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Silicon Valley’s Birthplace of the Semiconductor: Now a Fruit and Vegetable Stand

We all owe a lot to this place. The birth of the world’s first silicon chip happened here, and now, it’s a nice place to pick up some fresh produce. Bits has a great history of the site-now known as the Fiesta Super Market at 391 San Antonio Road in Mountain View (home also to…

Tech News John Mahoney Sep 12

FBI Alleges Intel Employee Stole Secrets Before Leaving to AMD

Biswahoman Pani worked for Intel. Claiming to miss his wife, he requested a transfer from California to Intel’s Hudson facility where she worked. That same day, when the request was granted, Pani turned in his resignation and announced that he’d be taking vacation for his last two weeks at the company. His new job would…

Tech News Mark Wilson Sep 12

New Movie To Redeem Seven Samurai For SF Fans

News comes from the Toronto Film Festival that Fox has bought a new script by the writer of Armageddon and Alien Vs. Predator: Requiem that will reboot the classic movie The Seven Samurai and give it a science fiction spin. Is anyone else getting a Battle Beyond The Stars flashback around now?The script, currently entitled…

Movies Graeme McMillan Sep 12

iPhone 2.1 Update Available Now

Just popping up when you sync your iPhone to iTunes is the iPhone 2.1 update. Go get it chaps, and check out its reputed fixes to call dropping, crashing, slow syncing and bad battery life. Apple itself is basically claiming the iPhone 3G’s all fixed up from top to bottom by the new software. And…

Tech News Kit Eaton Sep 12

Iron Man 2 Villain (Maybe) Revealed! Plus A New Transformer In Action!

Everybody’s spoilering for the weekend here. To keep you going for the next couple days, we’ve got a hint about a swinging Iron Man 2 villain, plus some telltale video of the Transformer you didn’t believe could possibly exist. In action! Plus, find out which zombie movie borrows romance tips from Woody Allen. And which…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Sep 12

Hulger’s Maple and Brass Pappa*Phone: Skypin’ With Wood

These great-looking handmade VoIP handsets, designed by Hulger, are individually handcrafted to order out of solid American maple by Furni in Montreal. They’ll work with all the usual VoIP and chat apps via USB on PC and Mac for $300. Is wood the new glossy white plastic? I kind of hope so, cause when done…

Tech News John Mahoney Sep 12

Techie Wine Bottles Using Digital Thermometers

You may have paid $100 for that fancy Cab, but little did you know, its tannins have been seared crispy like hashbrowns in a semi left to sit in the sun. So just for you, dear learned consumer, wine makers are fighting back with a new digital thermometer that can tell buyers whether or not…

Tech News Mark Wilson Sep 12

Creative Special Event Due September 17th, Invite Teases X-fi Products

Looks like Creative is getting set to unveil something new on September 17th: invites have gone out for a special event, bearing this mysterious image. Those darkened shapes in the image bear an X-fi logo, but that, apart from the “I am heard everywhere” slogan is all the info there is on exactly what’s going…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Sep 12

Sony’s New Vaio NS and CS Laptops Are (Almost) HD Ready

The NS series of laptops is the latest in Sony’s Vaio update frenzy, and they’re machines aimed at delivering HD video. Hence the NS is available with a Blu-ray ROM drive and has a widescreen 15.4-inch Xbrite-Eco LCD for showing video off. Trouble is, the screen resolution is 1200×800, just enough to deliver 720p, but…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Sep 12

LHC Scientist Confuses Star Wars with Star Trek, Universe Doomed

NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT. (Agencies) The scientific world is shocked today as Michael Zeller-a professor of physics at Yale who has been working at the Large Hadron Collider-reportedly misquoted the Star Trek tagline “Where no man has gone before” and, further shattering the Universe time-space fabric, attributed it to Star Wars:”What did they say in ‘Star…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 12

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Dean Kamen’s Full Bionic Luke Arm Video from All Things D

Click to viewWe showed you some of the video from Dean Kamen’s appearance at the All Things D: D6 conference back in May and it included some demos of the amazing Luke Arm prosthetic limb. Now All Things D has made the three-part entire interview available, and it includes detailed explanations from Kamen about why…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Sep 12

Philips Intimate Massager Sex Toys Get Detailed in Pics

Details on Philips’ new sex toy products are out, including pictures much better than our comedy efforts earlier. The images reveal devices that, as you might expect from Philips design, are sleek, curvy and… um, purple. Looking like a good blend of form and *ahem* function. Philips labels them “relationship care” gizmos, which kind of…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Sep 12

Eizo C@T-One Two-Faced Device is TV-Remote and PC-Mouse in One.

