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Crunchpad: Photos of TechCrunch’s Delicious Web Tablet

The web tablet TechCrunch is working on is apparently still alive, seeing as it just showed up in Michael Arrington’s posterous. UPDATED https://gizmodo.com/michael-arringtons-minimalist-web-tablet-prototyped-fu-5134201 The photos are now down from his posterous and Arrington declined to give us any more details or specs. From the techcrunch twitterfeed: fyi on the crunchpad buzz, photos were removed. apologies,…

Tech News Jason Chen

Watch Sam Rockwell Go Stir-Crazy On The Moon

A new trailer for Duncan Jones‘ Moon shows just how hauntingly lonesome Sam Rockwell‘s soujourn on that lunar mining station will be. Good thing Kevin Spacey’s a robotic barber. We also found some spoilery clips. IGN has the first official trailer for this movie, co-written and directed by David Bowie’s son Duncan Jones (aka Zowie…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Japanese TV Show Teaches Mortified Kids How To Survive Zombie Attacks

So, your kids like horror movies huh? Scare them straight with a simulated Zombie attack. It sounds cruel, but I’ll be dammed if it’s not effective. So, what can parents take away from this TV show prank? Well, I don’t have kids and I’m rarely ever around them, but my knowledge of zombies makes me…

Tech News Sean Fallon

This Space Elevator Is The Terrorists’ Next Target

Author David J. Williams has premiered some amazing art from his upcoming future-thriller book The Burning Skies on his blog, including this fantastic Phoenix Space Elevator. Click through to see a gorgeous space station. This is the Europa Platform, the largest space station in existence – and like the Phoenix Space Elevator, it’s a target…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Survey: 100% of Teens Want an iPod; 0% of Teens Want Any Other Player

News doesn’t get much worse than this for the Zunes and Sansas of the world: a whopping 0% of surveyed teens planned on buying their devices, with 100% wanting an iPod in the coming year. Piper Jaffray’s biannual Teen Survey, in its eighth year, shows a serious drop off in interest for the Zune and…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Our First Look At Robert Rodriguez’s Next Twisted Kids’ Movie

I’d completely forgotten, after watching Sayid carry around a jar of human testicles in Planet Terror, that Robert Rodriguez made sweet kiddie films. His latest, Shorts, follows the strange residents of privately owned Black Falls. In Black Falls all the houses are identical and everyone works for the corporation Black Box. Main character discovers a…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Our Favorite Lifehacker Posts of the Week

The ‘hack shows us how to fall asleep next to your computer, rip DVDs quickly and easily, skin our Xboxes and quickly find out whether or not you have Conficker. • Gradually lower your system volume so you can fall asleep to your music • Prevent bad long distance calls with Gmail time zone •…

Tech News Jason Chen

A Call For Dork Yearbook Submissions

Joel@Boingboing’s new site, Dork Yearbook, is up. I submitted a photo of myself, and Woz just submitted one I haven’t seen before: It’s a photo of a banner that he, Steve Jobs and Allan Baum were going to unfurl off a roof during graduation or something. If you look closely, you can see the word…

Tech News Brian Lam

Studio Pushes Ahead With Venom Spin Off

Two writers have been singled out to create a slobbery faced Venom spin off. My stance is pretty simple: no Topher, no thanks. Zombieland writers Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese told reporters they’ve been selected to write that Venom script. Although they weren’t able to say much about it, they also rushed to reassure fans…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Greatest Jewish Superheroes Of All Time!

It’s Passover, and that means it’s time to celebrate the greatest Jewish superheroes ever to save the planet. From The Thing to Colossal Boy, they’ve helped stop some of the worst supervillains in the universe. The website Comic Book Religion has a great list of Jewish superheroes, from which I’m shamelessly culling this list. The…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders

The Magnificent Mercury Seven: NASA’s First Astronauts, 50 Years Ago Today

Fifty years ago today NASA announced The Mercury Seven: the seven men to make up their first astronaut class. To commemorate this event, here are some interesting factoids about these American heroes. The Mercury Seven were chosen in Washington, DC from a body of 69 candidates. The name comes from Mercury, a Roman mythological god…

Space & Spaceflight Odelia Lee

AT&T Putting Up $100,000 Reward For Cable Cutting Vandals

AT&T has announced a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the saboteurs that recently cut fiber optic cable in the San Jose region. https://gizmodo.com/vandals-cut-at-t-fiber-optic-lines-in-san-jose-affectin-5205620 This incident even knocked out 911, so it’s safe to say that everyone involved is pretty pissed right now. AT&T OFFERING $100,000 REWARD IN BAY AREA NETWORK VANDALISM…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Japanese Billboards Scans You, Display Stuff You Want to Buy

