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Dell Streak Priced: $299 With Contract, $549 Without

The remaining details of Dell Streak’s release continue to trickle out. This morning we learned it would eventually run Froyo. Now we know the price: $299 with a 2 year AT&T contract or $549 unlocked. Updated https://gizmodo.com/your-dell-streak-questions-mostly-answered-5597561 Update: Dell pulled the page with this pricing info, and Twitter account MattatDell, presumably someone at Dell whose…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jul 27

A chart converting Earth Time to a standardized Metric Time, for space colonists

If human culture spread across several planets and no one lived on Earth, chances are a new way of tracking time would develop for the sake of inter-planetary communication, trade, and travel. I’m writing this science fiction novel … so I made this chart for my own perspective. After all, if a day wasn’t the…

io9 David Shultis Jul 27

How Fast Is Your iPhone, Really?

If you are considering upgrading your iPhone to a newer model, Mike Hellers and Chris Pinnock made a video that will help you decide: A no-prisoners speed race between the original Jesusphone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, and iPhone 4. If you are going to buy the obvious winner, you should also consider our review and…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jul 27

DC Universe Online: The best superhero movie you’ll never see

A new CG trailer for Sony’s DC Universe Online game features what might be the best superhero battle ever committed to the screen. Seriously, it’s so good, it’ll make you weep for what doesn’t exist…yet. That’s as epic a battle between dudes with capes as I’ve ever seen. Wonder Woman, especially, comes off like the…

io9 Marc Bernardin Jul 27

72 Ravishing Refractions

Refraction is a mind-bending idea. Light passes through a clear object, and it comes out the other side, inverted. The Shooting Challenge results that follow are must-sees, the winner is astounding and…well…we busted a cheater, too. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-spherical-refraction-5592763 Lead Shot – Horizon Evening sunset across Puget Sound. Shot was taken with a Nikon D90 and 50mm…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jul 27

Refraction Shooting Challenge Gallery 1

Equipment: Old Canon SLR -Kristina Swanson I wasn’t really sure where to start with this, so I decided to head down to the local garden shop. When I saw this glass sphere, I thought it was perfect. It seemed flawless under normal light. But when I put a candle behind it, every little flaw and…

Tech News Jeremiah Dobruck Jul 27

Refraction Shooting Challenge Gallery 2

Camera: Cannon Rebel XTI Lens: 18 – 55 mm Settings: F5.6 ISO 800 (approximate, I had to keep changing the settings while trying to get this particular shot.. bubbles aren’t very good still models. 😉 ) I took my kids out and had them blow a bunch of bubbles so I could get the shot.…

Tech News Jeremiah Dobruck Jul 27

Meet your true ancestor: The segmented worm

Segmentation, the replication of anatomical structures throughout the body, is found in many animal species. It’s also a huge reason why all those species succeeded, and it comes from a single common ancestor 600 million years ago. Specifically, segmentation refers to instances where identical anatomical units are repeated on the axis running from the top…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Jul 27

This Is How Mars Can Turn Into a New Earth

Mars. The most tantalizing of all planets, with mountains three times as tall as Mount Everest and canyons 2,485 miles long and four miles deep. Our next stop in our return to the stars. And possibly our next home. https://gizmodo.com/why-we-need-to-reach-the-stars-and-we-will-5247705 We are not nearly there yet. We don’t have the technology. Heck, we barely have…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz Jul 27

$45 Yard Sale Find Turns Out to Be $200 Million Worth of Lost Ansel Adams’ Negatives

Rick Norsigian found a couple of boxes full of glass negatives at a yard sale and bought them for $45, negotiated down from $70, 10 years ago. Now, he’s discovered that they’re early photographs of Ansel Adams worth $200 million. The 65 glass negatives are early photos by the famed photographer that were thought to…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jul 27

Want to win a DVD of Clash of the Titans?

