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Apple

iPhone 2.1 and iTunes 8 Available Next Tuesday, Says Ars

Ars Technica is now backtracking from its initial prediction that iTunes 8 won't be a hit in Apple's Let's Rock September 9 event. Not only iTunes 8 will be available then, but they say Apple will also release the iPhone 2.1 update that in theory will fix its huge password security flaw. Jacqui hints that the 2.1 update will have new secret features that are absent from the beta. Repeat with me: COPY PASTE COPY PASTE COPY PASTE. And fix the bloody thing. [Ars Technica]

11:25 AM on Sun Sep 7 2008
By Jesus Diaz
1,161 views, 12 comments

Latest by boi_PT: SIM UNLOCK - SIM UNLOCK - SIM UNLOCK - SIM UNLOCK if not, im glad with copy paste and 3g fix... more »

Big Brother

Google Military-Controlled Satellite Reaches Orbit, We Don't Feel Lucky

According to the company, the GeoEye-1 satellite is the highest resolution commercial satellite orbiting the planet right now. It reached orbit yesterday, but in reality, it's not an ordinary commercial satellite: it's fully controlled by the Department of Defense's U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. And two guys named Larry and Sergei. More »

11:00 AM on Sun Sep 7 2008
By Jesus Diaz
3,320 views, 18 comments

Latest by Mandatory_Field: Check out the Cory Doctorow story "Scroogled", here: [www.radaronline.com] Since "doing no evil" is merely a matter of perception -- more »

Pew Pew

Move Over Star Wars, Tomorrow's Tactical Lasers Will Be More Napalm Than Pew Pew

We've been kind of laser crazy here at Gizmodo lately, and with good reason: Deployable solid state lasers could be landing in military hands as early as 2009. We simply wish to be at the forefront of the pew pew revolution, with the hope that any burning sensation our writers feel in the near future is the result of an unforgettable night out, not a disgruntled weapons grade laser system operator. But that last little diatribe brings up a good point, specifically in regards to what, exactly, laser warfare is going to look like. Sci-fi tends to glamorize laser weapons (pew pew, you're dead), when in reality the experts say getting "shot" with will probably feel more like napalm (*sizzle sizzle*, protracted death). More »

10:30 AM on Sun Sep 7 2008
By Jack Loftus
1,648 views, 13 comments

Latest by cowpop: Why does most of our technology go for war and destruction? Isn't it sad that still we must use this more »

Halloween

Halloween Bubble Fogger Delivers Targeted Strikes of Fog-Filled Bubbles to Your Eyes

Halloween fog machines? Been there, inhaled that. Bubble machines? Still pretty cool, soap in the eye or not. But what if humanity had created a machine that combined the venerable fog machine with bubbles? Interest piqued? Consider it done! More »

10:00 AM on Sun Sep 7 2008
By Jack Loftus
2,127 views, 9 comments

Dealzmodo Schealzmodo

Amazon Retires $38.45 52-Inch Aquos, Puts Orders on Hold

Error or scam, Amazon has pulled the page with the 52-inch $38.45 Sharp Aquos, probably overwhelmed by the orders from crazy Giz readers dreaming about a glorious, gigantic HDTV in their living rooms and/or toilets. Reader Max called Amazon to check on his order and they told him there was something weird going on: More »

8:22 AM on Sun Sep 7 2008
By Jesus Diaz
11,068 views, 40 comments

Latest by rattmobbins: Hmmm, my order still looks like it's an actual order, not "on hold" according to the order status page. more »

Minifig Contest Reminder

Army of Transvestites Celebrate Lego Minifig Anniversary

It looks like something went really wrong at the Lego factory because, when Jenny at The Bloggess opened her 30th Anniversary minifig celebration pack, she got a whole bunch of transvestite minifigs. "I think Eddie Izzard in drag is 10 times hotter than Brad Pitt covered in nougat, but this is just bizarre," Jenny says. And I agree. Seeing all those moustaches and cleavages up close is kind of disturbing: More »

11:27 PM on Sat Sep 6 2008
By Jesus Diaz
9,290 views, 15 comments

Latest by OMG! Ponies!: No more contests for me. At least not for another 4 days. more »

Dealzmodo of the century?

52-Inch Sharp Aquos HDTV for $38.45 (Or Not Really)

Right now, one of the stores at Amazon.com—myOfficeSource—is selling a 52-inch Sharp Aquos 1080P HDTV for $38.45 (thirty-eight dollars and forty-five cents). That's $2,261.54 off its list price. New, not refurbished. Obviously, something wrong—or fishy—must be happening because, right now, you can buy a bunch of products with this discount. Giz reader Cliff, who gave us the heads up, actually bought the 52-inch Aquos and got a confirmation email from Amazon in which they say his order will arrive in mid-september. Update: One reader noticed bad comments about this seller in Amazon's feedback page, so proceed with caution because this may be a scam. More »

10:12 PM on Sat Sep 6 2008
By Jesus Diaz
76,957 views, 462 comments

Latest by sendjunkmail: Potentially Amazon will take the hit for this. They certainly will gain some advertising for this if the deal goes more »

Airplanes

Eclipse 400 Personal Airplane Is True Sports Skycar

The Eclipse 400 looks is one of those airplanes that you can only imagine in movies or comicbooks. But this is not the Avenger's Quinjet, it is very real, as the video shows. Right now it's being perfected and will be delivered to Tony Starks wannabes in just three years. Its four-seat interior looks more like an expensive sports car than a plane, and it has me saying "want": More »

