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White House Hires a New Cybersecurity Boss [Cybersecurity]
Cybersecurity and the government have been a volitile combination lately, with proposed bills like
SOPA,
PIPA, and the still-up-in-the-air
CISPA at the center of on-and-off internet outrage. So it's kind of a big deal when the
White House replaces its chief of cybersecurity affairs.
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The Beautiful Beach Chairs You'll Want To Take Everywhere [Daily Desired]
It's an absolutely gorgeous spring afternoon here in New York. The sun is shining, it's not too hot, and there's a slight breeze—the perfect recipe for a rooftop party. But you're going to need a place to lounge, and this set from
Aether is a sleek, portable solution.
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Woman Returns Lost iPhone, Is Rewarded with a Brutal Beating [Crime]
Losing an iPhone is the absolute worst. The inconvenience, the expense... Just
terrible. So, when a good samaritan gets in touch to let you know she's found your phone, the appropriate response ought to be gushing, gurgling gratitude. Right?
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A Handheld GPS For the Wilds [GPS]
The Wirecutter's singular goal is to decide which gadgets to buy or not to buy. Today, it takes a hard look at a portable GPS for wandering the wilderness.
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A Goofy Circus Video Game Is Helping Stroke Victims Recover [Video]
It's no fun recovering from a stroke and relearning to do simple things that were once totally natural. That's being offset by new video games that refine patients motor skills by having them play
games that, for once, actually look fun.
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Airports Will Steal Summer's Heat to Thaw Frozen Winter Runways [Airplanes]
The winter months are some of the busiest travel times of the year, but they're also the most likely time for an airplane to be delayed. The culprit? Icy runways. Wouldn't it be nice and efficient if we could take some of the excess summer heat, save it, and use it to
thaw out airports in the winter? Some of the busiest airports in the world are considering doing just that.
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20 SF Bars Debut Sausage Fest-Fighting Facial Recognition Service [Privacy]
It's Friday night in the City by the Bay, you and your boys are out from Concord, rolling deep in your old man's Escalade through North Beach. But what club do you hit up first,
where all them bitches at? With a new service debuting today, you'll know.
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Water Tower Chairs, Cloud City, and More [Most Beautiful Items Of The Week]
There's a smorgasbord of lovely things for you to feast your eyes on this week. From chairs made from an old water tower to a wooden surf board, you'll have plenty of to enjoy in this week's most beautiful items.
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Avengers Origins, US Weekly, and More [Ipad Apps Of The Week]
The best iPad apps of the week give you plenty of weekend reading material with comic books and gossip mags.There's also have a new way to explore works of art. Get ready to fire up your tablet.
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Foodspotting, The Weather Channel, and More [Iphone Apps Of The Week]
We're giving you the forecast, a diet tool, a fun photo app, and so much more in this week's best iPhone apps. You'll also be managing all your tasks better and feasting your eyes on all kinds of delicious food.
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Cipher Sender, CloudOn, and More [Apps Of The Week]
You'll be saving money and packing your social calendar with this week's best Android apps. Whether you're looking to fill your belly or rest your head for the night, we've got you covered.
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What if the iPhone Was Responsible for the Evolution of Man? [IPhone]
If the iPhone was the catalyst for human evolution, it probably would have looked something like this
2001-inspired iPhone dock, which combines Lego, Apple and Stanley Kubrick in a single, glorious entity. Consider it your alpha and omega, [
Reddit via
Wired Design]
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Can You Turn Cheap, Shitty Beer Into Good Beer? [Happy Hour]
You know what's great about cheap, shitty beer? The cheap part. The end. Sure, it's fun to be nostalgic about the first beer you ever drank or whatever, but if someone leaves a bunch of crappy beer in my fridge, I just want to use some kind of magic spell to turn it into something delicious. Could such a thing be possible?
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Insane Skywalking Russians Make Your Stomach Drop With New Daredevil Video [Video]
Remember those crazy,
skywalking Russians?? The ones who fearlessly (and stupidly) scaled extremely tall structures with no safety measures. This video raises the fad to new levels.
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Gizmodo Internships in New York and San Francisco [Jobs]
Hello Internet! We're looking for some interns, in New York and San Francisco.
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Man Loses His Penis to a Flesh-Eating Bacteria After Failed Penile Implant Surgery [WTFriday]
A man is suing one of his doctors after a surgery that was supposed to improve his sex life resulted in the
loss of his penis.
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How Many Screws Does It Take to Get to the Center of an Exploded Fuji X100? [Cameras]
Looking at this dismantled Fuji X100, it quickly becomes apparent that staring at exploded gadgets will never get old. Left for dead after suffering fatal water damage, the X100 donated it's body to the internet, providing
eye candy for us all to ogle at.
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NSFW: The Sex Toys That Will Make the Future More Orgasmic [Video]
According to a new study that I just made up, sex and orgasms are fun. Fortunately, the evolution of technology doesn't stop at smartphones; it wants to make our sex-lives better. Here's a quick look at some of the latest tech-tastic sex toys.
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How Does an 800-Year-Old Giant Tree Go Missing? [WTFriday]
Enterprising tree poachers have stolen a gold, er, woodmine of a target: an 800-year-old red cedar tree that's one of the largest in the Vancouver Island area. It's gone now and it was stolen under a two-part operation that's been underway for the past year.
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How to Be Popular on Twitter [User Manual]
Whether you are or not, everyone just wants to be loved and envied. No, shh, it's true. And thanks to the ease of the internet, you can finally realize the dream. Here's how to be the center of Twitter attention.
