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The Scary Reality of Electronic Dating Violence

In a survey of kids ages 11 to 18, one in 20 boys admits to having uploaded or shared a humiliating or harassing photo of their romantic partner online. But it gets far worse than that. Roughly 10 percent of both boys and girls claim to have received a threatening cell-phone message from a romantic…

Tech News Wilson Rothman - MSNBC

Ancient Chinese Socket, Huh?

The hotel staff are friendly and anxious to please, but even when they finally understand my request, they don’t quite understand my reasoning. Nevertheless, after all the pantomime and apologies, they are bringing me a power adapter. I was smart, you see, and only brought things that take batteries. All my AC adapters can handle…

Tech News Joel Johnson

German Electric Car Drives a Record-Breaking 372 Miles on a Single Charge

The EV vehicle, an Audi A2, beat out previous world records by driving from Munich to Berlin. The driver joked (honestly) that if anyone wanted to recharge their iPhone, there was still some electricity left in the car. [PhysOrg]

Tech News Christina Bonnington

Does Internet Streaming Porn Work on Google TV? (So Very NSFW)

I said in the review, Sony’s Google TV is the perfect bedroom TV for its all-in-one-ness. It’s got a browser, so you should be able to do stream everything that your computer can. So, can you watch…you know…on it? Yes. https://gizmodo.com/google-tv-review-its-kinda-the-future-5672946 Here’s my test. I tried streaming the five major Flash video porn sites, as…

Tech News Jason Chen

Watch DARPA’s Retractable Rotor Helicopter Concept Redefine Flight

First came the rough sketch of DARPA’s DiscRotor, a helicopter whose blades retract into a disc once the craft hits a certain speed. Now we’ve got the concept video. Which hopefully means we’re that much closer to the real thing. https://gizmodo.com/darpa-developing-a-helicopter-with-a-spinning-disc-inst-5046020 It’s an idea that seems too far out there to come true, but clearly…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Eye-Fi View Quickly Shares Full-Resolution Photos With All Your Devices

In a hurry to share the full-resolution versions of your photos with several web-connected devices? Eye-Fi has a solution. Turns out that the company behind the wireless memory cards we know and love has a clever new photo-sharing service. Basically all you’ll do is log on to the Eye-Fi site and view your uploaded photos.…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Bees Solve Hard Computing Problems Faster Than Supercomputers

In a new study, researchers report that bumblebees were able to figure out the most efficient routes among several computer-controlled “flowers,” quickly solving a complex problem that even stumps supercomputers. We already know bees are pretty good at facial recognition, and researchers have shown they can also be effective air-quality monitors. Here’s one more reason…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

XTREME Unicyclist Makes Solid Case For New X Games Category

This man can do things with a unicycle that you would never have dreamed of. And not just because you don’t dream of unicycles on general principle. It’s because Max Schulze can uni-shred. This video was made for the North American Unicycling Convention and Championships, an annual contest in which Schulze has won the Trials…

Tech News Brian Barrett

3,000 Camera Flashes Illuminated the Streets of This Spanish City for a Massive Lightpainting

This beautiful photo captured 50 photographers who’d set off their cameras’ flashes over 3,000 times across a 100,000sq/m trail of the Spanish city Toledo, making one of the prettiest examples of lightpainting I’ve seen. [Caborian via Strobist]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Meet The PlayStation Phone

Looks like the folks at Engadget got their hands on photos of something interesting: A PlayStation Phone. We’ve heard about this mysterious device in the past, but this is the first look at a prototype model. https://gizmodo.com/sony-ericsson-readying-an-android-3-0-playstation-phone-5610662 The phone apparently has a 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8655 chip, 512MB of RAM, 1GB of ROM, and support for…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Want A Free Google TV? Become A Web Developer

Google is being quite generous and handing out 10,000 free Google TV units to developers in hopes of encouraging “websites that have been built with the TV screen in mind.” https://gizmodo.com/google-tv-review-its-kinda-the-future-5672946 The company is mainly reaching out to existing web developers in the Google Code community, but also accepting entries into the Google TV Web…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Randomly Generated Shoot ‘Em Up Will Keep You Chaotically Distracted

The scrolling shoot ’em up genre isn’t exactly known for its simplicity or ease—which is why Phoenix for iOS sounds so insanely great. Beyond the bullets-everywhere craziness, the gameplay is randomly generated each time. And endless. Pew pew. Phoenix’s devs boast that the game’s procedural generation offers “hundreds of thousands of enemy variations,” along with…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Beijing’s IKEA Is Apparently a Great Place for a Snooze

Whenever I visit IKEA, I immediately tense up—ten thousand kinds of wardrobe! It fries the nerves. Not so in Beijing, where shoppers have appropriated the store as a serene, padded lounge—and are passed out all over the place. Perhaps the most amazing part of these photos, snapped by writer Zach Honig, is the extent to…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Apple: You Can’t Have A White iPhone 4 Until Spring 2011

