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This Guy Just Learned That It’s a Terrible Time to Be Named Casey Anthony

It shouldn’t be a surprise that Casey Anthony is getting torched on Facebook. It is, however, a surprise that the Casey Anthony receiving the hate isn’t the acquitted baby killer from Florida but rather an African American male from Pennsylvania. Your name is your name…until it’s not. And Casey Anthony has hijacked her name and…

Social Media Casey Chan

Glimpses of an Old Mayan Tomb Finally Photographed With Mini-Camera

Hidden for 1,500 years, this funeral tomb in Palenque, Mexico, was finally glimpsed by human eyes when researchers lowered a mini camera (measuring 4 x 6cm) through a crack in the ceiling. After 12 years of knowing the tomb existed, it would’ve been bloody—pardon the pun—satisfying to finally clap eyes on what lay inside. Not…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Hands On with Sony’s Gorgeous New Android Tablets

These tablets, codenamed S1 and the S2, are why we need Sony—the Sony we love—in a world where almost every gadget of consequence is effectively a blank slate for software. https://gizmodo.com/we-miss-sony-5484148 The S1, dead on, looks like any (every?) other 10-inchish tablet. (Its 1280×768 screen measures 9.4 inches, for bean counters. It’s nice.) But then…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Blind Item: Which Techies Have Seriously Broken Bad Recently?

Those pesky startup wunderkind and tech-related individuals! When they aren’t sending around dong shots or breaking out of rehab, they have to go and ruin our image of them by starring in movies or voting in the Senate. Call it schadenfreude or a rip-roaring good time, but there is nothing we love more then when…

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China Shut Down 1.3 Million Websites Last Year

China claims that they offer a “high level of freedom” for online speech. Hah! I don’t know what world they live in because in our world, the real world, China has shut down 1.3 million websites and routinely block websites. The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the state-run organization who reported the figure, also said…

Tech News Casey Chan

Your Last Best Hope When Your Plane Catches on Fire

So you’re sitting on the runway, waiting to taxi, when suddenly it hits you, “Funny, airplanes don’t normally smell like burning.” Then the panic hits. Don’t worry, if your airport has a Colet K/R40 Jaguar, you’ll probably be fine. Crash trucks are specially designed first-response vehicles used in airfields to combat fires—in the fuselage of…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Lenovo Gets Their “Boot or Bust” Commercial All Wrong

This Lenovo laptop is said to boot up in just ten seconds. Pretty speedy, but can it boot up and launch its own parachute while in freefall? Will it survive?? Thanks, Lenovo. You’re making me want to see you fail. The answer to all the above questions is supposed to be an emphatic yes. That’s…

Tech News Kwame Opam

Google+ Now Lets You Keep Your Gender Private

Google listened, and now lets you make your gender private in Google+. It also uses gender-neutral language—”they” as opposed to “him” or “her”—to make things simpler. Well done! [The Mary Sue] https://gizmodo.com/xkcd-author-asks-is-google-too-gendered-5819664

Tech News Kwame Opam

Amazon Kindle 3G with Special Offers Gets Even Cheaper, Only Costs $140

The Kindle 3G with Special Offers—the one with the ads—is getting its price slashed by $25 (courtesy of an AT&T sponsorship) and will now only cost $140. That makes it $50 cheaper than the regular Kindle 3G. [AT&T]

Commerce Casey Chan

Sony’s S2 Tablet Will Only Be On Offer At AT&T

Of Sony’s tablet offerings, the dual-screened 4G S2 tablet will be hitting AT&T exclusively, for an undisclosed price on an undisclosed day. Talk about keeping the cards close to their chest, eh? https://gizmodo.com/sonys-android-tablets-are-game-music-video-and-ebook-5795657

Tech News Kat Hannaford

A Century Old Bridge, Acrobats, Digital Cameras, and the Police

On Monday night I walked home instead of taking the train. But rather than the expected trot back, head filled with MP3s and little else, languorously drenched in sweat, I saw a woman dangling from the top of a bridge. It’d be more correct to say other people saw a woman dangling from the top…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Continuity 2 Would Make Super Mario One Paranoid Plumber

What if Super Mario was locked in a room and the walls kept moving around him?… [Kotaku]

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Mother Arrested After Not Wanting Her Daughter to Get Groped By the TSA

