Sam Biddle, Author at Gizmodo

All the Best Leaks from the Steve Jobs Biography

Advance copies of the hotly anticipated Steve Jobs biography are already in some hands—meaning personal details we never knew about the man are exposed for the first time. Fights with Obama over food, diamond rings, and DNA sequencing. He and Obama didn’t get along HuffPo relays the biography’s account of a particularly uncomfortable meeting between…

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Meet the Gun in the Sky that Ended Qaddafi

It might have been a pack of brave Libyans who captured Qaddafi on the ground today, but his demise was started by a single French jet. Details are sparse, but a Mirage 2000 stopped Qaddafi’s getaway in its tracks. Bloomberg reports that Qaddafi was looking to get the hell out of Sirte—his last remaining, tenuous…

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Qaddafi Died Packing a Giant Golden Gun

Qaddafi: dictator, despot, dead, man of immense style. If you knew your reign of shitty terror was moribund, wouldn’t you want to go out in style? And so he did, wielding this gold pistol to the very end. https://gizmodo.com/qaddafi-has-been-killed-5851663 The glistening piece was looted by Mohammed al-Babi, easily one of the most awesome dudes on…

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Early Christmas Shopping Tip: Dr. Kevorkian’s Suicide Machine Is for Sale

Whether or not you agreed with his values, Dr. Kevorkian’s assisted suicide device is a historical artifact of sorts. Which is why the New York Institute of Technology is auctioning off his patient helping/killing gear. Honey, you shouldn’t have! Also among the morbid collection are “paintings he created with his own blood,” Gothamist reports. But…

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Did Another Nokia Windows Phone Just Leak?

We know about the impending SeaRay, set to debut next week—but has a new Finnish challenger appeared? PocketNow says this photo shows the Nokia “Sabre.” So what’s the Sabre? The blurry handset, according to PocketNow’s sources, is running Mango on a 1.4 GHz processor, 3.5-inch WVGA screen, and 1 GB of RAM. What’s that black…

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Monster Slipper Is Sadly Too Good to Be True

Tom Boddingham only wanted a cool pair of monster foot slippers. What he received instead was a monster-sized slipper, after Chinese factory workers ignored an extremely crucial decimal point. Hurray for obvious marketing stunts! The seven foot long shoe is in all likelihood just a stupid PR publicity scam for some brand of goofy monster…

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The iPhone 4S Costs $0.49 More to Build than the iPhone 4

The fellows at iSuppli have done what they do best, breaking down the material nitty gritty of the 4S to find how much its guts are worth. The answer? Slightly, slightly more than its predecessor, at $188. https://gizmodo.com/16gb-iphone-4-parts-cost-187-51-5574423 That $188 figure is for the 16 GB model—the 32 costs Apple $207, and the 64 is…

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This Chip Might Power the Cheap Superphones of Tomorrow

ARM’s new ultra-efficient Cortex-A7 processor isn’t going to do anything for smartphones today. But in the near future, it’ll be doing what today’s fastest CPUs do at a sliver of the price, eating a sliver of the battery life. The big claim here is that the A7 will push today’s high-end power into the cheapo,…

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Steve Jobs Worked the Day Before He Died

Despite being on the verge of death for quite some time, PC Mag reports Steve Jobs worked on Apple’s future products on literally his last day alive. The story is relayed by Masayoshi Son, CEO of Japanese telecom Softbank, who was meeting with Tim Cook the day of the 4S launch. The meeting was cut…

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Logitech’s New Mouse Lasts Three Years on One Charge

It may not be the best performing mouse if you’re looking to frag all night, but the Logitech M525 does have one big thing going for it: longevity. Pop in two AA batteries, and you’re set for years. Like any battery claim, you can’t take it as concrete—it’ll be more than three years if you…

Gadgets Sam Biddle

Windows 8 Finally Does Search Right

Searching within Windows, much like tackling the Task Manager, has always one of the most nightmarish components. It was ugly, disorganized, and slow. Not anymore. Part of Microsoft’s “now Windows is actually pretty great” initiative means making search un-horrible. Finally. To be fair, the new search looks (and operates) a lot like OS X’s Spotlight:…

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Audyssey’s LES Dock Is Affordable AirPlay Awesome

We love AirPlay. Audyssey’s consistently put out some really solid compact speakers. But the former was frustratingly absent from the latter. Not anymore! The LES dock sounds as great as we’d expect, with the (overdue) bonus of AirPlay wireless. The thing even looks pretty damn good too, with a minimalist form, understated coloring, and a…

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Paranoid Millionaires Spending Giant Cash on James Bond Security

When you’re among the reviled 1 percent, it’s probably more difficult than ever to sleep at night knowing there’s a protest movement growing against you. And although it poses no threat, Occupy Wall Street is spurring a security shopping spree. The NYT’s Kevin Roose reports firms like Risk Control Strategies, which caters to trembling Wall…

