Top Tech News and Reviews from GizModo (April 2011 Diet)

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    An unnamed air traffic controller at Knoxville's McGhee Tyson airport fell asleep for five hours during his night shift on Feb. 19, leaving seven aircraft to land without their primary officer. And he did it intentionally.            More »

Source: Another Air Traffic Controller Falls Asleep, This Time On Purpose [Wtf]

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                      A second earthquake—magnitude 7.4—has hit northeastern Japan, prompting a tsunami warning. The quake, strong enough to move buildings in Tokyo, hit 78 miles north of the devastated Fukushima plant at 11:32 pm, local time.            More »

Source: Japan Hit by Second Major Quake (Updated) [Video]

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    The Masters is underway, and golf's elite now battle for the hallowed green jacket. If you've got 3D-capable gear, we're here to tell you how to make Augusta pop—and why golf (!) might be the thing that finally justifies that hardware.            More »

Source: How The Masters Might Make Your 3DTV Worth It [3D]

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    Solar power in America is nothing new — Californians were heating water with it back in 1908 — we've just generally ignored it since WWII. Powering the Dream, by Alexis Madrigal explains how we managed to squander this energy for nearly 75 years.            More »

Source: Why America Doesn't Have A Respectable Solar Industry [Solar Power]

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    The Peel remote adapter is supposed to be the normal human's version of Logitech's Harmony universal remotes. Harmony remotes, although incredibly competent in controlling everything in your AV system, practically begs for a community college class teaching people how to use it.            More »

Source: Peel + iPhone = The Universal Remote For Regular People [Lightning Review]

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                     If you live in Hawaii, California, British Columbia, Alaska or Baja California, here is some bad news: According to computer models made by scientists at the International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, all the debris washed out by the Japan tsunami is coming your way.            More »

Source: How Japan's Tsunami Massive Debris Plume Will Hit California and Hawaii [Video]

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    Rocket Man | Would you rather we test the ejector seats at 30,000 feet?

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Source: Top Stories: Thursday, April 7, 2011 [Total Recap]

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    What you're looking at isn't a scene from a sci-fi flick. It's real life—a phalanx of Japanese police in hazmat suits, carrying off a body found inside the deserted radius of Fukushima.             More »

Source: Japan's New Wasteland [Image Cache]

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                      Mobile phones have come a long way. And though you probably haven't been following it quite as closely, so has 3D projection mapping. Vodafone uses the technique in this stunning new video that celebrates the cell phone from the Zach Morris days, through the Snake era, and up to the feature-laden smartphones of today. [YouTube]            More »

Source: The Evolution of Mobile, At Its Most Beautiful [Video]

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    When the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer was introduced in 1946 as a tool for calculating the trajectory of artillery shells, it made headlines nationwide as the first all-electronic computer.  But there was little mention of Jean Jennings Bartik and the other women who programmed the machine, charting new territory by converting math into a nascent machine language.            More »

: Jean Bartik, Pioneer Computer Programmer [Obituary]