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It’s Official: There Are More iPhones Than BlackBerrys (But Android Still Dominates)

Smartphones are finally outselling dumbphones, but not everyone’s a winner. ComScore’s latest numbers show that still aren’t looking good for RIM. https://gizmodo.com/smartphone-sales-beating-dumbphone-sales-for-the-first-5817082 After losing 4.2 percent of their market share in the US, they’re down to 24.7 percent vs Apple’s 26.6 percent. Looks like their “superphone” can’t come soon enough. https://gizmodo.com/10-inch-blackberry-playbook-not-coming-after-all-5816438 On the other hand,…

Tech News Michael Zhao

Double Team This Speaker Dock with Your iPad AND iPhone

This JVC speaker dock has a spot for both your iPad and iPhone. Not like that’s incredibly necessary BUT now your iPad won’t feel left out when your iPhone is plugged in. Or vice versa. Or something. The JVC UX-VJ5 has 15W speakers, AV connections to send the music to a bigger speaker set up…

Tech News Casey Chan

This world speed record car went faster than a Space Shuttle

A heavily-modified street-legal Ford GT made history as the first car recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records for standing-mile speed at 223 mph. Even cooler: they did it on the runway used for landing Space Shuttles. [Jalopnik] https://jalopnik.com/this-world-speed-record-car-went-faster-than-a-space-sh-5818085

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Bing for iPad Lets You Search Without Even Typing

Bing for iPad, which was already pretty damn nice, has added a sweet new feature that lets you search without even typing. It’s called Lasso. Just draw a circle around a word you’re interested in and Bing will auto-search it. Genius. [iTunes via Bing] https://gizmodo.com/bing-for-ipad-5789901 Watch how it works here: &lt;a href=’http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-us&amp;vid=5ac23e96-2489-4466-8433-d56ab7a83cdc&amp;src=SLPl:embed::uuids’ target=’_new’ title=’Bing for…

Tech News Casey Chan

Physical GIF Brings Internet’s Greatest Treasures into the Real World

Animated GIFs are literally the best thing about the internet. And the internet is literally the best thing western civilization has ever spawned. But mankind’s greatest triumphs are locked online, right? Not anymore! These Kickstarter dudes want to liberate them. The Physical GIF project is pretty simple—it uses the same tech as an old Victorian…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Tomorrow’s Stoplights Will Look Like Exclamation Points

Art Lebedev, the folks at ISBAK, and the city of Istanbul have together designed Isiklarius, traffic lights for punctuation lovers. Shaped like exclamation points, its hoped that they’ll stand out in busy Turkish streets. The concepts are designed to use PHOLED, or phosphorescent organic light-emitting diode, technology and would come with sensors that alert to…

Tech News Kwame Opam

Watch Gizmodo’s Joe Brown on CNBC’s “Street Signs”

Gizmodo editor-in-chief Joe Brown joined CNBC’s Street Signs on July 5, 2011 to talk about the demise of the battery. Watch the clip above.

Tech News Scott Kidder

Rise of the Hacker Journalist

Milly Dowler vanished in 2002. It set off a huge sensation in the UK, similar to the Natalee Holloway case in the United States. Now, reports have surfaced that News of the World hacked into her voicemail. According to the New York Times: [T]he newspaper not only intercepted messages left at the cellphone number of…

Tech News Mat Honan

What People Look Like When They’re Using the Computer

Kyle McDonald, an artist, installed software that would grab pictures of people’s faces while they were using a public computer. It’s sorta creepy and invasive but also gives a unique look at how weird you look when you’re on the computer. For the most part, *SPOILER ALERT*, people look bored. Mind meltingly bored. Still neck,…

Tech News Casey Chan

The Best Deal of the Day

Do you know how you know you’re in a hotel room that desperately needs updating? When the TVs are still the dusty CRT variety. Cue in tweens asking what a CRT TV is. You know! Those big as balls boxes that pack junk in the trunk. I stayed in one of those hotels this past…

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How Much Ice Do You Need For Your Drinks?

