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Shooting Challenge: Day to Night

Day and night. They occupy the same space but different times. (Please, geeks, don’t confound this with discussions on spacetime.) For this week’s Shooting Challenge, you’ll capture day and night in a single photograph. (Click here for better lead shot.) The Challenge Capture day and night, occurring at the exact same spot, within a single…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Offline Gmail, Google Calendar and Docs? Um, Yes Please!

Gmail. Damn near everyone you know uses it, and now they (and you) can use it offline. Sound the trumpets! And if that’s not enough, offline Google Calendar and Docs will be rolling out within the week. This pleases me. Offline Gmail has launched as a Google Web Store app for your Chrome browser. If…

Tech News Brent Rose

Sprint Nearly Doubles Early Termination Fee—Just Like Verizon Before the iPhone

You used to be cool(er) Sprint. Now we’re hearing that you’re raising your pro-rated ETF (Early Termination Fee) to $350 from $200. Just because AT&T and Verizon are charging $350 doesn’t you need to raise yours. Sure you’re the carrier that offers real unlimited data unlike your rivals and maybe you’re getting the iPhone this…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

You’ve Got Less than 24 Hours to Pick Your New Netflix Plan

In light of Netflix’s crazy pricing plan shift last month, many of you probably already picked a new plan on your Netflix account. Unless you already left. Well, it goes into effect tomorrow. So if you stream AND get DVDs, switch already! https://gizmodo.com/netflix-just-got-way-more-spensive-updated-5820492 Seriously. You don’t want to wind up paying $16 for next month…

Tech News Kwame Opam

How to Print 2000 Miles of Solar Cells a Year

You’re looking at the Applied Bacini Pegaso—one of the most productive solar cell printing lines on the planet—fabricating electrical circuits on both sides of a solar cell. And by productive, I mean 20 million cells a year, enough to power 10,000 typical US homes. Two cassettes—each holding 40 Photovoltaic wafers—are loaded into the system every…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Dyson’s Newest Vac Stuffs All Its Guts in a Beautiful Sphere

A Dyson vacuum is almost as much a design-lust object as an appliance, and the new DC41 Animal (cool name for a vacuum!) only pushes that rep. Where’d all those weird hoses go? Hidden with minimalist magics. The Ball vacs have been around for a while, but the DC41 makes has the best balls of…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Sony’s SA-NS 500 AirPlay Speaker: Room-Filling Sound from a Lampshade

Sony’s new AirPlay-ready, lampshade-looking SA-NS 500 portable speaker looks like it’s going to be pretty good. The SA-NS 500 has a four speaker array, a mid-range subwoofer, and gets 5-6 hours of battery life. It also supports party streaming, which lets you play the same audio on multiple devices across multiple rooms—similar to a Sonos…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Spotify Wants to Bake Itself Into All Your iOS Apps

Spotify’s been up for nearly two months, and it’s shown amazing growth. Now it wants to find its way into everything else you do on your iPhone by handing developers and Premium users the new Spotify API. https://gizmodo.com/spotify-has-175-000-paying-customers-5828778 Called libspotify 9, the code will allow the program to live inside any app developers can think…

Tech News Kwame Opam

RankMyHack Gives You Achievement Points for Your Ballsiest Cyber Attacks

2011 has seen some of the most brazen, daring cyber attacks to date, from the Arizona police to BART quite recently. It’s a bad time to be even a medium-sized name on the net. So let’s turn this into a game, shall we? RankMyHack.com is an old-fashioned leaderboard for the “hacking elite.” After signing up,…

Tech News Kwame Opam

Has the Sony Reader Wi-Fi Actually Got a Shot?

Sony may have been the first major electronics manufacturer to bring ebook readers to the US, but a series of unfortunate products saw them cede the race to Kindle and Nook. The PRS-T1, though, could be Sony’s comeback kid. The six-inch E-ink ebook reader is the world’s lightest at that size, and its touchscreen display…

Tech News Brian Barrett

How-to-Pronounce-Difficult-Words Videos Will Make You Cry From Laughter

Ever wondered how to exactly pronounce difficult words, names and posh brands like Cthulhu, Givenchy, Glenfiddich, Aeropostale, Porsche or Jake Gyllenhaal? Then don’t watch these videos. But if you want to piss your pants from laughter, watch them. The videos are produced by YouTube user PronunciationManual. They are a parody of the PronunciationBook series. Their…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

“Choose Your Own Adventure” For Grownups Is Actually Just Called Life

Remember the good ol’ days of being snuggled up in your pillow fort with a “Choose Your Own Adventure” book gripped tightly between your fingers, thinking to yourself, “Holy cr@p! I can’t believe I was dumb enough to pick swimming with piranhas on page 42! Being a grownup is going to be so awesome/scary!” Well,…

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Jet Skiing Through Your Hurricane-Ravaged Neighborhood

