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The first reviews of Apple 3rd-generation iPad are in and the general consensus is that this is the tablet you ;ve been waiting for鈥攁ssuming you don ;t already own its predecesso stanley cup r. The Verge Yes, this display is outrageous. It stunning. It incredible. I ;m not being hyperbolic or exaggerative when I say it is easily the most beautiful computer display I have ever looked at. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that you hold this in your hands, or maybe it the techn stanley cup ology that Apple is utilizing, or maybe it the responsiveness of iOS but there something almost bizarre about how good this screen is. After the launch event, I described the screen as 8220 urreal, and I still think that a pretty good fit. Let be clear: the new iPad is in a class by itself, just as its predecessor was. As the latest product in a lineage of devices that defined this category, the iPad continues to stand head and shoulders above the competition. With the addition of the Retina display, LTE, more memory, and a more powerful CPU, Apple has absolutely held onto the iPad market position as the dominant player and product to beat. Wall Street Journal It has the most spectacular display I have ever seen in a mobile device. The company squeezed four times the pixels into the same physical space as on the iPad 2 and cl stanley cup aims the new iPad screen has a million more pixels than an HDTV. All Dcgf Facebook, Why Did You Screw Your Chat System
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Find out how Avengers 2 will come out of a whole new raft of solo superhero movies. Chloe Moretz talks Dark Shadows and the Carrie remake. James Cameron still hasn ;t abandoned Battle Angel Alita. New videos for Brave, Men in Black 3. Plus intriguing spoilers for the Once Upon a Time finale! Spoilers from here on out! Top image from The Amazing Spider-Man. The Avengers In what has to be the single least surprising an stanley canada nouncement ever, Disney CEO Bob Iger says he wants to move ahead with a s stanley thermos mug equel to that movie that made $200 million last weekend: The Avengers isn ;t just a film. It a franchise from our perspective. Obviously, it was helped a lot by the success of the Iron Man ; movies and of Thor ; and Captain America ;. From The Avengers ; we get a chance to make Thor 2 ; and Captain America 2 ; and Iron Man 3 ; and hopefully another Avengers 821 stanley thermobecher 7; movie. So this one film that is immensely successful 8230; is going to get a number of other films and franchises 8230;We have an ability to leverage what was a very fun film done by a great group of filmmakers into something much bigger for the company, he continues, and the effect will be prolonged and that very, very exciting for us. [CNBC via Coming Soon] The Amazing Spider-Man Here a pair of new photos of Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker and Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy. [Com Qjbh Cthulhu rises for Valentine s Day
Remember that image from a few weeks back that showed Earth with all its water gathered up in a sphere beside it Well here that image again, only this time, it also features Jupiter moon Europa, along with all of its water. Notice anything interesting https://gizmodo/if-you-collected-all-of-...ho-5908108 Based on data acquired by NASA Galileo satellite, astronomers thi stanley cup becher nk the global oceans sloshing around beneath Europa icy exterior are likely 2鈥? times more voluminous than the oceans here on Earth. Not 2鈥? times more proportionally, 2鈥? times more in total volume. Yeah. That little moon is packing quite the supply of H2O 鈥?and with it, scientists think, a significant chance of harboring life. Looking at this stanley cup image, I can ;t help but think back on what Michael Shara, curator in the Department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History, had to say when we spoke with him about Europa last November: https://gizmodo/what-does-the-future-of-...ld-5861591 If we can figure out a way of putting a probe through [Europa ] ice 鈥?and the ice may be hundreds of yards thick, it could be very difficult to do this 鈥?but if we could put a probe down that could melt its way through the ice, and then send out little submarines, who knows what we could find down there. It would be fascinating to go look. I think we have no choice but to go lo stanley quencher ok. We must do it. Emphasis mine. Bec
