If you’ve come to rely on your smartphone as your primary camera, you’ve probably found yourself frustrated at its lack of zoom or even macro capabilities. Clip-on lenses can vastly improve its capabilities, and taking a cue from those sliding puzzle games that have you re-arranging tiles to form an image, the …
Daily Archives: 30.12.2014
Where Samsung’s true battle lies in 2015: Emerging markets
By Shara Tibken The Korean electronics giant isn’t giving up on high-end smartphones, but it needs to figure out how to fend off competition from companies producing cheaper devices.
A Brief History of the Movie Rating System
By Matt Blitz – TodayIFoundout.com
When you were a kid, sneaking into a rated R movie was a big deal. Everyone had their own tricks, but this author’s was to buy a ticket to a rated G Disney movie, say, Mulan; when the usher turned their back, I would run into a rated R movie like, for example American History X. But it wasn’t always this way – not kids sneaking into movies deemed only for adults, but rather the movie rating system. There was a time when movies didn’t have ratings. So how did we get from there to the current system?
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AirAsia Debris Likely Identified Off the Coast of Borneo
The ongoing search attempt to …
Samsung’s New Speakers Are Basically Portal Guns
Samsung says these fancy wireless speakers were created at a “state-of-the-art audio lab in Valencia, California.” We know better. They’re clearly the product of Aperture Science, the secret think tank responsible for a hilarious murderous artificial intelligence, not to mention one hell of a teleportation tool.
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Clearest photo yet of the new Millennium Falcon—featuring Darth Iger
Leaked Slides Reveal Hollywood’s Blind Google Fiber Fears
By Sarah Zhang
Who doesn’t like blindingly fast internet? Movie studios who don’t want people to watch their movies, apparently. A …
Leaked Slides Reveal Hollywood’s Blind Google Fiber Fears
By Sarah Zhang
Who doesn’t like blindingly fast internet? Movie studios who don’t want people to watch their movies, apparently. A …
No, archeologists haven’t found the lost colony of Roanoke
By Matt Novak
No, archeologists didn’t recently discover the legendary lost British colony from the 16th century. It would’ve been the biggest history story of the year. But it’s not. Because it’s a lie.
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The Multi-Tool Mechanical Pencil of Your Dorkiest Dreams
Despite the fact that they are increasingly archaic—or maybe because of it?—we’re always on the lookout for great pencils here at Giz. So we were excited to discover that a far less expensive facsimile of one of our all-time-favorites is enjoying a quiet popularity on Amazon.
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