A mother and daughter’s trip was put on major hold this past Saturday after the mom, 41-year-old Andrea Fornella Abbott, was arrested for throwing a fit with the TSA. Given the organization’s track record for “inspecting” kids, wouldn’t you? https://gizmodo.com/tsa-harasses-9-yo-boy-and-other-train-passengers-after-5768805 Abbott and her daughter were trying to get up to Baltimore from Nashville International Airport…

Tech News Kwame Opam

The True Beauty of Grains of Sand

There may be more stars in the sky than sand grains on the world’s beaches, but do they look as pretty as these grains when shot ultra close-up? Maybe not. But it’s mind-boggling to see magnified sand looking so gorgeous. https://gizmodo.com/space-dresses-up-for-halloween-too-5677006 Magnified at 250x by Professor Gary Greenberg at the University College of London, the…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

BlackBerry App Downloads Hit 1 Billion…But Wait

Yes, RIM has seen one billion apps downloaded from its App World store…but that figure includes updated app downloads too, according to the rep BGR spoke to. Oh dear. [BlackBerry via BGR]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Sensor-Laden Gloves Help Songstresses Make Music From Thin Air

Developed specially for the musician Imogen Heap, these gloves are equipped with an accelerometer, magnetometer, gyroscope, wireless mics and a bunch of other sensors. Performing at the TEDGlobal stage yesterday, she made music using just her hands. Instead of strumming a guitar or banging the drums, she created loops by simply opening her hand, or…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

MacBook Airs, White MacBooks, Mac Minis But No Mac Pros This Month?

New Apple products are expected to drop soon, but according to 9to5Mac’s sources, the bundle of presents won’t actually include Mac Pros after all. Turns out the part numbers they intercepted earlier this week referred to a white MacBook and Mac Mini. https://gizmodo.com/will-mac-pros-join-macbook-airs-in-this-weeks-rumored-s-5820129 Supposedly the white MacBook will be seeing a new Thunderbolt port and…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Google Won’t Let Ex-Employee Release Book Called Social Circles

What follows is the awkward tale of Paul Adams’s (ex-UX Researcher guy at Google-turned-Facebook advertising product manager) Social Circles research book, which he wrote while working for Google. Research which contributed directly to Google+, particularly its friends groups. Having joined Facebook in January some seven months before the launch of Google+, you can imagine he…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

This Harry Potter Crop Circle Maze Definitely Wasn’t Created By Aliens

Neither aliens nor goblins had a hand in creating this “maize maze” near York, England—the farmer “Top Pearsy” (that’s a name, yes) owned up and said he merely wanted to mark the ending of the Harry Potter moviethon. Thank god he didn’t carve the four Sex and the City women’s likenesses in his corn fields…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Apple Stops Distributing Pedophile Mascot

The iPhone app Dancing Cuddle Bear is no more. Apple had approved the free game, consisting of a very (very!) kid friendly plush bear dancing to 11 hip hop tracks. But now it’s gone. Why daddy? Why? It turns out the creature in question is the infamous Pedobear, an internet meme so ancient it dates…

Tech News Ryan Tate

This Guy Just Learned That It’s a Terrible Time to Be Named Casey Anthony

Glimpses of an Old Mayan Tomb Finally Photographed With Mini-Camera

Hands On with Sony’s Gorgeous New Android Tablets

Blind Item: Which Techies Have Seriously Broken Bad Recently?

China Shut Down 1.3 Million Websites Last Year

Your Last Best Hope When Your Plane Catches on Fire

Lenovo Gets Their “Boot or Bust” Commercial All Wrong

Google+ Now Lets You Keep Your Gender Private

Amazon Kindle 3G with Special Offers Gets Even Cheaper, Only Costs $140

Sony’s S2 Tablet Will Only Be On Offer At AT&T

A Century Old Bridge, Acrobats, Digital Cameras, and the Police

Continuity 2 Would Make Super Mario One Paranoid Plumber

Mother Arrested After Not Wanting Her Daughter to Get Groped By the TSA

The True Beauty of Grains of Sand

BlackBerry App Downloads Hit 1 Billion…But Wait

Sensor-Laden Gloves Help Songstresses Make Music From Thin Air

MacBook Airs, White MacBooks, Mac Minis But No Mac Pros This Month?

Google Won’t Let Ex-Employee Release Book Called Social Circles

This Harry Potter Crop Circle Maze Definitely Wasn’t Created By Aliens

Apple Stops Distributing Pedophile Mascot

‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

Good News! You Can Finally Change That Ridiculous Gmail Address

ExpressVPN Just Launched ExpressAI: Your Prompts Are Now Invisible

VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

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