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iPhone Video Apps Now Have to Be Sensitive to AT&T’s Fragile Network

AT&T and Apple finally allowed iPhone apps to stream video over 3G, but now they’re enacting a new condition: To get approved, Justin.TV’s new iPhone app needed a low quality video stream to downgrade to during periods of network congestion. https://gizmodo.com/slingplayer-iphone-app-finally-allowed-to-stream-tv-ove-5464089 In other words, video apps will apparently need to be able to adapt to…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Hey You, RSS Readers

You. You that’s reading this post on your RSS feed reader. Yeah, you. That’s right, nobody else can see this except you! Come on in. I’ve got some news. Our RSS feeds have gone excerpt-only. That means you can only see some of the post—for our posts that go beyond the first paragraph because we…

Tech News Jason Chen

The Ad Palm Should Have Made

Why, what a nice ad this is for Palm’s webOS! Let’s see, you’ve got the clearly communicated feature set, the driving soundtrack, and no creepy lady heads talking at you. If only it’d been made by Palm. Instead, it was produced by Heiko Thies as a submission for the palmSpot video contest over at webOSroundup.…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Apple Now Owns “iPad” Entirely

Maybe Steve Jobs had coffee with Fujitsu’s CEO too: They’ve given the “iPad” trademark to Apple. After the iPad event, making the name official, a confused Fujitsu claimed the name “iPad” was still very much theirs. Not anymore. https://gizmodo.com/steve-jobs-and-eric-schmidt-spotted-together-again-pho-5503004 We’re not sure what kind of deal the two companies struck—money, patents, licenses, who knows—but the…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Ultra Icy Beer Stein Designed by Cryogenics Technician

“It’s quite common to fill one with liquid nitrogen, let it sit on the lab bench, and when you come back three days later there will still be liquid nitrogen in it. Now imagine what it can do for beer.” That’s the sales pitch behind these lab-certified beer steins fashioned from Pope Scientific bench-top Dewar…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Q&A with Intel’s Bill Pearson

You’ve been seeing a lot from the Intel® Atom™ Developer Program and AppUp for a few weeks now, and we’re sure you’ve got questions. So let’s have Intel’s Bill Pearson, Manager of the Intel Software Network team, answer some of them for you. Q. What is the Atom Developer Program and AppUp? A. The Intel®…

Tech News Gawkercreative

Hey You, RSS Readers

You. You that’s reading this post on your RSS feed reader. Yeah, you. That’s right, nobody else can see this except you! Come on in. I’ve got some news. Starting today (or tomorrow, for some of you, since the switch might not have happened yet), our RSS feeds will be going excerpt-only. That means you…

Tech News Jason Chen

Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt Spotted Together Again: Photos

Jobs and Schmidt, whose companies have just ended their love affair, were spotted minutes ago talking business at Calafia in the Town and Country shopping center in Palo Alto. Update: That’s not an iPad. And body language analysis, here. https://gizmodo.com/how-apple-and-googles-romance-turned-to-hate-5483662 Our tipster saw em and snapped these shots, and noted that the cafe is owned…

Tech News Brian Lam

Nanomagical Material Can Make Nuclear Reactors Safer

Fighting cancer or making nuclear reactors that constantly self-repair themselves, helping to avoid the possibility of another Chernobyl. Clearly, nanotechnology will either save Earth or convert us into Borgs. Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists are betting on the first option. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-future-of-the-fight-against-cancer-5501103 Their new research work—published in Science—could make nuclear reactor much safer by using nanocrystalline…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Gadget Deals of the Day

Kickoff the weekend with these great deals. There’s the RPG focused Xbox bundle on sale, the Zune HD’s price gets slash for the day, and play tower defense with the things that go bump in the night for free. Top Deals: • 32GB Zune HD Media Player for $199 with free shipping (normally $289). •…

Tech News Kevin Lee

Texas Hold ‘Em on the Poker Surface

Lay your cards on the table, or hold them on your cellphone. Double-tap your chips to change denominations. Don’t spill anything. This student-designed Poker Surface poker game is, well, it’s almost as promising as Surface D&D. [Project Abstract via recombu] https://gizmodo.com/way-more-d-d-on-the-microsoft-surface-5428620

Tech News Mark Wilson

What Would Best Buy Do With Radio Shack?

