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iOS and Mac App Store Outages Could be iCloud Related

Reports of outages in the iOS and Mac App Stores have been occurring all day, leading some to speculate that adjustments for iCloud integration are in place. [MacRumors]

Tech News Adrian Covert

Toshiba’s Got a Honeycomb Tablet of Their Own, With a Full-Sized USB Port

The Toshiba Thrive is another Android Honeycomb-powered tablet coming this month. Like others in its class, it’s a Tegra 2-powered tablet with a 10-inch, 1200×800 screen. Hitting stores like Best Buy on June 13, the Thrive has a 5-megapixel rear camera, 2-megapixel front camera, full-sized USB and HDMI ports—meaning it’ll be easy to plug in…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Live Out Your Drug Kingpin Fantasies with a Billiards Table in a Pool

NOTE: I am going to avoid all “pool” table jokes. I hope you’ll understand. But this waterproof…pool table, by Opulent Items, is great for anyone bored by their current swimming setup. Oh, also, youll need at least $6,500. The table seems like it would make other pool activities difficult, and would only work in a…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Hackers Spill over 1,000,000 Sony Pictures Online Accounts

Sony getting its ass handed to it by hackers is becoming about as newsworthy as a netbook release, but this one is particularly brutal: Lulz Security just released a file containing over a million user logins. Home addresses included. The Lulz crew says their gigantic dump includes: Personal information, including passwords, email addresses, home addresses,…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Police Accidentally Gun Down a Fake Alligator That Was Scaring Kids

Alligators. Quick, mean and terribly dangerous. Fake lawn ornament alligators. Slow, mean looking but not dangerous at all. Police apparently can’t tell the difference between the two because they tried to gun down a fake alligator. To be honest, I’m totally kidding myself. I’ve never seen an alligator before so I’d be scared shitless, real…

Tech News Casey Chan

Apple’s iCloud Might Only Stream Music Purchased in iTunes

Apple finally agreed to terms with Universal Records, who was the last of the four major labels holding out for their iCloud/iTunes streaming music service. But it might only be for the tracks you buy from Apple. This, along with the other labels and distributors they’ve agreed to terms with, gives Apple the streaming rights…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Gourmet Live Is Now on the iPhone

The former Gourmet Magazine, reinvented on the iPad as Gourmet Live has undergone the shrunkifying process of porting itself to the iPhone. It’s the same content as the iPad: some delicious looking recipes, fun cooking stories and dead simple navigation. https://gizmodo.com/gourmet-live-the-delicious-new-gourmet-magazine-for-th-5645996 The app is simple, just a side scrolling carousel of articles and recipes of…

Tech News Casey Chan

Gripzila Props Up Just About Anything (Under .8″ Wide)

The Gripzila universal kickstand does exactly what the name implies – it keeps small items from falling over. Slide the spring-loaded, rubber-gripped jaws around your device of choice, set it on a flat surface and, boom, instant stable viewing platform. iPods and smart phones will hold up just fine, though the iPad is a bit…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

U.S. Government Investigates Google’s Hacking Accusations While China Says Blaming Them is ‘Unacceptable’

After word dropped that hundreds of U.S. Government officials were involved in a Gmail phishing scheme originating from China, many fingers have been pointed in many directions. China says blaming them is unfair, while the U.S. says it’s now investigating. https://gizmodo.com/chinese-hacker-cracks-hundreds-of-gmail-accounts-inclu-5807598 Hong Lei, an official for the Chinese foreign ministry was not pleased: “Blaming these…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Oh Hey, Here’s Apple’s iCloud Logo

We know it’s coming, and now we know how it’ll look (sort of). While decorating the Moscone Center for next week’s WWDC, Apple Insider copped some shots of a banner pimping iCloud, Lion, and iOS5. [Apple Insider] https://gizmodo.com/icloud-is-coming-to-wwdc-5806910 WWDC 2011 Predictions | Here comes iCloud, but what else? https://gizmodo.com/wwdc-2011-predictions-here-comes-icloud-but-what-else-5808251 Watch our liveblog here! Keep your…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Were Roswell’s Aliens Nazi-Powered Soviet Spies?

