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The Most Entertaining Thing On Hulu Is the In-Fighting

We’ve talked about how Hulu lost its way because its owners don’t care if it wins. Now, a single post from Hulu CEO Jason Kilar has dragged that tension into the open. It’s a soap opera that’s worth watching. Kilar’s comments—that TV has “too many ads,” that digital TV advertising is twice as effective as…

Tech News Brian Barrett

$1 Million of Forged Credit Card Money Bought iPads and Macs for Prisoners

Prisoners at New York‘s Rikers Island jail have been caught buying up iPads and Macs in an elaborate cyber-crime arrangement that saw them forging credit cards—your credit cards, people!—to buy $1m of Apple products. This hip young thing with a taste for Apple kit? 28-year-old Shaheed Bilal, who tasked his three younger brothers, girlfriend and…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Hello, Data Hog! Verizon’s About to Slow You Down (and Compress All Your Web Content)

A big perk of Verizon over AT&T—besides phone calls—is unlimited smartphone data versus AT&T’s 2GB cap. But! If you’re pulling too much data, Verizon will slow your roll. This is how Verizon’s getting ready for the iPhone flood. Specifically, a PDF on Verizon’s site spotted by Boy Genius says: If you use an extraordinary amount…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Wrap These Nixon Socket Earbuds ‘Round Your Audio-Holes

You won’t find many audio-nerds swapping their Sennheisers for $30 Nixon earbuds, but it’s pretty hard finding molded-wire models that wrap around your ear. They’re available in a few brighter colors for the more-adventurous types, too. [Nixon via Uncrate]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Steve Jobs, Creator and Destroyer

It’s clear that Rupert Murdoch and Steve Jobs hold each other in high regard, aligning their companies, to some extent, for the ambitious new iPad-only newspaper The Daily. But Jobs doesn’t just build, Murdoch says, he destroys, too. That’s what Murdoch said after yesterday’s press event, during an interview with Fox Business Network’s Neil Cavuto:…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

A Bridge This Fine—and Eco-Friendly—Deserves To Be Made

Can we make a rule, architects and city-planners, to always include wind turbines in bridges from now on? Not only do they look absolutely fantastico, they could also perform a vital role in the future. Come see a closer view: This Solar Wind concept is the brainchild of designers Francesco Colarossi, Giovanna Saracino and Luisa…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Auschwitz Must Change Domain Suffix to Avoid Blaming the Polish

“Hang on a minute,” you cry, “Auschwitz has its own website?!” Well, naturally—it may have once been a concentration camp, but now millions visit it every year, and no doubt visit the Auschwitz.pl website for information. However, there’s one problem—the Polish culture minister Bogdan Zdrojewski believes that the domain suffix confuses people, and has asked…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Leak: HTC Pyramid Sounds Like a Big ‘Un With Dual-Core Processor and 4.3-Inch qHD Display

Tales of a Super-Android-Phone, the HTC Pyramid, have hit the web hard. There’s talk it could be HTC’s first dual-core handset, supposedly running on a 1.2GHz Snapdragon. Disappointingly, it could be another one for Big Hands Only, at 4.3-inches. AndroidAndMe has heard from several sources who’ve confirmed it’s headed T-Mobile’s way in May, which means…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Analyst Says Nokia’s MeeGo is “the Biggest Joke In the Tech Industry Right Now”

Normally we don’t care much for analyst-talk, but in the case of Adnaan Ahmad‘s disparaging open letter to Nokia it’s worth taking a look—if only for the advice he dishes out about adopting Windows Phone 7. The Berenberg Bank analyst Adnaan Ahmad recommends Nokia should strike up an exclusive deal with Microsoft, where they would:…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Make the Walls of Your Recording Studio as Trippy as Your Music

If you’ve ever been inside an anechoic chamber, you’ll appreciate how far-removed these sound treatment panels are from the usual egg-box design. Who ever said that sound absorption and reflection had to be ugly, anyway? [Heyniek via Mocoloco]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Pictures of Julian Assange’s Famous Leaky Condom Leaked

The Swedish rape and sexual molestation investigation into Wikileaks founder Julian Assange hinges in part on a broken condom. Did Assange tear it on purpose? Pictures of that fateful condom have now been leaked, along with the entire police report. Here are pictures of the split condom that started Nobel Peace Prize nominee Julian Assange’s…

Tech News Adrian Chen

How to Make a Fake Beach Look Real

Designing a realistic computer generated beach is rough work, but thanks to a new animation techniques it will soon be possible to create far more realistic CGI using less computing power than ever. From explosions in a desert, to the trickle of an egg timer, animated scenes containing sand are notoriously hard to model. But…

