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Idiot NY State Assemblyman Wants iPhone 4 Videocalling Banned from Roads

On the surface, NY State assemblyman Felix Ortiz’s push to ban iPhone videocalling from roads makes sense. It would be horribly unsafe! But then you realize that it would be impossible, and you shake your head. Yes, about 3 minutes of fact checking on Mr. Ortiz’s part would have provided him with the info that…

Tech News Adam Frucci

OkCupid Separates the Hotties From the Rest of Us

OkCupid is through tainting its pool of attractive members with all you degenerates out there. So this week, the dating site sent an exclusive email to the “top half” of its most attractive users. With hot person privileges galore! If you’re in the blessed upper echelon of OkCupid hotties, congratulations! You’ll start seeing more good-looking…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Hands On With The Actually Decent PlayStation 3 3D

The PS3’s 3D feature—upgradeable via a software update for every PS3 out there—is actually pretty decent. Not only did we see it live, working, on a giant projection screen, but on a smaller HDTV in front of us. First up, you still need a 3D-enabled TV to play these games, even though the PS3 supports…

Tech News Jason Chen

Nintendo 3DS: Extended Play Impressions (Star Fox is Back!)

While earlier today we had a quick hands-on with the 3DS, I’ve now had the chance to play a number of actual games. My verdict? It’s a clever, occasionally brilliant system. And no, you haven’t seen anything quite like it. I”m going to gloss over the feel of the hardware. It’s not really anything you…

Tech News Mark Wilson

AT&T iPhone 4 Pre-Orders Have Sold Out

According to Boy Genius Report, all of AT&T’s pre-order iPhones have been reserved as of 4:30pm EST. And if you placed an order any time after that, you might have a bit of a wait on your hands. Updated: People who got their orders in after 4:30 are expected to get their phones any time…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Mac OS X 10.6.4 Available Now, Brings Safari 5 And Bug Fixes

Mac OS X 10.6.4 is currently sitting pretty in your Software Update and brings Safari 5, if you haven’t already jumped on the train, and what looks to be a ton of bug fixes with it. Our update weighs in at 640MB but we’ve seen some as low as 300MB. Guess we need the fixin’.…

Tech News Casey Chan

Motorola Droid X Specs Confirmed: It’s Huge and Fast

The folks over at Engadget got their hands on a Motorola Droid X and have shared some gorgeous pictures along with specs that confirm what we’ve heard about the device so far—right down to the name. Some of the listed specs include: 4.4-inch, FWVGA 854 x 480-resolution screen Android 2.1 with “some new sort of…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged is getting a (probably bad) movie.

The movie for Atlas Shrugged, that brick o’ Objectivist philosophy by chain-smoking aficionado Ayn Rand, is in a weird place. Its director was canned right before filming. The new director? The male lead, the dad from One Tree Hill. Cool? The film adaptation of Atlas Shrugged — which takes place in a dystopian America where…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Verizon and Motorola Unveiling “The Next Generation of Droid” June 23

Verizon just sent out an invite for an event on June 23 at which they—along with Motorola, Google, and, yup, Adobe—will officially announce “the next generation of Droid.” Droid 2? Droid X? Droid Shadow? Get excited, Android fans.

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

What krakens can teach us about peer review

This spoof video takes you deep into Kraken anatomy, and is hilarious. But, as Greg Fish argues, it also teaches a serious lesson about crank science. This video took all those curious into the bowels of a creature big enough to swallow ships whole and decapitate eight men with just one of its monstrous suckers.…

io9 Greg Fish

Sweet Ice Cream Light

I want to see Olivia Munn licking this ice cream light. [Oh Joy via ffffound]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

First Image of Walking Dead’s Rick Grimes, post-apocalyptic American hero

Meet Walking Dead’s Rick Grimes. Rick fell into a coma and woke up to a zombie-infested world. Now he’s just trying to find his family. Father, husband, cop, Rick Grimes is the everyman hero forced to make impossible decisions. AMC just released the first ever image of Rick Grimes, played by Andrew Lincoln. Looks great,…

