Rusty Oliver, here in his workshop otherwise known as the Hazardfactory, created this sculpture he calls “the Singularity.” The voltage he’s pumping through those manifolds shape the flames to create a really beautiful EQ meter. Imagine this at concerts. [Wired] More » Gizmodo

Trade Ruling Favors Kodak in Dispute With Apple The United States International Trade Commission, in a preliminary ruling, rejected Apple’s digital-camera patent claims against the Eastman Kodak Company. Read more on New York Times Insipid story makes ‘Devadas’ a dull affair (Kannada Movie Review) First things first — though the film is titled “Devadas”, it [...]

It wasn’t long after the Boxee Box v1.1 update started to roll out that users with surround sound systems found a major issue with it: besides the removal of volume controls (confirmed to return as an optional setting in the next update), there was an undocumented change to the way it handled stereo PCM audio [...]

Our main complaint with the folding electric YikeBike — besides the not-quite-catchy name – was the $ 3,795 price tag. The company’s trying to ease the price pain with the Fusion, a new model that’ll cost you $ 1,995. The savings come from replacing the carbon fiber body with aluminum and composites, which does, unfortunately, [...]

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The Reversal (Enriched Edition) Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller is recruited to change stripes and prosecute the high-profile retrial of a brutal child murder. After 24 years in prison, convicted killer Jason Jessup has been exonerated by new DNA evidence. Haller is convinced Jessup is guilty, and he takes the case on the condition that [...]

The slightest whisper of warmth induces miscalculations in the world’s most precise atomic clock, researchers say. Accounting for this effect can make future clocks even more precise, eventually leading to atomic clocks that lose only one second every 32 billion years – about two and a half times the age of the universe itself. More » [...]

Don’t miss Well, she finally threw him out. Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies) moved her cheating husband into a new apartment. Back at work, Alicia and Kalinda (Archie Panjabi), who slept with her husband, must prove their client’s innocence in a murder trial, while the timing might finally be right for Alicia… Read more on New [...]

Samsung’s Galaxy S II superphone didn’t have many issues to begin with, and we’re hearing there’s one fewer annoying quirk today — Android Community reports that a new firmware update (available via Kies) addresses the overzealous auto-brightness setting that continually irked us during testing. The i9100XWKE2 revision also apparently increases the responsiveness of the Swype [...]

If unsolved Google puzzles keep you up at night, you now have one less reason to go sleepless: the Google I/O T-shirt enigma has been unraveled. The picture above contains a series of dots and dashes, which our friends at MobileCrunch recognized as Morse code. Using the line breaks as spaces (new characters), the code [...]