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Is This What Happened With Steve Jobs and His Ninja Stars?

Here’s a reconstruction of what allegedly happened when Steve Jobs was caught with shurikens at Kansai Airport. OK, it’s actually a reconstruction of how we all imagined it. But even while Apple denied it, Steve could still be a ninja. https://gizmodo.com/was-steve-jobs-busted-for-bringing-throwing-stars-into-5637551 Let’s think about this again: Apple denied that Steve was caught with ninja stars…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Major Subscription Newspapers Heading to Your iPad Soon?

Apple will give the ailing newspaper biz welcome news with an iPad subscription option, the San Jose Mercury News reports. The deal will likely see Apple taking a slice of both subscription and advertising revenues, instead of a flat fee. Interestingly, Roger Fidler of University of Missouri’s Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute speculates Apple will…

Tech News Sam Biddle

A Week With the New iPods

After spending seven days living with our new iPods, we’re gonna let them stay. As far as media-slinging sidekicks go, they’re pretty good. But it’s not all sunshine and rainbows. iPod Touch: Multimedia Life-Partner It’s easy to say that the new iPod Touch is the best iPod Touch ever. (It is.) It is un-possibly thin—so…

Reviews Gizmodo Staff

Korea’s man-eating pig masterpiece, Chaw, coming to the U.S.!

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the pig pen… We’ve been pumped for Chaw, Korea’s monster pig movie, for a couple of years. So it’s amazing news that Magnet Releasing has bought the U.S. rights. Magnet is renaming the film Chawz, to try and suggest that this is sort of…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Android Can Now Compete, Play With iOS Gamers With OpenFeint

Aurora Feint‘s mobile social gaming network for Android launches today with top iOS games like Fruit Ninja, MiniSuadron, Super Slyder, The Moron Test, and Tic Tac Toe. Announced earlier this summer, OpenFeint aims to be a cross-platform gaming ecosystem. https://gizmodo.com/social-gaming-network-openfeint-coming-to-android-5581997 OpenFeint features cross-platform leaderboards, achievements, and friending, allowing Android and iOS users to compete in…

Tech News Christina Bonnington

Beam Your Laptop to Your TV With Veebeam

Veebeam does not do anything new. There are a variety of ways to get content from your computer to your TV. But the Veebeam does it easily. Web? Games? Movies? Hulu? With a Wireless USB dongle and receiver, you’re set. By plugging the $99 Veebeam’s antenna into your computer’s USB port, whatever is on your…

Movies Sam Biddle

The octopus landed on composite tentacles, and prepared to remake the world

Mothership would chuck the terraforming crew out one by one, their bodies curled inside the furled exoskeletons of the octopi, and send them skipping across the atmosphere like rocks on a pond. Eventually, they sank and hit dirt. Planetside again. The octopi could walk across a slippery sand pile bigger than most oceans on a…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Yamaha’s NS-10: The Most Important Speaker You’ve Never Heard Of

It’s not often you can trace so much creative and artistic awesomeness back to a single piece of gear—particularly in the music industry. Meet the Yamaha NS-10: A speaker you’ve probably never heard of, but have definitely heard. Quick, pick an album you love from the 80s or 90s. Any album. Regardless of where you…

Tech News Bryan Gardiner

MTV greenlights a “COPS with vampires” mockumentary

We’re imagining that MTV’s new show Death Valley is like COPS, but instead of chasing a half-naked hillbilly down the freeway, these boys in blue will be chasing a half-naked vampire. No doubt the kids will go crazy, right? THR is reporting that Death Valley, which is starring Mad Men’s Caity Lotz and Lost’s Tania…

Television Meredith Woerner

Internet Explorer 9 Preview: Uh, Nice

Internet Exploder, an excellent browser? With Internet Explorer 9, it’s possible! Microsoft’s made a very pretty browser that feels like it’s a part of Windows 7, loaded with HTML5 compatibility and unmatched graphics hardware acceleration for whizzy, whizzy web apps. It’s way more standards compliant than any previous version of IE, with a 95 score…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Google Me Coming This Fall To Make Your Web Even More Social

At yesterday’s Google Zeitgeist conference in Arizona, CEO Eric Schmidt confirmed that the company will roll out a new social service, internally dubbed Google Me, sometime this Fall. They basically want to give your web a social booster shot. Schmidt didn’t offer too many details on the service, according to the Wall Street Journal, but…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The haunting beauty of abandoned playground rockets

