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Watch The First Four Minutes of “Lost” Season Six

Buckle your seatbelts, because the first four minutes of the new season of Lost, from the episode “LA X,” deliver some shocks. Spoilers! [via Slashfilm]

Gadget Deals of the Day

The Dell Adamo is back at a nice price, Panasonic’s VIERA is a superb choice for an HDTV, and if you’re hankerin’ for some sublime bear and unicorn action then today’s Hobomodo is a must for any iPhone owner. UPDATED https://gizmodo.com/dell-adamo-full-review-macho-outside-sissy-inside-5205524 UPDATE: Walmart’s Superbowl HDTV Deals: • Vizio 55-inch 1080p LCD TV – $1,298 (save…

Three Reasons Why We’re Closer Than Ever To Fusion Power

It seems like we’re constantly just around the corner from fusion power, and that soon it’ll solve our energy woes. While we’re not quite there yet, three new reports all indicate we’re at least getting a little closer. A joint project between MIT and Columbia University has shown the possibility of a new path towards…

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The Tablets of Our Dreams Merge With Reality

These were the tablets of our dreams. The devices we thought we’d use one day. But what do we get in reality? The iPad. The showmanship level definitely isn’t as high (Tom Cruise wasn’t available), but the usability is proven.

Twitter And Win Buffy’s Most Recent Season

Been missing out on the further adventures of Buffy The Vampire Slayer? Dark Horse Comics wants to help with a Twitter lottery to win all Season 8 collections to date. Go here for details, but hurry: It’s only running today.

Thief Gamely, Weirdly, Stupidly Tries to Rob a Security Company at CES

Click to viewI’m not saying you should try to steal anything from a trade show. That’s just wrong. But if you absolutely have to, maybe you shouldn’t start with the company that’s there selling security cameras, hrrmmmm? Willy Wu is the idiot in question, and his target was the Swann Security visitor sign-in book. The…

iPad Aftershocks: Apple’s “Netbook” Is Screwing Netbook Makers

The iPad is Apple’s netbook. It’s small, built for the web, and cheap. Which is a problem for the people who make actual netbooks, since they wanted to undercut Apple. And it’s hard to get cheaper than glorified smartphone guts. Originally, according to Digitimes, Asus and MSI wanted to undercut whatever the iPad would cost…

Goojje Search Engine, Launches in China, Claims It’s Google’s “Sister”

Say hello to Goojje, a Chinese search engine that looks remarkably like one we’ve seen before. It launched on January 14, and yes, it’s filtered for less flavor. The way the name works is this: Jie Jie (Goojje) is mandarin for sister, while “ge ge” (Google) means big brother (er, shouldn’t that be the other…

Jon Favreau’s Mandalorian Battle Debut In Star Wars Clone Wars

Jon Favreau gets to voice possibly the best new character in the Star Wars mythology, a no-nonsense killing machine Mandalorian. Can Favreau pull off badass in the new Clone Wars episodes? This is the guy behind Iron Man, after all. Favreau voices the leader of the Mandalorians and wields an ancient light saber, stolen from…

“Utopia” Comes to Sundance [NSFW]

This week an intriguing new film, Utopia in Four Movements, screened at Sundance. It explores the way people in the past imagined the future. We can’t wait for it to bust out of the festival circuit. So far only a few handfuls of people have seen the film (a “live documentary,” screened with performances by…

Handheld Cellphone Bans Don’t Reduce Car Crashes After All

According to a study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, hand-held phone bans have no effect on the frequency of car crashes. Wait, what? Now, this seems different from specifically texting while driving, which is demonstrably dangerous. But in the four states the IIHS studied, the implementation of a ban on hand-held phones behind…

Lost Case Mod Is Perfectly Suited For Your Hatch

This impressive Lost case mod incorporates a few disparate elements of everyone’s favorite time-jumping mystery island. You’ve got the whole jungle thing going on and a Dharma Initiative-flavored octagonal shape. Oh, and it can take down airplanes flying overhead. It doesn’t come as much of a surprise that some Brazilian Lost fanatics had the geek…

How to Prevent an Asteroid Impact and Look Good Doing It

While NASA and other space agencies keep their telescopes trained on near-Earth objects that could smash into us, we don’t know how to prevent an impact. Here are some of the best (and weirdest) ideas for protecting Earth from incoming asteroids. There’s actually a federal mandate that says NASA has to discover all near-Earth objects…

I Made a Coitus Reference to FoxNews.com, and They Quoted Me

FoxNew.com tech editor Jeremy Kaplan asked me if I think Apple’s lost its mojo. I responded using a metaphor pertaining to intercourse, particularly that moment after the fact, and he went with it. Hey, it was a good metaphor! [FoxNews.com]

Which iPad 3G Data Plan Should You Buy?

When Apple’s iPad 3G ships in April, U.S. wireless partner AT&T will offer two data plans for the gadget, with different costs and monthly download allotments. Specifically, AT&T will offer a $14.99 monthly plan that allows for 250 MB of data consumed, and a $29.99 monthly plan that allows for unlimited Internet consumption. Which should…

Monopoly Boards Are Circular Now. Circular!

For its 75th anniversary, Monopoly’s getting a massive update, pitting brazen and new against proven and old: Circular board or quadrilateral? Cash currency or fake credit cards? This is the stuff of ruined relationships. In the monopoly wars, I’m imagining there will be two camps, not four. there will be people who are OK with…

Samuel L Jackson Sees Profit Potential In Alien Civil War

Seeking to prove Edwin Starr wrong, Samuel L. Jackson and his Afro Samurai co-creator Eric Calderon think that war might be good for a few things after all with their new comic series, Cold Space. “Huh!” indeed. The new series was co-created by actor Jackson and Calderon, and stars a main character who looks very…

The Faulty iMac Saga, Chapter 3: We Have Your Internal Memo, Apple

While Apple released the iPad this week, we scored their internal work order admitting the iMac’s yellow screen problem, and one of our readers may have figured out how to fix it. Can You Safely Buy a New iMac Yet? Nope. Why? In the last week, ten readers have reported receiving yellow screened iMacs—the majority…

10 Reasons We’ll Miss Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse

Joss Whedon’s mind-warping Dollhouse ends tonight, and then we’ll enter the “endless rewatching and overanalyzing” phase of our relationship with this show. Here are 10 things we’ll miss most about Dollhouse, plus some clips from tonight’s finale. First, those clips. Fair warning — there are some big spoilers in these: I can’t freakin wait for…