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The future may seem to be closer or farther off, depending on the era you ;re living in. That one of the possible conclusions you can draw from this chart embedded below , created by Stephanie Fox for io9, based on research we ;ve done over the past month. We wanted to know whether there are historical trends in how far in the future we set our science fiction 鈥?and there definitely are. Here we present our data, as well as some preliminary conclusions about why the future changed so much from decade to decade over the past 130 years. This all started with a relatively innocent musing on Twitter, from io9 pal Tom Coates: Infographic I ;d like to see: How far ahead did we set our science fiction at various points in history. T stanley hrnek hat would be interesting. We agreed. Please click charts below to expand. The Dataset To get our data, we worked with intrepid researchers Ben Vrignon and Gordon Jackson, who helped track down when the future was in a random sampling of over 250 works of science fiction books, movies, TV, and some comics created b stanley cup etween 1880 and 2010. Purely for sanity purposes, we narrowed our search to pieces of science fiction widely available in English, i stanley mug n America, though the works sampled include several pieces of European and Japanese SF. We were not able to sample nearly as many works as we would have liked, so if you would like to expand on this project, please get in touch and I can share our dataset with you. The Me Rjdh For the weekend: Isaac Asimov s Visions of the Future is available free online in its entirety
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It still that part of the new year where you forget it stanley becher actually 2013 and not 2012 so we can still wrap up last year without feeling like it too late, right Anyway. If you were curious as to what happened on the Internet in 2012 in numbers, like how many e-mails were sent or how many people used the Internet, you can find that all out here. Pingdom gathered up all of its research and spit out the massive numbers of Internetting. We highlighted some of them here: 2.2 billion e-mail users worldwide 144 billion total e-mail traffic per day 68.8% of e-mail is spam 87.8 million 鈥?Number of Tumblr blogs. 246 million 鈥?Number of domain name registrations across all top-l stanley cup evel domains. 2.4 billion 鈥?Number of Internet users worldwide. 40.5 years 鈥?Average age of a Facebook user. 37.3 years 鈥?Average age of a Twitter user. 1.2 trillion 鈥?Number of searches on Google in 2012. 1 鈥?The top trending question of the year on Ask: Will Rob and Kristen get back together If you wa stanley cup nt more numbers鈥攁nd trust, there are a ton more鈥攈ead over to Pingdom to bury your head in millions, petabytes and the fact that Brazil is the most active country on Facebook. It sort of feels like years just start piling on top of each other and nothing much really changes about the Internet but that not true. Compare 2012 to 2011 and you can see how much things can change. What will 2013 bring [Pingdom, Image Credit: Kaspri/Shutterstock] Iupz If Google Axes Six Unpopular Brands and Nobody Is Around to Use Them, Does Their Demise Make a Sound
Even though water covers nearly three-quarters of this blue dot of ours, most of that is salt water. We need freshwater to fuel the world. And freshwater is not as limitless as it seems, so wasting is it a no no. Here how much water we use to make, well, the things stanley becher we use. The water footprint of products comes from Imagine All the Water, a site created by the European Commission: Beef 15,415 liters of water Hamburger 2,393 liters of water Pizza 1,216 liters of water Jeans 9,982 liters of water Shoes 8,547 liters of water T-Shirt 2,495 liters of water Rice 2,497 liters of water Chocolate 1,720 liters of water Beer 170 liters of water per pint Cheese 152 liters of water Coffee 132 liters of water per cup Apple 82 liters of water Loaf of Bread 48 liters of water Paper 13 liters of water per sheet What do those numbers mean Well, making a T-shirt is the equivalent of flushing a toilet 250 times. Making a pair of jeans That hosing your lawn for 9 straight hours. Even something as small as a loaf of bread footprint requires crying non-stop for 84 days straight. If you think abou stanley mugs t it, the numbers make sense. For something like an apple, there only so many steps of water it needs to grow. For botella stanley something like a burger Raising cattle requires water, using wheat for the bun needs water, vegetables need water and so on, it a multi-s
