Kat Hannaford, Author at Gizmodo

Anonymous and Team Poison Join Forces For OpRobinHood to Target Banks and Give to Charities

Two hacking groups, Anonymous and Team Poison, have joined forces to take on the banks, steal money and donate it to charities and protests. Reclaiming the “99 per cent’s money back”. Apparently the plan is to swipe money from stolen credit card and bank details and donate it to charities and protest movements: “Operation Robin…

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Google Scraps Black Navigation Bar For the One True Google Bar

Google’s in the process of scrapping its short-lived black navigation bar and is simplifying things with a uniform plain grey search bar armed with drop-down menus; very reminiscent of the Google search bar add-on from Internet Explorer’s yesteryear. As of writing we’re not seeing the new Google bar, but the next stage in Google’s ecosystem…

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Sony Ericsson Added WebGL to Xperia 2011 Line Without Telling Anyone

In its Gingerbread update last month, Sony Ericsson sneaked in some WebGL support. That means that any of its current 2011 line up, including the Xperia Arc, can now take advantage of WebGL graphics directly in their browsers without plugins. This makes the SE the first Android phone manufacturer to jump on the WebGL bandwagon…

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Google’s Chrome Browser Will Soon be Controlled by Gamepads

A lot of you read Giz using Google Chrome — which means a good percentage of you should be interested in the news that Chrome will soon have plug-and-play gamepad support added. It’ll work on any computer (or Chromebook) running the Chrome browser, and according to Google, will be a seamless experience. That means in…

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Sony Planning PS4’s Arrival to Coincide With Next-Gen Xbox?

Sony’s gaming division is tracking the growing rumours of a new Microsoft console, with the aim being to release its PlayStation4 as near to it as possible — so there won’t be a huge headstart for Microsoft this time around. PlayStation Europe president Jim Ryan, speaking to Eurogamer, said it would be “undesirable” for the…

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Tamagotchi Celebrates 15th Birthday and Is Still Available For Your Loving Embrace

You might remember those pesky virtual pet keychain things, which managed to successfully spawn out of Japan to populate the world, and annoy the hell out of parents everywhere. They were launched 15 years ago yesterday, November 23rd 1996. I have to hold my hands up and admit, I had not one, but two of…

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LG Sketches Future Prada 3.0 Smartphone

LG’s long-running partnership with fashion people Prada will continue in 2012, with both companies announcing a renewed friendship — and revealing the above sketch of a future Prada branded smartphone. The phone is officially known as the PRADA Phone by LG 3.0, with the concept sketches showing us a pretty standard modern black slab of…

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Original Googlephone HTC G1 Gets Ice Cream Sandwich Update

There’s a reason old hardware doesn’t get new software upgrades. Like the iPhone 3G’s iOS 4 update, this unofficial Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Android phone that started it all, is, well… crippling. Still, it just goes to show what’s possible when developers put their heads together. Where I couldn’t stand to use anything…

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Apple Removes Big Fish iPad Game Subscription App Without Notice

It looks like Big Fish’s pleasure at launching the first game subscription app for iOS has been replaced by pain and confusion, as Apple’s pulled the rug from underneath them. Having been available on the App Store since November 18th, Big Fish’s founder was none the wiser as to why Apple had pulled a U-turn…

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Fujifilm’s X-S1 Shoots Far-Off Places

Calling the X-S1 a “new breed of bridge camera,” Fujifilm’s snapper has a 26x optical zoom lens and the same 2/3-inch 12-megapixel EXR sensor that’s used in the retro-styled X10 model. As you can tell from that picture above, it’s the 26x zoom lens that’s the real treat here — it has a range of…

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Apple Unleashes Game Subscription Model With Big Fish Games

Following the success of subscription services through Newsstand, Apple’s given the go-ahead for a game subscription service from Big Fish Games. For $6.99 a month you’ll have unlimited streaming access to a whole host of iPad games. Unfortunately users will have to be connected to the internet to play the games, as they’ll be “streamed”…

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Neutrino Light Speed Tests Flawed, Says Science Team

A group of Italian scientists have questioned those faster-than-light neutrino test results, claiming that anything moving that fast should lose energy — but that’s not what the original tests showed. https://gizmodo.com/faster-than-light-particles-could-wreck-einsteins-relat-5843006 Claiming that they “refute a superluminal interpretation” the team from the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy say the original test results don’t support…

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Heads-Up Display Contact Lenses Are One Step Closer After Passing Safety Tests

