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Mozilla Brings the Best of Honeycomb to Firefox for Tablets

Mozilla released a sneak peak at Firefox for Tablets today, a version of the popular web browser built on the Firefox Mobile engine but optimized for a tablet’s roomier screen. As we can see from the screen shots, tabs will now either appear along the left or top of the screen—depending on its orientation. Yes,…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Aug 31

T-Mobile May Roll Out In-Home Signal Boosters For Cancelling Customers

If you’ve your T-mobile coverage at home is spotty at best, don’t cancel your service just yet. If you wait until Wednesday, September 7th, T-Mo might just give you a free in-home signal booster to get you to stay. According to leaked images obtained by TmoNews, the signal boosters will only be available to customers…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Aug 31

Go Inside Gaddafi’s Security HQ

The Wall Street Journal takes the first look since the fall of the regime inside Col. Gaddafi’s security headquarters. You know, the one with all the tech purchased from international security firms. The complete photo journal is available at WSJ.com. https://gizmodo.com/international-tech-companies-helped-gaddafi-spy-on-liby-5835940 Image: Edu Bayer for The Wall Street Journal

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Aug 31

The LaCie Little Big Disk Is Pretty—Pretty Fast (Like Thunderbolt Fast)

It’s got a 500GB solid state drive and an exterior designed by Neil Poulton—what more do you want? Thunderbolt? Yes, it does that too. The LaCie Little Big Disk is available as either a 240GB and 500GB SSD, or as a 1TB traditional 7200RPM hard drive. All three varieties use dual disks as a striped…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Aug 31

The $40 Million Delivery Blimp

The Ice Road Truckers may soon have themselves some competition if Canadian specialty aviation company, Discovery Air, has its way. They want to deliver supplies to the Great White North’s most remote locales via dirigible by 2014. Discovery Air and Hybrid Air Vehicles have announced plans to launch a commercial Heavy Lift Air Vehicle service…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Aug 30

Watch Soccer Players Take a Dive While Grocery Shopping

Soccer, football, footie, whatever you’re supposed to call it, British grocery store Sainsbury’s and broadcaster Sky are currently testing shopping carts fitted with iPad docks specially made for the Sky Go iPad app so patrons can watch sports while shopping. The Sky Go trolley—trolley is the British term for shopping cart—iPad dock has speakers in…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin Aug 30

The First Hi-Res Simulation of the Milky Way’s Formation

It took nine months and 1.4 million processor-hours of work from NASA’s Pleiades supercomputer but a group of researchers from UC Santa Cruz have discovered how, exactly, our galaxy was born. The Cold Dark Matter theory posits that right after the Big Bang, gravitational forces influenced the minute variations in density of dark matter, slowly…

Space & Spaceflight Andrew Tarantola Aug 30

United Airlines Doesn’t Give a Damn What You Lost on Their Planes

Steve Silberman suffered through a flight from Hell. Not only did United attendants ask him to switch seats when the woman next to him irrationally demanded so, but after forgetting his Kindle on the plane, the attendants refused to grab it. As the story goes, moments after stepping of the plane, Silberman realized he had…

Commerce Adrian Covert Aug 30

Warehouse 13‘s Janeway and Bering are our new favorite action duo

We thought we’d never get another pairing to replace Myka Bering and H.G. Wells, but Warehouse 13 has come through again. The team-up of Kate Mulgrew’s regent, Jane, with Myka Bering was utterly perfect — and that’s before they started joking about being Thema and Louise. Spoilers ahead… I would seriously watch a few episodes…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Aug 30

Samsung Galaxy S II Hands On: Say Hi to Your Next Android Phone

If you are going to get an Android phone any time soon, this is it. https://gizmodo.com/the-new-bestest-android-phone-is-finally-coming-to-amer-5835969 Let’s get this out of the way: These things are fast. They haul all kinds of ass, thanks to a 1.2GHz dual-core Exynos processor and 1GB of RAM in its guts. I did everything I could to try to…

Tech News Brent Rose Aug 30

Why you shouldn’t challenge a breast-feeding mom to play Call of Duty

When you happen upon a couple of bear cubs in the woods, what’s the first thing that should come to mind? If you answered “I wanna squeeze ’em,” you’re wrong. It should be “where’s the mom?” And with good reason. Numerous non-human mammals are known to exhibit heightened levels of aggression in defense of their…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Aug 30

Daily Desired: Let the Force Protect Your iPad in this Case

The iPad’s a joy for reading, but you’re screwed for writing anything longer than: “rad man, I’ll see u ther. Excuse my brevity and any typos but touchscreens suck for typing, ok?” That’s why I want a ClamCase. Star Wars-style. The ClamCase is made of hard polycarbonate which protects your iPad on all sides. As…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Aug 30

