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You Can Finally Share Photos Natively Using Twitter

Wow. Five years after it launched, Twitter has finally added native photo-sharing to its service. Starting now, all Twitter.com users have a camera icon that lets you add a photo to your tweet. Images that are 3MB or less in size can be uploaded and embedded into a tweet. If a user follows you they…

Tech News Kelly

Google Misplaced The Biggest Mountain in the Continental United States

Mt. Whitney is the tallest mountain in the “lower 48.” Naturally, it’s one of the most notable landmarks in both the state of California, and the United States itself. Google Maps has no idea where it is. Gelatobaby discovered the Google Maps mishap on a recent trip to Yosemite. Her iPhone showed the mountain smack…

Tech News Mat Honan

Don’t Let Cable TV Be the Monster in Your Living Room

There are plenty of people now who think the cable companies are nothing but a cabal of greedy assholes. But you know who hated the cable companies more? Movie theaters and broadcast networks in the 1970s. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-best-time-warner-cable-takedown-yet-5806001 Boing Boing’s Rob Beschizza writes that the Film and TV power players were paranoid about cable eating away…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Walter Cronkite Explores the Home of 2001

While visiting New York a few years ago I stopped in at the Paley Center for Media (formerly the Museum of Television and Radio). They have quite an extensive collection of TV programs that anyone can view, two at a time, for an admission fee. One of the shows I watched was an episode of…

Tech News Matt Novak

10 of the Most Mind-Blowing Slow Motion Videos You’ve Ever Seen

When we heard about the new Phantom v1610, which shoots at a preposterous 1,000,000 fps and is probably the most powerful slow motion camera ever, we were pretty excited. Here are some of our favorite slo-mo videos ever. The Camera That Goes to ONE MILLION FPS Egg Meets Mousetrap Pretty much anything you’d want to…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

California Booting Inmates off Facebook

If there’s anything worse than being in a California state penitentiary, it’s not being able to check if you’ve been tagged in any photos lately. This dual fate of horror is now a reality for CA inmates, NBC reports. The state’s apparently not thrilled with social media savvy criminals, and is “working with Facebook to…

Social Media Sam Biddle

Facebook for iPhone and Android: Will This Really Kill SMS?

As you may have heard, Facebook just released a standalone Messenger app. It’s their effort to invade your phone with a messaging platform that everyone has access to (because ‘everyone’ has a Facebook). And even if you don’t use Facebook, you can use it to SMS! https://gizmodo.com/facebook-s-new-messenger-app-aims-to-kill-sms-bbm-and-5829250 What’s it do? Well, theoretically it can become…

Social Media Casey Chan

This Is Your Chance to Fund a Phone Case That Will End in Certain Death

We’re idiots when we drive. We text, we watch movies, we careen into lakes blindly following GPS directions. So I’m having some trouble understanding how bolting your phone to the middle of your steering wheel is supposed to make us pay more attention to the road, not less. https://gizmodo.com/man-drowns-after-gps-guides-him-into-a-lake-5655527 Amazingly, that’s the claim of the…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Dear Sixth Circuit Court, Spamming and Hacking Aren’t the Same Thing

The U.S. Sixth Circuit Appeals recently ruled in favor of a company who claims their computer system was sabotaged by a labor union that told its members emails to their employer about a dispute. But the charge wasn’t spamming. It was for hacking. The claim, as lawyer Nick Akerman points out, says the purported crime…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Oops! A Phone Number on a Toy Truck Turned Out to Be a Sex Line

A Grandma gifted a Mattel Matchbox toy truck to her 3-year-old grandson because like most 3-year-old boys, he loved playing with trucks. Unbeknownst to both of them though, the phone number painted on the truck directed to a sex line. As a joke, Jan Barnett, the grandma, called the phone number 1-800-FAST-TOW and was shocked…

Tech News Casey Chan

CERN Needs YOUR Help to Discover the Elusive God Particle

CERN are the multi-national keepers of the Large Hadron Collider, which is the most powerful particle accelerator on the planet. But they need your help in their quest to find the Higgs Boson particle, otherwise known as the God Particle. CERN is tapping into the BOINC distributed computing project (which crowdsources computing power to create…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Could Apple Be the World’s Most Valuable Company Without Steve Jobs?

