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Huawei has just launched their brand new 7-inch MediaPad, and it’s running the new Android 3.2. It won’t be the only one; the new Honeycomb will bring on real Android amenities to a whole range of tablets jonesing for some love. Huawei’s tablet, which you can expect in the coming weeks, comes with a 1.2Ghz…
Ryan Dunn, who will forever be known for sticking a Hot Wheels car up his own ass in the movie “Jackass,” and another as-of-yet-unidentified person, both died in a crash outside of Philadelphia early this morning. [Jalopnik] https://jalopnik.com/jackass-star-ryan-dunn-dies-in-car-accident-5813585
This iPad app looks like it’d be fun for at least 10 minutes or so. 40 minutes, if you’re a child. While Squeal isn’t downloadable just yet, they’re calling out for suggestions of faces to be included. They aim to have 100 faces for manipulating in the app, so if you think they’ve missed anyone…
4K display technology, a.k.a. 2160p, a.k.a. 4096 x 2160 resolution, is primarily found in movie theater projectors right now. But Japanese display maker Eizo thinks it also belongs on your desktop. For 36,000 dollars. According to CrunchGear, the 36-inch, LED backlit DuraVision FDH3601 also has a 1000:1 contrast ration and a brightness of 700 nits.…
Rumors have been flying around that Olympus will be releasing a new line of high-end PEN models soon. What you’re seeing is a leaked first look at the new micro-four-thirds E-PM1 camera and how it stacks up against the XZ-1. As you can see, the Mini is comparable in size to its sexy older cousin.…
If you’re already in the habit of slapping and poking your friends (IRL, not Facebook), you might as well get some music out of it. The Ningen Gakki Human Instrument Machine converts contact to compositions, and, of course, looks absurd. To “play” the Ningen Gakki, each member of your quartet grabs on to one of…
Lulzsec and Anonymous have just declared full open war against all governments, banks and big corporations in the world. They are calling all hackers in the world to unite. Their objective is to fully expose all corruption and dark secrets: https://kotaku.com/the-lulzsec-manifesto-more-sec-than-lulz-5813033 Salutations Lulz Lizards, As we’re aware, the government and whitehat security terrorists across the…
Shut up and sit down, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Tianjin National Supercomputing Center: you’ve just had your petaflops handed to you by Japan’s Riken Advanced Institute for Computational Science, whose K Computer is the #1 in the world. K is a cluster of 672 server cabinets filled with over 68,000 Fujitsu SPARC64 VIIIfx processors,…
It was the dating website that kicked off 5,000 people for “letting themselves go,” and now BeautifulPeople.com’s booted a further 30,000 members, claiming a computer virus attacked last month, which let members bypass the beauty-screening and gain entry. https://gizmodo.com/beautifulpeople-dating-site-kicks-5-000-members-off-for-5440750 Dubbed “Shrek” by those unlucky enough to be affected, the computer virus supposedly let thousands of…
As is the trait of Glastonbury Festival-sponsor Orange, the carrier has shown off its annual eco-friendly festival prototype, and would you guess that it’ll match those phone-charging wellington boots from last year? Anna Wintour will be ever so pleased. https://gizmodo.com/these-cellphone-charging-boots-will-never-exist-5557274 Orange proposes that the Sound Charge t-shirt can power a smartphone completely, just by harnessing…
250,000 of the British Library’s out-of-copyright books from 1700 to 1870 will be digitized by Google, both sides confirmed today. This means the whole world will get access to important tomes, pamphlets and periodicals spanning some 40 million pages, via Google Books and the British Library’s website. As the British Library says, this period “saw…
It’s not the first time Facebook and Spotify have been uttered in the same sentence, and if Gigaom‘s hearing right, it’s probably not the last. Come August, Facebook’s rumored to announce a Spotify-streaming deal at its annual developer conference, f8. https://gizmodo.com/facebook-taps-spotify-for-streaming-music-powers-but-i-5805496 While Spotify users can already connect with Facebook friends on the desktop program, mining…
As a flooded Nebraska contends with a potential nuclear incident, the tornado-ravaged state of Tennessee will soon have their own radioactive material to contend with — freshly imported from Germany! http://gawker.com/5813448/what-just-happened-at-nebraskas-cooper-nuclear-station AP reports that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved licenses for “1,000 tons of low-level radioactive waste from Germany” to be brought to…
ICANN’s signed its name on the dotted line for the proposal to create new domain suffixes in the style of their last decision, .xxx. As CNET reports, there are only 22 GTLDs in existence today (.org, .edu and so on), but with this decision we could expect to see specific endings for companies, categories or…
How do you return a 400-tonne ship to Japan’s waters, after it washed ashore in March’s brutal tsunami? Using giant cranes that hoist it 30ft above the ground, lowering it onto a massive 192-tyre trolley normally reserved for trains. It’s a process that’s expected to take 2 – 3 days per ship, and cost $1…
It took the FTC a month and a half to look into Microsoft’s proposed purchase of Skype, but finally they’ve given the project a thumb’s up, deciding it doesn’t breach antitrust laws. [Reuters] https://gizmodo.com/what-does-microsoft-and-skypes-puppy-love-mean-for-your-5800389
Much is known of what happened during World War 2, but what of the actions of the Axis and Allies in the decade before? The most recent In Focus photography selection answers that question and then some. Above are three British firemen, fully equipped with gas attack gear during a March 16, 1938 gas invasion…
On September 1, Lego will begin selling Darth Vader’s Super Star Destroyer, the Executor. At 50 inches and eight pounds, it will be the longest set Lego has ever sold. With the set you’ll get Darth Vader and some of those memorable bounty hunters from the original trilogy. “Just” $400 and this mega-model is yours…
Finnish Googlers were greeted with a search page sans the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button today. The omission, present only in Finland at the moment, might indicate the 1990s-era button’s luck has finally run out. *groan* [CNET]
President Obama is officially tweeting on his own Twitter account. He started today. The first, first tweet unfolded like this: http://gizmodo.com/5813317/barack-obama-to-write-his-own-tweets Being a father is sometimes my hardest but always my most rewarding job. Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there. -BO Indeed I’ve heard that it is, Mr. President, although without any…
