Matt Buchanan, Author at Gizmodo

iPhone 3.0 OS Reveals New iPhones, iPods and the Mysterious “iProd”

The iPhone 3.0 OS has references to brand new iPhone models (not just one, but two), a new iPod and the mysterious “iProd.” A quick rundown on Apple model naming conventions. The original iPhone is known as iPhone1,1 and the iPhone 3G is iPhone1,2. The first number refers to the overarching model, so when it…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 19

BlackBerry Niagara 9630 Coming to Verizon in May

The BlackBerry Niagra—son of the Bold and Curve—is coming to Verizon in May, according to analysts “familiar with the plan.” Makes sense, given how much of it we’ve been peeking lately. Who’s excited??? [TheStreet] https://gizmodo.com/verizon-and-sprint-users-this-is-the-blackberry-youve-5164796

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 19

Safari Cracked in Seconds at Pwn2Own Hacking Competition

At the annual Pwn2Own competition, where hackers compete to crack software as fast as possible so you don’t sleep at night, browsers were on the first day’s menu. And Safari went down in seconds. Security researcher Charlie Miller hacked Safari in just 10 seconds, then used a remote-execution exploit to take over the up-to-date MacBook…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 19

Internet Explorer 8 Gets All Final to Join New Browser Party

Microsoft seems like the last one to the new browser party that’s dragged out over the last month, but they are the first to make their entrance final with Internet Explorer 8. If you’ve used the release candidate, or even the beta right before it, it’ll be a mostly familiar experience, with nothing that seriously…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 19

Cyborg Crocodile Would Make Captain Hook Pee His Pirate Panties

Holy ashfjksahfkdfhja. This is Robo-Croc. He’s built with a pair of metal rods that run down his face, and over forty screws are bolted to his head holding his jaw and skull together. Surgeons were forced to construct the biotechnological terror now known as Robo-Croc after a car crushed his formerly ordinary-but-endangered crocodile head last…

Biology Matt Buchanan Mar 18

Computer Science Majors Get Laid More Than Any Other Kind of Geek

Or they lie a lot more than any other geek. This chart shows the percentage of virgins by major at Wellesley. I always knew there was a reason I liked art chicks. [Forwardon via Geekologie]

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 18

Amazing Retro Megaman iPhone Theme Is Why Apple Should Allow Skinning

There are a lot of very good reasons why Apple doesn’t let you to skin the iPhone’s UI (just glance at most BlackBerry or WinMo themes). But then there’s this awesome retro Megaman theme. It’s like an 8-bit Capcom fanboy wet dream that’s congealed into a custom iPhone theme. Sure, like most of the apps…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 18

Rumor: Peek Pronto Is Peek’s Business Email Device

Now you see it, now you don’t: This teaser for the Peek Pronto was up briefly, sent by a reader, but it’s gone now. Mysterious! Except that URL pretty much explains it all: “Peek for Business.”

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 18

The World’s Most Expensive Copy of Windows XP

Geez. And this is with the Lenovo employee discount, even. Thanks L!

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 18

Horrifying Vintage Army Medical Photos Make Me Appreciate Modern Medicine Even More

The National Museum of Health and Medicine’s working to release thousands of military medical photos going back to the Civil War—and their first Flickr set feels like grisly snapshots stolen from David Lynch’s nightmares. The photo above depicts a portable x-ray machine at Walter Reed hospital during World War I. Some of the crude, early…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 18

iPhone’s First Turn-by-Turn Navigation App XROAD G-Map Yanked from App Store

XROAD’s G-Map, the iPhone‘s well-reviewed first turn-by-turn navigation app, has been pulled from the App Store. UPDATE: It’s because they were naughty and violated the App Store’s terms. https://gizmodo.com/iphones-first-turn-by-turn-navigation-app-reviewed-out-5166870 Update: Some developers have told us that the reason G-Map has been pulled is that by including turn-by-turn navigation, it violated the terms of agreement—which is…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 18

ViewSonic Is Making a Lap Crushing 22-Inch “Notebook”

ViewSonic, not exactly a major player in the laptop world, is apparently making up for their small stature with a 22-inch notebook. Sounds like a classic case of pen..otebook envy. [Digitimes]

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 18

Windows 7 Vs. Vista: Which Runs Crysis Fasterer?

ATI and Nvidia have had plenty of time to fine-tune their graphics monsters for Windows 7, so with the latest drivers, Extremetech answers that burning question: Is Windows 7 or Vista faster for games? Their test rig used a Core i7 with 3GB of triple-channel memory running Vista vs. Windows 7 beta build 7000 (the…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 18

Giz Explains: Why WiMax and LTE Wireless 4G Data Will Blow Your Mind

3G sucks. Yeah I said it. Try watching YouTube video or hell, loading Giz. Real wireless, ubiquitous broadband for slurping up crazy data anywhere, anytime is coming. Soon. In the form of WiMax and LTE. We’re going to try to keep this pretty simple, as usual, but there are going to be some acronyms and…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 11

iPods and Young People Have Utterly Destroyed Music

You know how most people are perfectly happy with Apple standard-issue earbuds, white plastic molded around a crappy audio experience? A Stanford professor’s informal annual study shows that youngins like the “sizzle sounds” of MP3s. Each year, Stanford Professor of Music Jonathan Berger does an informal test of his students by playing a bunch of…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 10

The Coolest Lens You’ll See Today Tilts, Shifts and Bulges

Canon’s new tilt-shift lens—the glass you need to make amazing photos like this without Photosorcery—is an ultra-wide 17mm piece of kit. Also ultra-wide is its price: $2500. But just look at it. [Dvice]

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 10

Sony DSLR Camera Image Sensor Better Than Canon’s?

