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Tech’s New Most Meaningless Spec: PPI

HTC’s new Droid DNA smartphone has plenty of qualities that make it intriguing. It has a quad-core Snapdragon chipset. It crams a 5-inch display in a body nearly the size of a One X or Galaxy S III. Its Super LCD 3 technology trumps the Super LCD 2 that made the HTC 8x display so…

Nokia’s New Mapping Service Is Coming to iOS and Android

We just introduced you to Here, Nokia’s insanely fast new mapping service for the desktop and mobile browser, but it’s also coming to Android and iOS in a few weeks. https://gizmodo.com/nokias-insanely-fast-new-mapping-service-looks-awesome-5960184 It’s going straight to the App Store where it’ll be a free download for iOS. But for Android, Nokia is just releasing a toolkit…

Nokia’s Insanely Fast New Mapping Service Looks Awesome

Apple Maps sucks hard but Nokia’s navigation solution, a product called Here that was just announced today, is fast as hell. You can try it in on the desktop or in web app form at m.here.net. I wish I had had this over the weekend—I visited San Francisco for the first time and kept forgetting…

Bob Dole’s Sad 1996 Campaign Website Is Still Online

On August 2, 1996, Bob Dole’s presidential campaign broke the Internet. Or at least that’s what they thought they were doing. It didn’t do the Dole/Kemp ticket any good, but luckily for us, it’s still up for our collective enjoyment. Like all websites from the 90s, the Dole/Kemp site is hopelessly tacky. The graphics and…

This Electro-Powered Bulletin Board Holds Your Stuff Without Tacks or Tape

Borrowing technology from plotter-type printers, this Justick bulletin board uses electrical energy flowing across its surface to create Coulomb Forces that attract lightweight objects. And they don’t have to be metal. Everything from documents, to fabrics, to even DVDs will stick without the need for tape, thumbtacks, or staples. All you need is a set…

The Crazy Secret Journal of John McAfee, Volume 1: The Girl Assassin

John McAfee, founder of the eponymous antivirus company, is being sought by police in Belize for questioning about the murder of American expatriate Gregory Faull. (First reported by Gizmodo yesterday.) https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-john-mcafee-wanted-for-murder-updated-5959812 In September of this year, McAfee published a diary in three parts of his recent “adventures” in Belize on a private message board, where…

HTC Droid DNA Hands On: This Thing Is Sick

The HTC One X, the EVO 4G LTE, and the One X+ are among our favorite phones. But the company hasn’t had a flagship device for Verizon in a long time. Now, with the Droid DNA, HTC decided to go all out and make the most impressively spec-filled smartphone the world has yet known. https://gizmodo.com/htc-one-x-review-the-best-android-phone-right-now-upd-5907529…

You can order the Google Nexus 4 and Google Nexus 10 right now. The shiny Android love sold out overseas FAST. Hurry!

This 40kW Missile Defense System Will Pew-Pew Missiles Clear Out of the Sky

The wall of hot lead thrown out by a Phalanx system may be effective against inbound artillery threats, but spewing hundreds of rounds to knock out a single bomb isn’t exactly efficient. Instead, one German defense contractor aims to simply fry them out of the sky. The 40kW missile defense system developed by MBDA Germany…

This Classic Dieter Rams Braun Speaker Goes At Least to Eleven

Dieter Rams did some his industrial design work for Braun, and we’ve already declared our love for it. Forgive us for adding another piece to his shrine, but this L11 speaker is worthy of a special mention. Designed to coordinate with the Rams’ (hard to find) SK record player (dubbed “snow white’s coffin” by audio-…

The Simple Sexy Email Secret Petraeus Used for His Affair

David Petraeus might not have been a good enough spy to avoid getting busted in the arms of his push-up-crazed biographer, but he did use a damn clever trick for sneaky correspondence: the neglected draft folder. So simple. So obvious, even. Maybe you’ve used it yourself—though it certainly didn’t occur to me in yesterday’s roundup…

An Ode to the Relationship Ruining Autocorrect

Expressing the depths of the love you feel for you partner is difficult enough as it is. It’s even harder when technology conspires against you as it does in Above Average’s latest video, Baby I Lobe You – An Autocorrected Love Song.

Seriously Though, Apple’s Gift Guide Is Just the Apple Store

Jingle, jingle, everyone! Throw on Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas” and bust out the nativity. The holidays are officially upon us—Apple has released its holiday gift guide. Oh my god, I can’t stop squealing! Wait actually though, it’s just the Apple Store with more red font. Last night, as the tradition decrees, a…

Impatient Lazy People Can Now Track the Progress of Their GrubHub Orders

Following a similar service from Dominoe’s Pizza, GrubHub has a new feature called “Track Your Grub.” As the name implies, you’ll now be able to track your order every step of the way. Is there anything worse than the long wait for your food delivery? Sure, you got a vague “delivery window” in a confirmation…

Recapping ‘The Jetsons’: Episode 08 – Rosey’s Boyfriend

This is the eighth in a 24-part series looking at every episode of “The Jetsons” TV show from the original 1962-63 season. The personal humanoid robotic assistant (or robot maid; robot butler; whatever you’d like to call it) easily makes the short list of retro-futuristic dreams still unfulfilled — up there with the flying car,…

Here’s the Man Who Dug Up John McAfee’s Secrets

The story of antivirus millionaire turned reclusive murder suspect John McAfee is a long, strange, sordid one. Just a few hours ago, on CBS This Morning, reporter Jeff Wise—who broke the news for Gizmodo—talked about where the McAfee saga stands today, and how we got here in the first place. https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-john-mcafee-wanted-for-murder-updated-5959812 Come for the insight,…

Windows Phone 8 Won’t Hit Sprint Until Next Year

Just as Sprint was late to the iPhone party, it’ll also be the last major carrier to get a Windows Phone 8 handset. While AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile are all launching phones for the pretty darn good new version of Windows Phone this month, PCMag reports that Sprint won’t get a handset until some unspecified…

This Ribbon Wall Charger Will Never Get Tangled in Your Bag

As if having to remember to bring along a charging cable isn’t annoying enough, they seem to have a knack for becoming knotted while in your bag. But a company called Tylt has solved at least one of those problems with its Band Wall Charger that uses a ribbon design that’s nigh impossible to get…

How to Board a Plane Quicker Using Math

Boarding a plane is like joining an assault course that demands you trample old people and bat small children out of the way you with your bare fists. Possibly. But perhaps not for much longer, because a Chinese mathematician claims to have found a far more efficient way to board an airplane. Airlines usually opt…

The Life-Tracking Jawbone Up Is Back! (And Hopefully It’ll Work This Time)

Jawbone has given its life-tracking Up bracelet a second chance. The original was promising, but had a sky-high failure rate. The new band, Jawbone hopes, will fix the massive problems of the original, and deliver on its equally massive potential. https://gizmodo.com/jawbone-up-review-a-potentially-wonderful-thing-that-y-5863822 The new Up bracelet, like its predecessor, keeps tabs on how much you’re moving…