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Apple’s New Find My Friends App Lets You Stalk Your Friends

Find My Friends, part of the new iCloud bounty, works just like Find My Phone. Only for friends. The app will pinpoint your contacts are on a map (if they permit it), allowing unprecedented impromptu hangouts and creepy stalking sessions. This could be really awesome! Instead of having to bother with directions, especially if you’re…

Tech News Casey Chan

There May Be an iPhone 5, After All (MAYBE!) (Updated)

This is probably a joke by someone in Spain, but a Gizmodo reader just took this photo of this banner. It says “Presenting iPhone 5. Now available.” It appeared a few minutes ago at the FNAC store in Madrid’s center. FNAC is a huge electronics, music and books super-store chain in Europe. Kind of like…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Confirmed: Sprint Will Carry the iPhone

Along with the leaked iPhone 4S images, the Sprint logo has popped up on Apple’s website too. It confirms what we’ve already known, that Sprint will finally carry the iPhone (4S and 4?) in their lineup. Unlimited plans, yes! [iDownloadblog]

Tech News Casey Chan

What We’re Listening to on iPhone 5 Day

It’s Apple day! We got phones on the brain, and it’s bleeding into our Spotify playlists. We got Beyonce, James Blake, Bon Iver, Phoenix and Rick Ross talking about the various ways they communicate and use their phones. Here’s what we’re listening to. [Thanks, Rosa!}

Tech News Adrian Covert

The Boston Globe of 1900 Imagines the Year 2000

The December 24, 1900 Boston Globe included an article that imagined what Boston would look like in the year 2000. Written by Thomas F. Anderson, the article was titled “Boston at the End of the 20th Century.” Anderson envisioned a city with moving sidewalks, pneumatic tube delivery of everything from food to newspapers, and airships…

Tech News Matt Novak

More Proof That the iPhone 4S Is Launching on October 14th (And That It’s Just the iPhone 4S)

The announcement is juust around the corner but it looks like Apple itself has leaked a bit of info regarding the next iPhone: it looks like iPhone 4S images have appeared on Apple’s website and that Apple’s Japanese website has leaked the iPhone 4S October 14th launch date too. 9to5Mac was first to notice the…

Tech News Casey Chan

Underwater Cloaking Device Is Insane Looking

Cloaking device prototypes are usually either pipe dreams or poorly executed, but this experiment out of UT Dallas is incredible. Utilizing the same principle behind a mirage, Danger Room reports, the carbon nanotube plate completely vanishes at a button-press. By heating up the water immediately around the nano plate, rays of light are bent away…

Tech News Sam Biddle

New Apple iPhone 4S: All the Information

Apple’s new iPhone 4S is just last year’s design loaded with a new brain and more memory. It will run your apps faster and Apple’s new iOS5’s Assistant, an artificial intelligence program that listens and interprets your orders, and a new camera. It just looks exactly the same, but there’s plenty of changes inside: Design…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Home Is Where the Gizmodo Guide to Green Luxury Is

With the help of BMW i, we’re proud to present the Gizmodo Guide to Green Luxury. Last week we featured a whole slew of eco-fabulous ways for you to trot the globe. Today we’re bringing green glamour a little closer to home—your actual home, to be exact. Below you’ll find some examples of sumptuous sustainable…

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The Apple Store Is Down: New Stuff Imminent

This just in: The Apple Store is down. Think maaaybe there’s something coming soon? The iPhone page is still up, but I’d bet that’ll be coming down soon, too. Here we go… You can keep up with Brent Rose, the author of this post, on Google+ or Twitter.

Tech News Brent Rose

Man Whose Home Was Searched By Apple Investigators Considering Lawsuit

Sergio Calderón, the man whose house was tossed by Apple investigators he thought to be San Francisco Police, has hired a lawyer and it may be a’ suin’ time now. As previously reported, Calderón has retained council—which happened, oh, right around the same time he stopped talking to the press. I assumed this was to…

Tech News Mat Honan

Our Meta Liveblog Starts at 12PM

The next iPhone, whatever it’s called, will be announced later today. Starting at noon, we’ll be bringing together the best coverage from our amazing friends all around the web, like gdgt live, Ars Technica’s liveblog and more, over at live.gizmodo.com.

