Sam Biddle, Author at Gizmodo

Consumer Reports Finally Recommends the iPhone (Way Behind Android)

Gear review standard bearer Consumer Reports has its new phone rankings out. Some interesting news! The iPhone 4 is still blackballed, the 4S made the cut, and some dubious Androids blow them both away. The iPhone 4 had, paradoxically, long been ranked Consumer Reports’ best phone, while simultaneously not being recommended to buy. Which made…

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Holy Crap, Four Cores in a Cellphone

Smartphones with dual-core processors are still a bonus—but what about four of those goddamn things? The alleged Android-y HTC Edge packs that, plus a sizzling Tegra 3 package. That’s one spicy processing meatball, if PocketNow is correct. PocketNow, which is putting forward the “leaked” images, says the Edge will have the same specs are the…

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Spotify for Windows Phone 7 Hits Today (And Is Gorgeous)

Windows Phone is no longer the lonely nerd in the streaming music cafeteria—Spotify has arrived, and it looks beautiful. Spotify for Mango will hit every device across every carrier “sometime today,” and they apologize for the delay—they just wanted to make it look deliciously Metro. And it does. The app looks as seamlessly a part…

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Part of New York Turned into Giant Windows Phone

Yes, this is advertising. But, damnit, if you’re going to advertise to me, at least make it giant and sensational like this 6-story Windows Phone monstrosity in Manhattan’s Herald Square. Soon, when all smartphones are this large, we’ll long for the days when one could buy something as petite and compact as the Titan. I’m…

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Purple Lightning and Death from Above in Afghanistan

This looks like it should be airbrushed onto the side of a really tacky t-shirt, but it’s actually quite real! An Air Force F-15E near Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, illuminated by apocalyptic lightning. It must be nerve-fraying enough to drop JDAMs on Taliban without, y’know, hitting the wrong thing. But skies like that? I’d be…

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An Unearthed, Hand Drawn Sketch of Apple’s 70s HQ

Long, long before the company dreamt of an office building from space, Apple occupied a far more modest compound—so much so that it could be sketched by hand. The floor plans were recently rediscovered. Chris Espinosa, an OG Apple employee and gifted programmer (his Calculator app remained in use for 15 years) drew this sketch…

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HP’s Darn Good All-in-One Gets a 3D Injection

HP’s TouchSmart series, perhaps in spite of its touch capability, are damn good all-in-one PCs, and a nice iMac alternative. Now it’s inevitably 3D—active shutter glasses and a 3D webcam jazz up the multimedia desktop slab. https://gizmodo.com/hps-newest-all-in-one-is-why-all-in-ones-are-great-5837812 Design and spec-wise, HP’s done nothing new with the TouchSmart 620 3D—and that’s OK. The guts are capable…

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Today’s Greatest Rap Producer Uses a Compaq Laptop and a Magazine Mousepad

Above, if you can see through all the weed smoke, you get a scene that’s something like the aftermath of a bad LAN party—clutter, shitty laptops, and monitors everywhere. But music’s being made in this budget-tech dungeon. Alex Pappademas’ stellar NYT profile of young, stoned-to-hell beats phenom Lex Luger highlights how little he relies on…

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The Tegra 3 Is Naked

While we’re all waiting to play with tablets running on Nvidia’s smokey quad-core wonder, Wireless Goodness got its mitts on photos of the chip in the flesh. It looks pretty much like any other chip, sure—but pause for a minute and consider just how much is lying underneath there: four graphics-socking cores, plus a slower,…

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Let’s Explore the Batshit Insane World of Shutterstock Together

I don’t hide my love of stock photography. From the terrifying to the sublime, Shutterstock is a trove of crazy. Enter words, get pictures. Grandparent bacon. Angry prostitute. Let’s enter the cave of stock wonder madness together. https://gizmodo.com/the-furious-femme-fatales-of-computer-stock-photography-5754969 I wonder, does each Shutterstocked humanoid live in their own world? Or is there to be some…

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Watch Canon’s Hollywood C300 Wondercamera in Action

What does the Canon EOS C300 give you for 20 grand, beyond a Super 35 mm-equivalent 8.28 megapixel CMOS sensor capable of recording a Full HD 1920 x 1080 picture and other cinematic goodies? Digital movies like this. https://gizmodo.com/canon-c300-a-digital-killer-cam-for-the-hollywood-set-5856240 Enormously talented photographer Vincent Laforet already has his paws on the C300, working on a new…

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The Ketchup Fountain Is Greater Than a Cure for Cancer

What is technology, really? An amusement? A shield from nature’s labors? Industry? None of these—technology is meant to transcend the human. And when we behold this font of tomato, dipping fries into a ketchup continuum, we become gods. Greater than gods, actually. Could God himself envision a ketchup fountain so vast, he would run out…

