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Alarm Security System: Protect Your iPhone Away From Prying Eyes [App Of The Day]
When someone picks up your phone and starts swiping through your pictures without permission, it makes your muscles tense—it's just about the most obnoxious violation of etiquette there is. But you can stop them before they breach your iPhone with Alarm Security System. More »
  
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"Just War" Re-Edit Makes 1983 Soviet Anti-War Film Relevant Again [Video]
Filmmaker Torrey Meeks took a 30-year-old stop-motion animation and re-jiggerd it into a fresh statement by taking the film, editing it, and setting it to a folk track. More »
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The Kids' Battlestar Galactica Viper Simulator Flies At Last! [Video]
The kids who kickstarted a Battlestar Galactica Viper simulator project back in March actually managed to get it up and flying at Maker Faire 2012! It rotates in every direction, as anticipated. It is quite an amazing achievement. More »
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12 Ways to Rid Your House of Bad Smells [Home Mod]
Exhaust fans and open windows only go so far toward eliminating foul odors. Making your sniffer happy oftentimes requires something extra, like baking powder, vinegar or special charcoal. For smells that make you run out of the room holding your nose, try these tricks: More »
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Kinect Can Read Your Facial Expressions Now [Kinect]
With a host of improvements rumored for the next Kinect, it's a little surprising to see that there's still room for the current Kinect to get better: Microsoft has added face tracking capabilities to Kinect for Windows through a software update. Which means, Kinect will be able to read and react to your facial expressions. More »
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The Most Perfect Tasing You'll See This Week [Video]
The would-be female thief in this surveillance video seems like a smooth operator—until she gets zapped with a taser and falls to the ground like a stiff board. We've seen our fair share of tasings, but this is the platonic ideal of taser drops. More »
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These Multifunctional Pencils Are Too Attractive to Ever Be Used [Beautiful]
Pencils are decidedly simple instruments, used for the sole purpose of writing and drawing, but applications in which we use them in our daily lives are becoming increasingly niche. What if they had an added function? More »
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Where Do All the Pigeons in Cities Disappear To? [Animals]
John Metcalfe at The Atlantic Cities answered the question every city slicker wonders at least once: how come there aren't dead pigeons littering the city? Where do they go? How can they just disappear? The answer, though not too surprising, is rooted in nature. More »
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MPAA Head Thinks Piracy Shouldn't Be Called "Theft" [Piracy]
MPAA head Chris Dodd backtracked on the association's stance on piracy in comments made to Variety over the weekend: More »
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This Alligator Chainsaw Is Your Prune-With-Extreme-Prejudice Deal of the Day [Dealzmodo]
Regardless of what science may say, the end of the world is near. Most-likely this year. So, should you worry? Yes. If you're not digging a bunker for the inevitable nuclear fallout from the alien invasion, you should at least be ready for the follow-up zombie apocalypse. More »
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Mom Embarrasses Daughter So Hard on Facebook She Begs for a Spanking Instead [Parenting]
You know when you were a kid and you did some dumb kid thing, and as punishment your mom dragged you in front of your friends to embarrass you? Just be glad the internet wasn't around back then, or you'd be begging for a butt-whoopin' instead of digital ignominy, like this 12-year-old troublemaker. More »
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Man Busted With Homemade Shotgun Disguised as Super Soaker [Wtf]
The Fresno Police busted 54-year-old Randy Smith for strutting around Fresno with a homemade shotgun hidden in the plastic shell of a Super Soaker. Look at this guy. That dude walking around with a plastic toy. How could that arouse suspicion? More »
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This Gigantic Pneumatic Cannon Fires Cars [Video]
Air guns are good for more than launching potatoes, marshmallows, or testing missile ballistics. Turns out, they're also really handy for making cars fly. More »
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The Religious Extremists Who Want to Ban the Internet [Video]
The average home attendance for the New York Mets this year has been 27,683. On Sunday, Citi Field drew 40,000—almost full capacity. Why? Not baseball, but religious radicals who think the internet is a dangerous, mortal evil. More »
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MacBook Pro Price Drop Signals Imminent Launch [Apple]
Best Buy has put the MacBook Pro on sale: $100 off every model. If that's not the clearest sign that the next generation MacBook Pro 2012 is around the corner—perhaps WWDC 2012 on June 11—I don't know what is. More »
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How Private Is Your DNA? [Science]
Unlike the contents of your inbox, bank statement, or Facebook timeline, your DNA quite literally defines you. It's strange, then, that in an age where sequencing the genome is becoming trivial, we don't give a second thought about the privacy issues surrounding the chemicals that make us who we are. More »
