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This 1000fps Camera Will Capture the Super Bowl in Super Slow-Motion

Slow-motion video is nothing new to sporting events, but this NAC camera is really upping the stakes at this weekend’s Super Bowl. It’ll capture every kick, tackle and fight in glorious 1000fps footage, almost doubling what current cameras capture. NAC is supplying four of its brand new super slow-motion Hi-Motion II cameras to NBC in…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Social Media and Email Are More Addictive Than Alcohol and Cigarettes

If, like mine, your partner thinks you have a problem because you check social media and email too often, it turns out they might be right. A new study suggests that checking our phones and computers is more addictive than alcohol and cigarettes. A team from Chicago University’s Booth Business School carried out a study…

Social Media Jamie Condliffe

iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iCloud Blocked in Germany After Moto Complaint

It’s been a successful morning for Motorola in Germany. So far they’ve managed to secure a permanent injunction against Apple’s iCloud, as well as seeing the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and first-gen 3G iPad removed from the online store. The two results are actually over seprate legal issues. First, Engadget reports that Judge Andreas Voss…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Can The Obama Administration’s Five-Year Plan For Digital Learning Work?

There’s a buzz around making learning digital, no doubt spurred by Apple’s recent declaration that iBooks 2 is the future of education. Now, the Obama administration has come out in support of digital learning, claiming that all students will be using digital textbooks within five years. But can that really happen? https://gizmodo.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-apples-new-education-5877634 In an interview…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

How To Make The Geekiest Chandelier In The World

The problem with most light fittings is that they’re only about style: they’re the preserve of hipsters and interior designers. If you want something a little more geeky, why not make your own test tube chandelier? This was actually dreamt up by Polish designer Pani Jurek and is called the Maria S.C. chandelier. In fact,…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Kim Dotcom Refused an Appeal and Still Denied Bail

Kim Dotcom has been refused an appeal to be freed on bail by a New Zealand court, as its opinion that he is a “flight risk” still hasn’t changed. That means Kim Dotcom has returned to custody until 22 February, the day of his scheduled extradition hearing. According to the Guardian, “the high court in…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Free Playbooks For Android App Developers

Here’s some good news if you like to tinker with creating Android apps in your spare time: submit one to the BlackBerry App World before February 13th, and you can get a free Playbook. That’s another great sign that RIM is doing well, eh? Announced in a tweet by Alec Saunders, RIM’s VP of developer…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Scientists Have Wired a Cockroach, Matrix-Style

Cripes, why don’t we just hand the planet over to the robots already. Things were bad with the self-controlling war machines and computers capable of destroying our greatest trivia minds, but now we’ve invented biological electricity harvesters. Might as well build a fleet of Squids while we’re at it. https://gizmodo.com/the-military-is-replacing-humans-with-giant-drone-surge-5879621 Researchers at Case Western Reserve…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

This Gigantic 1600 HP Engine Used to Power an Entire Stadium Single-Handedly

It may not be the largest diesel engine we’ve ever covered but this vintage, 30-ton diesel engine is no less impressive. It used to power the whole of the Auteuil Racecourse in Paris. https://gizmodo.com/the-worlds-most-gargantuan-diesel-engine-5822447 The engine is a Type 9 V.O.S. built in 1962 by the Duvant company. Only three were ever produced, each measuring…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Shoot Your Lights Off with the BANG! Lamp

Clapping your lights on and off is comically passe. Why make all that noise you can toggle the room’s illumination with invisible bullets? BANG! is a desk lamp controlled by a gun-shaped remote, designed by Taiwan-based Bitplay, and inspired by the creator’s dread of getting out of bed on cold winter mornings to turn on…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

What the Hell Did Researchers Pull from the Depths of New Zealand’s Seas?

No, this photo hasn’t been ‘shopped. You are looking at a specimen from a barely-known and even-more-rarely-seen group of “Supergiant” amphipods—crustaceans that grow twenty times the size of their relatives and can measure a foot or more in length. Amphipods are often referred to as the “insects of the sea” and are found throughout the…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

This Nine-Year-Old Girl Just Had Six of Her Organs Replaced—That’s a Record

When she was five, Alannah Shevenell’s doctors discovered the cause of her fever, weight loss, and distended belly—a sizable tumor spreading throughout her body. After two failed surgeries and rounds of chemo, her doctors had just one option left; a risky surgery to replace six of her cancerous organs. Shevenell’s surgery, which replaced her stomach,…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Get Patriotic to Every Presidential Campaign Song Since 1933

