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You can’t forget those adorable self-portraits taken by a group of vain monkeys on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The shots are amazing, so amazing that a controversy is brewing over their copyright. https://gizmodo.com/vain-monkey-steals-cam-to-take-these-adorable-self-port-5818115 You see, the monkeys took the images using a camera owned by photographer David J Slater. They stole the camera which…
Are you a Verizon iPhone owner stuck at the Apple logo after using Comex’s JailbreakMe 3.0 tool? If so, this set of instructions provided by Comex himself may fix your problem: https://gizmodo.com/jailbreakme-3-0-for-the-ipad-2-and-ios-4-3-3-now-live-5818415 JailbreakMe bugs A bug in JailbreakMe 3.0 could cause iPhone 4 (CDMA, i.e. Verizon) to get stuck at the Apple logo and be…
The Conrad Maldives Rangali Island Hotel in the Indian Ocean has a stunning undersea restaurant. To celebrate its 5th anniversary, the hotel turned the restaurant into a private bedroom for two with a fancy champagne dinner and breakfast in bed. And it gets even better. The bedroom lies 16-feet below the water and is enclosed…
Microsoft insists tablets are Windows-powered mobile PCs. Even Windows Phone president Andy Lee, who should be pushing for a WP7 tablet, said, “We view a tablet as a PC.” Since the early days of the Origami project, Microsoft has looked at the tablet as a desktop replacement. Slates ran Windows XP or Windows 7; never…
Pandora just switched from Flash to HTML5 for its fetching redesign, but that’s not the real news. The biggest thing about the change is that Pandora is different inside and out, its functionality now rooted firmly in being social. Pandora will show its new face to Pandora One customers first, and then to everyone else…
Sgt. 1st Class Leroy Arthur Petry is one of only two living recipients of the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War. And how he earned it is a story that you need to hear. Petry had holed up with his platoon in a building in Afghanistan when he and his team took on heavy…
Who wouldn’t want to build a minifig fort from a set of concrete blocks made to look like Legos? These must-have blocks for Lego fans were created by Etsy seller Tara Ketchum (studio 1015). Each one is the size and shape of a standard Lego brick. They can be used to build structures that need…
When there’s radioactive meat drifting into your supermarket, you might want a way to screen it yourself. And if you’re in Japan, getting your hands on a geiger counter can be tricky (and expensive). This Kickstarter has a solution. The Smart Radiation Detector’s creators say they can sell the thing—a small black box that plugs…
Another music sharing app for the iPhone will hit the App Store tomorrow. The new Play app is an AOL creation that launched on Android a few months ago. Play is described as an Instagram for music that lets you share and comment on tracks. It’s very similar to iOS app SoundTracking which also debuted…
Details are scarce, but we do know this: a man and a woman broke into a Hillsboro, MO garage on Sunday to steal things. Then they got sidetracked by having sex with each other. And then it got weird. According to KDSK news, the woman decided—mid-coitus!—to spray her accomplice/lover in the face with pepper spray,…
I love the ocean, which is one of the three reasons I love this project by David Bowen. The other two being that is technically awesome and absolutely mesmerizing. See, this grid that magically floats and morphs in mid air is at the National Museum in Wroclaw, Poland. But in reality, it’s showing a bit…
What would you think of a Kickstarter project that lets you wear your iPhone on your shirt without velcro, straps or magnets? You would think it was nutty idea that puts your iPhone in peril. But it’s not. The Move is an iPhone case that you wear under your clothing. The iPhone snaps into the…
This Is War | Watch the Libyan Revolution Explode through the Lens of a Helmet Cam. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-war-watch-the-libyan-revolution-explode-throug-5819801 Netflix Just Got Way More ‘Spensive (Updated) https://gizmodo.com/netflix-just-got-way-more-spensive-updated-5820492 It’s not exactly Sophie’s Choice, but if you’re a pretty casual Netflix user like I am, you’re going to have to decide which is more crucial: streaming movies or watching…
Suzi Theodory was ready to cover an LA County wildfire for Time Warner News. She even had her anti-smoke sunglasses on! But what she wasn’t prepared for was to be doused with hundreds of gallons of water from above. Luckily, she takes it all in stride! Thoroughly soaked, she bursts into an uncontrollable fit of…
Joseph Smarr, a technical lead for Google+, has been fielding questions about the “social sharing” site since yesterday on AnyAsq (think AMA from Reddit). His answers give a behind-the-scenes look into where Google’s latest hit product is headed. https://gizmodo.com/google-to-surpass-10-million-users-5820276 Of course, some it is rehashing the Mountain View party line (Circles is going to change…
Android 3.2 is an unexpected little update, especially with Ice Cream Sandwich coming later this year. But good on Google for making its less-than-amazing Android tablets a little bit better all the time until that major new hotness happens. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-androids-ice-cream-sandwich-5800358 So! Here’s what’s new and better in Android 3.2, which is already rolling out to…
The next time you see a middle-aged man with an unfortunately placed, “Frankie Say Relax,” tattoo, hold your judgement. Many Friday nights ago, he may have fallen victim to a threat that haunts us all: the drunken tattoo decision. If you’ve simply resigned yourself to the possibility of waking up with an unwanted tramp stamp,…
It’s pretty much impossible to make a movie about robots that I don’t want to see. Well, aside from Surrogates, maybe. But that atrocity isn’t playing at this year’s Robot Film Festival! Giz and io9 are giving away tickets to the event to the best robot rhymers. The Goods Two winners will receive a pair…
Making fun of France is as American as apple pie but it doesn’t mean we don’t think it’s a beautiful country (what? there’s more than Paris?). Above France is an app from National Geographic Traveler and Fotopedia that shows off the beauty of the rest of the country. It’s a series of jaw dropping photographs…
Our friends at The Loop found a pretty interesting survey that finds 34 percent of all iPhone owners think their phones have 4G. Of course, the actual number of people with 4G iPhones is zero percent. I’d say something snarky about people being dumb, but given how many people have iPhones, the alphabet soup of…
