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Legendary Skater Tony Hawk (And Many Others) Joins Rapture Bomb Armageddon

So, the world didn’t end. Sort of anticlimactic, no? But the apocalyptic letdown didn’t stop you guys from pulling off some fantastic rapture bombs. We’ve got another batch of our favorite bombs—plus super grindmaster Tony Hawk rapturing himself. https://gizmodo.com/the-best-rapture-bomb-pictures-5804259 Hawk’s adorable daughter doesn’t seem too thrilled that her dad got sucked up to the great…

Tech News Sam Biddle

An Obscenely Stinky Waste Facility Is Destroying a California Town

I’m pretty sure everybody in this world hates foul smelling things. So I can’t for the life of me imagine what life is like at Mecca, CA, a small, dusty town that’s been decimated by the stench of a waste facility. Even worse, no one knows what’s going on. It’s like the stink manifested out…

Tech News Casey Chan

Japan Considering Solar Power for Every Single Building by 2030

Both because they’re a country dedicated to teeny tiny carbon footprints, and because they’re likely not too hot on nuclear power at the moment, Japan is expected to kick off a universal solar panel initiative. Every building, twenty years. The plan, making mandatory solar panels for all residential and commercial buildings, is likely to debut…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Japanese Disaster Results in Biggest Financial Loss for Sony

A lot of people were affected by March’s earthquake and tsunami in Japan, but Sony’s the first technology company to claim that it resulted in poor financial numbers for them. They made a $3.2 billion loss over the last financial year—the company’s biggest in 16 years—which they’re blaming on the nine damaged factories that slowed…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Cookies are Buildings Through the Eye of the Camera

Tower block in the late-afternoon sunset, or pink wafer cookies arranged to look like architecture? In Gary Bryan’s photography series, everyday cookies are art—or rather, architecture. [Gary Bryan via Inspirational Geek]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

This Is What Your Brain Looks Like When You Masturbate

It was only matter of time after the invention of fMRI scanning machines — which track blood flow in the brain — that scientists would start having people pleasure themselves while strapped into one. And so it was that New Scientist writer Kayt Sukel ended up with this delightful scan of her brain at the…

Tech News Max Read

HP: “In the Tablet World We’re Going to Become Better Than Number One. We Call It Number One Plus”

HP has some strange ideas of greatness, with their European head Eric Cador commenting that “in the PC world, with fewer ways of differentiating HP’s products from our competitors, we became number one; in the tablet world we’re going to become better than number one. We call it number one plus.” Does that way of…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Harold Camping ‘Flabbergasted’ The World Did Not End

Harold Camping speaks! The 89-year-old Nostradamus from Northern California, who spent millions of his followers’ dollars to get out the word that the world was ending on Saturday, has been noticeably silent since that day came and went rather unremarkably. But he’s at last ready to talk — and oy, what a weekend. Don’t get…

Tech News Seth Abramovitch

Rumor: iPhone 5 to Have Curved Glass Screen?

We’ve heard a lot about how this year’s iPhone will only be an incremental upgrade from the current version, and may be called the “iPhone 4S” because of it. But according to Digitimes, its screen could be changed slightly. https://gizmodo.com/lte-free-backup-plan-iphone-4s-could-land-this-septem-5801860 Apple has supposedly bought between 200 and 300 glass cutting machines for its screen supplier,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Affordable, Self-Adjustable Glasses for the World’s Poorest Are in Sight

Two and a half years on, and the British atomic physicist who invented these optician-less adjustable glasses is now working with the World Bank and the Dow Corning Corporation to supply 200 million pairs to African and Asian schoolchildren. https://gizmodo.com/eyeglasses-with-fluid-filled-sac-for-worlds-poor-are-in-5116969 Professor Joshua Silver, the man who first dreamt the glasses up 20 years ago when…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Five Years On, the World’s Largest Photo Is Still the World’s Largest Photo

In an age where TV makers and the like are constantly outdoing one another with new “world’s largest” claims, it’s refreshing to discover that something so analog—a pinhole camera’s photo—is still the world’s largest, five years on. It may not look like much, but the photo’s eery landscape of the El Toro Control Tower, runways…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

