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Sprint is offering up $2.1 billion to take over Clearwire in its entirety. Buying out spectrum is expensive! [Bloomberg]
This little mLogic Thunderbolt extension box looks like a slinky addition to your Mac, but hidden within it is some hardcore tech to give your laptop a serious shot in the arm—for a price. The device connects to any Mac with a thunderbolt port, and allows you to install a half-length PCIe board—an ability missing…
Ugh, there’s always so much to get done and all we really wanna do is watch YouTube and drink beer. Fear not! This video explains how you can use science to get more productive so you can get your work done quickly. The bad news first: willpower alone is not enough. That bombshell outta the…
Here’s a great little introduction to the murky world of patents, litigation and technology. It might be a little oversimplified in parts, but it serves as a great reminder as to why patenting software isn’t necessarily a great idea. [YouTube via TechDirt]
By day, he heads up Samsung’s technology strategy. By night, he’s a closet Apple fanboy. Young Sohn, Samsung’s Chief Strategy Officer, admitted to Technology Review in an interview that he can’t get enough of Apple’s products. From the interview: I use a Mac, actually, at home. I’ve always used Mac, an iPhone, and an iPad……
John McAfee’s been deported from Guatemala, and has arrived back in the US. An American Airlines commercial jet carrying McAfee landed in Miami last night. https://gizmodo.com/john-mcafee-is-coming-back-to-america-5967922 The Washington Post reports that he’s holed up in a hotel in Miami’s smart South Beach neighborhood, citing a blog post by McAfee—which has now been edited. The WaPo…
NORAD has switched allegiance: this year, it will track Santa using Bing and Microsoft maps instead of Google. [NORAD]
If you’ve been holding out for a Gmail or Drive app on WinPho8, you’re all outta luck. Google has announced that it has no plans to roll out Windows Phone 8 software for the major Google apps. Speaking to V3, Clay Bavor, product management director at Google Apps, explained: “We have no plans to build…
This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who understands cameras and megapixels and storage space but it could be a good excuse to not get suckered by the megapixel wars in buying a camera. The more pixels, the more space it takes. A thousand images taken on the 36 megapixeled Nikon D800 takes up…
How Gif-iti Is Made As part of his White Walls Project, street artist INSA and his crew spent three days repainting this mural four times in order to create the animation above. Check out the behind the scenes time-lapse to see how much effort really went into this. The Sphere This awesome short film by…
After somehow managing to survive life without it, Google Maps is back and better than ever for iOS. That means no more melting world of Apple Maps, no more false listings, no more getting lost and no more map inferiority on your iPhone. Get rid of Apple Maps and go download Google Maps in the…
Any sort of flying drone is already awesome. How do you make it more awesome? Attach a camera and arm it with a paintball gun so it can fly around and shoot unsuspecting people, animals and/or objects. Doesn’t that sound like a crap ton of fun? Made by Milo Danger, it’s a little bit of…
You’ve never seen a skateboarding video with angles like this. As skateboarder Danny Brady goes in for his trick, you’ll see a slow motion, almost bullet-timed view of him. But. It’s not real. As incredibly detailed as it is, it’s all fake. You won’t believe it. Made by NEON, the video tries to shows a…
Okay, obviously none of the things any of the rappers list in this song are a problem whatsoever. Loving bad bitches? Totally cool. Loving to screw? That’s a perfectly normal human desire. But Notorious B.I.G. first established the maxim of “mo’ money, mo’ problems,” and perhaps if you’re a popular rapper, the same principle applies…
iPhone owners, rejoice, for your long national maps nightmare is almost over. According to AllThingsD, a standalone Google Maps app is going to hit the App Store sometime tonight. So long, Apple Maps. It’s been… something. Hard as it may be to believe, it’s been nearly three months since Tim Cook & Co. jettisoned Google…
The Hotel CasAnus is a hotel shaped like an anus. It’s real, it’s in Belgium, and you can spend the night in it if you have some kind of scatological thing going on. Actually, anyone can stay there for about $155 a night. You just have to have some weird desire to sleep up a…
The other night I was watching The Dark Knight Rises on Blu-ray on my PS3 but it was getting late and I didn’t think I’d finish, so I switched to Netflix. And I was completely blown away by the movies it was suggesting across its various verticals. They were actually movies I’d want to watch…
The world really needs more desk-class headphones. By that we mean, high-quality, over-ear cans for blocking out the jerk in the next cubicle that don’t cost upwards of $300. We’ve got real high hopes that for $150, these new headphones from NuForce might just hit that nine-to-five sweet spot. It seems like every other month…
Christmas ain’t Christmas without the tree. But what if there’s a lack of space cramping your holiday cheer? Fortunately for you and your elfin apartment, redditor MickolasJae had the ingenious idea to construct his own makeshift monument to Christmas with nothing more than a blank wall and some lights. The more indolent of hall-deckers might…
Genius comes in all shapes and sizes, and in this case it’s a cylindrical 16-ounce water bottle called the Hydros that features a brilliant access port on the side of the cap that lets you fill it from the shortest of taps, or shallowest of sinks. No longer do you have to craft a makeshift…
