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

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    Hatchet Job | See how one angry Russian is giving new meaning to "breaking the bank"

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Source: Top Stories: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 [Total Recap]

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    The oldest secret documents in the CIA's treasure-trove have been cracked open finally. Believed to be the only remaining classified WWI documents, the six files have revealed all manner of espionage message tricks—including the recipe for German invisible ink.            More »

Source: The Spy Secrets of the Last Unsealed WWI Files [War]

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                     This is a map of everywhere I've been for nearly the last year. Everywhere. I didn't carry around a special tracking device. The FBI isn't sending goons in unmarked vans to track me. All I did was use an iPhone. And if you have an iPhone, you're being tracked right now, too, whether you like it or not.            More »

Source: iSpy Conspiracy: Your iPhone Is Secretly Tracking Everywhere You've Been, All The Time (Updated) [Video]

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    Earth Day is this Friday. And it's always good to take a moment to think about ways to screw up this planet a little less. Realistically, we're not going to give up our gadgets (which aren't always environmentally friendly), but we can at least come up with ways to make them less destructive, ya know?:            More »

Source: 9 Tools to Help You Stay Green on Earth Day [Toolkit]

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    Not entirely cool with the idea of your iPhone or iPad following your every move without your consent? Understandable! Luckily, only a day after the privacy revelation, a fix has been cooked up that switches off Apple's covert tracking.             More »

Source: iSpy Conspiracy: Break Apple's Secret Tracking with This App [Privacy]

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Source: Unlocking the Mystery of Paris' Most Secret Underground Society [Secrets]

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                     In 2008, designer Thomas Thwaites decided to build a toaster from scratch-and not the "from scratch" that would land him in Home Depot for a couple of hours. He was interested in the seemingly magical process that turns what we pull out of the earth into the stuff that litters our houses. So Thwaites decided to take on the toaster, and what followed was an adventure that illuminated just how far removed our everyday items are from the raw materials that go into them.            More »

Source: One Man's Nearly Impossible Quest to Make a Toaster From Scratch [Video]