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Older TiVo Series 3 and TiVo HD Get Pandora Today

TiVo Premiere already has Pandora, but older models—the Series 3 and the HD/HD XL—are getting Pandora today. It works the same as Pandora on any other device, except it’s attached to your TV and sound system. [TiVo]

Tech News Jason Chen

The Fourth Kind screenwriter’s new film: Cloverfield on the Moon

When will the “found footage” style of movie die? Possibly when films like Cloverfield and Paranormal Activity stop making tons of cash. Olatunde Osunsanmi, writer of The Fourth Kind, is writing and directing Dark Moon, a lunar “found footage” epic. According to the Hollywood Reporter, this will be yet another movie in which a camera…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

In Iain M. Banks’ Surface Detail, a real war over virtual Hells

Iain M. Banks’ new novel, Surface Detail, is some of the best work he’s done in his galaxy-spanning Culture universe. A story of virtual Hell and true resurrection, it’s about the consequences of technology that makes religious afterlives possible. Spoilers. At the center of a sprawling cast of characters – including hyperintelligent AI Minds, virtual…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Verizon Wireless Customers With Crappy Service: Your 3G Microsite Is Here

Live in an unfortunately located apartment or rural area (or any other cellular phantom zone)? Verizon will let you turn your net connection into 40 feet of 3G. This is still, however, a pricy fix for bad service. The 3G Network Extender—a generic black box from Samsung—will allow use from up to six phones at…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Get Your Google Tasks on Your iPad With GooTask 4

Task-managing app GooTask has a big new update, bringing Google-synced to-dos to your iPad (as well as any other iOS device). GooTask will give you access to your lists, tasks, and sub-tasks, as well as producing local offline backups. [iTunes via Macworld]

Tech News Sam Biddle

This Is How You’re Going to Learn the Guitar

Rock Band 3 is going to make tens, if not hundreds of thousands of gamers into actual guitarists. How? It cleverly shoehorns guitar lessons into a game that kids and adults both love. And this is how it looks. https://gizmodo.com/how-harmonix-is-tricking-lazy-gamers-into-learning-real-5564594 I’m currently working on a review, but for those of you who are wondering what…

Tech News Jason Chen

Gadget Deals of the Day

We’re drooling over today’s tasty #dealz on a Sony Home Theater Projector, Xbox 360 Bundle, and a free Orange N Creme dessert from Taco Bell. Top Deals: • Sony VPL-BW7 LCD Home Theater Projector for $449.99 with free shipping (normally $600). • Xbox 360 4GB Console, Extra Controller, 1 Year of Xbox Live, 4000 Xbox…

Tech News Adam Harris

Gaiman meets Barth in a novel about a cellphone network made out of whales

When we saw Corwin Ericson’s Swell, just accepted for publication, described as “Neil Gaiman’s American Gods meets John Barth’s Giles Goatboy,” we had to find out more. And what we discovered involved terrible technological crimes against whales. Ericson, the former managing editor of the Massachusetts Review, just sold his novel Swell to Dark Coast Press,…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Kindle For Mac Adds Annotation and Highlighting

Kindle’s biggest strength? Platform ubiquity. Even more so after this Kindle for Mac update that lets you add and edit notes and highlight passages, syncing everything across all Kindle apps and devices. That cross-platform functionality—through Amazon’s Whispersync technology—is the standout new function, but you’ll also now be able to search within a book, and use…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Why We’re Not Reviewing the Nokia N8

As much as we’d love to see a great new phone from Nokia, we’re not reviewing the N8. The phone was, unfortunately, irrelevant before it launched. Like a top-of-the-line horse-drawn carriage released shortly after Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon. Nokia itself has declared that it’s abandoning Symbian for all of its N-Series phones. Nokia…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

App Turns Everyone Into Justin Biebers

Justin Bieber feels that he is the Kurt Cobain of his generation. Little he knew that Steve Jobs feels like the Justin Bieber of his generation. The good news: Now you can feel like him too, with the BieberHair application. I know Jobs will find it disgusting that it’s available for iPhone and Android, but…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Trailer for Eli Roth’s horrific clown movie: real or fake? UPDATE

