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Rdio’s Freemium Service Is Here

Remember when Rdio announced their freemium streaming plan was on the way? Well it’s here. No ads. No limits. And you don’t have to have a Facebook account (if you don’t want). Like the other services, Rdio’s free plan only extends to the web and desktop apps. So you still gotta pay for mobile access.…

XKCD’s Tribute to Steve Jobs is Simple, Clever, and Moving

Everyone has their own way of remembering Steve Jobs. XKCD’s wordless tribute is kind of perfect. (click the link to see the full, animated version) Update: It’s not wordless. On the XKCD site, if you hover over it it says, “There’s always the hope that if you sit and watch for long enough, the beachball…

WD TV Live Puts the Best Content in Your Computer on the Biggest Screen in Your House

Doesn’t matter if you’re looking at a slideshow of vacation photos, streaming a Netflix movie or watching that copy of Hurt Locker you totally didn’t torrent, they all look better bigger. So why squeeze your media onto a little monitor when you can stream it to your big-screen with Western Digital’s newest media players? The…

Happier Days: Steve Jobs Goofing Off with Photo Booth Back in 2005

Here’s an amazing series of pictures of Steve Jobs playing around with OS X’s Photo Booth back in 2005. They’re absolutely lovely, showing off a side of Jobs that so few of us knew. Good to see, on a day like this. The pictures were taken in the office of Mike Matas, the creator of…

A Story of Steve Jobs and Gizmodo

This is a really sad day. I sort of can’t explain it. I feel helpless and wistful and overwhelmingly sad. By the time I got here, Gizmodo was already an unspoken name at Apple HQ. A publication pariah. But it wasn’t always that way. According to our former editor, Brian Lam, Steve used to be…

Reactions to Steve Jobs’ Death

The world is now reacting to the very sad news of Steve Jobs’ death. We are collecting the thoughts and condolences of people like Bill Gates, Larry Page, Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin and President Barack Obama himself. But perhaps the most important reaction—apart from his family—is Steve Wozniak’s. According to the LA Times,…

Steve Jobs Is Dead

Steve Jobs is dead. The Apple chairman and former CEO who made personal computers, smartphones, tablets, and digital animation mass-market products passed away today. We’re going to miss him. Deeply, and personally. Steven P. Jobs passed away on Wednesday, October 5th, 2011 after a long struggle with pancreatic cancer. He was just 56 years old.…

Tribute Video to Steve Jobs

Rather than writing his obituary , I thought it would be better to pay tribute to Steve Jobs by stealing one of his ideas. That’s why I made this last Think Different video, in memoriam. I’m sure he would have hated it, but whatever. You’re dead now, Steve, you crazy round peg in the square…

Steve Jobs Is Dead

Steve Jobs is dead. The Apple chairman and former CEO who made personal computers, smartphones, tablets, and digital animation mass-market products passed away today. We’re going to miss him. Deeply, and personally. Steven P. Jobs passed away on October 5th, 2011 after a long struggle with pancreatic cancer. He was just 56 years old. We…

F-18 Pulls Up at the Last Minute to Avoid Smashing Sailors

Aside from a bad can of beans, an F/A-18E jet about to land on top of you is the easiest way to shit your pants in the Navy. Last month these clueless sailors were almost vaporized. Luckily, DefenseTech explains, the pilot was informed that there were dudes in his path and was able to abort…

Mini Monkey Lights Turn Bike Wheels into Spinning 8-Bit Art

Front and rear lights are essential for night rides (unless you enjoy getting hit by cars) but they do very little to warn cross-traffic of your presence. The Mini Monkey Light not only makes you more visible, it’s likely stop traffic outright. The Mini Monkey light employs 10 super-bright, full-color LED’s that attach to the…

This Dog Food Commercial Has Sounds Only a Dog Can Hear

Commercials have become so effective at focusing on what us human people want that we can’t stop watching them. Oh scantily clad women. Oh short attention spans. Dogs can join in the braindead fun now too, there’s a commercial made with sounds only a dog can hear. A Nestlé Purina PetCare commercial airing in Europe…

6 Tools to Make a Cinematic Masterpiece with a DSLR

Filmmaking is an exorbitant, costly hobby. But with the advent of DSLR video recording, it’s become much cheaper. Maybe not cheap but cheaper. And there are plenty of accessories that will help transform you into a savant. Here are 6: Canon 5D Mk II If you’re serious about video, this is the camera you want.…

The F-35 Makes Its First Vertical Landing Ever at Sea

The only sight more impressive than the F-35B in the air (when it’s working) is the F-35 hovering in the sky and plopping down onto the ground. Watch it for the first time, ever. Sure, the Harrier jet’s been making vertical maneuvers for decades, but not with this kind of grace—and not with this kind…

Back in Time for iPad: See the History of the Universe in 24 Hours

I’ve said many time before that the best iPad apps are those that combine coffee-table styled books with the fluid nature of the iPad’s interface. Back in Time is just that, it’s the story of the entire history of our universe made interactive on the iPad. What’s it do? The app takes you back in…

These Brand New Portable Speakers Look Broken

The speaker cones on a brand new set of speakers—even cheap ones like these—shouldn’t look like that. Nope that’s definitely wrong. I hope it’s fixable. Someone at Brando Workshop is going to get fired. These little USB speakers come with suction cups on the back so that you can stick them to your tablet. It…

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Watch Gizmodo’s Matt Buchanan on MSNBC’s The Ed Show

Gizmodo’s Matt Buchanan joined MSNBC’s The Ed Show on October 5, 2011 to talk about the death of Steve Jobs. Watch the clip above. For media requests, contact Kevin Prince at [email protected].

5 Things We Can’t Wait to Say to Siri, Apple’s Virtual Assistant

Never mind the haters; Apple’s iPhone 4S offers plenty of new stuff, including a much-faster processor called A5, and a virtual assistant named Siri. Her processing demands are such that Siri will only be found on the iPhone 4S, which has that faster processor, and not the new iPod Touch. (We’re waiting for Apple’s confirmation…

Watch Gizmodo’s Joe Brown on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight

Gizmodo’s Joe Brown joined CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight on October 5, 2011 to talk about the death of Steve Jobs. Watch the clip above. For media requests, contact Kevin Prince at [email protected].