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Virtual Windows App For iPad Is Now Available, and Free

Earlier this week we told you that OnLive was going to be offering a way to run a virtual version of Windows 7 on you iPad. Now it’s in the app store, so you can stop playing Angry Birds and do some work from your tablet instead. It’s a 4.8MB free download, but you’ll need…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Irate Customers Egg an Apple Store When the New iPhone Is a No-Show (Updated)

They had come from miles around and stood in sub-zero degree weather for hours, patiently waiting for the store to open its doors. Today was iPhone day in Beijing! But when the doors did open, the huddled masses were told there would be no iPhone 4S, not today. And then shit got real. Apple customers…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Beats Dumps Monster Over Headphone Spat

Peanut butter and jelly, unicorns and glitter, Beats Electronics and Monster. One of these things just doesn’t belong, one of these things is not like the others. After a five-year collaboration, the two companies have terminated their relationship but do hope to remain friends. According to Businessweek, the breakup came about due to an irreconcilable…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

The Apricorn Aegis Is Fit to Store State Secrets

Sure the Apricorn Aegis looks like a garage door opener. But you wouldn’t get it for its looks, you’d get it for its 256-bit military-grade encryption. The Aegis holds 16GB of data and connects via a USB 2.0 plug. Its tamper-evident aluminum casing is waterproof, the interior electronics defended by a super tough epoxy compound…

Privacy & Security Andrew Tarantola

Boostercopters

Though the first practical helicopter wouldn’t be flown until 1936, this “boostercopter” appeared in the April, 1935 issue of Everyday Science and Mechanics.

Tech News Matt Novak

Whaddya Mean Google Can’t Translate Pages into Elvish?

So what if Google Translate knows over 60 languages? Who cares that I can change text from Urdu to Haitian Creole? Where are the languages I need—like Klingon, Orc, or Sindarin? I mean, come on, there’s not even an option for English to Jive! What do you think? Which languages would you want to see…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Steve Ballmer: One Giant Misunderstanding of a Man

Microsoft’s in the middle of an attempted renaissance, and leading the way is ol’ sweatstains himself, Steve Ballmer. Ashlee Vance at Businessweek has a nice, sprawling feature that’s as much about the tongue-wagging chrome dome as it is about the company he leads. True or not, conventional wisdom on Balmer is that he’s big and…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Overheard At CES: Magic Numpad Edition

“They’re basically selling transparent paper.”

Tech News Adrian Covert

Hordes of Chinese Apple Fanboys Awaiting the iPhone 4S

Check out the thousands of anxious Chinese fanboys, awaiting overnight to descend on Beijing and Shanghai’s Apple Stores like locust over Egypt. They are there to devour every iPhone 4S in sight. And you thought American fanboys were bad. [Mercury News via Fortune]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Outlisten Wants to See Your Shaky Cellphone Concert Videos

Attending a show is different now. Everybody’s holding up a cellphone shooting video instead of watching and listening. This doesn’t have to be a 100-percent bad thing, however. A startup called OutListen intends to turn this sow’s ear into a silk purse by encouraging concertgoers to upload their smartphone footage to an online calendar. If…

Tech News Eliot Van Buskirk - Evolver.fm

Panasonic’s Third Eye Camera Concept: Terrible Haircut Required!

Panasonic’s designers cooked up this concept camera that users wear like a set of behind-the-head earbuds. I like the fact that it packs wi-fi, letting your smartphone record or stream everything your third eye is seeing. But apparently it only works with terrible, terrible haircuts. Hopefully they’ll work this kink out if it ever comes…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

What’s Going to Happen at Apple’s Special Event Next Thursday?