DxO Labs does something quite tricky: Quantifies the quality of an image sensor’s performance, so you can look at a neat number grade for a quick gauge. Surprisingly, a Sony DSLR bests equivalent Canon models. In their test—which uses the camera’s raw output as the basis for measuring sensor performance, evaluating color, dynamic range and…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 10

Sprint Testing LTE Equipment; Whither WiMax?

LTE’s been the chosen 4G standard for a while—AT&T, Verizon and others are going that way. Sprint, the lone stalwart, has been pursuing WiMax glory. But GigaOM says now they’re evaluating LTE equipment. Wha? https://gizmodo.com/verizon-rolling-out-superfast-lte-mobile-broadband-next-5106421 A couple of sources inform GigaOM that Sprint’s currently testing LTE equipment. Sprint’s response is a non-denial kind of denial:…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 10

Robots That Hold Your Toothbrush, Crush Very Tiny Intruders

These little robots attach themselves to your wall with suction cups, and guard pens, toothbrushes and other skinny pole-like objects. No not that one. [Mookie Gifts via Nerd Approved]

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 10

Ex-Apple Engineers’ Caustic Startup Promises 200x Faster Ray-Tracing Graphics by 2010 (Suck It, Crysis)

Caustic Graphics, a startup from ex-Apple engineers, thinks their approach to 3D graphics—ray-tracing—will result in way more realistic eye candy than you see today, with chips that are 200x faster than today’s by 2010. In a nutshell, ray tracing works by tracing rays (ta da!) or lines of light from a certain point through pixels…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 9

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iPhone 3.0 OS Reveals New iPhones, iPods and the Mysterious “iProd”

BlackBerry Niagara 9630 Coming to Verizon in May

Safari Cracked in Seconds at Pwn2Own Hacking Competition

Internet Explorer 8 Gets All Final to Join New Browser Party

Cyborg Crocodile Would Make Captain Hook Pee His Pirate Panties

Computer Science Majors Get Laid More Than Any Other Kind of Geek

Amazing Retro Megaman iPhone Theme Is Why Apple Should Allow Skinning

Rumor: Peek Pronto Is Peek’s Business Email Device

The World’s Most Expensive Copy of Windows XP

Horrifying Vintage Army Medical Photos Make Me Appreciate Modern Medicine Even More

iPhone’s First Turn-by-Turn Navigation App XROAD G-Map Yanked from App Store

ViewSonic Is Making a Lap Crushing 22-Inch “Notebook”

Windows 7 Vs. Vista: Which Runs Crysis Fasterer?

Giz Explains: Why WiMax and LTE Wireless 4G Data Will Blow Your Mind

iPods and Young People Have Utterly Destroyed Music

The Coolest Lens You’ll See Today Tilts, Shifts and Bulges

Sony DSLR Camera Image Sensor Better Than Canon’s?

Sprint Testing LTE Equipment; Whither WiMax?

Robots That Hold Your Toothbrush, Crush Very Tiny Intruders

Ex-Apple Engineers’ Caustic Startup Promises 200x Faster Ray-Tracing Graphics by 2010 (Suck It, Crysis)

Pentagon Reportedly Asks Detroit to Use More Car Factories as Arms Factories

We’ve Seen Doctor Doom in Action for ‘Avengers: Doomsday’

We’ve Seen the First 18 Minutes of ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’

The New ‘Mandalorian and Grogu’ Trailer Amps Up the Nostalgia

Hollywood’s First Big Budget AI-Generated Movie Is About Bitcoin, of Course

White House Is Reportedly Ready to Drop Its Anthropic Beef and Embrace the Spooky New Model

A Critical Ocean Current System May Be Unraveling Faster Than We Thought

Lana Del Rey Just Released the First Bond Theme We’ll Hear for Years

Tesla Wants a $50,000 Penalty for Anyone Who Tries to Resell Its Signature Model S and X

Google Wants to Put Gucci Smart Glasses on Your Face

Alienware’s $350 QD-OLED Gaming Monitor Nixes Everything for a Pretty Screen

Sony Inzone H6 Air Review: A Perfect Case for Open-Back Gaming Headsets

Anker’s EufyMake E1 Finally Brings Printers Out of the Dark Ages

The Soundboks Mix Is Going to Make You the Most Popular Guy at the Park

Asus Zenbook A16 Review: Start Considering Snapdragon on PC, for Real

Aqara Thermostat Hub W200 Review: Almost Better than My Ecobee

HP Omen Max 45L Review: 4K60 Gaming Has Never Been So Easy

Ecovacs Winbot W3 Omni Review: Window Cleaning Robots Have a Long Way to Go

AirPods Max 2 vs. Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones (2nd Gen): Which ANC Headphones Win?

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