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7 Tools to Help Survive a Natural Disaster

Hurricanes are fast approaching, while Earthquakes rumble along the East Coast. We’re flirting with disaster today. If something catastrophic were to occur, would you be prepared? Here are 7 tools to help you survive a natural disaster. https://gizmodo.com/this-massive-hurricane-is-barreling-towards-the-east-co-5833587 Image via Shutterstock Eton Raptor Solar Radio Staying up to date on the latest developments is essential.…

Tech News Adrian Covert Aug 23

Earthquakes Shake Entire United States (Updated)

A string of earthquakes has just struck the United States of America. Our offices just shook—as did many in states across the country. Check here for the latest. Update: Colorado was hit with a 5.3 magnitude quake—its largest in 40 years. Update 2: T-Mobile and AT&T’s cell networks are confirmed jammed for us in Manhattan.…

Tech News Sam Biddle Aug 23

The Devastating Health Impacts of a Nuclear Crisis

The Japanese authorities have announced that radiation levels surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant are increasing to potentially harmful levels. New Scientist investigates the health risks associated with nuclear power plant explosions. How do nuclear accidents impact health? Apart from the damage caused by fires and explosions, accidents also release radioactive materials which can…

Health Debora MacKenzie - New Scientist Mar 15

Japanese Nuclear Rods Meltdown “Highly Likely Happening”

The fuel rods are exposed again. Japanese officials are saying that fuel rods are melting inside all three nuclear reactors. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano just said: “Although we cannot directly check it, it’s highly likely happening.” [AP]

Tech News Jesus Diaz Mar 14

The Japan Quake’s Most Powerful Photos (Updated)

A car perched precariously on the roof of a small hut. Streets packed curb to rooftop with debris. An unnamed victim’s hand, reaching out from the mud. These are but a few of the harrowing pictures now streaming out of Japan some four days after the worst earthquake that nation has seen in recorded history.…

Tech News Jack Loftus Mar 13

Tsunami Warning for Hawaii and California After Brutal Japanese Earthquake Hit Today

Striking at 14:46 local-time (12:46am EST) today, the earthquake is not only the largest Japan’s ever suffered, but also in the world’s top ten. After-effects in the form of tidal waves are expected to hit the US in just a few hours. Updated. The north-east of Japan was hit the hardest, but it was felt…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Mar 11

This weird old X-Men computer game allowed you to kill Gambit 100 times

In 1997, X-Men: The Ravages Of Apocalypse hit stores. The game was a Marvel-sanctioned total conversion of the bloody first-person shooter Quake. You played as a cyborg Magneto built to kill Apocalypse’s army of X-Men clones. Eat rocket launcher, bub! The conversion was made by Zero Gravity Entertainment and published by WizardWorks Software. It had…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Aug 10

Quake 2 Test: HTC Desire Vs. Samsung Galaxy S

Both run Android. Both have lightning-fast processors (the Galaxy S a Hummingbird/Power VR, the Desire a Snapdragon/Adreno). Both can play Quake 2. But which handles better? https://gizmodo.com/samsung-galaxy-s-smartphone-is-the-first-step-in-samsun-5500164 See the side-by-side comparison below. I won’t give too many clues away, but I’ve got to say that I’m pretty disappointed with the outcome. I’m like a proud…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jul 6

Yes, This Is a Game of Quake Running in an HTML5 Browser

No plug-ins. No Flash. Just an HTML5 port of the Quake II game engine. Apparently some folks at Google decided to use their extra time in a very, very productive way: We started with the existing Jake2 Java port of the Quake II engine, then used the Google Web Toolkit (along with WebGL, WebSockets, and…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Apr 2

Quake III Runs Fragtastically On a Droid

Ten years ago, Quake III required a PC tower with some gaming cred. Today, all you need is a smartphone running Android 1.6 or later. And it’s even a free download. The hobby project of thunderbird2k, this video shows Quake III running pretty well on a the Motorola Droid—between 20 and 30fps—while allowing perks like…

