A company called Molycorp has re-opened a California mine that was once the world?s leading source of rare earths, the elements on which modern technology relies. Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/05/rare-earth-mining-rises-again/ Rachel Nichols Rachel Perry Rachel Weisz

For Europeans, going on vacation with a smartphone can be an expensive time. Currently, networks are allowed to charge what they like for calls, texts and data when roaming in another country. Packages are available, but often these are as almost as expensive as paying by the MB. An example — my trip to BlackBerry Devcon Europe in February cost me £20 for just 20MB of data. Times are to begin to change though, as [...]

Designer Jung Soo Park has managed to drastically improve the functionality and capabilities of the lowly hammer. But he didn’t accessorize it with useless add-ons only good for attacking non-existant zombies. Instead, he added a magnet to the handle for wrangling nails. Genius. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/nYmQwZ-YdCM/why-werent-hammers-designed-with-magnetic-handles-in-the-first-place Natassia Malthe Nelly Furtado Nichole Robinson

This one’s for the sysadmins in the audience: Altaro, makers of our favorite “time machine for Windows” back solution, OopsBackup, have just announced a new product entering beta called Hyper-V Backup. It’s a backup solution for virtual machines running on Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization solution. If that sentence just seemed like a bunch of buzzwords crammed together, Hyper-V backup is not for you. But, if you actually use Hyper-V and are hankering for a good backup [...]

Okay, see that snaking line coming in from the right on the screenshot? That’s you. And see those large round circles? Those are supposedly grapefruits, only they won’t sit still – they keep moving up and down and cutting across your path. And if you touch one, you die! That’s what you have to deal with in Line Grapefruit. But that’s not all – you’re also on a time limit. In fact, you have a [...]

Designer Jung Soo Park has managed to drastically improve the functionality and capabilities of the lowly hammer. But he didn’t accessorize it with useless add-ons only good for attacking non-existant zombies. Instead, he added a magnet to the handle for wrangling nails. Genius. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/nYmQwZ-YdCM/why-werent-hammers-designed-with-magnetic-handles-in-the-first-place Taylor Swift Teri Hatcher Teri Polo

Sand Trap is one of those games that at first seem too hard to bother with, but when you try to stop playing it you discover you’re hooked. The goal is to get as much sand as you possibly can out of the maze and into the bucket at the bottom of the screen. You need to rotate your maze every which way to get the sand rolling around it. You then try to direct [...]

Livio’s Bluetooth dongle plugs into your cigarette lighter, giving your older car the powers of the internets. Source: http://www.wired.com/reviews/2012/05/livio-radio/ Whitney Port Willa Ford Xenia Seeberg

A 28-year-old California man has pleaded guilty to a single count of criminal copyright infringement for being part of an in-theater camcording group known as IMAGiNE, whose goal was mostly internet cred, not money. Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/camcording-piracy-cred/ Naomi Watts Natalie Imbruglia Natalie Portman

Zoho has offered an iOS app for a while now — at least for the iPhone and iPod touch. Those of you who have been wanting to use the Zoho app on your iPad were out of luck, but that’s no longer the case. Zoho Docs 2.0 has landed in the App Store, and the most notable change is that it’s now a universal app. Now you’re able to take advantage of the app’s mobile [...]