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Iran Denies It’s Shutting Down the Internet in August, Merely Building a New One Next March

Iran has issued a strongly worded statement denying reports from yesterday that the country planned to shut itself off from the rest of the Internet. Quite the contrary—Iran is just building its own, closed version. Totally different! https://gizmodo.com/iran-hopes-to-be-rid-of-meddlesome-internet-by-august-5900524 Iran’s Communications ministry published a statement on its website (which isn’t available outside of Iran) that the…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Qlocktwo W Watch Tells Time with a Word Search

Dials? Numbers? Child, please. When I read my watch, I read my watch. Digits and directions don’t even enter into the equation. And by equation, I mean words. The Qlocktwo W by Biegert & Funk replaces the traditional watch face with an LED-lit 110-letter grid. Pressing the button on the side of the watch illuminates…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Apple’s Working on a Flashback Counter-Attack

Apple announced today that it is hard at work, developing a means of scrubbing the Flashback.k Trojan from the 600,000 or so Macs it’s infected. https://gizmodo.com/new-flashback-trojan-variant-doesnt-need-a-password-to-5898516 According to a statement released today, Apple released a Java update on April 3, 2012 that fixes the Java security flaw for systems running OS X v10.7 and Mac…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Report: iTunes 11 Will Support iOS 6 and Actually Work with iCloud

According to a report by 9-to-5 Mac, Apple dev teams are already hard at work on the next major release of iTunes. Here’s what it could include Per 9to5’s sources, iTunes 11 will support iOS 6, the reputed operating system of the next iPhone. And, since Apple tends to only release major updates alongside marquee…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Would You Go to Canada to Have an Intragastric Weight-Loss Balloon Implanted in Your Stomach?

It’s pretty amazing, the lengths to which people will go, just to lose a bit of extra weight. Diet pills, lipo, lap-band surgery. Some opt to have their jaw wired shut. Now, folks in the states are driving north, way north, to Canada, to have liquid-filled balloons surgically implanted into their gut, for a feeling…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Killer Bees, Evil Kelp, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn’t worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case.

Tech News Brian Barrett

I Wish This Amazing Photo of the Space Shuttle Piercing the Clouds Were Real

I wish NASA took more photos of the shuttle from other aircraft. There are many that I like—like Atlantis launching next to an F-15—but this one is the best. Too bad it’s not a real image but a montage. [E-y-e-l-e-s-s]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Unbelievable Aerial Footage of Bike Stunts Shot With a Nimble DSLR Drone

When you watch X-Games aerial footage, you think, “Wow that must’ve been shot from a helicopter with a badass camera.” Now take a look at this video of gnarly stunts. It cost a fortune to make right? Wrong. It’s sort of true that this was shot with a helicopter. But instead of a huge news-chopper,…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Too Bad You Can’t Copy Radiohead’s Floppy

When it dropped, OK Computer sounded exactly like our computerized future. Nevermind that Kid A better captured the clicks and whirs of life inside a server room, Radiohead’s third album was an instant classic that dropped just as we fully entered the digital age. But even if you were a huge fan, here’s a piece…

Tech News Mat Honan

Now This Is How You (Hypothetically) Redesign the Pringles Can for the 21st Century

Pringles might be delicious, but its unique can-shaped packaging makes it difficult to enjoy an entire stack when your hands can’t squeeze down the tube. Not exactly an Earth-shattering problem, but we’re still glad there are young designers willing to tackle the issue. The solution, which won Dohyuk Kwon a Red Dot Design Award, was…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Pharmacy Perv Watched Ladies Pee with Toilet Paper iPhone Cam

Sneaky way to spy on a woman in the bathroom: hide inside her porta potty. Less sneaky: leave your iPhone running propped up on the toilet paper. Congrats, CVS pharmacy, you are today’s creepiest place. https://gizmodo.com/why-did-a-peeping-tom-hide-inside-the-toilet-of-a-porta-5814475 The Times Union reports the lame attempt of one pharmacy intern to get pee-shots of his customers. Not only…

Tech News Sam Biddle

A Rare Look From Behind the Lens of a Professional Street Photographer

Great street photography takes a unique sensibility; such evocative snapshots often carry a kind of mystique with them. But professional camera wielder Markus Hartel made a video taking us right along for the ride, shooting on a rainy New York City evening. Markus’ idea was simple: mount an iPhone right next to his Leica M9…

Tech News Michael Hession

Copycat Smart Sand Can Mimic and Replace Any Object and More from TreeHugger

This week we share our Best of Green Awards winners for technology, teach you to make heat-blocking curtains for $6, give you two iPhone repair tips, and more! 1. Pigeons Could Poop Soap, Thanks to a Special Diet A plan to alter what pigeons eat to turn their feces into soap, to clean up buildings…

