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The great tragedy of modernist American cuisine is that the Pizza Hut hot dog stuffed crust pizza isn’t available here. If you wanted one, you had to travel internationally—until now. Because Gizmodo loves you/wants to kill you, we brought this pizza to America where it belongs. More »
It comes in a plastic bottle. It tastes like pouring battery acid down your throat. It smells like a robot’s corpse. For around ten bucks—you can get a lot of it. More »
Talk show host Conan O’Brien posted a viral video and accompanied it with a blog post on Mashable declaring that he had bought out Pete Cashmore for $3500. The spoof did what it was supposed to do; it took a pair of popular social media and pop icons and combined them for some pre-April Fool’s Day fun.
Still, it would be nice to see O’Brien get more involved in tech. He should going deeper into a tech world that the real-life genius pretends he’s not a part of (despite having a degree from Harvard). He ends the video by saying “stay tuned”.
Click here to view the embedded video.
Another sighting of Google’s yearly April Fool’s Day jokes is live. If you search for “weather” you will have the standard forecast available, but you’ll have the new option of using the “Google Weather Control” interface to make changes if you’d like. You’ll see in the image above I set it to snow in Beverly Hills on Sunday.
Once you make your changes, Google prompts you with this warning: “Please notice, after submitting it takes approximately 45 minutes until your weather changes take effect. Note: exercise caution when setting extremes.”
For over a century, people have tried to cope with understanding Einstein’s special theory of relativity and his famous equation, E=MC2. There have been long videos and visualizations that attempted to dumb down both the process that Einstein used to come up with the theories and the way that our minds can wrap themselves around them.
Here, the good folks at Minute Physics did as their namesake implies: they explained it to us in a pair of 2-minute videos that (should) make it easier to comprehend.
First, let’s look at the special theory of relativity:
Click here to view the embedded video.
Now for the fun part – understanding E=MC2:
Click here to view the embedded video.
Adobe has released Flash Player 11.2 and has decided it’s high time the once-ubiquitous browser plug-in started earning the company a bit of money.
Starting Aug. 1, 2012, Adobe will begin taking a 9 percent cut of game developers’ net revenue over $50,000.
For most Flash developers that means the new revenue sharing plan will not have any effect, but for the very successful companies building Flash-based games using the new domain memory in combination with the Stage 3D hardware acceleration, the change may affect the bottom line.
Users of Flash Player 11 don’t need to pay anything.
There are two exceptions to Adobe’s new revenue-sharing model. The first way to avoid it is to crank out your app now, before that Aug. 1 deadline arrives. The second option is to switch over the developing for AIR, in which case there is no revenue sharing. That means that the new rules don’t apply to any AIR apps compiled to standalone apps for iOS or Android.
So what are you getting for your 9 percent fee? Access to what Adobe is calling Flash’s “premium” features category. The premium features all revolve around the hardware-accelerated Stage 3D graphics in Flash Player 11. The Stage 3D rendering in Flash 11 consists of a low level API that offers hardware-accelerated 2-D and 3-D graphics. Adobe claims that Stage 3D can deliver “console-quality games” in the browser.
Adobe says the new premium-tier features and the accompanying fees are aimed at “game developers interested in creating the most advanced, graphically sophisticated, next-generation games for the web.”
Of course developers may also note that Adobe’s announcement comes on the heels of an impressive HTML5 gaming demo from Mozilla, which might offer some game developers another possible way to avoid Adobe’s revenue sharing plan.
Photo: Only Sequel/Flickr
Yahoo has announced it will soon support the Do Not Track privacy header across its sprawling network of websites. Supporting Do Not Track means you will soon be able to easily tell Yahoo to stop tracking your movements around the web.
Behavioral advertising, as such tracking is known, is a common practice on the web. Advertisers use cookies to track your clicks, watching which sites you visit, what you buy and even, in the case of mobile browsers, where you go. Often the sites tracking you are not just the sites you’ve actually visited, but third-party sites running ads on those pages.
Much like the Do Not Call registry, the Do Not Track system offers a way to opt out of this third-party web tracking.
The Do Not Track header began life at Mozilla, but has since moved to the W3C where it was converted into a web standard by the Tracking Protection Working Group.
The Do Not Track header now works in every major desktop browser except Google Chrome, though none of them turn it on by default. Still, for privacy-concerned users savvy enough to enable Do Not Track, the header offers a quick and easy way to tell advertisers that you don’t want to be followed while you browse the web.
Numerous online advertising groups already respect the Do Not Track header and refrain from tracking users that enable it. Today’s announcement means that, starting this summer, you can add Yahoo to the list of companies that will stop tracking you if you’ve enabled Do Not Track in your web browser.
Of course, there are still many advertisers and websites that don’t yet support Do Not Track. If you’re concerned about your online privacy and don’t want to rely on the goodwill of advertisers, there are other, more aggressive steps you can take to limit how your tracked on the web. See our earlier post on browser add-ons that help stop web tracking for more details.
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