companies are fed up of third-parties slashing the price of their products—so, they’re now enforcing minimum pricing on their TVs. It was rumored that Sony was…

Gadgets Jamie Condliffe

WSJ: Blame Morgan Stanley For Facebook’s Woeful IPO

Since the start of the week, Facebook’s stock price has been sinking like an anti-social stone. Despite NASDAQ’s open admission about screwing up the offering, the Wall Street Journal is pointing its finger higher up the chain. https://gizmodo.com/nasdaq-we-really-messed-up-the-facebook-ipo-5911896 In an interesting peek behind the scenes of the offering, the Wall Street Journal reports that a…

Social Media Jamie Condliffe

Do You Need a 4K-Capable Camera on Your Phone?

Actually, I can answer that for you: no. But, do you want a camera on your phone that can churn out 16-megapixel images? Perhaps! Good news, then, because OmniVision has just announced new high-resolution image sensors for mobile devices that can shoot 4K video. https://gizmodo.com/reminder-megapixels-dont-matter-5888552 The new sensors can shoot 30fps video at the full…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

At IBM Headquarters, Siri Is Persona Non Grata

This week, IBM CIO Jeanette Horan told MIT’s Technology Review that Siri, best pal of Zooey Deschanel and oft snarky gal Friday of the iPhone, has been banned from the company’s internal networks, over concern that spoken queries might be stored somewhere. In point of fact, IBM’s concerns are not unfounded; Apple’s iPhone Software License…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

This Flirtatious NYC Airport Avatar Was Definitely Designed by a Dude

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has installed in Newark Liberty, JFK, and LaGuardia airports an interactive avatar projected onto a plexiglass silhouette of a woman’s body. Lost and disoriented travelers can ask her for help with things like getting to the correct gate, security checkpoint rules, and duty-free shopping. And all…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Perfect Three-Pointers, Penn Jillette Is Not Amused, and Please Do Not Smoke the Artwork

Penn Jillette Isn’t Laughing at Obama’s Weed War Never one to mince words, magician/comedian/actor Penn Jillette had a few choice ones for the President’s crackdown on potheads during a recent Penn’s Sunday School Do we believe, even for a second, anybody believe that if Obama had been busted for marijuana, under the laws that he…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Concrete Business Cards Are Impractical and Exquisite Works of Art

A French creative agency, Murmure, has furnished its employees with some rather cumbersome, custom-cut and embossed concrete business cards. The cards come each with its own built-to-scale wooden shipping pallet and can be kept from crumbling inside a miniature, protective black carrying case. This material, so characteristic of our environment, was enhanced by using the…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Pavlovian Pacifier Teaches Premature Babies to Eat

Infants born at full term are able to feed themselves thanks to their instinctive sucking reflex and the fully developed muscles needed to extract milk from their mothers. But every year in the U.S., more 500,000 infants are born prematurely, few of them with the muscular strength needed to acquire nourishment from either their mother…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Finally, a Legitimate Excuse for Playing With Our Lasers!

We’ve made fun in past of Wicked Lasers and their vast inventory of seemingly useless laser devices. Now, at long last, it seems we’ve found a legitimate excuse for playing with out lasers. https://gizmodo.com/and-lo-another-useless-laser-was-born-5903623 A team of researchers from Leibniz University, in Hannover, Germany, is hard at work on a sophisticated laser that is able…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

New York Legislation Would Ban Anonymous Online Speech

Did you hear the one about the New York state lawmakers who forgot about the First Amendment in the name of combating cyberbullying and “baseless political attacks”? Proposed legislation in both chambers would require New York-based websites, such as blogs and newspapers, to “remove any comments posted on his or her website by an anonymous…

Tech News David Kravets - Wired

Better Cell Phone Towers Kill People (Updated)

AT&T’s network sucked in 2008, glutted with iPhones and facing the menace of a 3G rollout. So like its competition, it put together a slapdash operation to build towers at any cost. Even a human cost, ProPublica reports. A joint investigation by ProPublica and PBS’ Frontline dug up a corporate culture of rampant neglect, workplace…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Grow an Indoor Garden on Your Wall With a Sleek, Magnetic Planter System

From its humble beginnings as an—ahem—Kickstarter project, Urbio has parlayed a successful fundraising drive into actual indoor gardening products that actual people can buy. On display at ICFF 2012, the Urbio system makes use of planter bins and wall tiles formed of polypropylene, and held together by neodymium magnets, the Urbio system combines a clean…