There is nothing scarier than a clown. Nothing. We’re not sure if this trailer for Eli Roth’s Clown is real or fake, but one thing we do know is that it’s terrifying. It appears that this trailer might actually be for a real movie written by Waverly Films’ Christopher Ford and Jon Watts. It says…

Movies Meredith Woerner

47 Photographic Rorschach Tests

The infamous “Rorschach Test” is was just a drop of ink pressed between two sides of a folded paper. But the 47 tests that follow have been updated for the mighty year 2010—taken with cameras, rarely utilizing ink. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-rorschach-test-5662879 Lead Shot – Tree / Demon Bull I took this photo of a tree against the…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Shooting Challenge Rorschach Gallery

While this is the first shooting challenge I have actually entered, it is not the first that has worked my brain into a frenzy, attempting to come up with something worthy of Giz. I thought for nearly a week on differing mediums that would lend themselves to this challenge. My son’s silhouette, paint, even chocolate…

Tech News Adam Harris

Did you know Michael Mann made a Nazis vs. demon bomb that never came out on DVD?

In 1983, Michael Mann directed The Keep, a WWII horror movie about Nazis battling a ancient Romanian wizard. Despite Sir Ian McKellen, Gabriel Byrne, and a score by Tangerine Dream, this wacky cult film’s never been released on DVD. The Keep, which is based on a novel by F.Paul Wilson, stars a group of Nazis…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

The Most Popular Phone in the World

Nokia has problems. Smartphone problems. Software problems. American problems. But to fully understand what’s wrong, we’ve got to understand what’s been right, or to put in another way, what’s distracted Nokia. Meet the most popular phone in the world. https://gizmodo.com/why-were-not-reviewing-the-nokia-n8-5667723 It has been said that more of the world’s population has access to a cellphone…

Tech News John Herrman

Ancient turtle bones reveal that Antarctica was once a rain forest

These days, Antarctica is the coldest, driest place on Earth. What little life it harbors clings to the edges of the continent. But that wasn’t always true. 45 million years ago, Antarctica was a lush rain forest, teeming with life. Although we tend to associate the term with hot, sandy places like the Sahara, the…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Tron Legacy’s latest poster goes retro

The latest Tron Legacy image is channeling classic 80s movie posters – including the posters for the original Tron. (Thanks to all the commenters who pointed this out.) Do you like this epic retro look? [Yahoo]

Movies Meredith Woerner

Is the Internet Safe for Kids? Taiwanese Animators Hilariously Investigate

A flashmob organized by Pedobear. Google CEO Eric Schmidt vaporizing a child’s mind from the window of his robot car. Charlie biting his brother’s finger off. Just some of the scenes found in Taiwan’s latest (and perhaps greatest) animated report. https://gizmodo.com/google-is-road-testing-cars-that-drive-themselves-5659935 This video has the questions, but who has the answers? [Gawker] http://gawker.com/5667437/are-oversharing-parents-ruining-their-kids-lives-probably

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

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Tech News Scott Kidder

Older TiVo Series 3 and TiVo HD Get Pandora Today

The Fourth Kind screenwriter’s new film: Cloverfield on the Moon

In Iain M. Banks’ Surface Detail, a real war over virtual Hells

Verizon Wireless Customers With Crappy Service: Your 3G Microsite Is Here

Get Your Google Tasks on Your iPad With GooTask 4

This Is How You’re Going to Learn the Guitar

Gadget Deals of the Day

Gaiman meets Barth in a novel about a cellphone network made out of whales

Kindle For Mac Adds Annotation and Highlighting

Why We’re Not Reviewing the Nokia N8

App Turns Everyone Into Justin Biebers

Trailer for Eli Roth’s horrific clown movie: real or fake? UPDATE

47 Photographic Rorschach Tests

Shooting Challenge Rorschach Gallery

Did you know Michael Mann made a Nazis vs. demon bomb that never came out on DVD?

The Most Popular Phone in the World

Ancient turtle bones reveal that Antarctica was once a rain forest

Tron Legacy’s latest poster goes retro

Is the Internet Safe for Kids? Taiwanese Animators Hilariously Investigate

Sign up for the Gizmodo Newsletter, Win an iPad

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