A new book collects rare images from the short-lived golden age of pictorial mapping. Map - making is n’t alwaysserious business . Between the twenties and the sixties , many U.S. artists embrace a form of mapmaking that swapped careful measurements and accurately rendered geography for a more whimsical mode of wayfinding : the pictural function . inspire in part by thesea - monster - filledmaps of knightly Europe , these coloured , bright mapping — often used for commercial-grade advertising — illustrate outsized renderings of iconic architecture , major industries , holidaymaker destinations , and folklore rather than simply street and topography ....

The artefact of history ’s peachy warfare are strewn everywhere around Europe , and few are more visible than the stiff of concrete World War II bunkers . Jonathan Andrewhas been photographing these web site since 2009 . Visiting various positioning in France , Belgium , and the Netherlands , Andrews sought out the fortification dot the beaches and countryside . Lighting the bunkers at Nox highlights the ominous mien of the structures , encouraging viewers to study the pitiful status of their former use ....

Bloomberg Businessweek has just droppedan incredibly up - close lookat controversial Taiwanese electronics supplierFoxconnand its founder , Terry Gou . It ’s the most thoroughgoing look to date at one of the most powerful — and intriguing — manufacturers in the humankind . What ’s most interesting about the eight - page spread , aside from the detail of Gou ’s own story and how intertwined it is with Foxconn itself , is the degree of accession Businessweek was allowed ....

Wereported earlierthat it looks like the new MacBook Pros have had their severe drive controller downgrade . Now , Apple has released a new firmware update to jack those speeds back up . https://gizmodo.com/did-apple-downgrade-the-hard-drive-controller-in-the-ne-5291042 It ’s squall theMacBook ProEFI Firmware Update 1.7 . Check it : MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.7 addresses an issue reported by a pocket-size number of customers using drives based on the SATA 3Gbps stipulation with the June 2009 MacBook Pro ....

Wiredreportsthat Andrew “ Weev ” Auernheimer , 26 , has been doom to 41 months in prison house for tap an AT&T security kettle of fish three years ago . Hisbid to stay out of prisonhas failed . Instead , he ’s kick the bucket to get 3.5 years in the clink . https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-at-t-hackers-last-bid-to-stay-out-of-prison-5990462 In court documentsfirst reported by Gizmodo last week , Weev ’s lawyers hear to contend that he should only get probation for exposing AT&T ’s faulty security ....

well morning , protagonist . It seems that the AT&T / Cingular bizarreness was n’t an stranded incident , as many people have written us over the weekend to say that they are experiencing the same connection exchange between the carrier we reported on Friday . It does n’t appear to affect service of process , in general ( in fact , a duad of people mentioned that their avail had improved ) , so I suppose we ’ll call it a non - issue for now ( as long as no one gets a cross - connection roaming bang on their bill ) ....

Hi , Brian here . I just discover 3 non - gadget things I like enough to cast away your way . •First off , Joel Johnson , Giz Graduate , has a great postal service over at Dethronerasking whether or not safe pyrotechnic battles are possible . •Then , someone just transport me this baby on control panel house , with thebaby sequester to it . •Lastly , have you guy cable see that crazy battle betweencrocodiles , lions , and buffalo ?...

Superman return ! Again . Twice over , actually . Deadlineis reporting that both Tyler Hoechlin ’s CW Superman and Brandon Routh — currently fiddle thedelightful Ray Palmer , a.k.a . The Atom , on caption of Tomorrow — will suit up as the Man of Steel for this fall ’s climactic Arrowverse crossover , Crisis on Infinite Earths , a take on theseminal DC Comicssuper event that shaped the DC multiverse as we bonk it ....

Today I’mthankful for many thing , include whoever arrested Shannon Jackson for poke someone over Facebook . It may have been over a protective cover rules of order violation , but I ’ll be damned if I have n’t stargaze of doing worse to Facebook pokers . https://gizmodo.com/a-brief-history-of-williard-boyle-and-george-smith-ccd-5379772 Shannon Jackson wasn’tstupid enough to leave to leave of Facebook while committing robbery , but she is facing “ up to a year in prison house and fine of $ 2,500 ” over her illegal Facebook poke ....

That ’s not an actual quote of course of instruction , but the scene here look so excogitate that it seems plausible . The scary thing is that the Cybersquad is protecting our data with old dell , Windows XP and “ intimidating ” intercellular substance screensavers . Plus , that 37 - in Westinghouse sitting right on top of the keyboard is a good indicator that the Feds have highly poor eyesight — so who knows what kind of mistakes are being made ....

Google ’s Arts & Culture team start join forces with the museum on taking its solicitation digital back in 2016 , Program Manager Chance Coughenour publish in aGoogle blogon Thursday . That catalogue is now available online for users globally to revisit some of the rich cultural heritage that was house in the museum ’s massive collection . The flak that tore through the museum originally this year devastated 200 years of treasured items ....

you could tell a lot about a science fiction Word from its first conviction . A truly not bad first sentence plant a tone , sticks in your creative thinker , and serves as a little otherworldly koan , discombobulate your first moment . And maybe gross out your shit a little . Here are our favorite science fiction hatchway sentence of all time . Having looked through a few thousand opening move sentences at the bookstore and on-line – no exaggeration – I can generalize a bit ....

This seems like a normal , if muzzy photograph of an object — a regular old cat stencil . The catch is , however , that the photons that strike the photographic camera lense could n’t and did n’t interact with the stencil in any way . So why can you see it ? In Vienna , a team of scientist led by Gabriela Barreto Lemos spent a good long time multiplying photons ....