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Kazaa Wakes Up From Lawsuit-Induced Coma, Vows to Go Legit (Updated)

Old-line filesharing services can’t seem to switch sides fast enough: Now Kazaa, leading purveyor of illegal MP3s and maliciously mislabeled pornography for a few years in the early 2000s, has been reborn as a legal, paid music download service. $20 a month gets you unlimited downloads, 2005-style: in WMA format, wrapped in tons of DRM.…

Tech News John Herrman

Universal Hopes You’ll Actually Watch Blu-ray Special Features If They’re iPhone Apps

As many collector’s editions DVDs as I’ve bought, I’ve never watched the special features. Which might be why Universal is turning them into apps for your iPhone, and letting you use it as a virtual remote for your Blu-ray player. Fast and the Furious on July 28 will be the first Blu-ray movie to go…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Good News: Palm’s Working on the Pre’s Gaming Problem

A June 29 job listing indicates that Palm plans to eventually rectify the Pre’s lack of gaming of powah—they’re looking for someone to “design, implement, debug, and optimize frameworks for game development” who has “knowledge of 3D graphics, including hardware graphics pipelines and programmable shaders.” https://gizmodo.com/palm-webos-mojo-sdk-sadly-impotent-badass-games-are-im-5317216 The bad news is that it suggests their gaming…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Why Space Travel Is Good For The Planet

As we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing, people have had a lot of discussion about the value of a revitalized space program. But, some point out, there is value in the space program beyond space itself. The British Independent newspaper talked to those who think that space programs make Earth a…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Idiots Want Robots to Draw Ads On the Moon’s Surface

A company wants to “license a technology” to draw advertisements on the Moon’s surface, which according to them could be watched from Earth. If nobody shuts them down, I’ll be there at the launch. With my land-to-air rocket launcher ready. I thought this was a joke, but apparently this deranged people are serious enough about…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

The Inevitable 256GB Thumb Drive Comes to Pass, Courtesy of Kingston

Here’s your cold, bitter, daily dose of hardware obsolescence: Just a month after passing the already-ridiculous 128GB barrier, Kingston has released the 256GB DataTraveler 300. It isn’t available in the US, but if/when it is, it’ll run around $900. [Kingston] https://gizmodo.com/kingston-launches-worlds-first-128gb-usb-flash-drive-5292392

Tech News John Herrman

New Pics From Iron Man 2 And Jennifer’s Body, Plus Huge Caprica And Pandorum Hints

The Monday morning spoiler-backing begins with new pics of Don Cheadle in Iron Man 2 and Amanda Seyfried in Jennifer’s Body. Plus the inside scoop on Caprica, Pandorum, New Moon, V, Fringe, Flashforward, Warehouse 13, Eureka, True Blood and Eastwick. Iron Man 2: On the heels of last week’s images of ScarJo in this sequel,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Whoa, Apple and RIM Make a Lot of Money

Surprise, Apple and RIM actually make a lot of money despite selling only 3 percent of the world’s cellphones. Together, they pull in 35 percent of the industry’s operating profits. An analyst suggests that if iPhone and BlackBerry’s marketshare climbs to 5 percent, they’ll rake in something like 58 percent of the industry’s operating profits.…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Time Warp Backs Up Your Time Machine, Er, Backups to Amazon’s S3 Service

One of the more interesting, ways to keep your precious Time Machine backups safe: Time Warp is a $25 app (free while in beta) that compresses and encrypts your backups, then uploads them to your Amazon S3 account. Amazon S3 runs 15 cents per GB to store, 10 cents per GB to upload, and 17…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Gateway Ambles Downmarket With Ultra-Generic, Atom-Based LT2000 Netbook

Say what you want about the Gateway LT3100‘s AMD processor and operating system options, but at least it had an angle. The $300, Atom-based 10.1-inch LT2000, on the other hand, is as predictable as netbooks get. https://gizmodo.com/gateway-lt3100-netbook-runs-an-amd-athlon-processor-le-5300552 Just see if you can guess what the spec sheet looks like: It’s got an 1.6-GHz Atom N270…

Tech News John Herrman

Still-Bitter Verizon Promises Not to Hog New Handsets, Hopes Others Will Follow

Verizon has outlined a plan to loosen its handset exclusivity deals, limiting their lifespan to six months. The announcement’s caveats are massive and Verizon’s motivations aren’t pure, but it’s nonetheless a step in the right direction. In a letter to lawmakers, the carrier announced intentions to institute a six-month limit on handset exclusivity, allowing competing…

Tech News John Herrman

Tiny Telescopes Help the Blind See Again

The bionic eye’s inexorable advance continued this weekend, as doctors reported they were able to implant tiny telescopes (telescopes!) into the eyes of patients suffering from macular degeneration. Better still, for squeamish emergency room pansies like myself, this is a “brief” outpatient procedure, say the inventors at VisionCare Ophthalmic Technologies. Just pop a telescope in…

