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All the Companies Supporting SOPA, the Awful Internet Censorship Law—and How to Contact Them

Who’s officially on the record backing what could be the worst thing to ever happen to the internet? All of these companies listed below. Don’t take our word for it—this list comes straight from Congress. Just FYI. If you want to get in touch, we’ve provided a contact list below. Maybe you want to let…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Onkyo’s Video Previews Demystify Your Home Theater Inputs

Unless you’re a home theater idiot-savant, you probably forget what HDMI port your Xbox or Blu-ray player is connected to, requiring you to randomly cycle through inputs. A task that’s now a lot easier with InstaPrevue’s live video thumbnail previews. The idea is so genius you’ll wonder why TV manufacturers didn’t implement input switching like…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Let’s All Laugh At Kim Jong-Il While Looking At His Secret Life Photoshops

North Koreans are still crying hysterically because Kim’s dead, baby, Kim’s dead. I want to believe that soldiers behind the TV cameras are aiming at these mourners with AK-47s. But just in case, let’s yang that yin by laughing at him. I don’t know about you, but I love the idea of knowing that this…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Draw Your Solutions, Hit the Gridiron, and Race Down a Tunnel

Not all taggers are Banksy. They’re not all artists. Most are just idiots with access to markers and paint cans. “Look at me, I can draw my name.” Learn to actually draw and we’ll talk about how The Man is keeping you down. In fact, one of today’s apps will help you learn to draw…

Commerce Roberto Baldwin

The Most Dangerous Meme: Making Your Pet Play with Your Phone

Screw ghost riding the whip, forget flash mobs. There’s a new internet craze threatening our children: taunting lizards and amphibians with fake food on your smartphone. Sure it’s cute when they’re crushing virtual insects but it’s not so cute when they attack your finger. How many people thought that bearded dragon playing Ant Crusher with…

Tech News Casey Chan

The Amazon Prime Gift Guide: You Need to Order Before 8PM Tonight

Amazon Prime, man. It’s a lifesaver—especially around the holidays. But if you’re planning to do some last-second Amazon Prime shopping and were counting on that free two day shipping you better HURRY. All of these items are eligible for free two-day shipping, and will arrive before Christmas. BUT! You only have a few more hours.…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Gameloft VP Talks True HD and Motion Blur in the First Installment of On Display

Hand-held devices are revolutionizing the gaming industry, and pioneers like Gameloft, the gaming powerhouse behind cross-platform social and media games such as Modern Combat and Spider-Man: Toxic City, have taken cues from the technological advancements of the LG Nitro HD. The True HD IPS Display with 16:9 widescreen capabilities are innovations that beget innovations by…

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Everyone on Twitter Is Increasingly Depressed

“It appears that happiness is going down,” says a University of Vermont researcher and head of a new study on wellbeing. The proof? Twitter, of course. Millions of users point to a global depression of an entirely non-monetary kind. The team took 46 billion tweeted words across three years, and had users of Amazon’s Mechanical…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Dell 23-Inch LED Monitor Is Your Screw-TV Deal of the Day

That’s it. I’m done getting screwed by cable companies. My TV stutters, my internet cuts off and seriously, $120 a month for cable and internet? Are you serious? It’s like I’m paying someone else to torture myself. Who’s worse than cable companies? Okay, tobacco companies. Illegal organizations. The marts of Wal. I’m sure I’m missing…

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This Lens Is Bigger Than Any Camera Lens Ever

The Canon 5200mm super telephoto lens may be the world’s largest camera lens, but it’s no match for lenses the size of an entire galaxy, so massive that they deform the light of objects behind them. They’re called gravitational lenses. That’s the case of LRG 3-757, which is producing this horseshoe Einstein Ring image. Generally,…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

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Tech News Roberto Baldwin

Vintage Camera Pillows Let You Rest Your Head On Defunct Technology

Digital cameras now dominate the market, but there’s still a place for the art and aesthetics of film cameras. Even if they’re only used as a source of inspiration for a set of retroriffic throw pillows. Created by Brooklyn-based Etsy seller Ronda J. Smith, the pillows come in a variety of shapes and sizes designed…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Shooting Challenge: X-Ray Christmas Gifts

