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Apple TV Take 2 Impressions

Click to viewApple TV‘s new interface is looking really fantastic, sucking only the best parts of Cover Flow for eye candy, while keeping the interface efficient and large-scaled for plenty of data accessibility. The biggest surprise? Streaming is lightning quick. While users of Amazon’s Unbox know that streaming delays can be a pain in the…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Will Smith As A Drunk Superman

We haven’t mentioned much about Will Smith’s upcoming summer movie Hancock, where he plays an alcoholic, homeless superhero who does a hell of a lot more collateral damage than he does good. Remember (shudder) when Superman gets exposed to that weird fake Kryptonite from Richard Pryor in Superman III and goes on a drinking binge?…

io9 Kevin Kelly

MacBook Air Multi-touch Gesture Pad Hands-On

Click to viewUsing the multitouch gesture pad felt like the next step in Apple’s trademark MacBook mouse replacement (the Trackpad/Touchpad), rather than an iPhone screen being shoved into a laptop (as it was pitched at the keynote). For the most part, it’s responsive. We found hiccups when scrolling through an image in iPhoto (zoomed), but…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Apple iPhone 1.1.3 Firmware Update Now Available

Click to viewLaunch your iTunes, because the new Apple iPhone January Firmware update (aka 1.1.3) is now available. Just remember that if you have a software unlock or third-party applications installed, this update will 99.99%-probably break them, so don’t update. And yes, the video that we posted on December was spot on: https://gizmodo.com/iphone-firmware-1-1-1-out-and-tested-breaks-3rd-party-304497 Click to…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The Only Scene In “Last Starfighter” That Shows Starfighting

Thank the star-gods that CGI effects have improved since 1984’s The Last Starfighter. Just check out this climactic scene, where our trailer-park video-game champ finally uses his skillz in the space battle you’ve waited the whole movie for. It looks like an unfinished version of modern CGI effects. Starfighter also takes the “young hero rejects…

io9 Charliejane

Time Capsule Hands-on

Click to viewApple’s Time Capsule backup server is a great idea, and looks great as well. It’s the same size as the Airport Extreme, but seems heavier. It has the exact same ports as the Airport Extreme (four Gigabit Ethernet ports, normal power ports) and has 802.11n. The top is different and has a chrome…

Tech News Jason Chen

Free Peek at Iain M. Banks’ New Culture Novel “Matter”

Orbit, publishers of Iain M. Banks’ new novel, Matter, have posted the book’s action-packed prologue on their Web site — it introduces you to one of the book’s coolest heroes, Seriy Anaplian, a Special Circumstances Agent who comes from a backwater Shellworld (you’ll have to buy the book in February to find out what that…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

MacBook Air Hands-on

Click to viewMacBook Air, it’s here, in our hands. It’s super light, super fragile, and super small. If you just tap the screen lightly, the whole thing closes because it’s so light. The keyboard looks a little weird because it’s black on the aluminum, but the keyboard feels great. It feels just like a MacBook…

Tech News Jason Chen

Ten Scifi Songs You Should Take to a Barren Asteroid

The year is 2199, and you’ve just entered the long phase of your thirty-year journey to the outer reaches of the galaxy. You’re about to enter suspended animation when, oops, something goes wrong. You end up stranded an a decent-sized chunk of asteroid, and thanks to the technology of the future, you have a self-replenishing…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Macworld 2008 Keynote: Live

Click to viewYou want it, we got it. Live coverage of Steve Job’s Macworld 2008 Keynote starts Tuesday, January 15 at 9 AM PST (12PM EST), but we’ll ramp up the liveblog a few hours before as we always do. Head to live.gizmodo.com first thing tomorrow morning. You don’t want to miss it. Boom. Or…

Tech News Jason Chen

Adding a 64GB SSD to the Macbook Air? $1,300 Extra, Please.

I hope you didn’t have your heart set on that sexy 64GB SSD that Steve teased as an “option” during his keynote: the 1.8GHz version with the SSD drive standard costs a whopping $3,100. For comparison’s sake, adding a 64GB SSD to a Dell laptop with a 128GB SATA drive standard is a $1,000 option.…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Posthuman Mutants Penalized for Evolving on “American Gladiators”

American Gladiators returned to the airwaves this season, bringing us one step closer to reality television featuring amped up posthumans beating the ever-loving crap out of normal folks with real weapons. While the Gladiators are using padded Nerf-esque weapons now, we can only hope that later they’ll be given bladed weapons and clubs to attract…

Television Kevin Kelly

Macworld and CES Overlaps in 2009 – Kinda

Apparently Macworld and CES will overlap again in 2009, with the former going Jan 5-9 and the latter going Jan 8-11. The keynote, however, shouldn’t overlap with the actual CES show (just some pre-show stuff), which means good news for everyone.

