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Mouth On With Android’s Voice Actions (Verdict: It’s Great)

Voice Actions work! Really well! The video above is a good demo, showing it it navigating to Giz, sending an email, finding Starbucks and and making a self-memo. I didn’t even have to hold the phone up to my face. https://gizmodo.com/googles-one-button-voice-actions-for-android-2-2-5611377

Tech News Jason Chen

53% of Americans Don’t Want the Government to Push Broadband to Poor and Rural Areas, are Dicks

America! The land of selfish assholes. At least that’s what a new survey seems to show, with 53% of respondents against the idea of the government making high-speed broadband available to those it has yet to reach. A national survey of 2,252 adults by Pew found that 11% thought broadband should be a top priority,…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Hannah Montana is the first real 21st century superhero

Pop culture has gone superhero-crazy, but almost all superheroes date from the middle of the last century. Where’s the new, fresh costumed adventurer who speaks to the ringtone generation? How about Hannah Montana, the Disney Channel’s superstar? Hannah Montana travels around, using her pop-star powers to save the world. Her main superpower is popularity, which…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

The “true story” of a robot who shot his creator in 1932

From the research desk of pulp encyclopedist Jess Nevins comes this incredible find: A story from 1932 about how roboticist Harry May was shot by his own robot on stage in England. Nevins found the story, written in a way that suggests it is a confabulation of fiction and reality, in the Salt Lake Tribune,…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Download TweetDeck for Android Beta Right Now

As promised, the public beta for the Android version of TweetDeck is up and running. It looks quite nice! You can ogle some more screenshots and sign up for the beta over on the company’s blog. [TweetDeck] https://gizmodo.com/tweetdeck-beta-app-for-android-coming-sometime-this-wee-5609093

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

iPad Faces 32 Tablet Battle Royale as Competition Increases

Today, no other tablet has captured the public’s eye so much as the iPad—owing at least somewhat to thin competition. But Technologizer’s Harry McCracken says the tablet arena is about to get more crowded than a frat basement. McCracken believes that later this year, the iPad is about to face serious competition (at least in…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Google Chrome to Phone Connects Your Desktop to Your Android

Chrome to Phone comprises a Google Chrome extension and a Google Android app, which connects your desktop with your phone in the way that was demonstrated earlier this year at Google I/O. Essentially, sending tasks to your phone. https://gizmodo.com/android-2-2-is-2x-to-5x-faster-for-apps-plus-so-many-m-5543659 It was built by Dave Burke, Engineering Manager, in his spare time. This is the Android’s…

Tech News Jason Chen

Google’s One-Button Voice Actions For Android 2.2

The new Voice Search application on Android, starting today, lets you do tasks with just the voice search button and speaking what you want to do. The first example: texting a person by saying their name and the message. Second example: Calling a business you don’t have a number for, but know the name of.…

Tech News Jason Chen

Black-market Battlestar DVD calls the show a “tween comedy”

The cover to this presumably pirated Battlestar Galactica DVD is full of little treasures, from the back box quotes to the front cover. Which just so happens to have a picture of the U.S.S. Enterprise on it. Full version below. [via Great White Snark]

Television Meredith Woerner

The Mystery of Steve Jobs’ Plateless Benz

If you ranked the things in life that Jobs seems perfectly content to ignore, license plates would be up there with Handicap parking spaces, three-piece suits and customer demands. The proof, as it were, is all over Flickr. His 2007 Mercedes-Benz SL55 AMG has been shot without proper attire more times than an HP marketing…

Tech News Bryan Gardiner

What in the nineteen hells do you think they’re saying in these pictures?

From a book about the history of science fiction come these two utterly freaktastic magazine covers. Help us out, people — what’s going on here? What are these people saying? Image via Kollage Kid on Flickr.

