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Because Google and Samsung are being coy about what carriers the Galaxy Nexus is coming to (people registering for more info select a preferred carrier), we have to wait for the carriers to confirm one-by-one. Today: Verizon. Big Red says that the Galaxy Nexus will run on their 4G LTE network, which is good for…
Iris: Iris, which was amazingly completed in 8 hours by Android dev Narayan Babu and his team at Dexetra, is a heckuva more conversational. It understands the questions you ask by voice and then spits out answers back at you. It’s not always accurate (neither is Siri) but it’s only in alpha and has a…
Apps make the iPhone shine. And you want your new (or even old) iPhone to shine, right? Here are the best iPhone apps this week! It’s a solid list. If you want to see all the apps on one page click here. https://gizmodo.com/my-secret-folder-adobe-reader-whale-trail-and-more-5852253 My Secret Folder: My Secret Folder’s icon looks like an iOS Folder…
Animoog: IMoog has packed that legendary sound into the seriously fun Animoog iPad app. It jams all of its analog cousin’s wizardry into an iPad synth that’s as intuitive and satisfying to play as the original. The layout is configured much how you’d imagine it-the piano keys are laid out along the bottom on the…
Today, our president said every soldier in Iraq is coming home, leading many to believe The War Is Over. Except it’s not. Getting humans out of there is great, but the fact is war today doesn’t need humans at all. The recently-ended Libyan war is the perfect example of why soldiers aren’t requisite for warfare,…
A 35-year-old woman preemptively had a hysterectomy and had her breasts removed after she tested positive for a gene strongly associated with breast and ovarian cancer. It sounds drastic, but it’s what some women with the same diagnosis choose to do; the BRCA1 gene gives women like Dana Bushman, combined with her family history of…
We’ve been dismissive of Apple HDTV rumors, even when we laid out a case for why it actually makes a lot of sense. But according to the new Steve Jobs biography, it turns out we may have been very wrong. https://gizmodo.com/an-apple-television-is-a-very-stupid-idea-5613905 The Washington Post unearthed this bit about Steve Jobs’ attitude towards an Apple-branded television…
There’s something about liquor stores that bring out the very worst in people. Like once people enter those advertisement plastered glass doors, the switch for logic flips off and the TIME TO GET CRAZY switch is enabled. Fight, Rob, Steal, Fail. Here are the worst liquor store disasters captured on security cams. The one above…
Okay, so we sort of blew it back in May. False alarm! All of you non-believers with your funny jokes might have missed the part where THE REAL RAPTURE IS TODAY AND YOU ARE NOT PREPARED. But don’t worry (unless your worry is for your eternal soul)—Giz can get you through this. https://gizmodo.com/all-the-essential-gear-you-need-for-the-rapture-5803904 A DIY…
Bikes are complicated! But this image breaks down all the parts for you so you know what’s what. We aren’t sure where this came from, exactly, but it’s a remix based on a 1977 Raleigh dealer image found on the late Sheldon Brown’s (wonderful) site. Do you know the origin of this remix? Let me…
The leaks from the Steve Jobs biography have been plentiful today. But this clip from Sunday’s 60 Minutes profile gives us a rare opportunity to hear one of the most serendipitous moments of Jobs’ life—from his own voice. https://gizmodo.com/all-the-best-leaks-from-the-steve-jobs-biography-5852039 Jobs famously never knew his biological father. But, as the AP and others reported earlier, he…
Hey, what was the last update you posted to Facebook? That’s nice, everyone loves a good cat video. Admiral James Stavridis of NATO just posted his intention to end the war in Libya. Possibly the first war to be ended via social media and definitely the first one to show up next to a Farmville…
The Fuji X100’s old-school, Leica-aping aesthetic drives people bonkers with envy. It shouldn’t be possible to make people drool over the camera more than they already do. Then Fuji dressed the X100 with a special edition look. https://gizmodo.com/fujifilms-x100-camera-is-all-leica-y-in-both-looks-and-5754622 Fuji is treating its 12.3 megapixel wonder to a leather-covered special edition that’s going to make the…
Blowing the wind around your home is usually accompanied by the incredibly dangerous prospect of getting our fingers ripped off by fan blades. Okay, that hasn’t been true for decades. But that didn’t stop Dyson from creating an expensive bladeless fan that stops buffeting. Finally a fan without buffeting. If you hate the idea of…
On Wednesday Boeing’s long-delayed, carbon-fiber, fuel-efficient 787 Dreamliner will finally make its first passenger flight: a 12-hour haul from Tokyo to Hong Kong. Time to find out if the Dreamliner can make flying better for everyone. https://gizmodo.com/boeing-dreamliner-turns-into-nightmareliner-after-new-d-379003 Here’s the best-case scenario as laid out in a big profile of the plane in USA Today: the…
Everyone wants to have a super power. But not everybody is willing to strap a battery and capacitor-filled Altoid tin to their wrist to create taser gloves. Stopping crime is important, but where am I expected to put my mints? The Techno-Holics have taken the first step to becoming crime-fighting super heroes. Built from disposable-camera…
A thoroughly scientific study by sociological journal Cosmopolitan says 20 percent of women prefer Facebook over penis-in-vagina activity. This number sounds low to me. In our era, Facebook’s made almost everything enjoyable and worthwhile about sex obsolete. Let’s get poking. For all of time, sex has been about you. Of course, both partners (or all…
Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO and enthusiastic Qwikster regretist, has made NYT Magazine the latest stop on his grand apology over his company’s unfortunately executed DVD-mailing kissing cousin. He is, again, so very sorry. Hastings cites a miscalculation in the “depth of emotional attachment to Netflix” among his customers for the Qwikster backlash. Which is one…
This video just blew my mind, kind of literally. I will never look at my own brain the same way again. Iain McGilchrist, psychiatrist, author, and my new favorite person, tells us that so many of the left versus right brain arguments from the ’60s and ’70s have been disproven—for example that emotion and language…
The first decade of the 20th century was, for many people, a period characterized by incredible optimism for the future. The November 22, 1908 Sunday New York Times ran an article titled, “Inventions Which the World Yet Needs.” The dreams of yesterday are the realizations of today. We live in an age of mechanical, electrical,…
