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Podcaster Version 1.1 Available on iPhone App Black Market

Podcaster, the app that just won’t quit no matter how many times Apple tries to shut it down, is now up for download on Cydia as version 1.1. People who want Podcaster can now get it through the iPhone app black market, though questions about why it was blocked from legitimate channels are still left…

Tech News Elaine Chow Sep 30 '08

Microsoft, Washington State Sue Scareware Makers over Fake Error Messages

Picture this: You’re trying to figure out why your grandmother’s computer is running so slow when she mentions that an error message told her to download a $39.95 “fixer-upper,” and you realize that some rat bastard out there tricked the poor old dame into installing spyware. Doesn’t that make you angry? It’s certainly pissed off…

Tech News Elaine Chow Sep 30 '08

Field of Light: Nikolai Tesla Meets Lenny Kravitz

When I see images of Bruce Munro’s Field of Light installation, whatever glumness I might have felt during the day disappears, and that Beatle-esque Lenny Kravitz song of a similar name starts playing in my head. If I had the chance to check out Munro’s light installation, coming to Project Eden in Cornwall, England on…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Sep 30 '08

Ars Technica Plays with LiquidTV/TiVo PC, Thinks It’s Pretty Good

Ars got their hands on Nero’s freshly-announced LiquidTV/TiVo PC team-up, and thought the TiVo software and Hauppauge TV Tuner hardware was a good experience for $200 ($100 for software only). They looked not only at how the UI functioned in the PC environment, but also at export options, content exchange, and hardware performance. Here’s what…

Tech News Adrian Covert Sep 30 '08

Netflix to Open API and Databases to the Public

Netflix will introduce their API to the public tomorrow at the Experience AJAX conference, and according to ReadWriteWeb, it will allow free access to movie data and stats stored on their servers. This doesn’t mean that anyone will be able to write a streaming video app for any random piece of open hardware. However, it…

Movies Adrian Covert Sep 30 '08

Which of the EIGHT Versions of the Iron Man DVD Should You Buy?

Okay, so you don’t have a Blu-ray player and you’re not getting a new Dell. That still leaves you with eight—EIGHT—different versions of Iron Man to choose from, with everyone from Walmart to Borders hawking their own exclusive kit. Best Buy’s might be the most exquisitely fanboy fapworthy, encasing with the flick and a custom…

Movies Matt Buchanan Sep 30 '08

Inside Every Street Girl, There’s Really A Psychopathic Robot From The Future

It’s funny how easily robot-apocalypse trauma can look like runaway street girl trauma to a trained social worker. Last night’s Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles was back to making the funny juxtapositions between the fucked up stuff in our everyday lives and the supreme fuckage of the robo-slaughter to come. Along the way, it yielded…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Sep 30 '08

Sony Cuts Price on Fancy S550 Blu-ray Player (Still No Dealzmodo)

Yesterday Sony dropped the $400 BDP-S350 Blu-ray player to $300, a fair line to cross. Today Sony made the next logical step, dropping its $500 BDP-S550 to $400. It’s a sizeable price decrease, and it comes well before Thanksgiving, indicating that there could easily be another sweet drop. I’m still more of a fan of…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Sep 30 '08

Science Fiction Takes A Shower: A Video Compilation

Click to viewThe best part of movies and television is working the cliché. We couldn’t help noticing lately how many science fiction shows feature the obligatory shower scene. So we decided round up some of the more unique scifi shower moments in praise of all things wet and wild. Also, it’s been a rough week…

io9 Meredith Woerner Sep 30 '08

TDK Crams 260GB into 1.8-inch HDD, Sets A New Density Benchmark

TDK has announced a new hard drive at CEATEC that manages to fit 260GB of data into a 1.8-inch form factor. Using their prototype TMR head, TDK is able to attain a surface recording density of 803 gigabits per square inch, besting Toshiba’s previous 378 gigabits per square inch. The leap was made possible by…

Tech News Adrian Covert Sep 30 '08

Pandora and Other Webcasters Saved by Act of Congress

Today the otherwise preoccupied Senate quickly passed the Webcaster Settlement Act many of you petitioned for, granting Pandora and other net radio services the right to negotiate royalties with the record industry’s SoundExchange coalition for the years 2006 to 2015. OK, that’s a mouthful—what it means is, they will likely not be driven to bankruptcy…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Sep 30 '08

Glitch Drops Google Stock Price $200 in Four Minutes, Wiping Out $62 Billion

At probably like the worst time ever for your stock to plummet harder than a meteor on a collision course with Bruce Willis, a glitch knocked $200 off of Google’s stock price—that’s half—in the span of four minutes as the markets were closing today. $62 billion. Erased. In four minutes. The glitch has been fixed,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Sep 30 '08

