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BP has been outed as a secret Photoshopper, albeit a pretty crappy one. I think we can help them out with those cleanup pictures, can’t we? https://gizmodo.com/bps-photoshopped-crisis-command-center-is-terrible-on-e-5591777 Send your best entries to me at [email protected] with BP Photoshops in the subject line. Save your files as JPGs or GIFs under 800k in size, and use…
According to security company Secunia, Apple is now the company with more security vulnerabilities, taking over Oracle, which falls to the second position. On the third position is Microsoft. This doesn’t mean that Mac OS X is the most insecure operating system, since Secunia’s report doesn’t take into account the nature of the problems it…
If you’re wondering just how much less sucky your NYC AT&T service was, look no further: dropped calls down 23% in Manhattan, blocked calls down 39%, 3G speeds up 31%. And if you’re wondering the same in San Fransisco, well… During AT&T’s call today to discuss earnings, execs were open and upfront about the improvements…
Although I always wanted a giant map to pin the cities I’ve visited, I like this scratch world map too: Go to a country, scratch the metallic gold to reveal it, just like our pizza lotto. https://gizmodo.com/play-the-iphone-4-conference-scratch-lotto-and-get-a-fr-5588463 Sadly, the $23 brings no sniffing. [I Want One of Those]
WD’s new 500GB Limited Edition My Passport Essential hard drives boast automatic backup, password protection, and will serve as your passport for a far-off land where graphic design is the only law. $120 at Best Buy and [WD]
It was only a matter of time, really: the good people over at Droid X Forums have scrapped together a 12-step root that so far (based on limited feedback) seems to work. Still, I’d be a little worried about that tricky eFuse kill switch if I used my newly rooted Droid X to load a…
What have you done with the last 17 months of your life? Made your own Daft Punk helmet? No? Well this guy made his own Daft Punk helmet. And maybe more importantly, he made a video of the build process: Isn’t it just remarkable how countless hours of one man’s work become the perfect way…
BP has acknowledged their practice of photoshopping some of the official images of their Deepwater Horizon clean-up efforts, and has vowed to stop manipulating photographs going forward. They’ve also created a Flickr account where you can see the unaltered originals. The issue surfaced two days ago, when Americablog first unearthed a doctored photo of BP’s…
Nook for Android has arrived, letting you read your Nook books and buy new titles on any Android phone. The app automatically syncs bookmarks and most recently read pages, and it includes LendMe, though your Droid disapproves of sharing. Nook for Android has many of the ebook app standbys: turning pages just takes a flick,…
If I had $2,000,010, I would sink $2M in this Personal Submarine, a spacecraft-looking two-person underwater vessel that can go down to 1,000 feet. Then I will use the $10 to buy a fake Ringo Starr mustache. The Personal Submarine uses two 3-horsepower vertical/translational thruster powered by electric batteries and controlled by a central joystick…
Could you imagine this scenario? You order a replacement motherboard for your PowerEdge R310, R410, R510 or T410 server, and it comes with a virus. That only occurred in less than 1% of these models that were repaired by Dell, but it doesn’t exactly help one sleep well at night. Dell blamed the issue on…
Thanks in part to the record 3.2 million iPhones AT&T activated last quarter and continued iPad success, there are now twice as may “integrated devices” on the company’s beleaguered 3G network as there were just a year ago. Those additional customers—27% of iPhone buyers were new to AT&T—also helped lift the carrier to nearly $31…
The neatest idea inside the Nintendo 3DS isn’t just its 3D screen. Rather, the neatest idea is that you can tweak the 3D depth of this screen with a realtime slider. Now, Sony might borrow the idea for PS3 games. https://gizmodo.com/nintendo-3ds-extended-play-impressions-star-fox-is-ba-5564376 A Sony games producer behind an upcoming Sly Cooper collection suggested that a slider…
Remember the lovely Tetris ‘sausage’ illustration? It’s now been mocked up in Lego format. Now we have Lego-based proof-of-concept it’s surely only a matter of time until it’s scaled up to full production. [Mikropikol via Technabob] https://gizmodo.com/the-terrible-truth-of-how-the-tetris-sausage-is-made-5585272
TV network ABC has released a custom ABC News iPad app that’s interesting for two reasons—its clever use of HTML5 and the amazing rotating Globe of News. Oh no, news isn’t just listed in a list like some boring old RSS reader here, instead your lead stories are warped around a navigation globe, giving today’s…
One of the two engines of this plane is running on biofuel derived from algae. And it managed to stay in the air. The only modification required to switch the EADS demonstrator to the eco-friendly fuel was a slight tightening of the engine injection nozzles, due to the algae-juice producing more explosive power than standard…
Jordan Sturm was probably stunned when her iPhone was suddenly snatched away by a bike-riding thief. I know I was when the exact same thing happened to me—except unlike Jordan, I wasn’t testing a live GPS-tracking app. Apparently Jordan was in the middle of testing out a product called Alert & Respond—which is explained as…
Whether he was a perverted old man, a cruel taskmaster, or just plain annoying, we’ve all had a bad boss at some point. There’s a new website though—complete with a sexual harassment registry—that lets you vent about him. The idea behind eBossWatch is to keep track of bad employers through user submissions. Basically you can…
This photo may not be a masterful snapshot, but I think it’s absolutely beautiful. It was taken by a female convict in a Romanian prison—a woman who was terrified just holding the Canon Powershot camera entrusted to her. Based on a vague translation of the site these photos are housed on, it seems that someone…
If you dare chuckle about the $50,000 diamond iPod hanging from pro boxer Floyd Mayweather’s neck, please be sure he doesn’t hear you. Because otherwise you may never be able to giggle again. I just hope that wondering why he hasn’t upgraded to an iPod touch yet won’t get me knocked out. [Twitter—Thanks, Esteban!]
