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Starred Commenters! Toast the End of the World as We Know It With Us

If the world is changing forever on 7/8 (newsflash), you may as well spend the night of 7/7 with a free drink in your hand and a free amuse-bouche in your bouche on a sick downtown NYC rooftop in the presence of an ice sculpture and people dressed as they want to be dressed for…

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Air Force Flies From Washington To Antarctica To Rescue Sick Worker

If you’re wondering about the cost of this medical evacuation, think high. And then probably think a bit higher. Flying 4,600 miles from Washington State to Antarctica, the C-17 cargo plane dodged ash-clouds and strapped on night-vision goggles to pick up the poorly contractor and drop him off at a hospital in New Zealand. Presumably…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Is Apple So Far Ahead Because They Use Tech From the Future?

An anonymous Quora post posited a solid theory as to why the iPhone and the iPad seem to so handily beat out the competition every year. It’s because Apple can get their guts literally years before anyone can even respond. Here’s what he or she had to say: What Apple does is use its cash…

Tech News Kwame Opam

The Magnet So Powerful It Explodes Copper Wires

The average American refrigerator generates a magnetic field of one-half Tesla. The world-record breaking magnet developed by the High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Dresden generates nearly 200 times that much, a whopping 91.4 Tesla. The magnet, dubbed the Pulse Cell, is about the size of a paint bucket (55cm tall, 32cm across) and weighs 440…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Paper Mache Is Instapaper Soup for the TouchPad Soul

The TouchPad filled our hearts with sand and aching—a crushing disappointment. But we love Instapaper, so if you put the latter into the former, things would be a bit better, right? Yeah! Paper Mache does just that. https://gizmodo.com/hp-touchpad-review-unbreak-my-heart-5816916 There’s nothing quite like some Read Later action to make you feel good about a tablet, and…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Zuckerberg Is the #1 Most Popular Person! (On Google+)

Mark Zuckerberg is so rich and incredible that he’s not only running the universe’s most beloved social network, but is the most beloved person on Google+—his competition! What a guy. He’s even beating Google’s own CEO. According to Google+ stat-tracking site SocialStatistics, Zuck’s topping out the Google+ popularity contest with over 29,000 followers. Google CEO…

Tech News Sam Biddle

The Mystery of the Phantom Pyramid That Never Existed

There’s nothing triangular about the Mount Teide volcano. From its base, it’s the third largest volcano in the world but is pretty flat on top. So why does its shadow look like a perfect ghost pyramid rising over the horizon? The answer is very simple: Perspective. This amazing photo was taken by Juan Carlos Casado…

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China Enlists Cisco To Spy On the Public

500,000 cameras have been purchased by the Chinese government for installation in the Chongqing city over the coming three years, to keep an eye out for crime, but more importantly political activists. Or so human-rights warriors fret. Since the Tiananmen Square incident in 1989, the US government has been strict about US companies selling their…

Privacy & Security Kat Hannaford

New York Police Ignite 5,000 Pounds of Fireworks Into Fiery Ball of Uncontrollable Mayhem

I don’t get this. The New York Police Department confiscated 5,000 pounds of fireworks, then put them in a big pile in their Bronx firing range and ignited them into a smoke and fire craze. I mean, I know consumer fireworks are illegal in New York State, but why not have some fun and launch…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

I Want to Get Lost In This Sea of Clouds and Stars

Spaniard Daniel López filmed this stunningly beautiful take on the skies of the Canary Islands, one of the clearest, most beautiful firmaments in the world. The sea of clouds and stars is simply hypnotizing. The scene at 2:18 is unreal.

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Italian Police Strike Alleged Anonymous Hackers with Dawn Raids

Italian police busted a grabbag of hacker suspects (they claim were) tied to Anonymous, including an alleged regional “head of the group” by the name of Frey. Two others were hit with charges after a 32-raid sweep of the country. Cuffing a measly trio after conducting 32 busts seems like kind of a poor yield,…

Tech News Sam Biddle

$650 “Audio Vibration Neutralizing” Board Would Be More Effective As a Chopping Board

Look, I understand audiophiles are willing to try anything to get to audio nirvana, but spending $650 on a glorified chopping board shouldn’t be on the list. You’d have better luck replacing your cables with coathangers, srsly. https://gizmodo.com/audiophile-deathmatch-monster-cables-vs-a-coat-hanger-363154 But in case you’ve got an agenda against trees or something, Kripton’s AB-3200 and AB-5200 boards supports…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Where to Get That $80 HTC Flyer Stylus for Free

