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iPad Apps Oct 22

Victoria’s Secret: Jesus liked it so much he made this video. It left him with these questions: https://gizmodo.com/victorias-secret-ipad-app-is-full-of-lusty-eye-candy-5668724 • How the hell did this ton of softcore porn pass Apple’s stupid censorship rules? Are girls in lingerie OK when you want iPad users to buy lingerie? • How many iPad users downloading the app are…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Real Life Green Monopoly House Won’t Fit On Your Game Board

If he gets 3 neighbors, his house is going to be torn down and replaced by a bright red hotel. [An Te Liu via Make Blog]

Tech News Christina Bonnington

Now You Can Grab an Unlimited Zune Pass for $150 a Year

Without fanfare, Microsoft now offers Zune fans an all you can eat yearly subscription for $150 (previously, you were limited $15 month-by-month access). Like the incremental plan, you’ll still be able to keep ten tracks per month. [Ars Technica]

Tech News Sam Biddle

Latest Sprint Update Finally Fixes Bug Preventing Samsung Moment Users From Calling 911

Happy news for Samsung Moment users: Sprint is pushing through an update which will fix the “911 call restrictions after modem crash related to airplane mode and data lockup.” Basically this means that now your phone shouldn’t prevent you from making calls after you toggle its Wi-Fi off. [MobileCrunch]

Gadgets Rosa Golijan

Android Apps October 22nd

Reckless Racing: The recently released, top-down racing game just missed our App Battle but it definitely would have placed had we gotten our hands on it sooner. Even though the game is played from a bird’s eye view, the graphics are stellar and it’s pretty damn addictive. Just watch the game trailer and you’ll be…

Tech News Casey Chan

There Are 5,000 Janitors in the U.S. with PhDs

There are 18,000 parking lot attendants in the U.S. with college degrees. There are 5,000 janitors in the U.S. with PhDs. In all, some 17 million college-educated Americans have jobs that don’t require their level of education. Why? The data comes from a the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and can be seen here in handy,…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

App Deals of the Day

Kick off the weekend with a sweet selection of free and heavily discounted apps. You’ve earned it. Giz Specials: • Wiki Golf: The Wikipedia Game (iPhone) for $0.99 Free Promo Codes: 9XNE4E7H3NMF – KKRW93PMEJY3 – WLN66N9WYEKF – WJE7EN96PLFT – H6L6W7PPLRTY – ARM6AR7JW7E9 – 6XTLWTM9TYWX – JXR477KMPY7W – NWTWRLNXKAAW – J36MHETAEPWN Free Apps: iOS: • Pig…

Tech News Adam Harris

iPhone Apps, Oct 22

Angry Birds Halloween: Just in time to help you put off making your Halloween costume, Angry Birds Halloween has arrived in the App Store, boasting 45 new spooky levels. I look forward to the Angry Birds Easter, myself. $1. BieberHair: Jesus loves Justin Bieber: https://gizmodo.com/app-turns-everyone-into-justin-biebers-5667719 Justin Bieber feels that he is the Kurt Cobain of…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Halogen-CFL Hybrid Light Bulb Gets Instant Full Brightness

General Electric’s new halogen-compact fluorescent (CFL) light bulb solves the main complain people have about CFL: It takes too much time to achieve full brightness level. I don’t care too much about that, but it’s really neat looking. It’s very simple and clever. When you turn the light on, both the CFL and the halogen…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Amazon Will Let You Loan Kindle Books to a Friend — But Publishers Can Turn It Off

Amazon will add a neat new feature to its Kindle e-book program later this year, designed to let you loan Kindle e-books to your friends, either via Kindle devices or the Kindle app for the iPhone, iPad, Android, etc. Sounds great! We’ve been hoping for this for a long time, because this is how people…

Commerce Dan Frommer - Business Insider

Jason Chen: Gizmodo Editor, Apple Employee?

Either a writer at Luxembourgish newspaper L’essentiel is very confused or we’ve all been seriously deceived. Whichever the case, there’s definitely an article claiming that Gizmodo Editor Jason Chen is “an official from Apple.” The above passage was found in an article about the new Mac App Store and translates like this: https://gizmodo.com/app-store-is-coming-to-mac-5668903 “There will…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Lindsay Lohan Is All Yours

You’ve always wanted to star alongside Linds, right? Well, here’s your chance. Marc Ecko wants you to manipulate Ms. Lohan’s hologram in a video that you create—all for a shot at $10K. Oh, the possibilities: a Mean Girls reenactment with you in the Lacey Chabert role, helping LL pick out her rehab outfit… For a…

Tech News Gawkercreative

Big Brother Apple and the Death of the Program

More than 25 years ago, a commercial warned us about the future of computers. Closed. Censored. Dark. A “garden of pure ideology.” How strange that that’s exactly what the future of Apple’s computers looks like today: the Mac App Store. OSX 10.7—the Lion!—features an App Store for the Mac. It’s the philosophy of the iPhone…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Gadget Deals of the Day