The Roswell crash is the Holy Grail of American conspiracy-theory folklore, but what if the little grey men were actually little grey Russians in Nazi-designed aircraft? Somehow, that still isn’t the craziest theory out there. Area 51 by Annie Jacobsen explains. During the first week of July 1947, U.S. Signal Corps engineers began tracking two…

Tech News Annie Jacobsen

This French jet is flying around with an untested nuke

Below this French jet is a missile that can travel about 300 miles before deploying a completely untested 300 kiloton nuclear warhead. But this shot wasn’t taken at the height of the Cold War. It was taken last week. [Jalopnik] https://jalopnik.com/this-french-jet-is-flying-around-with-an-untested-nuke-5807421

Tech News Apisuper

The Best Deal of the Day

There are so many things you can store on your computer. Pictures of bees, pictures of bats, pictures of trees, pictures of vats, pictures of moms, pictures of dads, pictures of students, pictures of grads, pictures of torture, pictures of shrouds, hi-res RAW files of bright mushroom clouds, photos of beets, photos of bees, pictures…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals

AT&T’s 4G LTE Won’t Match Verizon’s Coverage for 2-3 Years

More from AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega, who’s probably getting the most intense grilling of anybody interviewed at D9. Asked when AT&T’s network will match Verizon’s, De la Vega replies they’ll be indistinguishable in two to three years. That’s like an eternity. Do you even remember what you were doing two years ago?…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

One of America’s Oldest Industries, Cotton, Is Surprisingly High-Tech

Instead of bending down, turning around and picking a bale of cotton, America’s big industry is more high-tech than you thought. Wired looks at how the fibers are grown, picked, processed and spun into threads…for your threads. [Wired and Flickr]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

So When Can I Expect My Lower Cellphone Bill, AT&T?

Onstage at D9, AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega, plugging their upcoming mega-merger with T-Mobile, repeats his assuring line that wireless costs have dropped by 50 percent in the last 10 years despite tons of industry mergers. https://gizmodo.com/how-the-new-at-t-mobile-is-probably-going-to-screw-you-5784132 Walt Mossberg appropriately snarks, “So you must have been way overcharging four or five years ago.”…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Police Are Training Vultures to Find Bodies

German Police have trained three vultures to become ‘detectives’ who find bodies. The vultures could potentially be better than sniffer dogs because, well, they can fly. One problem: the vultures might peck at the bodies they find. Named Sherlock, Miss Marple and Colombo, the three vultures all have keen eyesight and an acute sense of…

Tech News Casey Chan

Woman Pulled from Monstrous Jaws of ATM Machine

Getting cash out of an ATM is usually something I’d consider a non-dangerous activity. Usually! This was not the case for one Pennsylvanian woman, who had to have firefighters tear her stuck hand out of an ATM. This dangerous world… The woman, whose hand was trapped in the money slot up to her wrist, claims…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Do Time Capsule and Airport Shortages Mean WWDC Refreshes Likely?

The word from Apple is that WWDC is going to be a softwarepalooza, no iDevices invited. But what if some of Apple’s hardware is integral to its iCloud strategy? Like, say, Airport Extreme, Airport Express, and Time Capsule? https://gizmodo.com/icloud-is-coming-to-wwdc-5806910 Reports from MacRumors and TUAW indicate that Apple Stores are seeing their Time Capsule and Airport…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Fly 131,000 feet over Los Angeles in a styrofoam box

Colin Rich builds mini-spaceships out of styrofoam, foil, modified off-the-shelf cameras and weather ballons that carry them to the edge of space. For his third craft, the payload included sensors to measure radiation from Fukushima and pollution. It’s hipster NASA. After Rich’s prior two launches, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Department of Energy…

Tech News Justin Hyde

iOS and Mac App Store Outages Could be iCloud Related

Toshiba’s Got a Honeycomb Tablet of Their Own, With a Full-Sized USB Port

Live Out Your Drug Kingpin Fantasies with a Billiards Table in a Pool

Hackers Spill over 1,000,000 Sony Pictures Online Accounts

Police Accidentally Gun Down a Fake Alligator That Was Scaring Kids

Apple’s iCloud Might Only Stream Music Purchased in iTunes

Gourmet Live Is Now on the iPhone

Gripzila Props Up Just About Anything (Under .8″ Wide)

U.S. Government Investigates Google’s Hacking Accusations While China Says Blaming Them is ‘Unacceptable’

Oh Hey, Here’s Apple’s iCloud Logo

Were Roswell’s Aliens Nazi-Powered Soviet Spies?

This French jet is flying around with an untested nuke

The Best Deal of the Day

AT&T’s 4G LTE Won’t Match Verizon’s Coverage for 2-3 Years

One of America’s Oldest Industries, Cotton, Is Surprisingly High-Tech

So When Can I Expect My Lower Cellphone Bill, AT&T?

Police Are Training Vultures to Find Bodies

Woman Pulled from Monstrous Jaws of ATM Machine

Do Time Capsule and Airport Shortages Mean WWDC Refreshes Likely?

Fly 131,000 feet over Los Angeles in a styrofoam box

The New ‘Backrooms’ Trailer Is Packed Full of Endless Dread

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