Bill Gates is on another charitable streak through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with a $100,000 investment to find a way to fight childhood malaria with chocolate and gum.
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Bill Gates Seeks To Cure Malaria With Candy [Charity]
Volunteers Wanted For 520-Day Pretend Trip To Mars [Space]
The European Space Agency is looking for volunteers to spend 520 days isolated a Moscow facility where they’d simulate traveling to, living on, and coming back from Mars. Not bad, except the pretend travel lasts 250 days each way.
Gizmodo Looking For Star Junior Tech Writer In NYC [Jobs]
Hey guy/gal reading Gizmodo instead of working: We’re hiring a tech writer in NYC. You need some experience, but more importantly you should be able to write like mad and know and love/hate/understand technology. I’m posting again because…
Video: Watch Sony’s 360 Degree 3D Display in Action [Sony]
The prototype is now on show in Tokyo, and as you’ll see in the video, the 96 by 128-pixel resolution looks better than you might expect. In person, objects appear to have depth, and can be viewed from all angles.
Ten Really Dumb Old Inventions and Their Modern Counterparts [Wrongmodo]
Hookay. So, you think that this M3 sub-machine gun—with a shoot-first-and-ask-later curved barrel—is a really stupid, really dumb invention, right? I don’t blame you. But, trust me, you don’t know what really stupid, really dumb inventions are. Yet.






