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Stop Turning Everything into a Game

Foursquare is about getting points for grabbing dinner, not enjoying the food. Nike+ puts the emphasis on a leader board, not a leaner you. And now Badgeville wants to turn the entire internet into a game. This is really awful. https://gizmodo.com/is-foursquare-ruining-eating-out-5638118 Gameification is a stupid made up word that describes an even stupider trend. It’s…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Mark Zuckerberg Sucks at Coding Now

Mark Zuckerberg isn’t the coding wiz he used to be. When he was young and not rich, he would put himself through coding marathon sessions, banging out lines like Lohan. It’s true! I saw it in The Social Network. No more though. He doesn’t code much nowadays and when he does, he sucks. According to…

Social Media Casey Chan

Are These Stone Speakers Really 20,000 Percent Greener than Other Speakers?

Throwing a figure like 20,000% around seems absurd. Rarely is anything we use in our normal lives 20,000% more/less/better/worse/whatever than a competing product. Yet, AudioMasons claim their stone speakers are 20,000% greener than other speakers. Seriously? In addition to desirable resonance qualities, the stone used to make their speakers is apparently highly sustainable. The $1146,…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Apple’s iCloud Is Now Nearer Than Ever

If you are a developer, you can download Mac OS X 10.7.2 with full iCloud beta support. If you are a regular Mac user, this means that iCloud is a lot closer than before. [MacRumors]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

QNX BlackBerries Being Rushed Out (YES!) Without Real Email/Calendar (NOOOOOO!!)

BlackBerry sales have been in the toilet, so RIM has been scrambling to get their much-anticipated first QNX-based phones to market. Very smart. But they may be pushing them out without BES/BIS email/calendar calendar support. That would be unfathomably stupid. This morning, an article in Mobile Magazine had this little poo-nugget: It turns out that…

Tech News Brent Rose

This Cheap Air Drone Can Break Into Your Computer and Own It

This must be the holy grail of hacking: a cheap, do-it-yourself flying drone that can break into Wi-Fi networks and turn computers into zombies that can be controlled remotely. The coolest part for evildoers: it makes the hacking untraceable. The SkyNET drone is a modified $300 Parrot quadcopter with a Linux computer, 3G card, a…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Fusion Garage’s Grid10 Gets a Price Drop and New Release Date

Remember the Grid10? Of course you do…n’t? Well, Fusion Garage’s Android-ish, infinite desktop-having tablet got pushed back two weeks to October 1st to allow for testing and Flash certification. But at least its down to $300. Ambition alone doesn’t justify a $500 price tag. https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-the-grid-10-tablet-and-the-grid-4-phone-infin-5831676 [This Is My Next]

Tech News Kwame Opam

HTC (Kinda, Maybe) Wants to Buy WebOS

WebOS is in the doldrums. Even though HP is ostensibly keeping it alive, it’s not going anywhere in their hands. Rumors have spread about companies courting HP, but HTC seems to be putting serious thought into taking WebOS under their wing. https://gizmodo.com/here-is-the-most-depressing-hp-memo-of-all-time-5837758 They don’t have much real competition in that quarter either. Samsung squashed rumblings…

Tech News Kwame Opam

Even GameStop Is Making an Android Tablet

Tablets. Tablets. Tablets. iPads, Android tablets, $99 Touchpads, everyone wants to make a tablet. Hell, even Gamestop—the brick and mortar video game store—wants to build their own. I’m not kidding, they’re making an Android-powered tablet that’s good at games. GameStop President Tony Bartel recently said: “If we can’t find [a tablet] that’s great for gaming,…

Tech News Casey Chan

The World’s Largest Floating Vacuum

Constructing your own personal Skull Island? Don’t waste time with some rinky-dink 80-year-old dustpan. This mammoth ship is too big to fit through the Panama Canal and can hoover enough soil to cover two football fields from 120 meters down. https://gizmodo.com/grandpa-dredger-still-workin-old-man-river-5810420 A trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) drags a vacuum-like head behind the ship, which…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

10 Hackers Who Made History

The computer world has a rich history of hackers who steered the progress of computer science and gave shape to computers, the internet, and networking as we see it today—in some cases single-handedly. And while yes, there are the Black Hat hackers behind internet mayhem, thievery, and chaos, there are also White Hat hackers who…

Tech News Paul Escallier - MaximumPC

Cure Your End-of-Summer Woes With an Amazing Deal

Sadly, Labor Day was last week, and that means two things: summer is over, and it’s no longer fashionable to be caught wearing white slacks (which we’re sure you do quite often). Here’s how you can avoid early-onset S.A.D.: the white HTC EVO 3D is available exclusively from RadioShack for only $199.99*. And if you…

