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Say hello to the iPad Air 2, the Apple tablet that’s thinner than a pencil shaved down to size by a laser. I just held one at Apple’s event, and I have to say: oh gosh is it thin and light and gorgeous. Enough so, in fact, to completely overshadow the new iPad mini. https://gizmodo.com/ipad-air-2-everything-you-need-to-know-1647091065…
We like to joke that no one will ever dare break into our house. Wiley, our dog, sits on the front porch and howls about ten times a day, loud enough that you can easily hear it up to six blocks away. But why does he do it? Why do dogs howl? Wiley’s been a…
This music video—by UK-based director Sam Pilling—takes us to the most bizarre bowling tournament I’ve seen in my life. It doesn’t say how the rules actually work, but it seems like the official ball has to be a severed human head. Don’t worry, there is nothing gore here, just some British dark humor at its…
It’s been a long time, but the Mac Mini just got an update. It now has Intel’s Haswell processor which brings more computing power, better integrated graphics, and improved power efficiency. And now it starts at just $500. The new Mac Mini starts shipping today, but it has one more feature aside from the new…
The new iMac with Retina display will make your desktop radiate in high-resolution glory. This is the most amazing iMac Apple has ever made. The new iMac with Retina display has a 14.7 million pixels on a 27-inch display in 5210 x 2880. They’re calling it a Retina 5K Display. That’s way more pixels than…
Last year’s update turned the iPad Mini into the tablet we deserved. And this time around they’ve given us—er, pretty much the exact same thing as last year. But hey—Touch ID! And goldpagne. Don’t forget goldpagne. Design It’s official—goldpagne has finally come to iPad land. But besides taking its color cues directly from the new…
It’s iPad day, and Apple just announced the successor to last years svelte new iPad Air. This is the iPad Air 2 (aka the iPad 6), a familiar but thinner body, with updated guts and a few more features around the edges. Design The iPad Air 2 might look mostly familiar—and it is—but it’s been…
Apple just announced that OS X Yosemite will be out today, and it’s free. No huge surprise there—Mavericks was also free. But it’s still good news for anybody who likes pretty things. https://gizmodo.com/our-new-ipad-imac-and-more-liveblog-starts-10-16-at-1-1644529414 In addition to news about the release, Apple also showed off some flashy things that the new Continuity feature offers. It works…
Looks like Apple is listening, y’all. Despite the seemingly never-ending hiccups of iOS 8, the company has apparently decided to respond to overwhelming demand and reintroduce the much-missed Camera Roll feature in iOS 8.1. But resurrected Camera Roll might not be the old feature you remember. https://gizmodo.com/ios-8-0-1-is-breaking-cell-connections-on-the-iphone-6-1638669641 We heard mention of Camera Roll coming back…
New GoPros a little rich for your blood? The GoPro Hero3+ Black is still a fantastic camera by any measure, and you can get a refurb today for $290, or $110 off retail. This is one of the best deals we’ve ever seen on this model. [Refurb GoPro Hero3+ Black, $290] http://www.ebay.com/itm/GoPro-HERO3-Black-Edition-Camera-Manufacturer-Refurbished/121457506249 Don’t want a…
Apple Pay is set to launch on October 20. So if you have an iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus and you’re in the U.S., you’ll be able to start paying for your Walgreens haul on your phone next Monday. Tim Cook described how Apple Pay will work in greater detail than before, confirming earlier…
Ah, Mr. Krueger. Growing up I was never a fan of scary stuff, but Freddy was the bane of my childhood – scaring the living bejesus out of kid-me the moment I first saw his design. Now, 30 years after his début, NECA are getting ready to creep me out all over again with this…
When we want to leave our mark on Mars today, we simply send over a few Rovers to roll around in its red soil. But 150 years ago, scientists had very different plans for contacting the planet, including one French inventor who wanted to use the refracted light of the sun to sear a welcoming…
Jordan Mang-osan is a patient guy. This Filipino artist is so patient that he can sit for hours at a time, calmly holding a magnifying glass over a slab of wood so that the sun can burn the slightest little dark spots into the surface. But eventually a beautiful landscape emerges. The idea of burning…
[Updated 3:00 PM] You should know by now that purportedly anonymous apps aren’t really anonymous. But now, The Guardian reports that Whisper, the secret-telling app and so-called “safest place on the internet,” actually tracks its users to a frightening degree of detail. Even if you opt out of location services, The Guardian says, Whisper will…
Yesterday, Google officially announced its new Nexus devices, including the massive Nexus 6 superphone. But Motorola’s 6-inch phablet wasn’t the only Motorola-branded gadget to spill some details. A new leak has an entire rundown of Verizon’s upcoming Droid Turbo and, if true, this thing has the best specs of any smartphone ever. Verizon is planning…
Buying an analog camera can be daunting if you are new to the game. There are decades worth of varieties to consider! The good news is, you can get something really premium without breaking the bank. DigitalRev, an camera outfit based in Hong Kong, has enlisted the help of Bellamy Hunt of Japan Camera Hunter…
A bushel’s as good as a peck to most folks outside the agricultural industry but that doesn’t make the New Holland CR10.90’s wheat-picking feat any less impressive. It was able to harvest nearly 800 tons of the grain from 198 acres of English farmland in a single workday—all while setting a Guinness world record. On…
Unless you’re lucky enough to have a second drinks-only fridge in the garage, your bottled beverages are probably battling leftovers and condiments for shelf space in your kitchen fridge. But you can end that war once and for all with the magnetic bottleLoft that lets you simply hang bottles from the roof of your fridge,…
Hundreds of millions of people use Gmail but only a small subset of them dig deeper into the advanced features that are available in their inbox, such as filters. Setting up new rules for incoming can seem like an onerous task that doesn’t justify the effort put in, but here are seven filters that are…
