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Nook Makes Its Way To Android

Nook for Android has arrived, letting you read your Nook books and buy new titles on any Android phone. The app automatically syncs bookmarks and most recently read pages, and it includes LendMe, though your Droid disapproves of sharing. Nook for Android has many of the ebook app standbys: turning pages just takes a flick,…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jul 22 '10

I Must Get $2M to Buy This Personal Submarine

If I had $2,000,010, I would sink $2M in this Personal Submarine, a spacecraft-looking two-person underwater vessel that can go down to 1,000 feet. Then I will use the $10 to buy a fake Ringo Starr mustache. The Personal Submarine uses two 3-horsepower vertical/translational thruster powered by electric batteries and controlled by a central joystick…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jul 22 '10

Dell Repairs Servers With Virus-Laden Motherboards

Could you imagine this scenario? You order a replacement motherboard for your PowerEdge R310, R410, R510 or T410 server, and it comes with a virus. That only occurred in less than 1% of these models that were repaired by Dell, but it doesn’t exactly help one sleep well at night. Dell blamed the issue on…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jul 22 '10

AT&T Doubles 3G Integrated Devices Since Last Year

Thanks in part to the record 3.2 million iPhones AT&T activated last quarter and continued iPad success, there are now twice as may “integrated devices” on the company’s beleaguered 3G network as there were just a year ago. Those additional customers—27% of iPhone buyers were new to AT&T—also helped lift the carrier to nearly $31…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jul 22 '10

Sony Considering 3DS-Like 3D Slider for PS3

The neatest idea inside the Nintendo 3DS isn’t just its 3D screen. Rather, the neatest idea is that you can tweak the 3D depth of this screen with a realtime slider. Now, Sony might borrow the idea for PS3 games. https://gizmodo.com/nintendo-3ds-extended-play-impressions-star-fox-is-ba-5564376 A Sony games producer behind an upcoming Sly Cooper collection suggested that a slider…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jul 22 '10

Tetris ‘Sausage’ Machine One Step Closer To Reality

Remember the lovely Tetris ‘sausage’ illustration? It’s now been mocked up in Lego format. Now we have Lego-based proof-of-concept it’s surely only a matter of time until it’s scaled up to full production. [Mikropikol via Technabob] https://gizmodo.com/the-terrible-truth-of-how-the-tetris-sausage-is-made-5585272

Tech News Gary Cutlack Jul 22 '10

Navigate The 3D Globe of News

TV network ABC has released a custom ABC News iPad app that’s interesting for two reasons—its clever use of HTML5 and the amazing rotating Globe of News. Oh no, news isn’t just listed in a list like some boring old RSS reader here, instead your lead stories are warped around a navigation globe, giving today’s…

Tech News Gary Cutlack Jul 22 '10

Half a Plane Flown Using Algae Juice

One of the two engines of this plane is running on biofuel derived from algae. And it managed to stay in the air. The only modification required to switch the EADS demonstrator to the eco-friendly fuel was a slight tightening of the engine injection nozzles, due to the algae-juice producing more explosive power than standard…

Tech News Gary Cutlack Jul 22 '10

Floor Gallery

Comic Con Floor Gallery Warner Brothers had the entire pink corpse of the Green Lantern’s Abin Sur. More pictures at Comic Book Movies and Cinema Blend. Asgard reconstructed More Asgard. Captain America’s shield. Data! Cobb’s snow gear in Inception Inception Inception Inception Vampire Priest poster. Priest cycle. Vampire killing Priest cycle. Spartacus! Mjolnir! Tron Recognizer.…

io9 Meredith Woerner Jul 22 '10

Unlucky Thief Steals iPhone With Live GPS-Tracking App Running

Jordan Sturm was probably stunned when her iPhone was suddenly snatched away by a bike-riding thief. I know I was when the exact same thing happened to me—except unlike Jordan, I wasn’t testing a live GPS-tracking app. Apparently Jordan was in the middle of testing out a product called Alert & Respond—which is explained as…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Jul 22 '10

Is It Time To Add Your Boss To This Sexual Harassment Registry?