What would you do if you woke up after Irene and saw your entire town had been flooded? Check your basement? Call friends and see if they’re okay? Hell no, brah—get out the jet ski and get x-treme. Oceanside, NY looks like a pretty fun place to hang out post-hurricane! Serious warning: the soundtrack to…

Tech News Sam Biddle

A Beating Heart in a Box Looks Terrifying

If I ever needed a heart transplant, seeing a living, tell-tale heart before before my eyes would probably scare me to death. But TransMedic’s unique organ care system could prove to keep that heart fresher for longer until you need it. Presently, you can only keep your heart or stolen kidneys on ice for up…

Tech News Kwame Opam

Video of the World’s First Realistic Simulation of the Creation of Our Galaxy

Astrophysicists from the University of Zurich working with UCSC’s astronomers have created the world’s first realistic simulation of the formation of the Milky Way. It’s amazing that all this clockwork perfection came out of such a galactic Charlie Foxtrot. The video—which follows the original announcement of the study—starts less than a million years after the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The Government Probably Just Killed the AT&T/T-Mobile Merger

Uncle Sam says no to AT&T eating up T-Mobile: The Department of Justice has filed an antitrust suit against AT&T, Bloomberg reports. Things just got real. https://gizmodo.com/at-t-is-buying-t-mobile-to-become-the-biggest-carrier-i-5783766 The US says “AT&T’s elimination of T-Mobile as an independent, low- priced rival would remove a significant competitive force from the market.” Yep, pretty much. AT&T’s efforts just…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Sony Tablet P First Impressions: Is the Taco Tablet Tasty?

I really love Sony for trying something different. Between this foldable Tablet P and the company’s indescribably-shaped (but very palmable) Tablet S they are genuinely trying to leave the hardware pack mentality behind. But enough congratulations. How good is it? https://gizmodo.com/sony-tablet-s-review-its-good-to-see-you-again-sony-5836051 I only had a very short time to play with the Sony Tablet P,…

Tech News Brent Rose

Sony, Toshiba, and Hitachi Merge Just Merged Their Small Screens, and Why That’s Great

Early this morning, Sony, Toshiba, and Hitachi came out hand in hand to declare that they were merging their small screen divisions into one liquid crystal behemoth. The new entity will be known as Japan Display. And it’s a good thing for you. By Voltron-ing their LCD businesses, the three companies have created the largest…

Gadgets Kwame Opam

The HTC Jetstream Tablet Is AT&T’s First Tablet with 4G LTE

The HTC Jetstream, formerly known as the Puccini, is headed to AT&T on September 4th. It’s running Android 3.1 on a 10.1-inch screen (nice!) and will be AT&T’s first tablet with real 4G LTE (really nice!). For some reason though, it’s going to cost $700 (ugh). https://gizmodo.com/htcs-first-10-inch-tablet-is-the-operatic-puccini-5824838 Not only that, the HTC Jetstream is “discounted”…

Tech News Casey Chan

Gizmodo Hops the Pond with Giz UK

The Giz family just gained a surly, Cockney cousin: this fall, Gizmodo UK will kick off in full force, helmed by the incomparable Kat Hannaford. It’ll be just like the Gizmodo you know and love, just with more crumpets. Welcome! Gizmodo, perhaps the most (in)famous technology website in the world, is coming to the UK…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Shooting Challenge: Day to Night

Offline Gmail, Google Calendar and Docs? Um, Yes Please!

Sprint Nearly Doubles Early Termination Fee—Just Like Verizon Before the iPhone

You’ve Got Less than 24 Hours to Pick Your New Netflix Plan

How to Print 2000 Miles of Solar Cells a Year

Dyson’s Newest Vac Stuffs All Its Guts in a Beautiful Sphere

Sony’s SA-NS 500 AirPlay Speaker: Room-Filling Sound from a Lampshade

Spotify Wants to Bake Itself Into All Your iOS Apps

RankMyHack Gives You Achievement Points for Your Ballsiest Cyber Attacks

Has the Sony Reader Wi-Fi Actually Got a Shot?

How-to-Pronounce-Difficult-Words Videos Will Make You Cry From Laughter

“Choose Your Own Adventure” For Grownups Is Actually Just Called Life

Jet Skiing Through Your Hurricane-Ravaged Neighborhood

A Beating Heart in a Box Looks Terrifying

Video of the World’s First Realistic Simulation of the Creation of Our Galaxy

The Government Probably Just Killed the AT&T/T-Mobile Merger

Sony Tablet P First Impressions: Is the Taco Tablet Tasty?

Sony, Toshiba, and Hitachi Merge Just Merged Their Small Screens, and Why That’s Great

The HTC Jetstream Tablet Is AT&T’s First Tablet with 4G LTE

Gizmodo Hops the Pond with Giz UK

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