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Rumor: Apple Giving Financial Benefits To Foxconn Employees

Well-respected Chinese site Zol, owned by CNET’s parent company CBS Interactive, has published a report claiming that Apple will be providing financial subsidies to Foxconn’s workers, helping boost their current monthly salary of roughly $130 each. Only last week Apple released their first statement on the Foxconn suicides, saying that they are “in direct contact…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Dreamcast Boombox Is The DIY Project You Were Looking For Today

A rusty car squeals to a halt in the 7-Eleven car-park. Out steps a tracksuit-bedecked man, boombox on shoulder. Sauntering over to the rival gang-leader, he presses a button on the boombox. Out filters Ecco The Dolphin’s ambient keyboard notes. The rival gang-leader falls to his knees. He’d only brought Nas’ Illmatic! Our protagonist smiles—or…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

How To: Recover From a Soda-Spill Disaster

There are few moments in life quite as sickening as realizing that you’ve spilled a beverage on one of your gadgets. Because of that, we’ve put together a simple disaster plan for dealing with beverage-soiled electronics. 1. Act Fast Yeah, we know. You’re pissed. You just splashed merlot on your expensive gaming laptop. And while…

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Two Million People Now Own iPads

Two million. That’s a big, big number—and certainly a far cry from the 300,000 Apple sold on the launch day. It’s largely helped by the international launch last Friday in the UK, Europe, Canada, Australia and Japan. https://gizmodo.com/apple-sold-300-000-ipads-on-the-first-day-5509659 Full, self-congratulatory release from Apple below. CUPERTINO, Calif., May 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple® today announced that iPad™…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Money Of The Future To Be As Pretty As Butterfly Wings

Even though the future obviously revolves around credit cards and online transfers, a team of British scientists have developed a way for banknotes to be harder to forge—using iridescent butterfly wings as inspiration. The unique information encrypted in each note’s optical signatures currently go some way to protecting currency forgery, but it’s obviously not enough.…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The Kinkiest USB Sticks Around

These are bound to be the dirtiest USB sticks you’ll ever see. Each stick depicts both the male and female gender symbols, yet can piggyback onto another stick like some bizarre sex game. It’s the work of designer Kaan Kiris, who’s obviously a free-thinking individual trying to knock down gender-specific barriers through the medium of…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

ASUS Eee Tablet: Call It A Kindle-Slayer, Not An iPad-Killer

Normally we’d be running to the hills in fright of clocking a stylus within 50-feet of a tablet, but in ASUS’ case they’re claiming that “the humble notepad is in line for a digital makeover.” It’s more of an electronic notepad/ereader rather than a tablet (despite ASUS calling it the ASUS Eee Tablet), and has…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

ASUS Eee Pad Is a Windows 7-Running Tablet

They weren’t joking when ASUS said they had some tablets in store for us this year. The Eee Pad runs Windows 7, and comes in two sizes: 10 and 12-inches. https://gizmodo.com/asus-eeepad-ready-for-july-launch-5522741 While full specs haven’t yet been announced, we do know there’s a webcam “for video conferencing capabilities,” and it recognizes handwriting (along with a…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

We Heard That The Comment System Is Causing Trouble, So We’re Giving It A Spanking

Thank you to all who’ve notified us about our comment system’s misbehavior today. As a result we’ve alerted our tech team, filed the appropriate bug reports, and begun to punish our comment system for being such a troublemaker. Clearing your browser’s cache should fix some of the problems, but there may still be some lingering…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Hack Sees Imperfect Netflix for iPad Working On an iPhone

We have word this afternoon that the Netflix iPad app is “running” on an iPhone. Why the quotes? Well, as you’ll see, the whole affair is a bit rough around the edges. Getting the app installed and ready to roll on a jailbroken iPhone turns out to be pretty easy, reports BGR: [A[ll you really…

Tech News Jack Loftus

iRevolver

Want to get accidentally shot by a police officer, just because you decided to answer your iPhone? Great! Then take on this DIY Makerbot project from Junior Tan and report back to us from the ER. [Junior Tan via Technabob]

Tech News Jack Loftus

Smart Fridge Concept Generates Recipes Based On the Items Inside

Quick, Smart Fridge! What can I whip up that contains half a jar of pickles, beer from Christmastime, light cream and lime juice?* I ask because, you see, the Smart Fridge concept creates recipes based on the foodstuffs contained inside its as of yet nonexistent insides. The trouble is it only *knows* these things if…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Top Chinese Official Calls for Improved Working Conditions at Foxconn

