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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…
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…
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RIMS’s BlackBerry World store is live, with music, TV and film. Prices seem similar to every other similar online store.
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We’ve long know that Netflix is ambitious, striving to make its own original content when it can. But now the company had made its intentions clear: it isn’t just keeping up with the big boy cable networks—it plans to beat them at their own game. https://gizmodo.com/the-trailer-for-the-first-netflix-original-series-is-re-5872631 In a long and thoughtful profile of Netflix in…
Bloomberg is reporting that Michael Dell, founder of the eponymous computer company, is seeking to take majority control of the firm using his own cash. He currently holds a 15.7 per cent stake—and will need to stump up as much as $1 billion of his personal funds to seize 50 per cent. The report comes…
The Reward What this delightful buddy adventure lacks in dialog, it makes up for in awesome Narwhal armadas. [Nerd Approved] Growing Weed in the AeroGarden Delux Huh, turns out you can use commercial home hydro kits for tomatoes*. https://gizmodo.com/everything-you-need-to-grow-weed-tomatoes-indoors-5839780 Voice Over In the proud tradition of Duck Amok, Voice Over jerks some poor sap around…
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner was recently grounded across the world because its lithium ion batteries would self-combust in a blaze of glory (aka the batteries melt). What’s interesting is that Boeing knew about all the battery problems in the 787 before any flight was grounded. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-battery-that-melted-in-the-boeing-787-dream-5977257 The NY Times reports that Air Nippon Airways, the…
Because the court system is an inescapable never ending maze of appeals and paperwork, a ruling doesn’t seem to mark the end of anything. Even when the court said Samsung had to pay a billion dollars to Apple back in August, it can rule something differently tomorrow. Or at least, tweak and overturn something. Tonight,…
One thing your iPhone could be better at: sending secret encrypted messages (aka for sexting and/or illicit relationships). The regular messages app leaves everything hanging out in the open! Text Fortress is an app that encrypts the messages you send and locks them down so only the person you sent it to, can see it.…
Unsurprising reports about what the next iPad will look like have been coming out, parts showing off an iPad Mini-esque casing for the bigger iPad have been leaked and well, I’m no math expert but one plus one usually equals two. If you want to get an idea of what the next iPad might, maybe,…
Fast foodies aficionados, ranch dippers, chip dust finger suckers, ground meat lovers, Mountain Dew drinkers at the skate park, or just people everywhere, listen up. Taco Bell CEO Greg Creed has confirmed that Cool Ranch Doritos Locos Taco is coming very soon. This is the best gift 2013 will give. In talking to CBS This…
You’ve probably heard stories of Japanese soldiers who, stranded on some remote island in the Pacific, thought the war never ended. But the Lykovs’ story is even more outlandish than that. Karp Lykov and his family never even heard of World War II—its beginning or its end. Nothing at all. In fact, they lived in…
According to a FCC filing, Apple has a smaller Apple TV in the works. What’s weird is that it’s not that much smaller than the current Apple TV—the small version would be 93.78 square millimeters as opposed to the current version’s 98 square mm. Everything else about the FCC filing on the Apple TV looks…
Dubstep and half-shaved heads may be in vogue but that doesn’t make them any less terrible. Rather than be screeched at by synthesizers, check out the latest track from a downtempo pioneer. Bonobo, aka British DJ Simon Green, matches his hypnotic, constantly-evolving beats with a Cyriak-animated montage of Americana b-roll, which morphs into an Americana…
Look people, I know the BlackBerry Z10 looks great, but I just can’t believe that some of you are doing these stupid things to get one for free. Ok, five of you. https://gizmodo.com/sorry-apple-the-blackberry-z10-is-hotter-than-the-ipho-5979484 And I really mean that. I can’t believe it. I can’t believe that some Deborah St. Pierre decided to dance and pose…
Siri isn’t all that helpful when it comes to doing stuff you actually want to do on your iPhone, like search Spotify for example. But a voice-control app called Vela can fill that void. What does it do? It’s a voice search app for Spotify and Rdio that lets you pick songs or entire albums…
Suddenly the feds aren’t so hot about T-Mobile merging with MetroPCS
Helmets have a relatively simple—if not imperative—job as far as gear goes: 1) don’t fall off and 2) prevent major brain damage. Given its limited roster of tasks, it’d be easy to assume that helmet innovation has probably hit a standstill by now. WRONG. Enter the Giro Combyn snow-sports helmet: a soft-shell helmet that utilizes…
