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This Week’s Gaming Stories You’d Better Not Miss

There are some things that occurred this week…notable things…notable things involving jet boats, bikini mini golf, lightsabers and sex game pranks. Hydro Thunder Returns With All-New Xbox Live Arcade Sequel I can’t wait to drive my jet boat through Chichen Itza. https://kotaku.com/hydro-thunder-returns-with-all-new-xbox-live-arcade-seq-5502892 The Time Is Right For A Lightsaber Video Game The time is also…

Tech News Mark Wilson Mar 26 '10

The iPad App Price Pump

So, one thing that struck us in those leaked iPad App Store screens: The apps are markedly more expensive. This is not surprising, given the obvious. The iPad is bigger. Its apps, logically, are bigger and more complicated, possibly packed with more features. So they demand more money. But there’s a few things that we…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 26 '10

Apple Putting Explicit Categories Into the iPad and iPhone App Store…Again?

Oh, that pesky “explicit” category in the iTunes App Store! First it was there, then it was gone, and now it may be coming back again—for both iPhone and iPad apps. https://gizmodo.com/new-explicit-category-in-app-store-could-herald-retur-5479226 Based on this and this iTunes link, Mac Stories believes that Apple will be putting the “explicit” category back into the App store.…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Mar 26 '10

The Earth Rotates? Prove it!

We’ve covered how to prove that the earth revolves around the sun, just in case you’re sent back in time. Now your patrons grow impatient. What have you done for them lately? Keep the grog flowing by explaining Foucault’s Pendulum. https://gizmodo.com/the-earth-revolves-around-the-sun-prove-it-5464810 By the time Foucault’s Pendulum arrived on the scene, it was already a well-known…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell Mar 26 '10

El Jobso Answers All Your Questions

Want to know what’s next from Apple? Looking for some advice from the man himself? Want to know what he really thinks of Eric Schmidt? Look no further: Now you can Ask El Jobso.

Tech News Jesus Diaz Mar 26 '10

How To Become Immortal (The Archaeological Way)!

As Queen once so memorably asked, “Who wants to live forever?” Everyone, of course! Even though science is still dragging its feet on the whole immortality thing, we’ve got the lowdown on how to make your remains live on forever. There’s an entire sub-discipline of archaeology – the wonderfully named “archaeology of death” – that…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Mar 26 '10

So Awkward: Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt’s Body Language Analyzed

I thought Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt looked a little tense during their meeting today, and body linguistics expert, Janine Driver, who used to be an officer for the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, agrees. Awkwardness: confirmed. https://gizmodo.com/steve-jobs-and-eric-schmidt-spotted-together-again-pho-5503004 Here’s a shot of the two men on stage, when they were friendly. And here are…

Tech News Brian Lam Mar 26 '10

Nvidia’s GTX 480: First Fermi Benchmarks

Can a three billion transistor GPU that eats power supplies for lunch find love and glory in the hearts of gamers? Enrico Fermi gained fame as a key player in the Manhattan Project, which gave the world nuclear fission and the first atomic bomb. Nvidia’s Fermi GPU architecture – now seeing the light of day…

Tech News Don Nguyen Mar 26 '10

Infallible Method to Get Chatroulette Boob Flashing

Here’s an offer no girl can refuse: Show your boobs or the snake eats the baby bird! It works. Every single time. Or maybe not every time, but there are plenty of chickens. The sophistication level of Chatroulette is bottomless. https://gizmodo.com/play-the-chatroulette-bingo-now-and-win-win-hey-5501494

Tech News Jesus Diaz Mar 26 '10

Nvidia GeForce GTX 480: The “Fastest GPU in the World” Is $500 of Eyeball Toastiness

Some of the hard specs on Nvidia’s completely next-gen Fermi graphics cards have been out there, but this is what you can actually buy around April 12: The $500 GeForce GTX 480 and $350 GeForce GTX 470. https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-gf100-512-core-monster-graphics-card-previewed-5450970 Nvidia’s calling the GTX 480 the “fastest video card in the world” with 480 processing cores (ha)…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 26 '10

40+ Examples Of How Big-Screen Superhero Costumes Fail

When superhero/supervillain costumes succeed on the big screen, it’s a miracle. But it’s also rare. The movie superhero outfits are a multiverse of fail, and here are 40-odd examples of total costume catastrophe. Brace yourself, this won’t be pretty. https://gizmodo.com/comic-book-costumes-that-actually-look-good-in-movies-5488873 As terrible and shabby as these examples are, I have a feeling we’ve only scratched…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 26 '10