Tech News Jason Chen

Science Fiction Angels Who Are Really Aliens in Disguise

The Left Behind books (and movies) are one of the most popular edge-cases in the science fiction world. They’re shunned by many SF fans as too cheesily religious, yet embraced by zillions of Christians who made this many-volumed tale of the Rapture and Armageddon into bestsellers. They’re an odd anomaly hovering between great apocalypse scifi…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Apple MacBook Air Is World’s Thinnest Notebook, Looks Absolutely Amazing

Click to viewIt’s real. The fabled MacBook Air actually exists. It’s ultra-thin, can have a normal hard drive or a solid state one and, except for a couple ports, it’s all about wireless connectivity. It’s a stunning .16 inches thick at the bottom and .76 inches on the top. The black keyboard (reminds me of…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Apple TV Take 2: $229, No Computer Required, Direct Rentals (Netflix Is Screwed)

Click to viewHoly crap, Jobs admitted Apple TV failed at getting computer content to the square screen. Apple TV Take 2 requires no computer, you can rent from iTunes directly from the box—movies and music—and it’s only $229. Movies are available in HD Dolby 5.1 (finally!), and it does podcasts, audio and video, and photos…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

iTunes/iPod-Ready Digital Copies on Fox DVDs Official, Free

This is a tiny bit of news amidst iTunes movie rentals and the newly formidable Apple TV, but Fox’s CEO has confirmed that Fox DVDs will come with digital copies for iTunes and iPod at no extra charge. Also confirmed: First DVD with the copies is Family Guy: Blue Harvest Special Edition. Official Press Release:…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Live-Action Star Wars TV Will Satisfy Your Boba Fettish

Everybody’s favorite bounty hunter Boba Fett will have a starring role in the new Star Wars TV series, which takes place between the trilogies. Fett, who was a minor action figure-y character in the original trilogy, appeared as a kid in the prequels when his dad was cloned into a shiny white army. So now…

Television Charliejane

iTunes 7.6 Movie Rentals Official: Every Major Studio Onboard, 1000 Films Available

Click to view iTunes movie rentals are official. They’ve got their own special section of the iTMS. Every major studio is onboard: Fox, Warner, Disney, Paramount, Universal and Sony, plus a whole mess of smaller ones like Miramax and New Line. To start, we’ve got 1,000 films, with new ones dropping 30 days after DVD.…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Apple Adds Mail, Maps and More to iPod touch – for $20

Click to viewThe little iPod touch is getting a much needed update to make it resemble the iPhone a little more closely. There will be a full-fledged Mail program, along with a Maps that gets location from Wi-Fi triangulation. It will also do web clips, stocks, weather, even notes. But it’ll cost you. $20 for…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Apple TV Take 2 Impressions

Will Smith As A Drunk Superman

MacBook Air Multi-touch Gesture Pad Hands-On

Apple iPhone 1.1.3 Firmware Update Now Available

The Only Scene In “Last Starfighter” That Shows Starfighting

Time Capsule Hands-on

Free Peek at Iain M. Banks’ New Culture Novel “Matter”

MacBook Air Hands-on

Ten Scifi Songs You Should Take to a Barren Asteroid

Macworld 2008 Keynote: Live

Adding a 64GB SSD to the Macbook Air? $1,300 Extra, Please.

Posthuman Mutants Penalized for Evolving on “American Gladiators”

Macworld and CES Overlaps in 2009 – Kinda

Science Fiction Angels Who Are Really Aliens in Disguise

Apple MacBook Air Is World’s Thinnest Notebook, Looks Absolutely Amazing

Apple TV Take 2: $229, No Computer Required, Direct Rentals (Netflix Is Screwed)

iTunes/iPod-Ready Digital Copies on Fox DVDs Official, Free

Live-Action Star Wars TV Will Satisfy Your Boba Fettish

iTunes 7.6 Movie Rentals Official: Every Major Studio Onboard, 1000 Films Available

Apple Adds Mail, Maps and More to iPod touch – for $20

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