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“The Road” Leads to a Sentimental Post-Apocalypse

The vast, dying landscapes in The Road are edged with flame, telling a story of the world unmade in stark images. While the design in this film is eloquent, its characters aren’t. What lurks beneath their silence? The Road, which opens today, is based on a bleak novel by Cormac McCarthy where a man and…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Kindle Gets Firmware Updated to 2.3

Get excited, Kindle owners! Both the US and global versions of the Kindle as well as the Kindle DX now have fancy new firmware available, bringing a handful of new features and benefits. Here’s the rundown: Kindle (Global Wireless) and Kindle (U.S. Wireless) * Longer battery life for Kindle (Global Wireless): You can now read…

Commerce Adam Frucci

8-Bay Drobo Pro Reviewed, Approved

PC Perspective put the $1,500, 8-bay Drobo Pro through all the paces, and they found that, yes, it’s wonderful, and yes, it lacks eSATA. But if you need/want eSATA, there’s always the 5-bay Drobo S. [PC Perspective] https://gizmodo.com/drobo-s-a-faster-fatter-storage-robot-with-esata-5410809

Tech News Mark Wilson

The PC Lounge at Saks Fifth Avenue Looks Uncomfortable

This is the Microsoft PC Lounge at Saks Fifth Avenue. Looks a tad uncomfortable! Also, Twitter. Microsoft is sponsoring a Twitter feed with the hashtag #HolidayWindows that runs in a window outside. The results are, um, interesting so far. Surely you can do better, try it. Update: Microsoft says there are “filters in place to…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Cram Your Hard Drive With Sexorcists, Sextremists And Interstellar Sexplorers

The original source for science-fictional sleaze, Something Weird Video, just launched a new video download service, letting you grab entire weird exploitation movies that your parents felt guilty sneaking out to watch. And they’re as cheap as their original budgets. For just $6 a pop, you can own any one of hundreds of classic pieces…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Available Now

Windows Home Server‘s Power Pack 3 is available now, and all you have to do is go into your Windows Update section of your Home Server and hit Update to access the new features. Unless you’re one of those who accessed PP3 before it was final, in which case you have to follow these instructions…

Tech News Jason Chen

TiVo Is Slowly Dying

It’s always strange when a company that’s become synonymous with its market—like Kleenex to tissues, or Xerox to copiers—starts fading. And that’s exactly what’s happening to TiVo, whose subscriber level has dropped to where it was in 2004. This from TiVo’s SEC filing for last quarter, which shows the company losing 314,000 subscribers in the…

Television John Herrman

The Clearest View Yet Of A 1,000 Year Old Explosion

In 1054, humans recorded sightings of the mega-star explosion that created the Crab Nebula. It was so bright it was visible to the naked eye. Now three space telescopes have together created a more complete picture of the debris. According to National Geographic: This new picture of the Crab Nebula combines data from the Chandra…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Gifts for Apple Cultists Who’ve Grown Beyond Shame

If you’re reading this, there’s at least a 50 percent chance you or someone you know is a complete Mactard. Here’s their wish list (SPOILER: It’s all Apple stuff): BTW, if you hate the gallery format as much as the Grinch hated Christmas, click here. https://gizmodo.com/gifts-for-apple-cultists-whove-grown-beyond-shame-5411982/ Magic Mouse: It’s a bit too expensive for stocking…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Get a Jump on Holiday Shopping with Gilt Man

Gilt Man’s major blowout sale offers up to 90% off of hoodies, coats, sweaters, loafers, and suits. Sale on A-list brands like Adidas, Cole Haan, and Penguin starts at noon today. Shop today, chow tomorrow, chill on Black Friday! Other brands on sale: A. Testoni, Gordon Rush, Hickey, Ike Behar, J Lindeberg, and Trovata. Don’t…

Tech News Chrissie Lamond

New Parental Filter Will Annihilate Internet Porn Forever

Sorry, pervs, the perfect porn blocker is here. Conan O’Brien has saved the internets from the porn slime. Gracias, Conando! [Geeks Are Sexy]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The Bloody Bodies Of Polar Bears Rain From The Skies, Because Of You!

