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Defendant Ordered to Decrypt Hard Drive Says She Forgot Her Password [Crime]

A Colorado woman who was ordered to unlock her computer for investigators is reportedly saying she can't remember her password. More »

Even After Shutting Down, LimeWire Can't Catch a Break [Piracy]

LimeWire has been kaput as a file-sharing service since October but that hasn't stopped its legal woes. Now, after settling with the RIAA to the tune of $105 million, the MPAA and a host of indie music labels have filed lawsuits against the company as well. Talk about beating a dead horse. More »

How To Electrify Your Brain To Be Smarter With a 9-Volt Battery [Science]

Transcranial direct current stimulation can make your brain work better. DARPA proved it can make you better at video games, the U.S. Air Force has shown it cuts drone remote-pilot training in half, and Harvard researchers have used it to treat depression. So what is this magical device that powerfully manipulates your brain function and where can you get one? More »

How to Hack Your Facebook Profile Photo with Timeline [Facebook]

We love Timeline for Facebook. Maybe you don't. Doesn't really matter since Facebook is forcing everyone to switch. So what to do? We say have some fun with it! Since Timeline adds a big, splashy picture to your profile page, you can easily hack that big picture with your original profile picture to give your Facebook page some character (and make all your friends Like you). Here's how. More »

What Is This? [Image Cache]

Is that a stained glass window dedicated to man's excess? Nope. A MoMA exhibit capturing our disposable lifestyles? Sorry. A corporate logo treatment for a recycling facility? Not exactly, but it is related to turning trash into something beautiful. More »

If This Music Video Doesn't Make You Happy and Hungry, You Are Dead Inside [Video]

This is not our usual Gizmodo Soundtrack song, but I loved it so much that I couldn't resist posting it as today's entry. Watch it. It will make you happy and hungry at the same time. More »

Lilyhammer Lightning Review: Netflix Series on Thin Ice [Video]

Netflix made its first foray into original content today with the streaming of Lilyhammer, an eight-episode series that follows a mobster's undercover adventures in Norway. Its trailer was promising! The actual show? Less so. More »

Russian Power Station Goes Haywire [Video]

You're driving south of St. Petersburg, listening to some John Lennon. The traffic is a little heavy. God, this song is so great—and now, let us pause for an enormous electrical explosion that dominates the entire horizon. More »

Redbox Nabs 35,000 More DVD Kiosks [Video]

You might think Redbox, after partnering up with Verizon this morning, is getting out of the disc business. Hardly! The kiosk king is actually beefing up its physical presence. More »

Designing Windows 8 or: How to Redesign a Religion [Video]

There are lot of hard jobs at Microsoft. Like the guy who collects Steve Ballmer's dry cleaning. But Sam Moreau just might have the hardest gig in Redmond. Or at least the most harrowing. Over the past five years, he's taken on the tiny task of redesigning the operating system used by like a billion people all over the world. You know, NBD. More »

Nooka: The Not-So-Intuitive, But-Still-Cool-Looking Clock [App Of The Day]

Clocks that tell time in fascinating new ways are everywhere. I saw a clock that lit up the quarter hour the other day. It was beautiful. The Nooka app based upon their watches falls into the beautiful timepiece category. It won't replace your regular clock, but it will make checking the time a more invigorating experience. More »

Brazil Is Suing Twitter for Tweeting DUI Checkpoints [Censorship]

Twitter has caught some flack in other countries for giving accounts free reign on what they can tweet. Twitter responded that it'll adjust its policy to include the ability to censor tweets if a country demands it to. We just might see Twitter's first high profile case sooner than later because Brazil just sued Twitter for allowing accounts to tweet where DUI checkpoints are. More »

Take a Look at China's New Attack Helicopter [Helicopters]

The Chinese continue to upgrade their military to new levels. This is their new attack helicopter, the Z-19, a two-seater painted in badass black that looks a lot like the Eurocopter Dauphin. More »

The Most Beautiful Way to Carry Essential Cash and Cards [Desired]

My wallet is a big leather repository for the millions of tiny pieces of paper I accumulate every day. I try to keep it clean, but somehow I'm still carrying years worth of membership cards, business cards, and even foreign currency. And until I saw this elegant little money clip, I never really thought I had an alternative. More »

The First Look at Mars' Ocean [Space]

We knew there was water in abundance on Mars, but we never saw its ocean. This is it, as uncovered by strong new evidence found over the course of two years by the MARSIS radar on board ESA's Mars Express. More »

Google Could Soon Help You See the World Like Iron Man [Google X]

Iron Man's HUD display is one of the cooler effects in sci-fi movies, and Google X is apparently pretty darn close to cramming similar tech in a pair of glasses you can buy in the real world. More »

How the Beauty of Symmetry Applies To Even the Super Bowl [Video]

Instead of breaking down how much force and energy is applied during a tackle, Minute Physics takes a look at the role of scientific symmetry in yesterday's big game. A nice departure from the typical scientific breakdowns of the sport. More »

Shure SRH-940 Headphones Lightning Review: Serious Bang for the Buck [Lightning Review]

Shure has been killing it for years with their line of professional in-ear monitors. In 2010, it turned its attention to full-sized headphones. Does the SRH-940, their latest and greatest closed-back model, earn its keep? More »

