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Discover iPad App Turns Wikipedia Entries into Magazine Articles

Why bother downloading iBooks when there’s a wealth of free information on Wikipedia just gagging for your brain to wrap itself around? Discover is a cool app for the iPad that arranges Wikipedia articles into magazine articles for easier reading. While it’s only available for the English version of Wikipedia for now, the developer has…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The Greatest and Most Dramatic Wikipedia Edit Wars

Aluminium or Aluminum? Should a photo of a giant spider be placed in the entry for arachnophobia? Are Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader considered the same character? What does “pwned” mean? These are the questions which began some of the greatest edit wars on Wikipedia. Click on the image for a closer look. The numbers…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

What Is This?

What’s this here? A leaked prop from Tron: Legacy? A high-tech bug zapper? It’s something much more basic than those, but still fit for a king. What you’re looking at is a high resolution photograph of the noble gas Argon, taken by Wikipedia user alchemist-hp. It’s one in a series of 36 pictures taken so…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Listless Wikimedia “In Chaos” Following Co-founder Jimmy Wales Resignation

Wikimedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has abruptly stepped down following a controversial porn purge that saw Wales himself single-handedly deleting questionable content from Wikimedia Foundation servers. Updated. The purge was the result of a FOX News investigation started in April that discovered a large amount of pornographic material on Wikimedia’s servers. When FOX News asked Wikimedia…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Buy Your Favorite Wikipedia Subjects In Book Form, For $9

I know! Why don’t we all spend our money printing free information off the internet, bind it in covers and clutter our bookcases with it? Wouldn’t you like to own books with titles such as “Toasters,” “Penguins” and “Antidisestablishmentarianism”? PediaPress is charging as “little” as $8.90 per book, with the prices varying depending on how…

Books & Comics Kat Hannaford

Tech Companies Are Getting Merger Crazy

HP buying Palm made some waves, but it’s got nothing on the other big tech deals we’ve spotted on the horizon: https://gizmodo.com/why-hp-buying-palm-is-good-for-you-5526620 Nintendo Buys Fender: Nintendo removes five of the six guitar strings to make instruments easier to “just pick up and play.” Google Buys National Security Agency: Google Wire Tap leads to an increase…

Tech News Brian Barrett and Adam Frucci

This Is What Your Wikipedia Edits Look Like

Normally I’d file this image under our “what is this” image cache, but as you’ve already clocked, it’s somehow related to our Memory [Forever] theme. Those pretty colors are a visualization of the thousands of Wikipedia edits made by a bot. It’s not just a one-off visualization for adding to our Tumblrs either. It’s the…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: One Small Step Edition

In today’s Remainders: progress. Sort of. Openmoko’s WikiReader takes baby steps towards usability; a new sculpture series offers busts of the Darth Vader that could’ve been; an MSNBC slideshow sheds light on the photographic pursuits of ISS astronauts, and more. Wiki Wiki We first saw Openmoko’s single-purpose WikiReader back in October, and we weren’t exactly…

Space & Spaceflight Kyle VanHemert

What Would Books About Twitter, Wikipedia and YouTube From The 1960s Look Like?

Fortunately we don’t have to think too hard about what they’d look like, because French artist Stéphane Massa-Bidal has designed a series of book covers for 10 of our favourite web services. Massa-Bidal sells some of his designs on his online store, but these terrific book covers aren’t available just yet. Perhaps if we all…

Social Media Kat Hannaford

Remainders – The Good, Bad and Ugly Stuff We Didn’t Post (and Why)

In today’s batch of things that didn’t make the cut we’ve got a bit of NSFW humor, Time’s list of gadgets of the year, an angry celebrity suing an Internet person, Dell profiting through Twitter, and more. Time Names Droid as Gadget of the Year, iPhone Last Seen Crying in Corner Time made their list…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Which Places In the World Does Wikipedia Discuss Most?

