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iLounge Says This Is What the Next iPhone Looks Like

Do you have your heart set on a 3.5-inch iPhone? Too bad, says iLounge, which claims Apple’s next handset will sport a 4-inch display and a metallic body. Let’s snort some rumor lines! As you can see in iLounge’s mockup, the purported design will look much like current iMacs—silver aluminum framed by black glass. It…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Judge Rules You Can’t Be (Definitively) Identified by Your IP Address

Common sense dictates that an IP address is just a number associated with a connection, and not a human being. Copyright crusaders aren’t exactly known for loads of common sense and rationality. Thankfully, a New York judge has ruled that an IP address alone is not enough to pin illegal downloads on a specific person.…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

A Harley That Washed Up In Canada Will Be Returned To Japanese Tsunami Survivor

Here’s some news that will brighten your day. While strolling the sands of British Columbia’s Haida Gwaii Islands, a beachcomber named Peter Mark recently found a Harley Davidson swept away in the Japan tsunami last March. He had no idea what had happened to the person it belonged to. But the story has a happy…

Tech News Leslie Horn

BMX Quad Racer Is Another Fun Way To Break Your Neck

Designed for those seeking a more eco-friendly alternative to a gas-powered ATV, or grownups who simply never learned to ride a two-wheeled bike, the Athos is a pedal-powered quad racer that looks a lot safer to ride than the sum of its parts. With four wheel independent suspension the Athos should be able to tackle…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Nokia Is Working on “Hybrid” Mobile Devices—Whatever the Hell That Means

Nokia lost its spot as the world’s top phone manufacturer to Samsung last week, but according to an interview with the Financial Times, it’s got a plan to get back on track: Hybrids. The obvious question is, well, just what the hell does that mean? Former Nokia Chairman Jorma Ollila, who spoke with FT, didn’t…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Here’s the Plan to Fly Missile-Packed Blimps Over Your Home

Upstart Virginia aerospace firm Mav6 is offering to install guided missiles on the massive, robotic spy blimp it’s building for the Air Force. The idea would only be slightly terrifying, if the massive airship was headed to Afghanistan, as originally planned. But Mav6 and its CEO, a respected retired Air Force general, are also promoting…

Tech News David Axe - Wired

Coat Hangers Made From Bike Parts Are Beautiful if Impractical

Bicycles are so damn hip these days that they’re infiltrating every aspect of culture. Whatever: here’s a great, quirky piece of up-cycling that takes disused bicycles parts and converts them into a set of beautiful coat hangers. These were designed and made by Oliver Staiano, from Nottingham Trent University in the UK, as part of…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Kick-Ass Automated Berkeley Dorm Violates College Rules

Earlier this week we showed you the inside of Derek Low’s insanely automated college room. Sadly, the draconian forces that be at Berkeley are calling Low in to a judicial hearing because his room violates their housing policy. In his own words, Low spent “three months and several hundred dollars” tweaking his room, and now…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Verizon’s LTE-Powered Home Broadband Goes National

While Verizon recently launched its LTE-powered home broadband service, calledHomeFusion, to a select few locations, it seems to be doing so well that it’s now being rolled out across the entire country. From today, Home Fusion goes nationwide—at least, to everywhere with a 4G signal. The service uses an external antenna to receive LTE signal,…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Watching These People Traverse a Slack-Line High Above a Ravine Is the Best Kind of Terrifying

Watch as these inexplicably fearless thrill-seekers traverse a slack-line hanging 700 meters above the Verdon Gorge in south-eastern France. It is so nail-bitingly horrifying, you will not be able to look away. [Vimeo]

Tech News Molly Oswaks

The Beer Moth Truck-Tent Is the Ultimate in Car Camping

If driving up to a campsite and setting up a tent is too much “roughing it” to endure, this tent/truck chimera is just what you need to enjoy the great outdoors without sacrificing the amenities of a cabin. The Beer Moth operates out of Inshriach House in Cairngorms National Park, Scotland. It accommodates two guests…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

First Drive-By Malware Sites Discovered for Android

As more and more traffic moves from the desktop to mobile devices, malware has closely followed it. Now, an Internet security firm has discovered the first websites designed specifically to infect Android devices that visit the page with malware. Lookout Mobile Security discovered the sites, which operate as drive-by malware vectors. That is, if an…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Best Buy Employee Publicly Outs Straight Man on Facebook

