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Like so many of us, Nathan W. Pyle is relatively new to New York. And like so many of us, he has a few ideas about how to make New York a little more bearable. What sets Pyle apart? His ideas are clever enough to warrant a book deal, while the rest of us are…
Project Logan is NVIDIA’s next-gen mobile processor. Inside of it is the Kepler GPU, which NVIDIA claims the fastest, most advanced scalable GPU in the world. Last year, Kepler hit desktops and laptops, and next year your phone and tablet are about to get supercharged. We have seen just how crazy NVIDIA can make graphics…
iHeartRadio is the free streaming audio service of choice primarily for people who love terrestrial radio, and want to be able to get these stations over the web. (Yes! Millions of these crazy people exist.) But until now, the service has lacked one of the the core components of the airwaves: babbling voices. No more!…
BlackBerry’s rumored big shiny new A10 has cropped up in a series of leaked high-res images and it looks… actually kinda nice. The new phone is rumored to be a bigger and faster flagship smartphone for the company, and these images show the device in more detail than before. It’s not dissimilar in style to…
If you thought the sprawl of 16 numbers across the front of your credit was randomly generated, think again: like any good string of numbers, an algorithm was involved in its creation. In fact, the first couple of numbers relate to the kind of card it is: Visas start with a 4, Mastercards a 5,…
NVIDIA has just announced an insane new GPU. Designed for (wealthy) graphic professionals, the Kepler-based Quadro K6000 is, apparently, “the fastest and most capable GPU ever built”. With twice the capacity of the Quadro 6000 that it replaces, the specs on this thing are just crazy: it has 12GB of super-fast DDR5 graphics memory, 2,880…
Uh, so much for official product launches. Thoroughly leaked and benchmarked already, now Best Buy has opened up pre-orders for Google’s new Nexus 7 ahead of its official launch. Best Buy’s online store provides full-res images of the new tablet, making clear the new rear camera and Nexus branding. Best Buy also confirms all those…
There have been more leaks of Google’s new Nexus 7 than you’d expect from a broken colander—but now Android Police claims to have gotten its hands on one and benchmarked the thing. Android Police reports that it’s gotten its hands on the new Nexus 7. It reaffirms that the new seven-inch device features a 1920…
San Diego Comic Con has wrapped up and E3 has been long over, which means two of the biggest “nerd” conventions are gone until next year. That’s okay! If you’ve ever been to a convention like that, no matter how much fun you have or think it will be you’d know that going too often…
Geeks come in all shapes, sizes, forms, kinds, heights, hair colors, ethnicities and yes, even gender. This lovely little music video by The Doubleclicks shows off geek girls who have “Nothing to Prove” about their geekiness. Geek girls are constantly and wrongfully tested about their geekiness because us dimwitted males can’t believe they exist. They…
From now on, Motorola will be the only company that makes Droid-branded phones for Verizon says CNET. But of course that won’t stop half the world from calling their Samsung and HTC Android phones Droids. Sigh.
Because Bill Nye explains the world better than even experiencing it yourself, here’s our childhood maestro of science explaining how we could possibly stop an asteroid from destroying Earth. Giant bombs, huge rockets and even freaking lasers probably can’t stop it. And even if they could stop it, we might not be able to build…
Next generation, blah generation, says Kotaku’s Mike Fahey after playing with the new Xbox One for the first time. He’s pleased, but not impressed—because it doesn’t feel that much different from Microsoft’s previous game console. I’m sure the same is true for the Playstation 4.
Here’s your great time waster website for the day: Dronestagram. Exactly like how it sounds, it’s a website that shows you pictures taken by drones which means you get to see amazing angles of the world you’ve never seen before. It’s like being a bird or taking a helicopter tour of Dubai, France, Rio de…
io9’s Charlie Jane Anders has asked some hard questions to the creator of the popular fantasy TV series Game of Thrones. George R.R. Martin talks about the future of the story and some of the tough decisions he had to made. A fascinating interview full of spoilers, so be warned. Photos by Getty Images and…
Let’s face it. The new Nexus 7 is no longer a surprise. We’ve already seen it. We’ve already seen press shots for it. Hell, we pretty much know all the details. And now here it is in its full packaging, which means someone was able to get a real version of it early. Which means…
So remember how officials were pretty sure that the Southwest Airlines 737 crash landing at La Guardia was caused by a problem with the landing gear? Well, guess what—there was a problem with the landing gear. And according to a tweet from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), it was doozy. Judging from the picture…
Apple Stores. Glowing peaceful churches for fanboys to adore their glass and metal idols, drink their kool-aid at the Genius Bar and—soon!—celebrate the Sixth Coming of the JesusPhone. Except for this mother, who has had enough of whatever stupid nonsense she was being subjected to. Is it just me or does she look like Princess…
Laparoscopic surgery lets surgeons use tiny “keyhole” incisions and micro-sized 3D cameras to operate on internal organs without leaving big, slow-healing scars. It’s already considered a revolutionary procedure, and now Sony is introducing a 3D helmet display that advances the tech even further. It’s like Oculus Rift for your appendectomy. With two OLED displays producing…
For a good portion of the population, remembering both names and faces is a task too astronomical to even conceive of. You meet a fun, new person, and you don’t want to be rude—but chances are, as soon as they walk away, you’ve already forgotten what they look like. The problem only exacerbated when you’ve…
