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BlackBerry Spokesperson Alicia Keys Tweets From Her iPhone

BlackBerry unveiled Alicia Keys as its new spokesperson, but turns out she’s been posting from her iPhone. Seems a little dubious, but we’ll see. Sure it’s launch day, but it’s a little odd considering Alicia came on stage with Thorsten Heins and made a long, drawn out metaphor about being in an exclusive relationship with…

22 Awesome Rotary Phones: Beautiful Relics of a Bygone Era

It’s possible that some of you have never seen a rotary phone in real life. It’s likely that many of you have never used a rotary phone: heard the pulse take the place of the tone, mustered your patience as the dial rolls back it its reset, cursed a number with so many zeroes in…

Here’s BBM Doing Everything You Wish iMessage Could

At first blush there’s a lot to like about BB10, BlackBerry (née RIM)’s last great hope at redemption. But the first thing you might love is the revamped BBM. It’s crazy slick, and your iPhone is jealous. https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-10-launch-everything-you-need-to-know-5980146 What can you do with the new BBM? Reliable messaging, for one, which alone gives it a…

BlackBerry Q10: The Next Generation Physical QWERTY Beast Has a Touchscreen Too (Updating)

BlackBerry’s QWERTY handset for BlackBerry 10 is official. Launched today, BB10 and its accompanying hardware do away with a lot of baggage that has been holding the company back, but the physical QWERTY keyboard is here to stay. This slim, lightweight phone with wonderful clicky keys is its future. https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-10-launch-everything-you-need-to-know-5980146 The Q10 sports a 1.5GHz…

This Is the New BlackBerry Z10

Here it is. It’s the new Blackberry 10. It’s official, it looks exactly like the leaked photos and the renders we published. https://gizmodo.com/sorry-apple-the-blackberry-z10-is-hotter-than-the-ipho-5979484 Technical specs • 4.2-inch touchscreen with a 1280 x 768 pixels resolution, which at 356 pixels per inch is better than the iPhone 5’s 326 pixels per inch. • Dual core TI…

RIM Is Dead, Long Live BlackBerry

Starting today, RIM is rebranding itself as BlackBerry. With the official name change, you can say so long to all your RIM-related innuendo. The change coincides with the unveiling of RIM’s BlackBerry 10 operating system, the company’s last shot at relevance in an age when it’s been overwhelmed by the likes of iOS and Android.…

Olympus Officially Made the Worst Lens In the World

Here it is, ladies and gentleman, the worst camera lens in the world. The benchmarking authority, DXO Labs, has spoken, and the new Olympus 15mm body cap lens is the worst lens it has ever tested. It scored just a 4/40, earning the ranking of “Poor.” Its official rank amongst all the lenses ever made:…

BlackBerry 10 Launch Livestream: Where to Watch

If you’re interested in such trifling things as a fallen tech giant rising with power and grace from the ashes in a phoenix-like maelstrom of ashes and redemption, good news! RIM’s unveiling its BlackBerry 10 operating system, and livestreaming the feed to all the internets everywhere. If you want to watch, just head here for:…

You Can Thank Galileo For This Marvelous Modern Clock

Galileo was the first to think to use a pendulum as a time keeper in 1637. An actual clock using the precise weighted mechanism was patented in 1656 by Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens. Roughly 350 years later, Christian Kim has reinterpreted the classic ticker with the modern Pendulum clock for Zwilling. Unless you’re an antiques…

BlackBerry 10 Launch: Everything You Need To Know

Well, here goes. RIM is announcing its new BlackBerry 10 OS and hardware today. This could be the launch that gets RIM back in the game for smartphones. Or it could be the last time BlackBerry is relevant. It’s a big moment. We’ll be covering everything about BB10 and the new hardware right here, in…

What RIM Needs to Prove with BlackBerry 10

RIM’s day of reckoning is here. Today, at 10am EST, the once-mighty Canadian company will officially unveil its new BlackBerry 10 operating system, along with new hardware. It’s a chance at rebirth, reinvention, and getting out from under its walking corpse reputation. But for that to happen, RIM needs to prove it’s back on the…

Man Shot Dead After GPS Error Leads Him to Wrong House

When Rodrigo Diaz set out to pick up his friends and go ice skating, he was in high spirits. But when his GPS navigation system took him and some friends to the wrong house, he was assumed to be an intruder—and shot dead. Friends of Diaz claim that the then 69-year-old Phillip Sailors saw the…

A gallery of images purports to show a shiny new white version of LG’s Nexus 4 phone. Intriguing!

iPhone Owners Run Up the Biggest Bills

A new report by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners reveals that iPhone owners run up the biggest cell phone bills—spending far more than other smartphone users. The report reveals that 60 percent of iPhone users—or at least, those who were polled—spend more than $100 per month on their plans. Above that, 10 percent spend $200 or…

Steve Ballmer’s dismissed Dropbox as “a fine little startup” with a “pretty small number” of users. Ouch! [BusinessWeek]

This 1983 Song-and-Dance Ad For Lotus 1-2-3 Is Hilarious

Last weekend, Lotus 1-2-3 turned 30. It was widely regarded as the IBM PC’s first killer piece of software—a heady combination of spreadsheet, database, and graphics processor—and set the ball rolling for a whole world of productivity applications. But the best thing about it has to be this ad. It has it all: drama, a…

The 64GB Surface Pro Will Have Just 23GB of Usable Space

If you thought yesterday’s news—that the 128GB Microsoft Surface Pro will only offer 83GB of usable storage—was bad, think again. The Verge has learned that the 64GB version will offer up just 23GB of space to the user. https://gizmodo.com/the-128gb-microsoft-surface-pro-only-offers-83gb-of-usa-5979796 It seems the Windows 8 install, built-in apps, and a recovery partition will consume 41GB of…

That fatal acid leak in a Korean Samsung factory? It landed them a mere $1,000 fine. That’ll teach ’em. https://gizmodo.com/gas-leak-causes-fatality-at-korean-samsung-plant-5979442

NFL Support on Facebook, Visualized

To celebrate the impenidng Super Bowl, Facebook decided to analyze NFL support across the US based on Likes. Many of the results are as you’d expect—but there are a few interesting quirks along the way. Across all of Facebook’s US users, around 35 million have Liked a page for one of the 32 teams in…

Apple Has Trademarked the Design of Its Stores

Yes, you are looking at a technical drawing of an Apple store. And yes, it does form part of an approved trademark request which means nobody can imitate Apple’s temples to tech. It might seem ridiculous to you that Apple has been trying to trademark a store layout—and certainly, the US Patent and Trademark Office…