We loved Clash of the Titans (see io9’s enthusiastic review), and our only complaint was that the 3D looked crappy. That’s why it’s a perfect DVD flick, because you get all the campy, fun goodness of giant monsters and none of the tacked-on 3D stuff. Now you can win a Clash of the Titans DVD…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jul 27

Anna Fermanova Is America’s New Sexy Russian Outlaw

Mere weeks after America banished sexy Russian spy Anna Chapman, another may have surfaced: 24-year-old Anna Fermanova is accused of smuggling military technology to Moscow. She has a bellybutton ring and wears bikinis on Facebook. Meet America’s new sexy outlaw. The Smoking Gun reports that Fermanova is under house arrest in Texas awaiting trial for…

Tech News Maureen O'Connor Jul 27

The Man Who Wrote The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo First Author To Sell a Million Kindle Books

Stieg Larsson, the deceased Swedish author who wrote the all-of-a-sudden-very-popular books The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest, has become the first author to sell a million Kindle books, granting him induction into Amazon’s “Kindle Million Club.” Any guesses who the next…

Commerce Kyle VanHemert Jul 27

Google Will Conquer the Final Frontier With Simplicity

It’s no secret: Google loves space. The company sponsors the $30 million Lunar X Prize and hosts a radical, detailed maps of Mars and the Moon. Tiffany Montague, oversees all of these projects, coordinating Google’s effort to commercialize the cosmos. Montague, a former Air Force reconnaissance pilot, is the subject of a profile by the…

Space & Spaceflight Kyle VanHemert Jul 27

Marvel’s releasing a Tron Legacy prequel comic that reveals the aftermath of Tron

Marvel Comics will fly its Mouse flag this October with TRON: The Betrayal, a two-issue miniseries that will explain what happened between Tron and December’s Tron Legacy. Here’s the plot synopsis from Marvel’s press release: The storytelling picks up in the aftermath of Walt Disney Pictures’ first film in its franchise TRON. Kevin Flynn is…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Jul 27

New Power Cost Monitor Lets Anyone Use Microsoft Hohm

Microsoft Hohm, the energy usage-tracking web app, just got a whole lot easier to use. Microsoft and Blue Line Innovation have created a power meter reader so anyone can use Microsoft Hohm to see exactly how much money they’re wasting. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-hohm-tracks-home-energy-usage-via-webapp-5302074 Previously in order get real-time home energy data on your Hohm profile, you had…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 27

Review: Incase Convertible Book Case For iPad

One of these items is not a book. But it feels like one. This is the first time I’ve ever liked a case that made a gadget 3x as thick, and with that extra padding, the iPad feels just right. At launch, the iPad was noted by many to feel heavier than it looked. It’s…

Reviews Brian Lam Jul 27

The Bat Pod Replica You Can Actually Ride

Unlike the previous replica—which was more dragster than an actual road bike—it seems like this Bat Pod can actually be handled like any other motorcycle. Quite an impressive work: https://gizmodo.com/own-a-batpod-from-the-dark-knight-for-a-mere-100-000-5542965 If you are around Mountain View, California, you may actually spot it on the street. [Reddit]

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jul 27

Android’s Google Maps 4.4 Update Adds Places Feature

The newest update for Android’s Google Maps app offers a dedicated Places icon, for location-based business searches. Places can be opened discretely from the app launcher, offering you the same information on neighborhood establishments found via the browser-based version. [Google Mobile Blog via All Things D]

Tech News Sam Biddle Jul 27

First look at Green Lantern’s Sinestro

Stare into the pink face of Mark Strong’s Sinestro from Warner Brothers’ new Green Lantern film. If anyone can pull off this flawed mentor character, it’s Strong. So far, so good, Green Lantern. [CHUD]

Movies Meredith Woerner Jul 27

Dell Streak Priced: $299 With Contract, $549 Without

A chart converting Earth Time to a standardized Metric Time, for space colonists

How Fast Is Your iPhone, Really?

DC Universe Online: The best superhero movie you’ll never see

72 Ravishing Refractions

Refraction Shooting Challenge Gallery 1

Refraction Shooting Challenge Gallery 2

Meet your true ancestor: The segmented worm

This Is How Mars Can Turn Into a New Earth

$45 Yard Sale Find Turns Out to Be $200 Million Worth of Lost Ansel Adams’ Negatives

Want to win a DVD of Clash of the Titans?

Anna Fermanova Is America’s New Sexy Russian Outlaw

The Man Who Wrote The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo First Author To Sell a Million Kindle Books

Google Will Conquer the Final Frontier With Simplicity

Marvel’s releasing a Tron Legacy prequel comic that reveals the aftermath of Tron

New Power Cost Monitor Lets Anyone Use Microsoft Hohm

Review: Incase Convertible Book Case For iPad

The Bat Pod Replica You Can Actually Ride

Android’s Google Maps 4.4 Update Adds Places Feature

First look at Green Lantern’s Sinestro

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