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Why Play Backgammon On Your Phone When You Can Spend $25k on This Set?

There’s a reason this backgammon set costs $25,000. It’s not a very good one, mind you—unless you happen to collect carbon fiber objects. The pieces are chiseled from 24-carat gold and silver, too. No diamonds, sadly. While I love playing backgammon, there’s no way in hell I’d consider spending $25,260 on the briefcase-set. But would…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Dell’s Flip-Top Tablet-Netbook Transformer Still Looks Bonkers In Official Vid

When Dell first showed off its Inspiron Duo at IFA, the hybrid tablet-netbook seemed like one very neat piece of vaporware. But! Could this promo video be a sign that Dell’s Duo dreams are actually coming true? https://gizmodo.com/dells-inspiron-duo-is-a-10-netbook-tablet-transformer-5637897 Hopefully! The vid doesn’t show off much more than what we already knew, albeit with a bit…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Tiny fossil fingers reveal Neanderthals had tons of sex

Neanderthals and ancient ancestors of modern humans were probably far more promiscuous than we are today. How do we know? Because their fingers were shorter than ours are. Androgens are the hormones that collectively affect the development of masculine traits in both males and females. They are also thought to affect how long people’s fingers…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Mega-Video Chatting Skype 5 Beta Is Now on Your Mac

Skype Beta 5 OS X is now up for download—bringing you a host of tweaks, interfaces changes, and most importantly—awesome group video chatting. We can’t promise your Mac Skype vid conferences will feature Jason Chen clones, however. [Skype] https://gizmodo.com/skype-5-0-windows-beta-has-10-way-video-calling-5628892

Tech News Sam Biddle

Firesheep Vigilante Warns Exposed Users by Messaging Them With Their Own Facebook Accounts

You might question his methods, but New York software engineer Gary LosHuertos wanted to warn his fellow Starbucks customers that their browsing data was open to the world, thanks to Firesheep. So he hijacked their accounts to prove it. Gary sat, idling with a cup of coffee, until he had collected around 40 Facebook logins…

Social Media Sam Biddle

io9’s Environmental Writing Contest

We can’t prevent environmental disasters without preparing for them. That’s why io9 is going to pay $2000 each to two people who write the best stories about environmental disaster. It’s io9’s Environmental Writing Contest – for science fiction and non-fiction. io9 is looking for stories that deal with environmental disaster, whether caused by random asteroid…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Giz Rides the Cash Cab: You Totally Would Have Won $200 Yesterday

There’s nothing more rewarding to us than you, our readers. Well, that, and starring on yesterday’s episode of Cash Cab. This mysterious gadget blog (rumored to be Steve Jobs’ favorite) netted a couple $200. It could have been you! The bearded gent in the peacoat had no problem identifying us as the website in question…

Tech News Sam Biddle

The Space Shuttle’s last blaze of glory on the launch pad

The Space Shuttle Discovery sparkles with pride as it’s unveiled to reporters before its final launch, later today. More gorgeous photos of the ship preparing for its last flight into the unknown, below. In these photos, Discovery sits behind the protective rotating service structure on launch pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center November 3,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

From Walkman to Facebook: How Tuning Out Led to Tuning In

The Walkman is dead. Long live the Walkman. More than thirty years after triggering a music and lifestyle revolution, Sony has officially retired the Walkman in Japan (there is still a lone model for sale in the U.S.). A Sony engineer named Nobutoshi Kihara designed the original model for Sony co-chairman Akio Morita, who was…

Social Media Dave Pell

Sweet Headphones Up for Grabs

All we very nicely ask you to do is endure this simple survey, send a quick email including the last question of the survey to [email protected], and you’ll be entered to win a pair of $150 Bose AE2 headphones for your next Silent Disco. https://gizmodo.com/half-naked-ravers-served-drinks-by-glow-in-the-dark-rob-5649296/ Standard contest rules apply. Only open to US residents. Readers…

Tech News Gawkercreative

3D Holograms Invade the Fourth Dimension

Click to viewHolography has just gained a fourth dimension, bringing the prospect of Star Wars-style holographic telepresence into the real world. Ever since Emmett Leith and Juris Upatnieks made the first laser holograms in 1963, holography has been the future of three-dimensional imaging. Once created, a hologram can be illuminated to create a pattern of…

Tech News Jeff Hecht - New Scientist

All the stuff we’d like to buy at the Back To The Future prop auction

Back To The Future producer Bob Gale mentioned they were auctioning off memorabilia, but we had no idea there would be so many goodies. Check out the greatest scores, including the exceptionally rare Eric Stoltz vanishing photograph. https://gizmodo.com/things-we-learned-at-the-back-to-the-future-reunion-5673070 The auction is being held at Profiles In History. All proceeds go to charitable foundations like The…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Plex Media Center on Jailbroken AppleTV Looks Delicious

