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Google’s Been Bullying Android Developers

Google uses Android compatibility standards to suppress fast-rising developers. At least that’s what the latest court docs say in the lawsuit between the Skyhook (who specialize in location-based services) and the Big G. The allegation coming from Skyhook, according to the New York Times, is that Google manipulates Android compatibility standards to prevent App developers…

Tech News Adrian Covert

The Best Deal of the Day

Oh Christ, not again. The bears are back. The bears are back and I’m trapped in this truck, saving my 45 minute documentary on pine trees. Kingdom: Plantae. Division: Pinophyta. Class: Pinopsida. Order: Pinales. Family: Pinaceae. Genus: Pinus. These bears, oh no. Oh no. They smelled my ham sandwich. Or maybe it was the ice…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals

Five Cutting-Edge Buildings From Google’s New Campus Architects

Google finally decided they’ve outgrown the Googleplex and tossed $30 million at the city of Mountain View for some space to build a new 10-acre campus. Who’s gonna design it? Ingenhoven, one of Germany’s biggest architectural firms. Little is known about what the future campus will look like, but the San Jose Mercury News says…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Playboy Pervs Up Your iPad May 18th

While it’s not an uncensored app like we once thought, Playboy’s iPad-optimized website now has an official release date and price. According to Hugh Hefner’s (surprisingly active!) Twitter account, i.Playboy.com will launch May 18th for $8 per month. That’s the only new information we’ve got so far, but as a quick reminder: that subscription-based website…

Tech News Brian Barrett

The Latest “World’s Largest 3DTV” Crown-Wearer Is Samsung, at 75 Inches

Samsung has a 3DTV that’s almost as wide as the average bent-knee, platform shoe-wearing young Korean woman. That’s big! 75-inches diagonally, in fact. The D9500 Smart TV will be propping up Korean walls first, and US walls from August for around $13,000. You’ve got to feel sorry for LG and all those 72-inch 3DTVs they’ve…

Gadgets Kat Hannaford

Immigrant Smugglers Using SMS to Avoid Capture

The path across the border from Mexico is a treacherous, often deadly one. To avoid capture, many paid guides are giving groups of northbound illegal immigrants some tech-omniscience—SMS recon, aimed at helping avoid US patrols and other dangers. Messages like “Things are hot up ahead. Take cover in the bushes,” the New York Times reports,…

Tech News Sam Biddle

How Do You Boost Weak Water Pressure?

Low water pressure sucks. You hop in expecting a wonderful deluge, but you get a pathetic drizzle. It can be a day-breaker. But the good news is, you’re not helpless. Before we start, some background: SO WHAT IS WATER PRESSURE, EXACTLY? Well, as Jeff Cruickshank, a senior associate at environmental engineering firm Hazen and Sawyer…

Tech News Annie Hauser

Everything Old Is New Again

On the left, HP’s new ProBook. On the right, Apple’s old PowerBook. [This Is My Next] P.S. The most interesting thing about the ProBook, aside from its very familiar two-tone, aluminum/magnesium alloy design, is that HP is directly reselling wireless data to customers through Peregrine Network, so users never deal with the phone companies themselves.

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Here’s What That FBI Tracker Looks Like When You Tear It Apart

Last year, a Redditor found this ominous log concealed in his car. Turned out it was the FBI’s favorite little stealth GPS tracking device. iFixit got its hands on the one—and busted it open. Behold the guts. https://jalopnik.com/want-to-know-if-the-fbi-is-tracking-you-look-for-one-o-5655514 First off, this ain’t your typical teardown—because the FBI sure doesn’t want anyone sticking their curious fingers…

Tech News Sam Biddle

GrouponLive: Ticketmaster Sinks Its Claws into Your Favorite Deal Service

Looking to broaden their respective reaches, Groupon and Live Nation have huddled close in some small, dark corner of the internet to spawn GrouponLive, a new “online ticketing deals marketplace.” There’s no real meat to the press release in terms of what kind of deals we can expect to see out of the pairing, but…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Oops: Japanese Gov Didn’t Send out Fukushima Radiation Spread Map

After the devastating quake rocked the rads out of Fukushima’s reactors, the Japanese government took over eight hours to deliver an atmospheric map showing where radiation was likely to spread—an action that should have been immediate. Failing to deliver the data in the midst of the crisis—where hours are a long, long time—likely held up…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Why Do People Try to Open Airplane Doors During Flights?