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Microsoft Files for Body Scan Patent to Know When You’re Ready to Watch Porn

This will either be a godsend or a creepy nightmare. Microsoft recently filed for a patent that would allow the Kinect to scan your body size and proportions to guess your age. The idea is it’ll determine whether you’re of Skinemax age. The new system will employ a 3D depth camera to determine your body…

Tech News Kwame Opam

More Details About iOS 5’s Newsstand: Opt-in, Automatic Downloads, Free and More

One of the features I’m most looking forward to in iOS 5 is Newsstand, I can’t wait to have my news and magazines automagically download to my phone every morning. But what else is there to know about Newsstand? For developers, Newsstand is opt-in, as in you choose whether or not to make your app…

Tech News Casey Chan

Students Break Electric Car Land Speed Record in a Salty Blur

And they say electric cars don’t go fast. A group of BYU engineering students have built an electric streamliner that peaked at speeds of 175 mph. With that quiet electric motor I’ll bet the “whoosh” it makes is gorgeous. It took seven years and the work of more than 130 students to make it happen.…

Tech News Brent Rose

R.I.P. Microsoft Zune: the Media Player We All Loved, but Never Used

The Zune was a really good media player that should have been a success. Except it was always late to the party. A party full of white earbud wearers who left the Zune to die alone. The streak of forward-thinking designs Microsoft has been on lately really started with the Zune. Looking at the different…

Tech News Adrian Covert

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50 No-Handed, Easy-to-Master Bike Tricks and More from TreeHugger

This week on TreeHugger, a bike with metal tension wheels looks just.. wow. A funeral urn that grows a tree. A living map of Central Park complete with lakes. And so, so much more. 1. Have Fun On Your Bike with 50 No Handed, Easy to Master Tricks (Video) Performed to “Golden Tree” by Martin…

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Yahoo’s New Video Hub Looks Like a Hulu Competitor with Original Programming

Yahoo’s got a new video hub, and it looks pretty slick. Yahoo Screen is a collection of videos from around the web, TV shows, and content from sites like Funny Or Die, The Onion, and Epic Meal Time. The videos are organized into channels by human editors, and they’re pulling from video content that had…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Patent Troll Is Suing Small Hotels and Coffee Shops for Offering Wi-Fi

The patent trolling situation is getting beyond ridiculous. The bloody troll bullies from Innovatio are suing owners of franchise hotels and coffee shops. In fact, their plan is to sue everyone using Wi-Fi, although you’re not on their list. Yet: Innovatio has made a strategic and business judgment at this stage that it doesn’t intend…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Apple’s New Find My Friends App Lets You Stalk Your Friends

There May Be an iPhone 5, After All (MAYBE!) (Updated)

Confirmed: Sprint Will Carry the iPhone

What We’re Listening to on iPhone 5 Day

The Boston Globe of 1900 Imagines the Year 2000

More Proof That the iPhone 4S Is Launching on October 14th (And That It’s Just the iPhone 4S)

Underwater Cloaking Device Is Insane Looking

New Apple iPhone 4S: All the Information

Home Is Where the Gizmodo Guide to Green Luxury Is

The Apple Store Is Down: New Stuff Imminent

Man Whose Home Was Searched By Apple Investigators Considering Lawsuit

Our Meta Liveblog Starts at 12PM

Microsoft Files for Body Scan Patent to Know When You’re Ready to Watch Porn

More Details About iOS 5’s Newsstand: Opt-in, Automatic Downloads, Free and More

Students Break Electric Car Land Speed Record in a Salty Blur

R.I.P. Microsoft Zune: the Media Player We All Loved, but Never Used

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