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Kenyan Air Force Tweets Somalis: We’re About to Bomb You #Duck

Two weeks into Kenya’s risky attack on Somali extremists, the Kenyan military is warning civilians to expect air raids in the vicinity of 10 Somali towns. The heads-up itself is not unusual. What is unusual is the medium: Twitter, the short messaging service. “BAIDOA, BAADHEERE, BAYDHABO, DINSUR, AFGOOYE, BWALE, BARAWE, JILIB, KISMAYO and AFMADHOW will…

Tech News David Axe - Danger Room

Internet Explorer Desertion Continues as Usage Drops Below 50 Percent

Internet Explorer has long been declining in popularity, but it hit an abandonment milestone in October as its market share dropped below 50 percent for the first time in more than a decade. What browsers are reaping the benefits? Microsoft’s browser is far from dead, but the October stats are hardly favorable. Some of IE’s…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Dear Apple, It’s About Time for a Game Store

Appsfire knows a thing or two about the iOS apps ecosystem—they spend all day searching for them, after all. So our ears perked up when founder Ouriel Ohayon argues in favor of a dedicated games store for iOS devices. We’ll let him explain… Open the App store right now. Take a look at the top…

Tech News Ouriel Ohayon

Four Cranky Crazy Old Men Busted for Toxic Terror Plot

Is there any more form of democratic dissent more American than the lunatic militia conspiracy? Four Georgian geezers are in deep federal shit after being apprehended for a convoluted plan to kill lots of people. Airplanes, poison, and explosives. All four of the wannabe terrorists were over 65, the NYT reports, but still had the…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Our Favorite Phones, Speakers, Robots, and More

Ah, November. The month we as a country dedicate an entire day to gorging ourselves on bird meat and gravy, followed immediately by bludgeoning one another at various retail centers. But also a time of giving thanks and sharing all the great gadgets that came out this month. Here are some of our favorites: For…

Gadgets Kyle Wagner

Square’s Card Case App Lets You Pay for Stuff Invisibly (No Phones, No Wallets)

NFC is cool and all but isn’t pulling out your phone to pay for stuff just as annoying as pulling out your wallet? Square, the revolutionizer of credit card payments, has a better solution. With their Square Card Case app, you don’t have to pull out anything, you pay invisibly. It’s like being a ‘regular’…

Tech News Casey Chan

Get the Official Gmail App for iPhone and iPad Right Now

Following Monday’s revelation that the Gmail App was in the works for iOS, it’s now available for free for download on both the iPhone and iPad (and iPod touch, too). https://gizmodo.com/the-iphone-could-be-getting-a-native-gmail-app-5855159 Judging from the feel of the Gmail for iOS, it seems like an HTML5 version of Gmail is running inside the app. Designwise, shares…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Glowing Slap Bracelets Now Focus on Safety Over Fashion

What originally made slap bracelets a novelty in the early 90s, now makes them an easy to use safety accessory with the addition of a few glowing LEDs and some reflective fabrics. They were once adorned with neon colors and animal prints, but SlapLit bracelets are now even brighter with a durable reflective nylon wrapping…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Apple Lost Its Insane Criminal Case Against a Small Spanish Tablet Maker

Late last year, Apple sued little-known Android tablet maker NT-K for “copying” the iPad. No big deal there; Cupertino’s always had pretty lax lawsuit trigger discipline. But that December it also took the batsh*t nutso step of filing criminal charges, which were finally tossed this week. When Apple originally lodged its complaints, which stated NT-K…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Burbank’s Aerial Monorail of the Future

The city of Burbank, California was incorporated in 1911 with a population of just 500. Today the population is just over 100,000 and the city is best known as the home of big name movie studios (and the closest Ikea to my apartment). Leading up to the incorporation of Burbank there was a lot of…

Tech News Matt Novak

World’s Largest Glasses-Free 3D TV Is 200-Inches of Awesome

Sixteen feet. That’s taller than Yao Ming standing on Shaq’s shoulders, more than an average-sized giraffe, and yet slightly less than the diagonal measurement of this gargantuan display. The days of Back to the Future II-style 3D advertising are nearly upon us! Developed by The Japanese National Institute of Information and Communications in conjunction with…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Disturbing Evidence of Recent Nuclear Reactions Found at Fukushima

Japan is hoping to have the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant safely shuttered by the end of the year, but a little radioactive wrench just got dropped: inspectors have discovered evidence of very recent fission. That’s bad news. Xenon-133 and 135 were found in gas samples, Japan Times reports, isotopes that are created during nuclear fission…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Transformers in 1-D Is the Only Version I’d Actually Pay to See

