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Holy Garage, Batman! This San Francisco House Hides a Secret Batcave

I hadn't realized the parking situation was so desperate in San Francisco that someone was forced to install a secret garage in their ground floor! To please the city council, the architects retained the Upper Haight house's facade, which you can see actually revolves and folds in the video here, allowing four cars to enter and exit. More »

The Proper Way to Talk with an Internet Helpbot

The self service world is a beautiful thing. Self-checkout lines. Vending machines. Amazon. Long gone are the days of being afraid to buy, say, a carton of whipped cream chargers, an oversized balloon and the newest Glee Soundtrack, because some dowdy employee's gonna give you the stinkeye. More »

How City Hall Nearly Burned Down the Bronx

Firefighting is more than fancy hats and ladder trucks - there's both a science and an art to it. Joe Flood's The Fires shows how New York's Bravest take out a blaze from the top down. More »

Inside the Geeky Serial Killer's Head

A serial killer's offing prostitutes on Long Island. Police know he's smart. Very smart. Smart enough to beat them at their own sophisticated game. But what else do they know? An increasing amount about the inside of his head. More »

The Man Who Successfully Challenged Five Speeding Tickets Using Traffic Photo Timestamps

Will Foreman keeps getting nabbed by traffic cameras for speeding. Believing the cameras to be inaccurate, he analyzed the timestamps and the position of his car in each pair of photos, using them to successfully contest five speeding tickets. More »

Unlocking the Mystery of Paris' Most Secret Underground Society

The sun was shining on the Trocadéro, the Eiffel Tower gleamed across the Seine, and deep belowground, police came across a sign. The officers were on a training mission, exploring the 4.3 miles of catacombs that twist beneath the 16th arrondissement. More »

The Terror of LinkedIn

Happy Passover. I have a question: If I smear lamb's blood on my router, will I stop getting "invitations to connect on LinkedIn?" Because I freaking hate them. It's not that I hate LinkedIn-just the emails. More to the point: I hate that I hate the emails, which I think leverage a culture of fear to draw attention to the site. More »

GIZMODO at 2011 Smart Home Opens This Friday!

Gizmodo and the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago (MSI) have teamed up to bring you something amazing - the 2011 Smart Home: Green + Wired exhibit, opening this Friday, April 22, 2011! More »

This Stripper Broke Into Google Headquarters

Strippers are people too! And just like people, some of them are batshit crazy. Take Vera Svechina, a stripper who recently followed a blind Google employee into Google headquarters to leave a Russian book and "non-threatening" note for co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. More »

An Apple HDTV Might Be Ready for the World, But Is the World Ready for an Apple HDTV?

An actual Apple television. More than a few people believe it's on the way. And more than just offering hardware without good content deals in place (BOXEE, GOOGLE...I'M LOOKING AT YOU), it's rumored that such a device would either run iOS apps, play host to a revamped iTunes video subscription service, or both. More »

If You're Not On Facebook, It's Time To Get Over Yourself

Oh, yeah, I'm not on Facebook. Like, it's so invasive. If you've said anything like this, I feel bad for you. More »

