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How Gmail Found a Stolen Car

Avrohom Eliezer Friedman got his car stolen the other day. Which is pretty damn terrible. But! Police found the carjacker on the road thanks to Gmail. Well, kinda. It’s not exactly the Gmail we love and use. The thing is Friedman’s car (which he admitted to be a piece of shit) had a customized license…

Tech News Casey Chan

The Best Deal of the Day

I spend a lot of my free time wondering what I would do if Antiques Road Show came to my town. It’s a tricky one, because on the one hand I love being on TV and watching material goods being assigned arbitrary monetary values, but on the other hand I don’t own anything interesting. Except…

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The Tragic, Unforeseen Death of a Prediction Technology Mogul

John Delaney was reportedly just 150 feet from the peak of Mount Everest when he died Saturday, having collapsed from an unknown medical condition. The Intrade founder passed away without knowing he had a new daughter. He was 42. Delaney, the first Irishman to perish on Everest, had tried the summit once before five years…

Tech News Ryan Tate

A Candle That Doubles As an Ashtray Makes Smoking Less Stinky

Smoking is terrible, we all know that. But it’s terribly addictive and…disgustingly stinky. Your fingers reek, your clothes are tainted and the air, oh the air. This candle ashtray tries to make it a wee less smelly. The wick of the candle is shifted off to the side of the depressed center, so as the…

Tech News Casey Chan

Shooting Challenge: 1 Second

Last week, you captured life at 1/1000 of a second. This week, your photographs will last 1000x as long. You will photograph one entire second of time. https://gizmodo.com/111-scenes-that-lasted-1-1000-of-a-second-5805026 The Challenge Capture a photo with the shutter speed of 1 second. No faster or slower. The Technique 1-second exposures are interesting because it opens up options…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Facebook Taps Spotify for Streaming Music Powers (but It’s Still Not Ready for the U.S.)

After the Google-Spotify rumors turned out to be just that, Forbes is now reporting that Facebook will use Spotify’s streaming service to power their in-site music player. Details are still being worked out, but rumors indicated the site could be branded as Facebook Music, and could launch in two weeks. The integrated service is currently…

Social Media Adrian Covert

The World’s First 64GB MicroSD

MicroSDs are cute and so incredibly useful. Kingmax, a Taiwanese company, is making them even more useful by bumping the size up to 64GB. It’s the world’s first 64GB microSD card. The 64GB MicroSD comes with a Class 6 rating meaning transfer speeds of 6MB/s. Kingmax didn’t announce any pricing or release date yet, so…

Tech News Casey Chan

Hide Your MacBook Air Inside a Leather Bound Book

The BookBook for the MacBook Air—like the MacBook version before it—is a beautiful leather-bound, hand-distressed hardcover case for your laptop. You’ll feel like you’re carrying a book again. https://gizmodo.com/bookbook-case-puts-your-hardware-in-hardcover-5453980 The MacBook Air BookBook has a ’rounded spine’, which really means that damn computer is so thin they had to make a super small version just…

Tech News Casey Chan

Two Days of Video Hit YouTube Every Single Minute

YouTube is kinda popular. How popular? We put 48 hours of video onto it every minute. Yikes. That’s a lot of cats playing with alligators, Middle East protests, and people covering Kanye on the ukelele. The staggering statistic marks a 100% increase over this time last year, and a 13 hour increase from just November…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Back by Popular DEWmand: Luddite Tech Made New

It’s fun getting caught up in the hype of cutting-edge gadgets and the excitement of new releases, but don’t you sometimes feel like demanding that the good old days of analog and Lo-fi come back around? Sure, there is always some killjoy reminding you of what a hassle LPs and rotary phones actually were, but…

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8 Tools for Throwing a Pool-Less Pool Party

You had a few too many while out one night, and you told all your friends they should totally come over for a Memorial Day pool party. Only problem is, you don’t have a pool. DON’T PANIC! This week’s Toolkit will give you everything you need to throw a pool-less pool party. Daiquiri Whacker :…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Someone Will Pay You $100,000 to Drop Out of School and Start a Tech Company

There are several problems, of course. One: you’d be mentored by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, who’s only one of the most impressive (and likely scariest) web 2.0 people in all the land. Two: of 400 applicants, only 24 were picked. The 24 ex-students, all under 20 years of age, presented their tech company ideas to…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Why Paint Awesome Portraits When You Can Do the Same Destroying Walls?