Tech News Catherine de Lange - NewScientist

Inventing the Death Ray

We’re pretty obsessed with the idea of a death ray. After all, we constantly see these weapons of mass annihilation in movies, read about them in books, and run from them in nightmares. But why haven’t we invented one yet? The folks at The Awl have taken the time to explore this dangerous obsession of…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

How a Band of Geeks Survived a Lynch Mob Assault in Egypt

For three days, geeks, online activists, and D.I.Y. filmmakers protested peacefully in Tahrir Square. For three nights, they slept in tents with laptops and cellphones charged by hacked street lights. On the fourth day, the lynch mob came. Thousands of people supporting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak laid siege to the central plaza, pressing themselves into…

Tech News Mike Elkin - Wired

This Planet Is Not In Another Solar System

It’s right here. David Kaplan took this otherworldly image in Switzerland, with Orion glimmering over the mountains and the villages around the Lauerzersee glowing below a sea of fog. His sunrise shot—with the Moon and Venus aligned—is even better: Check out David’s Flickr page for more photography goodness. [David Kaplan via APOD]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

A Better Soda Can

Aluminum cans are convenient! So why would we need a better soda can? Well because even though they’re recyclable, they’re not really reusable. This soda can is not only reusable, it’s also biodegradable. Better for everybody! It’s humorously called the TIN CAN though its made from PLA (poly-lactic acid), which means some sort of corn…

Tech News Casey Chan

Cleveland Elementary School, San Francisco (1910-2011)

A copper box buried for a century behind the Cleveland Elementary School cornerstone didn’t hold a singing frog in a top hat or a stash of gold coins. But the 1910 time capsule, opened Wednesday in front of San Francisco schoolchildren, teachers and city officials, was full of treasure nonetheless. Read more at the San…

Tech News Matt Novak

What Happens When You Give an Artist 2,200 Pounds of Salt and Five Days?

This photo shows what Japanese artist Motoi Yamamoto created out of 2,200 pounds of salt over the course of five days. At first glance it seems like he didn’t actually make anything, but look closer and you’ll see something lovely. That’s right. Yamamoto turned the whole messy salt pile into an incredible and intricate maze:…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

The Daily for iPad

The Daily is finally here. It’s good all the way through, occasionally great, and it will certainly be an impressive feat (and a good value) if they can keep churning it out like this every day. But it’s no revolution. What is it? The Daily, iPad, $1 a week or $40 a year. If there’s…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Palm Gets Seductive With Latest webOS Tablet Tease

I guess if HP thinks its webOS tablets are going to be the month’s best gadget porn, then this counts as foreplay: an oh-so-brief glimpse of the purported Palm slate peeking out from the shadows. Cheeky thing. Of course, what we’re seeing in this video from Palm’s YouTube channel could be anything. But the accompanying…

Tech News Brian Barrett

The Most Entertaining Thing On Hulu Is the In-Fighting

$1 Million of Forged Credit Card Money Bought iPads and Macs for Prisoners

Hello, Data Hog! Verizon’s About to Slow You Down (and Compress All Your Web Content)

Wrap These Nixon Socket Earbuds ‘Round Your Audio-Holes

Steve Jobs, Creator and Destroyer

A Bridge This Fine—and Eco-Friendly—Deserves To Be Made

Auschwitz Must Change Domain Suffix to Avoid Blaming the Polish

Leak: HTC Pyramid Sounds Like a Big ‘Un With Dual-Core Processor and 4.3-Inch qHD Display

Analyst Says Nokia’s MeeGo is “the Biggest Joke In the Tech Industry Right Now”

Make the Walls of Your Recording Studio as Trippy as Your Music

Pictures of Julian Assange’s Famous Leaky Condom Leaked

How to Make a Fake Beach Look Real

Inventing the Death Ray

How a Band of Geeks Survived a Lynch Mob Assault in Egypt

This Planet Is Not In Another Solar System

A Better Soda Can

Cleveland Elementary School, San Francisco (1910-2011)

What Happens When You Give an Artist 2,200 Pounds of Salt and Five Days?

The Daily for iPad

Palm Gets Seductive With Latest webOS Tablet Tease

Marvel Just Put ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2 in a Very Weird Place in the MCU Timeline

Trump Drops $1B to Kill 2 Wind Farms, Then Watches a Bigger One Go Online

Scientists Found a Weird New Way to Wash Fruits and Vegetables

White House’s Mysterious ‘Covfefe Moment’ Was Stupider Than We Imagined

Gym Bros Are Pushing Mystery Muscle Drugs Doctors Barely Recognize, Study Warns

The Head of HBO Explains What it Takes to Get a ‘Game of Thrones’ Spinoff Going

Elon Musk’s Lawyer Claims Jury’s 420 ‘Joke’ Proves He Didn’t Receive a Fair Trial

‘Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice’ Is a Genre Blending Delight

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

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

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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