Fanboys are breathless from so much wanking today, paralyzed by genital turgidity because Apple briefly surpassed ExxonMobil as the most valued company in the stock market. Right now, Exxon is still number one at 352.9 billion compared to Apple’s 346.74 billion. But even if Apple’s stock market capitalization were actually higher than Exxon’s, would it…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Don’t Put Your iPad Onto a Custom Pillow Because It Makes No Sense at All

Tablets are great, and clutching them is a big heaping part of the fun! But you need a case, because you don’t want your baby slate to crack or scuff or shatter. Put slipping it in a pillow is idiotic. Under what circumstances would this make sense? Are your knees made out of some crumbly…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Project Run-a-Way: The Craziest Combat Outfits

They might be garish or sophisticated, bizarre or comical, technology-heavy or explosive-proof. All sorts of suits outfit the men and women who work hard everyday – to fight bombs or keep the peace. Here we showcase a few of the cool, functional or just plain insane fashions fit for the fight. The Bomb Suit Defusing…

Tech News Lena Groeger - Wired

Are Rioters Already Trying To Sell Their Stolen Shit On Craigslist?

Last night, an ad displaying 40 boxed and sealed iPhone 4s popped up on Craiglist’s London website. First a shameless Twitter stolen swag pic and now this? That’s totally not suspicious at all. The ad, which advertises 40 iphones for £320 a pop, even has a tinge of desperation. All these iphones are brand new…

Tech News Alyssa Bereznak

Facebook’s New Messenger App Aims to Kill SMS, BBM, and Everything Else

AIM’s downfall owes largely to the ubiquity of Facebook chat. And now, the company’s going after the mobile crown—texting. Facebook Messenger will do text conversations, privately share your location, and beam around photos. To all of your friends. The dedicated Messenger app will be separate from the main Facebook app for iOS and Android, offering…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Visa Making A Push for Mobile Payments

Visa is accelerating its adoption of both NFC and EMV contact technology in the coming years. US chip suppliers for both technologies will have to “support merchant acceptance of chip transactions no later than April 1, 2013.” [Visa via TechCrunch]

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

11 Tools to Turn Your Home Into A Fortress

London’s burning, if you haven’t noticed—rioting and looting nightly. With the police slow to respond, it’s time to defend your house and home from Hackney hooligans. These 11 tools will ensure they don’t step foot on your property. NextBolt NX3 Fingerprint Door Lock With Deadbolt When you’ve got a legion of pissed off rioters chasing…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Every Space Nerd Must Get This Thing For Their Bathtub

This is the Belle Air RH 1127. It’s not a plane designed by Howard Hughes. It’s a bathroom faucet, and I want it in all its chrome retro sci-fi glory. [Leroy Brooks via Book of Joe] This is not the same model, but I wouldn’t mind it either.

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Lego Buzz Lightyear Alarm Clock Is the Deal of the Day

You’re late. Again. You’re going to lose your job. Your wife. Your husband. Do you have both? That’s illegal. You’re going to lose it all because you couldn’t haul your bloated hide out of bed in time. Again. Oh, you just wanted to sleep in. A bit of snoozing. Just a few more Zs. That…

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You Can Finally Share Photos Natively Using Twitter

Google Misplaced The Biggest Mountain in the Continental United States

Don’t Let Cable TV Be the Monster in Your Living Room

Walter Cronkite Explores the Home of 2001

10 of the Most Mind-Blowing Slow Motion Videos You’ve Ever Seen

California Booting Inmates off Facebook

Facebook for iPhone and Android: Will This Really Kill SMS?

This Is Your Chance to Fund a Phone Case That Will End in Certain Death

Dear Sixth Circuit Court, Spamming and Hacking Aren’t the Same Thing

Oops! A Phone Number on a Toy Truck Turned Out to Be a Sex Line

CERN Needs YOUR Help to Discover the Elusive God Particle

Could Apple Be the World’s Most Valuable Company Without Steve Jobs?

Don’t Put Your iPad Onto a Custom Pillow Because It Makes No Sense at All

Project Run-a-Way: The Craziest Combat Outfits

Are Rioters Already Trying To Sell Their Stolen Shit On Craigslist?

Facebook’s New Messenger App Aims to Kill SMS, BBM, and Everything Else

Visa Making A Push for Mobile Payments

11 Tools to Turn Your Home Into A Fortress

Every Space Nerd Must Get This Thing For Their Bathtub

Lego Buzz Lightyear Alarm Clock Is the Deal of the Day

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

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