Lights. Bows. Wrapping paper. Fruit cake. Unconditional love. Drunken Santa. All of these things mean Christmas. But more than any of that, gifts mean Christmas. And for this week’s Shooting Challenge, we want to see your coolest gifts…through the wrapping. The Challenge Take a photo of a wrapped Christmas gift. Take a photo of the…

Tech News Mark Wilson

World’s Smallest Flash Drive Makes It Even Easier To Misplace 16GBs

I find it ironic that the company who now holds the record for world’s smallest flash drive is in the business of promotional trade show tchotchkes. Because there’s absolutely no room to brand this drive except for a hanging tag. Deonet will slap your company’s logo or URL on a variety of giveaway items, but…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Updated Kindle iOS App Adds a Newsstand and a PDF Reader

Amazon is trying to sell you magazines on the iPad. The latest update to the Kindle app for iPad now has a newsstand for reading Kindle Fire magazines, a built-in PDF reader, and slickly designed text book replicas. For the most part the magazines in the new app read a lot like PDFs—great for the…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Microsoft Is Quitting CES (Updated)

CES is only a few weeks away, and we’ve already got our first shocker: after this year, Microsoft is out. Which might sound strange or sad—but Microsoft is smart as hell for doing this. Microsoft doesn’t need CES. It said so itself: “We won’t have a keynote or booth after this year because our product…

Tech News Sam Biddle

The Best iPod Dock

The iPod changed the way you listen to music forever. Duh. Now you just want the thing to sound good playing out of a dock in your kitchen, your living room, the attic—wherever—for cheap. It’s harder than you think. For our iPod dock Battlemodo we tested new 30-pin speaker docks under $300. All of them…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

How to Sidestep this SOPA Nonsense Entirely

Dislike this proposed SOPA legislation? Yeah, me too. But just because a few legislators are trying to make our internet lives more terrible doesn’t mean we can’t best them with a simple Firefox add-on. Enter DeSOPA. The proposed legislation will apparently only block domain names, and not IP addresses. So a coder by the name…

Tech News Adrian Covert

NewtGingrich.com Is Just a Merry-Go-Round of Anti-Gingrich Sites

What happens when you, prominent presidential candidate, neglect to purchase the domain name of your own name? Apparently someone else does it for you, and turns it into a veritable chatroulette of negative articles, videos, and sites. Meet NewtGingrich.com. It’s spectacular. It’s not clear who had the foresight to lock in what by all rights…

Tech News Brian Barrett

The Best Nature Photo of the Year

The results of National Geographic’s yearly photography contest are always a joyful visual experience. The 2011 winner is a worthy one. A particularly striking and beautiful image of a weird event: a dragonfly “showering” in Indonesia’s Riau Island. Called Splashing, the photo was taken Shikhei Goh. Poor little guy or happy little guy? You decide.…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

All the Companies Supporting SOPA, the Awful Internet Censorship Law—and How to Contact Them

Onkyo’s Video Previews Demystify Your Home Theater Inputs

Let’s All Laugh At Kim Jong-Il While Looking At His Secret Life Photoshops

Draw Your Solutions, Hit the Gridiron, and Race Down a Tunnel

The Most Dangerous Meme: Making Your Pet Play with Your Phone

The Amazon Prime Gift Guide: You Need to Order Before 8PM Tonight

Gameloft VP Talks True HD and Motion Blur in the First Installment of On Display

Everyone on Twitter Is Increasingly Depressed

Dell 23-Inch LED Monitor Is Your Screw-TV Deal of the Day

This Lens Is Bigger Than Any Camera Lens Ever

Cloud Copy Gallery

Vintage Camera Pillows Let You Rest Your Head On Defunct Technology

Shooting Challenge: X-Ray Christmas Gifts

World’s Smallest Flash Drive Makes It Even Easier To Misplace 16GBs

Updated Kindle iOS App Adds a Newsstand and a PDF Reader

Microsoft Is Quitting CES (Updated)

The Best iPod Dock

How to Sidestep this SOPA Nonsense Entirely

NewtGingrich.com Is Just a Merry-Go-Round of Anti-Gingrich Sites

The Best Nature Photo of the Year

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

‘Paradise’ Writer Teases What’s Coming in Season 3 After That Huge Twist

Trump’s New White House App Is Mildly Concerning and Weird for a Lot of Reasons

Bloodsucking Ticks Can Survive Inside Your Home Longer Than You Might Think

The Best New Toys of March 2026

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

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

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