In what might be the most frighteningly graphic commercial we’ve ever seen, it’s raining polar bears. The giant bloody bodies are destroying this town, sending the message: Go green, or be smashed by flying bear corpses. Really horrible. [Geekologie]

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Spectacular Stop Motion Book Ad Make eBooks Seem Downright Soulless

This stop-motion ad by the New Zealand Book Council makes me glad I don’t own a Kindle or a Nook, and it makes me want to go grab a book immediately. Preferably a gritty New Zealand western. [Arbora via TDW]

Books & Comics Adam Frucci

Black Friday Ultimate List – Page 3

Table of Contents Page 1 – Cell Phones, Computers, Digital Cameras, DVD Players, GPS and more Page 2 – TVs, Video Games, Printers, Software, MP3 Players and more Page 3 – Movies and TV Shows (DVD and Blu-ray) https://gizmodo.com/black-friday-deals-the-only-list-you-need-5409460 Movies and Television (Blu-ray) 2001 A Space Odyssey (Blu-ray) – $9.49 [Amazon] https://gizmodo.com/amazons-black-friday-lightning-deals-going-on-all-day-w-5410764 Above The Law…

Gadgets Kyle VanHemert

Don’t Worry Palm, Everything’s Going To Be OK

If two new paid fart apps in one day isn’t a sign of a maturing App Catalog, I don’t know what is. Rest easy, Rubinstein. For once. [Palm] https://gizmodo.com/how-palm-lost-like-apple-in-the-80s-5392799

Tech News John Herrman

Alien Fembot Killer Found, Invasion Imminent

OK, to hell with everything. I’m not going to stick around watching how the world is liverwursted by a race of chromed alien fembots. I’m fcking off to an island near Brazil. Enjoy Armageddon! I’ll be sipping cocktails. According to manufacturer NT Research, their RAMeX bots are just humanoids with tele-operated arms and hands. Whatever,…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Doctor Who And The Concept Art Of Mars

The Mars base in Doctor Who‘s latest adventure looked almost too neat and tidy — but it originally looked a lot junkier, as this newly released concept art reveals. And click through to see guns, pencil drives and gadget gloves. [BBC Doctor Who Site] The “gadget glove” concept art Mars base visual #2 Adelaide’s gun…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Places Where the Internet Actually Happens (In Real Life)

Real, physical places form the Net’s backbone: data centers, under-sea cables, junctions, optic fiber pipes. Wired traced a single bit’s journey from England, across the US, and into Asia—a fascinating reminder at how physical the virtual really is. This fortress, which looks like a heavily armed gas station preparing for a zombie invasion (without the…

Tech News Danny Allen

Pixel Qi Dual-Mode LCD Ships Next Month; $100, 10-Watt HDTV Up Next

One is a rough manufacturing start date for a display component, and the other is an announcement so vague it barely means anything. But lest you forget: Pixel Qi‘s multi-mode, e-ink-shaming LCD technology is amazing. Pixel Qi’s last announced manufacturing date—residue of which still graces their website—was “the second half of 2009.” In big, bold…

Tech News John Herrman

Ping Pong Terminator

Vietnamese robot Topio is a master of ping pong. He also has an ab regimen that effectively distracts from his receding hairline. [Pink Tentacle]

Tech News Mark Wilson

“The Road” Leads to a Sentimental Post-Apocalypse

Kindle Gets Firmware Updated to 2.3

8-Bay Drobo Pro Reviewed, Approved

The PC Lounge at Saks Fifth Avenue Looks Uncomfortable

Cram Your Hard Drive With Sexorcists, Sextremists And Interstellar Sexplorers

Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Available Now

TiVo Is Slowly Dying

The Clearest View Yet Of A 1,000 Year Old Explosion

Gifts for Apple Cultists Who’ve Grown Beyond Shame

Get a Jump on Holiday Shopping with Gilt Man

New Parental Filter Will Annihilate Internet Porn Forever

The Bloody Bodies Of Polar Bears Rain From The Skies, Because Of You!

Spectacular Stop Motion Book Ad Make eBooks Seem Downright Soulless

Black Friday Ultimate List – Page 3

Don’t Worry Palm, Everything’s Going To Be OK

Alien Fembot Killer Found, Invasion Imminent

Doctor Who And The Concept Art Of Mars

Places Where the Internet Actually Happens (In Real Life)

Pixel Qi Dual-Mode LCD Ships Next Month; $100, 10-Watt HDTV Up Next

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