This Week’s Best Apps

In this week’s app roundup: weather, beautified; pandas, nanosized; Portal 2, documented; documentaries, streamed; outdoor activities, easily found; Delivery.com, appified; Friday, not Rebecca Blacked; phones, found by clapping and much, much more. The week’s best iPhone apps Shine: It’s a weather app that doesn’t suck and is really pretty. Seriously! Shine is a beaut, when…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert and Casey Chan

The Week’s Best iPad Apps

NYPL Biblion: The New York Public Library has a stunning new app that lets you see a ton of essays, pictures, people, etc and information about the 1939-40 World’s Fair. It’s like a time traveling machine that brings you back to that era. The app is great too (though occasionally over the top), and easy…

Tech News Casey Chan

The Week’s Best Android Apps

Friday: Basically, every single thing you’ve done on your phone since you bought it can be recalled. It’s the sort of trickery which should not be shown to your partner, but if you can’t remember if you phoned your Mom last Mother’s Day, or if you sent that email to your boss last week, it…

Tech News Casey Chan

The Week’s Best iPhone Apps

Shine: It’s a weather app that doesn’t suck and is really pretty. Seriously! Shine is a beaut, when you bring it up, it gives the current weather in clear text with an enjoyable cartoon graphic. The bottom displays the forecast (which is side swipeable to see the rest of the 7 days) with high/low temperatures,…

Tech News Casey Chan

A New Star Wars Ride Includes a Parody of TSA Security Checkpoints

Disney’s Star Tours Star Wars simulator ride has gone through a renovation and has re-opened…with a parody of TSA checkpoints. It makes waiting in line a lot more enjoyable as Jedis are walking by, luggage is being sorted and Droids are yelling at you. Specifically: The second room of the queue is now a security…

Privacy & Security Casey Chan

The Only Time You Can Drink and Drive

Caztek Engineering has built a bike-bus that carries 14 people and moves by pedal power. As in, you sit and cycle to move the bus. The only redeeming thing? It’s a moving bar—you’re supposed to drink and drive. The bike-bus, called the CityCycle, maxes out at 6mph so it’s pretty damn slow but it does…

Tech News Casey Chan

A Third Employee Has Died from the Foxconn Explosion

Foxconn has sent us more details about the May 20th explosion at Foxconn’s Chengdu factory, saying that a third employee had died in the accident. The explosion is still under investigation but they suspect it “was caused by an explosion of combustible dust in a duct”. https://gizmodo.com/foxconn-explosion-kills-two-ipad-production-line-halte-5803963 Their official statement: Foxconn can confirm that, sadly,…

Tech News Casey Chan

How Snake Oil Got Its Reputation

We refer to things as snake oil whenever it over promises, scams, has no proof in being able to do what its been marketed to do or when it’s just plain ridiculous. But did you know real snake oil works? Snake Oil is a traditional Chinese medicine that is made from the fats and oils…

Tech News Casey Chan

Modders Make Android Work the Way You Want

CyanogenMod is one of the biggest hacks to ever hit the Android mobile platform. It’s got an estimated 500,000 users. Many Android programmers use it as a starting point for their own coding projects. And according to the project’s founder, a number of Google employees have it installed on their Android devices. Essentially, CyanogenMod is…

Tech News Mike Isaac - Wired

Legendary Skater Tony Hawk (And Many Others) Joins Rapture Bomb Armageddon

An Obscenely Stinky Waste Facility Is Destroying a California Town

Japan Considering Solar Power for Every Single Building by 2030

Japanese Disaster Results in Biggest Financial Loss for Sony

Cookies are Buildings Through the Eye of the Camera

This Is What Your Brain Looks Like When You Masturbate

HP: “In the Tablet World We’re Going to Become Better Than Number One. We Call It Number One Plus”

Harold Camping ‘Flabbergasted’ The World Did Not End

Rumor: iPhone 5 to Have Curved Glass Screen?

Affordable, Self-Adjustable Glasses for the World’s Poorest Are in Sight

Five Years On, the World’s Largest Photo Is Still the World’s Largest Photo

This Week’s Best Apps

The Week’s Best iPad Apps

The Week’s Best Android Apps

The Week’s Best iPhone Apps

A New Star Wars Ride Includes a Parody of TSA Security Checkpoints

The Only Time You Can Drink and Drive

A Third Employee Has Died from the Foxconn Explosion

How Snake Oil Got Its Reputation

Modders Make Android Work the Way You Want

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

ExpressVPN Just Launched ExpressAI: Your Prompts Are Now Invisible

VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

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Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

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