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Report: Windows Phone 8.1 Will Finally Have a Notification Center
Dec 16, 4:54PM
The Verge reports that Microsoft is gearing up to ship Windows Phone 8.1. The new OS, which will apparently be detailed at the company's BUILD conference in April, will finally (FINALLY) add a notification center as well as a Siri-like personal assistant.
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The Best Reason to Join Google+ (Or Else!)
Dec 16, 4:47PM
Have you signed up for Google+ yet? Have you?! Or have you been cowering in the closet, whispering empty reassurances to yourself as it slowly but surely closes in. There's only one place this can all be headed: Enter Google Blackmail.
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Photoshop Parody Ads Show the Depressing Truth About Filtered Beauty
Dec 16, 4:18PM
In a new series of incisive Photoshops, artist Anna Hill uses the image editing techniques that are ubiquitous in mainstream advertising to turn herself into a model. The resulting parody ads don't market make up or clothes, but instead, the image-perfecting power of Photoshop itself.
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Behold the Monstrous Beauty of This Year's Coolest Microscopic Images
Dec 16, 4:03PM
Mouse brains! Bat embryos! Hungry algae! Today, Olympus unveiled the winners of the tenth annual BioScapes photography competition, which showcases the best photography captured through light microscopes. The top ten were chosen from a mind-boggling 2,100 entries.
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Amazing photo of severed hand surgically attached to an ankle
Dec 16, 3:47PM
Medicine is amazing but sometimes it can look like the darkest corners of Stephen King's brain. This is exactly the case: Chinese doctors saved a man's severed hand by attaching it to his ankle, creating some impossible anatomy in the process.
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You Can Now 3D Print a Fully Functional Speaker
Dec 16, 3:21PM
There's no doubt that 3D printing is going to play a huge part in the future of manufacturing, especially now that researchers at Cornell University have managed to print every component of a fully functional speaker—including the cone, the wiring, and even the magnet.
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The Greatest Innovation in Oreo Dunking Since Milk
Dec 16, 2:53PM
Oreo might be trying to push its snack-sized mini cookies with this utterly brilliant way to dunk, but there's no reason this hack can't work with full-sized Oreo cookies as well—or any reasonably-sized cookie, for that matter. You'll of course need access to a clean french press, but the other components—milk and cookies—should be easy to come by.
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The 4K Content Charge Is Being Led By... Amazon
Dec 16, 2:51PM
Amazon has even more original content coming in 2014, and all of it is going to be shot in 4K. So many pixels (if you have an ultra high-def TV, that is).
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These Amazing Artificial Islands and Archipelagos Rule the Waves
Dec 16, 2:20PM
More than 70 percent of the surface of the Earth is covered by water: oceans, seas, rivers, and lakes. Sometimes humankind just can't get enough dry land to set foot on, so we create artificial islands for our needs.
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This Funky New LED Is Almost Completely Flat to Keep Cool
Dec 16, 2:00PM
Come January, the reign of incandescent bulbs comes to an end as the US collectively moves towards a greener, LED-lit future. The new 60 watt-equivalent SlimStyle LED bulb from Philips can light up a room without heating it, too.
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Don't Believe a Word of Last Night's 60 Minutes NSA Interview
Dec 16, 1:55PM
Last night, CBS ran a 60 Minutes special about the ongoing NSA debacle. It claimed to give "unprecedented access to the agency's HQ" and "for the first time" explain "what it does and what it says it doesn't do: spy on Americans." It was also, incidentally, a pile of steaming bull.
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Wrap Your Gifts in Influenza This Year
Dec 16, 1:21PM
If you've been looking for some truly original wrapping paper this year, swap snowflakes, stars, and stripes for pneumonia, influenza, and the common cold. It turns out that under a microscope those viruses are hard to distinguish from festive decor, and when blown up they make for some lovely gift wrap.
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Gawker Man Saves Himself By Diving Underneath Oncoming Train | Jalopnik Uber's Surge Pricing In New
Dec 16, 12:59PM
Gawker Man Saves Himself By Diving Underneath Oncoming Train | Jalopnik Uber's Surge Pricing In New York City Got Absurd Last Night | Jezebel Terrible Teenage Parents Arrested for Making Their Toddler Smoke Weed | Kotaku South Korea's New Internet Trend? Dinner Porn.
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You Don't Need Actual Google Glass to Say "OK, Glass"
Dec 16, 12:30PM
In fact, it's kind of quite funny to put on a regular pair of spectacles and pretend to talk to them while you just bumble on using your plain old cellphone.
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This 24-Karat Gold Xbox One Is On Sale in Harrods for $10,000
Dec 16, 11:30AM
Gold is so this season—and quite festive, too—so if you're short of gift ideas, how about a 24-karat gold-plated Xbox One? On sale at Harrods in London, UK, it'll set you back a cool $10,000.
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The Crab Nebula Is a Swirling Cloud of Electric Purple Light
Dec 16, 10:30AM
The Crab Nebula never fails to disappoint—and that's particularly true in this image, a view by the Herschel Space Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope of the swirling cloud of dust and gas.
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SNL Hilariously Riffs on Obama's Recent Tech Troubles
Dec 16, 9:30AM
Obama hasn't had a great time with all things technological recently: Healthcare.gov is still struggling, and he was embarrassingly forced into posing for a selfie with Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt last week. This Saturday Night Live video takes an amusing look at it all.
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You Can Get a Kindle Fire HDX on a Four-Part Amazon Instalment Plan
Dec 16, 8:30AM
If you've been trying to work out how you might pay for a new Kindle Fire, Amazon might be able to help: it's pushing a four-part instalment plan for its HDX line.
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Crazy video: Heavy military trucks being dropped from a plane
Dec 16, 7:16AM
"Some heavy big trucks being dropped from a military plane in the middle of the night," says the YouTube description, "huge machines, being launched at incredible speed!" Indeed. I love the faces of those soldiers waiting to jump after the trucks:
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Using Plasma To Clean Glass Is Amazing, Plus Hilariously Roundabout
Dec 16, 2:05AM
So there's Windex, but if that's feeling too cleaning product-y for you, be aware that you can also clean glass with pure oxygen plasma. Sure.
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This Credit Card Knife Is Terrifyingly Stealth
Dec 15, 11:59PM
This credit card is really a knife. Just putting that out there in case it wasn't coming across already. It's a 2.2mm thick, 85.6mm x 54mm CNC machined aluminum treat. Keep it in your wallet to impress your friends and gore your enemies!
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The Chinese Rover's First Moon Photos Are Here
Dec 15, 10:25PM
China's National Space Administration has released photos taken by the Yutu rover on the moon. There is also video footage of the Chang'e 3 lander's descent, and you can see in the video (below) when it comes to a full stop about 50 meters above the surface of the moon for a quick photo survey.
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A Quick and Complete History of Bitcoin So You're Not Totally Lost
Dec 15, 8:05PM
News stories that are really big unfold over months or years, and tackling them can take almost constant media coverage. But all of that distilled information can start to feel overwhelming in itself, and that's where the infographic recap comes in really handy.
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This video is veritable treasure trove of winter facts
Dec 15, 7:00PM
While it is odd that a school called the University of Southern California would claim to know anything about a traditional snowy winter, this video is chock full of information. Including the connection between Christmas cards and sheep.
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Should People Be Allowed to Make Phone Calls on Planes?
Dec 15, 6:44PM
There's been debate for years about whether people should be allowed to use their cellphones on planes. And with safety concerns diminishing, we've collectively moved on to other grievances: namely how annoying it will be to listen to five different phone conversations at once while trapped in a small, airborne pod.
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