This heat cold map signifies the total number of Wikis tied to each country. The designer learned there are literally more articles written about Antarctica and even Middle Earth than many countries in Africa. [mark graham via boingboing]

Tech News Mark Wilson

Remainders – Stuff We Didn’t Post (and Why)

Canada Has Its Very Own Version of the AT&T vs. Verizon Ad Lawsuit…CollegeHumor Tackles Modern Warfare 2 (With Bonus Giz Appearance)…LG BL4 Gets Christmas Edition…VUDU Adds Wikipedia, Possibly the World’s Most Boring Update… Canada Has Its Very Own Version of the AT&T vs. Verizon Ad Lawsuit Telus and Rogers are sworn enemies in the Canadian…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Wikipedia’s Brain Drain

The decay of time, bitter infighting, and the increasing scope and strength of regulations slowly strangle the life out of Wikipedia, with editors—its braintrust—fleeing in droves, even as traffic at the world’s fifth most-popular website keeps growing. [WSJ]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

WikiReader Puts Wikipedia in Your Pocket, Forgets We’re in 2009

3 buttons, 3 million topics: Wikipedia in the palm of your hand. OpenMoko‘s $99 WikiReader arrives today, and could be useful for kids (or luddites), but it’s an odd little gadget in a world of 3G smartphones. The WikiReader isn’t a connected device. Instead, Wikipedia comes on an SD card. You can pay $30 to…

Tech News Danny Allen

Cyclopedia Augmented Reality iPhone App Drenches Your World In Wikipedia

App concepts don’t get much simpler than this, or much cooler: Cyclopedia takes Wikipedia’s tens of thousands of geotagged entries, and overlays them onto a live, compass-oriented view of your surroundings. If this sounds an awful lot like Wikitude, the AR Android app that just can’t seem to eek its way into the App Store,…

Tech News John Herrman

All Of Rorschach’s Secrets — Revealed!

The Rorschach test is a hallowed tradition in psychology, and nobody is supposed to have access to those smudges that patients project their psyches onto. But a Saskatchewan surgeon has flouted tradition, by posting all ten inkblot images to Wikipedia. According to the New York Times, there was a debate on Wikipedia over whether one…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Week In iPhone Apps: FCC Inquiry Edition

Let’s take our minds off all this nasty Google Voice business for a minute, and focus on the apps that we do have. Google may not make an appearance this week, but how about Wikipedia? NPR? The Discovery Channel? Simplify? https://gizmodo.com/apple-and-at-t-answer-fcc-about-google-voice-rejection-5342954 NPR News: The unaffiliated Public Radio Player was great great great, but this is…

Tech News John Herrman

Obama’s BlackBerry: No Wonder He Couldn’t Let Go

Kasper Hauser, the brilliant minds behind the SkyMaul parody, have tackled another delicate tech subject: President Obama’s beloved BlackBerry. When you see the First Dude staring at his handheld and snickering, this is what’s going on. https://gizmodo.com/barack-obamas-blackberry-addiction-the-biggest-celebr-5129457 The book Obama’s BlackBerry is on sale now, $11 at Amazon, and is consistently hilarious, as you can…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

RIP Microsoft Encarta, 1993-2009

Woe: Microsoft has officially pulled the plug on Encarta, a reference work that, for many of us, was probably more formative than anyone would like to admit. Yes, please join with me in admitting that you spent a fair share of time reading the Human Reproduction article on your beige IBM Aptiva back in the…

Tech News John Mahoney

The Biggest Advances in Governmental Tech During the Bush Era

With all this talk about Obama’s BlackBerry and weekly YouTube addresses, we tend to assume there was no governmental tech before him. But there actually were some impressive advances in the last eight years. Among the many online weather and emergency alert services, job listings, and the like, the Bush years also found a few…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Discover iPad App Turns Wikipedia Entries into Magazine Articles

The Greatest and Most Dramatic Wikipedia Edit Wars

What Is This?

Listless Wikimedia “In Chaos” Following Co-founder Jimmy Wales Resignation

Buy Your Favorite Wikipedia Subjects In Book Form, For $9

Tech Companies Are Getting Merger Crazy

This Is What Your Wikipedia Edits Look Like

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: One Small Step Edition

What Would Books About Twitter, Wikipedia and YouTube From The 1960s Look Like?

Remainders – The Good, Bad and Ugly Stuff We Didn’t Post (and Why)

Which Places In the World Does Wikipedia Discuss Most?

Remainders – Stuff We Didn’t Post (and Why)

Wikipedia’s Brain Drain

WikiReader Puts Wikipedia in Your Pocket, Forgets We’re in 2009

Cyclopedia Augmented Reality iPhone App Drenches Your World In Wikipedia

All Of Rorschach’s Secrets — Revealed!

The Week In iPhone Apps: FCC Inquiry Edition

Obama’s BlackBerry: No Wonder He Couldn’t Let Go

RIP Microsoft Encarta, 1993-2009

The Biggest Advances in Governmental Tech During the Bush Era

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