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Push Gmail Finally Comes to the iPhone, Symbian and Windows Mobile

Apple hasn’t added push for Gmail to its Mail app on the iPhone, but Google has worked around that via Google Sync. All you have to do is set it up as a Microsoft Exchange account. At last! Previously you could just sync your Google contacts and calendars, but now finally it supports Gmail as…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Get an Xbox 360 Elite for $250 if You’re Willing to Deal with Mail-In Rebates

The Xbox 360 Elite recently got its price dropped to $300, which is pretty good, but $250? That’s even better. Microsoft is offering a $50 mail-in rebate on all new Xbox 360 Elites through 10/5. [Rebate Page via Kotaku] https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-confirms-xbox-360-gets-cheaper-friday-5346689

Tech News Adam Frucci

Microsoft Stealing From Apple Again: This Time It’s Retail Staff

So about those Microsoft stores—you know, the one’s that’ll be next to Apple in some locations; with giant wall-sized screens. We knew Microsoft was hiring ‘Guru Bar’ staff, but apparently they’re also poaching top Apple Store managers. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-opening-shops-right-next-to-apple-stores-this-5315454 And here’s why I’m perfectly OK with that: Redmond is offering them “significant raises”, and encouraging them…

Tech News Danny Allen

Microsoft: Any Xbox Bought Today Will Work with Project Natal Tomorrow

Just in case there was any lingering doubt (which there really shouldn’t have been), Microsoft has reiterated that any Xbox 360 purchased today will be compatible with Project Natal when it’s released “in the future.” So keep buying those Xboxes, kids! [Maxconsole]

Tech News Mark Wilson

SGI’s ‘Personal Supercomputer’ Handles 80 Cores, 1TB of RAM

SGI’s Octane III is a “personal supercomputer,” which isn’t to say it’s designed for you to play video games and check your email on. It’s just a supercomputer that garage physicists might be able to save up for. Octane III is office-ready with a pedestal, one-by-two-foot form factor, whisper-quiet operations, easy-to-use features, low maintenance requirements…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Apple Approved Almost 1400 iPhone Apps Last Friday…Fourteen Freaking Hundred

The popularity of the App Store simply cannot be overstated. Last Friday, Apple approved their most ever apps in one day. 1394 of em. Over 300 were games. That’s like if the entire Blackberry App World catalog were published in just one day. 1400 is more than double the number of games currently on the…

Tech News Mark Wilson

MaruBot Football League Is Next-Gen Foosball Without Wrist Fractures

The purist will probably hate this. Well, bad luck purists, because I don’t care. This MaruBot robotic foosball table is the next thing I want to play. The MaruBot Football League table can use up to four players, each controlling one of the four robots. I don’t really know how much fun is this to…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Backwards Painted Truck Doubles as Pants Crapper 3000

I can’t imagine the momentary terror of a semi coming straight at me on the open road, nor can this trucker imagine the keying coming his way the first time someone crashes as result of his prank. [imgur via jalopnik] https://jalopnik.com/backwards-truck-paint-job-would-make-anyone-slow-down-5364683

Tech News Mark Wilson

Motorola Entice W766 Feature Phone Hits Verizon

An inexpensive flip-phone, the Entice replaces Motorola’s W755 in Verizon’s line-up. You get one-touch access to its music player, 2-megapixel camera, IM-style texting, Bluetooth and speaker phone, plus microSD card expansion (up to 8GB) and Verizon 3G data access. The Entice can also run the usual Verizon Wireless Services: VZ Navigator, V Cast, Family Locator,…

Tech News Danny Allen

EcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger

This week, Google maps out the world’s carbon cycle, Sweden turns nuclear bunkers into data centers, nano tech might save solar power, and the strangest thing will clean up nuclear waste. Google Earth has a new application that shows carbon dioxide in different layers of the earth’s atmosphere. Not only can you navigate through space,…

Tech News Jaymi Heimbuch

PlayStation 3 Motion Controller Slated for March, Dreamcast Titles Inbound?

