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No, you’re not reading an old story. There really is yet another serious iOS security flaw which allows someone to access information on your supposedly password-protected iPhone. https://gizmodo.com/huge-iphone-security-flaw-puts-all-private-information-5042332 As the Brazilian fellow in the video above shows, all that you need to do is grab a password-protected iPhone running iOS 4.1, pretend to make an…
It’s normal to see a dismembered, screaming, blood-soaked individual and be, to say the least, completely shocked. But if you’re a military medic, that costs lives. The solution? A training program that forces action in the face of (artificial) carnage. Click to view To this end, the US military hires Strategic Operations, a Hollywood-grade production…
Australia’s ABC News reports that for the second time this year, factory workers allegedly assembling displays for Apple devices have been sickened by exposure to n-hexane, a harmful chemical. “My hands were numb. I could hardly walk,” says one worker. https://gizmodo.com/worker-dies-from-n-hexane-poisoning-at-touchscreen-fact-5477506 The noxious vapor, used to polish and glue your iPhone’s touchscreen, has lasting effects…
Recently we were rather skeptical about a report claiming that a third of iPad users have never downloaded an app. Now there’s confirmation that we weren’t just paranoid: Nielsen, the media-survey firm behind the numbers, has posted a major correction. https://gizmodo.com/a-third-of-ipad-users-have-never-downloaded-an-app-5669921 As you can see by the new chart above, it turns out that it’s…
For those of you who prefer the inductive charging lifestyle, PowerMat now offers a charging pad and accompanying case for the iPhone 4. The iPhone 4 case we put our mitts on feels flimsy—like cereal box prize flimsy—but it charges wirelessly, as advertised. EVO, Droid X, BlackBerry Curve 8500, 9300, and Bold 9700 owners will…
Megan Scheminske has a great eye—she took the same mundane map imagery you look at every time you check directions with Google and spun it into minimalist, hyperlocal beauty—the “You Are Here” series. Scheminske’s website is essentially an art project in itself, pairing photographs on the terrain that inspired them with a google pin drop…
Asked by Prosecutor Håkan Roswall about when was the the first time he met someone IRL (In Real Life), Pirate Bay co-founder’s Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi said he didn’t like IRL but AFK (Away From Keyboard) because he “thinks the Internet’s real.” After the judge adjourned that day’s questioning session, Sunde walked out of the District…
Have you somehow wrangled yourself an early Windows Phone 7? Are you a Mac user who just wants to be really really prepared when WP7 launches officially next month? Either way, Microsoft just made a beta for Windows Phone 7 Connector for Mac available for download in the Microsoft Download Center. Keep in mind that…
The best part about growing up in Michigan, besides my pet wolverine, was the abundance of snow days. But a school district in Ohio is threatening to destroy the sacred snow day by making kids learn. On the internet. A snow day, for those of you who are unfortunate enough to have grown up in…
Look, I’m not saying the LG Optimus T is the fanciest phone in the world. But it’s hard to argue with a $30 entry point to the latest and greatest version of Android. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-froyo-5543853 The T-Mobile offering requires a two-year contract and use of a $50 mail-in discount to hit the $30 mark, and the…
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You might recall Paul Allen’s August bombardment of seemingly every tech company in the US over some rather tenuous patent accusations. Google and Apple? Not havin’ that. The two are teaming to have the case dismissed with a legal counterattack. https://gizmodo.com/does-paul-allen-suing-the-entire-internet-prove-our-pat-5623893 Apple and Google, along with other members of the accused, filed back to back…
Square gears. Oval gears. Friggin goldfish and squid gears. My brain says none of these should work, but my eyes beg to differ. It feels like I’m breaking the rules. Every time Clayton Boyer whips out another one of these, I’m confident that it’s going to fail. And yet! Here’s to living in a state…
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Photographer Stéphane Guisard went to Paranal Observatory, in Chile, to record this overwhelming interactive panorama of the sky there: The Darkest Sky. It shows the Milky Way spread all across the horizon in a 360-degree view. [Astroturf via NASA Goddard Pictures]
“Are you still hiding yo wives, hiding yo kids and hiding yo husbands?” asks Antoine Dodson of bed intruder fame, oblivious to the fact he’s using his sister’s misfortune to shill this $2 sex offender augmented reality app. It may sound like a joke, but the app is real and actually works. Well, I assume…
If you’ve got a Droid, Droid X, or Incredible, looks like you may have already been hooked up with the beta version of Google Instant for mobile, according to Droid Life. It’s not an official rollout, but we did know that Google was planning on delivering the service right on the heels the web iteration.…
Anyone thinking the BlackBerry Playbook was doomed to be vaporware, this should ease your mind. At Adobe’s MAX conference today, the business-minded tablet got some time in the spotlight to show off its out-of-the-box Flash and AIR capabilities. It’s an important distinction for RIM to make, especially given that Apple has so openly shunned Flash.…
Your trash can, overflowing with filth—it doesn’t have to be that way! You can fit more. The wonderfully designed Smash Can makes it easy, featuring a telescoping lid that lets you compress your junk with clean hands. The can’s lid acts as a crushing mechanism, packing together more gross things you’d rather not touch—saving you…
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