GizModo: Top Tech News and Reviews [March ‘11 Diet]

Started by GIZMODO, Mar 01, 2011, 12:05 AM

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    Amazon's taken a leap into the cloud, and they're taking your music with them. But what exactly is Amazon Cloud Drive? And more importantly: how do you use it?            More »

Source: What Is Amazon Cloud Drive? [Cloud]

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                     This is a 40,000 megapixel, 280,000 x 140,000, 360 degree picture of the 868-year-old Strahov Monastery Library in Prague, Czech Republic. A lot of numbers, right? Here's more: the gigantic picture is actually made up of 2,947 different images that added up to 283GB and took over 111 hours to stich together.            More »

Source: The World's Largest Picture Taken Indoors Is 40 Gigapixels of Classic Beauty [Video]

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    When drinking stuff from the cellar, the temperature controlled fridge, or the top shelf, the size of the glass matters-and shape does too. You've likely picked up a bit of this, or at least rolled your eyes at it.            More »

Source: Engineering a Better Glass of Booze [Design]

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                     In case you had any doubts about where the war in Libya is going, the Pentagon has admitted today that two new weapons are now part of the coalition forces: The A-10 Warthog and the AC-130 Spectre.            More »

Source: Why Are Spectres and Warthogs Attacking Gaddafi's Forces Now? [Video]

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    For thousands of years, Man made mosaics through shards of clay and ceramic, likely the artistic result of reusing broken pots. Today, we do the same thing, but with our leftover digital content: photos.            More »

Source: 27 Pictures Made of Other Pictures [Photography]

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    Vimeo is home to super pretty videos so it shouldn't be a surprise that their iPhone app is, well, super pretty. But what is surprising is that not only can you browse those stellar videos but the app lets you edit videos too.              More »

Source: Vimeo for iPhone [App Of The Day]

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    It's Coming | A prank so diabolically evil it's already been banned in 17 states and most of Canada.

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Source: Top Stories: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 [Total Recap]

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    It's like something from a children's mystery book—a hidden wooden door, which leads you down stone steps and into a boat for a short underground row to two large doors—and then, into the cavernous ballroom hidden under the lake; green algae coating the tiny windows speckling the dome.            More »

Source: The Mysterious, Cursed Billiards Room Hiding Under an English Lake [Architecture]

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    You are witnessing an historial moment: This is the first image ever obtained from Mercury's orbit. It was taken by NASA's Messenger, the first human-made spaceship to orbit this battered scorching hell.             More »

Source: This Is the First Image Ever Obtained from Mercury Orbit [Astronomy]

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It's been well documented that AT&T's 4G phones aren't just slow—their upload speeds are often slower than its 3G network. So what happened to that extra G? Turns out it's not the network itself that's borked; it's the phones. AT&T has intentionally crippled the Motorola Atrix and HTC Inspire—the carrier's only fourth-gen network phones—by actively disabling the handsets' HSUPA capability. Gross. But there may be sweet relief coming soon.            More »

Source: AT&T's Fake 4G Phones May Actually Get Real 4G Soon [At&t]