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Microsoft Will Give Students a Free Xbox 360 If They Buy a Windows PC [Dealzmodo]
No one will like you if in college if you don't have a laptop. Kidding! But seriously, in college, a laptop is your life. Microsoft wants to help you kiddies out: Just like last year, if you buy a Windows PC,
it'll throw in a free Xbox 360.
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This HP Touchpad Is Your Fire-Sale-Reborn Deal of the Day [Dealzmodo]
I'm looking for a replacement for my laptop. It's not broken, just since starting this working-online thing, I've become feeble. I need something light to carry around with me. I'd be more than happy to just leave it all up to my phone, but there's only so much typing I can do on such a tiny screen. I'm in serious need of something now. And that one company's tablet looks great, but isn't it just a little pricey? Yeah. That's right. I'm cheap. It's OK.
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Apple FaceTime Over 3G Seems Closer Than Ever [Apple]
With my loved ones long away from me, I have missed the ability to use my iPhone's FaceTime over 3G a few times. Even if the
quality would have been bad. Well, it seems that Apple is really getting ready for it, according to this screenshot that just appeared in iOS 5.1.1.
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Dominate the Waves Aboard This Gorgeous Wooden Honeycomb [Video]
Today's conventional polyurethane foam surfboards are lightweight, strong, and maneuverable. But that comes at the cost of a more jarring ride in rough seas—not to mention PU isn't exactly an environmentally-friendly material. So New Zealander Mike Grobelny is taking carving back to its roots with a CNC-milled, hollow wood board.
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Someone Put a Giant Soda Fountain Shower On a Beach [Video]
I can't wait to go back to Brazil and spend some time in Rio, the famous city where people dance in thongs while showering under giant soda fountains in the middle of the bea—wait. What?
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The Wonderfully Nerdy Intricacies of Brewing Good Coffee [Video]
Coffee is an
extremely fickle drink when it comes to its creation. Weight, temperature, and time are all key factors in brewing a great cup, but those variables rarely stay the same for the making of any given cup. What you can master, however, is technique. And when it comes to brewing pour-over coffee with the
Kalita Wave Dripper, you'll be hard-pressed to find a better how-to video than this.
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A List of Better Ways to Spend $41 Than a Share of Facebook [Facebook Ipo]
Facebook is now a publicly traded company, weeeeeeeee! What you didn't buy in? We didn't either. Here's what to do with your $41 instead.
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The One Place That Needs More Censorship [Video]
This week's Internet-based teapot tempest swirled around the venerable
TED talks, which were accused by one presenter of censoring his talk because he spoke truth to power and talked about income inequality.
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SpaceX Falcon 9: The Future of Commercial Space Flight Blasts Off Tomorrow [Monster Machines]
Until just a few years ago, manned spaceflight was the exclusive sandbox of not just nations, but of the world's select superpowers—the countries with enough disposable income to say, "F-ck it. Let's go to the Moon." Those days are over, sadly, slowly smothered by shrinking budgets and realigning priorities.
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15 Awesome Art Installations Painted in Light [Video]
With the proper projector, the world is your canvas. Our friends at Oobject have assembled
15 of the most innovative building facade projections since
MIT employed one as a giant Tetris board.
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Badass Fitness Weirdo Runs 13 Miles on Treadmill Attached to Hot Air Balloon [Video]
Rob Ginnivan just performed a batshit fitness
publicity stunt. The Australian just ran a half-marathon on a generator-powered treadmill floating on a hot air balloon. Unconventional! At least it's for charity.
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The Mark Zuckerberg Wealth-O-Meter: Sad, Absurd, And You Know You're Curious [Facebook]
As a species, we are very stupid and fascinated with things that have nothing to do with us. It's what drives ordinarily sane people to, say, stand in Times Square and
take photos of rich people doing rich people things on jumbotrons. And also what drives us to follow, minute-by-minute, the outrageous wealth of a 28-year-old billionaire.
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Your Brain on Facebook [Facebook]
Today is all about Facebook's big $100 billion IPO. But how did the social media titan get so titanic to begin with? Harvard Business Review's David Rock explains that Facebook is so far ahead of human practice, it actually hacks our brains. More »
Facebook Stock Traded at a Record-Breaking 2.7 Million Shares Per Second [Facebook Ipo]
The Facebook IPOcalypse continues, free falling first, now barely recovering. We don't know if it's going to be the most successful opening IPO in history but, right now, it seems they may have broken the record for the
fastest traded record in history.
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Facebook Is Going To Be Even More Annoying Now That It's Public [Facebook]
Facebook
is public now. And that means you're going public too. Facebook has to make you share more. It has to make you expose more of yourself. It has to do all those deeply creepy it's already doing, but more more more. It is going to sell you to advertisers, to shareholders, to anyone it can.
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Watch How This Time-Expanding Car Commercial Was Painstakingly Stitched Together [Video]
It turns out
Phantom cameras are useful for more than just destroying household items and blowing stuff up. This Fiat Abarth spot made use of the slow-motion wonder cam in this fantastical "still moving image," and the behind the scenes is pretty amazing.
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The Censorship Towel Blurs Out Your Naughty Bits [Wish You Were Here]
Nudity: it can make things uncomfortable in the gym sauna and the FCC does not condone it. But hey, it's funny! And it's even funnier when it's covered up by shoddy pixelation. The
Censorship Towel brings to life the familiar blur used to conceal butts on television.
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The 11 Funniest Tweets About Facebook IPOpocalypse [Facebook]
Facebook money money stock Facebook NASDAQ hoodie Zuckerberg Facebook. There's a lot of noise today, but amid the foam-mouthed financial babble, here are some funny things instead. Instead of becoming rich, let's laugh today.
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