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Join a Mac Timeshare in the Clouds

You want a Mac—or at least try one out—but you don’t want your friends to think you’ve become one of those Apple-owning hipsters you’re always making fun of. A cloud-based Mac rental service lets you use a Mac without losing your Windows cred. The Macincloud service rents remote access to a Mac environment aimed at…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

NYT: Siri-Powered Apple HDTV Is Definitely Coming, and Pieces of It Exist

After the Steve Jobs biography spilled the goods, everyone’s assuming the fabled Apple TV (an actual TV, not a box) is definitely coming. Now the NYT’s reliable Nick Bilton says it’s definitely definitely coming. And there are prototype parts around. Bilton—citing his insiders at Apple and its suppliers—says large prototype parts have already been spotted,…

Tech News Sam Biddle

The Sad Odyssey of the F-22: America’s Big Broken Toy

The F-22 has been okayed to fly again, after being grounded, cleared, grounded, then cleared once more—all within a year. And yet, the Air Force hasn’t fixed the plane’s life threatening flaw. It doesn’t seem like it cares. https://jalopnik.com/grounded-stealth-fighter-fleet-ko-d-by-oxygen-woes-5799273 The F-22 Raptor program was birthed two decades ago, designed, according to its proud Air Force…

Tech News Sam Biddle

LEGO Digital Clock Reminds You How Much Time It Took To Build

He created one of the first Rubik’s Cube solving LEGO bots, and even used Mindstorms to tackle Sudoku puzzles. And while Hans Andersson’s latest LEGO marvel — a digital clock called the Time Twister — may be a little mundane, it’s certainly no less impressive. https://gizmodo.com/rubiks-solving-cubestormer-ii-finally-bests-humanity-5850505 It’s powered by a couple of NXT controller bricks…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

What Number Human Being Were You on Planet Earth?

Do you know where you fit in chronologically with the seven billion or so human folk running around sweet Terra? BBC has a really cool tool that lets you plug in your birthday to get an approximation of which number human you were to sprout up on the planet. The calculations are all based on…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

The Real Reason Steve Jobs’ Benz Didn’t Have a License Plate

We’ve always wondered why Steve Jobs’ Mercedes-Benz SL55 AMG didn’t have a license plate. Did he think he was above the law? Was he doing it to be different? Maybe! But how did he get away with it? Easy. His cars were leased. https://gizmodo.com/the-mystery-of-steve-jobs-plateless-benz-5611196 According to Jon Callas, CTO of Entrust, and someone who has…

Tech News Casey Chan

Deep Inside Prison’s Dark and Tangled Economy

A movie-goer’s concept of prison economy is likely that it’s a cigarette-fueled barter system. That may be part of it, but it only scratches the surface. The truth is a violent world of sex, drugs and… postage stamps? First off, the days of prisoners being allowed to have two packs of cigarettes a week are…

Tech News Brent Rose

Win a Place To Store Your Dirty Digital Secrets

Who hasn’t daisy chained a couple of ugly, utilitarian hard drives together in an attempt scrounge together a little digital space? Where else are you going to store your thousands upon thousands of Lord of the Rings fanfic files? Good news! You can win a LaCie Porche Design Desktop Drive with lightning-fast USB 3.0 and…

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What Microsoft Thinks the Future Will Look Like

Two things. One, we’re going to need a lot of hand sanitizer if Microsoft is right about the all-touch-everything future. Two, I’m surprised how much I like Microsoft’s vision—it’s futuristic, natural and metro-y. It’s not quite as bold as AT&T’s predictions back in 1993 because this Microsoft video focuses more on the productivity side of…

Tech News Casey Chan

These Robotic Eyes Can Spot the Ripest Strawberries of the Patch

It’s easy for people and most animals to tell the difference between ripe and unripe strawberries—just look for the red ones. But for robots, that’s no simple feat. So researchers at the National Physical Laboratory have developed a four-part technology to teach robots how to pick only the sweetest berries. Ever wonder why strawberries start…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

RIM’s Getting Sued Over Its Worldwide Outage Debacle

Remember the Great BlackBerry Doodie-Storm of 2011, when RIM’s messaging services were crippled across the world for three days? Poor Lazaridis and the gang can’t catch a break: Now they’re facing class action suits in Canada and the US over the outages. https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-picked-the-wrong-day-to-die-5849192 Both lawsuits were filed on Wednesday; the US suit accuses RIM of…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

How Alaskan Mining Led To the Invention of the Electric Razor

When you’re in Alaska staking a mining claim for months on end and it’s the early 20th century, shaving is a major drag. It’s 40-below, so you have to collect ice and then melt it. Then you have to hurry the heck up before your face freezes. And if you sprain your ankle during your…

