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Courts have allowed Samsung and Apple to add iPhone 5 and Jelly Bean to their ongoing battle. Tit. For. Tat. [Bloomberg]
Sprint has announced that it will be selling cellular versions of the iPad Mini, and updated iPad, in its stores as of this morning. Go grab one while you can. Sprint has explained that “limited quantities of the new iPad” will be available in select Sprint stores. It’s not clear how limited those stocks are,…
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google is in talks with satellite-TV provider Dish Network, with the intention of joining forces to create a “new wireless service that would rival the networks of wireless carriers such as AT&T and Verizon”. Citing “people familiar with the discussions”, the Journal goes on to suggest that Dish…
Do you remember the Rapture? Yeah, the idea of people freaking disappearing was so hilariously dumb. It never happened! But if it did, it would totally look like Greg Condon’s ‘drop-motion animation’. Watch him disappear over and over again and just leave behind a pile of clothes. [Vimeo via The Awesomer]
Nitro Circus’ Most Spectacular Fails of 2012 In retrospect, these were all very awesome ideas, they were just lacking in their execution. AsapSCIENCE Explains ‘Morning Wood’ It’s set in the “woods” and he’s “pitching a tent!” Get it? A Guide to Legal Marijuana Use In Seattle As with any revolutionary policy change, Washington’s weed-legalizing Initiative…
In a revealing photo project that kind of spins photography on its head, Meggan Gould took pictures of viewfinders. You know, the thing that photographers usually look through. Turns out viewfinders look more like stained petri dishes than the looking glass of still life. It is funny to see gunk build up in viewfinders and…
The mysteriously inept and failure of a fighter jet, the F-22 Raptor, has another failed notch to mark down in its resume of grounded awfulness: an F-22 Raptor crashed today in Florida, a quarter mile ease of the runway. Luckily, the pilot managed to eject from the aircraft safely. Here’s the official word from the…
Breaking into the same JFK cargo building featured in the movie GoodFellas, two thieves stole two pallets of iPad Minis—about $1.5 million worth—in a slick robbery that included using the airport’s own forklifts and possibly an inside man. The New York Post reported that the two thieves broke into the cargo building on Monday night…
You can now buy wine and champagne from Facebook with Facebook Gifts. Let’s get drunk on Facebook everybody!
So Google is making a video game called Ingress. It’s not a silly April Fools Joke but an alternate-reality game which means, like, you actually have to go out in the real world and see real things to get achievements. It’s like World of Warcraft for real life. Would you play it? It’s only available…
According to sources close to Condé Nast, WIRED will announce its new editor-in-chief tomorrow. The nearly 20-year-old tech magazine, which was run by Chris Andersen for the past 10 years, will have a new boss very, very soon. Sources familiar with the situation list three names to pay attention to: Bob Cohn, editorial director of…
Not happy with building mysterious gigantic structures in the desert, the Chinese are now building inter-dimensional portals in the middle of their cities. What the hell is this 515-foot (157 meters) high metal structure in the the city of Fushun, in northeast China’s Liaoning province? https://gizmodo.com/why-is-china-building-these-gigantic-structures-in-the-5859081 Oh wait, I know, it’s just another example of…
Official description: “The Zalman CNPS FX100-Cube is fanless and noiseless CPU cooler, which does not draw dust or generate vibration due to its passive operation.” Unofficial description: LOOK AT THIS FREAKING MONSTER HEATSINK! Made of copper and aluminum, this 1.94-pound (880 gram) cooling thingamajig works with 77W TDP (Thermal Design Power) processors, “including Intel’s i7-3770K.”…
Lytro’s founder Ren Ng has always maintained that there was potential in light field photography far beyond the main refocusing trick that the Lytro Camera launched with. And when the latest Lytro desktop software update hits on December 4th, we’ll get to see a couple more of those tricks: perspective shift and living filters. Perspective…
We’ve been a little distracted this afternoon, watching a turtle named Franky navigate a a pet store on Dropcam. Not making that up. He got stuck in a corner for a while, poor guy. Anyway, the fun doesn’t have to stop when we leave the office for the day, because Dropcam just launched a new…
You can email tweets directly from Twitter.com now, for easier sharing with non-Twitter friends. They’ll be… thrilled?
Our need for resources is driving development of some of the world’s most remote regions. So how do we get the heavy machinery needed to explore areas where roads exist only as dotted lines on a map? You use a helicopter the size of a jumbo jet. The Mi-26 Halo is the largest commercially-produced helicopter…
We’d already heard before that in the wake of the Apple Maps iOS 6 fiasco, Google was plotting its own app for iOS to launch before the end of the year. The Wall Street Journal reports that the app is in the polishing stages, and that it will soon be submitted for approval to Apple.…
These new Zai Laisa skis are so beautiful, I want to ditch everything and hit the slopes right now. Except it’s still November, I’m still at work, and there isn’t any snow in upstate New York. But even as a snowboarder, I’m lusting after this pair. The only question I have is about the tips—just…
This was probably inevitable. As rockets fly back and forth between Israel and Gaza, Israeli infantry morale seems… a little too high? BuzzFeed dug up a big batch of artfully-filtered wartime Instagram snaps from the IDF, documenting a generally gung ho, smiling mood among the grunts. The hashtag has never seemed so grotesquely out of…
