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Shooting Challenge: Urban Decay 4

Greetings Gizmodo! Our place is a building from the 90s, way before the town became a city. Sadly, the top floor wasn’t occupied for many years – leaving it open to the harsh elements. I wanted to take shots of the old drain covers and rain-soaked flooring, then there it was… A little plant starting…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Toilet Paper Printer Likes Its Dye on Two-Ply

Maybe Mario Lukas wanted to print some custom patterns on his quilted toilet paper. Maybe the rigors of handling normal paper every day was just too much to handle for his undersized hands. Whatever the reason, someone made a TP printer. Hacked together from old CD-ROM drives and arduino components, the Toilet Paper Printer will…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Rumor: The Kindle Fire Is Only a “Stopgap” Before the Real Amazon Tablet?

Ryan Block at gdgt has word via his sources that the Amazon Kindle Fire—the device that can truly go toe-to-toe with the iPad—isn’t the tablet they’re putting their faith in. The real new hotness will be the second-gen Fire. And it’s coming soon. https://gizmodo.com/rumor-amazons-new-tablet-will-be-the-kindle-fire-5844019 The Kindle Fire, it being essentially a better, badder PlayBook, is…

Commerce Kwame Opam

When You’ll Get Windows Phone 7.5

Hello Windows Phone owners! Yes, Windows Phone 7.5—that’s the official name now, not Mango—is getting pushed out, starting like, now. But your phone might not get them today. Or this week. Or next week! https://gizmodo.com/windows-phone-7-5-review-second-best-isnt-half-bad-5844315 A small subset of users are getting it immediately, and then Microsoft will slowly turn up the throttle on pushing…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Robot Birds and Octoroaches On The Loose at UC Berkeley

No matter how fancy and complicated we make robots, nature always has us beat. Is there anything more capable, more efficient, and more utterly indestructible than a cockroach? Of course not. Not yet, anyway. UC Berkeley’s Biomimetic Millisystems Lab is trying to harness all the cleverness of birds and insects to create an entirely new…

Tech News Evan Ackerman - IEEE Spectrum

Windows Phone 7.5 Review: Second Best Isn’t Half Bad

“Windows Phone Seven Point Five.” It’s somehow mind numbing and yet not totally unexpected that chunky string of syllables is how you say the name of the new Windows Phone. Mind numbing, because it’s the antithesis of what Microsoft has ultimately built, and not totally unexpected, because we’re still talking about Microsoft, and it’s not…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

The NSA Want Its Very Own Smartphone

The rest of the government has traditionally used Blackberries up to now. Hell, they even get PlayBooks now. Why should the NSA be relegated to ancient secure-phones? Troy Lange, the NSA’s mobility mission manager thinks that sucks. It’s time the NSA got their own smartphone. https://gizmodo.com/the-us-government-can-now-play-with-tablets-well-the-b-5823748 Lange’s idea essentially takes the utility of those old…

Privacy & Security Kwame Opam

Unlike: Why Facebook Integration Is Actually Antisocial

Facebook really changed things up last week. Oh sure, it’s as disrespectful of my privacy as ever, but now it’s enlisted the entire web to help. So I’m done with anything that requires a Facebook login. Facebook made some big changes in terms of how things look and work, but its inexorable drive to drag…

Social Media Mat Honan

In Case You Missed the Unboxing Videos of All Unboxing Videos, Here It Is Again for Your Viewing Pleasure

We produced a (dare we say) entertaining little video for the folks at Toyota. We’d like you to watch it. So, click play and behold super friend of the site and all-around charming individual, Adam Frucci, unbox the brand-new 2012 Toyota Yaris. In it, Adam: braves gigantic packing materials (including a suitably-sized silica packet) reveals…

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Windows Phone Finally Has a Web Marketplace

It’s already a big day for Windows Phone with Mango due out today. And now the web version of its app marketplace is live, giving the platform a way to browse and find apps outside of the Zune client. https://gizmodo.com/windows-phone-mango-will-start-trickling-out-on-sept-2-5843569 The marketplace appears to be populated with Mango apps, since a number of them bounce…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

The Cloud Server So Large They Should Call It “Hurricane”

As computational-heavy research gains momentum, the amount of data researchers generate is exploding—a single sequencing of DNA requires as much as 28 terabytes. So where do American researchers store their most ginormous data sets? In the largest academic cloud server in the US, at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. The SDSC Cloud has an initial…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Arrested LulzSec Suspect Was Named Student of the Month This Year

Cody Kretsinger, arrested last week for participating in the LulzSec face-smashing of Sony Pictures, was a good kid. Aside from his massively illegal hacking, he was a bright student who just wanted a family and to work for the government. https://gizmodo.com/cops-arrest-lulzsec-and-anon-hackers-and-one-of-thems-h-5843003 Online security journalist Brian Krebs tracked down Kretsinger’s straight arrow past, discovering that he…

