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Watch the Samsung Galaxy Tab Official Teaser Video

The Samsung Galaxy Tab, a much-leaked, small-enough-to-grip-with-one-hand tablet, will be unveiled on September 2 at the IFA trade show in Berlin, Germany. But you can sneak a peek right now in this official teaser video. https://gizmodo.com/froyo-shown-running-on-samsung-galaxy-tab-along-with-sw-5620419 The specs haven’t been a very well kept secret—reportedly 1024 x 600 AMOLED screen; Android 2.2; 3.2MP back-facing camera,…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

New Law Could Land Online Impersonators in a Lot of Trouble

Online impersonation can be devastating to the victim, even if they’re not doing anything too nefarious with with the stolen identity. Now, thieves could face serious charges, even jail time, under a new bill proposed in California. It’s been put to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, with the new bill landing such identity thieves with a $1,000…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Binary stars could be causing massive planetary collisions

Three different sets of binary stars – two stars locked in orbit around each other – are surrounded by huge clouds of dust. Astronomers suspect these are the remains of gigantic planetary collisions caused by the binary stars’ intense gravity. This particular type of binary star system, known as RS Canum Venaticorums or RS CVns…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Dell Aero Gets Official: Lightweight Phone Running Obsolete Android Is $100 On Contract

Dell’s been touting the world’s lightest Android phone since March, and today the little guy is officially hits the scene for $100 with a 2-year AT&T contract. Too bad its operating system is over a year behind. https://gizmodo.com/dell-aero-hands-on-the-lightest-android-phone-yet-5500630 The Aero used to be touted as the lightest Android phone yet, but has since been downgraded…

Tech News Brian Barrett

A Cross Section of a Boeing Engineer’s Crazy-Efficient Condo

“I tend to like things in their place,” says Steve Sauer, a Boeing engineer who spent the last 7 years turning this 182-square-foot basement condo into a decked-out, three-level dwelling. Can you spot the bathtub? Ah, there it is, built into the floor just beneath the front door and covered up by a 3form Chroma…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The RIAA Wants Search Engines and Advertisers To Police You, Too

The internet bullies at the RIAA are now saying that the DMCA “isn’t working for content people at all.” Their solution? Pressure not only ISPs but search engines, payment processors, and advertisers into policing users, too. Please just go away. https://gizmodo.com/riaa-mpaa-want-government-mandated-spyware-that-deletes-5517850 At the Technology Policy Institute’s Aspen Forum, poor, unfortunate RIAA President Cary Sherman said…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Kickback-Accused Apple Exec Stuffed $150,000 in Shoeboxes at Home

Prosecutors in the case against Apple’s Paul Devine—accused of taking $1 million in payola from Asian parts suppliers—say they found $150,000 in shoeboxes at his home. Investigators are now looking for the rest, at home and abroad. https://gizmodo.com/apple-employee-accused-of-accepting-1-million-in-kickb-5612881 The prosecution says they’ve already identified two suspicious safety deposit boxes in the US, along with “a…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Joss Whedon will find a way to put more women in The Avengers

We all know Joss Whedon loves strong female characters — but The Avengers will only feature one female Avenger, Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow. How will Whedon manage to work more female characters in? He explains. In an interview with the Australian paper The Sunday Herald-Sun Whedon admitted that while Scarjo is the only female…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The New Xbox 360’s Very Special Guts

The new Xbox 360 is better for lots of reasons—like its guts. Inside is the first ever mass-market, desktop-class chip combining a CPU, GPU, memory and I/O connectivity on one piece of silicon. Here’s what it looks like: https://kotaku.com/deep-inside-xbox-360-kinect-and-why-its-the-future-of-m-5604308 Compared to the original Xbox 360’s guts, it cuts the power draw by 60 percent, and…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Jailed Journalist Sues Telecoms Company for Supplying Wiretap Tech

One journalist is attempting to take on Nokia Siemens Networks, after being jailed for a year due to an inflammatory article he wrote. What’s Nokia Siemens got to do with it? They provided the spying equipment used to find him. Iranian journalist Isa Saharkhiz has been tortured with his ribs broken and held in solitary…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Why isn’t quicksand scary anymore?

Why was quicksand a major peril in 1960s movies, but suddenly no longer scary in the 1990s? In an entertaining essay for Slate, Dan Engber explains how quicksand is getting sucked out of pop culture – but reinvented by scientists. To conduct his research into the rise and fall of quicksand in American culture, Engber…

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Enter our contest to get a free copy of Mockingjay and an iPod!

