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Google Legitimizes Libya’s New Government on Google Maps

As Muammar Gaddafi’s 42-year reign comes to an end, Google Maps has followed the rebellion’s lead by renaming Green Square, Tripoli back to its pre-Gaddafi name. The former seat of the regime now goes by Martyr’s Square. This is change. https://gizmodo.com/gaddafi-reportedly-flees-as-cellphone-rebellion-spreads-5832915 [Maddow Blog via BuzzFeed]

Tech News Kwame Opam

8 Tools for Getting Out of Libya Alive

When dudes start firing off home-brew, truck-mounted rockets and bandying about phrases like “open, armed rebellion,” it’s high time to get the f-ck out of Tripoli. These eight tools will help get you to your Embassy in one piece. USMC Improved Modular Tactical Vest Sucking chest wounds are not a good look for you. Keep…

Gadgets Andrew Tarantola

RFID Implants Won’t Rescue the People Kidnapped in Mexico

Kidnappings in Mexico have worsened in the last 5 years, sky-rocketing by 371%. So too have the demand for those RFID implants that were said to allow authorities find the victims. Except for one thing: they don’t work. https://gizmodo.com/mexicos-rich-embedding-gps-assisted-rfid-tags-under-the-5040538 The main problem is that the technology, for a number of reasons, couldn’t have worked in…

Tech News Kwame Opam

JackBack iPhone 4 Panels Are the Shatterproof Deal of the Day

ACK! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! AS*A&D^ASD* AS(D&_ASD*@!_!@HO!@ !@ADJWUIO)(*EYQ%@NBQ*@&$!_@% &%WEBNWQE. That’s the sound of your iPhone 4 scraping asphalt, mixed with the expletives flowing forth from your lips. Luckily, your screen survived. Unfortunately that glass back did not. What is one to do? My first suggestion is to withdraw from society, curl up in a ball and fall into…

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Tron Guy and Duct Tape Go Perfectly Together

Even in his basement, playing with duct tape and getting harassed by his wife, Tron Guy is still cooler than you. It might be shilling, but the animation is spot on. [The Sci-Fi Cast] https://gizmodo.com/why-does-america-hate-tron-guy-so-hard-5810318

Tech News Kwame Opam

The U.S. Coast Guard Spent $7 Billion and Has Two Ships to Show for It

10 years ago, the Coast Guard was guaranteed $17 billion dollars to purchase or re-outfit 250 ships over a period of 25 years. After spending $7 billion, there are two completed ships. There are supposed to be at least eight. According to the AP, blunders by contractors have pushed the estimated budget up to $24.2…

Privacy & Security Adrian Covert

WebOS May Have a Future, But It’s Bleak

All Things D snagged an interview with webOS honcho Stephen DeWitt, who is not surprisingly downright bullish on webOS’s future! But after TouchPad and the phones go, what exactly is left? According to DeWitt, while it’s not clear whether webOS will be licensed or find a hardware partner or what, exactly, HP does know where…

Tech News Brian Barrett

In People’s Minds, Being a Zombie Is Better than Being a Vegetable

Dead is dead. Except when you’re actually dead, apparently, because a recent study published in Cognition shows that people think a dead person is somehow better at thinking than a human vegetable. Score one for the zombie apocalypse. The study was conducted by scientists working out of the University of Maryland and Harvard. Researchers approached…

Tech News Kwame Opam

10 Things You Can Do with a $100 TouchPad

The TouchPad may not be the perfect tablet, but it is selling for $100 right now, but it’s going fast. Actually, it’s pretty much gone. But if you did manage to snag one, here are ten good uses for it. https://gizmodo.com/hp-touchpad-review-unbreak-my-heart-5816916 1. E-book Reader The TouchPad has a mighty fine Kindle app, but at only…

Tech News Brent Rose

This iPad Book Is Meant to Be Read on Shuffle

Marc Saporta’s novel Composition No. 1 is a non-linear work, meaning it was written with the intent of being read in any order. But the novel’s iPad iteration takes the concept to a whole new level with its shuffle feature. When you launch the app, according to Co.Design, it begins rotating through the book’s pages…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Rdio Has Discounted Family Plans Now

We don’t usually recommend emulating cell phone carrier behavior, but this is pretty cool: Rdio now lets you combine accounts into a family account for a ~20% discount. Combining two $10/mo accounts brings the total down to $18, and three accounts brings it to $23. You can add more than three, but the price per…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Miramax Launches Biggest Facebook Movie App Yet

Miramax just released an app named Miramax eXperience that will allow U.S. users to rent up to 20 different movies through Facebook. You’ll be able to watch films like No Country for Old Men and Pulp Fiction for $3 each through Facebook or Google TV, or on your iPad’s browser. Pretty cool, considering the former…

