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Now’s Your Chance to Seal the Deal

Thanks to Best Buy, those of you with eagle eyes—and a deep desire to get the best deal on everything—have probably been saving some serious cash lately. Just last week they were offering a Panasonic 3D Blu-ray disc player for $179.99, a 55″ class LCD 1080p 120Hz HDTV from Insignia for just $799.99, and a…

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Who Fired Steve Jobs Once Upon a Time?

Nobody fired Steve Jobs yesterday (obviously). But once upon a time (read: 1985), Steve Jobs was forced out of his own company by investors who didn’t share his vision. The Daily Beast provides a rundown on those six men. [Daily Beast] https://gizmodo.com/steve-jobs-resigns-as-apple-ceo-5834141

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How to Make Tiny Toy Tornadoes

The East Coast was just rocked by a 5.8 earthquake on Tuesday and is hunkering down for Hurricane Irene on Sunday. The only thing missing from this natural disaster trifecta: tornadoes. The Tornado/Microburst Simulator at the Iowa State University College of Engineering is the largest tornado simulator on the continent. The simulator itself consists of…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

A Grill That Fits in Your Freaking Pocket

The Pocket Grill is a portable grill that can be folded to fit inside a pocket. Seriously, it’s that small. When you unfold it, you have a sizable 2′ by 1′ grill that can hold up to 10 pounds of meat. It’s versatile too, as you can use the pocket grill with or without the…

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Steve Jobs’ Biggest Apple Flops

In Steve Jobs’ two stints at Apple, the company made some great products. Their most amazing products. But no one’s perfect. Not even Steve Jobs. And Apple produced a few pieces of total crap during his reign. Here’re the worst. To ditch the gallery format, click here. https://gizmodo.com/steve-jobs-biggest-apple-flops-5834321 Lisa The Apple Lisa, named after Jobs’…

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The Sweet New ESPN on Xbox 360 Is Now Available

The brand spanking new, gorgeously stats heavy, live-thumbs-in-the-mini-guide having ESPN update on Xbox 360 is now available. Go get it! It’s still only offered for participating cable companies that offer ESPN3 though. [Major Nelson] https://gizmodo.com/the-new-espn-on-xbox-360-is-the-only-way-i-want-to-watc-5824986

Tech News Casey Chan

How to Buy a Hard Drive: An Essential Guide

Do you need gigabytes or performance? Laptop upgrades or a screaming new gaming PC? We walk you through what you need to know to pick the right storage solution for your PC. Storage. Always needed, often overlooked. Often lost in the buzz surrounding the latest DirectX 11 GPUs and hexacore CPUs is the ability to…

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Tim Cook Promises “Apple is not going to change” in Email to Employees

Apple’s new CEO has his work cut out for him, with customers, Wall Street, the internet in general, and employees all uncertain about Apple’s future. Tim Cook’s answer? An email pep talk—but it could have been peppier. https://gizmodo.com/apple-without-steve-jobs-scares-the-shit-out-of-wall-st-5834171 Cook’s email, acquired by Ars Technica, includes the expected platitudes: I am looking forward to the amazing…

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Steve Jobs Has 313 Apple Patents to His Name

Think Steve Jobs has just been a CEO in his tenure at Apple? Wrooo-ooong. The man’s had his hands filthy as an inventor, with over 300 patents. Computers? Duh. Packaging? Yep. Lanyards. Yup. You’ve gotta check out this amazing interactive feature from the NYT, showing off all of his patents. [NYT]

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Vic Gundotra, the Man Behind Google+, Tells a Story About Steve Jobs Being Steve Jobs

Vic Gundotra, bigwig at Google, the man behind Google+ and someone we really enjoy, has a wonderful story to tell about Steve Jobs. It’s about how Jobs called him on a Sunday to discuss an emergency. https://gizmodo.com/google-is-leapfrogging-apple-5543794 It was January 6, 2008. This was around the time of the original iPhone, before the App Store…

Tech News Casey Chan

Facebook Will Kill Photo Filters for Everyone

The NYT reports Facebook tried to buy Instagram. Instagram said no. So, screw you, Instagram—Facebook’s going to rip it off and do it itself. This means photo filters for everyone! Which is exactly why photo filters are doomed. https://gizmodo.com/facebook-is-going-to-add-instagram-style-photo-filters-5834135 From the Times’ description, it sounds pretty clear what Facebook is going after: The engineers said…

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Nobody Knows Who Has Control of Libya’s Deadliest Weapons

The Libyan rebels are winning. But nobody knows who has control of Libya’s massive stockpile of chemical weapons and nuclear material. Wait, what? The AP has an extremely troubling report this morning. In areas that are still being contested, we have no idea what’s going on or who has control over what weapons. 30,000 shoulder-fired…

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Watch Speakers Make Album Art By Bumping the Bass Filled with Paint