Whether he was a perverted old man, a cruel taskmaster, or just plain annoying, we’ve all had a bad boss at some point. There’s a new website though—complete with a sexual harassment registry—that lets you vent about him. The idea behind eBossWatch is to keep track of bad employers through user submissions. Basically you can…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Jul 22 '10

How To Tell If Your Significant Other Is A Robot

Feeling unloved, but getting plenty of loving? This comic could be interpreted to suggest that such a situation may indicate that your significant other is a robot. [SMBC]

Books & Comics Rosa Golijan Jul 22 '10

14 Female Convicts, Six Digital Cameras, and One Romanian Prison

This photo may not be a masterful snapshot, but I think it’s absolutely beautiful. It was taken by a female convict in a Romanian prison—a woman who was terrified just holding the Canon Powershot camera entrusted to her. Based on a vague translation of the site these photos are housed on, it seems that someone…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Jul 22 '10

Stan Lee wishes that he came up with Lobo

At the opening festivities of Comic-Con, we caught up with the one and only Stan Lee at Activision’s Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions party. At this soiree, Stan the Man divulged that he wishes he dreamt up DC’s Main Man, Lobo. Here are some excerpts from our chat with Stan: What Spider-Man villain would you like to…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jul 22 '10

Don’t You Dare Laugh At This Guy’s $50,000 iPod

If you dare chuckle about the $50,000 diamond iPod hanging from pro boxer Floyd Mayweather’s neck, please be sure he doesn’t hear you. Because otherwise you may never be able to giggle again. I just hope that wondering why he hasn’t upgraded to an iPod touch yet won’t get me knocked out. [Twitter—Thanks, Esteban!]

Tech News Rosa Golijan Jul 21 '10

Bloatware Creeps Into Android Phones

Android-based smartphones are falling victim to something that has plagued PC users for years: bloatware. Android phones are being pre-loaded with trial software and apps that can’t be deleted off the device by the user. These apps touting mobile TV, football games, location-based search and games are the new face of bloatware, also known as…

Tech News Priya Ganapati - Wired Jul 21 '10

CIA Drone Guy Becomes New Top Spy

How crucial have drone strikes become to the CIA? A senior official involved with them just became the agency’s new top spy. CIA Director Leon Panetta named John D. Bennett the next chief of the National Clandestine Service, the operations side of the agency. Bennett, a retired Marine and four-time agency station chief who returned…

Privacy & Security Spencer Ackerman - Wired Jul 21 '10

Two Driverless Cars Have Begun 8,000-Mile Journey from Italy to China

A team of Italian engineers is gearing up for a high-tech road rally that should impress even the outside-the-box dreamers over at DARPA: an 8,000-mile journey from Italy to China, with nobody behind the wheel. The three-month convoy will be the longest test of driverless vehicles ever conducted, taking the cars through twisting mountain passes,…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jul 21 '10

WD-40 Goes Retro

You probably have a can of it somewhere. Save the time searching, pick up one of their limited edition twin packs, and finally fix that squeaky door that’s driving everyone crazy. WD-40, with its 2,000+ different uses, is currently available in their original 1950s can of black and yellow for their Now & Then promotion.…

Tech News Christina Bonnington Jul 21 '10

Cord Rangers To The Rescue!

The Japanese are great at coming up with things you had no idea you had a need for, like these AC Adapter Rangers. Keep the cords on your desk organized and untangled with these little… Firemen? Astronauts? Hazmat guys? No idea how well they actually do the job, but a set of two AC Adapter…

Tech News Christina Bonnington Jul 21 '10

Nook Makes Its Way To Android

I Must Get $2M to Buy This Personal Submarine

Dell Repairs Servers With Virus-Laden Motherboards

AT&T Doubles 3G Integrated Devices Since Last Year

Sony Considering 3DS-Like 3D Slider for PS3

Tetris ‘Sausage’ Machine One Step Closer To Reality

Navigate The 3D Globe of News

Half a Plane Flown Using Algae Juice

Floor Gallery

Unlucky Thief Steals iPhone With Live GPS-Tracking App Running

Is It Time To Add Your Boss To This Sexual Harassment Registry?

How To Tell If Your Significant Other Is A Robot

14 Female Convicts, Six Digital Cameras, and One Romanian Prison

Stan Lee wishes that he came up with Lobo

Don’t You Dare Laugh At This Guy’s $50,000 iPod

Bloatware Creeps Into Android Phones

CIA Drone Guy Becomes New Top Spy

Two Driverless Cars Have Begun 8,000-Mile Journey from Italy to China

WD-40 Goes Retro

Cord Rangers To The Rescue!

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