Gizmodo is most definitely NOT the only one hating. The new flyover is a joke compared to street view, lack of mass transit directions is a big issue in large cities, and the new turn by turn, while an excellent upgrade, is unavailable for literally half the worlds population, over 3 billion people.

Firstly, it's not free. You are paying a huge amount for a smartphone, which in today's world includes an assumption of certain mapping capabilities, and those mapping capabilities are WORSE than they were before for the sole benefit of Apple. There is no reason they had to get worse except so that apple could make…

It's also entirely worth checking out his new "what if" page.

Randall Munroe is probably my favorite artist. Of any kind. In any medium. He is also probably one of the most profound people I know of. And he manages to convey all of this through usually just stick figures.

As long as you are allowed to select which of the two is the backspace, it seems like a good idea to me. Even if the 90% figure is an overestimate, probably even more than that only use thumb.

yeah, google voice is the big one. A lot of my friends now only have my google voice number, and if I can't send/recieve texts and calls from them easily, it's a bit of a dealbreaker.

Until I can get content on my phone with a custom ROM, I am uninterested.

I probably would trust electronic voting booths if for no other reason than that the error rate is probably lower than in human/paper voting systems. We already know that those can mess up, and do. That's why we do recounts.

It's also worth noting that using these techniques, they aged some of the whales to over 200 years. Now, the standard error on those estimates was enough that they couldn't be sure the whales were that old (error of 35 years on an estimate of 211) but still, even at 186, that's pretty cool.

Aspartic acid. The process of changing chirality is called racemization. The article with bowhead whales is found here: http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/z99-015

Causality only gets messed with when you are traveling faster than light. This wouldn't technically be traveling faster than light, so no, no causality violations. It's effectively traveling faster than light, in that it takes less than a year to travel a light years distance, but it accomplishes this by messing with…

Oh ho!

Donate is not the same as sell

Atoms in already formed proteins won't replace. Some cells might get rid of some proteins and replace them, but those proteins used for ageing I was talking about don't replace. If they did, they couldn't get used, since the cell only makes them one way, they just gradually change their chirality. And they have been…

I'm pretty sure the cell one is actually wrong. Its based on a statistical calculation based on average cell replacement, but there are some tissues in which the cells essentially never replace each other, for example, cells in your eye. That's how they managed to age whales. Some proteins change their chirality at a…

I always assumed that sensitive teeth had to do with the nerves and not the enamel, so wouldn't a thin coating like this over the outside of your teeth not really help?

Well even ammonia isn't unsafe in the quantities being used since the body has a mechanism for getting rid of it, so it still doesn't matter.

It seems like you are positing a future in which EVERY animal species is uplifted to human level intelligence. That is not being suggested nor is it even possible. Most animals, no matter what you do to them, can't reach human intelligence. This article is about giving the few species that are already very close the…

Edible might be better in the sense that this stuff doesn't have any particular health benefits, so isn't more or less healthy than anything else. But (while I certainly don't know this for sure) I wouldn't be surprised if you could eat just this stuff as your daily protein intake, and as long as the serving sizes…

If all they really did was report what was going on you are right. I didn't watch their coverage so I don't know, but if they additionally portrayed id as unsafe, then they very well could have to pay up. Or maybe even if they portrayed it as gross, even though that's a matter of opinion.