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If You Can See the Front of This LG TV, You’ll See Its 3D

It’s easy to spot the crowd watching a conventional 3D television—they’re all wearing silly glasses and huddled together (3D doesn’t exactly work from the side). The new LG DX2500 nixes all of that—no glasses, no lap sitting, just wide-angle glasses-free 3D. The LG DX2500 basically watches you watch it. A camera embedded in the frame…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Why The New Spotify-Powered Apps Are Free and Desktop-Only… For Now

At Spotify’s big press event in New York today, CEO Daniel Ek announced that, as suspected, Spotify has become a music platform atop which app developers can build their own apps. These apps will appear in a new Apps section on the left side of the desktop version of Spotify starting Wednesday afternoon. Paying and…

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CPU Wars Makes Magic: The Gathering Seem a Lot Less Nerdy

If you’re worried that playing games like Magic will leave you branded a nerd and hinder your chances at finding love online, you’re going to want to avoid CPU Wars—a game based on CPU specs—like the plague. The game’s creator, Harry Mylonadis, doesn’t make any illusions about CPU Wars’ target market—it was created by geeks,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Browser Fights, Cat Naps, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn’t worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case. Chrome Passes Firefox for the Number Two Browser Spot To make the browser market share race interesting,…

Tech News Brian Barrett

7 Tools to Avoid Humiliation at Your Abysmal Company Holiday Party

It’s December again, and that means that at some point over the next few weeks, you will be enjoying forced to attend a holiday party. This year, you’re going to use some well-chosen tools—and your brain—to survive. There’s a reason company and party are only uttered in the same sentence once a year. These so-called…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Our Favorite Headphones, Watches, Phones, Gadgets, and More

December is here and it’s a time of family and coming together and having awkward, passive-aggressive fights and wearing ugly clothes your great aunt made for you and drinking eggnog until you pass out drunk in your grandma’s JELL-O mold. But it’s also a time for shiny new gadgets! Here are some of our favorites…

Gadgets Kyle Wagner

Did You Know You Create Rainbows Every Time You Blow Out a Candle?

This is a wonderful photograph of someone blowing a candle. If you look closely, you can see rainbows on the smoke. Why do they happen? It’s the wax particles refracting light. It’s an extremely difficult photograph. According to the author, Grover Schrayer, he just used the built-in flash on his Fuji Finepix S8100fd with a…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

iDrive Steering Wheel Mount for iPad Is An AWESOME IDEA

iDrive is an awesome idea! A steering wheel mount device for your iPad, you can use it to easily and comforably surf, read, watch movies and play Angry Birds while driving. It works with your Kindle too! What can go wrong? Fortunately, it’s a fake. The product doesn’t exist, but the iDrive box is available…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

YouTube Redesign Brings Channels and Automagically Knows You Like Kitten Videos

YouTube launched a complete redesign of their site today with emphasis on social network integration and using the power of algorithms to figure out what videos you’ll like. The redesign pushes YouTube to resemble its Google+ cousin with an activity feed in the center, channels on the left, and recommendations on the right. The channels…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

AirDroid: Control Your Phone and Send Text Messages All From Your Browser

Pretty much all smartphones are awesome. Regardless of the platform, they do things that would have seemed magical only 10 years ago. But smartphones do have their limitations. Like typing and navigating file structures. AirDroid lets you explore your device and send text messages from your computer. What’s it do? AirDroid creates a tiny Android…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

Apple Founding Papers Are Up For Sale

“Stephen G. Wozniak”, “steven p. jobs” and “Ronald Wayne”. The latter had the best signature on Apple Computer’s founding contract, signed on April 1st, 1976. Too bad he used it again to sell his 10% share for $800. Today, his 10% would have had a $35 billion market capitalization. Wayne always says he doesn’t regret…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

This Electric RC Car Can Hit 100MPH Faster Than Your Real Car Can

With a top speed of over 100 mph and a 0-60 time of just 2.3 seconds, the Traxxas XO-1 just made its way onto countless Christmas lists. Even if it’s only recommended for experts racing on a closed course. In fact, with a set of 5000mAh lithium-ion polymer batteries on board and speeds that can…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