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Is This the Most Incompetent Photoshopped Propaganda Ever? [Photoshop]
Look at this joke of an image. It's so stupidly absurd that either the Chinese government photoshoppers didn't really give a f*ck about it or they are the most incompetent Photoshop operators in the planet. More »
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Study Confirms That Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll Really Do Go Together [Science]
How many times did you hear your parents yell at you to "turn down that racket" as you blasted songs from your speakers? Turns out, they had a few reasons—a new study has found that kids that spend a lot of time listening to loud music are more likely to smoke weed, binge drink, and have unprotected sex. Lord save them all! More »
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This Is How the Navy Is Building Their New Nuclear Supercarrier Class [Video]
This is the Gerald R. Ford aircraft supercarrier. She will be the lead ship of the new class that will eventually replace the Nimitz-class supercarriers. She is also the first carrier to be entirely designed using three-dimensional modeling software. More »
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Unspeakable Tragedy: $320 Million of Cheese Destroyed in Italian Earthquake [Cheese]
On Sunday, Northern Italy was rocked by a magnitude-6.0 earthquake. In the process, many cheese factories in the region suffered damage—and it is estimated that over 300,000 wheels of cheese, thought to be worth at least $320 million, have been destroyed. More »
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Why Facebook's Tanking Today [Facebook Ipo]
The stock is falling! The stock is falling! If you stopped following the Facebook IPOcalypse on Friday, it might be time to pull up another chair. FB has plummeted 12 percent as of this writing, with no signs of pulling out of its nosedive. Ruh roh. More »
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Baseball Gloves with MLB Players' Twitter Handles Are So Very Useless [Sports]
Because professional athletes use Twitter to communicate with their fans (somewhat true), follow hot girls (very true) and show off how interesting and well-rounded they are (rarely true), sports leagues have decided to use players' Twitter handles as a gross promotion vehicle. It's even invaded the teensiest of details: baseball batting gloves. More »
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Detailed Graphic Shows Every British Navy Ship Lost In World War II [Visualization]
I just love these old school visualizations: here are all the ships lost by the British Navy during World War II. Many of these were hunt down by Nazi U-Boats. It's a staggering amount but it could have been a lot worse. More »
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Hulu's Summer Shows Might Actually Be Worth Watching [Video]
Hulu has been investing more and more in producing its own original series as well as securing exclusive rights to other shows—it's how the service plans to survive in the face of competition from Netflix and the cable companies. Here's a look at what's in store for you on Hulu this summer. More »
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Samsung and Apple CEOs Will Meet Today To Talk Possible Settlement [Patent Wars]
Apple's Tim Cook and Samsung's Choi Gee-sung will meet in San Francisco today to discuss a potential settlement in the all-out patent battle the two companies are currently engaged in. More »
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Ice Cream Burger, Only $1.99. Needs Bacon. That's All. [Foodmodo]
Can life get any better than a burger ice cream under the California sun? No, not it can't. Well, maybe if it had some crispy real bacon inside. Reader Chris Rundgren found this in his local Carl's Jr. in Orange County, California. [Thanks Chris!] More »
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Google Chrome Just Beat Out Internet Explorer as the Most Used Browser [Factoid]
It appears that Google Chrome finally overtook Microsoft Internet Explorer as the world's most popular browser last week—at least according to statistics fromthe web analytics service Statcounter. As TNW points out, measuring this kind of usage is hardly a perfect science, but as you can see from the trend line in the graph above, this is the way things have been going for some time now. Rats! Just when Internet Explorer was starting to get good. [Statcounter via Global Nerdy via The Next Web] More »
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Did You Miss the Solar Eclipse? Check Out This Gorgeous Time Lapse Video [Video]
Cory Poole—science teacher at University Preparatory School in Redding, California, and Gizmodo reader—has composed this 60-second time lapse video made from 700 frames captured by a Coronado Solar Max 60 Double Stacked Hydrogen Alpha Solar Telescope. His words: More »
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Apple Defends New Spaceship Headquarters with This Predictably Apple-Like Letter to Neighbors [Apple]
Remember the giant spaceship campus Apple's building in Cupertino? The people who live in the neighborhood where Apple's mothership is landing definitely do. So Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer sent out a packet to neighborhood residents pumping up the virtues of the new campus—in a decidedly Apple way. More »
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We Upload 72 Hours of Video to YouTube Every Minute [Video]
YouTube does pretty well for itself. So well, in fact, that between us we upload 72 hours of video to the site every minute—a number which has gone up by 50 percent in the last year. More »
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