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Gillard sees tsunami devastation first hand The Prime Minister Julia Gillard is visiting a coastal town in northern Japan devastated by last month's earthquake and tsunami. Kiesha's parents monitored before arrest The seven-month investigation by police into the disappearance of missing Sydney girl Kiesha Abrahams included electronic surveillance of her mother and stepfather. Opposition calls for force to end Villawood protest The Federal Opposition says the police should immediately force the remaining protesters at the Villawood detention centre down from the roof. Libyan army to withdraw from Misrata NATO air strikes may force Libya to halt fighting by its army in the besieged port of Misrata and let local tribes take over the battle, the government said, in what could amount to an important shift in the battlefield city. Professor says UN pesticide ban a mistake A Sydney University professor says science does not back a proposed worldwide ban on a controversial pesticide.
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Values of this Easter season go far beyond any faith Passover and Easter are upon us. I grew up knowing little about Passover. When my great-grandfather was still alive, my largely secular Jewish family celebrated it in a "two-four-six-eight-dig-in-don't-wait" manner. When he died, we barely marked it at all. I didn't know much about Easter either, other than that it involved my best friend getting seriously frocked up for her weekly foray to Church. Christ's perfect storm delivers the fresh wind of God What might happen if each of us were to approach Good Friday praying humbly for the powerful fresh wind of God to blow? The radical love of the Cross One may not readily accept this Easter narrative (it is hard even for Christians!), but we should recognise the power of what is being claimed. 100 things better than watching the crucifixion I imagined myself going back in time and came up with a list of 100 events in history I would much rather have been at than the crucifixion. Walter Slurry's bumper Easter quiz
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Measles on the rise in Europe The World Health Organisation is concerned about a surge in the cases of measles in Europe this year. Gillard sees tsunami devastation first hand The Prime Minister Julia Gillard is visiting a coastal town in northern Japan devastated by last month's earthquake and tsunami. Libyan army to withdraw from Misrata NATO air strikes may force Libya to halt fighting by its army in the besieged port of Misrata and let local tribes take over the battle, the government said, in what could amount to an important shift in the battlefield city.
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Sex in space? No way, says Russia Russian or Soviet cosmonauts never had sex in space in the 50 years of human exploration of the cosmos. iPhone or iTrack: Apple under scrutiny British security researchers say the popular iPhones and iPads made by Apple are tracking the movements of their users and keeping a record of everywhere they have been. Surveillance needed to track hospital superbug A microbiologist who is trying to combat a deadly new superbug says it will not be possible to know how far it has spread without better surveillance in hospitals and nursing homes.
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Hitchhiking cane toads call Sydney home Solid evidence has been found of a breeding colony of cane toads, one of Australia's worst invasive species, in Sydney. Gillard, Japanese PM pledge nuclear cooperation The prime ministers of Australia and Japan have agreed to work together to help promote safer nuclear power generation. Scientists want end to PNG land leases A large group of scientists is calling on the Papua New Guinea government to stop granting controversial leases that already cover 10 per cent of the country.
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Food denied to rooftop protesters: witnesses As a protest enters its fourth day at Sydney's Villawood detention centre, police are reportedly no longer allowing food to be thrown to the four asylum seekers still on a roof at the facility. Hundreds hold vigil for murdered Kiesha Hundreds have gathered at a candlelight vigil in Sydney's west to remember missing girl Kiesha Abrahams on what would have been her seventh birthday. Dozens more Syrian protesters reported dead Unconfirmed reports from Syria say dozens of people have been killed as security forces tried to quell the latest outbreak of pro-democracy demonstrations. Camper shot in head with potato gun A man has been shot in the head with a handmade gun in the central west of New South Wales. Gillard visiting flattened Japanese town Prime Minister Julia Gillard is today visiting a Japanese town that was reduced to rubble in the earthquake and tsunami six weeks ago.
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Values of this Easter season go far beyond any faith Passover and Easter are upon us. I grew up knowing little about Passover. When my great-grandfather was still alive, my largely secular Jewish family celebrated it in a "two-four-six-eight-dig-in-don't-wait" manner. When he died, we barely marked it at all. I didn't know much about Easter either, other than that it involved my best friend getting seriously frocked up for her weekly foray to Church. Christ's perfect storm delivers the fresh wind of God What might happen if each of us were to approach Good Friday praying humbly for the powerful fresh wind of God to blow? The radical love of the Cross One may not readily accept this Easter narrative (it is hard even for Christians!), but we should recognise the power of what is being claimed. 100 things better than watching the crucifixion I imagined myself going back in time and came up with a list of 100 events in history I would much rather have been at than the crucifixion. Walter Slurry's bumper Easter quiz
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Gillard visiting flattened Japanese town Prime Minister Julia Gillard is today visiting a Japanese town that was reduced to rubble in the earthquake and tsunami six weeks ago. McCain visits Libya to support rebels John McCain has called for increased military support for the rebels as they try to oust Libyan strongman Moamar Gaddafi. Dozens more Syrian protesters reported dead Unconfirmed reports from Syria say dozens of people have been killed as security forces tried to quell the latest outbreak of pro-democracy demonstrations.
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Sex in space? No way, says Russia Russian or Soviet cosmonauts never had sex in space in the 50 years of human exploration of the cosmos. iPhone or iTrack: Apple under scrutiny British security researchers say the popular iPhones and iPads made by Apple are tracking the movements of their users and keeping a record of everywhere they have been. Surveillance needed to track hospital superbug A microbiologist who is trying to combat a deadly new superbug says it will not be possible to know how far it has spread without better surveillance in hospitals and nursing homes.
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Gillard, Japanese PM pledge nuclear cooperation The prime ministers of Australia and Japan have agreed to work together to help promote safer nuclear power generation. Scientists want end to PNG land leases A large group of scientists is calling on the Papua New Guinea government to stop granting controversial leases that already cover 10 per cent of the country. Japan gets tough on people found in nuclear zone The Japanese government is strengthening the exclusion zone around the Fukushima nuclear plant.
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Do Apple, Google and Microsoft Know Your Every Step? A Handy Chart

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Do Apple, Google and Microsoft Know Your Every Step? A Handy Chart

A fun side-effect of the iOS secret-tracking fiasco is that a lot of other different types of location data and transmissions to and from your smartphone are being conflated into a huge pile of fevered paranoia. But! Don't freak out.

Do Apple, Google and Microsoft Know Your Every Step? A Handy Chart To simplify all this (hopefully), here's a chart that lays out what's happening on three of the major platforms. (Click to embiggen.) Notice that what they do in terms of transmitting location data back to the mothership is pretty much the same across the board, differing only slightly in methodology.

The reason your phone beams a bundle of location data back home every so often is so that when your phone asks where it's at—like when you're using an app—it can be located pretty quickly using the database of known cell towers and Wi-Fi hotspots (crowdsourced by you and your phone). No bigs. Apple and Google, further, collect anonymous data about traffic conditions when you're using GPS. Microsoft hasn't confirmed for us how it gathers traffic data, but we'd bet it's the same way. Also, NBD.

Every so often, if—and only if—you've turned on location services, your phone will hit up homebase with the package of information it's collected about cell towers and Wi-Fi hotspots it's passed by. That data is anonymized, though everybody does assign a unique ID to the data. Microsoft explains it's so they can "can tell difference between one person going back to a location 15 times or 15 people going to a location once." This all happens in the background. And again, if you turn off location services, you opt out of all of this.

The difference between all of the platforms comes down to how they store data locally. Microsoft says Windows Phone only locally caches the single most recent location entry. Android apparently stores the 200 most recent Wi-Fi hotspots and 50 most recent cell towers it's seen.

As it stands, iOS maintains a persistent record tracking your location—based on cell towers—in a database that's on your phone and on your computer, going back to whenever you installed iOS4, in a way that's fairly easily accessed if someone gains physical control of your phone or machine. There's no way to opt out. It may be a bug or "oversight." The best you can do right now, if you're concerned about it, is to encrypt your iPhone backups. And that's way, way different from what anybody else is doing with location data and services. There's no opting out, there's no knowledge, there's just creepiness.

All in all, though, the next time you wonder how much your phone or the company that made it knows about where you've been, don't freak out. Not too much, anyway.

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