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This Badass Virus Kills Breast Cancer Cells

Penn State researchers have identified a virus that’s benign to humans but deadly to cancer. The virus is called adeno-associated virus type 2, and the scientists showed in the lab that it kills breast cancer in three stages. That’s a big deal because different stages of cancer now require different types of treatment, and it’s…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski

Cellular South Is Now C Spire. What?

Cellular South, the largest privately owned wireless telecomm in the U.S. is changing its name to C Spire. Let’s not beat around the bush here: What is a “C Spire”? The first dozen times Cellular South CEO Hu Meena said it I swore he said “Cease Fire.” According to him, “The C is for Customers.”…

Tech News Brent Rose

Daily Desired: This Pot Will Make You a Better Cook

I’m going to go Bobby Knight on the next person who serves me terrible black beans—especially now that there’s a new Le Creuset bean pot. You’ve probably seen Le Creuset cookware in a store window and thought, “Gee that’s pretty, but I don’t need it.” Nonsense! This pot will make you a better cook for…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

What Is Facebook Timeline? (Only Your Whole Life)

After yesterday’s Facebook revamp, Mark Zuckerberg still had a few new features to reveal at today’s f8 conference. The most important? Timeline, a complete reconceptualization of your profile page. https://gizmodo.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-facebook-5842921 Timeline is a new way of presenting yourself on Facebook… Gone is the single column wall of posts you’re used to for profile updates. Gone…

Social Media Adrian Covert

SERIOUSLY HP MEG WHITMAN WHY WHY WHY (Updated: It’s Official!)

All Things D reports that apparently HP CEO Léo Apotheker will be ousted today, and former eBay CEO/failed gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman will take his place. Because when your house is on fire, your first call should be to an arsonist. https://gizmodo.com/really-hp-youre-going-to-fire-your-ceo-now-5842516 This is just a rumor right now; we’ll know by end of day…

Tech News Brian Barrett

The Scientific Don Quixote and the Quest for the Electric Car

When Arie Haagen-Smit, a world-renowned plant expert and the man who discovered the active ingredient in marijuana, figured out that automobiles were responsible for southern California’s smog problem, he set off the quest for an electric car. The Quest is an examination of the history and future of where our energy comes from. Arie Haagen-Smit…

Tech News Daniel Yergin

Cops Arrest LulzSec and Anon Hackers—And One of Them’s Homeless (Updated: Names Named!)

The tables have turned a bit more! Police claim they’ve got two more members of the world’s foremost celebrity hacker groups, LulzSec and Anonymous, in custody. And one of them was living (and hacking!) homeless in San Francisco. The FBI hasn’t specified which arrest is against which group, but the non-homeless perp is accused of…

Tech News Sam Biddle

7 Tools to Keep Summer Going All Year Long

Tomorrow is fall. Already. But don’t simply resign yourself to four months of shitty weather and no baseball—these seven tool can help keep your summer going indefinitely. Valkee Earbuds Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is, supposedly, a very real thing with a, supposedly, very real solution—the Valkee Earbuds. This device beams light through your ear canals…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Embryonic Stem Cells Enlisted to Combat Blindness

The first European embryonic stem cell therapy in humans is about to start in London. Surgeons will insert the controversial cells into the eyes of 12 patients suffering from Stargardt’s macular dystrophy, a major cause of blindness in young people. The study was approved on Thursday and is set to begin in December at Moorfields…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski

Smithsonian Planetarium Projector Is Your Intergalactic Deal of the Day

There will someday be shuttles that casually take the average person to space and back. By the time that happens, you’ll be dead. But hey, there’s nothing stopping you from staring at a crudely-rendered map of the stars, right? The Smithsonian Planetarium Projector has 24 slides of planets and galaxies that are brought to life…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals

Facebook Fails To Let Fans Share Music Across Platforms

Facebook wants to be the “connective tissue” desperately needed by music fans and the music industry alike, so that, at long last, people would be able to share music with each other without friction – and without breaking the law. However, despite all the other neat stuff Facebook unveiled today, it mostly failed in that…

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Another Benefit of Smoking Weed? It Might Be Able to Cure PTSD

There’s such a long list of awesome things about smoking weed that I’m starting to lose track of all the benefits. One thing I’m pretty sure I never heard of before though: marijuana might be able to cure post-traumatic stress disorder. Post-traumatic stress disorder is a serious psychological disease that can flip lives upside down.…

