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Obama Will Deliver Weekly YouTube Fireside Chats

Obama is officially the first YouTube president—you know, if you doubted it for some reason with 1800 videos uploaded and over 110 million views. He will be the first president to post videos of his weekly fireside coffee talks on YouTube in addition to the traditional radio format, which goes back to FDR, who used…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Nov 14

GM Working On New “Cadillac One” Limo For Obama

Now that we’re going to have a new president, it’s time for a new presidential limo-and GM is whipping up quite a doozy for the new Prez-elect. “Cadillac One” will be based off of the GMC Topkick, which you may remember as Ironhide from Transformers. For pretty obvious reasons, details on what exactly makes up…

Tech News Elaine Chow Nov 11

Now You Can Make Obama Clean Up The Icy Alaska Streets, Super Mario-Style

Fight evil piggies as the new president elect, in the icy world of Super Mario with a touch of Alaska. Run, jump, slide and trample the competition as Super Mario Obama while you make your way across the snowy state grabbing American flags and jumping on attacking racks of clothes. Check it out for yourself,…

io9 Meredith Woerner Nov 10

Google CEO Won’t Become Nation’s First Chief Tech Officer

I’m kinda disappointed Google CEO Eric Schmidt really won’t be the country’s first ever chief tech officer after all. Despite rumors and (fairly reasonable) speculation he was not-so-subtly campaigning for the position (and Obama), yesterday he definitively said that he wouldn’t take the position if offered: “I love working at Google and I’m very happy…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Nov 8

Diebold Sued for GPL Violations, Allegations of Puppy Kicking to Come

Artifex, makers of the Linux Ghostscript Postscript interpreter, is suing Diebold for breaking the fair use terms of its software. Diebold used the freely-available software, which is fine, but when they authored some changes to Ghostscript Postscript, they neglected to follow the very reasonable rules such use requires. Biggies like HP, Xerox, and IBM all…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Nov 8

Barack Obama’s Quotes on Technology Reveal More About His Plans

I only wish the highly coveted “nerd vote” was analyzed by the fancy computer technology that all of the major news networks were using during the election because I’m sure that demographic was key to Obama’s victory. After last year’s visit to Google HQ, it was clear that he would make the advancement of technology…

Tech News Sean Fallon Nov 6

Future Historians Explain the Success of the Obama Administration

Now that Barack Obama has been elected president, reports are pouring in from the future to let us know what to expect from the next four to eight years. While some of these posts from the future depict Obama’s America as a big government, anti-Christian nightmare, others assure us that the new administration will usher…

io9 Lauren Davis Nov 6

CNN Can’t Stop Pimping Its Election-Night Holographic Toy

Seven minutes before the polls closed, CNN decided to show off their new super power hologram technology just one more time, by “beaming in” Obama supporter and musician Wil.I.Am, Princess Leia-style, from his Chicago location. We’d seen Wolf Blitzer toying with the virtual-commentator equipment all night, but watching Cooper and Wil.I.Am. name check both Star…

io9 Meredith Woerner Nov 4

How the CNN Holographic Interview System Works

CNN’s holographic election coverage is fancy pantsy, but how did they manage to send 3D 360 degree footage of virtual correspondent Jessica Yellin from Chicago all the way to the station’s election center in NY? As Arthur C. Clarke says, Magic. A magic made possible from technology Vizrt and SportVu with the help of forty-four…

Tech News Jason Chen Nov 4

I Vote For Technology

Gizmodo is not endorsing a presidential candidate. Nearly everyone on staff agreed that it would be a bad idea, for a lot of valid reasons. Besides the fact that Gizmodo is seen by many as a means of escape from the the real world, we simply don’t cover politics. Many on our staff felt that,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Nov 3

Eleven Writers Imagine What Happens After Election Day

Bookmaker Paddy Power is giving 1-10 odds that Barack Obama will win tomorrow’s election. But we still don’t know what’ll really happen on election day — and right afterwards. Will an Obama administration have the funds to bring about his promised changes? Will President McCain survive a full four-year term? Could some dark horse emerge…

io9 Lauren Davis Nov 3

McCain Campaign Pulls Out of Tech Debate, Apologizes With a Telegram

After weeks of wrangling, Wired had finally gotten commitments from high-level surrogates from both the Obama and McCain campaigns to participate in a debate about technology yesterday afternoon. So how did it go? It didn’t. The McCain campaign canceled a few hours before the event, with no plans to reschedule. While McCain’s personal indifference to…

