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King and Queen Hook Hanger Masks
The Gadget Flow - 6 Apr 2014 07:00
Price: $54 These King and Queen Hook Hanger Masks will make you feel like royalty. Well, at least it'll make your clothes feel like Kings and Queens, because your coats and shirts will look like they're being worn by the...
Mazda is updating car software to fix problems with real, living bugs
Engadget - 6 Apr 2014 06:02
Just like Toyota, Mazda's also recalling cars due to a nasty bug -- the difference is, Mazda's problem involves real, live multi-legged creatures. Apparently, the company's recalling roughly 42,000 Mazda 6 sedans in the ...
The Incredible, Fiery Process of Making Copper Wire
Gizmodo - 6 Apr 2014 15:00
Wires are some of the most basic components of the modern world, which practically guarantees that most of us take them for granted. But as English Russia so kindly shows us, the process behind our messy heaps of wiring ...
Expect an irate call if you try to hack your Tesla Model S
Slash Gear - 6 Apr 2014 07:35
Once upon a time it was a rite of passage for car lovers to get under the hood and tinker with the mechanics; in the modern world of EVs, that's …
Tomorrow's Cancer-Blasting Wonder Drug Could Come From a Tobacco Plant
Gizmodo - 6 Apr 2014 00:30
Australian researchers published findings this week on a newly-discovered plant compound that destroys cancer cells, but leaves healthy cells unharmed. They found it in possibly the last place you'd look for a cancer cur...
Sony announces full-frame Alpha A7s with 4K video output
Engadget - 6 Apr 2014 23:57
It wouldn't be NAB without a major 4K announcement from Sony, and that's exactly what we've got here. The company introduced the Alpha A7s at its Las Vegas press event today, bringing 4K video to the popular full-frame m...
Windows in the Car to put Cortana in the dashboard
Slash Gear - 6 Apr 2014 23:53
Apple has CarPlay, Google has the Android Open Automotive Alliance, and now Microsoft has Windows in the Car, its own take on piping smartphone content from your Windows Phone directly …
Not the kind of tweets you want to see from NORAD...
Gizmodo - 6 Apr 2014 21:13
About half an hour ago, NORAD sent out an ominous looking tweet with the words "NORAD jets intercept..." and a link. The only problem? If you clicked on the link it brought you to an FAA error page with no more informati...
Windows Phone may come to your car with Cortana as copilot
Engadget - 6 Apr 2014 20:31
Microsoft has a home in the automotive world, but it doesn't have a way to bring a phone's interface to your car's infotainment system -- there's no Windows Phone equivalent to Apple's CarPlay. That might change before l...
Here's What Tetris on the Side of a 29-Story Skyscraper Looks Like
Gizmodo - 6 Apr 2014 22:02
Last night, hundreds of people crowded around the 29-story Cira Centre building in downtown Philadelphia to fulfill every classic Game Boy lovers' dream--playing Tetris on 100,000-square-foot screen for all the world to ...
Amazon Fire TV Review
Slash Gear - 6 Apr 2014 18:55
Does the world need another streaming box? Amazon Fire TV argues "yes" and says speed, voice search that actually works, and proper gaming set it apart from the Apple TV, …
Gadget Rewind 2006: Sony Reader PRS-500
Engadget - 6 Apr 2014 17:00
It's our 10th birthday, and to celebrate we'll be revisiting some of the key devices of the last decade. So please be kind, rewind. Sony may not have been at the forefront of the digital music revolution, but when it cam...
3play is a Bluetooth audio dongle that begs to be misused
Engadget - 6 Apr 2014 23:22
We think it's fair to say that Grace Digital has a colorful catalog of products. Everything it makes seems to have a quirk or a twist that, at the very least, stops us ever getting bored hearing about them. The 3play Blu...
UK's Ministry of Defence has its own creepy hazmat testing robot (video)
Engadget - 6 Apr 2014 21:45
Boston Dymanics' Petman now has serious competition in the "eerie human-like robots" category, courtesy of the UK's Ministry of Defence. This new contender is a £1.1 million ($1.8 million) masterpiece called Porton Man,...
Giant Portrait Shows Drone Operators That People Aren't "Bug Splats"
Gizmodo - 6 Apr 2014 20:47
From where a drone operator's sitting, one blurry blob of pixels looks almost exactly like the next blurry blob of pixels, which is how the term "bug splat" worked its way into modern military slang as a way of referring...
Amazing trick will distort your vision and make you hallucinate
Gizmodo - 6 Apr 2014 19:40
This is the most incredible visual trick I've ever seen, one that will make your entire reality melt--literally deforming everything in front of your eyes, shrinking and expanding objects around you. It's mind-glowingly ...
IRL: Going skiing with Smith I/O Recon goggles
Engadget - 6 Apr 2014 19:00From Sexting to Sacraments: How Mobile Apps Are Taking on Religion
Gizmodo - 6 Apr 2014 18:00
At this point, our entire lives could be boiled down into a series of apps. Schedules, diets, friends, family, play--it's all there in a set of brightly colored, easy-to-digest icons that have come to define the way we s...
Bitcoin legitimized on eBay with virtual currency category
Slash Gear - 6 Apr 2014 17:58
A new category for digital items has been added to eBay making waves because of the trading potential it brings to the marketplace. The category in question is "Virtual Currency", …
Windows Phone 8.1 does Miracast media sharing, but most devices won't cut it (updated)
Engadget - 6 Apr 2014 17:44
Windows Phone 8.1 includes many, many upgrades, not the least of which is Miracast media sharing; it should be easier than ever to send content to your TV and other gadgets. However, it's now very likely that you'll have...
Microsoft's New "Windows in the Car" Concept Takes on Apple's CarPlay
Gizmodo - 6 Apr 2014 17:05
Microsoft's no stranger to in-car entertainment systems; it's been powering a number of auto-makers' interfaces for years. But now, Microsoft is getting serious about its own, Windows Phone-centric car integration system...
Your Coffee Shop's Wi-Fi Speeds Are About to Triple
Gizmodo - 6 Apr 2014 16:19
If you've ever tried to get work done at a coffee shop during rush hour, you know that even something as simple as a Google Search can be soul-crushingly slow. Thanks to a new Wi-Fi technology from Qualcomm, though, all ...