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625 Volts of Third Rail Juice Is No Match for This Street Fighting Man

Ever wonder what it’s like to fall on the third rail? Just ask Andy Morris, who was thrown onto the tracks in East New York: “He first started twitching and then you started seeing smoke coming from his head.” Ouch. Morris, “a down-on-his-luck construction worker,” got into a drunken fight on Monday with two other…

Tech News Jeff Neumann

Four Times as Many People Are Googling Stuff On Their Phones In Past Year

If you’ve been using Google Search on your phones, pat yourselves on the back—you’ve given Google another reason to smile this week. Their director of product management revealed the news yesterday, at the Citi Technology Conference. [AllThingsD]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Best Buy Will Sell Kindles This Fall

Amazon’s reader behemoth is about to get a little more behemoth-y, as Best Buy will begin selling Kindles this fall. With the devices already selling out, we can only imagine what the nation’s largest electronics retailer will do for sales. [CrunchGear] https://gizmodo.com/amazons-new-kindle-all-sold-out-5602385

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Martin Freeman could be The Hobbit after all. Plus, Ali Larter explains how much ass Resident Evil will kick (a lot)

The star of the British Office might still be the new Bilbo Baggins. Milla Jovovich will fly off the screen to kick your ass in the 3D Resident Evil Afterlife. Chuck adds a real nightmare to its cast. Spoilers away! The Hobbit: There’s a new twist in the “Will Martin Freeman play Bilbo Baggins?” story…

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A Full Year of Algebra Class on Your iPad

Tablets have the potential to topple stacks of textbooks, but it can’t happen until publishers start cramming entire curricula into apps. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s new Algebra 1 app, which has a full year’s worth of material, is the first attempt. HMH is launching the app in a year-long pilot program in California, allowing students to…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Censorship Stays as iPhone App Development Rules “Relax”

In a surprising announcement—after receiving a mountain of criticism, —Apple has announced that they “are relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create apps” and “publishing app review guidelines.” That’s good. The bad: Arbitrary censorship stays. https://gizmodo.com/does-steve-jobs-just-not-get-game-development-5586050 What were the restrictions? Apple wasn’t happy when Adobe released tools that allowed developers to create…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

ARM’s Cortex-A15 Architecture Will Make Your iPhone 4 Look Decrepit

ARM is the company you can thank for your smartphone’s heroic guts; their chip architecture underpins Qualcomm’s Snapdragon, Samsung’s Hummingbird, and iPhone 4. Soon, you can also thank them for making chips five-times more powerful than those with Cortex A15. Here’s what we’ve got in store when Cortex A15 chips finally launch: up to 2.5GHz…

Tech News Brian Barrett

iOS 4.1 Jailbreak is Close, as Bootrom Exploit is Confirmed

Mere hours after iOS 4.1 became available, an iPhone Dev-Team user Pod2g found a bootrom exploit, meaning that the new update is indeed jailbreakable. However, this one differs—and could cause Apple a lot of pain. Due to the way the jailbreak accesses the OS, the only way Apple can fix it is reportedly by installing…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Toys With Mental Illnesses—Seriously

“Oh, what gift to offer the bipolar six-year-old nephew this Christmas…I know! These German toys with mental illnesses would please the little tyke. Would he like the depressive turtle Dub, Kroko the water-phobic crocodile, or the personality disorder-affected sheep Dolly? Of course, there’s also Sly the snake, who happens to suffer from hallucinations…” Seriously, who…

Health Kat Hannaford

Most of Sony’s TVs Over 40-Inches in Size Will be 3D-Enabled In Next Year

By the end of 2011, Sony is planning to cut most of the pure-2D models out of its 40-inch and over offering, upping the number of 3D-enabled sets. We can look forward to higher prices, then. [AV Watch via CrunchGear]

Television Kat Hannaford

A Phone Concept That Places Moisture-Damage at the Heart of the Design

With iPhones being damaged by moisture, why not create a phone where water bubbles are the focal point of the design? Presumably that was the thinking behind Seoul designer Bon-Seop Ku’s Aqua GUI concept phone. [Coroflot via Core77] https://gizmodo.com/asian-countries-too-humid-for-iphones-5619440

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Music Videos Created from Google Instant Will Keep Us Entertained For Now

Welcome to the new meme, courtesy of Google Instant. After Google’s official Bob Dylan video, ad agency Whirled had a go with Tom Lehrer’s The Elements, to great success. http://gawker.com/5633106/the-google-ad-steve-jobs-will-hate Can someone please whip me up a video for some other list-based songs, such as Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start The Fire? [Whirled via TechCrunch]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