The guys behind Instrumenti, Shipsi and Reynsi, cooked up a unique way to create album art: let the songs do the talking. They poured paint into speakers and let the music splash onto the canvas to come up with some Jacksonian Pollockian-type art. [Vimeo via The Next Web] You can keep up with Casey Chan,…

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Battery-on-a-Smart-Cover Is the Ghost of Smart Cover Future

Strapping a battery to the face of your Smart Cover isn’t exactly a teerrrrible idea—it’s actually kind of cool—but it’s also kind of lazy and half-realized. Why not build the battery into the Smart Cover panels? That we’d pay money for. As it stands, Brando’s Anytone Smart Cover battery is decent enough for what it…

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MacTrast Says iPhone 5 Also Heading to T-Mobile

Minor league rumor cottage MacTrast claims the iPhone 5 will hit T-Mobile, according to “a contact within T-Mobile who claims to have been briefed on the matter.” A dubious source from a no-name site—but it makes sense! With Sprint also rumored to be getting iPhone access, T-Mobile isn’t surprising either—it’s more of a why not…

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BlackBerry’s BBM Music Is The Dumbest Music Service I’ve Ever Heard Of

RIM probably heard that one of the big things in tech right now is offering a music locker service because they just announced BBM Music. Unfortunately, it’s the worst music locker service in the world: you pay $5 a month for 50 songs. The $5/month fee lets you keep 50 songs in your personal profile,…

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Paul Allen Wants Your Legacy Hardware

Paul Allen, Microsoft’s “Idea Man,” is an aficionado of relic computing devices—the older and more obscure, the better. He collects them, along with rare WWII fighter planes, and shares this passion at his Living Computer Museum in Seattle. The Living Computer Museum showcases machines, peripherals, and software from the era of interactive timesharing systems. Allen…

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This Is What Setting a Land Speed Record on the World’s Fastest Electric Bike Looks Like

Good. Lord. 218MPH is fast, like super fast, like suck-the-teeth-out-the-back-of-your-head super fast. And that’s world-record setting speed the Lightning Motorcycle SuperBike just pulled off at the Bonneville Salt Flats last week. Why should you care? Because you can now own one. The Lightning Motorcycle SuperBike is the the fastest production motorcycle—internal combustion or otherwise—for sale…

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Steve Wozniak Comments on Jobs’ Departure: “Most Important Technical Leader Ever” (Updated)

After Steve Jobs’ stunning resignation announcement today, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak described the outgoing CEO as the “most important technical leader ever” and an Ayn Rand-style objectivist to Bloomberg News. In a phone interview with Emily Chang, Wozniak discusses Apple under Jobs’ leadership, he’ll “be remembered for the next hundred years as the best business…

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How an Australian Charity’s Swag Is Fighting Homelessness Across Oz

As many as 15,000 people sleep on Australia’s streets each night, subjected to violence, harassment, and the elements. That’s 15,000 too many for Tony Clark’s tastes. So his charity, Swags for Homeless, hands out these ingeniously integrated tent-mattresses called the Backpack Bed. The Backpack Bed is constructed of lightweight, fire-retardant, weatherproof, mildew-repelling UltTrex Lite fabric…

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Now’s Your Chance to Seal the Deal

Who Fired Steve Jobs Once Upon a Time?

How to Make Tiny Toy Tornadoes

A Grill That Fits in Your Freaking Pocket

Steve Jobs’ Biggest Apple Flops

The Sweet New ESPN on Xbox 360 Is Now Available

How to Buy a Hard Drive: An Essential Guide

Tim Cook Promises “Apple is not going to change” in Email to Employees

Steve Jobs Has 313 Apple Patents to His Name

Vic Gundotra, the Man Behind Google+, Tells a Story About Steve Jobs Being Steve Jobs

Facebook Will Kill Photo Filters for Everyone

Nobody Knows Who Has Control of Libya’s Deadliest Weapons

Watch Speakers Make Album Art By Bumping the Bass Filled with Paint

Battery-on-a-Smart-Cover Is the Ghost of Smart Cover Future

MacTrast Says iPhone 5 Also Heading to T-Mobile

BlackBerry’s BBM Music Is The Dumbest Music Service I’ve Ever Heard Of

Paul Allen Wants Your Legacy Hardware

This Is What Setting a Land Speed Record on the World’s Fastest Electric Bike Looks Like

Steve Wozniak Comments on Jobs’ Departure: “Most Important Technical Leader Ever” (Updated)

How an Australian Charity’s Swag Is Fighting Homelessness Across Oz

‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Stinks

‘Scream 4’ Is Back, and on Tape

Iran Threatens to Attack U.S. Tech Companies Starting April 1

Amazon Clears Out Netflix-Licensed Nebula Capsule 3 Mini Projector at 32% Off, Dolby Audio Home Theater for Less

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