A new generation of billboards displays ads suited for the individual tastes of each passerby. I can’t wait to walk by one of these and see commercials for cheeseburgers and useless Japanese gadgets. Yahoo Japan plans to install billboards equipped with cameras and facial analysis technology that identifies each person’s characteristics, such as age and…

Tech News Odelia Lee

The Conficker Virus Scams You $50 To Remove It

Kaspersky Labs discovered that Conficker is charging users $49.95 in order to “remove” the virus from your system. Is it part of a larger business model where the makers intend to profit? https://gizmodo.com/confickerd-machines-are-all-doing-something-5205046 Since it showed up in November 2008, there have been variants of the virus released. Conficker has begun updating itself, which has…

Tech News Erica Ho

Could Pirates Become an Army for the Stateless?

A group of pirates is holding a US ship captain hostage in East African waters after hijacking his freighter. Forget robot soldiers – the ancient pirate is the future of warfare in a post-national world. The US is negotiating with the pirates who took the freighter Maersk Alabama. Though crew retook the ship, their captain…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Mickey Mouse TV Mount Looks Like Something You Would See In The Neverland Ranch

Indeed, this Mickey Mouse TV mount looks like something you would have seen alongside the robot heads and Peter Pan golf carts in Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch. https://gizmodo.com/gadgets-from-the-michael-jackson-auction-from-robot-he-5154579 Still, for Disney fans, this is a pretty interesting setup. Not only does the Mickey Mouse shape provide a clean mount for your TV, it also incorporates…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Your Internet Connection Is Down: How Do You React?

You are merrily surfing the web when the lights on the modem stop blinking—that’s right, your connection is down. What is your immediate reaction in this situation? Your Internet Connection Is Down: What Is Your Immediate Reaction? ( polls) Flickr” />

Tech News Sean Fallon

Panasonic’s 50” TCP50G10 Plasma Reviewed (Verdict: Kills Most Of The HDTVs On The Market)

The guys at HD Guru got a chance to kick the tires on one of Panasonic’s latest plasmas, the TCP50G10, and came away feeling that it was one of the best HDTVs on the market. https://gizmodo.com/panasonics-2009-hdtv-lineup-de-mystified-5169098 The performance and feature packed “Full HD” (1920×1080p resolution) TCP50G10 is the least expensive 2009 Panasonic plasma set to…

Television Sean Fallon

Everything You Need To Know Before The End Of Sarah Connor

You’ve heard Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles has approached Battlestar Galactica levels of awesomeness, but you’re hopelessly behind. No worries! Here’s everything you need to know to watch tomorrow’s season finale, with exclusive behind-the-scenes pics. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles started out as a continuation of the first two Terminator movies, but it’s developed into…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders

Gates, Myhrvold To Patent Crazy Electromagnetic Combustion Engine

Bill Gates may love his Ford Focus, but he’s got plans to improve on age-old combustion, applying—along with Nathan Myhrvold and others from the Intellectual Ventures gang—to patent a smart engine with electromagnetic pistons. https://gizmodo.com/this-video-makes-bill-gates-look-cooler-than-steve-jobs-341472 The application, scooped up by our buddy Todd at TechFlash, describes a machine that would have pistons, and would even…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Crunchpad: Photos of TechCrunch’s Delicious Web Tablet

Watch Sam Rockwell Go Stir-Crazy On The Moon

Japanese TV Show Teaches Mortified Kids How To Survive Zombie Attacks

This Space Elevator Is The Terrorists’ Next Target

Survey: 100% of Teens Want an iPod; 0% of Teens Want Any Other Player

Our First Look At Robert Rodriguez’s Next Twisted Kids’ Movie

Our Favorite Lifehacker Posts of the Week

A Call For Dork Yearbook Submissions

Studio Pushes Ahead With Venom Spin Off

Greatest Jewish Superheroes Of All Time!

The Magnificent Mercury Seven: NASA’s First Astronauts, 50 Years Ago Today

AT&T Putting Up $100,000 Reward For Cable Cutting Vandals

Japanese Billboards Scans You, Display Stuff You Want to Buy

The Conficker Virus Scams You $50 To Remove It

Could Pirates Become an Army for the Stateless?

Mickey Mouse TV Mount Looks Like Something You Would See In The Neverland Ranch

Your Internet Connection Is Down: How Do You React?

Panasonic’s 50” TCP50G10 Plasma Reviewed (Verdict: Kills Most Of The HDTVs On The Market)

Everything You Need To Know Before The End Of Sarah Connor

Gates, Myhrvold To Patent Crazy Electromagnetic Combustion Engine

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