Tech News Rachel Swaby

RoundFlash Soft Box Improves Your Portraits with a Donut Diffuser

To avoid shadows on their face and to produce a lovely halo effect in their eyes, portrait photographers often use a ring flash, which completely encircles the lens with light for even illumination. But it also results in a telltale darkened halo around the subject that the cheaper RoundFlash could alleviate. Combining the best features…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Bloomberg TV for iPad Streams Live TV

If you’re one of them business people or finance dudes that care about financial and business news, Bloomberg is now streaming Live TV with their Bloomberg TV app. And it’s completely free! The app will stream live TV 24 hours a day and have on-demand content like Game Changers and TechStars and interviews and more.…

Tech News Casey Chan

Browser Speed Test: Nokia Lumia 800 vs. iPhone 4S vs. Samsung Galaxy S II

How much will the single-core processor of Nokia’s Lumia 800 affect real world speeds? Well judging from these browser speed tests that SlashGear ran against the top Android and iOS phones, it’s noticably slower. https://gizmodo.com/these-are-nokias-hot-new-windows-phones-updated-hands-5853424 The Lumia 800 went up against the iPhone 4S and Galaxy S II in separate face-offs, loading a webpage (in…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Super Slow Motion Ocean Waves Look Like Delicious Gigantic Jell-O

The Phantom HD Gold, a camera that brings out the life in things by capturing it in super slow motion, was used to film the oh so lovely ocean. Everything takes on a different personality in slow motion: waves look like jello, whitecaps look like cocaine and surfers, well, surfers are always awesome. The video…

Tech News Casey Chan

Why Why Why Is Spotify on Meego Before Windows Phone Why Ugh Stupid

BlackBerry getting Spotify first, fine, old guys, money, whatever. BUT MEEGO ISN’T EVEN A THING GOD WHAT IS THIS NOKIA. [PC World] https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-spotify-app-what-the-hell-do-businessmen-li-5851224

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Radioactive Used Cars Are Being Illegally Sold in Japan

No longer able to sell and ship many used cars to Russia, South America, Australia and the U.S. due to their high levels of radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi meltdown, some dealers in Japan have instead resorted to registering them under new plates and illegally selling them domestically. https://gizmodo.com/japans-latest-radiation-scare-was-caused-by-nuclear-pai-5849869 Radiation testing is now being conducted…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Watch Pumpkins Getting Smashed (and Unsmashed) in Super Slow Motion

Sure, it was an iconic, angstish band some decades back, but have you ever actually smashed a pumpkin? What about watching them get shattered to bits and put back together at 1000fps? No? Well it’s the Great Pumpkin Smashing, Charlie Brown! Happy early Halloween. [DevinSuperTramp]

Tech News Kyle Wagner

YouTube Rumored to Launch Their Professionally-Produced, Original Content ‘Channels’ Next Week

The Wall Street Journal expects the next generation of YouTube to begin next week with Channels, a handful of hubs focused around a particular theme that feature hours of original, studio-produced programming. But more than just shoehorning these channels into the current working design of YouTube, the entire site is expected to be reorganized around…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Join a Mac Timeshare in the Clouds

NYT: Siri-Powered Apple HDTV Is Definitely Coming, and Pieces of It Exist

The Sad Odyssey of the F-22: America’s Big Broken Toy

LEGO Digital Clock Reminds You How Much Time It Took To Build

What Number Human Being Were You on Planet Earth?

The Real Reason Steve Jobs’ Benz Didn’t Have a License Plate

Deep Inside Prison’s Dark and Tangled Economy

Win a Place To Store Your Dirty Digital Secrets

What Microsoft Thinks the Future Will Look Like

These Robotic Eyes Can Spot the Ripest Strawberries of the Patch

RIM’s Getting Sued Over Its Worldwide Outage Debacle

How Alaskan Mining Led To the Invention of the Electric Razor

RoundFlash Soft Box Improves Your Portraits with a Donut Diffuser

Bloomberg TV for iPad Streams Live TV

Browser Speed Test: Nokia Lumia 800 vs. iPhone 4S vs. Samsung Galaxy S II

Super Slow Motion Ocean Waves Look Like Delicious Gigantic Jell-O

Why Why Why Is Spotify on Meego Before Windows Phone Why Ugh Stupid

Radioactive Used Cars Are Being Illegally Sold in Japan

Watch Pumpkins Getting Smashed (and Unsmashed) in Super Slow Motion

YouTube Rumored to Launch Their Professionally-Produced, Original Content ‘Channels’ Next Week

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

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