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GameCrush, the first “social site for adult gamers,” launches in mere hours, pairing undersexed dudes and enterprising girl gamers for awkward videochat/videogame encounters. Kotaku has the full NSFW-ish scoop on how your Xbox will soon become a virtual bordello. [Kotaku] http://kotaku.com/5499552/would-you-pay-women-to-play-xbox-games-with-you/gallery
It’s official: Sprint’s first WiMax/4G phone is everything we hoped it would be. The HTC Evo combines the “perfect specimen” hardware of the Touch HD2, the Sense-on-Android smoothness of the Legend, and unprecedented download speeds. It’s a beast. UPDATED: Hands on! The Evo (rumored as the Supersonic) has the much-loved 4.3-inch screen (480×800 TFT LCD),…
Mythbusters’ Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman recently sat down for a chat with Wired’s Kevin Kelly, and they discussed just how much trust you can place in machines. It’s tough to disagree if you’ve seen the evidence. [FORA.tv]
T-Mobile has announced that they’re rolling out their super speedy HSPA+ network to over 100 metro areas covering 185 million people in 2010. More than half of that will be complete by the middle of the year. That’s aggressive. https://gizmodo.com/t-mobile-hspa-speed-test-3g-gets-pumped-up-to-21mbps-5493830 HSPA+ is an easier roll out than 4G, because it’s overlaid over T-Mobile’s existing 3G…
Best Buy is known for charging a lot of money to do very little with its setup services, but its “3D glasses syncing” seemed to bring things to a whole new level. They’ve responded. https://gizmodo.com/best-buys-mac-optimization-makes-its-normal-optimizatio-5440510 The offer was for a free setup of your TV, BD player and syncing your 3D glasses with them both,…
Today’s deals are sure to please anyone’s inner haggler. Dell comes with a discounted Vostro laptop, kill hordes of zombies with a cheaper copy of Left for Dead 2, and it’s free Ben & Jerry’s cones for all. Top Deals: • 15.4″ Dell Vostro 1520 Intel Core 2 Duo P7570 2.26GHz Laptop for $519.00 (normally…
The candidates aren’t ugly, per se—they’re more like lovably enthusiastic. But damn are they green. Send the number of your favorite Ugly American to [email protected] (subject: “Ugly Vote”) by noon EST tomorrow. Winner gets a $300 AMEX gift card. [Rules] Gallery below!
AT&T just announced a partnership with Apisphere to sell a dog collar with a SIM card inside so you can wirelessly track your pooch. The collar works by you setting up a “geo-fence” around your home where you want your dog to stay. If it leaves that area, you’ll be notified. It uses GPS and…
Watch the “Yahoo! Minute” and find out how you can get the best campaign coverage as the 2012 election approaches. ABC News and Yahoo! News are working to bring you Power Players, a daily political video series with some of the most trusted names in political reporting. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.…
Instead of having to click on different mailboxes for each account, a future version of the iPhone OS will allow you to read all your mail from one single screen. The source: Steve Jobs himself. [Julio Manuel – Thanks Oscar!]
Norwegian browser makers Opera Software have submitted Opera Mini to Apple’s App Store. And because Apple hasn’t let any third-party browsers on iPhone, Opera is calling them out with a timer to measure how long approval takes. Waiting’s fun! [via]
Samsung has been hinting at “S Life” so far at CTIA, and now we’ve got some details: the Galaxy S phone is a 1GHz, 4-inch AMOLED display, feature-filled Android smartphone. Updating live: In addition to its high-powered screen and processor, the Galaxy S also features advanced location-based services and the Layar Reality browser, which allows…
After our We Miss Sony series ran, I got a call from Sony’s head of corporate communications. “You made my weekend very busy,” he said. To Sony’s credit, they got what we were trying to say. And they even agreed with many of our criticisms. But they wanted to speak to our readers, to talk…
I can imagine him relaxing on his original Eames Lounge Chair, the warm colorful light of a Tiffany Lamp, green tea on a side table, the iPad on his lap, listening to some Bob Dylan vinyl on his record player. Oh, Steve, you teaser, you. [The Apple Lounge]
At last, the iTunes App Store is complete. All thanks to Andreas Moller and his Trololo app, which is available free today. What is Trololo, you ask? Trololo is an unexpected Soviet pop hit by Edward Hill, the latest Internet meme in case you have been living in a deserted atoll for the past month:…
Moving ahead with their ambitious plan to bring WiMax to 120 million Americans by the end of the year, Sprint added seven new cities to their list: Cincinnati, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Miami, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City and St. Louis. https://gizmodo.com/sprints-super-speedy-wimax-available-to-120-million-peo-5479634 These join Boston, Denver, Kansas City, Houston, Minneapolis, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C,…
Japan has been selling the 250GB Xbox 360 HDD for a couple of weeks now, but there’s no word on when it’s coming here. A new dashboard ad hints that we might be getting it soon. Updated https://gizmodo.com/japan-scores-250gb-xbox-360-hard-drive-5461428 Of course, in Japan they’re charging a whopping $170 for the thing, so don’t get too excited.…
Hands up who uses Cover Flow? A quick vox pop amongst Giz staff reveals only once in a blue moon do we use it. Yet a patent for a Cover Flow-like integration of social-networking profiles has surfaced. Cover Flow’s only been around a little over two years now, but it hasn’t quite taken off—despite Apple…
The latest Arduino surface mount board is now available, with double the memory, but lacking a power jack. It’s got two layers, and as the name suggests it’s much smaller than other Arduinos we’ve seen before. It’s using an ATmega328 instead of the ATmega168, and some of the features have been moved around, like the…
It’s been 13 long years since Honda did any major redesigning of its stair-stumblin’ Asimo robot. Now, they’re about ready to unveil P4, the fourth version of Asimo. Update: It turns out the P4 is just a new, old Asimo. https://gizmodo.com/honda-asimo-vs-slippery-stairs-220771 As our friend Tim explains, the Asimo P4 isn’t an updated version of Honda’s…