In case you’d gotten excited when the whispers about the white iPhone 4 started again today, there’s some bad news. Apple has put out a statement clarifying that the highly desired gadget won’t be available until Spring 2011: We’re sorry to disappoint customers waiting for the white iPhone yet again, but we’ve decided to delay…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

How to Spot Your Evil Twin

Are you the good twin or evil twin? Sometimes just looking for the goatee isn’t enough (especially for the ladies). Luckily, Everything Explained Through Flowcharts has you covered! Determine your evilness in this week’s excerpt. Are you familiar with Isaac Newton’s third law of motion? I’m sure you are, everybody knows it. Summarized in plain…

Tech News Doogie Horner

A Different Google Maps Arrangement

This is Jenny Odell’s “125 American Swimming Pools,” a clever collage of pools trimmed out of Google Maps and artfully rearranged. Wait until you see “195 Cargo Ships, Barges, Motorboats, Yachts, Tankers, Cruise Ships, Riverboats, Sailboats and Hospital Ships.” But who’s counting. More great stuff at Jenny’s site. [Jenny Odell]

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

US Lost Command of One-Ninth of Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Arsenal Last Saturday

President Barack Obama has been informed that the US Air Force lost complete command and control of one-ninth of their ICBM arsenal last Saturday. Administration officials stressed that the problem was only temporary, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t big. In fact, according to The Atlantic, a military officer briefed on the matter said that…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

23-Year-Old’s Solar Powered Fridge Earns Her Award From Nobel Prize Winners

23-year-old Emily Cummins started her career as an inventor as a young girl tinkering in her grandfather’s shed. Now, thanks to a solar-powered fridge that’s already in use across Africa, Nobel winners are handing her awards. Cummins had the idea for the refrigerator last year when she was a student at Leeds University. A metal…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

A 1,200-Lb. Pumpkin, Dropped On an Old Pontiac

What happens when you drop a 1,200 pound gourd on a rusted out Pontiac from extreme heights? Pretty much exactly what you think. Which doesn’t make it any less entertaining. The good people at Hee Haw Farms out in Pleasant Grove, Utah may have too much time on their hands, sure. But at least they’re…

Tech News Brian Barrett

The Creepiest TV Moments of Google’s CEO

Eric Schmidt is a thoughtful speaker with impeccable educational credentials. But the Google CEO’s been a creepy, arrogant-sounding disaster in the press lately, especially on television. Today he issued a retraction. Here are the lowlights of how this came about. Today, Google media relations disseminated a press release in which Schmidt said “I clearly misspoke”…

Tech News Ryan Tate

The Scary Reality of Electronic Dating Violence

Ancient Chinese Socket, Huh?

German Electric Car Drives a Record-Breaking 372 Miles on a Single Charge

Does Internet Streaming Porn Work on Google TV? (So Very NSFW)

Watch DARPA’s Retractable Rotor Helicopter Concept Redefine Flight

Eye-Fi View Quickly Shares Full-Resolution Photos With All Your Devices

Bees Solve Hard Computing Problems Faster Than Supercomputers

XTREME Unicyclist Makes Solid Case For New X Games Category

3,000 Camera Flashes Illuminated the Streets of This Spanish City for a Massive Lightpainting

Meet The PlayStation Phone

Want A Free Google TV? Become A Web Developer

Randomly Generated Shoot ‘Em Up Will Keep You Chaotically Distracted

Beijing’s IKEA Is Apparently a Great Place for a Snooze

Apple: You Can’t Have A White iPhone 4 Until Spring 2011

How to Spot Your Evil Twin

A Different Google Maps Arrangement

US Lost Command of One-Ninth of Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Arsenal Last Saturday

23-Year-Old’s Solar Powered Fridge Earns Her Award From Nobel Prize Winners

A 1,200-Lb. Pumpkin, Dropped On an Old Pontiac

The Creepiest TV Moments of Google’s CEO

Roborock F25 GT Cordless Vacuum and Mop Hits Its Lowest Price in Spring Sale, 20,000Pa Cleaning Power Without the Premium Price Tag

New Details Add a Bizarre Twist to NASA’s First ISS Medical Evacuation

ASUS TUF 27” HDR Gaming Monitor Briefly Returns to Black Friday Pricing for a Limited Run in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

‘Speed Racer’ Is Getting a Glorious New Remaster

Dreame Pocket Pro Hair Dryer Is Now Over 3x Cheaper Than Dyson’s Deal in Amazon’s Prime-Exclusive Spring Sale

Pompeii Study Confirms Roman ‘Wine’ Ritual Previously Known Only From Texts

JBL Clears Out a 5.0-Channel Compact All-in-One Soundbar at a Record Low Beyond Its Portable Speaker Deals

Andy Weir Says Paramount Rejected His ‘Star Trek’ Pitch, Proceeds to Blast Modern ‘Trek’

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

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

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