The days of traditional screens could be numbered if the news coming out of Washington University is anything to go by. It’s testing contact lenses that could project information into the wearers eyes and initial safety tests look promising. We’ve been dreaming of a HUD-style vision enhancer ever since Sci-Fi first introduced the concept to…

Artificial Intelligence Kat Hannaford

Qualcomm’s Mirasol Full Color E-Ink Displays Nearly Ready

Qualcomm’s Mirasol screen technology, which promises full color, low-power, e-ink displays that’ll bring Sunday supplements to life like never before, are about to launch. E-reader specialist Kyobo has shown off the first finished product. Kyobo’s first Mirasol e-reader features a 5.7″ 1024×768 panel, which will use capacitive touch technology so it’s nice and sensitive. Beneath…

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Occupy Flash Wants You to Ditch Adobe For Good

Apple might have forced Adobe to kill Flash mobile, but Occupy Flash wants to unite the world in eradicating Flash from the desktop as well. The goal is simple: get everyone to uninstall Flash Player and you can join the fight now. OK, it might be a bit over-the-top to take the anti-capitalist Occupy-type protests…

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Ice Cream Sandwich Doesn’t Support Flash Player, and Other Nexus Galaxy Complaints

It didn’t take long for complaints about the Galaxy Nexus to start rolling in, with Google confirming its hot new Android 4.0 phone isn’t currently compatible with Adobe’s Flash Player and early adopters spotting an odd volume-muting software bug. The lack of a version of Adobe’s Flash Player at launch is a rather big hole…

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Nokia Lumia 900 Shown Off In Pulled Developer Promo Video

Ooops, looks like Nokia’s let slip that it’s got another Windows Phone up its sleeve, and it looks like the rumored Ace — perhaps its true flagship. The video was quickly pulled, but not before someone made a copy. Comparing screen sizes and the UI, estimates come in at a 4-inch display, but the phone…

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3D TV Makers Finally Start Work on Standard 3D Glasses Format

Sony, Samsung, Panasonic and 3D technology specialist Xpand 3D are moving forward quickly with plans to create a single format for active shutter 3D glasses, with many more TV makers joining the standards licensing scheme. The consortium now has its own umbrella web site which it’s bravely opted to call Full HD 3D Glasses (which…

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When Dual-Core Just Isn’t Enough: Rumored HTC Zeta to Get Blazing Quad-Core 2.5GHz Chip

Chalk this one up as rumor, but Engadget’s been sent a render of a new HTC handset codenamed ‘Zeta’. The monster device is supposedly packing a beast of a 2.5GHz quad-core CPU besting the previously rumored quad-core Edge. If the source is on-the-money, the Zeta should come packing a 4.5-inch 720p screen, 1GB of RAM,…

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Nokia Has a Windows 8 Tablet in the Works for 2012

The general manager of the French division of Nokia has just let slip one enormous great secret, revealing plans for a Nokia made Windows 8 tablet. And it’ll be launching next summer. Speaking in an interview with newspaper Les Echos, Paul Amsellem said: “In June 2012, we will have a tablet that runs on Windows…

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Anonymous and Team Poison Join Forces For OpRobinHood to Target Banks and Give to Charities

Google Scraps Black Navigation Bar For the One True Google Bar

Sony Ericsson Added WebGL to Xperia 2011 Line Without Telling Anyone

Google’s Chrome Browser Will Soon be Controlled by Gamepads

Sony Planning PS4’s Arrival to Coincide With Next-Gen Xbox?

Tamagotchi Celebrates 15th Birthday and Is Still Available For Your Loving Embrace

LG Sketches Future Prada 3.0 Smartphone

Original Googlephone HTC G1 Gets Ice Cream Sandwich Update

Apple Removes Big Fish iPad Game Subscription App Without Notice

Fujifilm’s X-S1 Shoots Far-Off Places

Apple Unleashes Game Subscription Model With Big Fish Games

Neutrino Light Speed Tests Flawed, Says Science Team

Heads-Up Display Contact Lenses Are One Step Closer After Passing Safety Tests

Qualcomm’s Mirasol Full Color E-Ink Displays Nearly Ready

Occupy Flash Wants You to Ditch Adobe For Good

Ice Cream Sandwich Doesn’t Support Flash Player, and Other Nexus Galaxy Complaints

Nokia Lumia 900 Shown Off In Pulled Developer Promo Video

3D TV Makers Finally Start Work on Standard 3D Glasses Format

When Dual-Core Just Isn’t Enough: Rumored HTC Zeta to Get Blazing Quad-Core 2.5GHz Chip

Nokia Has a Windows 8 Tablet in the Works for 2012

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

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