At this year’s Fourth of July party, blow your guests’ minds harder than a Yonshakudama firework with a watermelon that splits to reveal a jiggly Jell-O core. All of the vodka and flavor, none of the seeds. Read more…
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How to turn an entire watermelon into one giant Jell-O shot
iOS 8 is just around the corner (and potentially unjailbreakable), but for folks who have found themselves stuck on the more recent 7.1.1 update and unable to jailbreak, there’s finally an option . Thrown together by as-yet untested Chinese developers Pangu, the untethered jailbreak is windows only, but works for all devices that can run 7.1.1. Read more…
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There’s Finally a Jailbreak for iOS 7.1.1
OneDrive just more than doubled its free-storage offering, bringing it up to 15GB . That’s the same amount you’ll get with Google Drive. On top of that, all versions of Office 365 now come with a full 1TB of storage attached. That’s a lot of spreadsheets. Read more…
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OneDrive just more than doubled its free-storage offering, bringing it up to 15GB.
Remember that crazy-looking helicopter-drone-truck we showed you a few months ago? Now it is real and it is here . Advanced Tactics has released the very first video showing the Black Knight Transformer flying through the desert. Read more…
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First video of the US Army flying truck in action
Outdated technology and government wastefulness seem to go hand in hand, but this time the two are combining for a startlingly huge money sink: the Pentagon is planning on destroying $1.2 billion in excess bullets and missiles , some of which could still be used by troops. And it’s all because the military has no way of tracking its stockpiled ammo. Read more…
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The Pentagon Can’t Keep Track of Ammo So It’s Destroying $1B in Bullets
Over the next three years, the U.S. Army will be filling its brand new cyber warfare institute at West Point with the best and brightest hackers it can find. Not just hackers, however: the institute will bring together psychologists, lawyers, mathematicians—anyone who can help the country win the inevitable cyber war and save America. Read more…
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U.S. Army Compares New Hacker School To "The Birth Of The Air Force"
To commemorate the centenary of the Great War, the diaries of 3, 987 British soldiers have been digitized and made available online. They contain first-hand accounts of trench warfare, gas attacks — oh, and that time two cats and a dog were suspected of being spies. Read more…
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The diaries of nearly 4,000 World War One soldiers are now online
Cash-strapped and somewhat adrift in terms of missions, the U.S. Army is in the midst of an existential crisis . Once ballooning in budget and size, the Army now says it wants to be “a smaller, more lethal, deployable, and agile force.” And it’s going to need robots to do it right. Read more…
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The Army Wants to Replace Up to 25 Percent of Its Soldiers with Robots
Given the United States’ intolerance for copyright infringement and the piraters that propagate it , you’d think Uncle Sam would be a little more keen on making sure that his men were playing by the book themselves. As it turns out, a whole mess of computers running unlicensed, illegal copies of Windows 7 belong to none other than the US Army itself . Read more…
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A US Army Base Is Running a Bunch of Illegal Windows 7 Copies
Defense Systems reports on the Army’s 3D printing operation at the Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey, describing how they’ve been using additive manufacturing to print antennas into helmets, sensors into clothes, and even whole functioning batteries— among other things . Gizmodo was at the lab last week to see these machines in action, and to photograph the fascinating things going on in this “defense R&D mini-city.” [ Defense Systems ] Read more…
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Army 3D-Prints Futuristic Electronics In Its Own New Jersey Mini-City