Daily Archives: 13.02.2015

Here’s a Weird Hand Some Horrible App Probably Wants Us to Show You

By Ashley Feinberg

Earlier today, we received a beautifully crafted, oh so mysterious, ceramic hand here at Gizmodo HQ. Who could it be from? What does it mean? Where does the website on the card take you? Who has the answers? We do! But we’re sure as hell not going to tell you, ’cause fuck those guys.

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Here’s a Weird Hand Some Horrible App Probably Wants Us to Show You

By Ashley Feinberg

Earlier today, we received a beautifully crafted, oh so mysterious, ceramic hand here at Gizmodo HQ. Who could it be from? What does it mean? Where does the website on the card take you? Who has the answers? We do! But we’re sure as hell not going to tell you, ’cause fuck those guys.

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Jeb Bush Is Sorry He Published Your Social Security Numbers

By Kate Knibbs

The man who signed Florida’s Stand Your Ground law is now awkwardly moonwalking backwards on an initially indiscriminate data-dump. Presidential hopeful and former Florida governor Jeb Bush is doing some …

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The Wild, NSFW World of Old Teletext Porn

By Eric Limer

Back in the 70s and 80s, there was a little piece of technological magic known as Teletext. Basically, it allowed the broadcast of text, and crude text-art, over unused TV spectrum, so long as you had a special decoder. Very proto-internet. And so of course, …

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Edward Snowden talks ‘Citizenfour’ with Poitras, Greenwald

By Edward Moyer New York Times columnist David Carr, in his final public appearance, hosted a reunion of sorts with Snowden, protagonist of the film “Citizenfour,” as well as director Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald.

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New Nintendo 3DS Review: A Terrible Name for a Worthy Successor

By Sean Buckley

Portable gaming is Nintendo’s wheelhouse: it pioneered the category with the Game Boy, reinvented it with the Nintendo DS, and uses its current generation, the Nintendo 3DS, to help pay the bills in the wake of underwhelming Wii U sales. Starting today, you can buy the company’s latest gaming handheld: The New Nintendo 3DS. It’s better than it sounds.

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A History of Internet Spying, Part I

By Matt Novak

In last year’s documentary Citizenfour, Edward Snowden said, “I remember what the internet was like before it was being watched.” Snowden is just 31 years old, so there’s simply no way this is true. Intelligence agencies have been keeping tabs on the internet since before Snowden was even born. They were instrumental in creating it.

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Here Are NASA’s Plans to Send a Submarine to Titan

By Katharine Trendacosta

If we’re ever going to explore the only celestial body in our solar system with surface bodies of liquid, we’re going to need a sea-worthy vehicle. Luckily, NASA is all over the niche space submarine market.

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Man killed after responding to a Craigslist iPhone 6 ad, police say

By Chris Matyszczyk Technically Incorrect: A Georgia chemistry student replied to a Craigslist ad that turned out to be fake. It led, police say, to his death when he met the alleged sellers.

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