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The Slingshot Madman Embraces Portable Mayhem

Our appreciation for bald, vaguely Eastern European, totally insane slingshot purveyor Joerg Sprave is long-established and unbounded. And he apparently loves his fans right back, if this extremely dangerous, reasonably-sized death-by-wood-and-rubber contraption is any indication. The only problem with previous Joerg creations (read: machete crossbow) is that they were a bit unwieldy, hard to carry…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Pioneer’s New iPod Docks Get You Playing Wirelessly

Pioneer’s two new iPod docks allow wireless playback of anything that’s Airplay-ready, as well as basically anything connected to Wi-Fi. The tabletop-sized Pioneer X-SMC3-S Music Tap and X-SMC4-K Elite Music Tap are flexible little music systems. If somehow you have a device that doesn’t support AirPlay, wireless or the 30-pin iPod dock, an Aux input…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

The LA Times Thinks Apple’s Spaceship Campus Sucks

It looks mighty impressive in renders, and is astoundingly huge, but not everyone is dazzled by Apple’s planned HQ 2.0: the LA Times’ architecture critic, Christopher Hawthorne, thinks it’s a huge mistake: isolated, alienating, drab, a “retrograde cocoon.” Oh shit! Hawthorne’s got some lofty, though still highly derogatory things to say about the gleaming disc:…

Tech News Sam Biddle

AT&T Goes All In with Three 4G Windows Phone Mango Handsets

Right alongside the churnings of the old rumor mill, AT&T is ready to push out 3 new 4G Windows Phone Mango phones, namely the massive HTC Titan, the Samsung Focus S, and the Samsung Focus Flash. https://gizmodo.com/windows-phone-7-5-mango-might-be-out-september-15th-5839242

Tech News Kwame Opam

Samsung Galaxy S II Has More GPU Firepower Than Any Android Device

Anandtech benchmarked Samsung’s refreshed Galaxy S II phone over the weekend and discovered that its Mali-400 quad-core GPU contained within its EXYNOS chipset is not only powerful, but nearly 2x faster than any other Android device—phone or tablet. The Samsung Galaxy S II was tested using GLBenchmark 2.1, and scored a 42.5. By comparison, the…

Tech News Adrian Covert

This Glowing Kitten May Hold the Key For AIDS Vaccine

This kitten may have the key to protect humans against HIV, the lentivirus that causes AIDS. He was genetically modified at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. And yes, he glows in the dark. His fluorescent fur and claws—which glow green in certain lighting—are not a side-effect of the gene that makes the cat resistant…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

IBM’s Watson Gets Its First Real Job

IBM’s insanely powerful supercomputer Watson is awesome. Obviously. But after its impressive public debut, I figured it wouldn’t function in the real world for a year or two. Instead, some medical patients will reap Watson’s rewards even sooner. https://io9.gizmodo.com/preview/ibm-jeopardy-challenge-finale-watson-is-victorious-5762784 The Wall Street Journal says that healthcare provider WellPoint has inked a deal with Big Blue…

Tech News Adrian Covert

21-Year-Old Iranian Hacker Is the LulzSec Antichrist

You probably haven’t heard of Comodohacker. He operates alone. But on Thursday, he scared Google into issuing a warning for all of Iran—and he wants them to control the internet. The NYT got in touch with Comodohacker, who says he’s a 21 year old Iranian student, and asked him about the motives behind his sweeping…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Stop Turning Everything into a Game

Mark Zuckerberg Sucks at Coding Now

Are These Stone Speakers Really 20,000 Percent Greener than Other Speakers?

Apple’s iCloud Is Now Nearer Than Ever

QNX BlackBerries Being Rushed Out (YES!) Without Real Email/Calendar (NOOOOOO!!)

This Cheap Air Drone Can Break Into Your Computer and Own It

Fusion Garage’s Grid10 Gets a Price Drop and New Release Date

HTC (Kinda, Maybe) Wants to Buy WebOS

Even GameStop Is Making an Android Tablet

The World’s Largest Floating Vacuum

10 Hackers Who Made History

Cure Your End-of-Summer Woes With an Amazing Deal

The Slingshot Madman Embraces Portable Mayhem

Pioneer’s New iPod Docks Get You Playing Wirelessly

The LA Times Thinks Apple’s Spaceship Campus Sucks

AT&T Goes All In with Three 4G Windows Phone Mango Handsets

Samsung Galaxy S II Has More GPU Firepower Than Any Android Device

This Glowing Kitten May Hold the Key For AIDS Vaccine

IBM’s Watson Gets Its First Real Job

21-Year-Old Iranian Hacker Is the LulzSec Antichrist

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

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