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Efforts to drag our military’s cybersecurity into the 21st century are well underway, but John Arquilla, professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, wants more: A preemptive international hacker force, which would cripple enemies before they even become a problem. https://gizmodo.com/air-force-cyber-command-wants-intarwebs-supremacy-365042 Existing plans for a new online defense strategy don’t seem particularly bad, except for that…
When webOS 1.2 didn’t re-fix the syncing compatibility that iTunes 9 re-broke, it almost looked like this bizarre little Apple/Palm standoff had finally just, you know, puttered out. Well, nope, for some reason! Cue webOS 1.2.1. https://gizmodo.com/palm-pres-webos-1-2-goes-live-5369604 Palm’s possibly heroic, mostly inconsequential iTunes-molesting theatrics aside, the fix most people were actually waiting for involved an…
Because the one sentence written about this miniature-living-room-inside-a-PC-case was composed in Russian, i’ll just say this—whoever created it is awesome, but they might also be a serial killer. There’s a painstaking amount of detail inside the scene, including intricate housewares such as a vase, flowers, the newspaper, and a gumball machine (?!). Anyone with this…
Sure, some of us wear the time on our wrist, but this concept watch quite literally puts the time on your wrist. Designed by Andy Kurovets, this concept uses a laser mounted inside the wrist band and angled over the flat part of the wrist to reveal digital time. Very slick, undeniably futuristic. [Yanko Design]
Android Central has more details on Motorola’s Android phone for Verizon which may or may not have a 600 MHz ARM Cortex A8 processor, 3.7-inch 854×480 screen, 5-megapixel camera, video recording and Android 2.0 Eclair (w/ native flash support!). https://gizmodo.com/motorolas-verizon-android-phone-looks-like-we-thought-5327291 The phone has floated around under the names “Sholes,” “Tao” and “Droid,” the last of…
We already knew about painting by Windows error, but this mindbending chair at the London Design Festival looks like it was designed in the middle of a full-on Win 98 meltdown. [Core77] https://gizmodo.com/art-painting-by-windows-error-5150108
Today in remainders…a new GPS system, a woman who shouldn’t be doing what she’s doing, a big ass disc and a couple old men talking about boards. We like Net Neutrality. We like Net Neutrality a lot. But this? This video by Randi my-brother-started-Facebook Zuckerberg? This is Net Neutrality’s Worst Enemy. Sorry for making you…
I’m amazed by the cinematic qualities of this high definition footage from Frontline’s documentary Obama’s War. The color, the depth, the texture, it all screams film to me. Except it’s just a Canon 5D Mark II rigged by Danfung Dennis. https://gizmodo.com/canon-5d-mark-ii-officially-awesome-21mp-dslr-first-to-5050899 Danfung got his Canon 5D Mark II in a steady-cam type rig, complete with…
Sorry, Apple. Researchers have already created a mightier mouse: By deleting a single gene from a mouse’s genetic makeup, they’ve enabled it to suffer fewer age related ailments and live 20% longer. On humans, that’d be about 16 bonus years. https://gizmodo.com/apple-may-be-working-on-touch-based-mightier-mouse-5372793 So what exactly did those crazy scientists do? They bred mice with the “gene…
The sensors dome mounted on this Cessna 182 comes from a Predator. And it’s under that wing because there’s a shortage of Predators and Reapers, so pilots can’t get training with real drones. The solution? Convert other pilots into drones. https://gizmodo.com/predator-c-avenger-revealed-now-kills-kills-faster-fas-5224305 Fortunately, that doesn’t mean re-programming and wiring human pilot brains to the airplanes. That…
Pizza and porn. The two just plain belong together. So why has a pizza factory fired three employees over a little bit of on the job ooh-la-la-look-at-her? And why can’t they settle the resulting (so far) five week strike? Word has it that the reason those three Green Isle Foods employees were terminated is “improper…
It looks like a modern version of a van Gogh painting rather than the future headquarters of an oil company, but with its concert hall, museum, hotel and business center, Gazprom Tower will be the tallest, greenest building in Europe. Yes, there’s plenty of irony in having Gazprom’s oil unit, OAO Gazprom Neft, use one…
Oh wires. Technologizer loves you, but we thought we’d tell you why we love you too. Their reasoning: The Eye-Fi wireless transfer card only works sometimes, wireless headsets are worse than wired ones, USB power is much better than battery power and Wi-Fi access points aren’t very stable. Although we don’t agree with all of…
Don’t listen to the pasty dude with the Arsenal shirt who lives downstairs—FIFA 10 isn’t the only good thing to land in the App Store this week. Not even close. AP Stylebook: Anyone who has to crank out copy on a regular basis is probably familiar with the AP’ stylebook, but an iPhone app seems…
Possibly in response to the amazingly low price of Fullpower’s MotionX GPS (stay tuned for full review), Networks In Motion has reduced the monthly rate of its Gokivo iPhone app to $4.99. [iTunes Link] https://gizmodo.com/iphone-navigation-app-battlemodo-part-ii-the-best-che-5367026
It’s bad enough that the Pirate Bay’s prospective buyers are world-class sketchballs—today, we find out that the Pirate Bay’s business dealings are even shadier. Oh, and Google’s culling TBP from their results Things: they don’t look so good. https://gizmodo.com/pirate-bay-bought-out-suddenly-respects-copyrights-5304354 Given their earnest public defense of filesharing and aggressive posturing, I always assumed the Pirate Bay…
Holy Batman. This is the scariest piece of pseudo-art ever. Please don’t zoom if you want to sleep tonight. Or tomorrow. Or next week. Heck, you will be lucky if you can sleep before Halloween. Some people paint a Star Wars version of the last supper using frames from the movie. Other really sick people…
The Diamond Light by Hiroki Takada has three of the best things I like in lighting design: Weirdness, disco bling bling, and the possibility of making photons bounce until they create a massive laser capable of vaporizing the planet. The Diamond Light is made of mirrors and a 20 watt LED. [Takada Design via Mocoloco]
An executive order from President Obama bans all government employees—including soldiers and postal workers—from texting while driving if they’re working, driving one of Uncle Sam’s cars or using one of his cellphones. Meaning we’re all next. [Ars]
Mini DisplayPort to DVI, that’s easy. But what if you need to go the opposite way? You long to connect your DVI graphics card to that alluring Cinema Display’s Mini DisplayPort input. “Impossible!” you cry. It was. Until now. • OK, so the reality of the situation might not be that exciting. All the Atlona…
