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Famous Explosions Recreated Using Cauliflower

It takes a very certain mind to re-imagine images using quirky media. Artist Brock Davis has that kind of mind: his latest project involves recreating famous explosions using… cauliflower? I guess when you stop and think, the outside of a cauli’ has a certain cloud-like quality to it, which is perfect for recreating the plumes…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Foxconn Hacked, Making Its Passwords Publicly Available

Foxconn has more to worry about. As well as struggling to deal with allegations of exploitative working conditions in its factories, it’s now had the bad fortune of being hacked, having login and password information spread across the web. https://gizmodo.com/why-apple-doesnt-make-the-iphone-in-america-5878209 9to5Mac reports that a hacker group called SwaggSec gained access to Foxconn’s internal networks through…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

Do Apple Users Care Enough to Protest Chinese Working Conditions Today?

Since it came to light how bad working conditions are in Chinese factories that make iPhones and iPads, many have muttered about boycotting Apple. If that’s you, you should join a globally coordinated protest against it, which is happening today. But do you care enough? https://gizmodo.com/why-apple-doesnt-make-the-iphone-in-america-5878209 Organized by Change.org and SumOfUs.org, the protests will see…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

This Bikini-Shaped Bacteria Produces Some of the World’s Strongest Glue

Remember the old Crazy Glue commercial where the guy suspended himself from his hard hat with just a dab of the adhesive? If he had been using the sugary compounds this bacteria naturally produces, he could have suspended a dump truck with the same amount. Caulobacter crescentus is a common water bacteria that is responsible…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Disney Might Line Up for 28-Day Netflix Delays

After Warner Brothers, Universal, and Fox, have knocked their Netflix release dates back to at least four weeks, Disney has announced that it too is considering imposing a streaming content delay. Fan-freaking-tastic. https://gizmodo.com/adding-wb-movies-to-your-netflix-queue-now-takes-an-ext-5879814 Bob Iger, Disney’s CEO, mentioned the strategy on a conference call with investors Tuesday despite “not seeing any effect from these dollar-rentals…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Google Wallet’s PIN System Has Been Cracked But Don’t Panic Just Yet

The security PIN system that Google Wallet users have to enter to verify transactions has been compromised. Thankfully, the chances of your wallet being used against you is relatively low—assuming you haven’t rooted your phone, that is. Since Wallet saves your PIN in an encrypted file on the phone itself, rather than the secured NFC…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Chrome 17 Is Now Available, Get Ready for Prerendered Pages

Google has made the newest version of its popular browser available, offering more secure downloads and faster-loading web pages. Here’s what’s new. Prerendering pages appears to be a natural progression from autocomplete. According to the Google Chrom blog, “When you start typing in the omnibox and the URL autocompletes to a site you’re very likely…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Scientists Turn Iron Invisible to X-Ray Using Quantum Interference

We just reported a few weeks ago on the successful masking of objects from microwaves. Now a research team from Hamburg, Germany has figured out how to make iron (57Fe) transparent to X-rays—and presumably Superman. https://gizmodo.com/scientists-completely-cloak-three-dimensional-objects-5879466 A team of researchers from Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in Germany made the discovery by employing a technique known as…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Siri Might Be Speaking Three New Languages by March

Per a report from Chinese tech blog DoNews, the Siri voice-assistant may be speaking the three new languages—Mandarin, Japanese, and Russian—by March. The website cites an unnamed Apple engineer working on the Mandarin version, which is reportedly already in testing. Siri currently supports three English accents, as well as French, and German. There’s no word…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Google’s Getting Sued for Consolidating Its Privacy Policies

Seems like everyone is lining up to take shots at the search giant. Besides lawmakers investigating how it will use the unified data and regulators investigating whether the company prioritizes its own services in search results, a public interest group is now suing to prevent Google from implementing its privacy policy changes. Electronic Privacy Information…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

The Last Photo Lab to Develop Kodachrome

Kodak’s decision to stop producing Kodachrome film in 2009 left a hole in people’s nostalgia-seeking hearts. This documentary short by Xander Robin takes us into Dwayne’s Photo, the last remaining lab to develop the coveted film. It really shows how cumbersome and complex the process of developing film is/was, and why analogue photography never really…

Tech News Michael Hession

Apple’s Failure Lets Developers Steal Your Address Book

Path faced a privacy flap when it was revealed that the company was uploading users’ address book data to its servers without permission. While it stopped doing that and deleted all the data it had stored, a larger issue remains. As Dustin Curtis notes, address book data mining is a common practice among some developers,…

Tech News Dustin Curtis

Two People Are Dead Because They Unfriended This Man’s Adult Daughter on Facebook

A Tennessee man, Marvin Potter (on the right), is in police custody tonight, charged with two counts of first degree murder in the shooting deaths of a couple who had unfriended his 30-year-old daughter on the popular social site. The murderous spat began when Billy Payne Jr. and his girlfriend, Billie Jean Hayworth, unfriended Potter’s…

Social Media Andrew Tarantola

How Does This Tiny Wood Grill Reach 1,100 Degrees?

