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HTC One: The Great White Hype Is Here

Carved out of a solid block of aluminum, HTC’s great white hype is the oft leaked One aka M7. It’s what the company is touting as its new flagship device today in New York. And in typical HTC style, the One has one or two new software features to help differentiate itself from the rest.…

Here’s a GPS for Bikers

It isn’t quite street riding season in the NE but come spring, TomTom’s Rider GPS for motorcyclists will help navigate you to your intended destination. Originally launched in 2007, this refresh lets you pick one of three routes: fastest, scenic, or your own via Tyre. You can even swap personalized routes with others over Bluetooth.…

Your official Steam client for Ubuntu has arrived.

Under Armour’s Performance Monitor Tracks What Actually Matters

Look, I know what you’re thinking and I’ve been thinking the same thing, too. But Under Armour is going for something a bit different with the Armour39 performance monitor they’ve been teasing. What differentiates it from the crowded field of wearables is that it’s a “performance” monitor, not an “activity monitor” like Nike’s FuelBand, the…

Mophie Juice Pack Helium for iPhone 5 Review: Wherein Juicing Is A Good Thing

There’s no getting around the iPhone 5’s abysmal battery life. It’s by far the least desirable feature. Mophie hopes to change all that later this month when it starts shipping the helium juice pack, the first “Certified Battery Case Solution” for the iPhone 5. Awesome, right? What Is It? A case for your iPhone that…

Nike Confirms No-Go For FuelBand Android App

Since the launch of the FuelBand a year ago, many were wondering when Nike might deploy an Android companion app. Droid Life spotted that yesterday via its Support account on Twitter, Nike quasi-officially said that it is not working on an Android app. And today, Nike has confirmed with Gizmodo that an Android app is…

Evasi0n Jailbreak Has Unshackled Close to 7 Million iOS Devices

Earlier this week, the jailbreak tool to rule them all, evasi0n, was released and since then there have been close to seven million new jailbroken iOS devices. At least that’s what the creator of Cydia told Forbes. The actual breakdown of those nearly seven million devices as of last night boils down to 5.15 million…

Apple says Chase Buch’s “Monkey Drums” (Goksel Vancin Remix) was the 25 billionth song downloaded from iTunes. Whatever.

Jailbreaking Your iOS Device Probably Killed the Weather App, Here’s How To Fix It

So you decided to jailbreak your iOS device and now the baked-in weather app is borked, right? Yeah, sometimes these things don’t always work out that smoothly but it could have been a lot worse. Now, a fix is being worked on but in case you haven’t downloaded one of a bajillion other weather apps,…

Dyson’s Newest Airblade Could Change The Way Architects Think

While James Dyson is the obvious face of the company he founded in 1993, he isn’t the only one tinkering away at high-powered blades or really sucky vacuums in Malmesbury, England. With over 700 some engineers under one roof, Dyson tasked Marcus Hartley with creating the new hybrid faucetAirblade Tap about two and a half…

Under Armour Finally Releasing Its Performance Monitor Later This Month

Is it any surprise that another sportswear company is getting into the activity tracker game? Well, it shouldn’t be. The latest, it appears, will be Under Armour when it launches what the company says will be a “first-of-its-kind performance monitoring system” on February 12 in New York. For those that remember—I nearly forgot—Under Armour was…

Amazon Studios has given the go-ahead for five children’s pilots, including one from the Jim Henson Company.

Kathleen Kennedy, keeper of the Holocron at Lucasfilm, says that Ep VII may not be ready by 2015. [Hollywood Reporter]

BlackBerry’s Best Trick: Nailing Work-Life Balance

Today BlackBerry demoed what it’s calling BlackBerry Balance, a clever way of separating one’s personal and work lives in one device. You don’t see it as much these days but carrying two phones—one for business, one for pleasure—was commonplace not too long ago. I remember having a BlackBerry 6200 alongside my Sidekick 2; and I’m…

XBMC 12 “Frodo” is ready for download. Notable new features: Support for Android, Raspberry Pi and Live TV/PVR support.

Elon Musk thinks the lithium batteries used by SpaceX‘s rockets could help solve Boeing’s tiny Dreamliner battery issue. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-battery-that-melted-in-the-boeing-787-dream-5977257

Are These The World’s Most Comfortable Running Shoes? Maybe?

A year on, Nike’s Flyknit technology (a second skin, if you will) continues to permeate the company’s running shoe line. Today Nike announced the Flyknit Lunar1+, an ultra lightweight, all-purpose runner that combines a Flyknit upper with a cushy Lunarlon bottom. https://gizmodo.com/nikes-new-flyknit-technology-makes-running-shoes-even-m-5887118 By combining the two technologies, the Flyknit Lunar1+ is probably the most responsive…

Microsoft is readying the new Office aka Office 2013 for a January 29 launch in NYC.

It took nearly fifteen years, but the original Half-Life is finally available for OS X. [Steam]

AT&T sold a record 10.2M smartphones last quarter and a whopping 8.6M iPhones were activated.