Tech News Jack Loftus

1979: The Golden Age of Lego

1979 was the beginning of Lego as we know it today, the year when they took over the world, the year of the Galaxy Explorer. I photographed all the classic sets in my Lego trip. Here’s the never-released gallery: The Lego bricks were invented a lot earlier, but 1979 was the year of Legoland Space,…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Tsera Sues Apple, Microsoft… Everyone Else For Touchpad Tech

An obscure company has filed suit in a patent infringement-friendly Texas district against Apple and several other companies it for what it contends is—wait for it—patent infringement related to touchpad technology. The iPhone and iPod-related lawsuit, filed Wednesday, also includes Microsoft (Zune), Cowon (Curve), iRiver LG, high end speaker firm Bang & Olufsen, Philips and…

Tech News Jack Loftus

“Out of Order” Sign Graces ISS Toilet As 13 Cramped Spacefarers Share Two Stalls

Following another space-related toilet malfunction, there are currently 13 astronauts and cosmonauts sharing two toilets in orbit around the earth. https://gizmodo.com/astronauts-jiggle-iss-water-recycler-handle-but-crew-ca-5097302 Worse still, it may be clogged, although not with the kind of stuff you’d think. Nay, no plunger will help in this case, as the clog is chemical in nature, and may have seeped…

Space & Spaceflight Jack Loftus

The Month in BlackBerry Apps: Too Sunny to Work Edition

Hey guys, it was too nice this weekend to sit inside and round up apps for you. So sowwy! Inside we’ve got illicit messengers, “disruptive” Twitter apps and bloggy blog blog goodness. BlackBerry Messenger 5.0: It’s a leak and installing it is at your own risk, but if you’ve got a relatively recent BlackBerry—anything after…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Need Medicinal Cannabis? There’s an App For That

From the strange world of approved and rejected Apple App Store apps comes word today that Apple has approved a medicinal Cannabis location app for the iPhone and iPod touch. And good on them, I say. Medicinal Cannabis use works, alleviates pain, and allows people who need some serious stress relief—say, from cancer—to get that…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Sony PCM-M10 Provides Some Pro Features at “Budget” Price

The next Cronkite you certainly aren’t, but this $400 “pro-level” PCM-M10 recorder from Sony might give that semi-serious blogger gig you have based in the garage a bit more chutzpah when you’re making interviews out in the field. With the lower price point, the PCM-M10 is now the cheapest flash-based recorder in the Sony lineup.…

Tech News Jack Loftus

First Clip From Gentlemen Broncos Demonstrates The Magic Anous Writing Tool

Check out Ronald Chevalier’s world, where Sam Rockwell plays a superhero character who’s a “transvestite Captain Kangaroo.” Plus we’re digging up the real folklore vampires and new stills from Cargo which is already being buzzed as the new Moon. https://gizmodo.com/sam-rockwells-superhero-looks-like-a-transvestite-capt-5054541 Gentlemen Broncos Here’s the very first clip that we’ve seen for Jemaine Clement’s Gentlemen Broncos.…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Meet The New Middleman(ager)

Superheroing meets middlemanagement in new webseries Captain Alpha Male, showing that even men of steel can have egos of glass. Or something. Spinning out from The Hero Chronicles video podcast, Captain Alpha Male expands the mundane superhero’s universe to include a new cast of characters and more traditional sitcom format that make us wonder just…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Kazaa Wakes Up From Lawsuit-Induced Coma, Vows to Go Legit (Updated)

Universal Hopes You’ll Actually Watch Blu-ray Special Features If They’re iPhone Apps

Good News: Palm’s Working on the Pre’s Gaming Problem

Why Space Travel Is Good For The Planet

Idiots Want Robots to Draw Ads On the Moon’s Surface

The Inevitable 256GB Thumb Drive Comes to Pass, Courtesy of Kingston

New Pics From Iron Man 2 And Jennifer’s Body, Plus Huge Caprica And Pandorum Hints

Whoa, Apple and RIM Make a Lot of Money

Time Warp Backs Up Your Time Machine, Er, Backups to Amazon’s S3 Service

Gateway Ambles Downmarket With Ultra-Generic, Atom-Based LT2000 Netbook

Still-Bitter Verizon Promises Not to Hog New Handsets, Hopes Others Will Follow

Tiny Telescopes Help the Blind See Again

1979: The Golden Age of Lego

Tsera Sues Apple, Microsoft… Everyone Else For Touchpad Tech

“Out of Order” Sign Graces ISS Toilet As 13 Cramped Spacefarers Share Two Stalls

The Month in BlackBerry Apps: Too Sunny to Work Edition

Need Medicinal Cannabis? There’s an App For That

Sony PCM-M10 Provides Some Pro Features at “Budget” Price

First Clip From Gentlemen Broncos Demonstrates The Magic Anous Writing Tool

Meet The New Middleman(ager)

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