A Better Way to Spend $100K on the 12 Days of Christmas

Every year, PNC calculates the Christmas Price Index—how much it would cost to actually purchase the cascade of of gifts the hapless sap in “The 12 Days of Christmas” gives to his true love. This year’s tally: more than 100K on the 364 gifts. Seriously dude? Here’s a much better plan of a attack. So…

Gadgets Mario Aguilar

Apple Ditched Carrier IQ with iOS 5

Apple’s weighed in on the Carrier IQ poo-storm, and says it’s basically washed its hands of the controversial rootkit with iOS 5. Post-iOS 3 software had been found to have references to Carrier IQ, but Apple says it’s going to completely wipe out whatever’s left in a future update. https://gizmodo.com/yes-your-iphone-can-track-you-with-carrier-iq-too-5864107 Here’s the full statement from…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Ambien Does Some Crazy Sh*t to Your Brain

People on Ambien can get pretty nutty: they hallucinate dragons (see above), cook, eat, file their nails, have long coversations, even drive—and remember nothing later. Now—and way crazier—the drug is waking up people from nearly vegetative states following severe injuries. Just search Ambien on YouTube and you can witness the truly bizarre things people do…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski

Steve Jobs Says This Will Be Your Greatest Life Revelation

Pay close attention to this video, people. Not because it’s Steve Jobs, but because it’s some of the best advice you will ever get: Steve Jobs giving you his vision of life and how you can make a difference. https://gizmodo.com/tribute-video-to-steve-jobs-5838922 When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

HTC Blames the Carriers for the Carrier IQ Spying Mess on HTC Phones

HTC has reached out to us with an official statement on why Carrier IQ aka the hidden software lurking and spying on you was on HTC phones. According to them, it’s not HTC’s fault at all! It’s the stupid US carriers who require Carrier IQ. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-carrier-iq-updated-5864220 Here’s the official word: “Carrier IQ is required on…

Privacy & Security Casey Chan

How to Lose $2400 in 24 Seconds

Wait for it. Wait for it. Waaaait for it. By the end, you’ll see how to very easily and very sadly lose $2,400 in 24 seconds. The video was filmed with a Canon 5D Mark II in Cannon Beach, Oregon by Kurtis Hough. [Vimeo]

Tech News Casey Chan

Stop Stressing About Seasonal Shopping

Ready or not, the holidays are here-which means it’s time to start figuring out how you’re going to pay for that seasonal cheer (Hey, that rhymed!). Fortunately, there is the Slate card from Chase. Slate® comes with Blueprint®, which helps you avoid interest on everyday purchases and pay off large holiday purchases faster. For example,…

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If You Can See the Front of This LG TV, You’ll See Its 3D

Why The New Spotify-Powered Apps Are Free and Desktop-Only… For Now

CPU Wars Makes Magic: The Gathering Seem a Lot Less Nerdy

Browser Fights, Cat Naps, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

7 Tools to Avoid Humiliation at Your Abysmal Company Holiday Party

Our Favorite Headphones, Watches, Phones, Gadgets, and More

Did You Know You Create Rainbows Every Time You Blow Out a Candle?

iDrive Steering Wheel Mount for iPad Is An AWESOME IDEA

YouTube Redesign Brings Channels and Automagically Knows You Like Kitten Videos

AirDroid: Control Your Phone and Send Text Messages All From Your Browser

Apple Founding Papers Are Up For Sale

This Electric RC Car Can Hit 100MPH Faster Than Your Real Car Can

A Better Way to Spend $100K on the 12 Days of Christmas

Apple Ditched Carrier IQ with iOS 5

Ambien Does Some Crazy Sh*t to Your Brain

Steve Jobs Says This Will Be Your Greatest Life Revelation

HTC Blames the Carriers for the Carrier IQ Spying Mess on HTC Phones

How to Lose $2400 in 24 Seconds

Stop Stressing About Seasonal Shopping

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Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

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