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If airlines were already keen to keep your phone switched off, things could soon get even more militant. According to a talk by Hugo Teso at the Hack In The Box security conference, it’s possible to hack an entire plane using an Android smartphone. Gulp. Teso—a commercial airline pilot turned computer security consultant—explained to the…
It’s well known that Google’s competitors aren’t keen on it getting hold of the .search top-level domain. But the company has outlined a new plan which would make use of the string as a dotless domain—open for use by any other search company, too. In a letter to ICANN, Google outlined that it would opt…
An Apple job listing suggests Cook and co are keen to try out flexible displays in future products. Bendable iPads!
Samsung has been trying to squeeze as much storage as it can into its latest flash chips, and it’s done a good job: these 128-gigabit chunks of siliocn are, apparently, the industry’s highest density memory storage available. The new chips use super-compact three-bit multi-level-cell, 10 nanometer process technology to pack the storage in. Sounds awful,…
Good news for early adopters: Google Glass Explorer Edition will apparently be shipping “within the next month“.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft is currently developing a new line of Surface tablets, including a 7-inch version which should go into mass production later this year. According to “people familiar with the company’s plans”, a seven-incher wasn’t originally part of Microsoft’s scheming, but the rise of the Nexus 7 and iPad…
Cameras are the new weapons, or at least that’s what it seems like in the eyes of the police. Police officers from the San Diego Police Department pretty much attacked and arrested a man for recording them with his cell phone camera. Watch the video, it’s pretty awful. How did this all happen? It started…
The WSJ says that Microsoft is working on a 7-inch version of its Surface Tablet
Warning: The following may cause epileptic seizures. Do not watch “Hello Tyrannosaurus, Meet Tyrannicide” by Hertfordshire-based post-hardcore quartet Enter Shikari while driving, operating heavy machinery, flying commercial aircraft, twerking, tweeting, forking, or spooning. Especially do not watch after turning off the overhead lights and sitting really close to the monitor. In fact, do not watch…
Speaking at the National Association of Broadcasters, Verizon CEO Lowell McAdams talked about how data is used on Verizon’s pipes… and a story about how he convinced Steve Jobs to put LTE on the iPhone 5. LTE had existed on Android phones for quite a while before it came to the iPhone 5, McAdams said…
I wish I could live during a time when we believed creatures and aliens and things lived on the Moon. My imagination would have had so much fun! But alas, real life is too boring for that kind of fun. Still, in 1836, people believed that astronomers had found life on the moon. They imagined…
Places you expect to see an iPad: in an Apple store, at a coffee shop, on an airplane, near your home restroom, on a nightstand, in someone’s hands, you get the point. Places you don’t expect to see an iPad: at an outdoor concert being used as a camera, in Bill Gates’ office, inside a…
I’ve never been exactly sure of how the universe came to be—big bang boom thang a lang—but I’m certainly glad it shaped out the way it has. If you want to finally understand the beginnings of our universe, watch the video by CERN physicist Tom Whyntie above. Cosmologists and particle physicists try to trace back…
Ali Razeghi, an Iranian scientist who is the managing director of Iran’s Centre for Strategic Inventions, has done something only the great Doc Brown has done: he’s created a time machine. But unlike Doc’s DeLorean, Razeghi’s “The Aryayek Time Traveling Machine” can only take you to the future. What are we waiting for? Let’s go!…
Spring is in the air, layers are being shed and it’s time to get wet. And I need a new pair of boardies, so why not go with the proven winner when it comes to both comfort and functionality? There isn’t because Hurley has what I need and desire. Now, I can attest to the…
Information-hungry iPad users are in luck with Panic’s newest release: Status Board, a customized, at-a-glance display of more tidbits than you could possibly consume. While the $10 price tag might seem steep, you’re immediately treated to a friendly, soothingly-soundtracked setup assistant who guides you through the entire process of picking and choosing your knowledge-to-be. You…
If you have Google Chrome, a decent internet connection, and a strong stomach, cancel any plans you might have had tonight. Because chances are you’re not going to want to tear yourself away from Teehan+Lax’s incredible new tool: a Google Street View hyperlapse machine. Describing their motivation, a post in Teehan+Lax’s “labs” section notes: Hyper-lapse…
On April Fools Day 2004, Google launched Gmail, and it wasn’t long before @gmail.com email addresses usurped the kingdom of Hotmail. Google just posted a nice visualization of the service’s evolution from a humble beta to a Google Goliath. [Google]
You’d think you could do most things in the kitchen with a knife and a good mixing bowl. Apparently not, according to the spate of highly specific single-purpose kitchen gadgets that exist. We showed you a few last month, but it turns out there are so many more horrors that we missed. https://gizmodo.com/11-insanely-specific-kitchen-gadgets-5988717 Here’s another…
LA-based photographer Johnny Tergo has taken an interest the kind of drive-by we can actually get behind. A frequent commuter, Tergo decided to use time on the road to his advantage—by building a custom camera and lighting rig in his Chevy Silverado that lets him snap studio-quality shots of unsuspecting passers-by. Remaining in the driver’s…