Privacy & Security Sam Biddle

Holy Mother of God the Canon 1D X Is Fast

We already know the Canon 1D X is going to be the most epic DSLR ever—and fast as hell. But reading that is nothing compared to seeing the machine gun continuous shooting mode in action. Pew. https://gizmodo.com/canon-1d-x-the-new-most-epic-dslr-ever-5850747 Shown here at a demo event, the $6800 1D X’s 14 FPS mode blasts full 18 megapixel JPEGs…

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Hey, Samsung Makes Advanced Fighter Cockpits Too

Samsung, best known for awesome TVs, tablets that get them in legal trouble, and crispy new smartphones, is more than just stuff at Best Buy: they’re designing the cockpit for South Korea’s K-FX stealth fighter. Watch out, Cupertino! https://gizmodo.com/even-samsungs-lawyers-cant-tell-the-difference-between-5849803 The demo was spotted at the Seoul Air Show by Flightglobal’s Stephen Trimble, and shows a…

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Amazon Adds Streaming PBS Shows Aplenty

Perhaps to counter the recent addition of 24 and Ally McBeal, Amazon’s Prime Instant Video just snatched up a ton of smarty pants video from PBS. The terrific news series Frontline, classic Kens Burns docs, NOVA, and more. Amazon’s touting over 1,000 episodes of new PBS stuff ready to stream, which is great news—both Prime…

Commerce Sam Biddle

Correction: Dubai Is Blade Runner

Earlier today, we broke the news that Dubai has become Star Wars. I regret to inform you that this dispatch was factually flawed: Dubai is, in fact, Blade Runner, as proven by these exclusive pics from photog Gerald Donovan. https://gizmodo.com/dubai-is-star-wars-5850864 Less Bespin and more dystopian LA, these night shots of the fog-shrouded city are even…

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50 Cent Now the Latest Rapper with Rapper Headphones

If you won’t listen to headphones unblessed by a rapper’s licensing deal—and neither Dre nor Ludacris are good enough for you—look to 50 Cent. The former rapper turned Vitamin Water kingpin’s newest headphone is here. Street by 50 (sound familiar?) touts emphasized bass, 40 mm drivers, and… they’re black and blue? I think if you…

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Kids Swiping and Leaping Around Nature with National Geographic on Kinect Looks Awesome

Much like Sesame Street, National Geographic’s giving kiddos a chance to learn (this time about the outdoors) while getting a little exercise. Want to learn about rock-digging bears? Dig through virtual rocks with a virtual bear suit on. https://gizmodo.com/kinect-realizes-millions-of-fantasies-by-putting-kids-i-5851020 Using both voice recognition (yell “WOLF!” when there’s one onscreen) and motion (swipe at bear tracks…

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Kinect Realizes Millions of Fantasies by Putting Kids Inside Sesame Street

Sesame Street was instrumental in teaching generations of screen-bound children how to count and learn the alphabet. So it’s only natural that kids would want to get inside that world, right? Microsoft’s done it, and it’s gonna make kids scream. Trite as it sounds, Kinect Sesame Street TV is some seriously interactive TV, like I’ve…

Television Sam Biddle

Sam Biddle

All the Best Leaks from the Steve Jobs Biography

Meet the Gun in the Sky that Ended Qaddafi

Qaddafi Died Packing a Giant Golden Gun

Early Christmas Shopping Tip: Dr. Kevorkian’s Suicide Machine Is for Sale

Did Another Nokia Windows Phone Just Leak?

Monster Slipper Is Sadly Too Good to Be True

The iPhone 4S Costs $0.49 More to Build than the iPhone 4

This Chip Might Power the Cheap Superphones of Tomorrow

Steve Jobs Worked the Day Before He Died

Logitech’s New Mouse Lasts Three Years on One Charge

Windows 8 Finally Does Search Right

Audyssey’s LES Dock Is Affordable AirPlay Awesome

Paranoid Millionaires Spending Giant Cash on James Bond Security

Holy Mother of God the Canon 1D X Is Fast

Hey, Samsung Makes Advanced Fighter Cockpits Too

Amazon Adds Streaming PBS Shows Aplenty

Correction: Dubai Is Blade Runner

50 Cent Now the Latest Rapper with Rapper Headphones

Kids Swiping and Leaping Around Nature with National Geographic on Kinect Looks Awesome

Kinect Realizes Millions of Fantasies by Putting Kids Inside Sesame Street

Artemis 2 Crew Become First Humans to Travel Beyond Earth Orbit Since the 1970s

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Labubus Might Be Labu-Bust After Pop Mart Posts Record Share Loss

Cursor’s New Tool Lets Users Delegate to a Team of Coding Agents

Nvidia Needs to Remind Itself What PC Gamers Actually Want

Iran Says It Hit Oracle Facilities in UAE

‘Invincible’ Season 4 Is Doing Right By Debbie

New Theory Says We’ve Been Overcomplicating the Big Bang

Marvel Might Have Finally Dealt With One of the Most Hated ‘Spider-Man’ Characters Around

China Is Trying to Grow New Forests in This Notorious Mega-Desert. It’s Working

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