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

Eye of the Tiger Entirely Played With iPads

Just what I needed to wake up today: Some Survivor on my cereal. Photographer and Gizmodo reader Jordan Hollender sent us this great video of Eye of the Tiger entirely played with iPads. He told us how they made it: Jordan told us that there were no tricks involved. All you can hear on their…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Four awesome scifi jobs the UN eliminated, and one they created

The United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs has the text of its treaties up on its site. Find out which jobs these space sheriffs outlawed, and which they created. Space: the final frontier. Or maybe not. Since the sixties, the UN has been coming up with laws that apply to this frontier, with reckless…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Shooting Challenge: Double Wide

A single camera, no matter the lens or the sensor, can only take a shot that’s so big. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, I want you to shoot double-wide photos, my plebeian name for a diptych. The Challenge Take two photos to create a modern diptych. The photos can be blended together as part of…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Palm Developing Palmtop With Detachable Cellphone?

Yes, Foleo fans, you read right. According to a recently filed patent uncovered by Unwired View, Palm is still exploring the idea of a palmtop device with a detachable, dockable cellphone component. https://gizmodo.com/palm-cans-foleo-for-now-296353 The patent is basically for a streamlined, updated take on the Foleo: a palmtop computer that houses a detachable, voice-only component (so…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Killer clones are always ruining my private vacation planet

I’m not sure what’s more awesome about straight-to-DVD flick Clone Hunter: the fact that you’re supposed to sympathize with the clone-killing guy; or the fact that the filmmakers call this “spacesploitation.” Here’s the official synopsis: What happens if the artificial intelligence that enables the wealthy and powerful to live in limitless luxury wants to share…

Trailers Annalee Newitz

GPS-Equipped, Phone-Controlled ‘Social Bikes’ Coming to NYC

We’ve seen community bike services before, but the Social Bikes setup coming to NYC puts a unique twist on the idea: the whole system is built onto each bike, allowing you to leave it anywhere when you’re done with it. Rather than having you pick up and drop off bikes from central base stations, the…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Android-Running Adam Tablet from Notion Ink to Cost from $399?

After running the serious risk of looking like vaporware, Notion Ink’s prices have been revealed for the Adam tablet, which runs Android on a Tegra chip. Sounds like we’ll still have to wait another six or so months, though. https://gizmodo.com/notion-ink-adam-delayed-by-tegra-2-issues-5507277 According to SlashGear‘s sources, there’ll be four different models of the Adam. One will use…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Did Green Lantern just kill the Deadpool movie?

Warner Brothers is already developing the Green Lantern 2 screenplay, long before GL1 is even finished. Pair that with rumors that Green Lantern will be a trilogy shot back-to-back, and where does that leave Ryan Reynolds’ other superhero movie: Deadpool? There’s a lot of speculation running rampant about the Deadpool film this week, especially after…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Repost: Giz Explains SSD

Seagate and Samsung, giants of hard drives and flash memory, respectively, will work together to develop technologies for SSD storage devices. Now would be a fine time to brush up on (and covet) the great solid-state drive. [Giz] https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-ssds-and-why-you-wish-you-had-one-5453498

Gadgets Kyle VanHemert

Mouth On With Android’s Voice Actions (Verdict: It’s Great)

53% of Americans Don’t Want the Government to Push Broadband to Poor and Rural Areas, are Dicks

Hannah Montana is the first real 21st century superhero

The “true story” of a robot who shot his creator in 1932

Download TweetDeck for Android Beta Right Now

iPad Faces 32 Tablet Battle Royale as Competition Increases

Google Chrome to Phone Connects Your Desktop to Your Android

Google’s One-Button Voice Actions For Android 2.2

Black-market Battlestar DVD calls the show a “tween comedy”

The Mystery of Steve Jobs’ Plateless Benz

What in the nineteen hells do you think they’re saying in these pictures?

Eye of the Tiger Entirely Played With iPads

Four awesome scifi jobs the UN eliminated, and one they created

Shooting Challenge: Double Wide

Palm Developing Palmtop With Detachable Cellphone?

Killer clones are always ruining my private vacation planet

GPS-Equipped, Phone-Controlled ‘Social Bikes’ Coming to NYC

Android-Running Adam Tablet from Notion Ink to Cost from $399?

Did Green Lantern just kill the Deadpool movie?

Repost: Giz Explains SSD

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