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Report: Apple's Next-Gen Chips Will Be Made By Samsung Again
Jul 15, 8:42AM
Apple's had a turbulent time with Samsung, both in the courtroom and the marketplace—which in part helped inspire Cook and co's recent move away from Sammy as a chip supplier. But according to a new report, Apple is hopping back into the silicon bed with South Korea's finest.
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FT: Apple Hiring Blitz Suggests the iWatch Is a Way Off
Jul 15, 7:51AM
A few months ago, a rash of headlines suggested you'd be wearing an iWatch on your wrist by the end of the year. They were almost certainly wrong—and now a Financial Times report suggests we could be in for an even longer wait.
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In an act of rebellion, Radiohead's Thom Yorke and producer Nigel Godrich have pulled all their side
Jul 15, 7:25AM
In an act of rebellion, Radiohead's Thom Yorke and producer Nigel Godrich have pulled all their side project albums from Spotify and Rdio because "new artists get paid fuck all with this model... It's an equation that just doesn't work". That'll show 'em, eh?
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Shaggy: It Wasn't Me
Jul 15, 1:00AM
Okay, so first of all this is a classic favorite. I know "It Wasn't Me" because it was on Now That's What I Call Music 6 and I really can't over emphasize how well I know Now 6. Anyway, I recently saw the video for "It Wasn't Me," it's unclear how, and I realized that it had a lot of fascinating tech in it. There's video surveillance, video conferencing, semi-smartphones, texting, and even some invasive GPS. "It Wasn't Me" and its corresponding video came out in 2001, and a lot of this stuff looks like (the hilarious version of) the tech we rely on today. Shaggy's prescience and insight should not come as a surprise to anyone.
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Give The Gift Of A Gift That Looks Like Raw Meat
Jul 15, 12:26AM
There is something so fabulous about this idea. Even though it's overpriced and probably aesthetically overwrought or something, the idea of wrapping gifts to look like raw meat is just beautiful. It brings the whole joke gift genre to a new level. Or makes people extra excited when their gift turns out to be awesome or even passable. If you're someone who never wraps gifts this could be the turning point.
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This Lego Microscope Actually Works
Jul 14, 11:33PM
This working Lego microscope was built by Carl Merriman, a Lego artist who's been building for over 27 years. It's sleek, functional and even though you couldn't use it to study Ebola or the T-Virus, it's still a pretty sweet piece of kit.
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Is It Smarter To Invest In Silicon Valley Or Hollywood?
Jul 14, 11:29PM
If there's one thing I know about Gizmodo readers and staff, it's that we all have a bunch of excess money that's stressing us out. What should we do with it? Where should we invest it? Tough questions. But even if the whole tech startup vs. blockbuster investing question doesn't quite apply to you it's still kind of fascinating. The bottom line is, unsurprisingly, that they're both super risky, but for different reasons.
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Traffic On A Petition To Prosecute Zimmerman Crashed The NAACP's Site
Jul 14, 10:11PM
After last night's decision in the Trayvon Martin case, many Americans errupted in anger and disappointment about George Zimmerman's acquittal. Almost immediately following the decision, the NAACP posted an online petition for federal prosecution of Zimmerman. And the site got so much traffic that it crashed and has been in and out ever since. MoveOn.org has been continuing the effort, but their site is also overwhelmed and crashing on and off.
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The Sun Will Look A Lot Like This When It Burns Out
Jul 14, 9:38PM
In about a billion years the Sun will be too hot and bright for water to exist on Earth. We will probably mosey on at that point or perish. But if we're still alive and somewhere in the neighborhood when the Sun runs out of hydrogen and becomes a red giant we can observe it looking something like this.
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Parabolic Soap Bubbles Are All About Math...And Bubbles!
Jul 14, 8:15PM
Childhood summers are all about blowing iridescent soap bubbles out of plastic wands. It seems like a short-lived activity, but somehow it provides endless fascination. Involving an Arduino and some stepper motors might seem like overkill, but these parabolic bubbles are pretty mesmerizing.
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Even If You're Wise To Phishing, Spear Phishing Could Still Fool You
Jul 14, 7:19PM
At this point we pretty much all know what phishing emails look like and we're resigned to the fact that we didn't win the Micronesian lottery. We also know that we can't buy a machine to instantly enlarge our sexual organs no matter how much personal information we provide. It was tough but we all came together in the mid-2000s and wised up.
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What's The Internet Thing About You That You're Hoping No One Sees?
Jul 14, 6:00PM
I know what you're thinking. This chatroom is dumb. Why would anyone reveal the thing they're trying to hide? First of all, you're so afraid of it precisely because you know you can't hide it. Second of all, if you just reveal it here it'll be out there on your terms and you can stop worrying about it. This is a cleansing process. And third of all, it probably doesn't matter at all. The Atlantic says we're capturing the most beautiful moments of our lives on social media, but we know better. What's that unflattering photo or unfortunate tweet (retweeted ad nauseum) that's always in the back of your mind? Let it all out or subtly allude to it below.
