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Strange, Misguided Man “Glad” Steve Jobs Not Around Anymore

Richard Stallman is an eccentric, odd person who just went sour. In one fell, misguided swoop, he has compared the late Steve Jobs—an admittedly imperfect man, like us all—to corrupt mayors and other “evils” visited upon society: As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, “I’m not glad he’s dead, but…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Sony Is This Close to Paying $1 Billion for Full Control of Sony Ericsson

Sony sure had itself a day the other day, and rumor has it the tech giant may soon have itself all of the Sony Ericsson joint venture as well. https://gizmodo.com/sony-sure-had-themselves-a-day-5836302 This according to a rumor reported by industry gaming pub Gamasutra, which reports Sony is oh so close to a $1 billion takeover of the…

Tech News Jack Loftus

You Won’t Believe How HUGE This Battlestar Galactica Model Is

Say what you will about the rabidness of Star Trek and Star Wars fans, Battlestar Galactica has fans like Gary King who build incredible six-foot-long, hyper-detailed models of obscure ships entirely out of LEGOs. King spent two months on this mammoth build of the Battlestar Berzerk. The final model measures 73 inches long x 24…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

7 Tools for Snorkeling Like a Boss

Why the hell would I scuba? It’s dark down there. And cold. And I’m allergic to the Bends. I’d rather float along the surface with these seven luxurious snorkeling tools thankyouverymuch. Azimut 45 Flybridge Sure I could run a small skiff out to the dive site like schmuck or I could bring the party with…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Storify Gets Soundified

Storify has announced that, in addition to tweets, text, and video, audio tracks can now be included in reports as well. I can’t wait for the first meta-post that features a recording of the author reading the post for you. [Storify]

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

No iPhone 4S for You! Come Back, Two Weeks!

If you weren’t quick enough in pre-ordering your iPhone 4S, you’re going to be waiting an extra week or two. Launch Day supplies of the newest Apple phone have been depleted, according to MacRumors, which cites the new waiting times on the pre-order site above. [MacRumors] https://gizmodo.com/it-only-took-at-t-12-hours-to-unload-200-000-new-iphone-5847865

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

How to Build an Apple Store of Your Very Own

What better tribute to Steve Jobs than building a miniature Apple store in your basement? That’s not creepy at all, right? Our friends at Oobject have compiled this exhaustive set of everything you’ll need (Geniuses not included). You may also want to loop the best speeches by Steve Jobs on an MBP or display this…

Tech News Oobject.com

Newly-Found Victorian Era Bacteria Could Reveal Evolutionary Insights

Nobody’s sure why the glass vial of Clostridium perfringens spores was buried in a cornerstone of Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1897, but its discovery could help scientists understand how much this common microbe has evolved in the era of antibiotics. According to NYU bacteriologist Martin Blaser, a team will crack open the sealed vessel,…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Van Halen: Dreams (Blue Angel Edition)

Since I’m on night shift tonight, I had the opportunity to wander about Fleet Week this afternoon and now I’m feeling a bit patriotic. So, I’m dedicating tonight’s soundtrack to the men and women of the United States Armed Forces. Dreams was released on Van Halen’s 5150 album in 1986, the group’s first studio production…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

It Only Took AT&T 12 Hours to Unload 200,000 New iPhones

I spent two hours trying to pre-order my iPhone 4S last night. According to AT&T’s press release, I wasn’t the only person swearing at its site every time it told me it couldn’t process my order. AT&T announced that they processed 200,000 iPhone 4S pre-orders in 12 hours. That’s approximately 278 iPhone pre-orders a minute.…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

Left Behind: X-Ray Chapels, Horseless Buggies, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn’t worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case. Artist Recycles X-Rays into Sinister Stained Glass Wim Delvoye stained and assembled these windows into a Flemish…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

JFK Airport’s Terminal 6: The Sad Demise of a Modern Design Marvel

By all accounts, Terminal 6 at NYC’s JFK Airport is an architectural gem. Today, however, it sits unused. And soon it won’t even exist. Built in 1969 and designed by the renowned architect I.M. Pei, Terminal Six was a large, bright, airy wing of JFK Airport, emphasizing clean lines and open space. According to the…

Tech News Adrian Covert

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Let Me See Your Balls! A Music Video

I get it, ladies. You feel objectified. Fetishized. Just-a-thing-to-me-ified. We totally suck do all that stuff. But it’s maybe sorta because we’ve never been on the other side of that fence. No more! Here’s women’s love letter to the fleshy crotch bag. (NSFW, as if there were any question.) The rest of the week’s top…

Tech News Splitsider

Giz Explains: What’s So Smart About the iPhone 4S’s Antenna?