The suicide cluster at Foxconn has attracted the attention of a top Chinese official this weekend. Wang Yang, top Communist Party official of Guangdong, has called for improved conditions in the region. Previously, as part of an overall PR/HR initiative, Foxconn said it would increase workers’ wages by 20%. https://gizmodo.com/foxconn-jumps-reach-15-potential-16-spotted-on-the-ro-5549222 The government acknowledgment that something…

Tech News Jack Loftus

DOJ Apple Investigation Branches Out Beyond Music

Double uh oh. That Justice Department investigation into Apple’s music practices? It got a bit broader, with word out this weekend that the DOJ is concerned about more than just digital music. Film too? Sure, why not. https://gizmodo.com/us-department-of-justice-examining-apples-music-tactics-5547741 At least, that’s the rumor. While we know some concrete stuff (but not a lot) about the…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Watch This Massive Nuclear Cooling Tower Get Blown to Smithereens

The K Cooling Tower at the Savannah River Site sat unused for nearly 20 years thanks to the end of the Cold War, yet it still required maintenance and upkeep (read: taxpayer money). So they blew it up. But why wait so long to demolish this 450 feet tall, 345 wide structure? Well, this is…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Android 2.2 “Froyo” Ported to HTC EVO 4G

Even though the HTC EVO 4G has not been officially released to the public just yet, the exhaustively covered Android 2.2 “Froyo” OS has already been ported to it thanks to efforts by the folks at XDA. Plus, video! XDA user Richard Ross did the deed, posted the video, and the rest is history. It…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Music For Deaf People Headphones Produce “Sound” Through Synesthesia

A concept from designer Frederik Podzuweit could deliver music to the deaf using synesthesia, aka perceiving one of the five senses, like hearing, via a different sense, like touch. Or, as the Beach Boys might call it, Good Vibrations. The device is draped over the neck and shoulders, like a collar, and delivers bass, mid…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Amateur Astronomers Continue to Amaze

It’s been an amazing couple of weeks for amateur astronomers. Last Sunday, one of their ilk spied the super-secret X37-B space shuttle making the rounds, and this Sunday another has imaged the ISS crossing paths with Jupiter—during the daytime! https://gizmodo.com/amateur-astronomers-spot-super-secret-x-37b-space-shutt-5545562 Of course, Jupiter is about 356 million miles from Earth, and the ISS is roughly…

Tech News Jack Loftus

PhotoTracker Plus Geotagging Dongle Pulls Ahead of Nikon GP-1

From price to power consumption to available tracking channels to, well, just about everything, the PhotoTracker Plus is a step ahead of the GP-1 when it comes to geotagging your photos on a Nikon DSLR. The GP-1, if you recall, is Nikon’s first party geotagging dongle. You attached it to the hotshoe and away you…

Tech News Jack Loftus

BP Knew of Deepwater Horizon Safety Risks Almost a Year Ago

Top kill has failed. As BP moves on to whatever it is they plan to do next, we’re learning executives knew there were “serious problems and safety concerns” with the rig as early as 11 months ago, and did nothing. Worse still, when those same executives were pressed for answers and explanations during a Friday…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Rumor: Apple Giving Financial Benefits To Foxconn Employees

Dreamcast Boombox Is The DIY Project You Were Looking For Today

How To: Recover From a Soda-Spill Disaster

Two Million People Now Own iPads

Money Of The Future To Be As Pretty As Butterfly Wings

The Kinkiest USB Sticks Around

ASUS Eee Tablet: Call It A Kindle-Slayer, Not An iPad-Killer

ASUS Eee Pad Is a Windows 7-Running Tablet

We Heard That The Comment System Is Causing Trouble, So We’re Giving It A Spanking

Hack Sees Imperfect Netflix for iPad Working On an iPhone

iRevolver

Smart Fridge Concept Generates Recipes Based On the Items Inside

Top Chinese Official Calls for Improved Working Conditions at Foxconn

DOJ Apple Investigation Branches Out Beyond Music

Watch This Massive Nuclear Cooling Tower Get Blown to Smithereens

Android 2.2 “Froyo” Ported to HTC EVO 4G

Music For Deaf People Headphones Produce “Sound” Through Synesthesia

Amateur Astronomers Continue to Amaze

PhotoTracker Plus Geotagging Dongle Pulls Ahead of Nikon GP-1

BP Knew of Deepwater Horizon Safety Risks Almost a Year Ago

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

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VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

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