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There is literally nothing that Julian Assange won’t do. He’s dabbled with his own TV chat show, an appearance on the Simpsons, opera, and let’s not get started on the details of his bedroom activities. But none of that is enough; now he’s seeking a political career. https://gizmodo.com/julian-assange-is-getting-his-own-tv-show-5878743 According to ABC News, Assange has managed…
If you got a new iPad last week, you may not have set foot outside your home all weekend. You may also, as some users are reporting, have experienced an overheating issue following that extensive use. A bunch of forum postings seem to suggest that the new iPad has an overheating problem. We’re not just…
Everybody hates having to stop reading ebooks, listening to music and playing Angry Birds during take-off. But it’s not a fact of life; the FAA is rethinking its policy on using electronic devices during takeoff and landing. About. Bloody. Time. According to a report by the New York Times, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is…
Though it’s not Apple’s most exciting announcement of recent time, the Apple TV received a big a boost in specs last week. Now a teardown by a forum member at XBMC.org shows exactly what’s changed. https://gizmodo.com/unedited-the-new-ipad-seems-like-a-pass-5893967 As noted on the tech specs page of the Apple website, it now boasts a rather unique single-core A5…
Dear One, I am Mr. Tim Cook, CEO of the Apple Inc. I followed Mr. Steven P. Jobs who also is CEO of Apple Inc. though dead now. Mr. Jobs worked with the Apple Inc. for over two decade before the cold hand of death took him away on the 5th of October 2011. He…
This is strange. Apple’s CEO Tim Cook and Apple’s CFO Peter Oppenheimer will host a special conference tomorrow. The topic: “the outcome of the Company’s discussions concerning its cash balance.” That’s $100,000 million in cash, people. They can buy bloody Walmart. They say they “will not be providing an update on the current quarter nor…
Hammocks aren’t designed with cold weather camping in mind. Even sleeping bags are helpless against the slightest chill. Grand Trunk’s hammock compatible sleeping bag solves this by turning your hammock into a toasty insulated cocoon. In a normal sleeping bag, the insulation on the back gets squished to oblivion as soon as you get inside,…
Crazy jet fighter pilots: CHECK! Crazy bomber pilots: CHECK! Crazy airliner pilots: CHECK! Crazy military transport pilots: Watch this crazy pilot flying this Swedish Air Force’ Hercules C-130 as low as five meters and just over the head of his colleagues. https://gizmodo.com/the-craziest-low-pass-flyby-ive-ever-seen-updated-5808599 Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet says the pilot who flew the Hercules declared that “it…
Syrian opposition activists recently hacked into Syrian butcher Bashar al-Assad’s email. They found lots of incriminating material, including the image you are seeing above. According to the emails, the ugly-faced Assad and his cronies don’t really give a damn about the hundreds of compatriots they are killing indiscriminately in their country. Assad just keeps talking…
A graduate art student in Taiwan found blood in his urine while peeing one day. So he thought: hey, I can draw Iron Man with this!—as you do when such things happen, of course. And then, things got even worse. He first found a toilet with the right bowl shape to make Iron Man’s helmet.…
Mike Daisey lied his tits off in public radio program This American Life. He basically made up a lot of stuff about Foxconn. TAL had to retract the whole thing, but Mike says his lies were all for a good cause: https://gizmodo.com/this-american-lifes-damning-foxconn-report-was-mostly-m-5893998 everything I have done in making this monologue for the theater has been…
We like the Panasonic Micro Four Thirds, so it’s exciting to see the new Panasonic GF5 leaked on Instagram. Its shape looks similar to the GF3. https://gizmodo.com/panasonic-lumix-gx1-review-this-is-why-micro-four-thir-5879214 According to 43rumors, it will have a 12-megapixel sensor with better Signal to Noise ratio than the GF3. As good as the G3, they claim, while going up…
When I see ski jumpers I always think: “when did these people start to jump off these crazy snow ramps? What was their reaction?” Now I know. Pump up the volume and watch this 4th grader jumping off for the first time. It’s great to see the absolute fear, the final push for it and…
This is Til. He was three weeks old and the cutest rabbit in the world. See, Til had no ears because of some genetic defect, and that made him even cuter than a normal rabbit. Not anymore because… Til’s dead, baby. Til’s dead. Til was born at the Limbach-Oderfrohna Zoo in Eastern Germany. When the…
Remember that insane low pass flyby for that B-52 Stratofortress next to the carrier USS Ranger. Gizmodo Reader and retired US Air Force master sergeant has sent us the look from the ship. It’s pretty bloody stunning: https://gizmodo.com/is-this-insane-low-pass-flyby-the-craziest-thing-youre-5893585 Here’s what that low pass looked like from on board the squid’s boat. If you’ll note, you…
When New Zealand authorities raided the estate of MegaUpload boss Kim Dotcom, they confiscated nearly $200 million worth of property. But as it turns out, the court order authorizing this seizure was invalid because the police filled out the wrong paperwork. Oops. https://gizmodo.com/feds-kill-megaupload-updated-5877612 Prior to the raid, police commissioner Peter Marshall’s office reportedly applied an…
If you needed any further proof that you don’t need the most cutting-edge camera equipment to take beautiful photos, check out these shots by Jason Bognacki who attached a 1919 Piccolette Contessa-Nettel folding camera to his 5D Mark II. The results obviously have a soft, old-timey feel to them, but the camera’s lens was still…
Ensuring its residents are always physically fit, this 3 Way House includes a rock climbing wall in its courtyard that can be used to access its multiple floors and a rooftop patio. Oddly enough, the architects who designed the house at naf architect and design seem to have an aversion to stairs. You can still…
Megan Lara has created a wonderful tongue-in-cheek version of the famous Louis Vuitton pattern—customized for geeks—that you can now get on a t-shirt over at Threadless. Dubbed Geek Chic, the pattern replaces the usual LV symbols with multi-sided die, power buttons, mathematical symbols, and even a four-way controller. But you’ll want to act fast and…
Cramming a QXGA display with a resolution of 2048×1526 into a device as small as the iPad might seem like an impressive accomplishment. But Forth Dimension Displays have managed to squeeze that same number of pixels into a display that’s smaller than an inch. And since Apple claims that it’s impossible for the human eye…