9:30 PM on Sat Sep 6 2008
By Jesus Diaz
13,369 views, 35 comments

Latest by joelja: Eclipse Aviation is in something of a shambles at the moment. I'm not sure I'd put a deposite down until more »

Humor

Google Chrome Fatal Flaw Discovered, Will Destroy Lives, Dignities

Blog Vital Security has discovered a fatal flaw in Google's Chrome, which may dramatically affect the lives of the tens of thousands of people who are running the browser right now: More »

8:12 PM on Sat Sep 6 2008
By Jesus Diaz
46,783 views, 94 comments

Latest by Mandatory_Field: All defaults should be sure, in any product btw. Why OpenBSD is more secure than pretty much any other OS more »

Apple

First Photo of Apple Let's Rock Event

It's happening. The Let's Rock Apple event has started to roll. Here's the first photo outside the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, California. [iPhone Savior]

7:34 PM on Sat Sep 6 2008
By Jesus Diaz
9,382 views, 24 comments

Space

Hubble Repair Mission More Risky than You Would Ever Imagine

If you think that the final mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope is going to be boring, you haven't seen this video yet. Not only the astronauts will be risking their lives as usual at 366 miles above the Earth, but the sheer amount and the difficulty of the tasks—from repairing components to replacing them to installing new gadgets—makes the mission an almost-impossible one, with soundtrack to match. I never imagined this was going to be such an ambitious and daunting work. More »

7:00 PM on Sat Sep 6 2008
By Jesus Diaz
18,898 views, 38 comments

In Brief

Neal Stephenson Explains What's Wrong with Mobile Phones

FROM IO9.COM: Neal Stephenson, author of Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon, is one of the most techno-savvy scifi authors of his generation, and yet his new novel Anathem is strongly critical of mobile phones. More »

7:00 PM on Sat Sep 6 2008
By Annalee Newitz
11,968 views, 58 comments

What's Playing, Pussycat?

Hello Kitty DJ Speaker Brings Out the Disco Pussycat Lover In You

Who else would spend $25 in a Hello Kitty Action DJ Speaker—which moves pretending she's a DJ at the rhythm of the music played in your digital audio player—but a twisted disco pussy lover with probably too much Jack Daniel's running through his veins and listening to ABBA right now? More »

4:00 PM on Sat Sep 6 2008
By Jesus Diaz
3,791 views, 28 comments

Latest by Weihovah: i want the niki belucci version more »

Nintendo

NES Games Renderings Make Great Background Desktops

If you are sucker for all things 8-bit and all things NES—like I am—you will love these three-dimensional renderings of classic Nintendo Entertainment System games by Justin Buonvino. So much that you will put them on your desktop background, just like a did one minute ago. More »

3:30 PM on Sat Sep 6 2008
By Jesus Diaz
21,666 views, 25 comments

Latest by Pensador: They're just too busy for a desktop background. more »

Xbox 360

The Shocking Inside Story of the Epic Defects That Killed Millions of Xbox 360s

Dean Takahashi, one of the most respected tech journos around, spent years putting together this mind-blowing expose that reveals the truly epic scale of the problems that lead to millions of dead Xbox 360s. It really is one of the most stunning flustercucks in gaming history. According to his account, Microsoft willfully ignored deep, systemic problems in the console's production that reached from chipmakers—initially, only 16 out of every 100 of its IBM-made processors worked—to production lines, where just before launch, an unbelievable 68 percent of consoles made were clunkers. More »

3:00 PM on Sat Sep 6 2008
By matt buchanan
110,540 views, 85 comments

Latest by skeptic11: @Reilaos~ & unspellabe,Giz's bias against microsoft is legendary and hardly based in unfounded demogogoury. There are countless posts with hardly more »

rumors

The Mystery of iPod Nano Spy Photos

Yesterday we said that the leaked iPod nano shot looked real to us. After all, Apple seems to be going through its curved surfaces and tapered edges period. This new shot of this old-green-lime colored one however is a completely different beast. More »

1:46 PM on Sat Sep 6 2008
By Jesus Diaz
41,962 views, 65 comments

Latest by Geogeo: green one is hax more »

Useless gadget for most

Condom Dispenser Sets the Bar Too High

At last. Female sex pros and male overachievers rejoice—as the rest of us scratch our heads and look somewhere else while the level indicator on this $28 condom dispenser keeps going down at the same rate of our hand cream dispenser. [Uncommon Goods via Random Good Stuff]

12:00 PM on Sat Sep 6 2008
By Jesus Diaz
8,172 views, 32 comments

Latest by Townie: god thats cool more »

Interview

Food Network's Alton Brown Talks to Giz: Caribbean Adventuring With a Garmin, an iPhone and a Shload of Cameras

Tomorrow night at 10PM, Food Network kicks off Alton Brown's latest TV show, Feasting on Waves, where the Mensa-smart kitchen geek and his crew hop into two 50-foot catamarans and sail around 15 different Caribbean islands in search of quality cuisine, shooting and editing the hi-def episodes right there on the boats. It turns out, despite his disdain for specialized kitchen gadgets, Brown depended on regular high-end tech to make a cooking show on a boat happen.

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Feature

10:00 AM on Sat Sep 6 2008
By Wilson Rothman
18,356 views, 63 comments

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