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Whoever Steals Your iPhone Can Just Turn Off Find My iPhone Location Tracking

Find My iPhone was one of the best things Apple showed off on Monday at WWDC—track your phone, send harassing messages, etc. It works, but whoever pinched your iPhone can just turn off tracking right from the phone. https://gizmodo.com/find-my-iphone-lets-you-ping-remotely-erase-your-lost-5283371 So, if you wanna steal your friend’s iPhone and not have them know where you absconded…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Learn The Truth About Alien Oppression And Secret Artifacts At District 9 And Warehouse 13 Sites

Two budding franchises, the Peter Jackson-produced District 9 movie and the Syfy Channel‘s new series Warehouse 13, have launched new websites. And they both want you to help consign aliens to internment camps, or weird objects to an Iowa warehouse. The District 9 website goes some way towards selling you on the movie’s concept, of…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Does Your TV Still Work?

In case you have been oblivious to the endless warnings and apocalyptic terror of those who fear they will live in a world without television, the DTV transition is happening today. So I have to ask, does your TV still work? https://gizmodo.com/reminder-dtv-transition-is-today-june-12th-5287742 Does Your TV Still Work?(opinion) If you or someone you know was unprepared…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Congress Pushing For Bill To Reduce The Volume Of TV Advertising

Under a new proposal taken up today, Congress would give the FCC power to limit the volume of commercial advertising to match the average decibels of the show being watched. Under current laws, TV ads must not exceed the loudest peak in a show—but anyone who has ever been scared half to death by Billy…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Aronofsky’s Robocop Delayed Until 2011

The announcement of a new Robocop comics title this week only reinforced our curiosity about the status of the upcoming movie reboot, about which we’ve heard nothing in recent months. So we called MGM and got the 411. https://gizmodo.com/robocops-comic-return-will-be-soon-violent-5287423 https://gizmodo.com/now-we-know-aronofskys-robocop-not-sequel-5071684 An MGM spokesman told us the project is still on track — though not for…

Movies Gary Susman

Andrew Stanton’s John Carter Of Mars Ready To Start Filming… In Utah’s Alien Landscape

Fresh from its supporting role as the planet Vulcan in Star Trek, the state of Utah is preparing for its role as Mars in Disney/Pixar’s long-awaited live-action version of John Carter of Mars, which begins production there in November. “Utah has become Hollywood’s destination spot for depicting exotic intergalactic worlds.,” notes the state’s Salt Lake…

Movies Gary Susman

8 Gadgets That Hide All Of The Nasty Stuff You Do

You know all of that nasty, gross stuff you do in private? Now you can do all of it in public thanks to the following products. I mean, why should you have to change? Collegelawstudent” />

Tech News Sean Fallon

Missing Sync For Pre Helps Sync Contacts and Calendar

Palm already lets you sync the Pre with iTunes via its clever pretending-to-be-an-iPod, but that only gets music, video and photos onto your phone. Missing Sync does the rest. It’s an extension of their other Missing Sync products that are already out for BlackBerry and Windows Mobile. It lets you grab contacts and calendar (great),…

Tech News Jason Chen

When You’re Stuck as a Miner on the Moon, You Only Have Yourself For Company—Literally

In the new movie Moon, we get all of our energy from mining on the moon and we have sentient robot helpers. And, surprise surprise, all that fancy tech creates some pretty serious problems. The movie surrounds the ordeals of Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell, turning in an incredible performance), a astronaut who’s stationed on the…

Reviews Adam Frucci

50 Glorious Scifi Movie Intro Voiceovers

Any movie that starts with Morgan Freeman’s cask-aged voice, telling us we’re screwed, is off to a great start. Many science-fiction movies open with voiceovers, which prepare you for greatness… or bombard you with backstory. Here are 50 of our favorites. Too bad War Of The Worlds goes downhill a bit after that amazingly portentous…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Nearly Final Windows 7 Build 7229 Now Available at Your Local Pirate Bay

A new post-release candidate 1 build of Windows 7—specifically, build 7229—has creeped onto BitTorrent. This is supposedly one of the last builds before Windows 7 is released to manufacturing. As always, grab at your own risk. [Thanks Bouke!]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Science Fiction Movies That Start With Deep Personal Monologues

Some science fiction movies start out with a more personal touch — one character giving an internal monologue about their feelings. Either it’s a character being introspective, or it’s some kind of noir deal, where the person talks about their pain in a hardcore, tough-guy way. Here are some of our faves: Red Planet: This…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Voiceovers That Turn Into Conversations, And Weird Voiceover Spoofs

This is sort of a catch-all for two categories that didn’t quite deserve their own pages: monologues that start out as a voiceover, and then turn into someone talking to the camera; and voiceovers that are just sort of demented, silly or satirical. They’re both a bit different from your standard science fiction voiceover, in…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

What The Hell Are You Talking About, Crazy Announcer?

