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Many airlines offer in-flight wi-fi and though you might not choose flights based on download speeds, it helps to know what to expect from each carrier. With your help, we conducted our first Mile-High Wi-Fi Test. Delta Airlines won. https://gizmodo.com/the-complete-inflight-wi-fi-cheat-sheet-5429860 The Idea We’ve tested 3G data speeds in the past, so as in-flight wi-fi became…
Want to know what freshly developed apps for the iPad are going to feel like? Looking through Apple’s iPad User Experience Guidelines is surprisingly revealing. Some of the key points Apple’s pushing on app developers for the iPad, and how Apple thinks their apps should behave: • They want apps to work no matter how…
Click to viewSure, the TSA’s nudey body scanners work great at detecting underwear bombs. But what about smuggling contraband in your penis? I think you can see where this is going. [Landline.tv] https://gizmodo.com/nudists-fully-support-peeping-airport-scanners-5447163
Credit cards numbers? Please. Medical records? Booooring. The modern hacker knows that the real money’s in carbon emission trade credits. No, seriously: a recent phishing expedition reaped over $4 million from carbon-emitting companies in Europe, Japan, and New Zealand. The hackers sent emails to 2,000 companies in Germany alone, claiming to be from the German…
Going for a spectacular sunset shot, a man ventured onto the ice of the North Sea. But he quickly became lost on the monochromatic landscape. Ironically, two cameras would rescue him from the very danger a camera put him in. The man started firing off the flash of his camera, hoping to grab someone’s attention…
Eamex, a Japanese company, claims to have figured out how to greatly increase the lifespan of the high-capacity lithium-ion batteries that run hybrids and electric vehicles. The new batteries can supposedly survive 10,000 charge cycles and 20 years, which is quite a bit better than what we’ve got now. How do they work? The main…
Still think that widespread iMac problems don’t exist? After we reported Apple giving UK customers 15% refund bonuses with 27-inch iMac returns, we’ve heard from quite a few readers that Apple is doing the same thing in the US. UPDATE https://gizmodo.com/the-faulty-imac-saga-chapter-4-apple-buying-out-custo-5463415 15%. Cash. So on a $2000 machine, we’re talking about a $300 apology straight…
Are you a designer? To find a logo for Paleo-Future, I’ve posted a job to the crowdsourcing website CrowdSpring. The idea behind CrowdSpring is that people like myself who may not have a lot of money to hire a designer can post their job, say what they’re willing to pay, and choose a winner between…
There are two major camps for internet radio: Pandora and Slacker. Team Pandora’s been setup on webOS for a while, but now Slacker fans can get theirs on every webOS phone. Slacker Radio Announces Mobile App for Palm webOS Smartphones Slacker Radio for the Palm webOS Offers Free Personalized Radio Stations and New Music Discovery…
Jonathan Schwartz manned the CEO helm at Sun Microsystems for almost four years. But now that the company’s been sold to Oracle, he’s tweeting off into the sunset. Hey, at least he counted his haiku syllables right. https://gizmodo.com/why-oracle-bought-sun-microsystems-for-7-4-billion-5220210 I think it’s only fair, since Jonathan left us with a poem, that we return the courtesy.…
How do you counter Apple’s iPad? With another iPad. That’s what Sony’s going to do, according to Sony’s CFO Nobuyuki Oneda. “[Slates are] a market we are also very interested in. We are confident we have the skills to create a product…Time-wise we are a little behind the iPad but it’s a space we would…
Joining the SH1 and CS1 from a mere month ago are three new Xacti models from Sanyo—the GH2, CG102 and CG20. All three film in 1080i widescreen resolution, and will cost under $230 each. Score! https://gizmodo.com/sanyos-new-xacti-cams-ditch-the-avchd-keep-getting-sli-5442206 Of course, I’d rather have a camcorder shooting 1080p like the SH1 and CS1, but what’s a few less…
“Unlike other companies, Microsoft never developed a true system for innovation.” Dick Brass, a former VP at Microsoft, lays out in a scathing NYT op/ed how the company has destroyed its ability to “bring us the future.” It’s insanely fascinating. His anecdotes, from this time running the Tablet PC division at Microsoft—you know, the kind…
The Ikonoskop A-cam3D is a 1080p three-dimensional video camera that seems to have been stolen from Han Solo’s Welcome to Hoth backpack. There’s not a lot of information about it, but the first specs look very good: • Records two images at 1920 x 1080 as individual RAW files in DNG format. • Color depth:…
I love when tech companies go to war. And this one is going to be huge. No, not huge: Gigapocalyptical. The domination of a new age of computing is at stake, and Apple, Google, and Microsoft want to win. This is the money they can play with. First, Microsoft with $40.4 billion in the bank.…
Here in my rainy home of London, stories about “yoofs” and “hooligans” glassing each other with beer pints are pretty rife, which is why I’m hardly surprised the UK government is redesigning the pint glass to cut back on violence. Supposedly 87,000 glassings occur each year in the UK, which says quite a bit about…
Well, this is nice: a Radeon HD 5000 series graphics card available on the cheap. It looks like you’re not sacrificing much in performance, either: The $60 Radeon 5450 has full DX11 graphics and Eyefinity multi-display support. https://gizmodo.com/ati-mobility-radeon-hd-5000-the-first-directx-11-graph-5442408 The $60 version comes with a 512MB memory configuration, and you lose a little speed compared to…
Did you know the Palm Pre Plus is a phone for ladies? Specifically, for moms? Well, it is, you sissy! If you were a real man, you’d buy a Droid! That’s a phone for men! Actually, that’s far from the truth. Both phones are pretty damned gender neutral, unless you’re the type of person who…
What do you do if you are a retired electronic and mechanical engineer with 41 years of experience, and a passion for ultra-high speed photography? Like Fotoopa, you make your own kick ass laser rig to take these cool photos: That’s Fotoopa—photograndpa in Dutch. His setup includes his own custom shutter—which can fire at five…
So, the HDDBOOST may be ridiculously brilliant. It’s a hard drive bay that offers SATA connections to both a normal hard drive and a solid state drive. Ultimately, it promises the speeds of SSD with the storage capacity of HDD. Here’s how it works: With no additional software, a 32GB SSD (recommended size, that you…
