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“Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Iraq”: 22 Million Lost Bush White House Emails Recovered

According to the AP, soon-to-be-heroic technicians have uncovered 22 million email messages from the George W. Bush administration—far more than the Bush White House said they’d lost in the first place. That’s a lot of emails—but not as much data as you might first think. Berkeley estimated in 2003 the average email size to be…

What Is “Success” for Blu-ray?

According to the president of Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Craig Kornblau, if 30 percent of a movie’s home video sales today are Blu-ray, that’s pretty damn good. Consider the big picture laid out in the WSJ piece: Blu-ray, as a format, despite costing more per individual movie, only pulls around 14 percent of the revenue…

Silver PAC Evolution 5500 Remote Would Have Been Great 3 Years Ago

Remember SideShow? That technology designed for Vista that allows you to display gadgets on an external device? Silver PAC is digging it up for their Evolution 550 universal remote set for release this February. Features Include: * 4.3 inch touch-color LCD display with a resolution of 480 x 272 * ARM9 processor * 1GB flash…

Fall Into the Uncanny Valley With Your Own Robot Double

Need a gift for the robot aficionado who has everything? A Japanese company is giving consumers the opportunity to buy a moving, talking robot that looks just like them, only creepier. For a limited time, Japanese robotics company Kokoro will offer two animatronic dopplegangers to consumers willing to shell out 20.1 million yen per unit.…

At Long Last, Battleship Comes to the iPhone

Whether for crippled controls, downgraded graphics or general lack of effort, games almost always get worse when they’re ported to the iPhone. But what if you’re adapting a concept from a plastic toy? Yeah, that works. It doesn’t take a lot of imagination to guess that the Battleship concept would work great on the iPhone,…

Google’s Placeholder Page for Phone Support and Its Weird Countdown

Google has an odd placeholder page waiting. Based on the URL, it should be a page for phone support, support of a phone, support over a phone, what else? There’s also some sort of weird javascript countdown hidden in the HTML of the page so maybe some kind of mysteries are lurking there. [Google]

What We Still Need on Blu-ray (And What Should Never Go HD)

Some movies seems made specifically for Blu-ray’s abilities. Some just don’t get anything out of hi-def. So why is Hollywood so completely unable to tell the difference between the two? Let’s pull it together, studios. For all our sakes. Take a look at your Blu-ray library for a minute. See anything missing? If not, you’re…

2009 Best Shots Gallery

The name of the soldier in the “I love NY” underpants is Spc. Zachery Boyd of Fort Worth, TX, fighting next to Spc. Cecil Montgomery of Many, LA and Jordan Custer of Spokane, WA, center. A front shot of the Hudson River waterlanding, as passengers waited to be rescued. https://gizmodo.com/us-airways-waterlanding-close-up-image-of-inflatable-r-5132435 Nothing really impressive happening in…

8 Factoids About Lego You Can’t Miss

Here are eight impressive factoids about the most popular construction toy in the planet. If you want to know more, check out our extensive guide about everything you always wanted to know about Lego and the Lego timeline. https://gizmodo.com/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-lego-5019797 The Daily Mail has an interesting article about all things Lego. Not as extensive as Giz’s…

FASTRA II Gallery

Watch Nic Cage Dress Like Batman, Shoot A Child

There’s a brand new Kick-Ass clip out and well… it really does kick ass. I think Nic Cage has finally found his calling as a creepy flesh-mustached father who pumps bullets into his daughter’s chest. Plus see his superhero uniform! Click to view Click on the pic to see the full get-up over at UGO.…

The Most Powerful Desktop PC-Sized Supercomputer

Six NVIDIA GTX295 dual-GPU cards and one GTX275 single-GPU card add up to a “massive 12TFLOPS of computing power,” and they fit into the Fastra II’s desktop computer-sized case making it smaller and more powerful than the first Fastra supercomputer. https://gizmodo.com/fastra-desktop-supercomputer-built-with-4-nvidia-9800-g-394128 Coming out of the Vision Lab at the University of Antwerp, the FASTRA II…

World’s Largest Solar Office Building Opens in China

This is the largest solar-powered office building in the world, recently built in China. Spanning a whopping 246,000 square feet, it features exhibition centers, research facilities, meeting and training facilities and a hotel, all juiced up by the sun. [China.org via Ecofriend via Inhabitat]

Commercials Show the US Air Force’s Science Fiction Side

If Stargate SG-1 is to be believed, the US Air Force‘s Space Command hides fantastical technologies and runs space-bound missions. A new ad campaign paints the US Air Force as straight out of science fiction — without the aliens. The latest round of commercials for the United States Air Force play on the theme “It’s…

The TomTom Price Slashes Continue: Full iPhone Navigation App Hits $70

TomTom decided last week to offer a US-only version of their iPhone turn-by-turn app for half the price of the full North American version, which made a lot of Americans happy. And Canadians, too! See, by leaving the price of the combined Canada+America navigation app at $100, TomTom wasn’t penalizing Canadians by stranding them with…

Why Aren’t You Building Your Own UFO Yet?

Do you know why Richard Branson was in such a hurry to unveil SpaceShipTwo last week? It’s not because he loves cool toys — it’s because he was worried an inventor who’s created a personal UFO would steal his thunder. Or at least, that’s what a new press release from UFO guru Luke Fortune claims.…

107 Dazzling Christmas Lights

You readers have filled me with so much freakin’ holiday cheer that I may, MAY, not protest the holidays with my ritualistic murder of a tree. Here are the 107 entrants in this week’s Shooting Challenge. UPDATE: Wallpaper versions HERE. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-christmas-lights-5417340 Second Runner Up This is actually a picture of my Christmas tree. I shot…

And 10 Movies That Really Shouldn’t

1) Cocoon : I think that picture pretty much says it. 2) The Bad News Bears Go to Japan : The worst sports comedy not available on Blu-ray. Alternately known as Tony Curtis Needs a Paycheck. 3) Jaws: The shark looks fake enough already, guys. 4) The Darjeeling Limited: So far Bottle Rocket is the only Wes…

Boeing Dreamliner’s First Flight Being Webcast Tomorrow at 10 A.M.

The Boeing 787. The Dreamliner. The plane that keeps letting my hopes down is supposedly finally taking to the skies during a live webcast tomorrow morning, sometime after 10 a.m. PST. Let’s just hope this isn’t another letdown. https://gizmodo.com/seriously-is-the-boeing-dreamliner-ever-going-to-fly-5326774 You can find updates on the flight status, and the actual webcast right here and you…

Boxee Beta Leaks on BitTorrent

Interested in trying out the latest version of Boxee with its fancy new UI? Beta 0.9.20.9647 is now available for download from The Pirate Bay. [TPB] https://gizmodo.com/boxee-beta-finally-ready-for-primetime-just-about-5421014