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If you’ve been waiting for Final Cut Pro X, complete with its fancy new overhaul, you can go and buy it now in Mac App Store. $300. [Apple via 9to5mac] https://gizmodo.com/next-week-could-bring-final-cut-pro-x-and-new-thunderbo-5811920
Calling the UK Government illiterate, LulzSec says they have the 2011 UK Census in its entirety, and that they plan to leak the entire thing when they finish formatting it. Uh oh. Greetings Internets, We have blissfully obtained records of every single citizen who gave their records to the security-illiterate UK government for the 2011…
British police dealing with digital crime have apprehended a 19-year-old in Essex, England, accused of participating in LulzSec’s recent rash of bold online assaults. This would mark the first time an actual human’s been nabbed since the Lulz riot started. The investigators, working with FBI authorities as well, ZDNet UK reports, arrested the teen under…
Nokia took a striking piece of unibody hardware, coupled it with a 3.9-inch curved glass touchscreen display, removed all the buttons, and topped it with an 8-megapixel Carl Zeiss camera and NFC. Incredible. It’s called the N9. But! This amazing little phone is running MeeGo, not Mango. Meaning it’s basically dead before it even launches,…
Ukranian sapphire blade that stays sharp for a year. Iridium handle. Magnetic connectors. There are many unnecessary aspects about this razor, but none moreso than the price. $100,000. [Book of Joe via Born Rich]
Nicholas Jackson over at The Atlantic has a great piece about the tear down of the Zion nuclear power plant in Illinois that was permanently deactivated in 1998 after both of it’s reactors were accidentally/coincidentally shut down. But even when done properly, complete removal isn’t so simple. According to Jackson, there are two stages to…
Pleasant. That doesn’t sound like much of an accomplishment, or a benchmark or like, impressive. But the truth is, most technology isn’t pleasant. The new Windows Phone is. Very much so. It feels alive. Everything bounces. Everything swoops. Everything flips. Every single action is lushly animated. It just doesn’t sweat the details—blood was spilled. The…
There may be one benefit to the rising cost of gas. It could make Americans less fat. Some economists like Dr. Charles Courtemanche, from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, suggest a dollar increase in gas could curb driving and slash the obesity rate by 10%. Other economists believe five million obese adults could…
You know that greeting center at your local park, with the lame green placards and the sad row of vending machines? Well the Ruth Lilly Visitors Pavilion at the 100 Acres Art & Nature Park is the beastmode version. The pavilion, described as a meditation on the convergence of building, land, and art, is actually…
Forget what you know about dollar-store, decorative embroidery and check out what Pennsylvania artist Daniel Kornrumpf did with this form of needlework. Kornrumpf took a piece of canvas and used needle and thread to create a work that captures the subtle coloring and texture of paintbrush strokes. It’s beyond amazing when you realize all the…
Can you imagine if hot dogs were as long as bridges, french fries as tall as apartment buildings, and oreos as big as your living room? That’s the world photographer Christopher Boffoli created. That’s the world I want to live in. Boffoli used miniature figures and took pictures of them doing menial tasks on top…
No, it won’t make time go faster, but telling time with a series of connected LED-illuminated blocks does make counting the minutes a bit more enjoyable. For the uninitiated, the block-face Kisai Rogue SR2 LCD watch looks like a prop from Star Trek, but those in the know recognize the distinctive styling of this Tokyo…
What wrenching does not fix whacking often will. With a recessed wheel mechanism and striking-plate facing, this Manganese phosphate-coated adjustable wrench from Gedore will let you wail away on sticky, rusted-in bolts (and zombie skulls) with impunity. The handle too features a recessed grip face to maintain your grip regardless of how greasy (and/or bloody)…
Right now, a clock that will tell time for the next ten millenia is being built into the Sierra Diablo Mountains in Western Texas. But why build a clock so monumental in scale? Because we can. The idea for a 10,000 year clock is now a classic. Computer scientist Danny Hillis dreamt it up back…
Since I was a young man, I’ve looked up to Weird Al Yankovic as a paragon of punny goofs. But today, with the release of his Lady Gaga parody video, I’m forced to see him in a different light. One with a lot of skin. [Splitsider]
Shut down your Internet for sixty seconds and here’s a sampling of what you will miss: 1500+ blog posts 98,000 new tweets 12,000 new ads on Craigslist 20,000 new posts on Tumblr 600 new videos (25+ hours worth) on YouTube The sheer volume of data being pumped across our series of tubes every minute is…
Instagram, the photo-sharing app that everyone and their geeky grandmother uses, just got a bump in popularity in the form of Webstagram. Basically, the designers went, “If Instagram won’t do it, we’ll do it ourselves.” Damn right. All Webstagram does—and, frankly, all it needs to do—is pull the app’s photos, feeds, and functionality from your…
Your feet may replace your mouth as the easiest way to compose an email when your hands are busy doing something else. The SoftStep Foot Controller was originally designed for musicians who wanted to use a computer in their studio while they played their instruments. Besides musicians, the controller can be used by disabled computer…
There are a ton of impressive applications of nanoparticles in medicine, especially cancer treatment, but MIT’s new take on the process is pretty awesome. It uses two kinds of particles to do the job: one to find the tumors, the other to kick their ass. https://gizmodo.com/nanoparticle-rubber-stamps-could-help-heal-wounds-5789459 Nanoparticles have already been used to make delivery of…
Sprint is schooling AT&T and telling the wireless carrier how it can increase its wireless network capacity by a whopping 600%. In a letter to the FCC, Sprint tells the regulatory agency that AT&T does not have to buy T-Mobile to improve its network capacity. All it has to do is install more cell towers…
