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Watch the Heroic and Crazy Flying Firefighters In Action

Last April, wildfires engulfed 200,000 acres of woods and 150 homes at Possum Kingdom Lake, Texas. This spectacular video shows the biggest guns of the Forest Service fighting against the uncontrollable flames. The Forest Service mobilized its biggest weapons against it, including heavy firefighting helicopters, Blackhawks, blazingly fast Single Engine Air Tankers, and even two…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Dear Commenters, We Need To Talk…Again

We’ve talked about how the commenting system and those crazy tagpages work, but it seems that it’s time for a different sort of discussion. Apparently time to talk about trolls, jerks, doo-doo heads, lousy commenters, the banhammer, and the AUTOBAN. https://gizmodo.com/almost-everything-you-could-want-to-know-about-commen-5465437 Just as a writer, editor, or comment administrator can approve your commenter account, he…

Tech News Gizmodo

Thank You For Removing Story From the Role-Playing Game, Dungeon Raid

Have you ever played a Final Fantasy or a Dragon Age? Actually, have you ever had to slog through a bad role-playing game, one in which the characters just go on and on about their problems and the evil that’s… [Kotaku]

Tech News Kotaku

TEPCO Installing Giant Tents over Radiation-Leaking Reactors

With radiation still seeping from Fukushima, TEPCO is taking an odd step: installing enormous polyester tents around the cores. Each steel-framed tent will be “will be 55 meters high, 47 meters long and 42 meters wide,” Dow Jones reports. We’re not sure if this is silly, desperate or effective. While it will probably aid in…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Conan Wonders What Happened to MySpace

Click to view The answer, is that it turned into a desperate, crime-addled whore! This is probably the most reasonable explanation, because it sure isn’t a relevant webite of any kind anymore. I forget when I even forgot about MySpace. [via Laughing Squid]

Tech News Sam Biddle

Comcast Actually Helped the Pirate Bay

Many were in an outraged frenzy over speculation that Comcast was blocking The Pirate Bay, cornucopia of delicious illegally free media. Comcast denied the accusation, and actually lent a hand to the troubled tracker, TorrentFreak reports. https://gizmodo.com/is-comcast-really-blocking-the-pirate-bay-5801197 Comcast hit up The Pirate Bay with an offer to put their own engineers on the job—and it…

Tech News Sam Biddle

This Unwanted Monstrosity of a Floodgate Saved a Japanese Village From Tsunami Ruin

At the time, the 3,000 Fudai villagers despised the $30 million (in today’s money) floodgate when the now-deceased mayor built it in the ’70s, but after March’s devastating tsunami, they’re thankful to still have their lives and homes intact. https://jezebel.com/the-complete-japan-crisis-timeline-live-updates-5780998 Like a giant wall that surrounds the village, which lies about 320 miles north of…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Azuro, the First Typeface That’s Perfect for Reading on Screens

So says FontShop AG, which has published the four-weight font family after months of intensive testing on all operating systems—even iOS—which is apparently a first for a typeface. The experts at The Font Feed talk of the difference between Azuro and the other fonts you normally see in your daily travels: “What differentiates this font…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Tell Me You Wouldn’t Do the Same, Given Half the Chance…

Poor Uncle Scott. At least Dan owned up to his shenanigans, I guess? [The Poke]

Social Media Kat Hannaford

Unabomber’s Manifesto, Sunglasses on Auction Block

Last year, a Montana real estate agent was offering “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski’s “very secluded” 1.4 acre Montana spread for a pretty decent asking price of $69,500. It even came with chopped firewood. And now, the U.S. Marshals Service is putting a trove of Unabomber collectibles up for auction online, starting next week and running through…

Tech News Jeff Neumann

HTC Flyer On Sale Today Across Europe From 499 Euros

HTC’s first tablet, the Flyer, has hit store shelves in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Romania, costing 499 Euros (£600, $710) for the Wi-Fi/16GB model, or Wi-Fi and 3G with 32GB of storage for 649 Euros (£480, $923). [HTC] LONDON, UK – May 13,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Do You Think the Value of the World’s Most Expensive Photo Is Deserved?