Honestly, I’m surprised HTC has the audacity to price a flippin’ stylus at $80 in the first place. Even if it can sketch and do all sorts of magical tricks like make sandwiches. Unfortunately the free-stylus offer is only available at Best Buy, where it’ll cost you $500 for the Flyer tablet and stylus. [Best…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Vice President Joe Biden Joined Twitter on Independence Day

While the rest of the country was celebrating their freedom, Joe Biden—or one of his aides—was signing up to Twitter under the short-yet-sweet username @VP. His first tweet? (Or his aide’s first tweet?) “VP & Dr. B hope you take time to think about our troops & military families this Independence Day, Happy 4th from…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

A Year’s Worth of Make-Up Applied In One Day Is a Horrible Dripping Mess

Ladies—and men!—if you want to be truly frightened by what 365 day’s worth of make-up would look like if applied all in one day, look no further. Dutch artists Lenert Engelberts and Sander Plug painted model Hannelore Knuts’ face “to see how much is needed to go from a natural look to an outrageous one.”…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Woman Sees Mother’s Face For First Time In Five Years After Photo Becomes a Hit On Chinese Twitter

When a 71-year-old Chinese shoeshiner spotted an iPad-user walking past, she begged him to take a photo of her face, and somehow send it to her daughter, who she hadn’t seen for five years after moving to a different city. The man uploaded it to a social-networking site with much the same premise of Twitter,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Hasselblad Could Make Cheaper Cameras For You and Me, Thanks to Owners’ New Direction

Some fancy Swiss/Germany capital fund has bought the Hasselblad company, and has big plans for its future—namely, that they want to open it up to new markets, most likely with cheaper ranges us civilians can afford. As CrunchGear says, this could be a simple rebadge of another company’s point-and-shoots, similar to what Leica does with…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Rumor: Updated MacBook Airs Will Be Extra-Speedy With 400Mbps NAND Flash Storage

It’s expected that Apple will update the MacBook Air line this July, but with what, exactly? According to components manufacturers that the Japanese website Macotakara.jp spoke to, they’ll include the latest 19-nanometer NAND chips which have been soldered right onto the motherboard, as opposed to using an mSATA connector to fuse the SSD to the…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Getting Paid Could Kill You

Better watch out, a study from University of Notre Dame suggests your chance of dying increases after you receive a windfall of cash. It doesn’t matter if you are young or old, rich or poor, married or single. The study examined millions of death records from four major groups of people over a three-year period.…

Tech News Kelly

There Are Lots of Bacteria in Your Belly Button

Ah yes, the belly button. A remnant part of your body that serves to collect lint. Lint and quite a bit more, according to the early results from the Belly Button Biodiversity project. Jiri Hulcr and Andrea Lucky, two microbiologists from NCSU, collected 95 belly button swabs as part this biodiversity study. The pair isolated…

Tech News Kelly

Starred Commenters! Toast the End of the World as We Know It With Us

Air Force Flies From Washington To Antarctica To Rescue Sick Worker

Is Apple So Far Ahead Because They Use Tech From the Future?

The Magnet So Powerful It Explodes Copper Wires

Paper Mache Is Instapaper Soup for the TouchPad Soul

Zuckerberg Is the #1 Most Popular Person! (On Google+)

The Mystery of the Phantom Pyramid That Never Existed

China Enlists Cisco To Spy On the Public

New York Police Ignite 5,000 Pounds of Fireworks Into Fiery Ball of Uncontrollable Mayhem

I Want to Get Lost In This Sea of Clouds and Stars

Italian Police Strike Alleged Anonymous Hackers with Dawn Raids

$650 “Audio Vibration Neutralizing” Board Would Be More Effective As a Chopping Board

Where to Get That $80 HTC Flyer Stylus for Free

Vice President Joe Biden Joined Twitter on Independence Day

A Year’s Worth of Make-Up Applied In One Day Is a Horrible Dripping Mess

Woman Sees Mother’s Face For First Time In Five Years After Photo Becomes a Hit On Chinese Twitter

Hasselblad Could Make Cheaper Cameras For You and Me, Thanks to Owners’ New Direction

Rumor: Updated MacBook Airs Will Be Extra-Speedy With 400Mbps NAND Flash Storage

Getting Paid Could Kill You

There Are Lots of Bacteria in Your Belly Button

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

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

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