4th of July can be quite a bit of fun. There are many outdoor activities. And what goes with outdoor stuff? Drinks. Maybe beer, maybe soda – but either way, cold. So, you have your cooler and you have your drinks. How much ice do you need to get? Let me start with some assumptions.…

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Starred Commenters! Toast the End of the World as We Know It With Us

If the world is changing forever on 7/8 (newsflash), you may as well spend the night of 7/7 with a free drink in your hand and a free amuse-bouche in your bouche on a sick downtown NYC rooftop in the presence of an ice sculpture and people dressed as they want to be dressed for…

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Google Is Going to Kill the Blogger and Picasa Brand

Google’s Google+ initiative has brought us a lot already. Turns out, there’s more coming. Mashable is reporting that Google will retire the Blogger and Picasa brands and flip them into something like Google Blogs and Google Photos. Laaaaaaame. It’s supposed to be for some sort of brand unification that’ll happen over the next month with…

Tech News Casey Chan

Anonymous Agent Threatens Mayor of Orlando

The hacker vendetta against the City of Orlando took a strange twist into the real world yesterday, WESH reports, as a Twitter account claiming affiliation with the group posted a photo outside Mayor Buddy Dyer’s house. Creepy? Definitely. The pic, showing a trademark Anonymous mask hanging from a street sign outside the mayor’s residence, sends…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Galaxy S II Gallery

Galaxy S II, 1080p iPhone 4, 720p

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If Darth Vader Had Hair…and a Hair-Dryer

“Luke…*heavy breathing*…I am your…*heavy breathing* hair-dresser.” [Tembolat Gugkaev via Walyou via NerdApproved]

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Verizon Is Ditching Unlimited Data Plans on July 7th

According to FierceWireless, Verizon has confirmed that they’ll be getting rid of their unlimited data plans in favor of tiered pricing plans. Starting July 7th it’ll be $10 for 75MB, $30 for 2GB, $50 for 5GB, and $80 for 10GB. Overage charges will cost users $10 per GB. Also, according to Verizon spokesperson Brenda Raney,…

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The Qosmio F750 Is the First Glasses-less 3D Laptop

Thank you, Toshiba, for keeping up with the 3D laptops. Now with the Qosmio F750, eschewing the glasses seems like the best idea for what’s under the hood. But who wants to stare at a lenticular lens sheet all day? https://gizmodo.com/toshiba-dynabook-tx-98mbl-is-first-3d-blu-ray-playing-l-5557042 The machine packs an Intel Sandy Bridge Core i7 processor, NVIDIA GeForce 540M graphics,…

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Vain Monkey Steals Cam to Take These Adorable Self-Portraits

If you need any further proof that we’re related to monkeys, behold: they’re just as cunning and self-obsessed as we are! British photog David Slater was snapping some Indonesian macaques, when they nabbed his camera. And one started photographing itself. Slater tells The Telegraph that the little guy was probably captivated by its own image,…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Gmail’s Drafts Folder: Where All Our Dreams Go to Die

I’ve stacked up 14,279 emails in my Gmail inbox since I joined in Summer ’04. Most of them are pretty mundane. Forgettable. But the drafts folder? A haunting archive of unsent feelings, deflated wishes, and sadness. Our email’s id. It happens without realizing. We start something, and then stop. And then Google saves it forever.…

Tech News Sam Biddle

It’s Official: There Are More iPhones Than BlackBerrys (But Android Still Dominates)

Double Team This Speaker Dock with Your iPad AND iPhone

This world speed record car went faster than a Space Shuttle

Bing for iPad Lets You Search Without Even Typing

Physical GIF Brings Internet’s Greatest Treasures into the Real World

Tomorrow’s Stoplights Will Look Like Exclamation Points

Watch Gizmodo’s Joe Brown on CNBC’s “Street Signs”

Rise of the Hacker Journalist

What People Look Like When They’re Using the Computer

The Best Deal of the Day

How Much Ice Do You Need For Your Drinks?

Starred Commenters! Toast the End of the World as We Know It With Us

Google Is Going to Kill the Blogger and Picasa Brand

Anonymous Agent Threatens Mayor of Orlando

Galaxy S II Gallery

If Darth Vader Had Hair…and a Hair-Dryer

Verizon Is Ditching Unlimited Data Plans on July 7th

The Qosmio F750 Is the First Glasses-less 3D Laptop

Vain Monkey Steals Cam to Take These Adorable Self-Portraits

Gmail’s Drafts Folder: Where All Our Dreams Go to Die

Mamdani Lifts NYC TikTok Ban for City Employees, but with Some Unusual Restrictions

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

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