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The Moto X Will Always Have Its Ears Peeled According To A Leaked Video
Jul 14, 5:05PM
The Moto X, Google and Motorola's heavily advertised yet mysterious love child, has been out and about lately. And now a video from Rogers, a Canadian wireless provider, shows the Android phone's ambient listening feature, potentially called "Open Mic," which will allow users to give the phone voice commands without activating the screen.
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A Weaponized Toilet Brush Crossbow Can Really Clean Up
Jul 14, 4:00PM
When Joerg made metal-tipped toilet brushes a couple of months ago I'm pretty sure we were all thinking that they looked pretty tame. Okay, true, they violently annihilated a coconut suspended in ballistic gelatin, but they weren't horrifying, just chillingly effective. But a four shot repeating "monster" crossbow. That would be scary. And that's what we have here.
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A Swiss Man Was Killed By His Remote-Controlled Helicopter
Jul 14, 3:28PM
A 41-year-old man flying a Gaui X7 model helicopter in Lucerne, Switzerland suffered head and arm injuries and died after he was presumably struck by the helicopter. The model weighs 5 pounds, is about 4 feet 5 inches long, and has a rotor diameter of about 5 feet 4 inches.
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Eating In Concrete Tubes Is Not As Dystopian As It Sounds
Jul 14, 2:20PM
Pretty much anyone who walks into a bar or diner in a group is scanning for a booth. It's just nicer to eat five plates of cheese fries in your own space. And the architects at Australian firm Techne clearly agree because they used concrete pipes to create seating spaces in the redesigned bar at Melbourne's Prahran Hotel. Finally some privacy.
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Even Before Digital Cameras People Took A Crap Ton Of Photos
Jul 14, 1:09PM
From New Year's Eve 2012 to New Year's Day 2013, Facebook users uploaded 1.1 billion photos. Which is something absurd like two photos per active user. But don't think that people haven't always been people. Even before smartphones and digital cameras, consumers were out there taking a lot of stupid photos just for fun. And given how relatively resource intensive it was for people to own cameras, buy film, and develop photos it's pretty amazing to see how many prints came out of "the old days." Enter The Photo Man.
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I Want to Live in the Lego Winter Village Market All Year Round
Jul 14, 1:39AM
Yes,, the Lego Winter Village Market set is really cute. Yes, it has 1,261 pieces and includes minifigs. And yes, with its rotating carousel it has the potential of being the perfect setting for a stop motion murder movie. But Lego is trying my patience by releasing something related to Christmas in the summer.
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Fatboy Slim: Praise You
Jul 14, 12:04AM
Some songs just ooze jubilance, and back in 1999 Fatboy Slim put one of those suckers out. You know "Praise You," and I'm willing to bet you're a fan too. But have you listened to it recently enough. No. No, you haven't.
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Who Needs Nails When You Can Meld Wood in a Vortex of Thread?
Jul 13, 11:25PM
Most furniture has the business parts of its joints buried deep inside it somewhere. Screws hidden in hollow metal frames, screws driven deep into wood. The furniture made by Anton Alvarez wears its colorful thread joints on the outside. And the machine used to tie it all up is a beast.
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It's Dumb Easy to Wreck a $20,000 Camera with Just a Couple Lasers
Jul 13, 10:00PM
Lasers are bad for your eyes, so it shouldn't be a surprise they're bad for cameras too. This clip shows exactly how trivial it is for a laser to pop inside a $20,000 piece of equipment and totally scramble its brains.
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Could a Spell-Checking Pen Get You to Write in Cursive?
Jul 13, 9:00PM
Handwriting is dying out in general, but cursive especially. Does anyone under the age of twenty ever use it anymore? They will, if the minds behind Lernstift have anything to say about it. They've got a haptic smart-pen that will spellcheck your script, but does that really make it any more enticing?
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The Digital Museum Where Outdated Apps Can Live Forever
Jul 13, 7:45PM
There's a crew of hero historians out there slurping up the Internet for posterity in case we want to see it later, but what about all the apps? Well now there's a place for them too. Parts of them, at least.
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Investigators: Latest Boeing 787 Dreamliner Fire Not Caused by Battery
Jul 13, 6:26PM
A Boeing 787 Dreamliner continued the model's string of bad luck yesterday when it burst into flames on the tarmac at London Heathrow Airport yesterday. The good news was that it was unoccupied at the time. And now there's a little bit more, kinda: investigators say it wasn't the battery's fault.
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Why People Still Pirate, Exploded Phones, Bionic Legs, and More
Jul 13, 6:00PM
Happy Saturday! We brought presents! Tips on how to lock down your Facebook account now that search graph is here, and what it's like to have a phone explode on your leg, for instance. With a healthy side of 100 years of Tour de France bikes and why people still pirate. Dig in!
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