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What if aliens actually turn up and want to communicate with us Everything would change. We ;d all remember exactly where we were, the moment we found out that humanity really isn ;t alone. And then what What do we do next More to the point, does anybody have any plan for what to do, after we find the aliens we ;ve been wondering about for centuries People first started looking for aliens in the 1700s, when telescopes really started getting good. Many were so sure that life was out there, they believed it existed on all observable planets, moons 鈥?and even the sun. As they analyzed the celestial objects around Earth more carefully, it became accepted that life was less common than everybody had thought. And as they began appreciating the space between the stars, they began to understand that searching out life was more of an undertaking stanley italia than anyone had previously t stanley water bottle hought, that it might be impossible. But in the Space Age, when people started putting up telescopes and satellites that might see far enough and wide enough that they might find life wherever it is, the expectation returned that we ;d find someone out there. And with it came the need to plan. NASA summed up its only first contact-related plans in a simple report entitled Would Contact with Extraterrestrials Benefit or Harm Humanity A Scenario Analysis. Like any good science nerd report, it begins with categorization. There are three genera stanley tumbler l types of contact that would require planning: Wapj What s Wrong With Apple s iOS 5.0.1 Update
The sun might be about to set on one of the best web-based video-on-demand services. According to the New York Post, Hulu will soon require that you prove you have a pay-tv subscription to watch shows on the streaming service. Is the golden age of cable cutting coming to an end According to the report, the new authentication model is being driven by Hulu entertainment company owners鈥擠isney, News Corp., and Comcast鈥攚ho ;ve all seen their profits take a hit as fewer people are subscribing to cable in favor of cheap or free stanley nz online streaming services. The new system would require you to enter an account number to watch shows. It unc stanley water jug lear whether all of Hulu content would be covered by the new model or whether it will only be certain popular content. We reached out to Hulu for comment but didn ;t immediately hear back. We ;ll update when we do. [New York stanley botella Post] Hulu
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As a collaboration with the designers of RED c stanley cup ameras, Luke Scott the son of Blade Runner director Ridley Scott has directed the 20-minute science fiction film Loom. This short, which stars Giovanni Ribisi as a laboratory grunt in a dystopian future, aims for atmospherics and openly acknowledges a stylistic debt to Blade Runner. Some stanley cup what NSFW for incidental nudity. Hat stanley mug tip to Alexander! MoviesShort Films Rtgu How the Biggest Biological Cells on Earth Work
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Apple Podcasts app has long been a horrid example of Scott Forstall most epic crime as a software designer: Skeuomorphism. Why do I need a graphic of a reel-to-reel tape machine in my app HOW CLEVER! Get it Yes, radio used to stanley cup be recorded and edited on reels of tape, but that design reference doesn ;t do anything good for consumers. Apple has updated the app, and the catastrophe in the image above has been addressed. Amongst the paltry upgrades to the Apple Podcasts app is the following glorious improvement: The Now Playing view has been redesigned with easier to use playback controls Part of that interface change is that you can no longer access the reel-to-reel now stanley puodelis playing view that was there before. That weird old thyme reference never did any good. It just made the app harder to use. It so much better when ever stanley cup ything in its right place. This is a smart digital interface. You don ;t need or benefit from the option to view fake reels: Unfortunately, the app catastrophic performance didn ;t end at this single detail. Apple has also upgraded the app with a few other improvements like the ability to create custom stations and on-the-go playlists. We don ;t think that gonna be enough to change the app pathetic two-star rating right away, but hey, it a step in the right direction. [iTunes] iPad AppsiPhone Apps Jzfe Whoa, Is This Polaroid Mirrorless Camera Real
Alcoholism is usually viewed as a binary: Either you ;re addicted to alcohol or you ;re not. Now psychologists are starting to consider the possibility that there are legions of almost alcoholics out there who are quietly afflicted but don ;t know what to do about it. And from the looks of it, stanley taza this group could include everyone you know. Writing for The Atlantic, Joseph Nowinsky and Robert Doyle, co-authors of Almost Alcohol stanley mugs ic, point out that alcohol clearly adversely affects more than just alcoholics: We believe that, as opposed to thinking only those men and women whose drinking has progressed to the point where they need help, that many people in the mid-range may also be suffering as a result of drinking. That suffering may take the form of declining job performance and declining health so that the individual does not yet recognize it as being related to drinking. The problem is that people who fall into the existing alcohol abuse categories generally aren ;t considered for any kind of treatment because they aren ;t technically addicts. If there no treatment plans, that means no one ever does anything about it. In planning the revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual psychologists are now considering placing many conditions, including stanley bottles alcoholism, on a spectrum, which would help both individuals and doctors understand problems in a different way. Check out this list of behaviors that place people in t
