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Snapchat's First 'Non-Creepy' Ad Is For A Horror Movie
Snapchat recently announced that it was getting ads, and it's followed through on that promise, with the first paid-for ephemeral advertisements landing this weekend. However, I'm not so sure that Snapchat's made good on its promise for its ads to be 'non-creepy', since horror film Ouija was the first subject.
Remember The Best Of WWII Films With A Bridge Too Far
Brad Pitt's new WWII tank thriller Fury seems to be taking cinemas by storm this week. But before chisel-jawed tank commanders with unfeasibly good hair did the Second World War, there was A Bridge Too Far, an unsurpassed epic that represents the absolute best of the foolish-British-people-getting-slaughtered war-film…
Tim Minchin's Storm Is Your Saturday Night Dose of Cynicism
Since discovering yesterday that there's a homeopathic vaccine for Ebola that involves using an actual sample of the virus, I've been re-listening to Tim Minchin's incredible nine-minute song/beat poem Storm, one of the best and most concise refutations of bad hippie science that you're ever likely to witness.
Scattering Your Ashes Into The Stratosphere Is A Very Final Sendoff
Short of having your body shipped off on a flaming longboat, there aren't many more spectacular ways to be sent off than having your ashes scattered into the edge of the atmosphere. At least, that's the thinking behind Mesoloft, a company that will do exactly that, and provide a GoPro video to immortalize the moment.
Get 12% Off The Smartphone Controlled, Multi-Colored, LED Smartbulb
Goodbye wasteful, artificial light. The Kickstarter-backed ilumi Smartbulb is the ultimate lightbulb. It can produce any color you choose via smartphone, uses five times less energy than a normal bulb, and lasts for over 20 years. Mark Cuban even invested on Shark Tank. Giz readers can 12% off as an early holiday…
Don’t Get Too Excited – No One Has Cracked Nuclear Fusion Yet
Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin's announcement this week that it could make small-scale nuclear fusion power a reality in the next decade has understandably generated excitement in the media. Physicists, however, aren't getting their hopes up just yet.
NPR Tells The Other Story of Women In Tech
We're all used to hearing about women, or rather, the lack of, in the technology industry. But as NPR's Planet Money, points out, things weren't always that way: back at the dawn of the IT age, women were a major player in the computer science field. The question is: what happened in 1984?
This Carpet-Covered Sofa Is Uncomfortable Brilliance
If, like me, you're a little OCD, the thought of a carpet with a giant kink in it is the kind of thing that keeps you awake late at night, sweaty-palmed and slightly nervous. That's why I'm not entirely sure if I could live with this carpet-kink sofa, even if it is a clever piece of design.
Blackberry Decides That Ephemeral Messaging Will Save BBM
After a very brief stint at number one in the app store, Blackberry's much-vaunted BBM messaging service — previously hailed as the saviour of the entire company — is now languishing in 462nd place on the App Store. But never fear! Because Blackberry is going to turn its fortunes around, by Snapchattifying its…
You'll Need A Flexible Key To Open "The Weirdest Lock On Earth"
It's been said there's no such thing as an unpickable lock. That may be true – but this innovative lock assembly just bested one of the Internet's most famous lock-pickers, who calls it "the weirdest lock on Earth."
The Heartwarming Story of An 11-Year-Old's New Technological Friend
For most of us, Siri or Google Now (or Cortana, if you swing that way) is a minor help at best, a first-world solution to the first-world problem of not being able to text and drive. But as Judith Newman illustrates today in a heartfelt and heartwarming piece in the New York Times, Apple's digital assistant has become…
Get the Most From Your Chromebook Even When It's Offline
Some folks would have you believe that, without an Internet connection, your spiffy new Chromebook only slightly less useful than the box it came in, but that's simply not true. They may not be able to match a MacBook's performance, but these lightweight laptops are far from helpless when the connectivity runs dry.…
A reminder: this weekend, Steam is making ten games free-to-play, including big-name titles like XCOM: Enemy Unknown and Grid 2. The cutoff is 4PM Eastern tomorrow — but if you get your teeth stuck into something and need to finish it off, pretty much all the titles are also on 75 percent off. [Steam via The Verge]
Airline CEO & Knight Says MH370 May Not Be Under Water
Tim Clark is the CEO of Emirates Airlines — one of the world's most successful, luxurious, respected, and fastest-growing airlines. He's also a recently-dubbed knight, who has a hunch that Malaysia Airlines flight 370 may not be in the Indian Ocean after all.
A Future Air-Traffic Control System For Drones Could Use Cellphones
Unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones or quadcopters as you'd prefer to call them, have certainly taken off in the last few years, which is great, if you love taking cool movies (or terrorizing your neighbour's dog). But it's created a headache for the FAA, who have moved to regulate the infant industry, and make…
Flickr Launches Official iPad App, Finally
It's taken a few years, but Flickr has finally got its act together and launched an official iPad app, only four years after Apple unleashed its first tablet on the world.
This is now Earth's largest ship—so big it can lift oil rigs off the sea
This is the Pieter Schelte, which is now the largest ship sailing the seas, surpassing even the Maersk Triple-E*. Built by Daewoo in Korea, this catamaran is so huge that it can lift entire oil platforms off their base, pick up the base itself, and then transport it all to port—which is exactly what it's designed to…
Nexus Player Pulled From Google Play Store Over FCC Certification
It's been a rollercoaster day for Google fans: first, the new Nexus Player and Nexus 9 pre-orders went live on the Play Store; but just a couple of hours later, Google's set-top box was pulled, apparently because of its lack of FCC certification.
Ambition is the new sci-fi film I didn't even know I wanted to see
It's not Interstellar but now I want to see it just the same: Ambition is the sci-fi film that nobody seems to be reporting about even while its main actor is arguably the best character in Game of Thrones—Littlefinger himself—and its director was already nominated for an Academy Award in 2002.
Having recalled its Force fitness tracker earlier this year, Fitbit has said that it's not going to do the same for the Flex — despite some user reports of the same skin rash problems as dogged the Force. Rather, future Flex units will ship with a warning that the product contains nickel, a common allergen. [New York…
Glorious lunatics overdrive toaster to make toasts in under 10 seconds
Those awesome madmen at Photonicinduction got a regular toaster and plugged it into one of their giant power supplies to drastically push the voltage and watts up and see if they could make a toast in just 10 seconds.
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