Guys! If forced to choose, would you rather watch a new episode of Parks and Recreation, or an untested sex robot drama from Sweden? I THOUGHT SO. And actually? This Swedish sex robot show looks pretty good, and verrrrrry creepy. It’s called Real Humans, it’s debuting in Sweden in a little under two weeks, and […]
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The Most Torrented Movies of 2011
One thing Ebert didn’t mention in his list of reasons why movie revenues are down: People don’t like paying for things anymore. Speaking of: TorrentFreak has a list of the top 10 torrented films of 2011, and I can’t decide if torrenters have okay or terrible taste in movies. TorrentFreak Huh. Sucker Punch is on […]
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There Is No Way Grand Theft Auto III Should Work This Well
Rockstar Games Apple reinvents prostitute murder. Christmas now passed, odds are solid that many of you are sporting new toys. Given that our audience of six-year-olds is woefully small — we just can’t crack that damn Bionicle demographic — I’m going to assume this means shiny new electronics, and since you’re all members of the […]
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Light Bulb Limbo
This week, in a budgetary move, Congress voted against the Department of Energy’s proposed phase-out of traditional incandescent light bulbs. However, while this plan toward energy efficiency is put on hold, it looks like the switch from incandescent to compact florescent lamp (CFL) bulbs is inevitable. Sarah Mirk Light Bulb Lady on her throne To […]
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Facebook Bug Lets People See Your “Private” Photos
ZDNet reports that a bug in Facebook’s “report abuse” tool can let people see photos in your account that you thought you had made private. For example! Here someone has pulled out a bunch of Mark Zuckerberg’s “private” photos. Nothing scandalous, just the life of a boy-zillionaire. Surprisingly ordinary, really. Friends, food, Halloween candy, the […]
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Apple Will Fix iPhone’s Abortion “Glitch”
On Wednesday, we were all up in arms about how iPhone’s Siri robot can’t find abortion clinics, instead recommending users travel to anti-abortion Crisis Pregnancy Centers. Well, yesterday Apply vaguely apologized for the “glitch.” They don’t explain why it occurred, or exactly how they’ll fix it (expand Siri’s vocab?), but Apple’s CEO told the National […]
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The Little Printer Stole My Heart
This is not a practical idea. I can’t imagine it will take off. But I don’t care, because I want the Little Printer in my house: The Verge explains: You choose the sources you want from an app on your iPhone or Android smartphone, and the data is beamed wirelessly to the thermal printer (no […]
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Here Comes an Amazon Smartphone?
TechCrunch, which is the site that broke the news about Amazon’s tablet, seems to think another gadget is in the works: Amazon just entered the tablet market this week with its Kindle Fire. But this time next year, it could be introducing its own smartphone. A research report put out this morning by Citi analysts […]
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Google’s Dream Lab Will Make Shut-Ins of Us All
Driverless cars manufactured in the US, robots that commute to work for you… these are a some of the inventions secret Google scientists are working on. Via the NY Times: In a top-secret lab in an undisclosed Bay Area location where robots run free, the future is being imagined. It’s a place where your refrigerator […]
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How Much Does a Kindle Kost?
Gizmodo says: That jaw-dropping $79 price point on Amazon’s new Kindle just got a little nuttier: It turns out the thing costs $84.25 to manufacture, according to an exclusive report to Mainstreet by serial gear teardowner iSuppli. Amazon operated at a loss for a long time back in the olden days, of course, but the […]
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Good Afternoon, Uncanny Valley!
Meet two new robots the Japanese have invented, both designed to scare the poop into your pants. First there’s “Mask-Bot,” which according to The Week, uses “facial emotion data” to emulate an actual human face. This is super creepy, and not to be mean, but I’m pretty sure I saw this thing protesting at Occupy […]
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iPads in the Polls
As you all know, tomorrow is the last day to vote in the special primary election to select Rep. David Wu’s replacement. Sounds standard enough. However, Oregon is voting to new heights this time around with the aid of a certain handy gadget: the iPad. According to election officials, Oregon is the first state to […]