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Our Favorites This Week: ChatOn, NHL Gamecenter, LHSee and More

ChatOn: BlackBerry has had BBM and now iPhone has iMessage but as cool as those two messaging clients are, they’re locked into their respective islands. ChatOn is Samsung’s way of creating a messaging client that ditches SMS yet holds the promise of multi-platform messaging (think WhatsApp etc.) You can group chat, share images, share videos,…

Tech News Casey Chan

iPhone 4S Test Notes: Call Quality

Call quality has never been a strong suit of the iPhone. But ever since iPhone 4 came out on Verizon, things have gotten just a smidge better. And the iPhone 4S reaffirms that Apple’s improvements have been no fluke. We compared the iPhone 4S on ATT, Verizon and Sprint to a trio of new Android…

Tech News Adrian Covert

It’s A Case! It’s A Battery! It’s A Projector! It’s … ALL OF THEM

Sometimes, smartphone screens are just not big enough. Linking it to a projector is helpful but it’s hardly portable and before you know it, the battery’s gone. The Monolith, a triple-threat iPhone case that works as a projector and a battery pack, can light up your room while keeping your gear booboo-free. The case, made…

Gadgets Natt Garun

Amazon Silk Comes Under Congressional Fire

Amazon’s new web browser lets Amazon’s cloud servers do the heavy web processing so the Kindle Fire doesn’t have to. Now some legislators are concerned about the personal data Amazon will be able to collect in the process. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-amazon-silk-5844663 Amazon Silk is very intelligently designed—not only does it lower the price of the Kindle Fire…

Commerce Mario Aguilar

12 Nuclear Toys from the Dawn of the Atomic Age

Living in the ’50s must’ve been cool (aside from the racism and constant gnawing fear of nuclear annihilation)—I mean just look at all these cool atomic-themed toys to play with! Our friends at Oobject have assembled the 12 best. When you’re done finding ways to make your kids glow in the dark, check out these…

Tech News Oobject.com

Google Maps Goes 3D with GPU-Hungry OpenGL

Hey movies have 3D, why not throw that winning technology at Google Maps. Beginning today, Google is testing WebGL technology with their maps. Google says that the implementation of OpenGL will make zooming, rotating and tilting smoother than the current method of displaying map information. The technology renders vector-based 3D images using a computer’s GPU.…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

Terrifying Carnotaurus Speedier Than Previously Thought

It was a big day today for dinosaur news! First we found out that the T-Rex was even bigger than we thought. And now we’ve learned that the two-horned Carnotaurus was way faster than scientists realized. https://gizmodo.com/the-t-rex-was-even-bigger-and-scarier-than-we-thought-5849834 It’s thanks to his ginormous tail muscle. Scott Persons, a post-doc at University of Alberta in Canada, found…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski

The Gruesome Crash of a Chinese Fighter Jet Captured on Video

A Chinese FBC-1 fighter jet plane was performing at an air show until things went horrifically wrong. The fighter jet started spiraling out of control and then plunged straight down, crashing into the ground and exploding on impact. In the video above, you can see a pilot eject from his seat just in the nick…

Tech News Casey Chan

Anyone Else Blow on Busted Hardware Like It’s an NES Cartridge?

You know the trick. When the game wouldn’t load properly, you would take it out, blow in the open end to dislodge dust, grit, peanut butter, or what-have-you from the electrical contacts, then put it back in and hope that it worked (or repeated as necessary). I personally used the T-shirt variation whereby you stretch…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Italians Hold Their Liquor Better Than Swedes

It’s science! And it’s not just Swedes who Italians can drink under the table. It’s also Latvians, Lithuanians, and Estonians. A Swedish behavioral researcher studied 1,000 imbibers from each of the afore-mentioned countries and found that in the Baltic countries and Sweden, drinking led to both social (such as violence) and health (such as liver…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski

Where to Sell Your Old iPhone 4 for the Most Money (Updated)

Now that the iPhone 4S is out, I’m disgusted by the mere sight of my stone-aged iPhone 4. Ugh. But it’s not worthless: If you took good care of your iPhone it could fetch some bills on the secondary market. People like buying other people’s iPhones because they don’t have to lock themselves into those…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

This Hitachi Gas-Powered Handheld Leaf Blower Is Your Hurricane-on-Demand Deal of the Day

Leaves? No, I don’t have any leaves. I don’t even have a yard. But for $70 (after rebate), Imma pick me up this gas-powered leaf blower. Why? Two reasons. 1) I hate my neighbors. They’re always bringing in furniture off the street, freaking me out that I might get bedbugs again and have to go…