The Eizo C@t-one is a curious product: one side is a regular wireless optical three-button mouse with scroll wheel, and the other is a basic 9-function TV remote. It’s a 2.4GHz device, with a small USB dongle, and is designed to work with Nanao TVs, as well as third-party TVs, videos and tuners, and it…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Sep 12

Giant, Super-Intelligent Bears Beyond the Dimension Door

OK, so it’s like fifty years in the future and the planet is dying of pollution or war or something. And a corporate mogul guy invents teleportation technology that allows him to terraform a remote planet with some kind of mega-oxygen-producing plant. In indie B-movie Savage Planet, though, you can ignore the cool teleportation and…

io9 Annalee Newitz Sep 12

Grand Daddy Brings Faux-Classiness to Arcade Machines

Regular arcade machines are neat and all, but if you have thousands of dollars worth of mahogany furniture in your mansion, they tend to clash with the environment. Luckily, Custom Arcades makes a gaming all-in-one that takes your expensive tastes into account. The Grand Daddy Arcade encases a 42-inch flat screen monitor, a 505W sound…

Tech News Elaine Chow Sep 12

New Tesla Gearbox Ups Range to 244 Miles, Hits Zero to 60 Time of 4.0 Seconds

Tesla Motors is finally rolling out its long-awaited single-speed transmission for the all-electric Tesla Roadster, which will pare down durability issues while upping torque and range. The new gearbox, made by transmission whiz kids Borg Warner, lets the Roadster hit its promised zero to 60 time of 4.0 seconds while upping travel distance to 244…

Tech News Elaine Chow Sep 12

Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1 Is World’s Smallest Camera With Interchangeable Lenses

Blurring the line between single-lens reflex and standard point-and-shoot digitals, Panasonic introduces its first Micro Four Thirds-standard camera, the Lumix DMC-G1. At its unveiling, it’s the world’s smallest and lightest camera that takes interchangeable lenses. Here are the details on this incredibly cute not-quite-pro, not-quite-‘sumer camera. https://gizmodo.com/olympus-and-panasonic-launch-micro-four-thirds-system-f-5033161 The 12.1-megapixel camera uses a digital Live View…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Sep 12

Microsoft MixView Is Prettier, More Useful Version of iTunes’ Genius

Not content with deploying their version of Apple’s Genius tech support lackeys, Microsoft is now biting on the iTunes Genius song feature as well and the initial previews make it look… really awesome, actually. Wired got a sneak preview of the Zune 3.0 software, to be released on Sept. 16, and found it much more…

Tech News Elaine Chow Sep 12

Build Your Own LED Light Cube

Nothing brightens up a tech geek’s room like an awesome LED cube, and Hack n’ Mod has got a couple of do-it-yourself instructions for building your own glowy box thing. You can get started with a small, less ambitious 3x3x3 cube design, maybe step it up to a 4x4x4 design if you’re more confident, and…

Tech News Elaine Chow Sep 12

Silicon Valley’s Birthplace of the Semiconductor: Now a Fruit and Vegetable Stand

FBI Alleges Intel Employee Stole Secrets Before Leaving to AMD

New Movie To Redeem Seven Samurai For SF Fans

iPhone 2.1 Update Available Now

Iron Man 2 Villain (Maybe) Revealed! Plus A New Transformer In Action!

Hulger’s Maple and Brass Pappa*Phone: Skypin’ With Wood

Techie Wine Bottles Using Digital Thermometers

Creative Special Event Due September 17th, Invite Teases X-fi Products

Sony’s New Vaio NS and CS Laptops Are (Almost) HD Ready

LHC Scientist Confuses Star Wars with Star Trek, Universe Doomed

Sponsor Thanks

Dean Kamen’s Full Bionic Luke Arm Video from All Things D

Philips Intimate Massager Sex Toys Get Detailed in Pics

Eizo C@T-One Two-Faced Device is TV-Remote and PC-Mouse in One.

Giant, Super-Intelligent Bears Beyond the Dimension Door

Grand Daddy Brings Faux-Classiness to Arcade Machines

New Tesla Gearbox Ups Range to 244 Miles, Hits Zero to 60 Time of 4.0 Seconds

Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1 Is World’s Smallest Camera With Interchangeable Lenses

Microsoft MixView Is Prettier, More Useful Version of iTunes’ Genius

Build Your Own LED Light Cube

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