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Prisoners For Your (iPad) Love

Three people in China are going to prison for leaking information about the iPad 2. It’s a sad and pathetic story, but also one that we’re going to be telling again and again in the coming years. As the Wall Street Journal reports: The Shenzhen Bao’an People’s Court, in announcing its decision, said the head…

Tech News Mat Honan

Porn Viewing History Shows Up in ‘America’s Got Talent’ Promo

The person who made this promo for America’s Got Talent forgot the main lesson about sharing your computer: Delete your browser history first. Their fondness for YouPorn got splashed all over network TV. We can totally relate. One of the most harrowing experiences for the modern computer user is trying to show someone a website…

Tech News Adrian Chen

Woah: Lulz Security Just Took On the CIA

Lulzsec, that merry band of hackers responsible for raids on Bethesda Softworks, the US Senate, Sony, terrorists, and rival hackers, has bagged maybe its biggest fish yet: the CIA. [Updated] https://kotaku.com/lulz-security-raids-bethesda-softworks-servers-and-us-s-5811523 Lulz Security announced via Twitter that they’d taken down CIA.gov (which is, for the record, still incapacitated) a little before 6PM EST. No details…

Privacy & Security Brian Barrett

PocketMode for iPhone

The iPhone presents a constant dilemma: do you put your ringer on loud so you can hear it or do you keep it on silent to not annoy the people around you? PocketMode makes the decision for you. What’s it do? PocketMode isn’t really an app, it’s a settings tweak available for jailbroken iPhones. It…

Tech News Casey Chan

African Village Uses Tech to Fight Off Rape Cult

An old woman had died. Before burying the her, the residents of the village of Obo – in southern Central African Republic, just north of the Congolese border – gathered around a campfire to eat, drink, cry and sing in celebration of the woman’s long life. It was a night in March 2008, just another…

Tech News David Axe - Wired

Lulzsec Hackers Go to War with 4chan

The celebrity hacking group Lulz Security borrows its name and aesthetics from the roiling message board 4chan. But now the group has declared war on 4chan and its users—many of whom identify with the hacking group Anonymous—pissing off the nerds who are most likely to support their online shenanigans. http://gawker.com/5807882/worlds-most-publicity+hungry-hackers-tease-impending-sony-leak It’s chaos in the internet’s…

Tech News Adrian Chen

James Franco Wants to Sell You A $550 Switchblade

Do you want to buy a Brad Renfro Forever knife from James Franco? Of course you do! The Thing quarterly (which is a magazine that costs $75 per issue) will sell you one for just $550. We do not quite understand the Brad Renfro connection [Updated: Now we do. See below.] , or who thought…

Tech News Mat Honan

Totes Hot for Summer ’11: Giant Ridiculous iPad Hats!

If you’re in England. You see, in England, extravagant hats are acceptable, because they’re a more advanced society. This Royal Ascot horse race attendee knows, and that’s why she’s grinning. WARNING: Do not put iOS5 Beta on your hat. This seems like it would have to cause serious neck strain. It’s not even an iPad…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Ultra-Violent Videos Featuring Killer Drug-Smuggling Terrorist Kids Are Bloody Good

I wish I could have a button to turn an overlay manga track over all my reality. As this music video shows for Is Tropical, by The Greeks, it makes everything so much more fun. The use of animation to turn (not so) innocent child play into ultra-violent gore is worth of Tarantino. Perfect work…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Google Is Streamlining Google Places and Maps with My Places

Up to now, Google users have been able to manage their favorite places and personal maps with a few Google apps. Still, keeping track of them was a little disjointed. Now, Google is making the process simpler with My Places. Before, users could star places in Google Maps, rate them in Google Places, and connect…

Tech News Kwame Opam

A Tough Little Speaker for Your Moonlit Slow Jams

Let’s be as upfront about this as possible: the Audio-Technica AT-SPG51 Rugged Compact Speaker is kind of adorable. I know, it’s also also enforced with enough hardened plastic that it’s up for any camping trip or skydive or other tough things. But gosh darn it, that doesn’t make them any less huggable. The AT-SPG51s are…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Stop Torrenting Things Like a Dirty, Dirty Pirate

Sure, you can’t single-handedly save the music industry, or the television industry, or the film industry, but if you take this short survey, email the last question to [email protected] with “$150 iTunes Contest” as the subject line, you could win one hundred and fifty smackers, good for anything sold in the iTunes store. At no…

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Would You Eat a Burger Made from Poop?

