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Starting in March, Dropbox will be embedded into Samsung’s Galaxy Grand smartphone, Smart cameras and PCs.

Samsung’s Going To Sell a Prohibitively Expensive OLED TV, Too

LG is selling a $10,000 OLED TV—brighter, more vivid, and skinnier—that you’ll drool at online and not be able to afford. Now Samsung is also officially in the TV You Can’t Ever Afford game too with the 55-inch F9500. https://gizmodo.com/you-can-finally-buy-an-lg-oled-tv-in-korea-only-for-n-5972444 There’s no word on how expensive this expensive thing will be, or when you’ll be…

Samsung’s Giant Amazing Ultra-HD TVs Are Imprisoned In Horrible Metal Bars

Boom, here we are, the year of 4K. How high? Ultra high. Samsung’s releasing the biggest 4k TV of all time plus the 85-inch model can be seen up top. But they’re tragically confined to that horrific Industrial Age “gallery frame” contraption. It’s not removable. Ever. It’s like taking a beautiful bird of paradise and…

How to Write for Money Without Selling Out Too Much

This past weekend, it seemed like all of the Twitter conversations were about fiction writing, and selling out. It’s a weird conundrum: Most advice for writers assumes that you’re doing this as a business, and you want to make money at it. But you shouldn’t want to make money too badly. Is there a line…

Kingston’s HyperX Predator Flash Drive Is the Easiest Way To Misplace a Terabyte Of Data

Last year at CES Victorinox surprised everyone with a one terabyte flash drive that the company estimated would sell for almost $3,000. It sounded too good to be true, and given there’s been no sign of it since last January, it apparently was. So can Kingston fill the void left in our hearts with its…

The Big Bang Theory asks the preposterous question, “What if girls went into a comic store?!”

We all know The Big Bang Theory isn’t afraid to push boundaries in its hard-hitting, yet scintillating look at nerds and nerd culture. But in this Thursday’s episode, the show may have gone too far as it presents the utterly ludicrous premise that a girl — several of them, in fact! — would willingly go…

Live Giant Squid Filmed in the Pacific for the First Time

This amazing sea creature is an Architeuthis. Or a Kraken, as the ancient vikings used to call it. We knew the kraken wasn’t a mythical creature. Giant squids like this have been captured in the past, usually near the sea’s surface, but this is the first time one has been filmed alive in the wild,…

Leonard Nimoy is here to tell you about NASA’s Ion-Thrusting Dawn Mission

With all the excitement over NASA’s recent success (and plans for future missions) on Mars, people sometimes overlook the Agency’s other deep space missions. And there are many. One of our favorites of these lesser-known (but still remarkable) missions is Dawn. https://gizmodo.com/the-biggest-scientific-breakthroughs-of-2012-5971542 https://gizmodo.com/nasa-s-2020-plan-for-mars-makes-the-old-new-again-5965972 The Dawn mission revolves around the exploration of Vesta and Ceres, the…

A U.S. Nuclear Lab Removed Chinese Tech Due to a National Security Risk

After recently discovering that its computer systems contained several Chinese-made network switches, a major U.S. nuclear weapons lab has replaced at least two components because of national security concerns. According to a document acquired by Reuters: A letter from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, dated November 5, 2012, states that the research…

Huawei’s 5-Inch Ascend D2 Takes the Scene With a Killer Screen

Huawei isn’t the biggest player in the phone game, at least here in the States, but it’s making moves to step up. Huawei’s taking another stab at high-end relevance with its new Ascend D2, which looks like it could be a nice device if it isn’t plagued by delays. The D2 rocks a 5-inch 1080p…

Intel’s New Chips: Everything You Need to Know

Intel’s talking about its new stuff today at CES. Some of it’s new, some of it we’ve heard before. But we’ll let you know everything important that goes down today. Here’s the quick version of everything Intel will be talking about today: Touch, Live Pay TV, Atom phones, all-day battery life for Intel Core computers.…

Eat It, Galaxy Note. Huawei’s New Phone Has the World’s Largest Screen (Updated: Hands On)

Oh man, here we go. Phablets are no longer no longer constrained to limits of being under half a foot. Huawei’s new Ascend Mate is an unprecedented 6.1-inches. It’s been around before, but now it’s official, and has the largest screen of any smartphone in the world. To date anyway. Cower in fear beneath its…

Dinosaurs probably shook their tail feathers and “struck a pose” to attract mates

After studying a curious feature in the tail section of oviraptor fossils, a paleontologist from the University of Alberta has concluded that these small dinosaurs must have used their tail plumage to attract mates, a strong indication that these creatures were more sophisticated, elegant — and daintier than previously thought. The theory also adds further…

Fujifilm’s New Superzoom Cameras Reach New Absurd Levels of Magnification

Fujifilm’s newly refreshed line of S series “bridge” cameras have some of the highest magnification zoom lenses out there. These cameras are for people who want big hulking DSLR cameras without all those complicated DSLR buttons for controlling things. But at least you can control the zoom SO MUCH. Back in August, Olympus brought out…

Endliss iPhone Case Adds an LED Disco Floor For Impossible To Miss Notifications

We’re all so use to having our smartphones close at hand that we can occasionally tune out and miss a call or notification that’s right in front of our faces. So what’s the solution? Obviously an iPhone 5 case with a blinding 8×16 LED grid on the back that mirrors and emphasizes on-screen notifications. So…

You Can Buy a HAL 9000 Replica Made from the Original Movie Blueprints

Good morning, Reader. This is a HAL 9000 replica computer. It became operational at the ThinkGeek Plant today, and is built with the same illustrations and blueprints as the one used in 2001: A Space Odyssey. It’s got a replica Nikkor fish-eye lens like the one used in the movie, and speaks when spoken to.…

Netgear’s New NeoTV Enlists in the Growing Google TV Army

Add Netgear to the long list of tech companies joining up with Google TV—it just jumped onboard the train with its NeoTV PRIME streaming box. It’s pretty much what we’ve come to expect from set-top boxes—shortcuts for Netflix, Pandora, HBO GO, access to Google Play, and a search feature for live TV. But you won’t…

AT&T’s $50 Android Smartphone Has a 12.6-megapixel Camera, Doesn’t Seem That Terrible

When I think of Pantech, I don’t have too many fond memories. But the Android 4.0-based Discover might change that. Available starting January 11 from AT&T for $50, the Discover is an 4G LTE smartphone with a 4.8-inch HD display (1280×720) and a crazy 12.6-megapixel camera that shoots full HD video at 30fps. It also…

Netgear’s New Wireless Range Extender Works With Airplay

Netgear has been boosting wireless signals for a while, but its newest range extender works with AirPlay speakers for the first time. The Wall-plug Edition (WN3500RP) will amplify your Wi-Fi signal and frequency and it’ll work with your speakers from your iPhone, iPod, or through DLNA.

Fujifilm X100 and X20 Get New Faster Guts To Match Their Slick Design (Update: Hands-On)

If you have been following the saga of the fancy Fujifilm cameras you can rest easy. Here’s the refresh you’ve been hearing about that was accidentally posted and then taken down. Meet the X100S and X20—Officially. And we loved the X100 and the X10. We loved them in many ways, these siblings. They look beautiful…