A uranium core? A miniature sun? Molten lava? None of the above I’m afraid. Like the blacksmiths of yesteryear, the Cook-Air uses bellows, or in this case a fan, to provide an ample source of oxygen to fuel the flames. Instead of a bottle of propane or other combustible gases, the Cook-Air uses simple compressed…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

You Come From This Thing: The Oldest Animal Ever Discovered

Scientists believe that this is the animal from which everything else evolved. The first multicellular being that spawned every living being in this world through billions of mutations, from fish to amphibians to reptiles to birds to mammals to you. It’s an amazing discovery. Its name is Otavia antiqua, and it is the oldest animal…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The Man Who Paid 16 Bucks for a $330,000 House Got Evicted

Kenneth Robinson, an American hero who found a loophole in the system to buy a $330,000 house for 16 bucks, has sadly been evicted from his “house” because Bank of America claimed ownership of the property. Dammit. Does that mean there really aren’t any shortcuts in life? https://gizmodo.com/man-used-a-loophole-in-the-law-to-pay-16-bucks-for-a-3-5823573 Kenneth Robinson lived in the house for…

Tech News Casey Chan

The Transmission Tower Coat Rack Will Electrocute Your Eyes

Electricity is beautiful, but transmission towers are eyesores. That contradiction hurts my brain. How am I supposed to feel when I look at a beautiful landscape, and it’s ruined by giant towers disappearing into the horizon? We NEED the towers so we might as well get used to them. The Nanton Coat Rack re-envisions the…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Geekiest Marriage Proposal Yet: Binary, Bender Mask, Flying RC Shark

Raising the bar on nerdy wedding proposals, YouTuber doctorpappa (possibly not a real doctor) decided to ask his girlfriend to marry him by donning a paper-mache Futurama Bender mask, and popping the question in binary. As the story goes, he asked his girlfriend to close her laptop for a couple of minutes while he posted…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Shoot At Your Friends, Build a Railroad, and Become the Next Deadmau5

You can run around shooting people or build a railroad. Are you the soldier or the builder? These are the hard questions you have answer in the world of apps. No wait, you can be both because the games are on sale. Hooray for capitalism! But if shooting and building aren’t your thing, you can…

Commerce Roberto Baldwin

Gizmodo Is Hiring

The person we’re looking for knows and gets technology, gadgets, design and the internet crazy amazingly well. They’re smart, and snappy, like cybernetic whips. That’s you, isn’t it? Sure it is. Gizmodo’s looking for both interns and night and weekend editors to start asap. Requirements for both positions are below: Night/Weekend Editors • For the…

Tech News Gizmodo

Famous Explosions Recreated Using Cauliflower

Foxconn Hacked, Making Its Passwords Publicly Available

Do Apple Users Care Enough to Protest Chinese Working Conditions Today?

This Bikini-Shaped Bacteria Produces Some of the World’s Strongest Glue

Disney Might Line Up for 28-Day Netflix Delays

Google Wallet’s PIN System Has Been Cracked But Don’t Panic Just Yet

Chrome 17 Is Now Available, Get Ready for Prerendered Pages

Scientists Turn Iron Invisible to X-Ray Using Quantum Interference

Siri Might Be Speaking Three New Languages by March

Google’s Getting Sued for Consolidating Its Privacy Policies

The Last Photo Lab to Develop Kodachrome

Apple’s Failure Lets Developers Steal Your Address Book

Two People Are Dead Because They Unfriended This Man’s Adult Daughter on Facebook

How Does This Tiny Wood Grill Reach 1,100 Degrees?

You Come From This Thing: The Oldest Animal Ever Discovered

The Man Who Paid 16 Bucks for a $330,000 House Got Evicted

The Transmission Tower Coat Rack Will Electrocute Your Eyes

Geekiest Marriage Proposal Yet: Binary, Bender Mask, Flying RC Shark

Shoot At Your Friends, Build a Railroad, and Become the Next Deadmau5

Gizmodo Is Hiring

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