Even Knitting Needles Are Awesome in Space [Video]

Even the most mundane objects and experiences seem to become totally amazing up in space. Like, say, this knitting needle that's been charged with static electricity interacting with tiny droplets of water. Combine the electric charge with the velocity of the droplet, and the result is a gravity-like orbit of the water around the needle. More »

Gizmodo Is Hiring [Announcements]

The person we're looking for knows and gets technology, gadgets, design and the internet crazy amazingly well. They're smart, and snappy, like cybernetic whips. That's you, isn't it? Sure it is. More »

Scammers Use Impostor Apps to Flood the Android Marketplace With Malware [Android]

Android apps such as Jetpack Joyride, Madden NFL 12, Pinterest and Batman Arkham City Lockdown are rife with malware. But these aren't the official apps. No, they're merely impostor apps that have snuck past the security gates of the Android Market. More »

I Want These Rave Gloves So I Can Blow My Kid's Mind [Video]

Okay, my rave days are long, long over. But I still want some of these EmazingLights gloves that the dude in this video has (who is apparently and unfortunately named Skidz) because I'm sure they would blow my one-year-old's mind. More »

Fukushima Crisis Awakes After Reactor Heats Up Mysteriously [Video]

Just when you thought it was over, the temperature at reactor number 2 at Fukushima's nuclear plant has soared 26.7 degrees Celsius in the last few hours. Worse: they don't know why the temperature is increasing after being stabilized for so long. More »

Press-To-Open Keyring Just Blew My Mind (And Saved My Fingernails) [Genius]

I'm really sorry dress pant sweatpants, but there's only room in my heart for one amazing invention at a time, and you've just been replaced by these brilliant Free Key rings that open with a simple press. More »

This 8-bit Pixel Cube Construction Set Is Your Crate Deal of the Day [Dealzmodo]

The Super Bowl is a national extravaganzaculturafanfreakingtasia. You're forced to pay attention. Even if you don't pay attention, you know you're not paying attention so you still technically paid a little bit of attention (shout out to the people who really don't pay attention though). And if you don't like impossibly athletic giants who are paid a lot of money to hit each other like boulder sized chess pieces, that's totally fine with me. I'll just think you're un-American. It's the perfect game for us: watch a play, see a replay, hear analysis, peep Twitter, eat a wing, sip a beer and… next play. Repeat. Three hours later you've polished off a whole pizza, slathered your phone in buffalo sauce and passed out from all that beer. AMERICA. Mix it up next year by throwing in this 8-bit Pixel Cube Construction Set for $15 to play around with in between quarters. -CC More »

Firefighter Rescues Man from Stuck Elevator, Both Immediately Get Trapped in Another Elevator [Elevators]

Getting stuck in an elevator's rare, but you assume the experience would fall somewhere between the opening of Speed and a late-night Cinemax flick. A Chicago man turn it into Groundhog Day when, after being rescued from one elevator, he promptly got stuck in another on the way back down to safety. More »

A Watch That Helps You Stop Watching the Clock [Desired]

Days fly by no matter what, and if you're the type of stressed-out person who's always counting every second, sometimes a watch just makes you feel worse. Denis Guidone's "Sometimes" watch is intentionally disorienting, which might actually ameliorate your anxiety. More »

Purify Your Water With a Burnt Stick [Beautiful]

It uses the same principle as your Brita filter to purify water, but Black+Blum's Eau Good bottle does it with way more style using a stick of charcoal that's always visible through the bottle's lovely curves. More »

Anonymous May Have Completely Destroyed This Military Law Firm [Hackers]

Anonymous' gutting of Puckett & Faraj, the firm that defended the Marines behind the Haditha Killing, might have been more than a major embarrassment. The hack attack might have killed the group entirely. More »

Solve a Mystery, Become an Archer, and Win the GrandPrix [App Deals Of The Day]

How many Law & Order versions are there? It seems like there's a new one every week. They even have one for App Store. Law and Order: iOS, DUN DUN. Okay, so that's not really the name, but it should be. Sick of procedural crime dramas? We also have archery and F1 racing management games in today's app deals. More »

It Takes More Than a DSLR and Warm Clothes to Shoot the X-Games [Video]

Think about it this way: For every 1080 McTwist you ogle at the Winter X-Games, there are dozens of shooters scrambling to capture it in any way possible—and often that means gear. Lots of gear. More »

Your Deleted Facebook Photos Still Aren't Really Deleted [Facebook]

Three years ago, Ars Technica discovered that when you "deleted" your photos, they were still kept on Facebook's servers, and anyone with a static URL could still access it. Three years later, Ars Technica revisited the matter and found little has changed. But Facebook says that things will be different...eventually. More »

Iceland Is So Inbred It Needs a Website to Avoid Incest [Sex]

When your society has inhabited a small, remote island for countless generations and boasts a population of only 300,000, the odds of having sex with a relative are significant. Luckily, Icelanders now have a handy tool to avoid family-sex. More »

North Korea's New Killer Drone Is Made In the USA [Weapons]

That red thing flying next to the F-16 is an MQM-107D Streaker, a target drone that was developed in the 1970s for the USAF and the Army. The North Koreans have bought several of them from Syria, and they are now using them to build unmanned attack drones loaded with high explosives. More »