Alexandre Farto—aka Vhils—is a master of subtractive art. He makes really beautiful realistic portraits and landscapes destroying walls, ripping apart billboards, metal sheets and wood planks. A refreshing change from all the boring, overworked digital monkeyness going on these days.

Tech News Jesus Diaz

This Gigantic Sea Snake Transforms Waves Into Electricity

Like a gigantic, sea-faring Shake Weight, the Pelamis system uses the power of the ocean to generate electricity. But, unlike the dubious exercise equipment, this device actually produced results when it was installed in the Aguçadoura Wave Farm. The Pelamis machine is comprised of hinged cylinder-shaped sections, each measuring 120m long and 3.5m in diameter,…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

The World’s Tallest Building, the Burj Khalifa, Is Now Available In Lego Form

You could say the Burj Khalifa was already built from Lego last month in Brazil, but there’s no way all 31.19m could fit in my house. Lego’s Architecture series could, as long as Tom Cruise promised not to climb it. https://gizmodo.com/what-are-you-supposed-to-do-with-the-worlds-largest-leg-5790773 Lego hasn’t revealed the price yet, or even the product, which is still sheathed…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The “iPod of the Hotel Industry” Has a Giant Robot Arm For Storing Luggage

Ever wondered what happened to Bjork’s robot arms? They’re hauling luggage in a Manhattan hotel, due to open on the 1st of June. It’s yet another technological feature from Yotel, which dubiously called itself the “iPod of the hotel industry.” A previous look at the Times Square hotel showed it resembled a Virgin America flight,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Here Are the First Cities That Will Get AT&T’s 4G LTE

AT&T just announced that they’ll be rolling out LTE—as in that real 4G goodness—to Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio this summer. No more fake 4G for you lucky people! AT&T also said that they plan to add another 10 or so markets by the end of the year. Here’s to hoping you live…

Tech News Casey Chan

Large Hadron Collider Creates Densest Matter in the Universe Outside of Black Holes

The Large Hadron Collider, the baddest monster machine around, recently made a matter known as quark-gluon plasma. It’s a hundred thousand times hotter than the inside of the sun and denser than anything in the universe, except black holes. Quark-gluon plasma—other than sounding cool as hell—is what scientists believe the entire universe was like immediately…

Tech News Casey Chan

Behold, the World’s Worst PowerPoint Slide

It often seems like every PowerPoint slide is the worst, but here lies what projector company InFocus deems history’s most heinous. I’m inclined to agree. It’s almost brilliant in its horror. Diabolical. The arrows. The colors. This is Satan’s face. Is a single part of this slide legible, or even comprehensible in some abstract sense?…

Tech News Sam Biddle

5% of Twitter Employees Still Use That Silly Egg Avatar

According to AllTwitter, 5% of Twitter’s 500 employees haven’t picked an avatar yet. C’mon, guys! Why so shy? Embrace the one bit of visual originality your company’s service allows you! The only person at Twitter who’s justified in using the default avatar is the guy who designed the default avatar. There, I said it. [Twitter…

Tech News Brian Barrett

How Gmail Found a Stolen Car

The Best Deal of the Day

The Tragic, Unforeseen Death of a Prediction Technology Mogul

A Candle That Doubles As an Ashtray Makes Smoking Less Stinky

Shooting Challenge: 1 Second

Facebook Taps Spotify for Streaming Music Powers (but It’s Still Not Ready for the U.S.)

The World’s First 64GB MicroSD

Hide Your MacBook Air Inside a Leather Bound Book

Two Days of Video Hit YouTube Every Single Minute

Back by Popular DEWmand: Luddite Tech Made New

8 Tools for Throwing a Pool-Less Pool Party

Someone Will Pay You $100,000 to Drop Out of School and Start a Tech Company

Why Paint Awesome Portraits When You Can Do the Same Destroying Walls?

This Gigantic Sea Snake Transforms Waves Into Electricity

The World’s Tallest Building, the Burj Khalifa, Is Now Available In Lego Form

The “iPod of the Hotel Industry” Has a Giant Robot Arm For Storing Luggage

Here Are the First Cities That Will Get AT&T’s 4G LTE

Large Hadron Collider Creates Densest Matter in the Universe Outside of Black Holes

Behold, the World’s Worst PowerPoint Slide

5% of Twitter Employees Still Use That Silly Egg Avatar

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

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

‘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

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