Television Meredith Woerner

The PlayStation Network Gets a Subscription Package

PlayStation Plus gives you an “enhanced” experience, on top of all the free stuff that regular PlayStation Network gives you. Early demos, beta invites, discounts on PSN stuff and patches. One year costs you $50. You also get some content that you own ONLY when you have a subscription, meaning it goes away when you…

Tech News Jason Chen

PlayStation Move Arriving September 19, Bundled For $99

Sony’s got the stage at E3, and they just announced the date when their motion-controlled system, Move, will start sucking up your free time: September 19. A Move bundle, including an EyeToy camera and Sports Champions game, will cost $99. Move will be available bundled with a PS3 for $399. Individual, bauble-topped Move wands cost…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

AT&T Now Taking iPhone 4 Orders In Pen and Paper

We told you this morning: AT&T is now taking orders with pen and paper. Is this the exclusive partner that Apple wants to sell their precious iPhone 4? I thought only hookers did this nowadays. Click to viewAT&T servers are so absolutely collapsed (read about why here) that even computers at the physical stores have…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

What Is the Nintendo 3DS?

The Nintendo 3DS. Is it a DS, just in 3D? Is it an entirely new thing? What’s the deal? The Nintendo 3DS is a portable game system… In an era of multifunctional smartphones, the 3DS mostly attempts to do one thing well: Play games. At its most simple, it’s the sort of Nintendo portable you…

Tech News Mark Wilson

The Fantastic Roadtrip-a-Matic: Now Even More Fantastic

The Fantastic Roadtrip-a-Matic is 20 ready-to-ride roadtrips, steeped in everything from hiking and biking, to backroads and underground railroads, to foodies and photogenic elk. Fantastic! Even more fantastic? A chance to win a stay at one of PA’s swankiest hotels. Your vacay could win you another one in the Fantastic Roadtrip-a-Matic Shutterbug Challenge. Just become…

Tech News Gawkercreative

“The Many Faces Of Spock” is a perplexing journey into Spock-worship

Imagine a magazine entirely devoted to images of Spock in different wigs, or at different weights. Welcome to The Many Faces Of Spock, issue #1, which is called “Beamed Up And Displaced.” Artist and publisher Ramsey Sibaja calls the magazine a “surreal, strange trip into the world of Star Trek. Well more specifically Spock .…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Get ready to fall in love with David Meng’s bizarre creatures

You’ve already admired David Meng’s incredible design work for the aliens in District 9. But looking at some of his other sculptures and illustrations of weird monsters, you wonder if Guillermo Del Toro has seen this WETA artist’s work yet. Meng tells us: I pursued this career because I felt it would give me the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

iPhone 4 Order Security Breach Exposes Personal Information

Apple’s iPhone 4 pre-ordering has been a total disaster, but it gets much worse: An AT&T insider claims that this iPhonecalypse may be related to “a major fraud update that went wrong.” The bug is exposing AT&T users’ private information. So far there have been at least three accounted cases of mistaken identities sent by…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Idiot NY State Assemblyman Wants iPhone 4 Videocalling Banned from Roads

OkCupid Separates the Hotties From the Rest of Us

Hands On With The Actually Decent PlayStation 3 3D

Nintendo 3DS: Extended Play Impressions (Star Fox is Back!)

AT&T iPhone 4 Pre-Orders Have Sold Out

Mac OS X 10.6.4 Available Now, Brings Safari 5 And Bug Fixes

Motorola Droid X Specs Confirmed: It’s Huge and Fast

Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged is getting a (probably bad) movie.

Verizon and Motorola Unveiling “The Next Generation of Droid” June 23

What krakens can teach us about peer review

Sweet Ice Cream Light

First Image of Walking Dead’s Rick Grimes, post-apocalyptic American hero

The PlayStation Network Gets a Subscription Package

PlayStation Move Arriving September 19, Bundled For $99

AT&T Now Taking iPhone 4 Orders In Pen and Paper

What Is the Nintendo 3DS?

The Fantastic Roadtrip-a-Matic: Now Even More Fantastic

“The Many Faces Of Spock” is a perplexing journey into Spock-worship

Get ready to fall in love with David Meng’s bizarre creatures

iPhone 4 Order Security Breach Exposes Personal Information

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