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If you’re one of the millions who lost power during Hurricane Sandy, you’re probably wondering how long all that food in your refrigerator will last before it spoils. According to the USDA, if the power has been out less than four hours, refrigerated food is probably fine. But since it’s likely that this storm will…
The Cortex A53 and A57 are ARM’s latest and greatest mobile chipset designs, another important leap in its quest to get its mobile chipsets closer in performance to desktop CPU. Designed for single core or multi-core configurations, the products made from these designs will be the first mobile chipsets to support 64-bit processing. This puts…
If you’re at all confused about where your polling place for next week’s election is, fret not. Google has you covered, yet again. Their new voter information hub can not only point you in the right direction, but can deliver the full rundown on everything you’ll be voting on. Put it to good use. [Google…
This brilliant Aliens power loader costume piloted by a baby Ripley made the rounds yesterday, but now there’s video of it in action. It’s even more adorable in motion, and that kid looks ready to battle alien invaders or unjust early bedtimes. [The Mary Sue via BoingBoing]
There’s two big problems with the traditional caramel apple. They’re messy to eat, and once the caramel coating is gone you really have no incentive to keep eating the apple. But with the caramel on the inside, it’s a whole new ballgame that will give you a new appreciation for fruit. The recipe is actually…
You’ve rightly ignored payphones for longer than you can remember, but they haven’t forgotten you. They been waiting there patiently in the wings, coin slots aquiver, ready for the day when a hurricane would disrupt the power that charges your fancy cellular communication machines. That’s right, New York. It’s payphone time. At least, until AT&T…
Google just released an update to its search app for iOS. Now it has the Knowledge Graph built inside, meaning you can ask it questions and it will answer right back. So if you say “Who’s the president of South Africa?” it will just say “Jacob Zuma” rather than offering a bunch of results you…
People gather around the front door for Internet. [Twitter—Thanks Conz!]
This is Steve Ballmer, 2012, pitching Windows Phone 8 with serenity, emotion, and conviction. It’s pretty good! Below is Steve Ballmer, 1986, hawking Windows 1.0 to an unsuspecting public with enough verve and spittle to wake (and terrify) the dead. It’s pretty awful! So well done, Steve Ballmer. A few more years and you’ll be…
There are few bad things to say about the Nexus 10-maybe one or two. The rest is good. Very good. It’s plain and fast and nice and doesn’t weigh too much. And now you and your roommates and mom can share it. Lovely. Looking at It and Holding It The Nexus 10 is your standard…
Right now transportation in and out of New York City is pretty much impossible. But in the coming days and weeks everything will slowly go back to normal. The WNYC Transit Tracker is a handy, embeddable tool with all the information you’ll need to get around in Sandy’s wake. [WNYC]
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Here’s what the storm would look like if its centre were over western Europe. Via BBC.
Sandy damaged the Enterprise’s tail. Photo: Brian Harmon.
Even if you’ve never strapped on a snowboard in your life, you’ll have everyone on the slopes thinking you could easily go toe-to-toe with Shaun White with a pair of Nike’s new Zoom DK QS double tongue boarding boots. With art and graphics more suited to the US Air Force’s World War II fleet, the…
Google’s rolling out a redesign of the Gmail compose functionality that will save heavy email users a lot of time. The new compose window won’t take up the entire large frame of your Gmail anymore. Instead, it’ll look like a larger version of the Gchat window that you’re used to. As Google points out, going…
While it may resemble a live feed from Midtown Manhattan (sans the floodwaters and wind damage), this haunting time lapse video is, in fact, Thrash Lab’s latest iteration of its “Empty America” series.
Google’s newest platonic ideal of Android Phoneness is here, and it is maybe the most powerful smartphone you’ve ever held. The software is terrific-the newest, more refined Android ever. But why the hell, in pretty much November 2012, does it not have LTE? Holding It and Looking At It There’s nothing special about the feel…
Emmanual Jerome, 23, was just sentenced to nearly a year in prison in England for burglary. In trying to use his iPhone as a flashlight during a heist, Jerome accidentally recorded video of his crime. The Daily Mail reports that Jerome along with a gang stole thousands of pounds of loot from a home while…
If you thought the new iPad Mini was Apple’s last word on its iPad lineup, think again. Conan O’Brien’s amazing team of researchers have once again managed to unearth a secret Apple commercial that reveals several other iterations of the iPad. If the iPad Mini doesn’t excite you, maybe the iPad Mini Mega Micro Max…