Does nobody at Best Buy operate by any reasonable code of ethics? Just last month came news that the company’s CEO Brian Dunn (who has since stepped down) was ensconced in an affair with one of his blue-shirted employees. Today we learn of Richard Dewberry, the Colorado man who was publicly outed on Facebook by…

Social Media Molly Oswaks

Robots in Love, Robots in Your Hair, and a Dictator Drops Some Knowledge

Supreme Leader Aladeen Invades Australia’s “Today Show” “So, what, you’re against rape?” [Buzzfeed] The Bravest Man on Earth Gets His Head Shaved By a Robotic Sweeney Todd Sure hope this shave and haircut takes more than two bits. “I’m Here” by Spike Jonze This 2010 sci-fi romance follows a nondescript library admin as one chance…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

This Case for Data Mining Might Make You Reconsider Your Position on Web Privacy

It’s difficult to think of an upside to relinquishing your personal data—your privacy, really—to the prying eyes of the internet. But over at the Atlantic, Brian Fung makes a solid case for why data-mining might actually be doing a world of good behind the scenes. The National Retail Data Monitor, he explains, tracks the sale…

Privacy & Security Molly Oswaks

World’s Largest Underground High-Speed Rail Station Will be Spectacular, Surreal-Looking

The Express Rail Link West Kowloon Terminus, when completed (sometime in 2015), will be the world’s largest underground high-speed rail station, occupying a whopping 4,628,481sq/ft! Its surreal modern design is the work of international architectural studio Aedas, who with it demonstrate the interconnectedness of architecture and technology. From the central Hong Kong terminal’s 15 tracks,…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

The Scream Is Officially the World’s Most Absurdly Overpriced Painting

Last year saw not one but two record-breaking art sales—Cindy Sherman’s Untitled #96 ($3.89 million) and Andreas Gursky’s Rhein II ($4.3 million). Both paltry sums given the amount that Sotheby’s just sold Edvard Munch’s masterpiece for. The Scream, which was painted between 1893 and 1910, just fetched $119 million dollars at auction. Let that sink…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

On-The-Fly Ammo Swapping Will Make Tomorrow’s Apaches Even More Deadly

Swapping ammo types at the press of a button has been a feature of FPS games for years but has never actually made it into real combat. But the US Army thinks that with recent advances in computerized high-speed sorting, flipping between warheads could become nearly automatic. The M230 chain gun mounted on the underside…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

3D Projector Would Beam Long-Distance Pals Right Into Your Own Living Room

A group of developers from the Human Media Lab at Queen’s University, in Canada, has developed a cylindrical display system—called the “TeleHuman”—that is capable of projecting within itself a person’s full 3-dimensional figure. Circle the TeleHuman, and you will see your long-distance lover (or perhaps just your best friend) from all 360 degrees. A total…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Bending Over Backwards for the Broken Printer I Refuse to Replace

There are a lot of lazy ways I’ll avoid dealing with one gadget problem or another: I stream all my TV shows through my iPad, because I can’t get around to setting up the 17″ Sony that’s been boxed up in my closet since I moved apartments last summer. When one lamp stops working—and I…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

iLounge Says This Is What the Next iPhone Looks Like

Judge Rules You Can’t Be (Definitively) Identified by Your IP Address

A Harley That Washed Up In Canada Will Be Returned To Japanese Tsunami Survivor

BMX Quad Racer Is Another Fun Way To Break Your Neck

Nokia Is Working on “Hybrid” Mobile Devices—Whatever the Hell That Means

Here’s the Plan to Fly Missile-Packed Blimps Over Your Home

Coat Hangers Made From Bike Parts Are Beautiful if Impractical

Kick-Ass Automated Berkeley Dorm Violates College Rules

Verizon’s LTE-Powered Home Broadband Goes National

Watching These People Traverse a Slack-Line High Above a Ravine Is the Best Kind of Terrifying

The Beer Moth Truck-Tent Is the Ultimate in Car Camping

First Drive-By Malware Sites Discovered for Android

Best Buy Employee Publicly Outs Straight Man on Facebook

Robots in Love, Robots in Your Hair, and a Dictator Drops Some Knowledge

This Case for Data Mining Might Make You Reconsider Your Position on Web Privacy

World’s Largest Underground High-Speed Rail Station Will be Spectacular, Surreal-Looking

The Scream Is Officially the World’s Most Absurdly Overpriced Painting

On-The-Fly Ammo Swapping Will Make Tomorrow’s Apaches Even More Deadly

3D Projector Would Beam Long-Distance Pals Right Into Your Own Living Room

Bending Over Backwards for the Broken Printer I Refuse to Replace

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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