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Yesterday, Samsung released a cryptic video teasing next week’s Android Unpacked event. The end of the video shows a suuuper curved phone with the tagline, “Something BIG is coming.” Hello Nexus Prime? We’ve been expecting the Nexus Prime, the next great Android phone that’ll introduce Ice Cream Sandwich with it, for quite a while now…
Tim Cook’s probably still riding high off last night’s coke-and-hooker iPhone 4S after party, and Samsung’s already trying to ruin the fun. Reuters reports the bitter patent ex-girlfriend is seeking a total iPhone 4S sales ban in Italy and France. It’s becoming hard to keep all these patent attacks and counterattacks straight—but at least we…
Apple is betting that Siri—the artificially intelligent assistant that can understand and interpret you as you speak naturally—will make you buy the iPhone 4S. This has been a dream of humans for years, as this video shows. Phil Schiller said that scientists have been teasing us about this for years. I know that, the first…
Because Hollywood doesn’t want it that way. They don’t want one winner, the way iTunes basically became the one place everybody downloaded their music (you know, when they weren’t stealing it). Don’t believe me? Ask Miramax’s CEO Mike Lang: “Why everyone does focus on piracy, for the music industry, what’s really interesting is that it’s…
Microsoft is supposedly ready to announce a new Xbox 360 feature that’ll let you watch lots of TV on your Xbox 360 over the Internet, according to a report from AllThingsD. It’s not the cord cutting-friendly service that we had hoped for as Microsoft is working closely with cable providers. This means you may have…
Solar-powered chargers make me feel like I’m doing something nice for the Earth. Too bad I never use the damn things because positioning them for optimal Sun-catching is a pain in the ass. The Ray solar charger’s suction cup action solves that problem. Instead of trying to prop the solar charger on a stick or…
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. Showtime Anytime Gets Going Just after the premium channel’s shows were pulled off of Netflix, Showtime has…
Was it rude of me to assume that all TSA agents were baby eating, power tripping assholes who were put on earth to make your life miserable? Whoops! Turns out they’re not all like that. In fact, some of them can even be extremely helpful and go beyond the call of duty to make your…
Apple may have talked about some new stuff today, but there are plenty of things it said nary a word about. Facebook apps? Sprint iPads? Resolving multiple Apple IDs and MobileMe accounts? C’mon! Facebook App for iPad Seriously, WTF is stopping Facebook from releasing this thing. Their full site sucks in Mobile Safari. Their touch…
The BitCoin digital Currency system is intriguing in its desire to circumvent traditional currency. More intriguing is that its creator Satoshi Nakamoto is an enigma shrouded in mysterious mystery. It’s generally accepted that Satoshi Nakamoto is an alias. That lead The New Yorker’s Joshua Davis on a quest to find the real identity of the…
The day’s here. You can replace your old iPhone (or some other phone!) with an iPhone 4S. But will you? Are you excited by the internal upgrades, or too bummed that it’s not the iPhone 5? Will you buy it? The iPhone 4S has a lot going for it: the camera sounds phenomenal, Siri looks…
Apple has added a second tier of protection for iPhone owners. Apple’s tired of your iPhone-glass-breaking sob stories and will charge $49 to fix your iPhone with AppleCare+. The iPhones ships with one year of hardware repair and 90 days of telephone support. On the heels of today’s iPhone 4S announcement, Apple has revealed an…
From what I could tell reading along, Apple’s iPhone 4S keynote looked REAL boring. But hey, if you want to see for yourself, by all means feel free to watch it here. [Apple via The Loop]
This just blew my mind. Back in 1987 Apple made a video about a future computer that would have a touchscreen with a computerize assistant you could talk to. They were off in their prediction by only 18 days. Wow. In 1987, former Apple CEO John Sculley wrote about a concept called the Knowledge Navigator.…
If you’re thinking about buying an iPhone 4S, this is important: Not all iPhone 4Ses are the same. AT&T claims that their iPhone will download stuff faster than Verizon and Sprint’s. The explanation is easy and logical. The new iPhone can download at a theoretical maximum speed of 14.4Mbps, as opposed to the previous 7.2Mbps.…
AT&T is set to release an AT&T Upgrader app for the iPhone 4S. The app is supposed to simplify the upgrade process by letting iPhone owners know what type of upgrade they’re eligible for, how much the iPhone 4S will cost and then let them place their pre-order, all through the app. If you don’t…
Don’t expect a big explosion. This time lapse video shows how to demolish a bridge with finesse and patience, over night. It was taken in England on April 9, using a Canon 5Dmk2 over the course of 18 hours, taking 4,000 images that were assembled in QuickTime. [Thanks Karl!] You can keep up with Jesus…
The sole remaining reason to use a BlackBerry is BBM—and now, the iPhone’s got its own version. It’s better than texting, but it comes with some potentially terrifying social vortexes to navigate. Here’s how to own iMessage, stress-free. Let people know when you’ve read their messages (most of the time) Anyone still BBMing will tell…
Scientific American has launched a nifty new app that lets you explore exoplanets – planets outside our own solar system – from the comfort of your iPad. Journey to the Exoplanets takes exoplanets out of the realm of fuzzy dots on you’re screen and into mind-blowing images territory with more than 100 illustrations and diagrams,…
Gizmodo’s Joe Brown joined CNN Newsroom on October 4, 2011 to speculate about the upcoming announcement of a new iPhone. Watch the clip above! For media requests, contact Kevin Prince at [email protected].