Once, these rocket ships helped countless schoolchildren to conquer the vast reaches of space. Now, they look like a good way to get tetanus, with their rusty distressed metal. Photographer Lauren Orchowski’s new book Rocket Science documents their beautiful decrepitude. Orchowski’s photographs won second runner up in the portfolio category of the 2010 International Photography…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

10,000 Birds Trapped In the World Trade Center Light Beams

This is a view of the 9/11 memorial lights. There’s something floating in them, gliding slowly with an eerie glow, giving them the look of unearthly portals to another dimension. Spooky, but it has a natural explanation. Updated with video: Robert Bejarano—this week’s Shooting Challenge winner—took the picture and video above. https://gizmodo.com/51-radiant-ray-wallpapers-5637546 They were thousands…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

It’s Large, It’s HD, It’s As Good As Android Gets (In Europe)

The WinMo-running HD2 was one of the first 4.3-inch phones we ever saw, and straight-away I asked HTC if they would create an Android version. Flip forward a year, and we have the Android-running EVO 4G and Desire HD. https://gizmodo.com/htc-touch-hd2-review-a-tragedy-5400593 With the EVO 4G being a Sprint (and US) exclusive, the Desire HD is aimed…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The 200 Supermen of the post-apocalyptic badlands

When civilization collapses, it’ll be at the hands of 200+ wanton Supermen. They will terraform Earth into one giant desert to facilitate the absorption of the Sun’s yellow rays. Then they will pose for photo ops and laugh, laugh, laugh. But for real, these photos were taken on September 4 at Burning Man 2010. Attendees…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Helmet Cam Footage Shows What It’s Like To Repair a Broadcast Tower

Do you ever wonder just how paralyzingly scary it is at the top of a 1,700 foot broadcast tower? Where you’re closer to the clouds than you are to the ground? Let this guy do the climbing. [Neatorama]

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Nokia Hands Out Snarky “HTC Press Conference Survival Kits” to Journalists in London

The term “sour grapes,” coined by story-teller Aesop, refers to the bitter envy felt by one party, when presented with the unobtainable. Today, that’s Nokia—envious of the fact that people chose HTC’s event over Nokia World. True, perhaps the planning of both events could have been better thought-out, but when both Nokia and HTC staged…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The lost concept art from Paul Greengrass’ Watchmen

Before Zack Snyder put his stamp on Watchmen, both Terry Gilliam and Paul Greengrass had taken a pass at translating Alan Moore’s work. Concept art from Greengrass’ version has come out, showing how he’d planned to update the story. In an interview with Comic Book Resources, Greengrass’ production designer Dominic Watkins, revealed his book of…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Apple Looking for Metal Experts

If you are a swordsmith with 800 experience, 903 strength, 540 dexterity and 1230 magic points, and have an engineering degree focused on amorphous metals, Apple is looking for people to work with their exclusively-licensed Liquid Metal technology. https://gizmodo.com/is-apple-working-on-liquid-metal-terminators-or-what-5608322 They are looking for an extremely qualified Amorphous Metal Development Manager, an Amorphous Metal Development Engineer,…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Nokia Vs HTC Gallery

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Tech News Kat Hannaford

Is This What Happened With Steve Jobs and His Ninja Stars?

Major Subscription Newspapers Heading to Your iPad Soon?

A Week With the New iPods

Korea’s man-eating pig masterpiece, Chaw, coming to the U.S.!

Android Can Now Compete, Play With iOS Gamers With OpenFeint

Beam Your Laptop to Your TV With Veebeam

The octopus landed on composite tentacles, and prepared to remake the world

Yamaha’s NS-10: The Most Important Speaker You’ve Never Heard Of

MTV greenlights a “COPS with vampires” mockumentary

Internet Explorer 9 Preview: Uh, Nice

Google Me Coming This Fall To Make Your Web Even More Social

The haunting beauty of abandoned playground rockets

10,000 Birds Trapped In the World Trade Center Light Beams

It’s Large, It’s HD, It’s As Good As Android Gets (In Europe)

The 200 Supermen of the post-apocalyptic badlands

Helmet Cam Footage Shows What It’s Like To Repair a Broadcast Tower

Nokia Hands Out Snarky “HTC Press Conference Survival Kits” to Journalists in London

The lost concept art from Paul Greengrass’ Watchmen

Apple Looking for Metal Experts

Nokia Vs HTC Gallery

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