With the iPhone 4S, Apple says it will deliver an iPhone that works anywhere in the world, and with fantastic reception. How did they do it? One word: antennas. Apple’s marketing guru Phil Schiller said the iPhone 4S “intelligently switches between two antennas to receive and send.” Brilliant! But vague. How exactly does a smart…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski

The 5 Weirdest iPod Nano Watch Faces

Apple realized that wearing the iPod nano as a watch became a thing, so when they introduced the new iPod nano they tossed in 18 different watch faces to keep people from ever getting bored. Some of them are pretty weird! Here’s five. Unplggd has the full gallery of all 18 iPod nano watch faces…

Tech News Casey Chan

How the F/A-18 Hornet Becomes a Blue Angel

It’s Fleet Week here in San Francisco and that means Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron aka The Blue Angels are back in town for the celebration. This is what it takes to convert a battle-ready F/A-18 Hornet into a marvelous stunt-flying Angel. The Blue Angels flight exhibition team was formed in 1946 by order of Admiral…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

McIntosh Teaches Its 50-Year-Old Tube Amp a Few New Tricks

Audiophiles love tube amps because of the warm, full sound they provide. But the vacuum tubes wear out, and generally requires a specialized, increasingly rare, technician to diagnose which ones are bad. High-end audio manufacturer McIntosh say their redesigned MC275 tube amp remedies part of that problem. No, McIntosh hasn’t gone and designed an everlasting…

Gadgets Adrian Covert

SwipePad, Smozzy, Flickr and More

SwipePad: SwipePad is a better app switcher for your Android phone. Instead of holding down the home button to launch your recent apps, SwipePad uses hotspots-corners and edges of your phone’s screen-to trigger a new ‘pad’ (which is sorta like a dashboard of apps). Just drag your finger from a hotspot to the middle of…

Tech News Casey Chan

Chefs Feed, Quora, Clickables and More

Chefs Feed: It’s a restaurant guide app that distills recommendations by only showing you what the best chefs in your city eat. It’s like being friends with these star chefs and texting them for recs every time you want to eat somewhere! You can search by chef, search by dish, find dishes per your location,…

Tech News Casey Chan

Back in Time, It’s Playing, Slam Dunk King and More

Back in Time: The app takes you back in time, from the moment of the Big Bang to now, 13.7 billion years later. There’s 300 stunning images, more than a 100 animations, videos and timelines and countless fun little facts that you probably didn’t know about our universe. You basically twirl a clock’s hands around…

Tech News Casey Chan

Strange, Misguided Man “Glad” Steve Jobs Not Around Anymore

Sony Is This Close to Paying $1 Billion for Full Control of Sony Ericsson

You Won’t Believe How HUGE This Battlestar Galactica Model Is

7 Tools for Snorkeling Like a Boss

Storify Gets Soundified

No iPhone 4S for You! Come Back, Two Weeks!

How to Build an Apple Store of Your Very Own

Newly-Found Victorian Era Bacteria Could Reveal Evolutionary Insights

Van Halen: Dreams (Blue Angel Edition)

It Only Took AT&T 12 Hours to Unload 200,000 New iPhones

Left Behind: X-Ray Chapels, Horseless Buggies, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

JFK Airport’s Terminal 6: The Sad Demise of a Modern Design Marvel

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Let Me See Your Balls! A Music Video

Giz Explains: What’s So Smart About the iPhone 4S’s Antenna?

The 5 Weirdest iPod Nano Watch Faces

How the F/A-18 Hornet Becomes a Blue Angel

McIntosh Teaches Its 50-Year-Old Tube Amp a Few New Tricks

SwipePad, Smozzy, Flickr and More

Chefs Feed, Quora, Clickables and More

Back in Time, It’s Playing, Slam Dunk King and More

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

Good News! You Can Finally Change That Ridiculous Gmail Address

ExpressVPN Just Launched ExpressAI: Your Prompts Are Now Invisible

VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

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Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

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