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Microsoft has a 22-page document which outlines how they store all your private data in their online servers. The document also tells government agencies how they can get it. But, oh surprise, they don’t want you to see it: Microsoft Spy Click to view The document was unearthed by Cryptome, the site who previously unveiled…
In today’s Remainders: the upcoming. The Spring Design E-Reader, soon to be available for presale; 4chan’s mainstream embrace, as signaled by their Jeopardy mention; an idiotic Mall Cop’s impending termination; a backlash to RFID gravestones, and more. Oh Alex? We thought the Spring Design Alex ebook reader was a viable threat to the Nook when…
I don’t even know where to start, but this iMaxi is exactly what you think it is. It’s designed to “protect” your iPad, and was made as a one-off on Etsy. I’m sure they’d make you more. [Etsy via Nerd Approved]
Apple quickly put out a patch for Aperture 3 to improve stability and resolve issues for a great many things including: • Upgrading libraries from earlier versions of Aperture • Importing libraries from iPhoto • Importing photos directly from a camera • Memory usage when processing heavily-retouched photos • Face recognition processing https://gizmodo.com/aperture-3-swallowing-hard-drives-whole-with-crazy-memo-5472376 I myself…
The Bloom Box is the latest energy miracle that sounds too good to be true: Debuting with a
After all the talk of Flash Player 10.1 and what it does to gadgets’ battery lives, the folks at FlashMobileBlog decided to take the old-fashioned approach to finding out how the Google Nexus is affected: Playing a lot of videos. They found that “video can be played for well over 3 hours over Wi-Fi from…
App store analytics firm Distimo recently released a bunch of juicy info about the major mobile app stores, and the results are pretty interesting. For one, Android has a much higher proportion of free apps. Apple and BlackBerry are pretty close with their app stores, offering free apps making up 25% and 24% of their…
The joy didn’t last long. According to an iPhone developer, the new “Explicit” option available this morning on the App Store submission software is now gone. He just got off the telephone with Apple, who confirmed the removal. https://gizmodo.com/new-explicit-category-in-app-store-could-herald-retur-5479226 According to the developer, Apple said that, while they are thinking about it, “it’s not going…
Just as we feared, Walmart is eliminating Vudu’s “After Dark” section after purchasing the streaming company/technology for $100 million. Walmart, who doesn’t sell adult films and only sells edited version of some music, basically just did what was in line with their image. Sad, since Vudu was the only big video streaming place where you…
We’ve heard Steve Woz talk about the acceleration issue with his Prius and our friends at Jalopnik have been covering Toyota’s whole recall mess. The entire time software and electronics were blamed for the issues, but now Toyota President Akio Toyoda is telling the House oversight committee that “he is “absolutely confident” that the electronics…
During the Winter Olympics, we’ve seen more than our share of athletic action sequences—complex motions broken into stills. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, you’ll be recreating the effect in the real world (or anywhere else you like). The Challenge Shoot an action sequence of any sort. The Method You’ll want to set your camera on…
Before Twitter existed, the term “tweeter” didn’t describe a person but rather a thing—the part of the speaker that reproduced high frequencies. Philips’ new MCi900 and MCD900 hi-fi stereos let theirs hang out for the world to see. Before you get too excited, take note the pretty new systems were announced by Philips’ Spanish division…
Alright, you savages, here’s today’s trough of deals. We’ve got the lovely and light Lenovo S10 up for grabs, a nice double shot of BBC Earth porn, and another excellent sample of free lube to compliment your regular porn. https://gizmodo.com/ask-an-expert-how-to-watch-porn-on-your-iphone-5479192 Top Deals: • 10.1″ Lenovo S10 Widescreen Atom Netbook $250 (normally $350). • Planet Earth…
Three factions-Cybran, Illuminate, and United Earth Federation (UEF)-control the Supreme Commander 2 galaxy. The average UEF citizen desires stability and order, and they have a strong sense of brotherhood and community. Its leaders are aggressive and driven to ensure galactic order. After the defeat of the Seraphim, the UEF asserted control of the Coalition through…
A study on cellphone location data—made over users calling every two hours on average—says that human moves are predictable 93% of the time. And here I was, thinking that I was better than a bacteria. The study—published last week in Science magazine—found out that no matter how far humans travel, they almost always do it…
Apple’s moral App Store crusade has been devastatingly and alarmingly effective, laying waste to over 5000 apps the company arbitrarily deemed objectionable. So, we asked Lux Alptraum, Editor of Fleshbot (NSFW), what’s left? She calmed our nerves. (With porn.) https://gizmodo.com/5000-casualties-of-the-app-store-boob-war-5477566 What Apple’s been doing was widely characterized as a porn purge, but despite names like…
Here’s to the crazy one. The mercurial. The rebel. The market maker. The lucky guy with the new liver. The one who sees things differently. He’s not fond of rules and bad typography. And he has no respect for mediocrity. https://gizmodo.com/the-life-of-steve-jobs-5301470/ You can praise him, disagree with him, quote him, disbelieve him, glorify or vilify…
I’ve never had the pleasure of breaking a bone, but if I did, you can bet I’d be wearing a Casttoo to share my innermost threshold for pain with the world. Casttoos are customizable cast decals. You email in the image of your choice—yes, X-rays work great, though a shattered Terminator endoskeleton might be a…
Days after The Great Purge of all apps considered sexy (unless you happened to be a major publisher), developers have spotted a new category for submitting apps to the App Store: Explicit. https://gizmodo.com/why-apple-banned-sex-apps-we-were-getting-complaints-f-5477864 The new category hasn’t shown up in the App Store yet, but what it potentially means is obvious: A place for explicit…
Realizing that tech nerds like space, the environment (well, in small doses—and only on a 1080p monitor) and everything else that Mother Nature supplies us with, National Geographic has teamed up with Gelaskins for some natty nature covers. Not just available for the various iPods and iPhones, they’ve also got some Kindle 2, Kindle DX…