I’m not so sure, truth be told. I do like a lot of what photographer Cindy Sherman does; her photos always feature her as the subject, dressed up in story-telling mode. But is this one worth $3.89 million? That’s how much Untitled #96 sold for this week in an auction at Christie’s, beating 99 Cent…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The Real Reason You Won’t See Osama Death Pix: Princess Beatrice’s Hat

All the world may want a peek at the Osama bin Laden execution photos, but sorry, sickies — you’ll just have to settle for a second-hand account from Sen. James Inhofe and his Cryptkeeper-like attention to gruesome detail. But nowhere in the reams of analysis of the president’s decision to withhold the pictures did the…

Tech News Seth Abramovitch

Leak: Motorola’s Droid X2 Will Have a 4.3-Inch qHD Screen, Tegra 2 Innards and 8MP Camera

Someone at Motorola is being awfully careless with their documents, as more official photos have leaked out of the Droid X2, along with purported specs sheets. https://gizmodo.com/three-motorola-android-phones-leak-out-with-the-targa-5782045 The 8MP camera with dual-flash might go some way to explaining that sizeable hunchback it’s going going on, but flip ‘er ’round and you’ll see there’s a cheery…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Futuristic Products, After the War (1945)

American companies during World War II often stressed sacrifice in their print advertising. If we can all just be patient, they promised, we’ll have more televisions and personal helicopters and push-button kitchens than you can shake a rocket car at. After the war, the sun will power our homes. After the war, we’ll have plastic…

Tech News Matt Novak

Now You Can Win Scrabble With the Word “Grrl”

Next time you play Scrabble, grab the official Collins Dictionary so you can outmaneuver your friends with words like “webzine”, “darknet” and “grrl”. Be prepared, though, as those non-techies across from you may win with the dreaded “Facebook”. Tech-savvy Scrabble players should be happy as the editors of the Collins Dictionary for Scrabble recently added…

Tech News Kelly

Obama Puts an End To Fake Photo Shoots

Say good-bye to reenactments and fake photo shoots in the White House. President Obama decided these staged photo ops were “a bad idea” and ended this long-standing practice. He would say that after getting caught-out, wouldn’t he. https://gizmodo.com/pictures-of-obamas-speech-announcing-bin-ladens-death-w-5799770 The controversy exploded after people discovered most of the photos of the President’s historic bin Laden speech…

Tech News Kelly

Samsung’s 2560×1600 Screen Is the First Retina Display for Tablets

The debate about when a “retina display” for tablets will exist is over: Samsung’s new 10.1-inch, 2560×1600 display is it. With a crazy pixel density of 300dpi, it rivals what Apple considers a retina display for a phone. But it’s for tablets. https://gizmodo.com/the-iphone-4-retina-display-controversy-5561351 The ultra-high resolution display uses PenTile RGBW technology, which made headlines with…

Gadgets Kelly

A Bra Gun Holster Makes Me Excited

Called the Flashbang Bra Holster, it’s a gun holster tucked into a woman’s bra. The video shows a pretty girl (who supposedly doesn’t have any experience totin’ guns) pulling out her weapon in less than a second and a half. The holster costs $40 on eBay and fits a variety of guns. Women, I’m not…

Tech News Casey Chan

Samsung’s Foldable Display Will Let You Stuff Giant Tablets in Your Pants

Tiny tablets’ major advantage over the 10-inch crowd: They’ll fit in your pocket (especially if you’re the type of person who wears cargo pants). Samsung’s latest foldable, creaseless AMOLED display will let you fold a tablet in half—effectively making bigger tablets pocketable. Back in 2008, the South Korean company showcased a foldable OLED mobile phone…

Gadgets Kelly

Watch the Heroic and Crazy Flying Firefighters In Action

Dear Commenters, We Need To Talk…Again

Thank You For Removing Story From the Role-Playing Game, Dungeon Raid

TEPCO Installing Giant Tents over Radiation-Leaking Reactors

Conan Wonders What Happened to MySpace

Comcast Actually Helped the Pirate Bay

This Unwanted Monstrosity of a Floodgate Saved a Japanese Village From Tsunami Ruin

Azuro, the First Typeface That’s Perfect for Reading on Screens

Tell Me You Wouldn’t Do the Same, Given Half the Chance…

Unabomber’s Manifesto, Sunglasses on Auction Block

HTC Flyer On Sale Today Across Europe From 499 Euros

Do You Think the Value of the World’s Most Expensive Photo Is Deserved?

The Real Reason You Won’t See Osama Death Pix: Princess Beatrice’s Hat

Leak: Motorola’s Droid X2 Will Have a 4.3-Inch qHD Screen, Tegra 2 Innards and 8MP Camera

Futuristic Products, After the War (1945)

Now You Can Win Scrabble With the Word “Grrl”

Obama Puts an End To Fake Photo Shoots

Samsung’s 2560×1600 Screen Is the First Retina Display for Tablets

A Bra Gun Holster Makes Me Excited

Samsung’s Foldable Display Will Let You Stuff Giant Tablets in Your Pants

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