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Scalpers at the Beijing Apple Store just won’t quit. First they caused the store to close. Now Apple has reportedly tripled the store’s security and requires customers to be escorted upstairs to buy their iPhone 4. Madness! https://gizmodo.com/iphone-4-scalpers-force-beijing-apple-store-to-close-5652250 After the first scalper surge, Apple instated new policies that required customers to reserve an iPhone 4…
Chances are you’re too young to remember the days when traveling salesmen went door-knocking (unless you’re still fending off pesky Avon women now), but at one point someone would’ve been offered a dome building, shown in this miniature sample size. It’s from around 1960, and was recently auctioned off for $7,500. The reason it went…
When there are so many actual Tron accessories that demand contempt, is it so much to ask for these kickass concept watches to become real? Fortunately, this time it’s within our power to make these happen. Solidarity, people. Here’s how. https://gizmodo.com/disney-is-selling-official-tron-hooker-shoes-for-795-5664657 Thse LED watches, designed by Scott Galloway, are currently up for vote over at…
There’s an Apple event going on today at 10PT, 1ET! We’ll be liveblogging, of course, and we’re starting now. https://gizmodo.com/apple-back-to-the-mac-event-oct-20-new-os-x-and-mac-5662920 UPDATE! Apple is streaming this event as well, and you can find everything you need to know about watching it live right here. The most likely announcements are OS X Lion, which theoretically should bring…
How many gallons of paint do you reckon these guerrilla whitewashers in New York City have used now, having just completed their millionth square foot of rooftop painting? That’s 105 roofs down, another…395,000,000sq/ft to go. Once all 500 million square foot of roofage in New York gas been painted white, that’s enough to lower the…
Curious about what Apple’s “Back to the Mac” event will bring? If our meta-liveblog is too overwhelming for you, then you can pick just the right dose of Apple news for yourself by following along on Twitter, Facebook, or Digg. https://gizmodo.com/apple-mac-and-os-x-liveblog-today-heres-what-to-expect-5667919 On our Facebook page, we’ll be posting the most important news without any distracting…
We would normally roll our eyes at the thought of someone willing to broadcast themselves online for a day straight—unless that someone is Conan O’Brien. Starting at 1 pm EST, the CoCo Cam will go live on YouTube. The streaming stunt is a promotional push for Conan’s November debut on TBS, and will monitor Team…
It boggles the mind that we even needed telling, but Google’s promised its Street View cars will no longer be capturing Wi-Fi network details. https://gizmodo.com/google-must-delete-raw-uncensored-street-view-photos-w-5482668 After several lawsuits and many outraged citizens parading outside Google HQ with pitchforks, the Canadian privacy commissioner revealed in a report that Google’s “collection is discontinued and Google has no…
For anyone who pre-ordered the Boxee Box on blind faith that it would one day reach your door: the adorable little set-top box will arrive on the doorstep as early as November 11th. Everyone else will have to wait some. https://gizmodo.com/pre-order-the-boxee-box-today-now-with-intel-atom-guts-5636637 The Boxee Box will be otherwise available in stores and online November 17th for…
There are people who make some serious bread from the App Store. Matt Rix, the creator of the wildly popular iPhone game Trainyard, is one of them. Here’s how he did it, starting with his sketchbook. In a post on his blog titled, “The Story So Far,” Rix recounts how Trainyard was conceived and, more…
You don’t have to breathe up against the windows of Apple’s San Francisco event, because they’ve just announced a livestream online, starting at 10am PST / 1pm EST. Remember to keep your eyes on Giz too. Details below: Apple to Provide Live Video Streaming of Today’s Event What: Live video stream of Apple’s October 20…
This is truly crazy data: 290 million people play Farmville and other Facebook games—five of the top 10 are by Zynga—every month. Combined, that’s 4,406 years worth of play time—or 105,878 man-years milking virtual cows. [All Facebook]
It’s not that $600 is a lot for Verizon to charge for the Galaxy Tab—it’s the same off-contract price you’ll find at T-Mobile. It’s that there doesn’t appear to be a cheaper on-contract plan. https://gizmodo.com/t-mobile-to-sell-galaxy-tab-for-399-with-2-year-contra-5660247 Instead of being able to pick up a Galaxy Tab for $400 with a two-year contract, you’ll be locked into…
In an FCC filing, T-Mobile mentions an instance from a year ago in which an Android IM app refreshed its network connection so frequently that it “caused an overload of T-Mobile’s facilities for an entire city.” That’s no good. In the filing, Grant Castle, T-Mobile’s director of national planning, wrote: T-Mobile network service was temporarily…
Don’t get too sad over this 195-year-old bunker being sliced in half. There’s 700 other bunkers nearby, which form the New Dutch Waterline that protected cities between 1815 – 1940. Now, it’s an area for watery-playtime. Architects cut the bunker in half, and plonked a footpath down the middle, which turns into a jetty when…
First it was birds over New York City and US Airways flight 1549. Now, it’s deer over Charlotte airport’s runway 36C and US Airways flight 1950: https://gizmodo.com/hudson-crash-simulation-with-faa-voice-recordings-shows-5181354 US Airways flight 1950 pilot: “There’s a whole herd of deer. It looked like a bunch of them. I don’t know how many we hit.” Controller to unknown…
It may not have as much functionality as Tweetie, but does your Twitter app let you jump through a tweet timeline like you’re playing a Mario platformer? For $2, you’re getting a Twitter client and Game Center-enabled game. Running in a similar landscape format as Plurk and iStreamer, the tweets glide by horizontally in the…
A little advice: If you drop your phone in the toilet, think twice before going after it. Otherwise you could end up like this man in China who did that and had to be rescued by firemen. On television. The man in this video lives in China’s Jiangsu province. He dropped his phone and it…
Some digging by Polish site Spider’s Web has revealed Apple’s set up early forum discussions for today’s announcements. Looks like we can expect MacBook Airs, iLife ’11, and a mystery “reserved” product. Mr. OS X Lion, we presume? https://gizmodo.com/apple-mac-and-os-x-liveblog-today-heres-what-to-expect-5667919 It does make you wonder whether the leak was intended. If it was indeed some Apple…
I’d like to know what’s being stolen from this Dutch McDonald’s. Coffee stirrers? Napkins? Toilet paper? This synthetic DNA spray intrigues me, though—not only does it “tag” crims, but when the button is pressed, it alerts police too. So far, only one Dutch McDonald’s in Rotterdam has been outfitted with the DNA sprayer, and while…