Social Media Alyssa Bereznak

This Swiss Lunatic Scaled a Mountain By Tightrope Walking Its Cable Car Wire

Amazing. 46-year-old Freddy Nock, a Swiss stuntman, successfully walked this 1,000 meter long cable car cable Saturday that runs up to the summit of Bavaria’s 9,000 foot tall Zugspitze mountain. Without a balancing pole or harness. That’s ballsy. He plans on going for the world record for highest tightrope walk ever. I think he got…

Tech News Kwame Opam

Prop Up Your iPad and Type Feverishly with a Wingstand

The iPhone and iPad are convenient for a lot of reasons, but the ability to type quickly or in great quantities is not one of them. Thus this Kickstarter campaign for the Wingstand. The Wingstand is very simple: just a few pieces of injection-molded plastic, which clip your iPad or iPhone to a Bluetooth keyboard…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Fox’s 8-Day Hulu Delay on TV Shows Is a Boon to Piracy

You play with fire and you’ll get burned. Fox, which recently delayed new episodes of TV shows from streaming on Hulu until 8 days after they’ve aired, has already seen a spike in piracy for those shows. https://gizmodo.com/fox-just-tightened-the-noose-on-hulu-meet-the-8-day-co-5824982 Fox’s dumb system works like this: if you’re a Hulu Plus or Dish Network subscriber, you can…

Tech News Casey Chan

Hop on the Googarola Train for Less than $70

Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility can only be a sign of bigger and better things to come. To get you on the right track, RadioShack has the Sprint Samsung Conquer™ 4G, complete with Android’s Gingerbread OS, on sale right now for the ridiculously low price of $69.99.* Despite the astonishingly low price, the Conquer™ packs…

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How the World’s Oldest Fossils Could Give Clues About Life on Mars

Clusters of islands poked through hot oceans 3.4 billion years ago, when the world still had no oxygen and the seas churned under a pallid, overcast sky. But life thrived on Earth even then, scientists say – and now they have the world’s oldest fossils to prove it. There were no plants or algae to…

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What Could Be Apple’s Next “Absolutely Different” Product?

In 2001 it was the iPod. In 2007, the iPhone. And three years later, it was the iPad. Now, the rumor is that Apple may be preparing an entire new product line. But what could that be? The rumor has been published by Makotakara, a Japanese site that has been right about a few things…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

World’s Most Advanced Crash Test Dummy Takes It In the Face So You Don’t Have to

In the 1940s, researchers would throw just about anything at a wall—anesthetized pigs, human cadavers—to gain an understanding of a high-speed collision’s effect on the body. Thankfully, the latest generation of crash test dummies use sophisticated sensor arrays to do that, not dead people. Detroit’s Wayne State University was actually the first to begin research…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

The $99 HP TouchPad Is an Amazing Deal, No Matter What Your Nerd Friends Tell You

The HP TouchPad for $99 seems too good to be true. “It is,” your nerd friend will tell you. “It’ll never get software updates. There won’t be new apps for it. It’s a dead platform. Don’t buy it.” Screw them. Here’s the thing about your nerd friends, and most of the people writing about tech:…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Google Legitimizes Libya’s New Government on Google Maps

8 Tools for Getting Out of Libya Alive

RFID Implants Won’t Rescue the People Kidnapped in Mexico

JackBack iPhone 4 Panels Are the Shatterproof Deal of the Day

Tron Guy and Duct Tape Go Perfectly Together

The U.S. Coast Guard Spent $7 Billion and Has Two Ships to Show for It

WebOS May Have a Future, But It’s Bleak

In People’s Minds, Being a Zombie Is Better than Being a Vegetable

10 Things You Can Do with a $100 TouchPad

This iPad Book Is Meant to Be Read on Shuffle

Rdio Has Discounted Family Plans Now

Miramax Launches Biggest Facebook Movie App Yet

This Swiss Lunatic Scaled a Mountain By Tightrope Walking Its Cable Car Wire

Prop Up Your iPad and Type Feverishly with a Wingstand

Fox’s 8-Day Hulu Delay on TV Shows Is a Boon to Piracy

Hop on the Googarola Train for Less than $70

How the World’s Oldest Fossils Could Give Clues About Life on Mars

What Could Be Apple’s Next “Absolutely Different” Product?

World’s Most Advanced Crash Test Dummy Takes It In the Face So You Don’t Have to

The $99 HP TouchPad Is an Amazing Deal, No Matter What Your Nerd Friends Tell You

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

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

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