Your Chance To Leave Earth With NASA’s Greatest Astronauts

The amazing Discovery Channel series When We Left Earth comes out on DVD and Blu-Ray today, and it’s a mindblowing look at four decades of off-world exploration. Simultaneously grand and intimate, the series lets you glimpse just how harrowing and freaky an astronaut’s life could be back during the peak of the space race. We’ve…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Sep 30 '08

Transformers 2 Will Be Shot in IMAX, Get Ready for Five-Story Transformers

Holy crap. Parts of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen are being shot in IMAX, meaning you’ll get to see literally five-story Transformers getting smashed, exploded and all of the usual Michael Bay craziness in the only screen size truly worthy of Michael Bay. Like The Dark Knight, non-IMAX scenes will be letterboxed, and it’ll blow…

Movies Matt Buchanan Sep 30 '08

Get Your Directions From an Old, Washed Up Character from a Terrible Show

While I understand why people would want their GPS navigators to give them directions in the voice of KITT or Mr. T, I have no idea who in their right mind would want Kim Cattrall (the old one) from Sex in the City telling them where to go whenever they drive. Not only will her…

Tech News Adam Frucci Sep 30 '08

Punching Bag Changes Color Just Like a Video Game Boss

Remember playing something like TMNT arcade, and Bebop and Rocksteady would grow increasingly red, tempting you to throw in quarter after quarter because every moment seemed like the moment they would be defeated? This punching bag works under the same philosophy, though it turns from red to a sickly yellow, as if your opponent is…

Tech News Mark Wilson Sep 30 '08

Anime To Return To Cartoon Network

Cartoon Network may have killed off their Toonami programming strand, but that doesn’t mean that the network has abandoned anime entirely, according to an unnamed Bandai employee at last weekend’s New York Anime Fest. Talking to Newsarama, the Bandai source is quoted as saying “There is no way Cartoon Network is giving up Naruto or…

Anime Graeme McMillan Sep 30 '08

Norway Forgets Who They’re Dealing With, Demands Apple Open Up FairPlay DRM (Again)

Norway is ostensibly big on neutrality, even when it gets them invaded and pulverized, so it’s not surprisingly it hates Apple’s FairPlay DRM, which only lets songs play on iPods. It even has a law requiring that consumers be able to use digital media with whatever device they choose, which FairPlay obviously pees all over.…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Sep 30 '08

Did A Brazilian Cult Novel Predict Hillary, Barack and Sarah?

A 1926 Brazilian science fiction novel about a U.S. presidential election in which a black man and a white woman play major roles has taken on new prominence during the 2008 campaign, thanks to Barack Obama. Monteiro Lobato’s O Presidente Negro takes place in the year 2228, in a dystopian future U.S. where eugenics has…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Sep 30 '08

EA Waiting to Release Android Games Until It Can Charge for Them

While Namco jumped headfirst into the Android Market by giving away Pac-Man, EA Games is going to sit out for the time being, at least until there’s a billing system in place for apps in the Android Market: “EA will support the Android platform…but has elected to wait for the launch of a content billing…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Sep 30 '08

Podcaster Version 1.1 Available on iPhone App Black Market

Microsoft, Washington State Sue Scareware Makers over Fake Error Messages

Field of Light: Nikolai Tesla Meets Lenny Kravitz

Ars Technica Plays with LiquidTV/TiVo PC, Thinks It’s Pretty Good

Netflix to Open API and Databases to the Public

Which of the EIGHT Versions of the Iron Man DVD Should You Buy?

Inside Every Street Girl, There’s Really A Psychopathic Robot From The Future

Sony Cuts Price on Fancy S550 Blu-ray Player (Still No Dealzmodo)

Science Fiction Takes A Shower: A Video Compilation

TDK Crams 260GB into 1.8-inch HDD, Sets A New Density Benchmark

Pandora and Other Webcasters Saved by Act of Congress

Glitch Drops Google Stock Price $200 in Four Minutes, Wiping Out $62 Billion

Your Chance To Leave Earth With NASA’s Greatest Astronauts

Transformers 2 Will Be Shot in IMAX, Get Ready for Five-Story Transformers

Get Your Directions From an Old, Washed Up Character from a Terrible Show

Punching Bag Changes Color Just Like a Video Game Boss

Anime To Return To Cartoon Network

Norway Forgets Who They’re Dealing With, Demands Apple Open Up FairPlay DRM (Again)

Did A Brazilian Cult Novel Predict Hillary, Barack and Sarah?

EA Waiting to Release Android Games Until It Can Charge for Them

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