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Man Sells Hacked Comcast Modems to FBI, Gets Up to 20 Years in Prison

Matthew Delorey’s business idea was to sell hacked Comcast modems which allow free Internet access. He just forgot to avoid FBI agents, conspiracy, wire fraud, and $250,000 fines. Now he may get 20 years in prison to rethink things. Delorey wasn’t doing anything insanely difficult. He was just modifying modems’ MAC addresses to match those…

The Iraq War Was A Turning Point For Robot Armies

An old trope of science fiction, from Asimov to the Teminator series, is the robot uprising. But robots have already started taking over – at least in the US military, where robots now carry out 33,000 missions per year. Call them the New Hessians: Like the German troops hired by the Brits to fight in…

Iron Man Out, Bond In For Cowboys and Aliens

Robert Downey Jr. may be too busy saving the world as Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes to revisit the Wild West, but luckily another cinematic hero has stepped in to take up the fight in the upcoming Cowboy Versus Aliens. Nikki Finke is reporting that Daniel Craig has signed on the dotted line to star…

Google Slowly Choking the Life Out of IE6

Google’s slowly killing compatibility for IE6 with Google Apps—as of March 1, Docs and Sites aren’t supported with Internet Exploder 6 anymore. It’ll load, but most of the features won’t work. Gmail and Gcal will be killing support for IE6 sometime this year TechCrunch hears, which should bring death even more swiftly to probably the…

The iPad’s Interface and Gestures: What’s Actually New (Video)

The iPad is a gargantuan iPhone, perhaps more precisely than many hoped. But, if you look closely, you can see hints of what’s truly coming next. There are a few new scraps of gestures and interface bits, all thanks to the larger screen, which you can see sprinkled throughout the keynote video: • True multi-finger…

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Three Funny iPad Videos and One Really Funny Polar Bear Video Edition

In today’s Remainders: Laughs! Technology bloggers have already chewed up and spit out the iPad over the last two frenzied days, and now the humor websites are having their say. But the real revelation here, folks, is the polar bear. Meta After days of deliberation, the college graduates at College Humor have decided on their…

Ding! Use A Kitchen Timer For Panning Time Lapse Video

If you want to give your time lapse videos a nice, smooth pan, try looking next to the pans. Using only an old school kitchen timer and a Go Pro camera, a Make reader whipped up this neat video. https://gizmodo.com/gopro-hero-hd-camera-review-5396576 The simplest hacks are the best kind, and this $7 solution is definitely satisfying by…

Cobra Christ, Superstar: The Musical

Now you can watch all three Cobra Commander musicals, Cobra The Musical, Cobra Christ, Superstar, and Return of the King… of Kings . That’s right – someone made a villain-centric Cobra musical so you can learn what’s behind the mask. Found on The Floor has all three musicals. We suggest you start with the first,…

Giant Explosions Are The Cheapest Way To Halt Climate Change, Say Scientists

A recent report from a group of environmental scientists, published in Nature, argues that cutting greenhouse emissions is much more expensive than another option we have to halt global warming: Setting of a mega-volcano that would coat atmosphere in nice, sun-blocking ash. According to an article on the report in the Telegraph: They called for…

More Apps, More Problems: How the iPad Will Change the App Store

It doesn’t really matter what you think of the iPad itself, because love it or loathe it, it will irreversibly change the landscape of the App Store. Here’s how. https://gizmodo.com/apple-ipad-first-hands-on-5457757 Apple Will Finally Have to Fix Fragmentation Fragmentation in the App Store is a problem already. Even across devices with the same screen size, same…

Get Up to $1337 From Google for Finding Chrome Bugs

To rally developers into searching for potential bugs in its Chrome browser, Google is offering $500-$1337 incentives for reporting vulnerabilities. The first person to file each bug using the Chromium Bug Tracker will be eligible for the bounty. Google’s approach is similar to what Mozilla has done in the past and frankly, I think it’s…

Important Robert Silverberg Novel, Back in Print

A classic population explosion novel, Robert Silverberg‘s The World Inside, with a contrarian point of view and lots of sex, will soon return to print — and could be the subject of an upcoming HBO series. The writer Robert Silverberg absolutely tore through through the sf world in the early ’70s, writing so much good…

Microsoft Arc Keyboard Review

Microsoft’s Arc Keyboard isn’t so much designed small because it’s great for traveling—laptops already come with compact keyboards—it’s more for compact spaces or controlling media center machines. I gotta say, it looks really nice, even if it’s awkward. https://gizmodo.com/microsofts-arc-keyboard-is-really-warped-5442670 The Price: $60 The Verdict: Pretty good. Like we said above, it’s a very pretty keyboard,…

Watch The First Four Minutes of “Lost” Season Six

Buckle your seatbelts, because the first four minutes of the new season of Lost, from the episode “LA X,” deliver some shocks. Spoilers! [via Slashfilm]

Gadget Deals of the Day

The Dell Adamo is back at a nice price, Panasonic’s VIERA is a superb choice for an HDTV, and if you’re hankerin’ for some sublime bear and unicorn action then today’s Hobomodo is a must for any iPhone owner. UPDATED https://gizmodo.com/dell-adamo-full-review-macho-outside-sissy-inside-5205524 UPDATE: Walmart’s Superbowl HDTV Deals: • Vizio 55-inch 1080p LCD TV – $1,298 (save…

Three Reasons Why We’re Closer Than Ever To Fusion Power

It seems like we’re constantly just around the corner from fusion power, and that soon it’ll solve our energy woes. While we’re not quite there yet, three new reports all indicate we’re at least getting a little closer. A joint project between MIT and Columbia University has shown the possibility of a new path towards…

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The Tablets of Our Dreams Merge With Reality

These were the tablets of our dreams. The devices we thought we’d use one day. But what do we get in reality? The iPad. The showmanship level definitely isn’t as high (Tom Cruise wasn’t available), but the usability is proven.

Twitter And Win Buffy’s Most Recent Season

Been missing out on the further adventures of Buffy The Vampire Slayer? Dark Horse Comics wants to help with a Twitter lottery to win all Season 8 collections to date. Go here for details, but hurry: It’s only running today.

Thief Gamely, Weirdly, Stupidly Tries to Rob a Security Company at CES

Click to viewI’m not saying you should try to steal anything from a trade show. That’s just wrong. But if you absolutely have to, maybe you shouldn’t start with the company that’s there selling security cameras, hrrmmmm? Willy Wu is the idiot in question, and his target was the Swann Security visitor sign-in book. The…