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Last seen in Hammersmith, London, England: a teenage boy’s pride. For now the whole world knows he’s no match for his kid sister. [GoogleSightSeeing via Twitter]
“Insufficient media coverage…Upscaling makes porn unexpectedly upsetting…When used as murder weapon, oleophobic coating does not completely eliminate incriminating fingerprints.” Read additional less common—but completely valid—iPad complaints from The New Yorker here: [The New Yorker]
Google’s new Government Request tool shows exactly how many times governments from around the world either asked Google to remove content or to provide user information. And how often Google complied. It’s quite the roadmap to intrusion. The figures correspond to the second half of 2009, and will be updated every six months. Brazil currently…
Beep boop boop boop boop boop boop boop beep. Hello? Yes, this is Mark Wilson…calling from my phone. My dog phone. Yeah, some fireman Gray Powell’d it after an earthquake or something, but when I saw the little pooch, licking a dismembered arm sticking out from the gravel, I thought, that little puppy could use…
Sure, sure, AT&T added another 1.9 million subscribers and activated 2.7 million new iPhones. But the most interesting slide in their earnings statement was the one detailing, statistically, how much less they suck. With graphs and stuff. The improvements are indeed caveat-loaded. Dropped 3G calls in Manhattan, one of AT&T’s admitted trouble spots, are down…
Modern love is so perilous. The Missed Connection after the jump. [Craigslist] You stuck my flash drive in your vagina – m4w – 25 (philadelphia) Date: 2010-04-20, 3:04PM EDT You stuck my flash drive in your vagina. If you are reading this, you know who you are. I don’t think this is a fad sweeping…
Fellow arm sleepers, a new dawn is upon us. For just $100, we can alleviate the several tons of pressure that our massive craniums place upon our arms. That, or our pillows now have a hoagie compartment. [HammacherSchlemmer via NerdApproved]
Befuddled old judges? Not quite! Turns out Roberts is “the strongest proponent of Fourth Amendment protection” in City of Ontario v. Quon, a case that will affect the future of privacy for electronic communications. It’s not a dumb question! [DCDicta]
Buried amongst 15 patents granted to Apple this week by the US Patent and Trademark Office is one that describes color correction—for a stand-alone camera. Not an iPhone camera, a compact camera. Thing is, it’s not the first time we’ve heard rumors of an Apple camera, with a similar patent application last July describing of…
It must be superyachting season, with Russian billionaires fighting for column inches about their most expensive/lavish/largest/laser-equipped yachts. Roman Abramovich’s $1.2billion 557-foot Eclipse has appeared on film, as it sets sail from Germany this week. https://gizmodo.com/preview/philippe-starck-designed-super-yacht-a-gets-shown-off-5520107 It’s apparently got bulletproof glass, a missile defense system, and that famed anti-paparazzi laser shield, which detects CCDs used in…
Whatever could Google want with an airline IT company? Well, considering that company, ITA, supplies travel information to websites such as Kayak.com, CheapTickets, Bing Travel and Orbitz, quite a lot, actually. Word on the street around Silicon Valley is that ITA is looking for $1 billion from the sale, which sounds like a lot but…
It was beginning to look like vaporware of the meanest kind, but finally ASUS’ EeeKeyboard has been given a pre-order price on Amazon with shipping expected by end of next week. https://gizmodo.com/asus-eee-keyboard-blithely-glides-past-june-release-no-5306064 While the specs and form have changed since we first spied it at CES-was it two CES shows ago?-but the final specs appear…
Thanks to a change in Apple’s iPhone Developer Program License Agreement, Adobe has decided to abandon the iPhone app building technology included in Flash CS5. https://gizmodo.com/flash-apps-to-come-to-the-iphone-but-not-to-safari-5374868 Adobe says it’s not planning on “any additional investments in that feature” after CS5 because of section 3.3.1 of Apple’s iPhone Developer Program License Agreement: Applications may only use…
iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 2 slipped into the iPhone Dev Center earlier, but unless you’re a developer and really need to test apps, it’s best to skip this extra buggy beta and just keep playing around with the first. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-os-4-0-beta-2-is-here-5520760 I realize that you’re curious—after all iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 1 was full of new…
Meet Rana Sobhany. She puts together some great beats using only two iPads and some apps. No laptop or synth needed—this gal’s an iPad DJ. As she explains in Rob Scoble’s (extra-long) video, Rana is using some additional equipment for this presentation, but she can work with just her iPads and some apps—Groovemaker House, Looptastic…
The latest item in Google’s shopping spree is Agnilux, a small and somewhat mysterious startup full of former Apple, TiVo, and P.A. Semi employees. Few details are available about the acquisition, but it looks like a good deal for Google. Supposedly Agnilux has been working on some kind of server hardware—most likely a chip—and Google…
Even armed with a Wiimote, the BotJunkie junkies couldn’t shake the 300-cycle-per-minute Adept Quattro, the world’s fastest-pick and-place robot. Watch this video and imagine how quickly it could fill up one of those state quarter maps. [BotJunkie via PopSci]
Oh my! The folks at BGR have gotten their hands on a BlackBerry 9670. Apparently there’ll be more details about the CDMA-based, clamshell device coming soon, but for now there are plenty of pictures to sift through. [BGR]
We took apart the next iPhone. There are a number of interesting facts gained from the dissection, the most important of which is more concrete confirmation (as if we needed any more) that this phone is from Apple. There are three separate places, inside the case, where APPLE is written prominently. Upon unscrewing the bottom…
They won’t be terribly fast—they’ll swim 59 feet per minute and crawl 98 feet per minute—and they’ll cost $18 million to develop, but aquatic robots like this might one day aid underwater search and rescue efforts. South Korea‘s Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs is dedicating a great deal of time and money to…
