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iTunes Match: The Past Disguised as the Future

In the olden days, most of the music on music fans’ hard drives came from P2P networks and ripped CDs. If Apple’s vision of the music cloud proves dominant, the future will resemble that past, perhaps with MP3s downloaded from music blogs replacing CD ripping. Steve Jobs didn’t believe people wanted to rent music, which…

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Raging Bull: The Greatest Boxing Movie Ever (!)

Raging Bull is the greatest boxing movie of all time. It’s also an enormously classic film—Scorsese, De Niro, punching, blood. And it’s a true story. Who’s in it? Robert De Niro absolutely dominates the film, because hey, he’s Robert De Niro playing Jake LaMotta one of the greatest boxers of all time. Joe Pesci plays…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Pocketknife Revolver Evens the Odds When You Bring a Knife To a Gunfight

If I built a time machine I’d choose a pickup truck over a Delorean, just so I could bring back all the awesome stuff that’s been deemed unsafe over the years. I mean you can get a Swiss Army knife equipped with everything imaginable these days, except a .22 caliber pistol, which were readily available…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Campus Shooting at UC Berkeley (Updating Live)

A shooting has occurred at University of California, Berkeley—the home of some of Silicon Valley’s upcoming best and brightest. Update: Police say they have a suspect in custody. According to a Twitter witness report, “about 10 shots were fired in a computer lab” at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. A call to the university’s police…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Fotopedia Japan for iPad: Take a Trip to Japan Without Going to Japan

One thing that the Japanese have over us? Sushi. Oh and ramen. Oh and Japanese curry. Oh and their entire cuisine. And their style. Damn, Japan is a pretty awesome country now. Fotopedia Japan takes you on a photography tour of the super tasteful country. What’s it do? Like their other awesome apps, Fotopedia Japan…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Revealed! Every Evil Atom of the H1N1 Flu Virus

The H1N1 flu pandemic killed 17,000 people across the globe between 2009 and 2010. Pretty terrifying. To prevent that from ever happening again, scientists have created a super-detailed computer model of the killer virus. Researchers at the Institute of Process Engineering at the Chinese Academy of Sciences generated the first computational model of H1N1 at…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski

Hillary Clinton Really Enjoyed Being Photobombed

Say what you will about the female humanoid that Hillary Clinton has become but don’t ever say she doesn’t enjoy a good photobomb. When she was posing for a picture in Hawaii, a half naked streaker holding a torch photobombed her picture and Clinton burst out in pure elated joy. She laughs! [NY Daily News]

Tech News Casey Chan

Watch the Kindle Fire’s Guts Dissected

The mad dismantlers at iFixit have their prying hands on the Kindle Fire, which means it’s time to rip that thing apart. If the silicon sadist inside you enjoys such things, read on—lots of pretty tablet innards await. There aren’t any surprises so far, but the team does not the Fire has a “monstrous” battery,…

Commerce Sam Biddle

The Biggest Android Tablet in the World (Updated)

Seven inches or ten inches? Geek rage over which form factor fits best will never end, unless the entire debate is crushed under the weight of this 65-inch Android behemoth. Now you can watch screen lag in 1080p! And finally, a tablet that will fit proportionally inside Khloe Kardashian’s pants. The monster tablet was cooked…

Tech News Sam Biddle

What Is This?

This isn’t the teeth of a machine, the chainmail shirt your cousin uses for larping, or the DNA sequence of Justin Bieber’s love child. What you’re looking at is a fleet of hundreds of new Hondas, submerged by the horrible flooding in Thailand. The factory resides in the Ayutthaya province and Honda says that clean…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

Google Voice for Android Adds Group Messaging, Offline Voicemail, and Other Goodies

If you use Google Voice for Android you got yourself a pretty sweet little update today that adds offline voicemail, group recipients for text messages as well as “improved” text message notifications. This update is actually a big deal that adds long-overdue features to Google Voice for Android. If you’ve ever tried to send a…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Meet the Man Who Just Replaced Steve Jobs

Apple has a new Chairman of the Board, filling the spot vacating by the passing of Steve Jobs. It’s Art Levinson, and he’s no stranger to the company. Also a board initiate today? Disney CEO Robert Iger. Office party! Levinson’s been an Apple evangelist since way before he joined the board over a decade ago,…