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The latest bit in the increasingly amusing Laurel and Hardy routine that is the HP TouchPad: HP just tried to sue itself for offering HP TouchPad refunds. No, seriously. This is a thing that stanley cup happened. The company got wind recently of a fraudulent HP Refund Program in Europe, targeting German TouchPad buyers looking to be refunded when that insano fire sale kicked off. The questionable site w stanley thermobecher as asking for bank account information, which seemed shady! So HP mobilized its legal team, refusing to let such an affront stand. Except! https://gizmodo/touchpads-are-now-going-for-100-5832788 Except that the site in question was legit. Contracted by HP to handle the refund process. Totally benign. Oops Presumably HP has called off the ho stanley cups uk unds from 8230; itself. Seriously, though, guys. I know things are weird over there these days; no need to make it worse by punching yourself in the face. [PreCentral] HP TouchPadTabletTablets Lntm You Won t Believe What This GoPro Camera Captured Underwater
If oppressive regimes want to stay oppressive, they need to fear鈥攁nd wield鈥攖echnology like a sword covered in napalm. And in most cases, they can ;t do that without using outside help. Here are the five worst corporate collaborators in technology. IBM 038; The Holocaust You really cannot get much worse than helping the Nazis perpetrate the Holocaust. You just can ;t. And yet, the company that used to make our laptops and now entertains us on Jeopardy helped create the most rationalized, methodically-perfected means of genocide in human history. As author Edwin Black explains in his exhaustive IBM and the Holocaust, the computer firm services were perfectly suited for the machinations of the Third Reich. The Nazis wanted to perfect human murdering. To turn it into a science. Genocide was to be flawless, smooth, and predictable. Sort of like a computer: https://gizmodo/how-ibm-technology-jump-...st-5812025 The only way to eliminate any mistakes, [Nazi scientist Dr. Karl] Keller insisted, is the registration of the entire population. How is this to be done Keller stanley water bottle demanded the establishment of mandatory personal genetic-biographical forms 8230;Nothing would hinder us, he assured, from using these forms to enter any important information which can be used by race scientists. For this, Germany needed computers. IBM stanley cup made great computers鈥攁nd they we termo stanley re sold to Hitler, straig
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We all know Winnie the Pooh as a beloved children book character, a Disney icon and, of course, a honey fetishist. But the willy nilly silly old bear and his friends have made three recent incursions into nerd-dom that may indicate a more concerted effort by the denizens of Hundred Acre Wood to take over every single fandom we hold dear. https://gizmodo/10-ornaments-that-make-y...ar-5962387 Admittedly not all of these Pooh-ism are naughty in nature. The Deadpooh tattoo seen here drawn originally by Rodney Fyke then tattooed onto Becky Clousineau by Tom Beste of Eternal Tat stanley cup toos is pretty awesome. Wade Wilson would certainly approve of it, if only because the awkward questions Cousineau eventual grandchildren will ask her about it. And then there this phenomenal if slightly confusing Winnie the Pooh/Doctor Who mash-up cake featuring what I have to assume is the Eleventh Tigger in a rickety TARDIS stanley canada Tiem and Rellativ Demenshuns in Sp stanley cup ayc [I know it says Polise Bocs on it, but I ;m enjoying myself here, shut up . Obviously, the best part is Dalek Piglet, who would improve Disney Pooh cartoon a hundred-fold if he went around screaming EXTERMINATE all the time. Of course, not all of Pooh attempts to conquer nerdery are so benign. Our neighbors at Gizmodo report a 9-year-old Finnish girl had her Winnie the Pooh laptop confiscated by the pol Tbkt If You Think Stock Images Are Bad Nowadays, Look at the Ones From the 90s
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