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Good news for EVO 4G owners! Sprint will begin rolling out Android 2.2 to the lucky EVO users starting August 3: https://gizmodo.com/htc-evo-4g-review-a-war-machine-5554198 Sprint is the first wireless carrier to bring Android 2.2 to customers using the award-winning HTC EVO™ 4G beginning Tuesday, Aug. 3 Android 2.2 offers HTC EVO 4G feature enhancements including Bluetooth® voice…
Maybe it is because I’m a sucker for old school 90s graphic adventures, but I love these just for what they are: Beautiful 8-bit cycling animations made using HTML5. They’re so good that someone should write a game around them. https://gizmodo.com/monkey-island-2-is-what-all-ipad-gaming-should-be-5584814 Swamp Cathedral, Mountain Stream, Haunted Castle at Night, Waterfall… all the 36 scenes—drawn masterfully…
Google, the brave search engine company who refused to censor search results in China, seems to be finding itself entirely unwelcome in the country: Apparently Google is now fully blocked in China. Update: False alarm due to a Google issue. https://gizmodo.com/google-refuses-to-continue-censoring-results-in-china-5446712 It is worth noting that “Google defines “fully blocked” as 67 percent to 100…
You can already manage your Comcast DVR from your iPhone, but soon you’ll be able to do the same with BlackBerry and Android as well. No date announced, but it’s coming. [Comcast] https://gizmodo.com/comcasts-latest-iphone-app-manages-your-dvr-from-anywhe-5488350
What to make of the diminutive iPod Shuffle? It’s handy for working out, but immediately less handy if you don’t have a sporty top to clip it to. That leaves you with two options: your earlobe or the Pod-à-porter neckband. The Pod à porter, designed by Michiel Cornelissen, is an elegant solution to a straightforward…
The gang over at TechSpot loaded up the newly-released StarCraft II on what seems like a hundred different PC setups to determine what the best hardware setup for the insanely popular real-time strategy game is. Here are the results: The good news is that basically any modern graphics card will be able to run the…
As if some of us aren’t already too attached to our iOS devices, Apple seems to be working on ways to add to our addictions: Recent patent applications show that Apple may be creating virtual closet and travel apps. The virtual closet application sounds like a fashionista’s dream: The Virtual Closet could include a catalog…
Cambridge startup Recorded Future trawls the internet for raw data that it uses in an attempt to predict world events—understandably interesting stuff. But what do both Google and the CIA both see in the company? Wired digs deeper. Pulling in data from over half a million websites, Twitter feeds, and blog posts, Recorded Future’s “spatial…
As an (greener) alternative to Amazon Prime’s free two-day shipping, there’s Amazon Tote, which gives you all your orders from the last week delivered once a week in a snazzy reusable tote bag. So far it’s only available for the Seattle area, but it can be used in combination with Amazon Prime. With that, you…
Remember that torrent yesterday that contained the personal information off of 100 million scraped Facebook profiles? I thought it was strange that the guy didn’t sell this information, since many companies would be interested. Turns out they are interested. https://gizmodo.com/100-million-facebook-profile-pages-leaked-to-torrent-si-5598825 Reader Clint discovered that all you had to do is use something like Peer Block,…
Asked by analysts about the 3 million magical iPads sold in 80 days, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer wasn’t very happy. I’m not surprised: They only sold 1.32 million Tablet PCs in 2008, with 1.25 million estimated for 2010. [Techflash] https://gizmodo.com/apple-3-million-magical-ipads-sold-5569779
Selling 8.3 million mobile phones, 2.7 of which were smart phones, provided Motorola with earnings of $162 million this quarter, compared to $26 million this time last year. Motorola’s success is largely due to the Droid, which was dropped late last year and leads the market in Android phone sales. [TG Daily]
ATMs use computers. Computers have weaknesses. Hackers exploit weaknesses. See where this is going? A hacker developed software that can force an ATM’s computer to give free cash. Luckily for banks, he showed off his technique at the Black Hat conference. How did hacker Barnaby Jack, director of security research for IOActive Inc, manage to…
Earlier this week we called on industrial designers to bring consumer electronics back to an age of handsome, dignified character. Designer Sylvain Gerber seems to disagree, unveiling an enormous wacky iPhone dock shaped like a snowflake and covered in lights. https://gizmodo.com/all-giz-wants-gadgets-with-character-5597037 The Snowflake Dock concept is based around a single JBL speaker, and will be…
The X Prize Foundation, which spurs scientific and technological innovation with the greatest of incentives, a big pile of money, hopes we’ll have a significantly improved method for cleaning oil by this time next year. The carrot: a cool million. The foundation, which organized an on-going, Google-sponsored $30 million competition for landing a robot on…
One of my favorite and most-used iPhone apps is Apple’s Remote app. It lets me remotely control iTunes, which is streaming to my living room stereo via an Airport Express. But why hasn’t it been updated in over 8 months? When the iPad came out, I was excited for what I assumed would be the…
With the amount of gratis food coming through hobomodo, I’m considering trying to eat for free for five days straight. Maybe not though. Gizmodo isn’t quite that stingy with its interns. I still can’t afford a cheap hard drive though. Top Deals: • 55″ Samsung UN55C8000 240Hz 3D LED HDTV Kit w/ 3D Glasses &…
Do you have more music, photos, and videos than you know what to do with? Sony’s exclusive Media Gallery, available on the new Sony® VAIO® laptop with Intel® Core™ i5 Processor, helps you manage all your content and find what you’re looking for. Want to create an HD vacation photo slideshow set to a soundtrack…
When you put the iPad on the Just Mobile UpStand, it just looks so cute. Like a child-sized version of the iMac. Just Mobile’s UpStand is actually rather simple, it’s a basic aluminum stand with supporting grips that are finished in rubber. The stand supports landscape and portrait modes (and most cases) and can be…
The American Museum of Natural History is dedicated to preserving our planet’s past. But its new app, which offers turn by turn directions to exhibits, customizable museum tours, and exhibit information, is nothing less than state of the art. A museum’s treasures aren’t worth much if you can’t actually find them, and with a sprawling…