Tech News Sam Biddle

There’s a Special Place In Nerd Heaven For Carbon Fiber Stormtroopers

Making your own set of Stormtrooper armor is a huge undertaking, but making it out of carbon fiber instead of plastic vacuum forming techniques? You’ve just earned yourself a place next to Gene Roddenberry and Gary Gygax in nerd heaven. The men behind the imperial masks are Jon Blackler, Kevin Proum, Len Carson, and Daniel…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Toilet Trouble on Navy Carrier Leaves 5000 Sailors Doing the Pee Pee Dance

Remember when your dad would’t pull the car over so you could go to the bathroom? Now imagine that your dad is the Navy and that the car is aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush (CVN-77). Turns out the 423 toilets on the Navy’s latest ship aren’t ready to report for duty. The Navy Times reports…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

HP’s Leaked 13″ Folio Ultrabook Looks Pretty Tough

HP’s new 13″ Folio just leaked on the blog Ritchie’s Room, adding to the cacophony of Ultrabooks zooming around right now. The design isn’t as much of a departure from Hp’s current laptops, but it’s just as slim and pretty as you’d expect an Ultrabook to be, and a little tougher, thanks to a rubberized…

Gadgets Kyle Wagner

This Isn’t an Animation

Have you ever wondered what the visuals look like on hallucinogens? This isn’t far off (um, I’ve read). This is not an animated gif, and nothing is actually moving. It’s all in your head. Your trippy, trippy head. Sadly, I do not know who created this incredible optical illusion—I lost the trail somewhere in the…

Tech News Brent Rose

Cops Act Wasted to Catch Gadget Thieves

Are you the type who likes to get blotto and ride public transportation home late at night? Congratulations, you are a gadget thief’s favorite target! The NYPost reports that the NYPD is training a new squadron of drunk-impersonators to bust them. Here’s the scenario: you suck down a few too many cocktails after work downtown…

Gadgets Mario Aguilar

A Very Brief Guide To Finding Your Way in Life

Step one: Take this short survey. Step two: email the last question to [email protected] with “Garmin Nuvi Contest” as the subject line. Step three: Potentially win aforementioned Garmin nuvi 50. Step four: mount prize to vehicle. Step five: find your path to enlightenment, or to the nearest Denny’s, or Marfa, TX…wherever. Standard contest rules apply.…

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Could This Be the End of Embryonic Stem Cell Research?

A biotech company that after much turmoil and huge expense launched the first human embryonic stem cell clinical trial in the United States is getting out of the stem cell business. Geron led the charge to push the U.S. government and society at large to allow use of embryonic stem cells. Scientists believed they could…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski

7 Tools That’ll Help You Master Your Movember Mustache

We’ve officially reached the halfway mark, and whether you’ve embraced Movember for charitable, novelty, or stylish reasons, you’ve probably got yourself a respectable soup strainer by now. But there’s still half a month to go, so here are seven tools that will help you put as much mustache into Movember as is possible. Carzor-Card Shaped…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

iTunes Match: The Past Disguised as the Future

Raging Bull: The Greatest Boxing Movie Ever (!)

Pocketknife Revolver Evens the Odds When You Bring a Knife To a Gunfight

Campus Shooting at UC Berkeley (Updating Live)

Fotopedia Japan for iPad: Take a Trip to Japan Without Going to Japan

Revealed! Every Evil Atom of the H1N1 Flu Virus

Hillary Clinton Really Enjoyed Being Photobombed

Watch the Kindle Fire’s Guts Dissected

The Biggest Android Tablet in the World (Updated)

What Is This?

Google Voice for Android Adds Group Messaging, Offline Voicemail, and Other Goodies

Meet the Man Who Just Replaced Steve Jobs

There’s a Special Place In Nerd Heaven For Carbon Fiber Stormtroopers

Toilet Trouble on Navy Carrier Leaves 5000 Sailors Doing the Pee Pee Dance

HP’s Leaked 13″ Folio Ultrabook Looks Pretty Tough

This Isn’t an Animation

Cops Act Wasted to Catch Gadget Thieves

A Very Brief Guide To Finding Your Way in Life

Could This Be the End of Embryonic Stem Cell Research?

7 Tools That’ll Help You Master Your Movember Mustache

Mamdani Lifts NYC TikTok Ban for City Employees, but with Some Unusual Restrictions

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

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

Good News! You Can Finally Change That Ridiculous Gmail Address

ExpressVPN Just Launched ExpressAI: Your Prompts Are Now Invisible

VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

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Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

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