The backlash over 3D has become so fervent that College Humor wonders if even 2D has become superfluous. So they put together a trailer for Transformers in 1-D that makes a very convincing case. https://gizmodo.com/how-the-phantom-menace-3d-trailer-really-improves-episo-5852728 Not only can you skip the 3D glasses, but only having to concentrate on an infinitely thin strip of screen…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Samsung Will Force Jonny Ive to Defend Apple’s Copycat Claims

Apple is engaged in a very public lawsuit with Samsung, alleging that Samsung has gone too far in mimicking their product designs. Now Samsung is putting Apple’s design guru Jonny Ive on the stand to explain all the ways they’ve supposedly infringed on patents. According to EdibleApple, Ive will be joined by three other Apple…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Republic Wireless Will Offer an Unbelievable $19 Unlimited Data/Voice/Text Plan

GigaOm is reporting that Republic Wireless, a new hybrid VoIP/carrier, is planning on introducing a $19 unlimited data, voice and text plan on November 8th. $19! How is this possible? How does it work? Where do I sign up? According to reports, Republic Wireless will use VoIP to handle most phone calls. It works like…

Tech News Casey Chan

Google Maps Might Be Getting Too Popular to Be Free

One of the central tenets of the Google Mothership’s model is “free.” Everything’s free! Free, free, free. Except, um, when it gets too popular? Starting January 1st of next year, developers will be charged when their apps access the Google Maps API more than 25,000 times in a day. The rumored rate is $4/1,000 over…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

GameChanger Turns Your iPad into a Closet’s Worth of Board Games

You can tweak the rules to keep it interesting, but that copy of Monopoly sitting in your closet is always going to be Monopoly. The GameChanger, however, incorporates swappable skins and an iPad running accompanying apps so every game night it can be something completely different. Instead of just using the iPad as a source…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Watch All Those Wacky Taiwanese Animation Videos on Your iPad

NMA, the absolutely weird and wacky animation group that whips up those hilariously ridiculous videos about any ‘news’ event, has released an iPad app. Called NMA.tv, the app was originally banned by Apple a few weeks ago but has now been approved. NMA.tv isn’t exactly full featured, it just serves as a one stop collection…

Tech News Casey Chan

Why Microsoft Chose Windows 8 Over Courier

Cnet is delving further into the death of the Microsoft Courier, looking at the differences between Steven Sinoksky and J Allard, who ran the Windows 8 and Courier projects respectively. They say that Sinofsky’s business-minded pragmatism and Windows 7 salvage job ultimately swayed Ballmer to follow his vision. https://gizmodo.com/courier-first-details-of-microsofts-secret-tablet-5365299 Jay Greene highlights the different career…

Tech News Adrian Covert

This Woman’s Fake Face Is Made from 500 Faces

Self-portraitist clickflashwhirr has been snapping shots of her mug every day for over a year—and that’s nothing new on the net. But averaging 500 of those snaps into one artificial face? Beautifully creepy. The digital composite was done by Tiemen Rapati, who explains he “simply [counted] the individual RGB values for each pixel and for…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Kenyan Air Force Tweets Somalis: We’re About to Bomb You #Duck

Internet Explorer Desertion Continues as Usage Drops Below 50 Percent

Dear Apple, It’s About Time for a Game Store

Four Cranky Crazy Old Men Busted for Toxic Terror Plot

Our Favorite Phones, Speakers, Robots, and More

Square’s Card Case App Lets You Pay for Stuff Invisibly (No Phones, No Wallets)

Get the Official Gmail App for iPhone and iPad Right Now

Glowing Slap Bracelets Now Focus on Safety Over Fashion

Apple Lost Its Insane Criminal Case Against a Small Spanish Tablet Maker

Burbank’s Aerial Monorail of the Future

World’s Largest Glasses-Free 3D TV Is 200-Inches of Awesome

Disturbing Evidence of Recent Nuclear Reactions Found at Fukushima

Transformers in 1-D Is the Only Version I’d Actually Pay to See

Samsung Will Force Jonny Ive to Defend Apple’s Copycat Claims

Republic Wireless Will Offer an Unbelievable $19 Unlimited Data/Voice/Text Plan

Google Maps Might Be Getting Too Popular to Be Free

GameChanger Turns Your iPad into a Closet’s Worth of Board Games

Watch All Those Wacky Taiwanese Animation Videos on Your iPad

Why Microsoft Chose Windows 8 Over Courier

This Woman’s Fake Face Is Made from 500 Faces

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

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