TechSheep (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
John Herrman / Gizmodo: Giz Explains: Android, and How It Will Take Over the World — This week we met Motorola’s Droid, the first handset with Android 2.0. To an outsider, it just looks like another Google smartphone, but 2.0 is more than that: it’s proof that Android is finally going to take over the [...]
Love the Mac (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
[ Gizmodo Comments ] But Steve didn't want that kind of comeback. He thought that, if he proceeded with a takeover, people would think he was just greedy, wanting to make money out of the company.
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs (Free subscription) | yesterday
We read the blogs, so you don't have to. From the FSJ News Center: Firefox celebrates a milestone on Monday. EMI to offer on-the-spot concert recordings. The top iPhone apps of the week. Voilà, the Apple Store opens today in the City of Light. Amusez-vous bien, les Parisiens! Marissa . Sitting on a big..red..ball. ( Gizmodo ) Parisians welcome their first Apple Store , opening today at the Louvre...
whitespider1066.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
So how old do you think the spork is? In my regularly readings of the geek/tech/gadget scene (of which I have posted the odd ‘look at this story’ in the past on here) I came across the following story on Gizmodo “The Folding Titanium Spork Is the Ultimate Portable Eating Utensil”. When I read the [...] whitespider1066.com on Facebook
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | yesterday
Zune HD users should be able to download the latest firmware update now, and it's substantial enough to warrant grabbing ASAP. There's a speedier browser, predictive text entry (a la iPhone), and that's just the beginning. Updated: Update: The firmware upgrade went through just fine on my 32GB Zune HD, and I'm definitely seeing an improvement in the browser's speed. Before, it was mysteriously slow,...
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
This gorgeous building in France is more than just a pretty complex. The Cité du Design does one of the best jobs I've ever seen at concealing the solar panels that help power the structure. The building is made up of 14,000 equilateral triangles. Some are solar panels, some are windows, others just fill out the structure. The net result is a building that manages to mask the black behemoths...
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Enough with the back and forth already, Apple. If you're going to kill Atom support then just kill it. Don't toy with us, taking and giving like some sort of merciless god. The video above shows what happens if you try to boot the latest 10.6.2 developer build on a Hackintosh. As you can see, not much. So if you're running OS X on Atom hardware, hold off on any updates until this whole mess gets sorted...
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
We knew the the place and the price , just needed to know when the party starts. You can grab a pre-order for the $600 netbook ($300 with two-year contract) at Best Buy and pick it up November 15. [ Engadget ]
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Hank Risan was ordered to pull The Beatles' catalog from the BlueBeat website this week, but those weren't the actual recordings. The tracks were "psycho-acoustic simulations" of the songs. Too bad that defense will never hold up in court. Hank calls the technique equivalent to a virtual cover band playing The Beatles' songs. He bought all of their albums, had a computer analyze the waveforms...
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | yesterday
Objectified , Gary Hustwit's look at the world of industrial design , featured a lengthy section on Apple Chief Designer Jon Ive —and now that clip is online for impatient Apple fans to see. [ Brainstorm Tech ] The clip is pretty interesting, even if you're not normally enamored with Apple. Ive is the most prominent tech designer of the last two decades, and I like his philosophy on "getting...
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | yesterday
The ‘ Haptic Cow ' may have recently won Sarah Baillie the Most Innovative Teacher of the Year Award, but did she ever consider the real cow's feelings? Imagine the rush of emotions: Jealousy, relief, maybe even arousal. Miss Baillie's invention solves one of the biggest problems in veterinary medicine. That is, once your hand is up an cow's butt you can't really see anything you're doing. Now,...
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | yesterday
Apparently Microsoft's COFEE software that helps law enforcement grab data from password protected or encrypted sources is leaking all over the internet. So not only can you steal the software, but break the law by using it too. Yep, it's all out there on the internet, but if you use it to grab private data from someone else's computer chances are you're in for a world of legal hurt. It's one of the...
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | yesterday
A while ago I was considering putting low-powered 5400 RPM drives into a NAS. I was worried about performance, but Tom's Hardware shows us that drive speed isn't the bottleneck, and how slower drives can even beat faster ones. The main bottleneck in any NAS is the RAID engine. Since many NAS units don't include a dedicated controller, oftentimes the speed of the drive just doesn't matter. If you're...
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | yesterday
The latest round of iPhone rumors reads like a roundup of everything we've heard before . Now the mythical iPhone nano is back, and supposedly said device will be coming to Verizon in 2010 featuring a new hybrid cellular radio. Keep in mind this is all coming from an industry analyst report supplied to Apple Insider, and as with all analyst reports, take it with a huge chunk of rock salt. Rumor has...
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | yesterday
I love this 8-bit wedding invitation. Not only for the design, but because it not-so-subtly portrays marriage as a prolonged Street Fighter match. Don't get me wrong, I've got nothing against marriage. And if you've got a wife awesome enough to agree to an invitation like this, it'll probably be pretty smooth sailing from here on out. But let's face it, there'll be times where verbal Hadouken's are...
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