You know a science fiction movie is going to be totally absurd and balls-to-the-wall when it starts off with a voiceover that just throws a giant ball of crazy at your head. Someone who is trying not to giggle gives a little speech about how there was a guy named Zaark 795, and he rose…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

In The Year 2727, Some Messed Up Shit Happened!

Perhaps my favorite kind of opening voiceover is the kind where the narrator starts out by intoning, “In the year 2027, we realized we had gone out of the house without any lower garments, and the Earth was reduced to rubble as a result. The survivors lived in caves, eating scraps of jerky. Until one…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

You Can’t Have An Apocalypse Without A Gloomy Voiceover

It’s just the law of apocalypses: You can’t feature the destruction of all (or most) life on Earth, without throwing in a gloomy monologue explaining exactly how we blew it all to hell. It’s the way things work around here. Typically, these monologues include scenes of devastation as well as a droning voice talking about…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Anything Sounds Cool If It’s Said In A Creamy English Accent

It’s really true. You can narrate anything in a smooth English accent, and it sounds awesome. It’s like spreading brie all over your frontal cortex, eliminating all of your B.S.-detectors. Someone with an English accent is saying it, so it must be brilliant. Right? X-Men: Patrick Stewart could tell us to jump off a cliff,…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Gadget Deals of the Day

More laptop, monitor, HDTV, and DVD/Blu-ray deals are in store for you today. Oh yeah, and I got some free food and COD4 for cheap, so I’m going to be gaming instead of working. Shh, don’t tell Jason. Computing and Peripherals: • Lenovo G530-44623U 15.4″ Dual Core Laptop for $379.99 plus free shipping (normally $446).…

Tech News Andi Wang

This May Not Be the Most Believable Steve Jobs Rumor

We all love rumors, but this one, well, let’s just say it’s not the most trustworthy rumor we’ve ever seen. Let’s consider the source. It’s from a scummy site called Palluxo Media that, when investigated by Fortune, seems to have its sights set on lowering Apple’s stock prices: “You fell for Palluxo?,” wrote “cynyc” –…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Kindle DX Sells Out In Two Days

Kindle DX (reviewed here) just started shipping Wednesday on Amazon and it’s already sold out. Either people really love that DX, or the Earth only produces enough resources to sustain manufacturing a few units at a time. [Amazon via Macworld] https://gizmodo.com/kindle-dx-review-5286789

Commerce Jason Chen

Whoever Steals Your iPhone Can Just Turn Off Find My iPhone Location Tracking

Learn The Truth About Alien Oppression And Secret Artifacts At District 9 And Warehouse 13 Sites

Does Your TV Still Work?

Congress Pushing For Bill To Reduce The Volume Of TV Advertising

Aronofsky’s Robocop Delayed Until 2011

Andrew Stanton’s John Carter Of Mars Ready To Start Filming… In Utah’s Alien Landscape

8 Gadgets That Hide All Of The Nasty Stuff You Do

Missing Sync For Pre Helps Sync Contacts and Calendar

When You’re Stuck as a Miner on the Moon, You Only Have Yourself For Company—Literally

50 Glorious Scifi Movie Intro Voiceovers

Nearly Final Windows 7 Build 7229 Now Available at Your Local Pirate Bay

Science Fiction Movies That Start With Deep Personal Monologues

Voiceovers That Turn Into Conversations, And Weird Voiceover Spoofs

What The Hell Are You Talking About, Crazy Announcer?

In The Year 2727, Some Messed Up Shit Happened!

You Can’t Have An Apocalypse Without A Gloomy Voiceover

Anything Sounds Cool If It’s Said In A Creamy English Accent

Gadget Deals of the Day

This May Not Be the Most Believable Steve Jobs Rumor

Kindle DX Sells Out In Two Days

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