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Wacky Telephone Car Guy Causes Tussle in My Backyard

The Telephone Car guy, who I didn’t know existed until today, was busy this weekend one town over from where I live pissing off curious tourists and comparing this thing of his to a Corvette. Created by business owner Howard Davis as a way to promote his telephone company, he parked the car outside of…

Boston Power Extended Life Batteries Now Available For 18 HP Notebooks

Those Boston Power batteries guaranteed to keep performing at high levels for three years can now be purchased as an add-on on 18 of HP’s laptops, branded “Enviro.” https://gizmodo.com/hps-new-boston-power-laptop-batteries-last-3x-longer-c-5106370 In the press release, Boston Power isn’t touting some of the specs we’ve seen previously, like a 30-minute charge up to 80% or actual extended charge…

T-Mobile Blocks Stolen Cellphone Tracking Despite Victim, Cops’ OK

T-Mobile is refusing to track stolen cellphones despite having the permission of both Boston police AND the victim whose phone was stolen, citing “privacy restrictions.” According to the Boston Herald, T-Mobile will only help track the stolen phone (a Sidekick, snatched from a 16-year-old by an 18-year-old) if it’s a “life or death situation”, or…

Boston 3G Data Test: AT&T, Sprint and Verizon

Weekend editor Jack Loftus tested his way around his hometown of Boston. There’s no picture of him doing it, which, after you read his comments, might be a good thing. Gov’t Center (5pm) Government Center is a hub of public affairs, adulterous affairs and current affairs. It’s also the home to one of the ugliest…

CarTel Device Attacks Traffic Jams with Fleet of Networked Smart Cars

Researchers at MIT are using computer networks and cabbies to tackle a routine problem that I, personally, can attest to: Boston area traffic jams. Called CarTel (get it?), the system creates a network by way of cell phone-sized black boxes. The boxes currently sit on board 50 cars and taxis in the Boston area. Drivers…

MIT Student Hackers Revealing How to Get Free Subway Rides Is National Security Threat

“Want free subway rides for life?” teased the description of the talk “Anatomy of a Subway Hack” by three MIT students at DefCon this past weekend, where they planned to explain security flaws in the payment system for Boston’s T subway. Live! They were going to demo how they cracked the system’s CharlieCard smartcards and…

First Tour: Huge Boston Apple Store

We’re here at the Boylston Street Apple Store for Media Day. No line outside, but plenty of reporters playing with the toys. Ron Johnson, Apple’s SVP of Retail, is here with hizonnah Mayor Thomas Menino to open the largest Apple Store in the country (confirmed!). The Mayah “loves” the store and made a joke at…

First Look: Boston Apple Store Uncovered

Here’s the first look at the new largest Apple Store in the U.S, courtesy of John Sheehy. Last time we saw the glass mammoth, it was covered up in an unsightly green sheet. Upon viewing this pic, you’re expected to fall to your knees, shed an awe-inspired tear, and proceed to the nearest Apple Store…

New Boston Apple Store Largest In The United States (Updated Again)

Later this month, Apple is opening its latest flagship store on Boylston Street in Boston. The store’s main claim to fame? It’s huge. We’re talking largest Apple Store in the world country, by square footage. The store, in the city’s historic Back Bay district, looks like a four-story glass cube. It’s the first store inside…

Judge Rules Making Files ‘Available’ Doesn’t Constitute Copyright Violation

A Boston judge has just followed up on the previous NY judge ruling that just making files available isn’t enough to constitute copyright infringement. According to the EFF, it’s the most “extensive analysis yet of the recording industry’s ‘making available’ argument”, but doesn’t actually make things better for people who are being sued by the…

Virtual Chair in Second Life Reflects Real World Drama

The virtual world is as real as a chair in Boston. From the same design consortium that brought us the psychedelic cathedral Evoke comes a new project called Remote, which links a chair in Second Life with a chair sitting in a gallery near Boston’s Emerson College. Here are some of the cool (but admittedly…

Boston Getting LED’ed On ATHF Mooninite Anniversary

Those of us not brain damaged enough to remember stuff from a year ago will recall the crazy response Boston had to the LED Mooninites plastered around their city to promote the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie. This elite group of people lacking severe head trauma sure didn’t forget, and they’re definitely not letting the…

A 10-year-old boy locked himself in a gun safe at a Sam’s Club store near Boston. It took 30 minutes to get him out. [WCVB TV via The Obscure Store]

Boing Boing Banned By Boston…Giz Next?

Here at Gizmodo, we love the popular “wonderful things” blog Boing Boing. And that’s why it breaks our heart that Boston’s free Wi-Fi network will not allow the public to access their page. Why? We can only assume that wonderful things are as threatening to the city as Adult Swim promotions. (Yes, they alluded to…

Live Images of Boston Apple Store Birth

It’s still about a year away from being finished, but construction has started on Boston’s Boylston Street Apple Store. And for all you Mac fans who can’t wait, there will be a blog and live webcam bringing you pictures and posts of the construction as it happens. Let’s just hope no one confuses those cams…

Jack Bauer vs. Boston’s ATHF Scare

If there’s one man that can take down the threat to national security that is the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Mooninites, it’s Jack Bauer.

Poll: Are Evil Aqua Teens or Retarded Cops to Blame?

Is it just me, or is this Boston Aqua Teen business completely insane? How stupid are the police in Boston? And they’re really going to sue Turner Broadcasting? They should sue themselves, as they’re the ones that caused all of this panic. The media isn’t helping anything by reporting this as a “hoax.” It wasn’t…