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The Contents of an Olympics Photographer’s Bag
If you’ve ever wondered what it might be like to be a photographer at a major sporting event, Pop Photo has the next best thing: an in-depth interview with Getty photographer Streeter Lecka, who’s going to be shooting the London Olympics in intimate detail. In the interview, he goes into some depth about the contents … Continued
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You Need 1,872 Processors to Accurately Simulate Ice Cream
If you think making ice cream is easy, think again. For commercial manufacturers of the stuff, perfecting the recipe is so important that they model its properties on a supercomputer—and to do it properly requires a rig packing 1,872 processors. A team of researchers at the University of Edinburgh, UK, study soft matter and, while … Continued
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This Is What Google Glasses Could Have Been
Google’s glasses were a little bit of a let down for those of us who wanted a true head-up display. This video, however, depicts a fictional future where the head-up display powers all our digital lives—and it’s equal parts awesome and terrifying. https://gizmodo.com/report-google-glasses-will-be-lamer-than-promised-5910401 Called Sight, this short was put together by Eran May-raz and Daniel … Continued
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Apple and Samsung Can’t Even Agree on Where to Sit in Court
Apple and Samsung are gearing up for one of their largest legal battles to date, which centers around their devices looking incredibly similar. But before things can start, they still need to agree on where to sit in court—which is proving more complicated than you might expect. https://gizmodo.com/google-told-samsung-not-to-copy-apple-5929205 All Things D reports that the problem … Continued
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Samsung Sells 50 Million Smartphones a Quarter, Twice as Many as Apple
In the second quarter of 2012, Samsung sold 50.5 million smartphones—twice as many as Apple—which sees the company extend its sales lead ahead of the iPhone. Reuters reports that Samsung’s financial review has seen it record a quarterly profit of $5.9 billion, helped along in no small part by its strong phone sales. In total, … Continued
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Tech NewsDesign
Makerbot-Forged Mixtape Is the Most Nostalgic Way to Spread Music Love
Before sharing a playlist of songs with a crush was as simple as a few clicks, the mixtape was a labor of love; a time-consuming project. Every song was carefully considered. That’s all gone now, of course, but this DIY MP3 player conjured up by MakerBot can help bring it back. The MakerBot Mixtape is … Continued
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The Stoner Channel: Struggling Sea Turtles Smoking Bob Ross’ Happy Clouds Out of Super Papercraft Mario Bongs
Bob Ross Remixed You can bet your easel Bob Ross liked doing more than just painting “happy clouds.” PBS Digital Studios teamed up with Symphony of Science’s John D. Boswell (the same gent what remixed Mr. Rogers Neighborhood) for this delightful ditty. Why This DEA Crackdown Is a Good Thing The house bill banning the … Continued
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The Gap Band: Outstanding
The Gap Band’s “Outstanding” is the type of song that makes you want to get out of your seat and dance. Go ahead. Who cares if someone is watching and it’s totally fine if you’re alone in your apartment. It’s no accident this track is a classic. It’s the same group that also brought the … Continued
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Building a House Around a Funnel Heading for the Center of the Earth Sounds Terrifying
Although I know there’s probably no danger involved with this house—which has a bonafide, funnel-shaped opening in the middle of it—there is something ominous about this Nobuhiro Tsukada-designed Earth House, which is connected directly to the terrain below it. The inspiration for the concrete house design comes from the client, who, looking for privacy in … Continued
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The Making of South Park: 6 Days To Air Proves Crude Jokes Require Incredible Commitment
The guys behind South Park might laugh a lot during the process, but the making of the weekly animated show is a brutal endeavor. This documentary, released last fall, joins creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone after the debut of their Broadway show “The Book of Mormon,” just as the pair have returned to LA … Continued
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What the Terrifying Storm About to Hit New York Looks Like
Hey New York, look out of the window and you will see something similar to this coming towards you: a straight wall of dark atmospheric mayhem traveling at high speed, with wind gusts as hugh as 90 miles (145 kilometers) per hour. The technical name of this storm is a derecho. It can cause the … Continued
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Why Settle for One Wrench When You Can Have Eight?
We all need a good wrench to keep around the house, but we don’t necessarily need a whole toolbox full of them. In this case, the Craftsman Figure Eight Wrench might be the magic solution. Why? Because the $25 piece of metal is eight different sizes in one, starting at 1/4 all the way up … Continued
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Earliest iPhone 4 and iPad Prototypes Look Pretty Ridiculous Today
The iPhone 4 and iPad we know today are gadgetry in the extreme—digital pieces of paper, if you will. Nothing garish, nothing in excess. And that’s mostly true in their prototypes! But some of these leaked early iPhone and iPad prototypes? They’re bonkers. One early iPhone 4 prototype shows edges and angles galore, with diagonal … Continued
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You Can’t Find Your Twitter Friends On Instagram Anymore
Unable to search for your Twitter friends on Instagram? It seems Twitter has blocked off API access. Ugh. It applies to the latest version of Instagram (2.5.1), so you won’t notice until you update . Regardless, that totally sucks. Perhaps this is Twitter’s way of pushing back against Facebook’s acquisition of the photo sharing network. … Continued
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You’re Going to See More Ads in Your Facebook Newsfeed
One thing that stood out in Facebook’s relatively by-the-books earnings call is how few ideas Facebook seems to have outside of “make it like mobile.” That’s probably not the best news for you. Facebook’s primary focus today was its effort to convince advertisers that Facebook ads aren’t a waste of money. That’s been a big … Continued
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Chameleon Clock: A Timekeeper That Blends In With the World Around You
What is that there? I can’t see anything. Oh wait it’s a clock. Just like the reptile it’s named for, Chameleon Clock captures the scenery behind your screen and overlays the time on top. What does it do? Uses your iPhone or iPad’s camera to stylishly tell the time. Why do we like it? It’s … Continued
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Zuckerberg: No Facebook Phone (from Facebook)
Zuck’s on the phone with (antsy) investors right now, and, of course, the question of the unicorn Facebook Phone came up. His reply? No, The Book isn’t building a phone. https://gizmodo.com/nyt-facebook-is-working-on-its-own-smartphone-again-5913717 “Building out a phone wouldn’t make sense for us to do,” to be precise. And he’s probably right! This, of course, doesn’t mean that … Continued
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Amazon Same-Day Delivery Might Have Been Wishful Thinking
Despite some very clever speculation in Slate recently about Amazon’s same-day delivery plans, that particular dream may go unfulfilled for most of us. At least, if Amazon CFO Tom Szkutak has anything to say about. https://gizmodo.com/how-amazon-s-same-day-delivery-plan-will-kill-your-loca-5925387 Szkutzk, speaking today during Amazon’s conference call to discuss earnings, was asked directly about his company’s same-day delivery ambitions. … Continued
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Here’s Why Twitter Was So Broken
Twitter was really freaking broken today. Which, well, sucked. Here’s what Mazen Rawashdeh, Twitter’s VP of Engineering, has to say about the outage. https://gizmodo.com/yes-twitter-is-fully-down-updated-5929272 The cause of today’s outage came from within our data centers. Data centers are designed to be redundant: when one system fails (as everything does at one time or another), a … Continued
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The Internet Was Really Shitty Today (But I Still Love It)
What the hell happened to the Internet today? Google Talk? Down. Twitter? Crashed. Messages? Completely awful. Chrome? Blowing up my laptop. The weather? Shitty. My hangover? Slight but smelly. That all made me very grumpy. https://gizmodo.com/google-talk-is-down-5929212 Did the entire internet decide to shit the bed on Thursday July 26th 2012? Did it think we wouldn’t … Continued
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