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Archos’ G9 Android Tablets Have Superfast Processors and… Hard Drives?

Archos Android tablets. Typically considered also-rans, but these things do have a 1.5GHz dual-core processor and up to 250GB harddrives. The 10-inch G9 “Turbo” is packing Texas Instruments 1.5 GHz dual-core OMAP 4 processor, and Archos claims that will make page loading 50 percent faster than competitors tablets (which typically run 1GHz dual-core Nvidia processors).…

Tech News Brent Rose

Google Arms Itself With 1000 Patents From IBM

Google’s on a patent buying spree to protect Android. The search giant recently grabbed Motorola, its hardware and 17,000 patents for a cool $12.5 billion and scooped up another 1,023 patents from IBM. Go, Go Green Robot. [Bloomberg]

Tech News Kelly

Google Goggles Now Works Automagically on Your Android Phone

The latest version of Google Goggles will kick into action without your lazy ass doing a thing. All you have to do is enable a setting that allows Goggles to work in the background each time you take a photo. If Goggles recognizes something, it will send you a notification. If it doesn’t you’d never…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Apple Wants to Halt All Motorola Patent Lawsuits

One of Apple 3rd Reich’s patent war fronts is Motorola. Out of desperation, Motorola sued Apple first; then Apple sued Motorola. Now, Apple has asked the court to halt all Motorola patent suits, alleging they can’t defend themselves. https://gizmodo.com/motorola-sues-apple-over-pretty-much-everything-phone-r-5657451 Since Motorola is in the process of being acquired by Google, Apple says that they don’t…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Finally, YouTube Will Let You Edit Your Videos Online

If you upload your videos to YouTube—or most video sharing sites for that matter—there isn’t much you can do to improve them after the fact. Starting today, though, YouTube will finally provide basic tools to make your kitty videos suck less. YouTube is rolling out the new feature in the form of a simple “Edit…

Tech News Kwame Opam

This GPS Navigation Device For Cyclists Will Murder You Dead

Somewhere, right now in Holland, a well-intentioned team of inventors are trying to kill you. They don’t want to kill you. They want to save you. But while it’s just a concept, if this device ships it could kill people. The Oh Music Where Art Thou (great name) team has cooked up a novel navigation…

Tech News Mat Honan

Google SMASH: Why No Industry Is Safe

There’s not much Google loves more than playing in other people’s sandboxes. Like a Walmart built entirely of zeros and ones, once the behemoth moves into your town, you’re officially f*cked. Here’s how they do it, and why it matters. A little recap might be in order, started with Google’s latest victim: the lowly travel…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

Google Flight Search Listed the WTC as a Destination Airport

Well this is uncomfortable. Google’s new flight search had the World Trade Center listed as an unavailable destination airport for New York City-bound flights. Google’s flight search uses International Air Transport Association and International Civil Aviation Organization codes to generate its list of airports, but Google didn’t know that decommissioned airports remained in the list…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Firefox for Android Tablets Is Open for Testing

Mozilla has made the latest nightly builds for Firefox for Honeycomb ready for download. It’s already optimized for the tablet real estate and Android’s quirks, and will let you use Firefox Sync to share data with your desktop. [Mobiputing] https://gizmodo.com/mozilla-brings-the-best-of-honeycomb-to-firefox-for-tab-5836060

Tech News Kwame Opam

Facebook’s Rolling Out Smart Lists and Summaries for People with Too Many Friends

Facebook’s doling out new features to the masses this week. Their Google-Plus-alike Smart Lists will help you divide up the friends you care about. And their new email summaries will mush together the thousands of notifications you get from friends you don’t. Smart Lists, as you know, allows you to cull through your friends and…

Tech News Kwame Opam

Android and Intel Are Together at Last

Intel’s gushing about a pretty huge team-up: in the near future, every single release of Android will be optimized for x86 chips. Intel processors in Android phones. Intel processors in Android tablets. This is big. Intel showed off a mystery Android tablet running on their Atom processor—a pairing we should expect to see a lot…

Tech News Sam Biddle

The Best Ways to Kill Your SMS Plan

Your phone company is screwing you on text messaging. SMS messages cost them next to nothing, yet they charge you up the yin-yang. So how’s about sticking it to the phone company with some viable alternatives to SMS messaging? https://gizmodo.com/at-ts-new-text-plan-overcharges-you-by-10-000-000-perce-5832245 Decent Alternatives Kik Platforms Supported: iOS, Android, Windows Phone Cost: Free What’s Good: It’s totally…

Tech News Brent Rose

Autocorrect Is Not Only Annoying, It Also Kills Apps

Here’s a pro tip for mobile developers: before you submit your application to an app store, check to see what auto correct does to your application’s name. Just ask Dallas company Locai, this simple check could make or break your app. Locai recently submitted their check-in app to the Android Market and were surprised when…

