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Tech NewsGadgetsI Miss My Soviet Diafilm Projector
By the time I was born in 1987, the filmstrip projector was already vintage: a musty, overheating box with a brittle lightbulb glowing yellow out of the vent. For the Soviet Union public, the once widely popular tech could not compete with VHS, but I was not interested in VHS. I preferred to hole up … Continued
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Tech NewsBeeple’s $69 Million NFT Sale Is a Good Time to Rethink Some Things
“It’s hard to be like, ‘Oh man, I hope it doesn’t flop!’” artist Mike Winkelmann aka Beeple chortled at the kickoff of his “Christie’s Closing Party” Clubhouse session this morning, about an hour before his Christie’s sale would close with the staggering bid of $69,346,250—making it the third-most valuable sale by a living artist. In … Continued
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io9How What We Do in the Shadows Season 2 Builds Deeper, Creepier Vampire Worlds
Iconic vampire cameos, a ruined orgy, Staten Island city council politics, and one very unlucky witch skin hat made the debut season of Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement’s What We Do in the Shadows a cult hit. This past winter, io9 took a look behind the scenes of season two and talked to the creators, … Continued
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Tech NewsThe 100 Most Popular Gizmodo Posts of 2017
What a year, huh? While Facebook snooped on your family secrets, Trump tweeted us deeper into disaster, and various foreign objects were being pulled out of unsuspecting people’s heads, there was some joyous things to behold too. Like a hand-squeezed Juicero bag, or a flat Earther trying to go to space to prove a point. … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & SecurityOops, Snapchat Accidentally Ended Up on a Russian Government Snitch Registry
As Russia transitions into an internet dystopia, it appears that Snapchat has been dragged right in. Today, Snapchat’s parent company Snap was registered as an “information distribution organizer.” And by July 1st, 2018, an amended law will require “information distribution organizers” to store months of user data, and make it available for the Russian law … Continued
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ReviewsHome Entertainment & Smart HomeThis TV Backlighting System Fucked Me Up
This is opulence. Suddenly, there is extra light blasting from behind my TV screen, making a day-glow title sequence positively atomic. The DreamScreen, a backlighting system that’s designed to make your TV viewing more immersive, is a luxury that I absolutely don’t need. In theory, the supplementary lights change color based on the pixels on … Continued
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Tech NewsSocial Media
Facebook Adds Reactions to Comments, Panic Attacks to Me
Facebook made another bad decision today, adding an unnecessary amount of nuance to your interactions on its social platform. You can now “sad” and “wow” not just posts and messages, but also comments. I don’t know about you, but I certainly don’t want this level of comprehensive feedback. Why would you do this? “We’ve heard … Continued
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Tech NewsThe 100 Most Popular Gizmodo Posts of 2016
Facebook fiascos, impending natural disasters, hackers, hacks, gadget goofs and deep-sea nightmares—this year had everything you never asked for. But there were brighter notes too. So come with us to a time when people complained about accidentally getting exercise playing Pokémon Go and wondered whether anyone knows that they’re watching porn when they’re wearing VR … Continued
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The Sex Life of an Armadillo Is Even More Depressing Than Yours
Armadillos do not like to hang out. They generally keep to their home range, avoiding each other and eating alone. The breeding season poses a particular set of challenges for the solitary creatures, namely, tolerating one another long enough to fuck. Colleen McDonough, a behavioral ecologist at the Valdosta State University in Georgia, spoke with … Continued
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Gifts to Help Your Sad Friend Get Their Shit Together
Your friend is in rut. Due to a variety of circumstances which may or may not be under their control, several things are not good. It’s ok! It happens to everyone! What sucks is that at this point, you can’t really do much about it. I can’t either. I don’t know your friend. But having … Continued
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After Looking at Deep Dream Genitalia, Internet Outage Doesn’t Seem So Bad [NSFW]
This glorious menagerie of dick-esque space-oblongs does not contain any actual dicks. Instead, it’s the result of an image manipulation experiment. A month ago, Yahoo launched an open-sourced neural network, called “open_nsfw,” that rates images on a scale of 0 (SFW) to 1 (NSFW). So Gabriel Goh created a Google DeepDream-like visualization technique to mess … Continued
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North Korea’s Zoo Chimp Smokes a Pack a Day Because Life Is Cruel and People Are Terrible
Nineteen-year-old Azalea, a chimp who’s probably as smart as your kid, has to live in North Korea’s Central Zoo in Pyongyang. But that’s not why she’s smoking a pack a day. It’s because some asshole trained her to use a lighter, to puff smoke, and then bow and dance for delighted families all day. According … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidRussia’s Bizarre Pokémon Pop Tribute Is Insane
Last month, a grown man in fluffy Pikachu jammies performed a manic routine from Hell on Russian state-controlled Channel 1, complete with Pokébabes and Pokéhunks dancing with giant prop iPhones, half-twerking and bouncing about on blow-up Pokéballs. This Kawaii Carnaval horrorshow was performed by renowned Russian pop and opera-pop star Nikolay Baskov at the big … Continued
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