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Fujifilm’s new pro-caliber X10 point-and-shoot just got a official price: $600, and it’ll be out in early November. The X10 can’t keep pace with its big brother the X100, but it’s got all the features you’d expect from a high-end point-and-shoot, and it’s a damn pretty sight, too. https://gizmodo.com/fuji-x10-the-pro-point-and-shoot-fighter-5836467 What do you guys think: Is…
Wired’s Danger Room has learned that a computer virus has infected the United States’ Predator and Reaper drones. The virus is a keylogger that keeps track of every pilots’ keystroke as they perform missions over Afghanistan and other locations. The folks at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada (where most of the drone missions are…
I love the New York Times. I read it as often as I can. And I have no beef with their website layout but sometimes, there’s just too much going on. I just want the news! Ochs, a plug-in for Chrome, does just that. Ochs is a free Chrome extension and it tries to do…
Screw the iPhone 4S. Screw Ice Cream Sandwiches. Screw everything. Would you stop whatever stupid thing you are doing now and buy the bloody Keyboard Cat? Christalive people. GET ON WITH THE PROGRAM. I don’t know how much this costs or who in hell sells it or why it came to be, but I hope…
Amazon and Google generally get all the attention for their data centers and cloud services. But you know who has the fastest servers around? Microsoft. Yep. According to Ars Technica, the tech monolith’s Azure cloud consistently provided quicker load times than Amazon’s EC2 or Google’s App Engine in a year-long test conducted by Compuware, who…
Siri will mean a lot of us are talking on our phones, to our phones; a nation of Kirks, barking into communicators. So unless we lay down some ground rules, things are going to get very annoying, very quickly. Can I use Siri on the plane, the train, or other forms of mass transit? No.…
If you open up the NY Times today (or go to their website), there’s a special Steve Jobs themed crosswords puzzle. It was made by Kevin Der, a Quora engineer and former Pixar and Facebook employee. Der, who makes many crosswords in his spare time, actually holds the record for fewest black squares in a…
We knew that AT&T’s the only major US carrier that’s going to be able to take advantage of the iPhone 4S being a HSPA+ device, but it’s kind of unexpected that Apple might help them make that distinction with a 4G network indicator in the status bar. Updated. Update: AT&T confirms to us that Apple…
You know how sometimes you sign up for what you think is some cool new service, give it access to your Twitter, and then it spams your timeline with a bunch of crap. Yeah. It even happens to Twitter founders. Biz Stone, one of Twitter’s founders and for a long time the public face of…
My parents never loved me enough to buy me a rideable batter-powered car. Well, either that or I never showed interest in one. Actually, it’s probably that. But one time I was at this girl’s birthday party and I reaally wanted to try out this little pink battery-powered Corvette because it was well, a freaking…
The Windows Phone 7.5 update finally let third party apps work in the background. Rdio, now in 3.0 and our favorite music player app on Windows Phone not named Zune, has taken full advantage: it can stream music in the background now. WOOHOO. In other news, this post totally feels like it was written 2…
You’ve probably forgotten about Cards. They were the thing Apple announced this week that used something called the Postal Service to send images through something called the “mail.” Despite sounding like something for old people, Cards are kind of cool. Apple rolled out some details on its Cards program today. Cards let your take a…
Eye bags. No one likes them. And no one gets enough sleep. So everyone has them. But no one wants them! If tea bags, cucumber slices, the back of an ice-cold spoon, or Preparation H (yes I’ve tried them all) aren’t working for you, a Japanese company says they have the solution: the Eye Slack…
Aluminum is out. According to a rumor, Asus and Acer are planning to switch to fiberglass cases in their 15-inch models to cut production costs. [Digitimes]
Either he’s a huge musical theatre fan or just a very disturbed individual. Maybe both. Whatever the reason, murdering someone and baking them in to meat pies isn’t original, but it is ghastly. (Annnd, possibly delicious?) It’s a real life Sweeney Todd but without all the annoying singing. The Daily Mail UK reports that a…
Just a few days after we first saw the new fitness-centric iPod Nano, iFixit has already exposed its guts. Turns out the new Nano didn’t just get a UI upgrade—it got some new hardware too. The product tweaks on the new Nano include an Apple processor and a new SanDisk flash memory to replace the…
What does our time look like? Maybe a little like this. A nighttime scene, with ghost images. Lights streaking through the air, and painted across our very own selves. Our time looks like an in-camera photo effect. I have a thousand shots like this. You probably do too. Where lights seems to drift through the…
When Steve Jobs official biography was announced, everyone wondered why the notoriously private Steve Jobs would let Walter Isaacson, the author, interview him over 40 times, let Isaacson talk to family and friends and pretty much have unprecedented access to Jobs’ entire life. Turns out Jobs had a very personal reason. Isaacson saw him a…
Police in North Beaver Township, Pennsylvania are scratching their heads right now. Why? A 50-foot long, 20-foot wide steel bridge just disappeared. How? Apparently, some very bold criminals just up and stole it. Stealing a bridge, as you’d imagine, is a pretty complicated crime. This isn’t some 90s era magic trick people. The local police…
Jamie Lidell is a seriously talented and internationally known musician and producer, but the music he’s able to make using only this iPhone app is crazy. This cannot possibly be real. The subway just got way more fun. The new iMaschine app for iPhone and iPod Touch just dropped in the app store, and if…