The reports are swirling today that Radio Shack is “exploring strategic alternatives” for the company, the most intriguing of which is a possible merger with Best Buy. But what would that mean, exactly? Beyond all of the financial implications for both companies—it seems to make sense on paper—there’s the question of how Best Buy would…

Tech News Brian Barrett

This Season’s Must-Buy LEGO Sets

LEGO has been on top of licensing its brand into videogames, something that could have ended in disastrous shovelware but instead has led to some pretty great titles. (And fingers remain crossed for LEGO Universe, the upcoming MMO.) Now LEGO is trying their hand at board games. And while I haven’t played any of the…

Tech News Joel Johnson

The Nexus One’s Subpar Screen Saga: It’s the Subpixels

The Nexus One’s display continues to be less than meets the eye. Ars’ breakdown reveals that the PenTile subpixel arrangement means that, depending on how you count the pixels, it could have an effective resolution that’s smaller than 800×480. https://gizmodo.com/the-nexus-ones-dirty-display-secret-updated-5477320 Nouvoyance’s own diagram of the PenTile subpixel arrangement explains it pretty well: it uses a…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Xbox 360 to Accept Any and All USB Storage Starting April 6th

Last week, news leaked that the Xbox 360 would be adding support of mass storage devices for items like profiles and saved games. Today, Microsoft confirmed the update will arrive on April 6th. The 360 will support USB sticks (1GB and over) and large USB drives alike, but 360-usable partitions will be limited to 16GB.…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Land Peel Floor Mat Folds Up Tables and Seats For Daily Use

In countries where sleeping and eating is done on floor mats, this Land Peel concept would fly off the shelves. Folding from a single tile into a big mat, panels can be lifted for tables and seats. In fact, you could do most of your daily activities on it. Spread it out to sleep on,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

From Tin Cans to Touchscreens: The 40 Most Important Phones in History

With due respect to Alexander Graham Bell, he couldn’t possibly have known that his patent for “the method of, and apparatus for, transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically” would give birth to today’s smartphone. Here’s how we got there. We now live in a connected world, and today’s smartphones define what it means to be…

Tech News MaximumPC

iConcertCal App Now Available For Gig-Going Android Users

Not every Android user will have a use for iConcertCal (those who insist on carrying an iPod around, for example), but if you store music on your phone the personalized concert recommendations would prove very handy. The Android app is available to download as of today, joining the iPhone app and iTunes plug-in which does…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

This Smooth, Polished Rock Is Actually A Coby MP3 Player

Has Coby dared go down the same route as Apple, by releasing an MP3 player sans controls? It’s not clear how the Micro player works, but judging by the lack of buttons it’d appear the controls are in the headphones. https://gizmodo.com/ipod-shuffle-review-2009-5169174 I do like the design though, and as it’s Coby it’ll probably be dirt…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Location-Based Social Networking Looks Kind of Like a CDC H1N1 Map

It’s pretty clear by now that the next big thing is going to be location. Here’s a map of what all those checkins looked like in Austin during Geek Spring Break (SXSW), a taste of what’s coming. [YouTube via Scoblizer]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

iPhone Video Apps Now Have to Be Sensitive to AT&T’s Fragile Network

Hey You, RSS Readers

The Ad Palm Should Have Made

Apple Now Owns “iPad” Entirely

Ultra Icy Beer Stein Designed by Cryogenics Technician

Q&A with Intel’s Bill Pearson

Hey You, RSS Readers

Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt Spotted Together Again: Photos

Nanomagical Material Can Make Nuclear Reactors Safer

Gadget Deals of the Day

Texas Hold ‘Em on the Poker Surface

What Would Best Buy Do With Radio Shack?

This Season’s Must-Buy LEGO Sets

The Nexus One’s Subpar Screen Saga: It’s the Subpixels

Xbox 360 to Accept Any and All USB Storage Starting April 6th

Land Peel Floor Mat Folds Up Tables and Seats For Daily Use

From Tin Cans to Touchscreens: The 40 Most Important Phones in History

iConcertCal App Now Available For Gig-Going Android Users

This Smooth, Polished Rock Is Actually A Coby MP3 Player

Location-Based Social Networking Looks Kind of Like a CDC H1N1 Map

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

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The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

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