A Spoiler Free Review Of The New SGU

Next Friday, Stargate Universe is back! And if you can’t wait a whole week, check out our spoiler-free review of the next episode. Can the series keep hitting the higher standards it set in the last episode? Everything we’ve been asking for, plot-wise, is starting to happen. All the complaints of “You’re in space in…

io9 Meredith Woerner Mar 26 '10

This Is the Next Module for the International Space Station

The International Space Station is almost done. This is Rassvet, one of the last three modules to be installed. It was shown today in Florida, and will travel to space in the last flight of the Atlantis. Rassvet is a mini research module (MRM1) that will be connected to the Russian segment of the station,…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz Mar 26 '10

iPad App Store Screenshots Leak

Well, hello! App Annie stumbled onto the “actual iPad feed for the app store” and has produced screenshots of the iPad App Store which are giving us a peek at some of the apps which will be available at launch. I don’t see some of my favorite apps in this line up, but an iPad-sized…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Mar 26 '10

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Tell Me Something I Don’t Know Edition

In today’s remainders: Apple hints at an LTE iPhone, augmented reality finds a new niche, Thomas Edison brings down the house, and Microsoft comes clean about its cryptic ads. Ye Olde LTE iPhone An Apple job posting for a Cellular Technology Software Manager got the hens-a-cluckin’ today in regards to Apple developing an LTE phone.…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals Mar 26 '10

iPad Piano App Nota Reminds Us That Bigger Can Be Better

We loved Nota, a piano learning app, on our iPhones. But we love the iPad version far more. Just look at how much better the iPad app looks when put right next to its iPhone counterpart: https://gizmodo.com/this-weeks-best-iphone-apps-5497767/ As mentioned, it’s not just about appearances when it comes to iPad apps and their iPhone counterparts. The…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Mar 26 '10

Even The Zombies You Love Will Eat You In The End, On “Supernatural”

Last night’s Supernatural episode, “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid,” gave us a batch of kindly zombies who just want to return to their small town lives. And it showed us Bobby’s horrific back story – which may be his undoing. This was a good post-haitus episode: It was monster-of-the-week enough to make sense to people…

Television Annalee Newitz Mar 26 '10

Tron Title Sequence, Reimagined for 1960

Saul Bass is known for his work in famous 60s title sequences like Psycho and North by Northwest. So what would it look like if he made the opening to Tron? Vimeo user Hexagonall gives us an idea. [Wired]

Movies Mark Wilson Mar 26 '10

iPhone Video Apps Now Have to Be Sensitive to AT&T’s Fragile Network

AT&T and Apple finally allowed iPhone apps to stream video over 3G, but now they’re enacting a new condition: To get approved, Justin.TV’s new iPhone app needed a low quality video stream to downgrade to during periods of network congestion. https://gizmodo.com/slingplayer-iphone-app-finally-allowed-to-stream-tv-ove-5464089 In other words, video apps will apparently need to be able to adapt to…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 26 '10

Hey You, RSS Readers

You. You that’s reading this post on your RSS feed reader. Yeah, you. That’s right, nobody else can see this except you! Come on in. I’ve got some news. Our RSS feeds have gone excerpt-only. That means you can only see some of the post—for our posts that go beyond the first paragraph because we…

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 26 '10

This Week’s Gaming Stories You’d Better Not Miss

The iPad App Price Pump

Apple Putting Explicit Categories Into the iPad and iPhone App Store…Again?

The Earth Rotates? Prove it!

El Jobso Answers All Your Questions

How To Become Immortal (The Archaeological Way)!

So Awkward: Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt’s Body Language Analyzed

Nvidia’s GTX 480: First Fermi Benchmarks

Infallible Method to Get Chatroulette Boob Flashing

Nvidia GeForce GTX 480: The “Fastest GPU in the World” Is $500 of Eyeball Toastiness

40+ Examples Of How Big-Screen Superhero Costumes Fail

A Spoiler Free Review Of The New SGU

This Is the Next Module for the International Space Station

iPad App Store Screenshots Leak

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Tell Me Something I Don’t Know Edition

iPad Piano App Nota Reminds Us That Bigger Can Be Better

Even The Zombies You Love Will Eat You In The End, On “Supernatural”

Tron Title Sequence, Reimagined for 1960

iPhone Video Apps Now Have to Be Sensitive to AT&T’s Fragile Network

Hey You, RSS Readers

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