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Tech NewsFacebookResearcher Predicts Your Facebook Friends With Frightening Accuracy
Stanford University’s Jure Leskovec knows more about than you think. With the right tools and information, the computer scientist can predict the next person you will friend on Facebook. Leskovec picks this lucky person by compiling and analyzing all your online social activity. Tweets, retweets, friends and likes, he looks at them all. With about … Continued
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How Does Getting Shot In the Neck Sound?
This thing is “Neck Clamp and Impactor.” It involves sticking your head inside a neck brace with only a small impact-resistant nanoceramic plate to protect your throat from a rocket launcher. The project begs the question: Do you feel lucky? Created by Sitraka Rakotoniaina and Andrew Friend, it calls to mind how much of the … Continued
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How Cute: Patent Suggests Apple Wants to Play Matchmaker for You and Nearby Strangers
Imagine: You walk into a bar and instantly your iPhone tells you there are five people there who also like classic death metal and produce photography. Well Mac Rumors found an Apple patent that may do just that. The patent suggests that iPhones will eventually share a user’s personal data (everything from downloaded songs and … Continued
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Who Would’ve Thought That Ten Million Facebook Friendships Could Be So Beautiful?
Paul, an intern on Facebook’s data infrastructure engineering team, recently took a sample of about ten million pairs of friends from Facebook’s data warehouse and plotted out their relationships. The result? A stunningly beautiful—and accurate—map of the world. Click on the image for a closer look. Paul’s description of the process of creating this map … Continued
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Twitter Will Now Suggest People You Might Be Interested In Stalking
It can be tough to find fascinating people to follow on Twitter, but now and then you’ll find someone whose tweets perfectly match your interests and you’ll wish there were more people like that. Well, now Twitter will help you find those folks—if they exist: https://gizmodo.com/so-this-hipster-tech-douche-stalks-a-sexy-black-woman-o-5588293 Today we’re beginning to roll out a simple, but … Continued
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How To Comment: Link To Comments
Have you ever wanted to link to a specific comment on Gizmodo to share with beloved Friends? It’s much easier than you think, here’s how: https://gizmodo.com/how-to-comment-follow-your-friends-5187388 To generate a link to a specific comment all you have to do is click the Time & Date under the commenter’s username and the URL in your browser … Continued
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How to Comment: Commenter RSS
Last week Lifehacker showed you the elaborate process needed to receive Comment Reply Notifications, but this week we’ll take it a littler slower with Commenter RSS Feeds. Here’s How: https://lifehacker.com/set-up-comment-reply-notifications-for-this-site-5231206 If you’ve got that special commenter that you can’t get enough of, the first step in stalking them is setting up an RSS feed that … Continued
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How To Comment: Set Up Reply Notifications
Lifehacker has a great tutorial on how to Set Up Comment Reply Notifications, and if you missed their post a few days ago here it is again. https://lifehacker.com/set-up-comment-reply-notifications-for-this-site-5231206 The LH post explains: When you’re done with this little walkthrough, you can either grab an RSS feed that contains only replies to your comments (which you … Continued
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How to Comment: Friendly Messages
Remember a few weeks ago when we showed you how to make Friends on Gizmodo? Did you know you can leave your new friends messages? Here’s how: https://gizmodo.com/how-to-comment-follow-your-friends-5187388 After you’ve made a friend simply click their commenter name and you’ll be redirected to their profile page. Once you’re at a friend’s profile page click the … Continued
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How to Comment: Etiquette
Commenting on Gizmodo isn’t hard, essentially it should be fun and enlightening. Some of our commenters have trouble understanding that and instead they choose to be dumb. For the most part our commenters and their contributions to Giz are irreplaceable and add that extra level of insight. If you’re posting good comments this message isn’t … Continued
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Dealzmodo: 1’46” of Silence By John Cage, Free Today on iTunes!
I’d like to kiss whoever at Apple decided to do this: today’s free iTunes “discovery download” is the first movement of avant-garde composer John Cage‘s 4’33”, which is to say, it’s 1:46 of nothing. More performance art/zen seance than actual music, 4’33” is intended to emphasize those critical moments of nothingness in music by being … Continued
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How to Comment: Follow Your Friends
We don’t want you to feel like a loner so we’ve given commenters the ability to make friends, it’s extremely simple and for most of you it will be much easier than in real life. Sorry that last bit was a joke, I’m sure you have no problem making friends… To “Follow” or “Friend” another … Continued
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U-Tsu-Shi-O-Mi Lets You Reach Out and Touch a Virtual Friend
U-Tsu-Shi-O-Mi is a system that lets you both see and touch a virtual humanoid. Developed by Michihiko Shoji, it works by combining a head mounted display with a creepy green sensor-laden robot. As you interact with the bot, not only will it react accordingly, but you’ll be able to see the virtual buddy via the … Continued
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