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Would Your iPhone’s Siri Usage Increase Your Phone Bill?

Siri—the equally impressive and gimmicky iPhone 4S’ smart assistant—connects to Apple’s servers every time you ask for something or dictate a message. It sends your query and analyzes it, returning you whatever it thinks is the correct answer or action. https://gizmodo.com/real-life-iphone-4s-siri-demonstration-is-pretty-damn-i-5848584 This means that, depending on how much you use it, it may affect your…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

BlackBerry’s Leaked Vision of the Future Is Depressing as Hell

Surprise! RIM has a video forecast for the not too distant future, and it’s a horrible corporate snooze fest. It’s dull, derivative, and, worst of all, doesn’t make you look forward to the future whatsoever. Unless you really love cubicles. For the most part, RIM’s video vision—apparently leaked from within—is just the same touchscreens everywhere…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Check Out the Guide to 400 Essential Apps By Wired and Gizmodo

We do our damnedest to stay up on the best new apps, but sheesh, the mess of options drives even nerds like us batty. We teamed up with our friends at Wired to put some order to the sprawling madness. The App Guide is available today on newsstands, Wired.com, and of course, as an iPad…

Tech News Gizmodo

Siri Can Even Tell You a Story (If You Ask Her Enough Times)

Bored with Siri yet? Ran out of things to ask her? Then ask her to tell you a story! She’ll refuse at first but if you keep on bothering her, she’ll relent and tell you her origin story. It’s funny! Easter eggs like this one turn Siri from a really great voice control system to…

Tech News Casey Chan

Yamaha PDX-11 iPod Dock: Speaker Big. Shell Rugged.

Yamaha makes some pretty awesome audio equipment, even if it often ranges on the pricey side. So there’s reason to be excited for their new PDX-11 iPod dock, especially considering the four-inch woofer, distinctive looks and $100 pricetag. In addition to the woofer, which handles the lows and mids, the two-way speaker also packs a…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Pantech’s Gesture Recognizing Vega LTE Will Do More Than Smile When You Wave At It

Pantech isn’t known for their cutting edge phones ’round these parts, but that will soon change with their upcoming Vega LTE line that recognizes touchless gestures using its front facing camera, like a miniature version of Microsoft’s Kinect. The Android based handsets employ eyeSight‘s gesture recognition technology, which is a software-only solution that works with…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Is Amazon Letting Publishers Ruin The Kindle (Updated)

Update 2: Last week, and throughout yesterday, I was unable to download 1Q84 on multiple devices, or share public notes and highlights. I can now, but largely thanks to this article. Amazon customer service initially identified this as an issue specific to the title. In fact, it now appears to have been an Amazon problem.…

Commerce Mat Honan

A Frightened Face Appeared in the Ultrasound of a Man’s Testicle

A 45-year-old man showed up to a hospital complaining about severe pain in his scrotal area. Urologists performed an ultrasound on his testicles and found something hilariously shocking: there looked to be a face of a frightened man in his balls. Do you see it? You can’t miss it. The man had a benign mass…

Tech News Casey Chan

Find Out Which of Your Favorite Movies Are Streaming Right Now

A search engine that tells me if, and where, my favorite movies are available to stream right now. Oh hell yes! With the content licenses changing on a regular basis, having a dedicated search engine to find out if you can stream your favorite movies is a genius idea. CanIStream.it searches the movie libraries of…

Commerce Roberto Baldwin

Arrested Development: The Complete Series Is Your Chicken Dancing Deal Of The Day

Arrested Development. It’s high effing larry us. Everyone know’s that. It’s also re effing dick you less how everyone in this entire world claims that they loved, adored and watched the Bluth family from the very beginning. Really mom? You watched it too!? And now I’m not accusing anyone of lying but if everyone who…

Tech News Natt Garun

The Sound Waves of Solar Wind Are Beautiful

I love this art project. It’s called 20Hz and it uses data collected by the CARISMA radio array to turn the solar wind sound into beautiful threedimensional waveforms. Mesmerizing. [Lighthouse via The Creators Project]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

iOS 5 Shortcut Feature Enables A Hilarious Prank

The iOS 5 Shortcut feature buried within the keyboard settings is useful if often overlooked, but oh wow is it a great way to prank your friends. Everything has changed. Passcode your phone before someone gets you. We get it, shortcuts are supposed to be a handy way to make the iPhone’s auto-correct work for…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

12 Vivacious Vortographs

In the 1910s, a few rebel artists proclaimed a new style of art called vorticism. It only lasted a few years driven by a handful of people, but one hundred years later, Shooting Challengers brought the style back to life. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-vortographs-5853520 WINNER – Skybridge I decided right away I was going to do this challenge.…

