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How did humans really evolve?

Almost two million years ago, a band of brave explorers left their families behind in their warm, tropical home and sought refuge in northern lands. Armed with sharp stone tools and their wits, they followed the coast as far north as they could, then began to veer east, settling on the sunny, fertile shores of…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Green Technology Pundit Dale Earnhardt Jr. Tells Electric Car Makers to DO BETTER

Click to viewWhen he’s not driving around in circles, NASCAR racer Dale Earnhardt Jr. apparently likes to opine on the state of electric cars and green technology. CNS news tracked down Earnhardt to ask him what he thought of electric cars, specificially the Chevy Volt. Here’s what he said: “I think that the Chevy Volt’s…

Tech News Adrian Covert

SSD TRIM Support Makes an Early OS X Appearance on new MacBook Pros

We previously thought that OS X wouldn’t see TRIM support until Lion came out later this year. But as it turns out, Apple slipped it in to the 10.6.6 build currently shipping with new Macbook Pros. [Apple Insider]

Tech News Adrian Covert

This Week’s Best Apps

In this week’s app roundup: Craigslist, beautified; Infinity Blade, expanded; Android apps, suggested; Evernote, redesigned; legendary boxers, punched out; people nearby you, chatted with; taxes, made easy; group chat, freed from the bounds of SMS; and more! The week’s best iPhone apps GroupMe: We fell in love with GroupMe at CES, but at that point…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

This Week’s Best Android Apps

Thrutu: When you’re on a phone call, Thrutu puts a sliding drawer on top of your dialer to give you easy access to send pictures, contact info, location, etc. to the person you’re talking to. It’s quick and painless-just think about how many times you’ve tried to track down a phone number or explained directions…

Tech News Casey Chan

This Week’s Best iPad Apps

Battleheart: It’s certainly not the first RPG for the iPad, nor the most traditional-Aralon probably takes that title-but as far as I’ve seen it’s the best RPG designed for the iPad, a game that rewards investment but is easy to get the hang of, one that has delicious graphics and a control scheme designed around…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

This Week’s Best iPhone Apps

GroupMe: We fell in love with GroupMe at CES, but at that point the app itself was sort of secondary to the whole experience. No more! The free app got a big update, making the default messaging option free “push” messages that get piped in over your data connection (for chat that’s both quicker and…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Trucks Flying Out of the Back of an Airplane Are Just as Awesome as They Sound

Sometimes, when you need a truck somewhere, you drive it there. Sometimes, you parachute it out of the back of an airplane. Here’s how the US Air Force gets it done—the speed with which those humvees launch out of the plane is pretty spectacular. Make sure your toe doesn’t get caught. [via AcidCow]

Tech News Sam Biddle

Amazon’s DRM Policy on Android is Pretty Strict

In order to verify you’re not pirating their products, Amazon’s new Appstore on Android will reportedly require that you have the Appstore client installed on your phone and that you be signed into your account whenever you use their apps. With that in place, it becomes unclear what happens when you use an Amazon app…

Tech News Kwame Opam

Best Stories of Today, March 4, 2011

Here are the best stories on Gizmodo today. Enjoy them! No One Was Hurt in This Google Maps Plane Crash Follow this link to a Google Maps shot of Alameda, California, and you’ll see an arresting site: a downed commercial aircraft spewing debris, with its wings snapped into pieces and its hull cut cleanly in…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Libya’s Internet Goes Down Again

In the midst of the ongoing strife in Libya over Muammar Ghaddafi’s regime and craziness, internet has again been cut off from protesters. According to a report by internet access monitoring firm Renesys, Libya’s servers have been down since around 4:35 PM yesterday. Libya’s government already tried this on February 18th, shortly after national protests…

Tech News Kwame Opam

The Sixth Mass Extinction Has Begun and It’s All Your Fault

Researchers at Cal Berkeley say that we—we being humans—have probably triggered the sixth mass extinction in our planet’s history (the first man-made mass extinction!). Thanks to the last 500 years of over-fishing, overhunting, habitation destruction, and fossil-fuel-induced global warming, we could have the blood of over 75% of Earth’s current living species on our hands.…

Biology Adrian Covert

If You Bought An iPad in the Last Couple Weeks, Apple Will Give You $100 Back

If you bought an iPad between February 16 and March 2 (a.k.a. iPad 2 reveal day), and missed out on the 14-day return window, Apple is offering a $100 refund just to show there’s no hard feelings. [Cnet via Engadget]

Tech News Adrian Covert

What would happen if a Vulcan studied to become a Jedi?