This is a poopburger. As in, made from shit. I’m not even kidding, the Japanese extracted protein from human poop, mixed it with soya, added steak sauce and called it hamburger patties. Are you throwing up yet? Cause I did. Mitsyuki Ikeda, the mad scientist behind this foul mashup, says some people may have a…

Tech News Casey Chan

Leaked Facebook Photo Sharing iOS App Combines Every Possible Competitor

Facebook wants to out-Twitter Twitter. Facebook wants to out-Foursquare Foursquare. And now, it wants to kill off those super-simple, super-cool photo sharing tools we love, with its own secret mega app, and TechCrunch got their hands on leaked screens. The iOS app, which has yet to receive an official name, is conceptually pretty simple: you…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Microbursts Are Just As Scary As Tornadoes

Golf ball-sized hail. Intense, gusting wind smashing the ground and spreading out, pushing everything in its way. Torrential downpour making it impossible to see anything farther than an inch away. My god, microbursts are previews for the apocalypse. This was filmed in Norman, Oklahoma. I’m never going to complain about heat or snow again. Mother…

Tech News Casey Chan

The Government’s Gadget Habit Has Cost You Hundreds of Millions

The federal government is just like you and me. Except it can legally kill people, and, instead of spending hundreds or thousands of dollars on gadgets, it spends millions. Think you buy a lot of Apple gear? Not even close. Given what dire financial straits the government is in, we thought it would be interesting…

Commerce Mat Honan

Idiot Uses Shotgun to Remove Wart from His Finger

I’ll say this much for the UK security guard who tried to blast off a nagging wart with a shotgun: he succeeded. Although I’d imagine he wasn’t planning on taking out his finger in the process. Meet Sean Murphy, won’t you? He’s special. The 38-year old security guard from South Yorkshire was recently sentenced to…

Tech News Brian Barrett

The Fastest Mac Ever: The Latest iMac Smokes High-End Mac Pros (Most of the Time)

The newest iMac to hit the market, with an Intel 3.4GHz Intel Core i7 processor and 256GB SSD build-to-order option, is officially the fastest mac ever shipped. It even beat out a top-of-the-line Mac Pro Xeon 6-core. This generation’s iMacs were the first to have an SSD option, and the speed boost shows in the…

Tech News Kwame Opam

Revealed: The Apple Store Master Plan

For better or worse, Apple’s retail locations are becoming as much of a cultural institution as their products. More people visit Apple Stores each year than the four Disney theme parks. What’s the secret to their success? According to the Wall Street journal, it’s simply just giving a shit about the customer. WSJ has an…

Tech News Adrian Covert

The Best Deal of the Day

One monitor is boring. You can only look at one thing! Like, a single YouTube video. And what fun is that? Imagine if you had a bunch of monitors at once! Then you could pretend to be a powerful Wall Street emperor, or drug dealer, or comatose WoW addict. This might just sound like some…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals

Prisoners For Your (iPad) Love

Porn Viewing History Shows Up in ‘America’s Got Talent’ Promo

Woah: Lulz Security Just Took On the CIA

PocketMode for iPhone

African Village Uses Tech to Fight Off Rape Cult

Lulzsec Hackers Go to War with 4chan

James Franco Wants to Sell You A $550 Switchblade

Totes Hot for Summer ’11: Giant Ridiculous iPad Hats!

Ultra-Violent Videos Featuring Killer Drug-Smuggling Terrorist Kids Are Bloody Good

Google Is Streamlining Google Places and Maps with My Places

A Tough Little Speaker for Your Moonlit Slow Jams

Stop Torrenting Things Like a Dirty, Dirty Pirate

Would You Eat a Burger Made from Poop?

Leaked Facebook Photo Sharing iOS App Combines Every Possible Competitor

Microbursts Are Just As Scary As Tornadoes

The Government’s Gadget Habit Has Cost You Hundreds of Millions

Idiot Uses Shotgun to Remove Wart from His Finger

The Fastest Mac Ever: The Latest iMac Smokes High-End Mac Pros (Most of the Time)

Revealed: The Apple Store Master Plan

The Best Deal of the Day

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