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After a horrific shootout on the streets of Miami, Narces Benoit and his girlfriend witnessed the finale: police firing a barrage of rounds into a man’s car. Narces recorded it. The police smashed his phone. But first? Hidden SD card. The horrendous sidewalk firefights took place over Memorial Day, leaving officers and pedestrians alike injured.…
The country Kazakhstan has changed the way it allows websites to be accessed, with all websites with a .kz domain now required to have their hosting within the country. After the whole China debacle, Google’s not au fait with that at all. Writing on the Google Blog, Bill Coughran, SVP of Research & Systems Infrastructure…
They all look the same to me, but according to German luxury fashion label Vonrosen, Steve Jobs wore one of their $616 cashmere sweaters to Monday’s WWDC keynote. Fanboys have flooded the now-offline online shop with orders. [Vonrosen via TechCrunch]
Bottle opener cases have been kicking around the block for ages, but the iOpener case is a lot cleverer than it looks. It actually contains an accelerometer, which detects when it’s being used, and then opens a drink-tracking app. https://gizmodo.com/an-iphone-case-that-opens-beer-bottles-too-5728560 The app, BevConX, lets you input the drink you just opened with the bottle opener,…
As well as Best Buy, Staples and OfficeMax, Sprint is now selling the 16GB Wi-Fi version of the PlayBook, for $500. This comes as a new software update was pushed out yesterday, pre-loading the Facebook app and adding an in-app payment system plus Wi-Fi hotspot detection. You mean to tell me these features weren’t already…
Steve Jobs is often portrayed as a controlling and unforgiving CEO who isn’t afraid to berate his employees when a product doesn’t live up to his expectations. https://gizmodo.com/the-life-of-steve-jobs-5301470 But this persona of Jobs as a monster is completely unravelled with a single picture captured at the end of the WWDC keynote, of him with his…
That’s the smallest and lightest with an APS-C sized sensor, anyway. Adding on to the wildly-popular NEX range of ultra-portables, the NEX-C3 has a 16.2MP sensor, and weighs just 225g—that’s 6 per cent less than the previous NEX model. https://gizmodo.com/sony-nex-5-and-nex-3-interchangeable-lens-cameras-go-of-5535890 If you’re looking for the top-whack NEX model, that’s still the NEX-5, but this more…
This seems crazy but Steve Jobs supposedly stood before the Cupertino City Council on Tuesday and asked for permission to build a totally round building for Apple’s 12,000 employees. It will be built on land Apple purchased from HP. “It’s a little like a spaceship,” he says while describing it. [Techcrunch] This is the current…
A guy with a window seat and a mobile phone captured some impressive video footage of Arizona’s Wallow wildfire. The view from the sky lets you see the scale of Arizona’s second largest fire and appreciate how large of an area is actively burning. You also get to see the giant smoke plume that is…
When you ask someone about Burma, they will describe a striking, mysterious, and culturally rich country. Most of us won’t ever travel to Southeast Asia, but we can still get a taste of the intrigue with the Dreams of Burma app. The iOS app is a joint project between Fotopedia and National Geographic. It includes…
Somewhere in our extended circle of friends and family we all have a golfer who loves to talk about the many balls he lost in water hazards and the crazy ways he’s retrieved them. He’s probably tried a few visual ball finders, but they don’t work underwater. Before he rents some scuba gear, you should…
Ron Gabriel lives in NYC and wants “to show our interconnected role in improving the safety and usability of our streets.” Instead of writing some tired editorial, the visual artist pointed a camera at a busy New York City intersection and recorded what happens when cars, bikes and pedestrians come together in one place. I’m…
A Ph.D. student from Melbourne, Australia has created the ultimate minor medical tool for moms. It’s a bandage that monitors the health of a cut and lets you know when it’s infected. The bandage is the brainchild of Louise van der Werff, a Ph.D. student at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. She developed a temperature…
This bikini, called the N12, is the world’s first 3D-printed bikini. It’s a sexy design that uses small discs held together by springs. The cool thing is that the designerss want to use women’s body scans to create perfect fitting bikinis. Designed by Jenna Fizel and Mary Haung of Continuum Fashion, it’s the first 3D-printed,…
Apple fans pleased with the changes in iOS 5 will be happy to discover voice control may soon land in their favorite mobile OS, too. https://lifehacker.com/ios-5-the-top-10-new-features-5808982 This tantalizing rumor comes from a reliable source of Robert Scoble who claims Apple was not ready to reveal its plans for voice recognition and control. Apple is supposedly…
The only person in the world cool enough to wear these new Ray-Ban Interchangeables may be that mad guy who flew that place one meter from the ground, but I don’t care, because I’m buying them right now. https://gizmodo.com/watch-the-pilots-view-of-the-craziest-flyby-ever-5809436 These classic aviators never get old. Now they come with three sets of inter-changeable lenses for…
The city of New London, Connecticut a problem with public urination. The problem is so bad the city has shut down its showcase Whale Tail fountain due to health concerns. You see, New London is an old whaling city that honored its heritage with a lovely whale-themed fountain. The fountain showered water down on anyone…
1 Meter off the Deck | Making Maverick proud https://gizmodo.com/watch-the-pilots-view-of-the-craziest-flyby-ever-5809436 How to Upgrade to iOS 5 Today, Without Any Developer Account https://gizmodo.com/how-to-upgrade-to-ios-5-today-without-any-developer-ac-5809621 One day and iOS 5 has been hacked already. Gizmodo reader and Apple lover Mert Erdir has discovered how to upgrade to iOS 5 without developer accounts, using a simple backdoor. Everyone can…
Some Twitter users out there enjoy using Twitter’s website instead of a mobile app to compose their thoughts in 140 words or less. Now these brave web-oriented folk can shorten links using Twitter’s own shortening service. The t.co shortening service went live today for all users who tweet from Twitter.com. No worries if you use…
The latest edition of absurd Facebook-related tattoos: This lady (?) got a tattoo of her 192 Facebook friends’ faces on her arm. Ugh. If this is going to become a trend, then Facebook needs to add a privacy setting that lets you not allow people to get your Facebook profile picture tattooed on a person’s…