Next Thursday’s Apple event in New York is going to feature something related to education. But it’s not a special tablet for students or any other kind of hardware, the New York Times reports. So what is it? The January 19 event at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is related to digital textbooks: Apple may…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

IBM Figures Out How Many Atoms It Takes to Hold a Bit (Hint: It’s 12)

Rather than trying to shrink current data storage technologies further, IBM took the opposite approach and designed a new system from the ground up—building it from individual atoms. The new storage could lead to 100-fold increases in chip densities. Take that, Moore’s Law. Researchers at IBM, in conjunction with the German Center for Free-Electron Laser…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Ericsson Just Zapped a Rockabilly Song Through My Body

I think I can still feel my fingers tingling after I played with a stereo hooked up to Ericsson’s new capacitive coupling technology, which uses the water in the human body to transmit data instead of cables or radio waves. In Ericsson’s booth demo, you’re presented with two transmitter boxes with flat metal connections in…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Dr. Pepper Killed Dr. Pepper

When Dr. Pepper sued Dr. Pepper, we joked that real life was imitating Coke Zero commercials, where a company sues itself as marketing humor. This deal with Dr. Pepper ain’t no marketing joke. Dr. Pepper, the parent company, just killed off Dublin Dr. Pepper, the best version of Dr. Pepper there is. What the hell!…

Tech News Casey Chan

Two Dudes in Suits Passed Out on Forklifts

Okay, okay, so it’s not a forklift. Whatever it is, that can’t be comfy. But sometimes, you’ve just gotta konk. I feel you, fellas. I feel you.

Tech News Mat Honan

Watching Giant Killer Waves Swallow Surfers in Slow Motion Scares the Dude Out of Me

Chris Bryan, the amazing slow motion videographer, used a Phantom camera to capture surfers riding humungous waves in Teahupoʻo, Tahiti in super slow motion. It’s terrifying to see the sea monster known as the ocean so huge and intimidating and hungry. Seriously, the waves were so big the day Bryan filmed the French Navy issued…

Tech News Casey Chan

Google’s Android Design Guide Will Make Your Apps Sooooo Fierce

Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) has made great strides in bringing the look of Android into a more consistent, cohesive form. Google’s apps all look and behave very similarly, but now third-party app developers need to adapt. Luckily, Google is providing a map. As of today, app developers can click on over to Android Design…

Tech News Brent Rose

Sharkfin Promises Custom-Fitted Earbuds For Just $5

Having customers build their own cheap furniture helped IKEA build an empire. So a Canadian company hopes the same approach will work when it comes to custom-fitted earbuds. When using earbud style headphones you typically want to block any other sounds from coming in, and the most effective way to do that is with a…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

How to Cover a Ginormous Trade Show With a Million Gadgets in the Middle of the Desert and Not Die

Covering something as massive and amazing and crushing and utterly divorced from reality as CES is half art, half science, and if you want to do it well, all heart. That’s the real secret, if you want to know. But I suppose some of you might also want to know how we covered it, the…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Virtual Windows App For iPad Is Now Available, and Free

Irate Customers Egg an Apple Store When the New iPhone Is a No-Show (Updated)

Beats Dumps Monster Over Headphone Spat

The Apricorn Aegis Is Fit to Store State Secrets

Boostercopters

Whaddya Mean Google Can’t Translate Pages into Elvish?

Steve Ballmer: One Giant Misunderstanding of a Man

Overheard At CES: Magic Numpad Edition

Hordes of Chinese Apple Fanboys Awaiting the iPhone 4S

Outlisten Wants to See Your Shaky Cellphone Concert Videos

Panasonic’s Third Eye Camera Concept: Terrible Haircut Required!

What’s Going to Happen at Apple’s Special Event Next Thursday?

IBM Figures Out How Many Atoms It Takes to Hold a Bit (Hint: It’s 12)

Ericsson Just Zapped a Rockabilly Song Through My Body

Dr. Pepper Killed Dr. Pepper

Two Dudes in Suits Passed Out on Forklifts

Watching Giant Killer Waves Swallow Surfers in Slow Motion Scares the Dude Out of Me

Google’s Android Design Guide Will Make Your Apps Sooooo Fierce

Sharkfin Promises Custom-Fitted Earbuds For Just $5

How to Cover a Ginormous Trade Show With a Million Gadgets in the Middle of the Desert and Not Die

Artemis 2 Live Updates: Countdown to the Moon 🔴

Anthropic Can’t Cover Up Its Claude Code Leak Fast Enough

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How Adult Swim Skipped the April Fools’ Nonsense and Dropped a ‘Smiling Friends’ Claymation Horror Short Instead

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