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The Colour, Sweat And Spectacle: Gizmodo Runs The Sydney Color Run
5 kilometres; tens of thousands of smiling faces. Four zones of food-dyed cornstarch colour assault all up in your bits. This is the Swisse Color Run, the ‘Happiest 5k on the Planet’. Last Sunday, Gizmodo Australia’s Luke Hopewell, Campbell Simpson and Danny Allen slapped on our protective sunnies, braved a lack of early morning coffee and put together this video of our Olympic Park battle.
All The Tech We've Used To Intercept Every Kind Of Communication
Spy cameras are probably the most axiomatic gadgets when we talk about intelligence-gathering techniques. But intercepting and decoding messages is just as important as taking pictures. Here’s a look at all the devices spies have used to tap into voice, mail, phone, radio, morse, electronic messages and other signals.
How To Roll Back Windows Updates If They Bork Your PC
By and large you should certainly be keeping Windows Updates switched on to download and install automatically. If a serious new threat should be uncovered, it’s the best way of making sure that you’re protected. However, there are occasions when applying a new update can cause problems, and here’s how you can undo the changes.
Making Pasta By Hand Is A Mesmerisingly Beautiful Process
Video: I know Chef Evan Funke of Bucato is making pasta in this video — I see it and it’s absolutely beautiful — but it almost looks like he’s playing a musical instrument. There’s so much skill in his work and so much grace in his movements that I can’t help but feel like I’m watching an artist at work.
The Best New Windows 10 Phone Features In Six GIFs
The Windows 10 preview for laptops has been out for a while, but the beta version of the new Microsoft operating system only came to (a few, select) phones yesterday. The update is super limited, so it’s far from Windows 10 for phones in full. But! There’s some cool stuff in there. Here’s that stuff in GIF form:
See What Devices Are Signed Into Your Google Account With This Dashboard
Whatever happened to that old tablet that you sold on eBay? Where has the phone you passed on to your nephew got to? Google has an easy-to-use dashboard that lets you check up on all of the devices your account is associated with. Here’s how to find it and find your way around its various features.
The Original Black Hole For Interstellar Was Too Confusing
One of the many reasons why Interstellar was such a wonderful movie was that it used genuine scientific equations to show what happens in the vicinity of a black hole. But, just like the actors in front of the camera, it seems the black hole also got a little make up to make it more presentable for the big screen.
New Nintendo 3DS Review: A Terrible Name For A Worthy Successor
Portable gaming is Nintendo’s wheelhouse: it pioneered the category with the Game Boy, reinvented it with the Nintendo DS, and uses its current generation, the Nintendo 3DS, to help pay the bills in the wake of underwhelming Wii U sales. Starting today, you can buy the company’s latest gaming handheld: The New Nintendo 3DS. It’s better than it sounds.
Apple Really Is Working On A Car, Claims WSJ
The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple has hundreds of people working on a top-secret project: an electric minivan. The massive undertaking, codenamed “Titan”, is expected to last years, and it’s entirely possible that Apple will abandon it. But if it doesn’t, Steve Jobs’s iCar dream will finally come true.
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