Tech News Jaymi Heimbuch - Treehugger

Vegas Casinos Connected by Zipline Sounds Like an Ocean’s 14 Stunt

Las Vegas can be an exhausting place to explore on foot. So in a slightly misguided attempt to make it easier for patrons to get between its casinos, MGM Resorts International is planning to string up zip lines between the Luxor and Excalibur. There’s no tentative timeline for the new attraction, which will involve three…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Glow-in-the-Dark Dinosaur Quarter Is Actual Legal Tender

Totally making up for the utterly annoying one and two dollar coins, the Royal Canadian Mint has created a series of limited edition glow-in-the-dark quarters featuring the likenesses of dinosaurs discovered in the country’s western provinces. The first in the series is the admittedly forgettable Pachyrhinosaurus lakustai, but it instantly becomes awesome when you shut…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Microsoft Windows Phone Designer Team Hurls Veiled Insults at Apple’s Ugly, Skeuomorphic Apps

It’s Apple, not Microsoft, whose products have long been known for careful minimalism. However, Redmond is evolving, relying heavier on Metro, the simple, design philosophy marked by simple typography and big blocks of color that is infiltrating most of its platforms. https://gizmodo.com/designing-windows-8-or-how-to-redesign-a-religion-5882797 But that’s not to say it’s not kind of shitting on Apple. In…

Tech News Leslie Horn

National Geographic Today: Gander at Gorgeous Photos From Across the Globe

A big part of what makes National Geographic such a fantastic publication is its images. Its new iPad app, National Geographic Today, ensures that you’ll never miss any of the photos of alluring places around the planet, giving a curated look at highlights from its website all in a neat little package. What does it…

Tech News Leslie Horn

T-Mobile’s Obnoxious Scream Tones Will Help You Find a Lost Phone

No, you’re not hearing a pack of wolves approaching. And a train is definitely not about to barrel through your living room. You’re just hearing the cry of lost phone, hiding in your couch cushions among loose change and that elusive TV remote. With so-called “Scream Tones,” T-Mobile and Lookout Security are making it a…

Tech News Leslie Horn

This Guy Totally Hacked Together His Own Goofy-Looking DIY Google Glasses

When Google officially announced the lofty-sounding “Project Glass” last week it neglected to give us one crucial piece of information: When in the hell are we going to actually get cool augmented reality glasses? Maybe never! So why wait for a multi-billion dollar corporation to make the glasses when you can make them yourself? https://gizmodo.com/google-glasses-first-look-would-you-wear-these-augment-5899091…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

The Filtered Network: When Zuck Met Instagram

The Social Network succeeded at dramatizing the rise of Facebook and Mark Zuckerburg, but it only told part of the story. With Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram for the preposterously huge amount of one billion dollars, Funny or Die is now telling the story of Zuck’s true masterplan: filters. Lots of filters. https://gizmodo.com/facebooks-buying-instagram-for-a-billion-dollars-5900352 [Funny or Die…

Social Media Michael Hession

Iran Denies It’s Shutting Down the Internet in August, Merely Building a New One Next March

Qlocktwo W Watch Tells Time with a Word Search

Apple’s Working on a Flashback Counter-Attack

Report: iTunes 11 Will Support iOS 6 and Actually Work with iCloud

Would You Go to Canada to Have an Intragastric Weight-Loss Balloon Implanted in Your Stomach?

Killer Bees, Evil Kelp, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

I Wish This Amazing Photo of the Space Shuttle Piercing the Clouds Were Real

Unbelievable Aerial Footage of Bike Stunts Shot With a Nimble DSLR Drone

Too Bad You Can’t Copy Radiohead’s Floppy

Now This Is How You (Hypothetically) Redesign the Pringles Can for the 21st Century

Pharmacy Perv Watched Ladies Pee with Toilet Paper iPhone Cam

A Rare Look From Behind the Lens of a Professional Street Photographer

Copycat Smart Sand Can Mimic and Replace Any Object and More from TreeHugger

Vegas Casinos Connected by Zipline Sounds Like an Ocean’s 14 Stunt

Glow-in-the-Dark Dinosaur Quarter Is Actual Legal Tender

Microsoft Windows Phone Designer Team Hurls Veiled Insults at Apple’s Ugly, Skeuomorphic Apps

National Geographic Today: Gander at Gorgeous Photos From Across the Globe

T-Mobile’s Obnoxious Scream Tones Will Help You Find a Lost Phone

This Guy Totally Hacked Together His Own Goofy-Looking DIY Google Glasses

The Filtered Network: When Zuck Met Instagram

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