Would a Vulcan find the idea of the Force too illogical? Would all of those exhortations to “trust your feelings” cause some ruffled feathers? Or would a Vulcan be the Best Jedi Evar? We asked over on the io9 Facebook page, and here are some of our favorite responses: Says Rone Barton: Vulcans have their…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

A-Trak On How the 21st Century DJ Builds His Music Collection

In a recent sit-down with NPR, turntable prodigy and longtime Kanye West collaborator DJ A-Trak gave an overview of Serato, a piece of software that lets DJs spin MP3s and other digital files with an old-school turntable setup. The software, he explains, offers a compromise between the convenience of digital files and the tactile experience…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

You Can Only Tether Three Things To Your iPhone 4 Over Wi-Fi

The personal hotspot feature in iOS 4.3 lets you tether only three things over Wi-Fi. If you want to go up to the advertised five devices, you’ll have to use Bluetooth and USB and pretty much quintuple-team your iPhone in a way that’s rather unseemly. [Engadget]

Tech News Jason Chen

iOS 4.3 Jailbreak is Available Now, And You Can Put Multitouch Gestures On Your iPhone 4

The iOS 4.3 Gold Master has already been jailbroken, meaning you can do cool things like enable the four and five figner gesture support on your iPhone 4. Just follow these instructions and these, for multitouch. Warning: This jailbreak is a tethered one, meaning you have to manually boot it into a jailbreak state every…

Tech News Jason Chen

Comedian Livestreams Himself Watching Every Single Episode of Two and a Half Men

Gil Ozeri has in his possession every single episode of Charlie Sheen‘s hit sitcom Two and a Half Men. That’s 62 hours of wacky antics that he’s going to watch, non-stop, both by himself and with some funny friends. The man is sick: My plan is to videotape myself watching every single episode of “Two…

Television Brian Barrett

Would-Be Pipe-Bomber Busted By His Own Facebook Profile

Thank goodness most criminals aren’t masterminds. Like Ernesto Garcia-Bristo here, a 26-year old man who was recently arrested in Ocean City, MD for possession of two pipe bombs. How did the cops track down such a menace? Oh, you know, just cruising by his Facebook profile. In the course of an immigration investigation—Garcia-Bristo was suposed…

Social Media Brian Barrett

The Best Deal of the Day

Oh hey, what’s this email? Naked pictures of Mila Kunis? Well, of course I’ll click! Hmm. Apparently the person who typed this message doesn’t have a very good command of English. Most of it’s gibberish. Oh well, that’s fine—I just want to see these pictures. MilaKunisNakedIPromise.exe. Yes, that must be it. That file must be…

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How did humans really evolve?

Green Technology Pundit Dale Earnhardt Jr. Tells Electric Car Makers to DO BETTER

SSD TRIM Support Makes an Early OS X Appearance on new MacBook Pros

This Week’s Best Apps

This Week’s Best Android Apps

This Week’s Best iPad Apps

This Week’s Best iPhone Apps

Trucks Flying Out of the Back of an Airplane Are Just as Awesome as They Sound

Amazon’s DRM Policy on Android is Pretty Strict

Best Stories of Today, March 4, 2011

Libya’s Internet Goes Down Again

The Sixth Mass Extinction Has Begun and It’s All Your Fault

If You Bought An iPad in the Last Couple Weeks, Apple Will Give You $100 Back

What would happen if a Vulcan studied to become a Jedi?

A-Trak On How the 21st Century DJ Builds His Music Collection

You Can Only Tether Three Things To Your iPhone 4 Over Wi-Fi

iOS 4.3 Jailbreak is Available Now, And You Can Put Multitouch Gestures On Your iPhone 4

Comedian Livestreams Himself Watching Every Single Episode of Two and a Half Men

Would-Be Pipe-Bomber Busted By His Own Facebook Profile

The Best Deal of the Day

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