The next time Russia invades the Mid West, Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen won't be there to save us so it's a damn good idea to brush up on your Cyrillic now and avoid the rush. More »
Picasa is limited to 1GB of storage (unless you pay up for more Google bytes) but now there's a free workaround. You can upload unlimited photos (smaller than 2048x2048) and videos (under 15 minutes) Google+ and it doesn't touch your storage limit. [ReadWriteWeb] More »
In this week's app roundup: Google+, unveiled; GPS, painted with direction; North Korea, photographed; iPhones, playing dead; Instagram, challenged by Google; background checks, forever creepy; fourways, on Fring; and much, much more. More »
When Apple, Microsoft, Google and others started bidding on a treasure trove of Nortel wireless patents this past week, the search giant from California made a series of, well, unconventional bids that had observers mystified. More »
Not Working Films has re-envisioned the arcade classic Pac-Man as a ride down a bleak stretch of highway. It's like if Namco directed Vanishing Point — the only Pac-aphernalia more surreal than this is the 1982 Pac-Man Christmas Album. More »
10 years ago today, Bram Cohen loosed BitTorrent upon the world in a public message board. It only got one response. Now it's a mainstay of the darker and more outspoken corners of the internet. They grow up so fast! More »
It's hard being Michael Bay, what with all the money he needs to count and women he needs to objectify. Plus, one shitty, loud, oversaturated three-hour car commercial is as good as the next, so you can't really blame the guy for re-using footage from one in another. He's got robot testicles to design! Frankly, the very existence of Transformers 3 is so insulting it's hard to feel further affronted by the fact that its director can't even bother to shoot new footage—in any event, as /Film points out, it's not the first time Bay has done this. [via /Film] More »
This Monday, cities across the country will be pulling out all the stops to have their citizens see some of the finest light shows ever orchestrated. That shit takes time and energy, and a lot of it is to ensure both the fireworks and the people behind them are stationed safely. More »
Well that took forever. With no word yet from the iPhone Dev Team or Comex, a jailbreak has just been let loose for iPad 2 owners running iOS 4.3.0. You should, as always, tread with caution, but happy jailbreaking! [Engadget] More »
Water is beautiful. Romain Glé and Thomas Séon worked together on this music video, "High Hopes", to show that slo-mo water fighting a presumably evil black ball is stunning to behold. [Fubiz] More »
Firefighting is dangerous enough without your two-way radio failing behind collapsed walls or in smoke-filled buildings. That's why the DoD has developed the a new disposable router system, dubbed WISPER, that may one day replace traditional radios. More »
Now if this were a Super NES we might be having a different conversation. No, but seriously, if you find a girl wearing this, she's a keeper. It's made by the same Etsy folks as the Pokeball bra. $30 [Etsy] More »
New York bagels are the best. Deal with it. The legend, according to old city folk, including Larry King, is that there's just something in the water. But Slate's Brian Palmer claims they're wrong. More »
Nowadays, a public display ad is just an image on a giant screen, but this certainly wasn't the case 60 years ago. Unlike their famous soda, Coke's recipe for neon signs is no secret: hard work and lots of it. More »
Minimal in materials used, but maximal in the number of ways you can use it, the Infinite Loop stand lets you prop your iPad up virtually anywhere, at any angle. More »
If you're traveling to Canada, a country whose customs officials are notorious for playing the role of morality police, you'd better leave your Japanese comics at home — whether they're in print or digital. More »
AMP is a single lens video camera that can capture real time HDR. HDR video, as you know, exposes the living breathing smelling unreality hidden in life. Or something like that. Just watch how AMP's HDR works. More »
It's kinda weird Skype didn't have an iPad app but the wait's just about over. There's no official release date yet, but it should be in the app store "soon." More »