Tech News Mark Wilson

GarageBand Brings the Rock to iPhone and iPod touch

Apple’s music creation app has broken free of its iPad-only chains and is now ready for iPhone and iPod touch-touting musicians. Just for the love of God, please keep your headphones on while you use it. Apple announced the immediate availability of Garageband for the iPhone 3G and later and third and fourth generation iPod…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

Wind Turbine 2.0 Works Harder Without Making You Hear All About It

They’re not the perfect source of renewable energy, but wind turbines could soon be more efficient and as silent as the wind thanks to a radical new redesign by an Australian company. The traditional wind turbine design can actually produce a lot of noise as the wind comes off the tips of the three blades…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

East Coast Amtrak Riders: You’re Getting Free Wi-Fi

No longer confined to the ivory and platinum Acela cars, whisking the aristocracy between debutante balls and peacock hunts, Amtrak’s free Wi-Fi is trickling down to the people. Twelve east coast routes—60% of Amtrak traffic—are going wireless. https://gizmodo.com/amtrak-finally-getting-free-wi-fi-but-only-on-acela-5446264 This number includes the prominent Northeast Regional line, which carries cranky Americans from Virginia to Boston daily.…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Spectacular Video of the Boeing 767 Landing Without Its Gear In Warsaw

A Boeing 767 coming from Newark airport in New Jersey just landed in Warsaw without its landing gear. There were no casualties among the 230 passengers on board. Watch the amazing video and admire the flawless piloting. LOT spokesman Leszek Chorzewski said the Boeing 767 had problems deploying its landing gear before Captain Tadeusz Wrona…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Of Course the Pentagon’s First Android Phone Is the Dead Dell Streak

The Pentagon has decided on its first secure mobile device running Android. The no-longer-available Dell Streak 5. Way to speed the process along Uncle Sam. In another example of the government moving at a snail’s pace to get anything done, the Defense Information System Agency is getting a Dell. A discontinued Dell. DISA began working…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

The True Story of the Microsoft Courier’s Tragic Death

The Microsoft Courier died an unfortunate death, which was somewhat shrouded in mystery. Now Cnet has the full story, which chalks it up to bureaucracy, a fear of losing its corporate customer base, and an unyielding loyalty to established brands like Windows. https://gizmodo.com/courier-first-details-of-microsofts-secret-tablet-5365299 Ever since we uncovered the innovative tablet project two years ago, there’s…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Here’s What’s Beautiful and Better About the New Gmail

Gmail’s new redesign is a lot more than just really really grey—it’s pared down, functionally superior, and will probably spark a lot of shocked whining. But don’t worry—this is actually a better version. Here’s why. The New Gmail looks like less than before—but it’s just because the older version was, by comparison, super busy. It’s…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Would Your iPhone’s Siri Usage Increase Your Phone Bill?

BlackBerry’s Leaked Vision of the Future Is Depressing as Hell

Check Out the Guide to 400 Essential Apps By Wired and Gizmodo

Siri Can Even Tell You a Story (If You Ask Her Enough Times)

Yamaha PDX-11 iPod Dock: Speaker Big. Shell Rugged.

Pantech’s Gesture Recognizing Vega LTE Will Do More Than Smile When You Wave At It

Is Amazon Letting Publishers Ruin The Kindle (Updated)

A Frightened Face Appeared in the Ultrasound of a Man’s Testicle

Find Out Which of Your Favorite Movies Are Streaming Right Now

Arrested Development: The Complete Series Is Your Chicken Dancing Deal Of The Day

The Sound Waves of Solar Wind Are Beautiful

iOS 5 Shortcut Feature Enables A Hilarious Prank

12 Vivacious Vortographs

GarageBand Brings the Rock to iPhone and iPod touch

Wind Turbine 2.0 Works Harder Without Making You Hear All About It

East Coast Amtrak Riders: You’re Getting Free Wi-Fi

Spectacular Video of the Boeing 767 Landing Without Its Gear In Warsaw

Of Course the Pentagon’s First Android Phone Is the Dead Dell Streak

The True Story of the Microsoft Courier’s Tragic Death

Here’s What’s Beautiful and Better About the New Gmail

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

‘Paradise’ Writer Teases What’s Coming in Season 3 After That Huge Twist

Trump’s New White House App Is Mildly Concerning and Weird for a Lot of Reasons

Bloodsucking Ticks Can Survive Inside Your Home Longer Than You Might Think

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MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

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The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

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