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Samsung is showing a 13-inch Series 9 ultrabook at IFA with a 2,560×1,440 display. It’s only a prototype, but here is the only reasonable reaction to that bit of news: Hell f*cking yes. The Series 9 is the most beautiful laptop out there. It’s prettier than MacBooks and ZenBooks and BookBooks. But the screen was…
Top aerospace and defense company Tupolev is developing a new stealth plane that will replace Russia’s mighty but aging nuclear strategic bomber fleet. Called the PAK-DA bomber, it will enter service in the mid-2020s, just in time to face the USAF’s new stealth strategic nuclear bombers. But that’s inoffensive compared to what’s coming next. The…
All signs point to the fact that Sharp is one of the manufacturers of the next iPhone display. In fact, the phone might even use Sharp’s new IGZO technology. But if Wall Street Journal’s reports that Sharp has halted production of the displays due to problems are true, you might wanna be among the first…
So there is probably an iPad Mini of some sort coming next month. But while what it will look like is still anyone’s guess, we may have just gotten a pretty big clue about its insides—and they’re more familiar than you might think. Last night, Instapaper developer Marco Arment wrote about two new iPad 2…
Apple Stores are apparently running low on 27-inch iMacs, fueling the rumor that an update is coming soon. MacRumors reports that around half of Apple’s 249 U.S. retail services are out of both configurations of the big machines. In some cases there are delays—if you order one of these computers now, you won’t be able…
If you’ve had your eyes on the new Samsung Galaxy Note II, or have been pining for the Samsung Galaxy Camera, they just got a little more appealing. Dropbox will be offering a free 50GB account to anyone who buys either of those devices. All a user has to do to get access to that…
Often questionable NowhereElse.fr just posted images of what it claims is a fully assembled iPhone 5 side-by-side with an iPhone 4. The alleged iPhone 5 leak from China is longer and thinner than the previous iPhone models and has the two-tone back panel. Is it real? Who knows. But based on all of the rumors…
It’s already stepping on the toes of Amazon’s dual-display patent, but at IFA E Ink is showing off a prototype handset featuring a traditional full color LCD panel on the front, and a dull monochrome e-ink display on the back. Kind of like a reverse technological mullet with the party in the front and business…
When I was a kid growing up in the late 1980s and early ’90s there were only two things that I was certain of when it came to my future: I was going to grow up to be an animator for Disney, and I was going to have a robot. Sadly, my drawing skills peaked…
There’s less than a week until Nokia’s September 5th event, but this could be a look at the gorgeous new Windows Phones we’re going to see. The leaked photos come from an upstart leak outlet Twitter account called evleaks. Right now it’s got a total of 10 tweets visible over the past three days, but…
Samsung’s faring a lot better in east Asian courts than it has in the US. A Japanese judge has ruled that the Korean company’s phones and tablets did not violate Apple’s patents, and has ordered Apple to pay all of Samsung’s legal fees. Like the American trial, the case was about whether Samsung’s smartphones and…
It’s getting so close, we can almost taste. In fact, Instapaper developer Marco Armnet already saw it. Kinda. Arment spotted in his iOS developer code logs what he believes to be the codes for two new iPad models—minis. MacRumors reports: The new identifiers found were “iPad2,5” and “iPad2,6”. As Arment notes, the iPad2,1 through iPad…
When you watch a video of water balloons in slow motion, you expect to see the ballon slowly rip open, you expect to see a geyser of water gushing out, you expect an explosion. Not with this slow motion video. For this video, you only get to see the endless jiggle, and blue ballish as…
Hidden Place – Stephen Irwin This is, um. It’s…it’s…it’s something alright. If you have any idea what’s going on, let us know in the discussion below. [Cartoon Brew] Springfield Missouri Decriminalizes Weed—But Not for Long In order to avoid putting the matter on the November ballot—which would cost nearly $200,000—Springfield’s city council passed a measure…
Apple just rolled out an updated App Store for iOS 6 beta users and though it’s a lot prettier on the surface, it’s also going to be a lot more annoying to use. Why? Because it’s going to take forever to find an app by searching. Apple has eliminated the old list of app results…
Say what you want about Rio De Janeiro possibly being undeserving of hosting a World Cup and a Olympics but you can’t deny that the city can be vowel stretching beeeaaauuu-tee-ful. I’m not kidding. It looks like another world. Avatar with a beach. Watch it. Joe Simon took his Canon 5D Mark III to Rio…
Today, temporarily, some users with access to Facebook’s Power Editor tool got a glimpse of a new targeted ad system the social network is prepping to roll out next week. InsideFacebook is reporting that a powerful tool granting premium advertisers access to users’ phone numbers and email addresses, as well as their user ID, has…
The Atlantic is reporting some pretty fascinating findings from a study on Internet usage patterns in homeless vs. non-homeless youth out of the University of Alabama. Apparently, for 75% of the youth surveyed, not even homelessness if a big enough impediment to getting at least an hour a day of Facebook or Twitter time. Rosanna…
Amazon is going to use Nokia Maps instead of Google Maps for the next Kindle Fire, says Reuters
Death Becomes Her is the best thing that happened to the world in 1992. Seriously, the fact that this movie is now available to stream on HBOGo is BIG NEWS. Because it’s not on Netflix. Weirdly. Basically, Goldie Hawn and Meryl Streep play two women aging gracefully and about this aging they are not thrilled.…