Tech News John Herrman Oct 31

Presidential Election Rocks The Robot Vote

With the Presidential election less than a week away, it looks like the campaign is taking a more scifi turn as it heads into the home stretch. We’ve heard about the McCain campaign’s controversial use of robocalls, but the Obama campaign is going one better, and using full-on robots to get out the vote.Well, sort…

io9 Graeme McMillan Oct 29

Tactics and Strategies in the First Real Internet Election

When you go to the polls next Tuesday, no matter who you vote for, you will be motivated by words, images and videos you picked up online. There are some voters who don’t use the internet to gather information about candidates, but that number is dwindling, while the number of ways candidates can reach you…

Tech News Benny Goldman Oct 29

How the Obama-Hating Voting Machine Fails

Remember the voting machines in West Virginia that just couldn’t bring themselves to let people vote Obama? Jackson County Clerk Jeff Waybright, who “hates stories like this” was good enough to show Video the Vote how a mis-calibrated voting machine would take a vote for Obama (or anyone) and turn it into a vote for…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 29

The Dueling Dystopias of Political Campaign Ads

John McCain and Barack Obama may seem as different as night and day, but there are a good number of folks still on the fence as to who will get their vote. Where debates, stump speeches, and lectures on voting records have failed, maybe science fiction will save the day. Supporters on both sides of…

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 25

Internet Voting Is Here (Kinda)

Voting from home, over the internet. That’s the dream. It’s when the vast majority of people will finally vote. Hell, even I might register to vote if you could online. But this year, fittingly in the election that the internet has mattered more than ever before, we’re taking a solid (baby) step in that direction.…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 22

Voting Machine: No, You Really Meant to Vote for McCain

Even though the great state of West Virginia is only at threat level orange for having the closest thing the average American has to a voice tampered with, in at least three counties, voters have complained that when they tried to vote for Barack Obama, the touchscreen voting machine cast their vote for John McCain.…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 21

Google CEO Wants to Be President Obama’s Tech Chief

Did you know? Besides sitting on Apple’s board of directors, Google CEO Eric Schmidt has been an informal adviser to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. In fact, he lurves Obama so much that’s he not just going to endorse him (shock, right?) he’s going to actually campaign for him next week. And not just ’cause Obama…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 20

Obama Isn’t the Only Candidate with Alien Ties

This week, we learned the shocking truth about Barack Obama: that he is the last son of Krypton, sent by Jor-El to save the people of Earth. While it’s unusual for a presidential candidate to claim an alien planet as their place of birth (after all, it might disqualify them from the race), Obama certainly…

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 18

Obama Will Deliver Weekly YouTube Fireside Chats

GM Working On New “Cadillac One” Limo For Obama

Now You Can Make Obama Clean Up The Icy Alaska Streets, Super Mario-Style

Google CEO Won’t Become Nation’s First Chief Tech Officer

Diebold Sued for GPL Violations, Allegations of Puppy Kicking to Come

Barack Obama’s Quotes on Technology Reveal More About His Plans

Future Historians Explain the Success of the Obama Administration

CNN Can’t Stop Pimping Its Election-Night Holographic Toy

How the CNN Holographic Interview System Works

I Vote For Technology

Eleven Writers Imagine What Happens After Election Day

McCain Campaign Pulls Out of Tech Debate, Apologizes With a Telegram

Presidential Election Rocks The Robot Vote

Tactics and Strategies in the First Real Internet Election

How the Obama-Hating Voting Machine Fails

The Dueling Dystopias of Political Campaign Ads

Internet Voting Is Here (Kinda)

Voting Machine: No, You Really Meant to Vote for McCain

Google CEO Wants to Be President Obama’s Tech Chief

Obama Isn’t the Only Candidate with Alien Ties

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