A “tall, burly” and “unruly” passenger on a Houston-to-Chicago Continental flight scared the shit out of his fellow passengers after trying to open one of the airplane’s front doors. Maybe he just wanted to know what would happen, if he did that. What ended up happening was that the plane made an emergency landing in…

Tech News Lauri Apple

This Slingshot of Mass Destruction Can Fire Six 20mm Steel Balls at the Same Time

This giant slingshot can fire six 20mm steel balls at the same time, hitting its target with an energy of about 60 joules each. That’s enough to destroy a few human heads in a row, but thankfully they tried it with watermelons. It’s called The Avalaunche and, for those keeping the score, it’s the first…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Windows Phone 7 Mango Update Even Tastier than We Expected

As you know, we want WP7 to be good. Really, really good—because it’s got the potential to be really great. Leaked details reveal that WP7’s next step (codenamed “Mango”) will be a sweet, delicious bite of update fruit. https://gizmodo.com/windows-phone-7-you-were-supposed-to-be-great-so-what-5791744 We already knew that Mango was going to deliver some seriously-needed multitasking and background service boosts—but…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Wire Prison Keeps S’mores In For 20 Bucks

“Don’t let your schmoooores end up on the floooor” says the promo video for the S’more to Love racks, which promises to “bring the schmoooores indoooors” for $20. You don’t have to be as nauseating as the family in the video, but y’know, it does help: If my keyboard looked like this, I’d be eating…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The War on Christmas, Photographed

What better metaphor for the war against Christmas, than a photography series showing baubles filled with synthetic objects, being shot to pieces and caught on camera? Photographer Alan Sailer is doing a fine line in pellet rifle photography, and this bauble series is one of my favorites. Over the past three years he’s uploaded over…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

A Hybrid Car This Beautiful Will Cost You $1.1 Million

Our brothers at Jalopnik have some good news if you were eyeing up last year’s C-X75 concept hybrid car from Jaguar: it’s being put into production! Now some bad news: it will cost $1.1 million. https://jalopnik.com/jaguar-c-x75-a-1-1-million-hybrid-production-pussycat-5799270 It’s the first truly exclusive hybrid and will be able to rev up to 200mph, and while Jaguar hasn’t…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

PlayStation Network Downtime Expected to Last Six Weeks

As last week’s promised date for the PlayStation Network and Qriocity services to go back online passed us by, Sony users must be feeling pretty antsy right about now. It’s not looking good however, as Sony’s spokesperson told Bloomberg that they now plan to have the services up and running by May 31st. As the…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Some Gadgets Age Better Than Other Gadgets

The Japanese have a term for the pleasing decay of objects: “Wabi-sabi.” How many gadgets and other products have you held onto, because you like how they’ve worn down? Converse; holey jeans; your Casio watch…even your silver Game Boy from long ago, that looks so beautifully battered after years of being tossed in a backpack?…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Yell, Scream and Curse at Your Phone to Charge It

Korean boffins have created a new type of cellphone battery that responds to the human voice, meaning you get rewarded with juice the more you talk into it. The so-called “sound power” works when the tiny strands of the zinc oxide pressed between two electrodes react to soundwaves, which generate electrical currents and charge the…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Google’s Been Bullying Android Developers

The Best Deal of the Day

Five Cutting-Edge Buildings From Google’s New Campus Architects

Playboy Pervs Up Your iPad May 18th

The Latest “World’s Largest 3DTV” Crown-Wearer Is Samsung, at 75 Inches

Immigrant Smugglers Using SMS to Avoid Capture

How Do You Boost Weak Water Pressure?

Everything Old Is New Again

Here’s What That FBI Tracker Looks Like When You Tear It Apart

GrouponLive: Ticketmaster Sinks Its Claws into Your Favorite Deal Service

Oops: Japanese Gov Didn’t Send out Fukushima Radiation Spread Map

Why Do People Try to Open Airplane Doors During Flights?

This Slingshot of Mass Destruction Can Fire Six 20mm Steel Balls at the Same Time

Windows Phone 7 Mango Update Even Tastier than We Expected

Wire Prison Keeps S’mores In For 20 Bucks

The War on Christmas, Photographed

A Hybrid Car This Beautiful Will Cost You $1.1 Million

PlayStation Network Downtime Expected to Last Six Weeks

Some Gadgets Age Better Than Other Gadgets

Yell, Scream and Curse at Your Phone to Charge It

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

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

Good News! You Can Finally Change That Ridiculous Gmail Address

ExpressVPN Just Launched ExpressAI: Your Prompts Are Now Invisible

VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

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MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

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