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Maybe you stop riding a bike just because it’s winter, but that doesn’t mean everybody does. Some people are actually hardcore, and these tools can help you join their wintery—and deeply masochistic—ranks. Preparing for a bike ride in the winter is a lot like preparing for a ski trip for much of the country, but…
IBM’s Watson is most famous for handing Ken Jennings his ass on Jeopardy, but since then the supercomputer’s talents have been used to help doctors diagnose and treat disease. But Watson’s greatest trick might still be ahead of it: beating back the scourge of patent trolls. A key part of Watson’s medical mission is the…
Digitimes has unnamed sources telling them that laptop manufacturers are anticipating the Metro UI of Windows 8 and are planning to equip upcoming ultrabooks with touchpanels. Really? Touchscreens on our laptops? Why? It’s not like there haven’t been touchscreen laptops before. But when we used them, we were left wishing we could use them more…
Tired of your friends with the iPhone 4 and 4S showing you how awesome HDR is? Yeah, screw those jerks. You can get HDR for free today on your iPhone 3GS. That’ll show ’em. Dead Space won an award and now it’s cheaper and let’s play a football video game. No one’s ever thought of…
Well, we warned you it was going to happen back in July, but we’ve just started to see our first reports of AT&T enforcing their policy of slowing internet speeds for the 5% of heaviest users. #OccupyBandwidth Has anybody been hit by an AT&T warning message yet? Let us know in the comments. [Cult of…
AMD Australia has spilled the beans on the company’s plan for thinspiration: Intel won’t be the only ultra computer in town! No—coming soon, we’ll have AMD Ultrathins in addition to Intel Ultrabooks. Caveat: they might not be thin. The Australian cites AMD’s Brian Slattery, who detailed some of the format’s specs: Mr Slattery said AMD…
I’ve always found wind turbines to be hilarious, I mean, it just stands in the middle of nowhere minding its own business, spinning peacefully. Not this exploded turbine though—the 328-foot-tall, $3 million (!) behemoth spun itself so fast it EXPLODED IN FLAMES. How the, what the, who the heck!? Poor turbine! You worked too hard!…
Twitter has undergone a major transformation. Like a caterpillar that’s emerged as a weird looking tiny-text butterfly that hates direct messages. Some will embrace Twitter’s change in design philosophy, but grizzled social media veterans already hate it. If you’re falling out of love with the official Twitter app, here are a few unofficial apps you…
We promised you the chance to shoot us in the face and on the coldest, rainiest, grossest night in weeks, you guys lined up down the block for the opportunity. What the hell guys? You shot me in the eye. Dear Readers: You might have permanently traumatized one of our writers. Andrew Tarantola got caught…
If you need a reminder that Google can still make cool stuff, check out their latest app for iOS and Android: Google Currents. It’s pretty much a Flipboard clone in that the app turns web content (news sources, rss feeds, etc.) into a slick digital magazine with awesome visuals. Google Currents takes content that’s available…
Jawbone CEO Hosain Rahman addressed the problems surrounding its UP fitness tracking bracelet (some of which had a tendency to die) with a dramatic unconditional guarantee today. In a post on the company’s site today, Rahman announced that Jawbone thinks it has identified the problems with the bands that was causing some to brick, stating…
Killzone 3 for PS3 is a decent game. I never played it but I know some people who do and they pretend they really love it and that it’s this greatest thing in the entire world but we all know they rather be playing Halo or Gears of War or something on Xbox. To be…
So this one landed on our desk with a big ol’ thud of a HUH? BGR is reporting that, according to a trusted source, Samsung is making a 11.6-inch, 2560 x 1600 resolution Galaxy Tab that will be announced next February. You’re going to need a bigger—actually—just use that humongous tablet as the boat. The…
We knew this day would come, and it’s here: there’s more than a million apps in the world! Well, actually as of a few hours ago, there were 1,001,219, according to app-tracker Mobilewalla. Oh happy, bloated day! Not surprisingly, the nearly 600,000 iOS applications dominate the roughly 300,000 available for Android. Together, iOS and Android…
It’s about that time of the year that the Best of the Year lists start rolling in, and you realize what a horrible, uncurated existence you’ve led over the past twelve months. Here’s Apple’s year in review of the best music, books, apps and everything else in iTunes—and we have no earthly idea where some…
The Minimalist backpack. Super strong, super light, super compact, and waterproof. It’s made of nonwoven Dyneema which is 10x stronger than steel. Cool materials, but it’s a $128 plastic bag! Uncomfortable enough that it should be recycled. In hell. [Outlier]
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Twitter is pushing out a pretty big redesign that feels more app-like and focuses on keeping you on Twitter longer, seeing stories evolve and following conversations. One thing that’ll surely rankle a lot of feathers: your timeline is on the right side! But even more important: this is a Twitter for the lurkers. This new…
We’re hoping history hasn’t repeated itself at the eminent technical institution, but Breaking News says Virginia Tech dispatched an “alert about report of gun shots being fired on campus; advising people to stay indoors.” We’re keeping an eye on it.
If confirmed next week, this will be the biggest news in the history of physics since the birth of the Theory of Relativity: CERN scientists may have already found evidence of the existence of the elusive Higgs boson. THE FORCE, dudes. A respected scientist from the Cern particle physics laboratory has told the BBC he…