3G MacBook Pro Prototype Heads Back to Apple

Apple isn’t too keen with their prototypes ending up in the wild, no matter how old they are or how they got there. The 3G MacBook Pro that appeared on eBay, garnered an incredible $70,000 bid before being pulled by Apple, is now awaiting transport back to Apple at their insistence. https://gizmodo.com/a-letter-apple-wants-its-secret-iphone-back-5520479 The temporary owner…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin Aug 30

This USB Drive Is Just Thicker than a Penny and Holds 2TB

The thumb drive you see in this video is thicker than the opposable digit of an infant—and yet it can hold up to 2TB of data. The “Thin Card” drive, built by Taiwanese manufacturer ITRI and revealed at the Display Taiwan trade show, is a USB 3.0 stick with a capacity between 16GB and 2TB.…

Gadgets Andrew Tarantola Aug 30

On Eureka, the past is a dangerous place

Yesterday’s Eureka found our heroes confronting their pasts. For most, these flashbacks were the final test for the Astraeus mission. For Carter, it involved stopping Wallace Shawn as he tried to reenact all the sheriff’s greatest, most dangerous moments. “This One Time at Space Camp…” let us delve deeper into some of the characters’ pasts,…

Television Alasdair Wilkins Aug 30

Tim Cook’s Battle Cry Email (Updated)

Pundits and investors keep whining that Tim Cook isn’t Steve Jobs and that Apple’s doomed, blah blah blah. Well Tim’s already taking a page out of the Steve Job’s-customer-relations playbook and is reportedly responding to emails congratulating him on his new position as CEO of Apple. The current favorite is Tim’s response to Justin R.,…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin Aug 30

The Funniest Moment from MTV’s Undead Cop Show Death Valley

Last night MTV premiered its supernatual cop show Death Valley in which a camera crew follows an Undead Task Force as they try and clean up the streets from zombies vampires and werewolves. This is the funniest moment. This clip says it all — Death Valley (while pretty well shot for a shaky-cam series) was…

Television Meredith Woerner Aug 30

The New York Times Is Developing the Last Kitchen Table You’ll Ever Need

I keep forgetting how wonderful Microsoft’s Surface technology is. Here, the New York Times R&D Lab have taken it, bent it to their will, and created news-centric tabletop interface that you’ll want to play with every morning. Just maybe not eat on. https://gizmodo.com/multi-grope-interacting-with-microsoft-surface-at-the-380860 In the above demonstration, we get to see the Times’ vision of…

Tech News Kwame Opam Aug 30

Apple Stores Are Obsessively Designed to Look Perfectly Symmetrical from the Outside

Apple’s obsessive compulsive, super-spartan, Kubrick-meets-Superman’s-Fortress-of-Solitude industrial design goes way beyond phones and tablets. ifoAppleStore points out the meticulous, somewhat-insanely clever efforts Apple takes to make their stores visually enticing. Human brains like symmetry! So human brains like Apple Stores. As much as China’s faux Apple Stores looked pretty close to the real thing, there’s no…

Tech News Sam Biddle Aug 30

Within these infrared clouds, absolute darkness reigns

This image taken by NASA’s Wise Satellite is in the infrared spectrum, meaning it can reveal the light that is normally hidden behind thick, dark clouds of gas. But some clouds are so dark that no light can get through. These are known as infrared dark clouds — they’re the black patches in the image…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Aug 30

Mozilla Brings the Best of Honeycomb to Firefox for Tablets

T-Mobile May Roll Out In-Home Signal Boosters For Cancelling Customers

Go Inside Gaddafi’s Security HQ

The LaCie Little Big Disk Is Pretty—Pretty Fast (Like Thunderbolt Fast)

The $40 Million Delivery Blimp

Watch Soccer Players Take a Dive While Grocery Shopping

The First Hi-Res Simulation of the Milky Way’s Formation

United Airlines Doesn’t Give a Damn What You Lost on Their Planes

Warehouse 13‘s Janeway and Bering are our new favorite action duo

Samsung Galaxy S II Hands On: Say Hi to Your Next Android Phone

Why you shouldn’t challenge a breast-feeding mom to play Call of Duty

Daily Desired: Let the Force Protect Your iPad in this Case

3G MacBook Pro Prototype Heads Back to Apple

This USB Drive Is Just Thicker than a Penny and Holds 2TB

On Eureka, the past is a dangerous place

Tim Cook’s Battle Cry Email (Updated)

The Funniest Moment from MTV’s Undead Cop Show Death Valley

The New York Times Is Developing the Last Kitchen Table You’ll Ever Need

Apple Stores Are Obsessively Designed to Look Perfectly Symmetrical from the Outside

Within these infrared clouds, absolute darkness reigns

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