Tech News Adrian Covert

ooVoo: Video Chat With A Dozen Friends at a Time

Skype might be the proxy video chat service for a lot of people, but it only supports 10 call participants at a time. ooVoo, on the other hand, lets you have a massive conversation with 12 people at a time. What does it do? It connects with Facebook to let you host conversations with as…

Tech News Leslie Horn

How One Man Faked His Own Internet Death

Death is scary. Suicide is scary. And when you’re a valued member of a long-standing community who supports and helps one another, you don’t fake awful stories about either to sadden and embarrass your friends. You don’t ruin years of relationships to pull a stupid gag that demeans true tragedies. You don’t create a fake…

Tech News Casey Chan

Backpack Flash Turns You Into a One-Person Photography Studio

It’s hard for clients to understand why photographers charge so much for photos. So if you find yourself in the same situation as Ian Spanier—who was hired for a shoot with no money for an assistant—you too can build this impressive looking backpack studio flash rig. The getup starts with a sturdy LowePro backpack designed…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Baseball Mitt Wallets Resurrect Your Favorite Old Glove

There’s nothing like a perfectly worn-in catching mitt. Soft and slightly tattered, it hugs your hand in the most wonderfully familiar, comfortable way. And now, you can stash your money in them, too. Fielders Choice’s wallets are crafted from those friendly old baseball gloves. Starting at $60, they’re nostalgic and cool, lovely relics of America’s…

Tech News Leslie Horn

There’s a Ridiculous Traffic Jam of People Trying to Climb Mount Everest

Even though four people died trying to climb Mount Everest last weekend and even if reaching the summit costs more than a Porsche, it’s not stopping people from attempting to scale the highest point on Earth. In fact, there’s so many people trying to climb Mount Everest that it’s causing a human traffic jam. https://gizmodo.com/how-much-does-it-cost-to-climb-mount-everest-more-than-5887413…

Tech News Casey Chan

Everything You Need to Remote Control Your Life

We’re all still pretty shook up at the passing of Eugene J. Polley, the inventor of one of the most important devices in the past 50 years: the wireless TV remote. https://gizmodo.com/eugene-polley-inventor-of-the-first-wireless-tv-remote-5912204 But now is not the time for sorrow. Instead, it’s a time to remember all of the other great remote control devices that…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Facebook Engineer Turns 5-Year-Olds Into Hackers

This Crazy Optical Illusion Makes Beautiful Celebrities Look Grotesque

Say Goodbye to Sony and Samsung TV Sales

WSJ: Blame Morgan Stanley For Facebook’s Woeful IPO

Do You Need a 4K-Capable Camera on Your Phone?

At IBM Headquarters, Siri Is Persona Non Grata

This Flirtatious NYC Airport Avatar Was Definitely Designed by a Dude

Perfect Three-Pointers, Penn Jillette Is Not Amused, and Please Do Not Smoke the Artwork

Concrete Business Cards Are Impractical and Exquisite Works of Art

Pavlovian Pacifier Teaches Premature Babies to Eat

Finally, a Legitimate Excuse for Playing With Our Lasers!

New York Legislation Would Ban Anonymous Online Speech

Better Cell Phone Towers Kill People (Updated)

Grow an Indoor Garden on Your Wall With a Sleek, Magnetic Planter System

ooVoo: Video Chat With A Dozen Friends at a Time

How One Man Faked His Own Internet Death

Backpack Flash Turns You Into a One-Person Photography Studio

Baseball Mitt Wallets Resurrect Your Favorite Old Glove

There’s a Ridiculous Traffic Jam of People Trying to Climb Mount Everest

Everything You Need to Remote Control Your Life

Trump Says He’ll Sign Order to Pay TSA

Deadpool Will Deface ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Classics for a New Secret Lair

Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them

Why ‘For All Mankind’ Season 5 Is the Key to the Rest of the Series

ASUS ZenScreen 15.6-Inch Portable Monitor Is Now Cheaper Than Black Friday in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

Early Wildfires Are Surging Across the US—and Trump’s New Fire Agency Isn’t Ready

INIU Brings Another Power Bank to the Spring Sale as SnapGo Keychain Portable Charger Drops to Its Lowest Price

Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases

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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