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Right now, when I want to find a place to eat, I fire up Yelp. Which is fine, until I pull my hair out reading some weirdo reviews from annoying holier-than-thou reviewers. Ness is different, they try to cut them out. The app suggest restaurants based on your own tastes. You start by rating 10…
The end of summer is near and that means schools are back in session and THAT MEANS college football will be back in season (sometimes even before school, actually). ESPN’s Bowl Bound 2011 app for Android lets you keep up with your favorite teams, top 25 rankings, stats, news, video highlights, award trackers and a…
Some welcome Facebook news, for a change! The AP reports Facebook’s finally bumping up the resolution on photo uploads—no word on how much—and halving the upload time. Nifty! All the better for the deluge of filtered horror. [Yahoo!] https://gizmodo.com/facebook-will-kill-photo-filters-for-everyone-5834133
Every year, about six tropical storms graduate to hurricane status, pummeling the Carribean and Eastern United States. Yes it’s a beast of a rain storm, but how does it get that way, and how do weather folks decide when it should be crowned “hurricane?” It’s a really really big, scary storm… A hurricane is a…
Black and white TVs begat Color TVs begat big screen TVs begat HDTVs begat flat screen TVs begat 1080p HDTVs begat 120Hz TVs begat 3D TVs. TVs for everybody! And everybody loves the boob tube, everybody wants their fill of mindless entertainment, everybody needs to have the biggest and baddest TV on the block. So…
According to the New York Post, when Amazon releases its tablet in the next few months, they’re not just going to be cost competitive. They’re going to be cost kamikaze. The Posts’s source said that the Amazon tablet will cost “hundreds” less than the iPad—whose cheapest model weighs in at $500—currently does. A $300 (or…
This image of the full disk of Earth, taken this morning at 10:45AM by NASA/NOAA GOES-13 satellite, gives you an idea of what a huge mother Irene is going to be. Here’s the last image, taken at 12:30pm. Data shows its diameter is now about 510 miles. Brace yourselves, East coasters. [Flickr and Flickr—Thanks Rebecca!]
If there’s one thing every last one of us can agree on, it’s that there’s no text more fun-loving that Comic Sans. And if you don’t believe me, maybe science will sort you out. Well, The Onion science, anyway. Between the video below and the now-legendary McSweeney’s monologue, I may actually be getting to a…
After spending months reviewing AT&T’s attempt to swallow T-Mobile, the FCC had hit the pause button—but now it’s back to the review, the NYT reports. [NYT]
The end of summer is near and that means schools are back in session and THAT MEANS college football will be back in season (sometimes even before school, actually). ESPN’s Bowl Bound 2011 app for iPhone lets you keep up with your favorite teams, top 25 rankings, stats, news, video highlights, award trackers and a…
Steve Jobs’ legacy will live forever. This auto-tuned song will not. Even if it’s so stupidly bad that it’s awesomely good. [Thanks David!]
Just as molecular gastronomy is the future of food, molecular mixology is the future of drink. One of the leading figures of both is none other than cutting-edge chef Grant Achatz, who just opened one of these future bars in Chicago. The molecular movement in food, which we’ve covered before, is all about applying scientific…
Gizmodo’s Joe Brown claimed a desk in the MSNBC Newsroom on August 26, 2011 in preparation for Hurricane Irene coverage. He joined MSNBC’s Tamron Hall, Thomas Roberts and Contessa Brewer for live interviews about the technology used during hurricanes. For media requests, contact Kevin Prince at [email protected].
Gizmodo’s Joe Brown appeared on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams on August 26, 2011 to talk about the problems with cell towers as Hurricane Irene approaches. Watch the clip above! For media requests, contact Kevin Prince at [email protected].
Chinquapin the whimbrel just wanted to trek down from Canada to his winter hotspot in South America. Instead, he ended up in the heart of Hurricane Irene. And he might just live to tell about. https://gizmodo.com/hurricane-irene-is-worse-than-you-think-5834530 According to USA Today, this particular bird is part of a research study to track the migratory patterns of…
New York Governor Cuomo says the entire NYC subway system will be shuttered at noon tomorrow in preparation for Hurricane Irene’s splish-splashy fists of Hades. God damn you, Irene. How are we supposed to go to pilates now? [Breaking News] https://gizmodo.com/new-yorks-subway-may-not-survive-nicole-irene-5834510
The WSJ has reported that Verizon will be passing on the Galaxy S II. Now BGR claims to have confirmed with several trusted sources that this is correct. Damn it, Verizon, what the hell is wrong with you? If the report bears out, it means that next week Samsung will unveil the Galaxy S II…
There’s a war against musical instruments brewing in America. Not because of Rock-n-Roll’s shadow affiliation with Satan, or the generations of delinquents they’ve bred. Rather, environmental agencies are not happy about the types of illegal materials they’re made from. The Wall Street Journal reports that everyone from Gibson Guitar to border-hopping musicians are encountering problems…
I can’t think of the last time I was blown away by a laptop. But this. The Razer Blade. It’s 0.88 inches thin. Aluminum chassis. Inside? A 2.8GHz Intel Core i7, 8GB RAM, 2GB Nvidia GeForce GT 555M video card. And it’s got Razer’s touchscreen Switchblade built in. Oh, it’s $2800. https://gizmodo.com/razer-switchblade-pocket-gaming-pc-flip-open-customiz-5727129 Razer is best…
We’ve known Fukushima’s been hemorrhaging radiation steadily since the disaster began in March. But now we’ve got a horrid new way to quantify it: the amount of terribly dangerous cesium-137 released by the plant is equal to 168 nuclear bombings. The Guardian reports that the Japanese government’s own calculations put the release of cesium-137—a particularly…