VLC for iPad Submitted to Apple, Now We Just Have to Hope

While it hasn’t been granted approval by the almighty Apple gods, VLC’s media player for iPad will be free from next week, the devs are claiming (perhaps too hastily.) I like their confidence. Mind you, CineXplayer is still available on the App Store… [Mac4Ever via Macrumors] https://gizmodo.com/how-to-watch-xvid-videos-natively-on-your-ipad-5608366

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Tuck Into Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars HD for iPad Today

I foresee plenty more wasted hours in your future—not to mention $10 instantly disappearing from your bank accounts. The iPad version follows the iPhone game, only with higher-res graphics and new controls layout. [iTunes via Redmond Pie] https://gizmodo.com/grand-theft-auto-chinatown-wars-hits-the-app-store-5450582

Tech News Kat Hannaford

These Budget Compact Cameras from Pentax Look Cool—You Know, for Kids…

Two more “fun” compact camera series has been announced today by Pentax, with my favorite being the Optio RZ10 (pictured above). For around $270, it has a 14MP sensor, and a 10x optical zoom. The second model, the Optio RS1000 (pictured below), is definitely for the younger crowd, with the selling point being the swappable…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Is a Higher ISO and Larger LCD Worth the Extra $150 for Pentax’s K-r?

It’s been a year in the making, but Pentax has released a successor to the K-x DSLR, and while the upgrades aren’t astonishing, there’s a higher ISO count (up to 25,600) and larger LCD, at 3-inches. https://gizmodo.com/pentax-k-x-dslr-shoots-12mp-photos-720p-video-for-650-5361242 It’s got the same 12MP sensor and can’t shoot more than 720p video res at 25fps, so you’ve…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

How FarmVille Got So Great

With 84 million monthly users, and a reported $500 million revenue a year, how did FarmVille capture the hearts of so many Facebook users? According to a former employee speaking to SFWeekly, they stole. Stole big. [SFWeekly via Kotaku] https://kotaku.com/the-secret-to-farmvilles-success-5633501

Social Media Kat Hannaford

Dual-Screen Kno Tablet To Be Available by Year’s End

Does the lure of playing with “the most powerful tablet anyone has ever made” tempt you? How about those dual 14.1-inch touchscreens? (That’s a combined might of 28.2-inches!) Kno has received $46m investment, with an end-of-year launch already penciled-in. https://gizmodo.com/kno-dual-screen-tablet-sincerely-hopes-size-matters-5553810 After being shown off at the D8 event in June, we were bowled over by…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

T-Mobile G2 Is Designed With Google Voice and HSPA+ in Mind

The T-Mobile G2 looks like one very appealing Android device. It is specifically designed for the speedy HSPA+ network, will have Google Voice integration, a fast Snapdragon processor, Android 2.2, and a rather slick body. There aren’t any pricing details just yet, but we do know that the device will be available for preorder later…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Microsoft’s Legal Team Slays Botnets

Microsoft’s legal team has worked hard to kill “malvertising” and botnets and they’ve had some great success recently: https://gizmodo.com/heroes-of-the-day-microsofts-legal-team-for-fighting-t-5363037 The U.S. District Court of Eastern Virginia last week granted a motion that, in effect, gives Microsoft permanent ownership of 276 Web domains once used by the Waledac cybergang to send instructions to hundreds of thousands…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

625 Volts of Third Rail Juice Is No Match for This Street Fighting Man

Four Times as Many People Are Googling Stuff On Their Phones In Past Year

Best Buy Will Sell Kindles This Fall

Martin Freeman could be The Hobbit after all. Plus, Ali Larter explains how much ass Resident Evil will kick (a lot)

A Full Year of Algebra Class on Your iPad

Censorship Stays as iPhone App Development Rules “Relax”

ARM’s Cortex-A15 Architecture Will Make Your iPhone 4 Look Decrepit

iOS 4.1 Jailbreak is Close, as Bootrom Exploit is Confirmed

Toys With Mental Illnesses—Seriously

Most of Sony’s TVs Over 40-Inches in Size Will be 3D-Enabled In Next Year

A Phone Concept That Places Moisture-Damage at the Heart of the Design

Music Videos Created from Google Instant Will Keep Us Entertained For Now

VLC for iPad Submitted to Apple, Now We Just Have to Hope

Tuck Into Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars HD for iPad Today

These Budget Compact Cameras from Pentax Look Cool—You Know, for Kids…

Is a Higher ISO and Larger LCD Worth the Extra $150 for Pentax’s K-r?

How FarmVille Got So Great

Dual-Screen Kno Tablet To Be Available by Year’s End

T-Mobile G2 Is Designed With Google Voice and HSPA+ in Mind

Microsoft’s Legal Team Slays Botnets

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