After no short period of waiting, the new Mac Pro has finally gone on sale today . All along it’s promised to pack punch, and it might just prove to be your ultimate work station . But absolute power will cost you. Read more…
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A Fully Loaded New Mac Pro Will Cost You $14,000
Looks like Jeff Bezos’s new toy, The Washington Post, is the latest victim in the hacker war on newspapers . Company officials announced Wednesday that hackers had gained access to employees’ usernames and passwords, though it’s unclear how much data the company lost. Read more…
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Hackers Broke into the Washington Post for "a Few Days"
Do you hear that? In the distance? That’s the sound of thousands of college students shouting with joy. Because designer Benjamin Vermeulen has created a line of easy to assemble flat-pack furniture that doesn’t require screws, nuts, bolts, or those dreaded allen wrenches. Just the magic of magnets. Read more…
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The Ikea Nightmare Is Over, Magnetic Flat-Pack Furniture Is Here
The YouTube app is now available on Roku 3 , and it features full HD streaming and a send to TV feature from your phone. Might we suggest this Beyonce video as a candidate for the first thing you watch? Read more…
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The YouTube app is now available on Roku 3, and it features full HD streaming and a send to TV featu
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. Read more…
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Saturday Night Live Hilariously Riffs on Obama’s Recent Tech Troubles
Jeff Keacher wanted to get his Mac Plus, now well into its third decade, online. It had been on BBSes and text-only Lynx via dial-up back in the day, but Keacher wanted to go full TCP/IP. And it worked. He even loaded Gizmodo for us! Read more…
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You Can Actually Browse the Web on a 27-Year-Old Mac Plus
The Washington Post is reporting that, according to a newly released internal document, the National Security Agency isn’t just swiping location data from our cell phones ; they actually have the ability to decode private, encrypted data, putting all our texts and calls right at their disposal. Read more…
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The NSA Can Decode Private, Encrypted Cellphone Conversations
Camouflage only works when it’s got the same color and pattern as your surroundings. When the foliage takes on a different hue, you don’t want to be caught wearing last season’s color. This magical new camouflage solves that problem with temperature-sensitive dyes to keep your sporting wear fashionable year-round. Read more…
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Magic Color-Changing Camo Blends In No Matter The Season
This is basically the least worst thing that can happen with Russian nuclear bombs! For the past twenty years, the Russians have been turning 500 tons of uranium from decommissioned nuclear weapons into nuclear fuel for the United States. It’s called the Megatons to Megawatts program. The last shipment from that 1993 deal arrived at a U.S. storage facility Tuesday, according to reporter Geoff Brumfiel of NPR’s Morning Edition . Read more…
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10% of U.S. Electricity Comes From Old Russian Nuclear Warheads
Behold the Pertamina Energy Tower, a U.S.-designed building that’s slated for construction in Jakarta, Indonesia. Reaching a height of a half-kilometer, the tower will harvest its own wind energy through an opening at its peak. Read more…
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This gorgeous skyscraper is also a wind power plant