Tech News Mark Wilson Feb 25

Sending a Text Message to Canada Saved a Woman in Haiti

A Canadian woman trapped under rubble after the recent earthquake in Haiti managed to send out a text message to the Foreign Affairs Department in Ottawa, a place nearly 3,000 miles away. And it saved her life. Once received, the text message was “relayed to Canadian diplomats back in Haiti” who then provided aid in…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Jan 14

WebOS Getting Doom, Quake, OpenGL, and Native SDK

With some elbow grease, we’ve been able to play Doom on our WebOS devices for a while, but now we can do so without any messy terminal commands. Oh, and there’s a playable version of Quake, too. https://gizmodo.com/palm-pre-lands-hardware-accelerated-doom-courtesy-of-h-5288147 The folks of the webOS Internals global team have been throwing new things at us each day…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Jan 4

A Whole Lotta Quake Will Be Blowing Up Your iPhone

John Carmack says that not one, but three Quake games are coming to the iPhone—1, 2, and Arena—though his involvement will mostly be to “make sure certain specific things are done the way I want them to be.” The Quake onslaught is in addition to a slew of other id games hitting iPhone: Wolfenstein RPG,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jun 29

Quake Running on Bug Labs’ BUG (About Time)

I guess this is it: Bug Labs’ BUG has graduated from weird modular little thingie with not much use for most to weird modular little thingie with not much use for most but plays Quake. Yeah, it moves, it fires, it can be controlled with a guitar. [Community Bug Las]

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jan 27

Quake on Chumby Is the Cuddliest Slaughterfest Ever

Sure, people port games to totally inappropriate platforms all the time, but rarely do they entail the cognitive dissonance of a full port of Quake to the huggable Wi-Fi beanbag Chumby. https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-chumby-wi-fi-widget-beanbag-cuddly-in-more-wa-359388 This black magic was concocted by a chumby developer who got the game running under SDL. Obviously, chumby doesn’t have a WASD key…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Dec 10

Quake on iPhone Comes to Cydia Installer

That Quake game for the iPhone we wrote about a few months back has made it onto Cydia, the jailbreak application repository. Just Another iPhone Blog says it’s not too slow and it doesn’t make use of the accelerometer (so it’s probably not the version we wrote about before), but it does play fairly well.…

Tech News Jason Chen Aug 5

Force Feedback Gaming Vest Uses Compressed Air to Mimic Pain

Also known as the 3rd Space Vest, the Force Feedback gaming vest from TMgames is filled with compressed air pouches in order for you to feel the pain when you’re hooked up to your console and having your butt kicked by scary aliens. Compatible with around a dozen games, including Call of Duty, Doom 3,…

Gadgets AddyDugdale Feb 22

7 Tools to Help Survive a Natural Disaster

Earthquakes Shake Entire United States (Updated)

The Devastating Health Impacts of a Nuclear Crisis

Japanese Nuclear Rods Meltdown “Highly Likely Happening”

The Japan Quake’s Most Powerful Photos (Updated)

Tsunami Warning for Hawaii and California After Brutal Japanese Earthquake Hit Today

This weird old X-Men computer game allowed you to kill Gambit 100 times

Quake 2 Test: HTC Desire Vs. Samsung Galaxy S

Yes, This Is a Game of Quake Running in an HTML5 Browser

Quake III Runs Fragtastically On a Droid

Sending a Text Message to Canada Saved a Woman in Haiti

WebOS Getting Doom, Quake, OpenGL, and Native SDK

A Whole Lotta Quake Will Be Blowing Up Your iPhone

Quake Running on Bug Labs’ BUG (About Time)

Quake on Chumby Is the Cuddliest Slaughterfest Ever

Quake on iPhone Comes to Cydia Installer

Force Feedback Gaming Vest Uses Compressed Air to Mimic Pain

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