Politics and pop music have a testy relationship. For every song supporting a particular politician or party, five more bash him, her, or it – and more still hate on the entire political system. Still, the relationship persists, and it’s never more evident than during campaign seasons when candidates use music to connect with various…

Tech News Andy Cush - Evolver.fm

Finally! Google Wallet Is Available to AT&T and Verizon Nexus Owners

Well this is rather exciting. Verizon and AT&T both had, until now, cock-blocked Google Wallet functionality on the Galaxy Nexus phone. Blocking its installation while developing their own proprietary NFC payment service, code-named Iris. That program appears to have fizzled since the Google Wallet app is now available in the Android Marketplace right now. https://gizmodo.com/verizon-is-screwing-the-galaxy-nexus-by-blocking-google-5865580…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Pizza In a Jar Is a Horrible Fraud and You’re Wrong if You Disagree

This dumb picture of tomato sauce, cheese, and scorched bread has been making the internet rounds, blobbing from blog to blog under the guise of “jar pizza.” Pizza in a jar is a lie. It’s not pizza. It’s a delusion. What’s pizza? It’s inherently flat—that’s an essential part of it, conceptually. A pizza that isn’t…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Stubborn Whooping Cranes Refuse to Fly South, So They Will Be Trucked

Conservationists have made huge efforts to coax endangered whooping cranes to fly south. Still, the birds, who started their journey in Wisconsin, have alighted in Alabama and refuse to fly any further. So these conservationists will now deliver them, by truck, to their end destination in Florida. In the past, volunteers have dressed like cranes…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski

Fifth Grader Accidentally Concocts a New Explosive Molecule

Admittedly, I did spend my childhood playing with explosives. But I certainly never had as much success as 10-year-old Clara Lazen (not pictured), who accidentally created a new energy storing molecule, tetranitratoxycarbon, that could be used as an explosive. Using one of those molecular modeling sets we all messed with in school, Clara forged a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Feds Seize 307 Sports Domains Ahead of Sunday’s Super Bowl

The Super Bowl is like a goose that lays golden eggs from which cash cows hatch. It makes obscene amounts of money. So, that could be why the DHS has stepped up its confiscation of sports-related domains in the run-up to Sunday’s match—nuking a total of 307 separate sites. The seizures were part of the…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Groundhog Day: The Movie It Makes Sense to Watch Over and Over

Groundhog Day is such a wonderful movie that it’s totally transformed the connotation of the actual holiday from “that day when we believe the magical rat is a weather god” to a symbol of unbearable repetitiveness. It’s not like everyone you know hasn’t been making bad jokes on Facebook all day, but whatever. It’s one…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

South Korean Man Arrested for Re-Tweeting North Korean Government’s Twitter Account

In a continuing trend of government agencies having no idea how humor on Twitter works, a South Korean activist was arrested last week for ironically retweeting the North Korean government. https://gizmodo.com/us-detains-and-deports-two-morons-over-dumb-destroy-am-5880460 Jung-geun Park was charged under a South Korean policy called the National Security Law that bans nebulously-defined “acts that benefit the enemy.” Except he…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

This 1000fps Camera Will Capture the Super Bowl in Super Slow-Motion

Social Media and Email Are More Addictive Than Alcohol and Cigarettes

iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iCloud Blocked in Germany After Moto Complaint

Can The Obama Administration’s Five-Year Plan For Digital Learning Work?

How To Make The Geekiest Chandelier In The World

Kim Dotcom Refused an Appeal and Still Denied Bail

Free Playbooks For Android App Developers

Scientists Have Wired a Cockroach, Matrix-Style

This Gigantic 1600 HP Engine Used to Power an Entire Stadium Single-Handedly

Shoot Your Lights Off with the BANG! Lamp

What the Hell Did Researchers Pull from the Depths of New Zealand’s Seas?

This Nine-Year-Old Girl Just Had Six of Her Organs Replaced—That’s a Record

Get Patriotic to Every Presidential Campaign Song Since 1933

Finally! Google Wallet Is Available to AT&T and Verizon Nexus Owners

Pizza In a Jar Is a Horrible Fraud and You’re Wrong if You Disagree

Stubborn Whooping Cranes Refuse to Fly South, So They Will Be Trucked

Fifth Grader Accidentally Concocts a New Explosive Molecule

Feds Seize 307 Sports Domains Ahead of Sunday’s Super Bowl

Groundhog Day: The Movie It Makes Sense to Watch Over and Over

South Korean Man Arrested for Re-Tweeting North Korean Government’s Twitter Account

Trump Posts Concept Art of His Presidential Library, and It’s AI Slop

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