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Reconcile Your LHC Shutdown Sadness With a Higgs Boson Watch
Are you having a hard time dealing with the Large Hadron Collider’s two-year maintenance shutdown? Do you miss waking up every morning to the potential of another big particle discovery in the news? Then strap this awesomely animated Higgs Boson watch to your wrist as a reminder that in no time the LHC will be … Continued
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Hearing the World’s Tallest Building Creak in a Storm Is Terrifying
Dubai’s Burj Khalifa skyscraper is a lot of things: a testament to humankind’s love of building humungous stuff for the hell of it. It’s very shiny! And in a bad storm, it sounds like it’s about to fall apart. Gizmodo friend (and Dubai documenter) Gerald Donovan says the city was hit with an enormous storm … Continued
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Turn a Printed Page Into a Touchscreen With This Brilliant Concept
Realizing that the oft-promised ‘paperless office’ may never actually come to fruition, researchers at Fujitsu are working on a backup plan that gives printed documents similar tablet-like touchscreen functionality. Using a tabletop projector, webcam, and other sensors, the system can precisely detect finger movements and motion in 3D, allowing a user to interact with a … Continued
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Why Does the Earth Have Rain Forests and Deserts?
You’d think with all the tumultuous weather and winds the Earth experiences, the planet would be covered in a fairly even mix of green space. But it’s not. Some parts are covered in fertile rain forests, while others are barren deserts. And it’s all because of a weather effect known as Hadley Cells. Named after … Continued
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Four of the Five Highest-Paid Execs in the US Work for Apple
If you already feel a little hard done by when it comes to your pay check, brace yourself. Bloomberg reports that four of the five best-paid executives across the whole of the US are employed by Apple—and just wait until you hear how much they earn. They each, apparently, receive a base salary of $805,400. … Continued
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How Chinese Scammers Are Swapping Fake iPhone Parts for the Real Deal
A very ingenious new kind of high-tech scam has been going down in China, where clever thieves are returning fake iPhone components to Apple and claiming they’re broken official parts, receiving genuine Apple-made pieces in return. And making a nice profit in the process. The scam, reported by TechWeb, sees people involved in the mobile … Continued
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This Desk-Bed Makes Snoozing at Work a Cinch
The mid-afternoon lull is a common problem. But if you often find yourself dribbling upon your keyboard during a short power nap at work, maybe you need something like this convertible desk, designed for specifically for snoozing, in your life. A concept by Studio NL, it provides enough room for you to stretch out and … Continued
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Technology Has Sure Moved On in the Last 20 Years
Sometimes, it’s easy to forget just how much technology has changed over the last few decades. Fortunately, Redditor ImTheGuyWhoLoveGems decided to remind us all—and, boy, should we be happy about the progress. ImTheGuyWhoLoveGems assembled a selection of gadgets from 1993 that have now all in 2013 been ably replaced by a single smartphone. There are … Continued
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WSJ: Microsoft Is Designing a Touch-Enabled Watch
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft is working with suppliers to develop a new touch-enabled watch device, which sees it jumping on the same rumored bandwagon as Apple and Samsung. https://gizmodo.com/the-nicest-apple-iwatch-concept-yet-5990104 Citing executives from Microsoft’s suppliers, the Journal reports that Asian manufacturers have been shipping components to Ballmer and co so that the … Continued
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YouTube Celebrates 57 Years of VCR With an Analog Video Mode
Do not adjust your computer screens. There’s no problem with YouTube, other than the fact that it’s getting a little misty eyed—by choosing to celebrate the 57th anniversary of the VCR with a little added analog character on its digital videos. On plenty of YouTube videos you can currently find a small VCR button: click … Continued
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TurboTax Went Down At a Kind of Crucial Moment and Didn’t Handle It Well on Twitter
So taxes are due…any minute now. And TurboTax is a popular service for doing taxes. Yes? Sure. Well, that’s a lot of pressure! Cue meltdown. Everything was going fine for whoever mans the TurboTax Twitter. He or she was spending the evening watching Food Network and was then rudely interrupted by a deluge of Twitter … Continued
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This 90-Year-Old Grandma Freaking Out Over the Oculus Rift VR Goggles Is What Makes Technology Great
More or less, this is all anyone ever wants from a piece of technology. Here’s a 90-year-old woman strapped into an Oculus Rift VR headset, and totally losing her mind over how amazing it is. Oh, man alive! Originally, were these made in Tuscany??? Oh this is something else. And I’m still sitting where I … Continued
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The Bar Fight Dominator Is A Slingshot That Shoots Glass Ashtrays
What is there to even say? Joerg Sprave dreamed up a slingshot that shoots glass ashtrays and has a broken beer bottle attached as a bayonet. It’s all pretty legit. The slingshot is pump-powered and holds four ashtrays at a time (three in the clip plus one in the chamber). It’s accurate at close range … Continued
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Giant Damage-Causing Snails Are Aggressively Invading Florida
Yeah, so giant African land snails are infesting southern Florida. They’re the kind that can eat through plaster and stucco and they get as big as rats. When the rainy season ends in a few weeks the population will explode. It’s a bad situation. The same snails invaded in 1966 when a kid brought three … Continued
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The New Pornographers: The Bleeding Heart Show
There are three or four parts of “The Bleeding Heart Show” that are catchy. The beginning, that middle part and don’t even get me started on the hey-las at the end. Good stuff. But the best thing about “The Bleeding Heart Show” is the melodica backups. You don’t hear melodica (a wind instrument with a … Continued
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Watching Bats Fly In Slow Motion Reveals Biological Badassery
We all know about echolocation, but way more is happening when a bat takes flight, and some bats don’t echolocate at all. So how do they have so much precision in their flying and what’s different about bats and birds? SmarterEveryDay looks into the bone structure of bat vs. bird wings and describes how bats … Continued
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Bitcoin Mining Has An Absurd Environmental Impact
Ah digital currency. It’s all in our collective hive-mind right? Coming and going in bits and bytes. Nothing to see here. So why is a hacking process called “Bitcoin mining” using $150,000 worth of electricity a day? This had better be good. Miners need a lot of computing power to dredge up digital currency. And … Continued
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You Can Feel Your Hand Even When It’s Not Your Hand And It’s Invisible
Okay, so you know your hand? Five fingers. Assorted grasping and carrying shenanigans. Right. So it turns out that your brain is constantly using sensory information to check in and make sure it still knows what’s your hand and what’s not. And it can be fooled. Arvid Guterstam, Giovanni Gentile and Henrik Ehrsson at the … Continued
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Who Really Has the Most Fake Twitter Followers?
Did you hear? Nearly half of Justin Bieber’s Twitter followers are fake. Fake! Belieber nation is a fraud, life has no meaning, the abyss of treachery and betrayal that is life grows deeper by the hour. https://gizmodo.com/justin-bieber-has-the-fakest-twitter-followers-5994569/ But wait! Surely other celebrity Twitter accounts aren’t afflicted by this unforgivable deceit. Right? Actually… most of them … Continued