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Friday, December 18, 2015

Gizmodo Australia

ENTERTAINMENT

Gizmodo Movie Night: The Best Time Travel Movies

It’s almost the weekend, and that means you should book in another Gizmodo movie night. This week, there’s no fate but what we make — these are the best time travel movies streaming online right now.
ENTERTAINMENT REVIEWS

Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Gizmodo Review

We’re home. Those are the words of Han Solo, early into the 136-minute run-time of The Force Awakens.
Those two words line up precisely with how we, as fans, feel about the long-awaited return of one of cinema’s most-loved science fiction franchises, with a huge new story arc, new characters, and a more fleshed-out world. Now it’s here, and we’ve seen it, and we have some feelings to share with you.
BEWARE: There are major spoilers inside!
MOBILE

Speed Up Smartphone Typing With Keyboard Shortcuts On Android And iOS

If there are words and phrases you type out over and over again on your phone — from your email address to “I’ll be five minutes late” — then both Android and iOS include built-in tools to help you communicate faster. Here’s how to get the shortcuts set up and burn through emails and texts messages on your smartphone.
MOBILE

Windows 10 Mobile Upgrade For Lumia Handsets Delayed To Early 2016

If you were hoping to upgrade your Lumia handset to Windows 10 Mobile this month as promised, hard luck. Microsoft has admitted that the OS update won’t be ready until early 2016.
SCIENCE & HEALTH

SpaceX Will Soon Launch Its Most Powerful Rocket Yet

Six months after a rocket exploded in June, SpaceX is on the verge of taking to the sky again — with a souped up Falcon 9 booster more powerful than anything the commercial spaceflight company has ever launched.
ONLINE

Donald Trump Doubles Down On His Plan To Shut Down The Internet 

Tuesday’s GOP presidential debate in Vegas quickly devolved into an argument over whether the next president should close down parts of the internet, with burnt-sienna insult balloon Donald Trump insisting again that, yep, why not, he’d close down parts of the internet.
MOBILE

Design Your Own Android Wear Watch Face, No Coding Required

With Android Wear smartwatches now looking the part and gainingnew features on a regular basis, it’s a good time to hop aboard the Google-powered smartwatch bandwagon. There are plenty of professionally made watch faces to choose from, but you can just build your own using the apps listed below — zero coding experience required.
ONLINE

Firefox Finally Goes 64-Bit On Windows

Weirdly, there’s never been a 64-bit version of Firefox until now. But if you’re running Windows 7 or later, you can now explore the internet with the browser while using twice its current 32 bits.
SOFTWARE & DESIGN

How To Prioritise (and Delete) Wifi Networks In OS X

OS X lets you take command of all the wifi networks your laptop has logged in its memory, so your machine won’t try and connect to the next-door coffee shop before your home network. Here’s how to trim down the list and make sure you’re connecting to the right networks first.
ENTERTAINMENT

Destroy Stay Puft Like A Ghostbuster With This Marshmallow-Scented Candle

What good is a perfect Ghostbusters replica costume without a ghost or other monster to bust? If you really want to run around pretending to be Egon or Ray, you need this £19.99 ($41) Stay Puft Marshmallow Man candle to add a whole other level of authenticity to your cosplay.
ENTERTAINMENT

Sonos Works With Apple Music At Long Last

Just as promised, Sonos has finally joined the list of apps that play nice with Apple Music — provided you’re willing to risk the beta version, that is.
ENTERTAINMENT

House Of Cards Season 4 Gets A Release Date And A Fantastic Campaign Website

Video: This week Netflix released this ad for House of Cards’s next season. Netflix isn’t a giant tease, either — we’ve got a release date, and a campaign website to tide us over for the next few months.
SCIENCE & HEALTH

This Sandbox Isn't For Kids, It's For Spacesuit Research

Image Cache: People that get to do the same thing for a living as they did when they were a child are lucky. The ones that get to do it while wearing a space suit, too? They just make me jealous.

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ENTERTAINMENT

Watching Goats Get Airlifted Is The Best Way To End Your Day

Airlifting wild animals is a time-honored tradition in the state of Idaho, where beavers were parachuting around in wooden boxes long before I was born. Nowadays, it’s mountain goats, which are possibly even worse suited for air travel.
ENTERTAINMENT

Woman In Wingsuit Flies Through A Gap Between Two Buildings

Video: Here’s a fun video of Roberta Mancino flying in a wing suit as she splits two buildings in Panama City, Panama. It’s cool to see her quickly adjust her flight path to avoid one of the buildings and to see her reaction as she does it too.
GAMING

Old-School Video Game Maker Coleco Is Making A New Cartridge-Based Console

If you were a gamer in the early ’80s, you’ve no doubt played ColecoVision — the short-lived console that brought arcade games to your living room. Well, get ready for a nostalgia hurricane, because Coleco is back on the scene with a new home console — and it will play actual game cartridges.
SOFTWARE & DESIGN

Relive The 80s With This Amiga Emulator For Chrome

A nostalgic Google researcher recently flexed his C coding skills and built a fully functional Commodore Amiga 500 emulator for Chrome. You can try the realistic software here. It’s good, geeky fun.
GADGETS

Watch A Drone Paint Gigantic Long Exposure Portraits In The Sky

Long exposure photos can turn a flashlight in your hand into a brush that paints with light. Taking that idea one step further, the folks atAscending Technologies strapped a colour-changing light to a computer-controlled drone to create a series of massive holiday light paintings in the sky.
SCIENCE & HEALTH

These Fish Went From Saltwater To Freshwater In Just Fifty Years

Threespine sticklebacks hatch in fresh water pools near streams. When they mature, they need to make their way back to the ocean to live. So if their way to the ocean is cut off, they’re screwed. Or are they?
SCIENCE & HEALTH

These Images Are Only A Few Millionths Of An Inch Wide

A new printing method lets us make images smaller than we’ve ever before managed — much smaller than the width of the average human hair. What’s more, these images are in colour.
ENTERTAINMENT

Selected Star Wars Toys Of Mine, Ranked

I saw Star Wars in the movie theatre in 1977, the summer before I turned six. Then I saw it again, and again, and again. Pace Joseph Campbell, the mythology of my childhood was structured around the movie, rather than vice versa. So my parents’ attic ended up with a lot of Star Wars toys in it.
SCIENCE & HEALTH

Scientists Can Now Make Fake Sperm Swim 

What you’re seeing in this video is obviously a sperm cell, except it was made in a lab, not a testicle. It’s designed to show how passive elastic swimming can mimic, fairly well, the motions that allow sperm (or fish) to swim.
SOFTWARE & DESIGN

How To Make Your Office Apps Touchscreen Friendly

If you’re using the Office 2013/2016 desktop apps as your productivity tools of choice, then there’s a little trick you can use to make them easier to operate on touchscreens. If you’re using these applications on a touchscreen monitor or a Windows 10 tablet (likeone of the Surfaces), it can improve your efficiency a notch or two.
ENTERTAINMENT

Gizmodo Movie Night: The Best Time Travel Movies

It’s almost the weekend, and that means you should book in another Gizmodo movie night. This week, there’s no fate but what we make — these are the best time travel movies streaming online right now.
SCIENCE & HEALTH

King Tut's Mask Is Back On Display Following That Botched Repair Attempt

King Tut’s iconic burial mask was damaged in 2014 during a failed attempt to reattach the mask’s beard with glue. Now, after a $US110,000 ($154,690) restoration, the iconic relic has been put back on display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
SCIENCE & HEALTH

Don't Get Too Excited Yet About The LHC's Hint Of A New Particle 

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