Tech News Natt Garun

Japan’s Latest Radiation Scare Was Caused by Nuclear Paint

The elevated radiation levels discovered in Tokyo’s Setagaya Ward have been confirmed—thankfully—as not having originated from the damaged Fukushima power plant. So what was causing the Geigers to jump? A stash of radium-226 under a home’s floorboards. The mystery, though, is how they got there. Japan’s Science Ministry discovered the cache Thursday which consisted of…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

An Insane First-Person BASE Jump into a Crowded City Street

Thank goodness there are so many certifiably insane people in this world. That way the rest of us don’t have to strap a camera to our helmets, ride up dozens of stories on the outside of an elevator, and plummet to near-certain doom in the middle of a busy Spanish city on a busy afternoon.…

Tech News Brian Barrett

iPhone 4S Test Notes: No More Death Grip

Apple improved the antenna design in the iPhone 4S in an attempt to kill the notorious Death Grip problem in the old iPhone 4. Did it work? Yes. OH YES. There is no death grip in the iPhone 4S. https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-whats-so-smart-about-the-iphone-4ss-anten-5846638 We pitted an AT&T iPhone 4S vs an AT&T iPhone 4 to compare the death…

Tech News Casey Chan

Everybody’s Choking on iPhone 4S Activations (As Usual)

Gag on my iPhone activation once, shame on you. Gag on it five years in a row and, uhh, shame on everyone? Cult of Mac, CNET, and multitudes of users on Twitter are reporting that, AT&T’s network is having problems dealing with the iPhone activations today. The damning bit is that there don’t seem to…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

RIP Google Buzz

Google Buzz, the company’s much maligned foray into social networking that was about as popular as genital herpes, is dying. Oh, you thought it was already dead? Not yet. But that’s probably why Google is killing it. In a blog post today, Google announced that it’s killing off Buzz, along with Jaiku, Google Code Search,…

Tech News Mat Honan

All the iPhone Apps on Sale Right Now

You have a new iPhone 4S! Or you don’t! Whatever, it doesn’t matter. Everyone is getting cheap apps today! There are a ton of apps on sale right now and we’ve gathered ’em all for you in a nice little list. Download and save monies. Let us know if we’re missing any apps or games!…

Tech News Casey Chan

This Optical Illusion Is Giving My Brain Lung Cancer

I hate optical illusions. They make me feel like there’s a hole in my puny brain. This illusion, where two cigarettes—one big, one small—are actually the same freaking size is making my brain light on fire. HOW. HOW. HOW. [The Awesomer]

Tech News Casey Chan

The Great iPhone 4S National Network Speed Test

You did it. You’ve got your brand new iPhone. Siri! The better camera! But how fast is it on your carrier’s network? Push that download to the max. Using our Official Gizmodo Download Speed Ultra Test 6500™, you can check how your mobile downloads stack up. Are you getting what’s advertised? Was it worth the…

Tech News Chris Beidelman and Sam Biddle

Our Favorites This Week: ChatOn, NHL Gamecenter, LHSee and More

iPhone 4S Test Notes: Call Quality

It’s A Case! It’s A Battery! It’s A Projector! It’s … ALL OF THEM

Amazon Silk Comes Under Congressional Fire

12 Nuclear Toys from the Dawn of the Atomic Age

Google Maps Goes 3D with GPU-Hungry OpenGL

Terrifying Carnotaurus Speedier Than Previously Thought

The Gruesome Crash of a Chinese Fighter Jet Captured on Video

Anyone Else Blow on Busted Hardware Like It’s an NES Cartridge?

Italians Hold Their Liquor Better Than Swedes

Where to Sell Your Old iPhone 4 for the Most Money (Updated)

This Hitachi Gas-Powered Handheld Leaf Blower Is Your Hurricane-on-Demand Deal of the Day

Japan’s Latest Radiation Scare Was Caused by Nuclear Paint

An Insane First-Person BASE Jump into a Crowded City Street

iPhone 4S Test Notes: No More Death Grip

Everybody’s Choking on iPhone 4S Activations (As Usual)

RIP Google Buzz

All the iPhone Apps on Sale Right Now

This Optical Illusion Is Giving My Brain Lung Cancer

The Great iPhone 4S National Network Speed Test

‘Supergirl’ Will Feature David Corenswet’s Superman in a Sort of Big Brother Role

Report: FDA Set to Unban RFK Jr.’s Favorite Peptides

Source Code for Anthropic’s Claude Code Leaks at the Exact Wrong Time

SpaceX Starlink Satellite Malfunctions, Breaks Apart in Orbit

‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Stinks

‘Scream 4’ Is Back, and on Tape

Iran Threatens to Attack U.S. Tech Companies Starting April 1

Amazon Clears Out Netflix-Licensed Nebula Capsule 3 Mini Projector at 32% Off, Dolby Audio Home Theater for Less

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