Tech News Kelly

Nvidia’s Tegra 2 Successors Are Planning a Takeover

At last week’s Citi Technology Conference, Nvidia showed off their roadmap for their Tegra line of smartphone chips. The takeaway: their “Wayne” and “Grey” chipsets could give them an in with most handset makers by 2013. The first move is clearly in the power department. The “Wayne” system-on-a-chip is a descendant of the upcoming quad-core…

Tech News Kwame Opam

Someone Really Needs to Make a Good $100 Tablet

Today we heard that the UK is getting jobbed out of its final shipment of $100 TouchPads, with only HP employees being eligible to buy them. Sozzlepops, UK chaps. But that got us to thinking: With all the fuss over the TouchPad firesale the past few weeks, when will this very obvious demand for a…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Samsung Galaxy S II Has More GPU Firepower Than Any Android Device

Anandtech benchmarked Samsung’s refreshed Galaxy S II phone over the weekend and discovered that its Mali-400 quad-core GPU contained within its EXYNOS chipset is not only powerful, but nearly 2x faster than any other Android device—phone or tablet. The Samsung Galaxy S II was tested using GLBenchmark 2.1, and scored a 42.5. By comparison, the…

Tech News Adrian Covert

21-Year-Old Iranian Hacker Is the LulzSec Antichrist

You probably haven’t heard of Comodohacker. He operates alone. But on Thursday, he scared Google into issuing a warning for all of Iran—and he wants them to control the internet. The NYT got in touch with Comodohacker, who says he’s a 21 year old Iranian student, and asked him about the motives behind his sweeping…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Sony Tablet S Is Up for Pre-Order at Best Buy

Sony’s natty new Tablet S will see release in just a matter of days, so Best Buy decided to show it off to get a buzz going. How sweet. It’s still too expensive, but it’s still the best Android tablet out. [Engadget] https://gizmodo.com/sony-tablet-s-review-its-good-to-see-you-again-sony-5836051

Tech News Kwame Opam

Confused Naked Lady Gets Caught on Google’s Peeping Street View Camera (Yeah, NSFW)

This looks heavily like a case of being at the wrong place at the wrong time. An unsuspecting Miami woman just walks out of her home—naked, of course—only to find Google leering right at her. Both the unidentified lady and the camera must surely have reacted like some sitcom duo getting a load of each…

Tech News Kwame Opam

Netflix Is Finally Available on Nearly All Android Phones

It took a few false-ish starts, but all Android phones running Froyo or Gingerbread are FINALLY getting full Netflix support. No more workarounds or rooting. Just sweet streaming. For now, anyway, and if you haven’t jettisoned your account. https://gizmodo.com/netflix-is-finally-available-on-android-sort-of-5801342 Needless to say, if you’re running anything other than 2.2 or 2.3 (why???), you’re out of…

Tech News Kwame Opam

Archos’ G9 Android Tablets Have Superfast Processors and… Hard Drives?

Google Arms Itself With 1000 Patents From IBM

Google Goggles Now Works Automagically on Your Android Phone

Apple Wants to Halt All Motorola Patent Lawsuits

Finally, YouTube Will Let You Edit Your Videos Online

This GPS Navigation Device For Cyclists Will Murder You Dead

Google SMASH: Why No Industry Is Safe

Google Flight Search Listed the WTC as a Destination Airport

Firefox for Android Tablets Is Open for Testing

Facebook’s Rolling Out Smart Lists and Summaries for People with Too Many Friends

Android and Intel Are Together at Last

The Best Ways to Kill Your SMS Plan

Autocorrect Is Not Only Annoying, It Also Kills Apps

Nvidia’s Tegra 2 Successors Are Planning a Takeover

Someone Really Needs to Make a Good $100 Tablet

Samsung Galaxy S II Has More GPU Firepower Than Any Android Device

21-Year-Old Iranian Hacker Is the LulzSec Antichrist

Sony Tablet S Is Up for Pre-Order at Best Buy

Confused Naked Lady Gets Caught on Google’s Peeping Street View Camera (Yeah, NSFW)

Netflix Is Finally Available on Nearly All Android Phones

Shokz OpenDots One Earbuds Hit Their Lowest Price Yet Across All Color Options, Including the New Ones

INIU Portable Power Bank Is Small in Size and Smaller in Price for Amazon’s Big Spring Sale (45W, 10,000mAh)

Humans Were Already Dog People 16,000 Years Ago, DNA Suggests

California Regulator Says Tesla’s ‘Robotaxis’ Are More Like a Limo in the Eyes of the Law

Dyson Airwrap Falls to an All-Time Low in Amazon’s Spring Sale, Lowering the Barrier for This Premium Multi-Styler

The ‘Tales from ’85’ Trailer Wants You Back in ‘Stranger Things’ Already

Forget Ray-Ban Meta, XREAL 1S AR/XR Virtual Screen Smart Glasses Drop to Record Low on Amazon

Pixel Buds Pro 2 Hit Record Low as Google Continues Its Clearance-Like Price Cuts Following Smartphone Deals

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Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

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