Finish the week out in style with these great deals on a Lenovo All-in-One Desktop, a Samsung Fascinate (Verizon), and 25 free self-service copies at Office Depot. Top Deals: • 23″ Lenovo ThinkCentre M90z All-in-One Desktop for $744 with free shipping (normally $860 – use coupon code USPM90Z) • Samsung Fascinate (Verizon) for $0 w/…

Tech News Adam Harris

Watch Dean Kamen’s Prosthetic ‘Luke’ Arm Be Awesome at the Grocery Store

I can hardly walk through a grocery store aisle without clumsily knocking something over. An amputee equipped with Dean Kamen’s incredible, shoe-controlled prosthetic arm, however, selects produce with grace. It’s enough to make you forget about the Segway. Putting away small bags and squeezing oranges demonstrates just how sophisticated the device is—we take that stuff…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Evil Parents Can Flick the Positive Reading On For This Monster Meter iPhone App

Kids are so mollycoddled these days, what with apps detecting monsters in wardrobes instead of just living through the fear like we did, so I’m not surprised the developer included a positive-reading option for this $1 app. [iTunes via AppsPlayground]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Get Schooled: Class Starts Tomorrow!

Are you ready to learn about electronics? You’d better be: Gizmodo University’s interactive video course, Discover Electronics 101, begins tomorrow, Saturday October 23rd at Noon Eastern! Have your thinking hats on and your Discover Electronics kits ready! We are very excited to be able to offer you Discover Electronics 101 via the good folks over…

Tech News Gizmodo University

The First Rickroll In Space

Hiding a Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up in a college paper? Small time. This is what it’s like to Rickroll the entire planet. https://jezebel.com/student-hides-rick-astleys-song-in-college-paper-5669317 The good, bored people over at Zug executed the prank with a weather balloon, a digital video camera, helium, and a very loud speaker. Through the course of the…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Gizmodo Presents… Serious Bandz!

Silly Bandz are great fun, but they’re not really relevant to adults. So we made these Serious Bandz, suitable for anyone who has a dysfunctional marriage, a humdrum job, or a looming awareness of their own mortality. Get yours today! Silly Bandz, of course, are the variously-shaped rubber bands that all the kids are wearing…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Apple: All New Macs Will Ship Without Flash

Turns out Apple shipping the MacBook Air without Flash pre-installed wasn’t just a one-time thing. From here on out, every Mac that’s sold will be Flashless. That makes more of a statement than a Steve Jobs open letter ever could. https://gizmodo.com/new-macbook-airs-faster-lighter-instant-on-30-day-s-5668810 Apple spokesman Bill Evans gave word to Engadget that while previous generations of Macs…

Tech News Brian Barrett

iPad Apps Oct 22

Real Life Green Monopoly House Won’t Fit On Your Game Board

Now You Can Grab an Unlimited Zune Pass for $150 a Year

Latest Sprint Update Finally Fixes Bug Preventing Samsung Moment Users From Calling 911

Android Apps October 22nd

There Are 5,000 Janitors in the U.S. with PhDs

App Deals of the Day

iPhone Apps, Oct 22

Halogen-CFL Hybrid Light Bulb Gets Instant Full Brightness

Amazon Will Let You Loan Kindle Books to a Friend — But Publishers Can Turn It Off

Jason Chen: Gizmodo Editor, Apple Employee?

Lindsay Lohan Is All Yours

Big Brother Apple and the Death of the Program

Gadget Deals of the Day

Watch Dean Kamen’s Prosthetic ‘Luke’ Arm Be Awesome at the Grocery Store

Evil Parents Can Flick the Positive Reading On For This Monster Meter iPhone App

Get Schooled: Class Starts Tomorrow!

The First Rickroll In Space

Gizmodo Presents… Serious Bandz!

Apple: All New Macs Will Ship Without Flash

HBO’s Boss Has Yet to Be Approached About Partnering on ‘Doctor Who’

AI Agent Runs the ‘I’m Being Censored’ Playbook After Getting Banned from Wikipedia

‘Scream 7’ Comes Home With Deleted Scenes We Hope Will Improve the Movie

A QR Code Too Small to See Hints at a New, Non-Annoying Use for the Format

Andy Weir Apologizes After ‘Star Trek’ Comment Backlash

Scientists Discover Hidden Behavior in Water That Helps Explain Why Ice Floats

The ‘Paradise’ Season 2 Finale Paved the Way for a Wildly Sci-Fi Season 3

A $1 Samsung Galaxy Smartphone Lands at Mint Mobile With Unlimited Data at 50% Off in a Clearance Push

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

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

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

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