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TigerDirect Is Selling the Last TouchPads Today (In a Slightly Less Stupid Bundle)

I hate bundles. Don’t make me buy things I don’t want. Especially that dumb stupid Best Buy bundle that shackled a TouchPad to an HP computer. Ugh. Now TigerDirect is liquidating their TouchPads under slightly less annoying bundle terms. Ugh. https://gizmodo.com/best-buys-finally-got-more-firesale-touchpads-if-you-5854409 The fire sale, so fancy it has its own countdown timer on TigerDirect, will…

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America: China Is Constantly Hacking Us—China: No We’re Not

The US has found itself in an Oh shit no you didn’t internet espionage moment, blaming China and Russia for billions of dollars in online theft, the Washington Post reports. Their response? Wasn’t us! It’s like a geopolitical high school prom scandal. The setup is simple: a new government report on international hacking—Foreign Spies Stealing…

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Google Planning Kansas City Cable TV Utopia?

Everyone knows cable sucks, and Google knows they stand to make some coin off it. The WSJ claims Google is up to something pretty wild: it’s plotting its own cable network, based atop its own broadband ISP. This is ambitious. The program, according to “people briefed on [Google’s] plans,” say the Google Cable service would…

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Our Newest Android Mammoth: The Dual-Core, LTE-Speedy HTC Rezound (Hands-On)

People love big screens, so HTC’s giving the people another big screen: the Rezound is smaller than the titanic Titan (packing a 4.3-inch screen) and nice guts. Another piece of speedy LTE hardware is a good thing. https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-htcs-titan-is-one-giant-windows-phone-sonofab-5836552 The phone isn’t going to revolutionize anything for either Android software or hardware, but the Rezound looks…

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3.5 Million People Are Still Using AOL Dialup (!!!)

EEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRNDguzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzdungahdungahdungahhhhhhh. That sound you hear isn’t a 56k modem, it’s the sound of my brain collapsing upon itself as I read AOL not only has 3.5 million dialup users, but added 200,000 since last year. How can this be? It can be because there are still large swaths of our country without broadband—mostly rural areas—and…

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HTC’s Impending Big ‘Ol Rezound Leaks

We’re going to see it in the flesh here in New York when it’s announced a little later today, but if you need some leaked shots to tide you over, behold: the HTC Rezound, via PocketNow. That screen’s rather large! Hey look, LTE! That’s excellent, and if these shots are real, so’s that speed. Rumored…

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Game Over: Amazon Prime Is Officially the Greatest Deal in Tech

Amazon’s Prime service began as a way to get your books and deodorant shipped to your door faster. Which was nice. Now, it’s turned into a cornucopia of digital everything: movies, TV, books. And as it’s grown, it’s turned into something else: the smartest digital ticket around. Amazon’s decision to give out free loaner Kindle…

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Apple Admits Battery Problems: It’s iOS 5’s Fault

All those problems with evaporating iPhone batteries? Looks like it’s not the hardware’s fault—Apple’s ‘fessing up to a buggy iOS 5 release that’s sucking more juice than it should, The Loop reports. https://gizmodo.com/whats-going-on-with-the-iphone-4s-battery-5854510 Apple confirmed the problem in a message to The Loop, stating “A small number of customers have reported lower than expected battery…

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Sam Biddle

Consumer Reports Finally Recommends the iPhone (Way Behind Android)

Holy Crap, Four Cores in a Cellphone

Spotify for Windows Phone 7 Hits Today (And Is Gorgeous)

Part of New York Turned into Giant Windows Phone

Purple Lightning and Death from Above in Afghanistan

An Unearthed, Hand Drawn Sketch of Apple’s 70s HQ

HP’s Darn Good All-in-One Gets a 3D Injection

Today’s Greatest Rap Producer Uses a Compaq Laptop and a Magazine Mousepad

The Tegra 3 Is Naked

Let’s Explore the Batshit Insane World of Shutterstock Together

Watch Canon’s Hollywood C300 Wondercamera in Action

The Ketchup Fountain Is Greater Than a Cure for Cancer

TigerDirect Is Selling the Last TouchPads Today (In a Slightly Less Stupid Bundle)

America: China Is Constantly Hacking Us—China: No We’re Not

Google Planning Kansas City Cable TV Utopia?

Our Newest Android Mammoth: The Dual-Core, LTE-Speedy HTC Rezound (Hands-On)

3.5 Million People Are Still Using AOL Dialup (!!!)

HTC’s Impending Big ‘Ol Rezound Leaks

Game Over: Amazon Prime Is Officially the Greatest Deal in Tech

Apple Admits Battery Problems: It’s iOS 5’s Fault

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