This morning, the final book in the Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay, hits stores. And you could get a copy absolutely free – plus an iPod – if you enter our contest. Details below. Contest rules In comments below, tell us why you love the Hunger Games series. You may write no more than four sentences!…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Go Daddy Coughs Up $1 .Com Domain Names

For any aspiring website entrepreneurs/squatters out there, Go Daddy‘s running a promotion through August 31st that gets you one .com domain for $1 for one year. Just enter SCHOOL99 at checkout, and fartzzz.com is yours for a buck! You can’t buy in bulk, but it looks like you can go back and snap up individual…

Tech News Brian Barrett

US Jail to Fire LASERS at Violent Prisoners

It’s a non-lethal laser as you probably guessed, but nonetheless, the Assault Intervention Device (measuring 2.2m in height) causes some serious heat when shot at an escapee or fighty prisoner. From this week, the Pitchess Detention Center will be using it to scare 65 of its 3,700 prisoners, mounting it high up a dormitory wall…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Piranha 3D’s $10 million opening weekend spawns a sequel?

Piranha 3D has only been in theaters for one weekend, but that’s not stopping the studio from delivering even more bloody bikini-clad fish carnage. Piranha 3D – The Sequel is already being planned by Dimension Films. But where? While we’re sure it’s way too early to jump the gun on where Piranha 3D- The Sequel…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Why Won’t Russia Bust Its Hackers?

In November, 2009, U.S. authorities identified BadB, one of the internet’s most ingenious financial criminals, as 27-year-old Moscow resident Vladislav Horohorin. He was recently arrested in France. But why did Russian authorities let him operate freely in the meantime? NYT sketches out a few popular theories among security experts as to why, generally, Russia has…

Privacy & Security Kyle VanHemert

You Won’t Feel the Earth Move Under Your Feet in This Quake-Proof Bed

With any luck, the only vibrations you’ll be feeling in this quake-proof bed is from…no, I won’t go there. Should an earthquake happen, the bed turns into a strongbox and stores tinned food and water in case of emergencies. The bed patent is the work of a Chinese man Wang Wenxi, who designed it to…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Captain America set pics, Torchwood hints, Super 8 creature secrets, and Olivia’s ultimate discovery on Fringe!

Spoiler bonanza! Captain America set photos reveal a key turning point. Super 8’s mystery creature is…Elvis? RTD talks Torchwood. Cameron says Avatar 2’s no Matrix Reloaded. Smallville’s Supergirl suits up! Plus Fringe, Transformers, Supernatural and All You Need Is Kill. Captain America: The First Avenger: More set photos for the latest Marvel superhero film —…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Roxio Creator 2011 Lets You Convert 2D Home Movies and Family Photos To 3D

The newest iteration of Roxio’s do-everything software bundle, Creator, will take home movies into the third dimension—it includes tools for managing, editing, and sharing 3D content and even lets users convert existing 2D photos and video into 3D. If 3D does indeed make its way out of movie theaters and into our homes, we’re going…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

AMD Announces 8-Core Bulldozer CPU

You can’t say that AMD is ever boring. The company says its next-generation Bulldozer CPU core will take a unique approach to computing that goes beyond Hyper-Threading, which some believe could offer phenomenal performance. Bulldozer makes a fairly big break from how today’s multicores are constructed. Today’s dual-, quad-, and hexa-cores are based on single-cores…

Tech News Gordon Mah Ung - MaximumPC

Watch the Samsung Galaxy Tab Official Teaser Video

New Law Could Land Online Impersonators in a Lot of Trouble

Binary stars could be causing massive planetary collisions

Dell Aero Gets Official: Lightweight Phone Running Obsolete Android Is $100 On Contract

A Cross Section of a Boeing Engineer’s Crazy-Efficient Condo

The RIAA Wants Search Engines and Advertisers To Police You, Too

Kickback-Accused Apple Exec Stuffed $150,000 in Shoeboxes at Home

Joss Whedon will find a way to put more women in The Avengers

The New Xbox 360’s Very Special Guts

Jailed Journalist Sues Telecoms Company for Supplying Wiretap Tech

Why isn’t quicksand scary anymore?

Enter our contest to get a free copy of Mockingjay and an iPod!

Go Daddy Coughs Up $1 .Com Domain Names

US Jail to Fire LASERS at Violent Prisoners

Piranha 3D’s $10 million opening weekend spawns a sequel?

Why Won’t Russia Bust Its Hackers?

You Won’t Feel the Earth Move Under Your Feet in This Quake-Proof Bed

Captain America set pics, Torchwood hints, Super 8 creature secrets, and Olivia’s ultimate discovery on Fringe!

Roxio Creator 2011 Lets You Convert 2D Home Movies and Family Photos To 3D

AMD Announces 8-Core Bulldozer CPU

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