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This Is How You Play Chess in a Warzone

Can anything trump chess, the ultimate game of warfare? Yes, warfare, in which actual bullets fly around and kill people in horrible ways. But someone in Afghanistan felt like getting meta, crafting this nifty chess board for more abstract combat. Seems fitting that the king and queen are .50 cal giants, with the rooks being…

Tech News Sam Biddle

I Wish the CrazyFlie Quadrocopter Was on Sale Because I Want One Right Now

Quadrocopters are everywhere these days. But the 20-gram CrazyFlie is one worth noting. https://gizmodo.com/quadrotor-drones-can-juggle-balls-with-each-other-5786711 The first thing you’ll notice is that the circuit board is tiny! In fact, one of its sides is only 8 cm, and the whole thing easily fits in one hand. Yet there’s a CPU on it that helps the quadrocopter…

Tech News Max Behrman

This Gorgeous Sheet of Glass Is Actually an Expensive as Hell Radiator

I won’t fault anyone for spending $3,640 on this radiator because it looks so flipping cool. Called the Matières à Chaud (Hot Matters) and designed by 5.5 Designers in Paris, its sheet of glass (only half an inch thick!) uses Quantum Glass to heat the room up. Quantum Glass, eh? Sounds fancy. And it sort…

Tech News Casey Chan

Alcatec Orbit: Pocket Sprocket Speakers

The Orbit Stereo might not be the most powerful laptop speakers in the world, but they’re sleek, unobtrusive, and they’ve pretty much gotta be an improvement over the tinny noise that’s coughing out of your keyboard about now. A single USB cord tethers the pair to your PC, and they snap together for easy transit.…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Man Turns Weed Whacker Into Cop Whacker After Failed Sears Return

All 28-year old Gary Burke wanted was to return his weed whacker to Sears, just like his father had and his father’s father before him. But when he was turned away because the lawn and garden section was closed by the time he got there, he exercised his right as an American crazy person to…

Tech News Brian Barrett

UCLA Thinks Their Faculty Could Have Helped Expedite the Hunt for Osama bin Laden. They’re Wrong.

Those Angeleno academics over at UCLA (along with a few others) were smug enough to suggest on Twitter that some tracking algorithm to come from the halls of Westwood in 2009, could have sped up the hunt for Osama. According to Science Insider a group of UCLA geography professor submitted a paper in 2009, explaining…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Here’s More Proof that Navy SEALs Are Unbelievable Supermen

If the perfectly executed killing of Osama bin Laden didn’t convince you that SEALs are walking nuclear bombs with bear claws and the tail of a velociraptor, consider the above photo. We don’t know what the hell kind of bullety beam of death he was shooting (anyone know?), or what the advanced night targeting system…

Tech News Sam Biddle

People Came Up with Some Crazy Ideas to Fight Tornadoes Back in the Day

I’ve never experienced a tornado but I watched Twister multiple times and I’m scared shitless of them. And I sort of understand the weathery science behind them! Imagine how people felt in the 1800’s when those menacing winding bolts from the sky would manifest and tear up everything in its path. Not fun. To avoid…

Tech News Casey Chan

This Backpack Looks Through Walls

Although the brick and concrete-penetrating Prism 200c can’t see through clothes like the perv-preferred Midnight Shot NV-1, it’s still pretty neat! The backpack-mounted scanner uses ultra-wideband radio waves to scan a room for baddies before they know you’re there. https://gizmodo.com/pervert-alert-this-camera-can-see-through-clothes-5794514 The pack even allows for quasi-3D perspective shifting, so that you can pick the best…

Tech News Sam Biddle

The Destructive Path of a Tornado

Last week, more than 150 tornadoes ripped through the Southern United States killing many. Satellite images have captured images of the tornadoes’ tracks and in this particular image, you can clearly see it zipping diagonally across the screen. The tornado whisked by Griffin, Georgia and was on the ground for around 25 minutes. The tornado…

Tech News Casey Chan

HP Exec Spills Huge Company Secret on LinkedIn

Hewlett-Packard accidentally revealed more details of its cloud computing plans today when an exec updated his LinkedIn profile. Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker (pictured above) announced that HP was making a big push into cloud computing last month, but didn’t go into much detail, except to say it was building “platform-as-a-service” (like Microsoft’s Windows Azure) and…

