Is it possible for one person to love more than another? In an attempt to find out, filmmaker Brent Hoff teamed with Stanford University neuroscientists to test lovers’ abilities, using an fMRI to monitor brain activity and measure whose adoration was the strongest. Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/02/love-competition/ Tila Tequila Tina Fey Tricia Helfer
Feb
2012
iHeadCase is KickStarter project for an iPhone case that includes a compartment in the back for you to store your wired headset. There are two versions in the pipeline — a hardcase and a leather case, and if tangled, mangled, or lost headsets are a source of frustration for you, they’re something you’ll want to check out. Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/N97ydOwDNn0/story01.htm Liz Phair Lokelani McMichael Lori Heuring
Feb
2012
Creating your first craft cocktail takes a lot of trial and error, a bit of science, and a dose of creativity. Today, you’re going to meet The Angry Ginger, Gizmodo’s first (but certainly not our last) attempt and creating an original cocktail. We think you’ll like the results. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/abbdKMsz4no/ Robin Tunney Rosario Dawson Rose Byrne
Feb
2012
Facebook has announced that its two mobile sites — m.facebook.com and touch.facebook.com — have been unified, bringing a simpler mobile experience to Facebook users. And there are a lot of those — a quarter billion, according to Facebook. Smartphone users won’t be losing any functionality because of the consolidation. If your phone supported the enhacned features offered by touch.facebook.com, the new site will automatically flip the switch when you visit. Rolling the sites together helps [...]
Feb
2012
Apple has announced its latest version of OS X for Macs ? and like all iterations of its desktop operating system, the latest version is named after a big cat. It?s called Mountain Lion, and it will be more like iOS than ever, as Apple integrates various mobile services and moves to yearly OS updates across all its devices. Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/02/os-x-mountain-lion/ Rachel Weisz Radha Mitchell Raquel Alessi
Feb
2012
The homemade bombs that insurgents use in Iraq and Afghanistan are low-tech efforts, making them hard to find and stop, and cheap enough to spread world wide. But the Pentagon’s bomb squad doesn’t see that lasting. Its four-year plan envisions fighting improvised explosive devices that are much more sophisticated, using “flexible electronics,” “microbial fuel cells,” and “highly energetic and molecular materials.” Source: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/02/jieddo-high-tech-bombs/ Michelle Behennah Michelle Branch Michelle Malkin
Feb
2012
Zen Coding made quite a splash when we first covered it almost a year ago. For those who aren’t familiar, Zen is a fantastic form of shorthand for quickly hand-coding HTML. And today, a new version is out! Here are some of the goodies version 0.7 brings to the party: Text nodes: Writing something like a[href=/]{Click here} now works, and puts “Click here” within the link. New actions added: Increment/decrement number under cursor, evaluate math [...]
Feb
2012
We’ve all heard it before; you need to select a lengthy password, one that’s hard to guess. Not a dictionary word. And it has to have some capital letters in it too, and some digits, and a symbol or two won’t hurt either. That’s a handy set of rules to keep in mind, but How Secure is My Password helps us understand why they’re important. It’s basically like a full-screen version of one of those [...]
Feb
2012
The Retrogame Roadshow panel is on for Penny Arcade Expo East in Boston this April. Source: http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/02/retrogame-roadshow-pax-east-2012/ Lokelani McMichael Lori Heuring Lorri Bagley
Feb
2012
Welcome to the next iteration of Android Central. We'd give you a version number but, frankly, we have no idea what version we're on.. Just like Android, we keep on doing our thing. (Though we're able to get updates to all of you at one time, which is awesome.) So what's new? We just rolled out a new version of our homepage filter, with much more filtering power behind it. You now have three main [...]