Plex, an especially handsome piece of media center software, has been shoehorned onto jailbroken AppleTVs. It’s still in early development, but man if this isn’t the most beautiful way to stream all those files of yours to your TV screen. https://gizmodo.com/here-is-the-first-jailbroken-apple-tv-app-5669840 Though it currently requires some Terminal noodling and it can’t quite figure out images…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Scarlett Johansson is playing a super-sexy alien, plus first look at Jessica Alba in a leather catsuit for Spy Kids

Scarlett Johansson is making her very own Species as an evil alien seductress. Jessica Alba catsuits-up for Spy Kids. Ian McKellen may not be back as Gandalf. Learn why the mysterious machine is key to all things on Fringe. Spoilerama! Under the Skin: Scarlett Johansson will reportedly star as an alien who travels the world…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Jawbone Jambox: Don’t Stick This in Your Ear

If you thought Jawbone would just make Bluetooth headsets forever, you were mistaken. (Those of us who bet that the fashion-forward company’s next product would be a handbag were also quite wrong.) Meet the Jambox: It’s a thumpin’ portable speaker. https://gizmodo.com/aliph-jawbone-icon-review-bluetooth-celebutante-5450435 JAWBONE JAMBOX Price: $199 Available: November 16th at Apple Stores or Best Buy (pre-order…

Tech News Joe Brown

Here’s How to Turn a Dell Streak Tablet Into a SNES

The Dell Streak tablet is nice and everything, but what it really needs is a…SNES CONTROLLER. Thankfully modder “0TheRain0” hacked the Streak’s PDMI port with a Teensy USB Microcontroller board, so it just assumes the SNES is a USB keyboard. Now, 0TheRain0 can play Yoshi’s Island 2 (via an emulator) just like Nintendo never imagined.…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Apple Reportedly Confirms MacBook Air Display Issues Internally

According to BGR, Apple’s internal support system confirms that the new 11-inch and 13-inch MacBook Airs are experiencing display bugs in some cases. Both the flickering and fading are known issues, although there’s no real fix for them—yet. https://gizmodo.com/some-new-macbook-air-owners-are-reporting-possible-logi-5679906 Apple employees have been told to say that they’re aware of the problem, and that a…

Tech News Brian Barrett

If the Zip Jams Up On These ZipBuds Earbuds, You’re Screwed

There’s no doubt that these ZipBuds won’t be giving your Sennheisers a run for their money, but do your $200 pair of buds zip up all the way to your chin like a jacket? I don’t think so. The manufacturer behind them, Digital Audio Group, says they’ll be going on sale November 9th, for a…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Steve Jobs is More Powerful, Whereas the Google Guys Lost Their Power (According to Forbes)

There were some huge movements in this year’s Forbes Most Powerful People, with the Google guys Larry Page and Sergey Brin dropping from their joint-fifth spot last year, to 22nd and 23rd respectively. Steve Jobs climbed from 57 to 17. Bill Gates, despite leaving his cushy CEO job at Microsoft, was the only tech person…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Sharp Uses its Glasses-Less 3D Screens in Two Android Phones for Japan

A few months back I tried out a glasses-less 3D prototype from Sharp, where the cameraphone took “3D” photos and made them pop out in their parallax barrier screens. That tech’s now in two Android phones—for Japan, anyway. https://gizmodo.com/sharps-parallax-barrier-technology-and-3d-camera-seen-i-5629483 The Galapagos 003SH and 005SH phones will launch on the Softbank network, with both phones having…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Why Play Backgammon On Your Phone When You Can Spend $25k on This Set?

Dell’s Flip-Top Tablet-Netbook Transformer Still Looks Bonkers In Official Vid

Tiny fossil fingers reveal Neanderthals had tons of sex

Mega-Video Chatting Skype 5 Beta Is Now on Your Mac

Firesheep Vigilante Warns Exposed Users by Messaging Them With Their Own Facebook Accounts

io9’s Environmental Writing Contest

Giz Rides the Cash Cab: You Totally Would Have Won $200 Yesterday

The Space Shuttle’s last blaze of glory on the launch pad

From Walkman to Facebook: How Tuning Out Led to Tuning In

Sweet Headphones Up for Grabs

3D Holograms Invade the Fourth Dimension

All the stuff we’d like to buy at the Back To The Future prop auction

Plex Media Center on Jailbroken AppleTV Looks Delicious

Scarlett Johansson is playing a super-sexy alien, plus first look at Jessica Alba in a leather catsuit for Spy Kids

Jawbone Jambox: Don’t Stick This in Your Ear

Here’s How to Turn a Dell Streak Tablet Into a SNES

Apple Reportedly Confirms MacBook Air Display Issues Internally

If the Zip Jams Up On These ZipBuds Earbuds, You’re Screwed

Steve Jobs is More Powerful, Whereas the Google Guys Lost Their Power (According to Forbes)

Sharp Uses its Glasses-Less 3D Screens in Two Android Phones for Japan

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