Tech News Matt Rosoff - Business Insider

The Shadowy Life of a Stolen Credit Card Number

Even if you weren’t one of the 2.2 million people whose credit card was potentially ripped in the Sony PSN debacle, there’s still a good chance you’ve had your credit card data ganked before. What happens after your data’s been stolen? It’s sold. https://kotaku.com/sony-says-10-million-credit-card-accounts-may-have-been-5797552 Often in underground forums, for $5-$10 per stolen card. A crazy…

Privacy & Security Matt Buchanan

Apple Drops Top iTunes App because It Might be Illegal

The grey-market app Any Music Downloader knocked Angry Birds from its perch atop iTunes’ Tuesday. AMD would have allowed you to search for any MP3 on the web, download it to your iPhone drive, and then play it back on the AMD player. You even could have synced your newly-discovered tracks back into iTunes to…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

American Airlines to Offer In-Flight Streaming to Your Device

Indulging in in-flight entertainment on American Airlines is going to get much easier—you’ll never have to stare at a stupid little screen on the the back of the head rest of the passenger in front of you ever again. American Airlines is testing a new service, in partnership with Aircell, that will allow you to…

Tech News Husain Sumra

You’re a Judge, Not a Computer Repairman

It’s cool, I understand that old people have trouble understanding new technology (*cough* Senator Grassley *cough*). But, when it’s your job to understand and make BINDING LEGAL RULINGS on technology, you have to at least know the difference between OSX and Windows 7. Looks like Northern Calfornia district judge James Ware doesn’t. In NVIDIA’s class-action…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

The Best Gadgets (So Far)

A new month is upon us! Warmth! Fresh air! Smiling children! Tax refunds! Flowers! And plenty of gadgets—tablets and smartphones and dongles, oh my!—crave. Here’s our newest of the best of the Bestmodo. For the full list of Gizmodo favorites, head over to the complete Best Gadgets In Best T-Mobile Phone: The 4G, Tegra 2-packing…

Commerce Sam Biddle

You’ve Never Seen Your Cheapo Camera Lens Like This Before

From Camera Technica, a pair of videos showing the aperture blades of a Canon 18-55mm kit lens—the kind of lens you get in a cheap DSLR bundle—opening and closing in slow motion. The mechanics of even this cheapo lens look amazingly sophisticated seen like this. Aperture blades must not only be precise in the amount…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

AT&T Switches on HSUPA to Make Atrix a Little More Like Actual 4G

Something that’s fun to do if you’re a company is stick the word 4G onto something, and instantly make it awesome—like “x-treme” in the 90s. It’s mostly marketing. But AT&T’s Atrix 4G is about to get more of its promised, though originally crippled “4G” power with an HSUPA-enabling software update, boosting upload data speeds northward…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Boeing Phantom Ray: The Future of Unmanned Terror in the Sky

This aircraft is a peek at the future of unmanned aerial vehicles. Autonomous, stealthy, versatile. The Phantom Ray made its 17-minute official maiden flight last week. It only zipped by at 204 mph at 7,500 feet—but the 36,500-pound drone is theoretically capable of reaching a cruising speed of 614 mph (0.8 Mach) with a combat…

Tech News Max Behrman

This Is How You Play Chess in a Warzone

I Wish the CrazyFlie Quadrocopter Was on Sale Because I Want One Right Now

This Gorgeous Sheet of Glass Is Actually an Expensive as Hell Radiator

Alcatec Orbit: Pocket Sprocket Speakers

Man Turns Weed Whacker Into Cop Whacker After Failed Sears Return

UCLA Thinks Their Faculty Could Have Helped Expedite the Hunt for Osama bin Laden. They’re Wrong.

Here’s More Proof that Navy SEALs Are Unbelievable Supermen

People Came Up with Some Crazy Ideas to Fight Tornadoes Back in the Day

This Backpack Looks Through Walls

The Destructive Path of a Tornado

HP Exec Spills Huge Company Secret on LinkedIn

The Shadowy Life of a Stolen Credit Card Number

Apple Drops Top iTunes App because It Might be Illegal

Top Stories: Tuesday, May 3, 2011

American Airlines to Offer In-Flight Streaming to Your Device

You’re a Judge, Not a Computer Repairman

The Best Gadgets (So Far)

You’ve Never Seen Your Cheapo Camera Lens Like This Before

AT&T Switches on HSUPA to Make Atrix a Little More Like Actual 4G

Boeing Phantom Ray: The Future of Unmanned Terror in the Sky

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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Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

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