Tech News Sam Biddle

The iPhone 5 Event Is Officially October 4th

Well, we pretty much knew it already, but now it’s Super Apple Official: the next iPhone will show up on Tuesday, October 4th at Apple HQ. https://gizmodo.com/rumor-oct-4-is-iphone-5-day-5842416 It’s a nice looking invitation, ain’t it? The icons are perfect: the date is the date, of course, the Maps icon is where to show up (Apple’s campus),…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Rumor: iPhone 5 Is Coming on Oct. 14

According to Japanese blog Macotakara, the iPhone 5 and possibly 4S will see release Stateside and abroad on October 14th. That’s 10 days after next week’s reported iPhone announcement. That’s all the details they offer, but it does jibe with the mid-October release rumors. [Macotakara via MacRumors]

Tech News Kwame Opam

Scientists Can Now Extract, Record and Return Information To the Brain

This is uncanny: A Tel Aviv University team lead by Professor Matti Mintz have developed a synthetic cerebellum that can receive sensory inputs from the brain, analyze them, and return information to other parts of the brain! The device is now working in rats, and has effectively restored lost brain functions caused by damaged tissue.…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Sony’s New Playstation 3 Video Unlimited Interface Looks Pretty But Clumsy

A few weeks ago we got a look at Microsoft’s updated Xbox Live interface. Now Sony’s got a public preview of its new interface for browsing video on the Playstation Network on the Playstation 3, called Video Unlimited. https://gizmodo.com/xbox-live-metro-brings-more-bing-kinect-and-cable-t-5838741 Video unlimited is an overhaul visually, but the main thrust of the new interface is contextualized…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

How Facebook Uses Hackers to Keep Your Timeline Safe

Last week Mark Zukerberg showed off the new Facebook Timeline during the company’s f8 keynote. Announced as a new way of presenting yourself on Facebook, the Timeline is an autobiography of your Facebook-shared life. But how Facebook is securing that life could surprise you. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-facebook-timeline-only-your-whole-life-5843030 While hacking is usually looked upon as a means to…

Social Media Roberto Baldwin

This Projector Will Turn Your iPad into Your Personal Home Theater

There are already plenty of reason why you wouldn’t own a TV, especially if you stream to your iDevice regularly. The Epson MegaPlex MG-850HD projector lets you give your iPad the big screen treatment in your living room. The projector, complete with iDevice dock, has two 10-watt speakers buried in its backside, and its 3LCD…

Tech News Kwame Opam

Delicious Returns From the Dead With Some New Bookmarking Features in Tow

The social bookmarking site Delicious is back. Those who loved saving their favorite links to a public (or private) profile page will find that experience unchanged. But there’s a new central focus to Delicious. It’s called Stacks. Stacks is a quick and easy way for users to compile a focused list of links to share.…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Watch Washington Monument Shaking Like Beyonce’s Monumental Buttocks

The National Park Service has released a video that shows how the top of the Washington Monument looked from the inside during the August 23 earthquake. Obviously, there was a lot of shaking and people running around. https://gizmodo.com/all-the-videos-of-the-east-coast-earthquake-updating-5833659 The National Park Service says that the engineers have established that the building is structurally sound. Now…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Shooting Challenge: Urban Decay 4

Toilet Paper Printer Likes Its Dye on Two-Ply

Rumor: The Kindle Fire Is Only a “Stopgap” Before the Real Amazon Tablet?

When You’ll Get Windows Phone 7.5

Robot Birds and Octoroaches On The Loose at UC Berkeley

Windows Phone 7.5 Review: Second Best Isn’t Half Bad

The NSA Want Its Very Own Smartphone

Unlike: Why Facebook Integration Is Actually Antisocial

In Case You Missed the Unboxing Videos of All Unboxing Videos, Here It Is Again for Your Viewing Pleasure

Windows Phone Finally Has a Web Marketplace

The Cloud Server So Large They Should Call It “Hurricane”

Arrested LulzSec Suspect Was Named Student of the Month This Year

The iPhone 5 Event Is Officially October 4th

Rumor: iPhone 5 Is Coming on Oct. 14

Scientists Can Now Extract, Record and Return Information To the Brain

Sony’s New Playstation 3 Video Unlimited Interface Looks Pretty But Clumsy

How Facebook Uses Hackers to Keep Your Timeline Safe

This Projector Will Turn Your iPad into Your Personal Home Theater

Delicious Returns From the Dead With Some New Bookmarking Features in Tow

Watch Washington Monument Shaking Like Beyonce’s Monumental Buttocks

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