Tech News Casey Chan

Female Promiscuity Is a Biological Imperative

Men have always had evolution to blame for their wily Cassanova ways—that whole spreading their seed far and wide thing. Finally, evolution is coming through for women, too! Female promiscuity is common in chimpanzees, chickens, salmon, sea urchins and obviously humans. But no one ever found an evolutionary benefit to it. (Although they had found…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski

You Can Test Drive a Bionic Hand Without Actually Losing Your Hand

Bionics are an amazing technology that most of us will hopefully never have to use. But being able to move a robot hand with your brain is incredibly cool, and Touch Bionics’ new Virtu-LIMB lets you try a bionic hand without “installing” it. Virtu-limb works with either the i-LIMB Ultra—the update to the really awesome…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Everything You Need to Know About the New Facebook

If you thought yesterday’s Facebook changes were dramatic, you’d better sit down before you see what’s coming next. Today at F8, Mark Zuckerberg led off by showing off Timeline: it’s the future of Facebook, and it’s a tectonic shift. Timeline Zuck calls the new Timeline “all the stories, all your apps, a new way to…

Social Media Roberto Baldwin

Zombie, Alien, Frankenstein and Vampire Fleshlights Look as Horrible as They Sound

I miss Adam Frucci every day, but today I really miss his expertise. Behold, the Zombie, Alien, Frankenstein, Dracula and Cyborg Fleshlights and matching dildos! I don’t know what kind of sick nerd would like to have sex with a zombievag. https://gizmodo.com/i-had-sex-with-furniture-the-shameful-nsfw-fleshligh-5375323 On the other hand, I don’t think we need to test these. [Fleshlight]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Making Art with Molotov Cocktails

Can you imagine Molotov cocktails being used for anything other than destruction? Well, artist t-radya used those burning cocktails to create art. Seriously. He strategically placed bandages on wooden panels and then burnt it up by tossing Molotov cocktails on it. I don’t know how flames can be so exact or controlled but the charring…

Tech News Casey Chan

Man to Feed Exclusively On 162 Gallons Of Wife’s Breast Milk

After her third premature baby, Katie filled this 22-cubic-foot upright deep freezer with her excess breast milk. Now, her husband Curtis plans on feeding only on it for as long as his body can take it. Their objective is to discover how much breast milk will it take to nourish a 6’4″, 185-pound grown man…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Watch Facebook Show Off Its New Sharing Goodies Right Here

Mark Zukerburg is getting ready to take the stage at Facebook’s f8 Developers Conference in San Francisco. Live streaming of the event begins at 9:30am PST/12:30pm EST and you can watch it live here. Here’s what we know so far, Facebook has already pushed the news “ticker” and updated news feed with blue-triangle tagged “top…

Social Media Roberto Baldwin

Western Digital’s New Passport Drives Pack Big Space in a Little Place

Lugging around an external drive that weighs more than your MBA kind of defeats the purpose of buying a lightweight laptop. Luckily, Western Digital’s latest My Passport drives can hold a terabyte of data but tip the scales at less than a pound. The Studio connects with FireWire800 for lightning-fast (though not Thunderbolt-fast) data transfers…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

This Badass Virus Kills Breast Cancer Cells

Cellular South Is Now C Spire. What?

Daily Desired: This Pot Will Make You a Better Cook

What Is Facebook Timeline? (Only Your Whole Life)

SERIOUSLY HP MEG WHITMAN WHY WHY WHY (Updated: It’s Official!)

The Scientific Don Quixote and the Quest for the Electric Car

Cops Arrest LulzSec and Anon Hackers—And One of Them’s Homeless (Updated: Names Named!)

7 Tools to Keep Summer Going All Year Long

Embryonic Stem Cells Enlisted to Combat Blindness

Smithsonian Planetarium Projector Is Your Intergalactic Deal of the Day

Facebook Fails To Let Fans Share Music Across Platforms

Another Benefit of Smoking Weed? It Might Be Able to Cure PTSD

Female Promiscuity Is a Biological Imperative

You Can Test Drive a Bionic Hand Without Actually Losing Your Hand

Everything You Need to Know About the New Facebook

Zombie, Alien, Frankenstein and Vampire Fleshlights Look as Horrible as They Sound

Making Art with Molotov Cocktails

Man to Feed Exclusively On 162 Gallons Of Wife’s Breast Milk

Watch Facebook Show Off Its New Sharing Goodies Right Here

Western Digital’s New Passport Drives Pack Big Space in a Little Place

Apple Offers Rare Olive Branch to Liquid Glass Haters

Mamdani Lifts NYC TikTok Ban for City Employees, but with Some Unusual Restrictions

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

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