According to a legit-looking leaked document leaked from Sega, Sony is planning on launching their PS3 motion controller this March in Japan with the US release coming sometime in spring. From the document: https://gizmodo.com/ps3-motion-controller-may-be-the-best-game-motion-captu-5276068 Motion Controller Spring 2010 launch (March in JP) No bundle/pricing details yet, should come Sept 1 Plan on selling 4-5MM units…

Tech News Mark Wilson

UMID M2 Gets Faster, Cheaper: Windows 7, 1GB RAM for $500

Intel’s Developers Forum kicks off today, and UMID is showing off its upgrade to the M1 ultra mobile PC. The M2 runs Windows 7 (instead of XP), faster 1.2Ghz or 1.6GHz Atom processors, and no longer needs USB port dongles. https://gizmodo.com/tiny-umid-mbook-m1-a-mini-netbook-with-mini-features-5267248 And while the M1 costs $600 with a 1.33GHz processor and 512MB memory, the…

Tech News Danny Allen

Space Foosball Table Looks Ready for Star-Trek

Wow, the humble foosball table just continues to evolve. This latest incarnation keeps the familiar handles, but replaces the spinning players and ball with physics-powered graphics developed at Ewha Women’s University in Korea. It looks pretty cool in action: The handles are tracked by infra-red sensors, and the software uses that information to make the…

Tech News Danny Allen

Samsung Intros Processors, Cameras and Chipsets for Mobile Devices

Samsung introduced a mess of new components for mobile devices that we’re likely to start seeing in early 2010, including a 5MP camera capable of taking 1080p video and a couple powerful yet efficient chipsets. There’s a ton of stuff here, some of it quite similar, but it’s pretty certain these’ll be popped into smartphones…

Gadgets Dan Nosowitz

WTF? Police Taser Legless Man in Wheelchair

Internal Affairs are investigating witness reports that Merced police twice Tasered a 40 year-old double-amputee because he had a “big mouth”. Initial charges against him were dropped, so how much resistance could he have put up? Talk about overkill. The dispute was over Child Protective Services taking his daughter, and it wasn’t until she was…

Tech News Danny Allen

Unplug Your Laptop to Keep Your Li-Ion Battery Healthy

Will leaving your notebook constantly plugged-in kill your battery faster? Gina Trapani is exploring the issue after a friend’s battery wouldn’t charge after only two years. Though HP and Dell support pages weren’t quite definitive, Apple clearly cautions against it: On a page dedicated to maximizing your MacBook’s battery life and lifespan, Apple says: Apple…

Tech News Danny Allen

Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post

Ubuntu 10.04 announced, named after a deodorant…A sampling of Facebook friends can function as a marginally-offensive “gaydar”…World’s most efficient ultra-thin solar cell…The world’s most sustainable tech company is a surprise to me… Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth announced today, via YouTube, the name and philosophy behind the 10.04 version of Linux: Lucid Lynx. Apparently it’s lucid…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

AMD Confirms Six-Core Consumer Processors Codenamed “Thuban”

Just one day before Intel’s IDF conference, AMD dropped a little bit of a bomb on us, confirming that they will bring hexa-core processors to consumer computers. Even better, they’ll be backwards compatible with existing AM3 and AM2+ motherboards. The processor will be a version of AMD’s six-core server processors, and will place all six…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

MSI Wind U110 Eco Updated (Slightly) With 15-Hour Battery Life

MSI’s Wind U110 was a solid netbook when it was released last year, but the newer Toshiba NB205 and HP Mini 5101 make it look outdated. MSI updated the netbook with a 15-hour, 9-cell battery, but is that enough? https://gizmodo.com/mossberg-likes-the-toshiba-mini-nb205-netbook-5331127 Basically, this is the same netbook as the older U110, but subs the 1.6GHz Intel…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

$1.2 Billion Russian Yacht Comes Equipped With Laser-Powered Anti-Paparazzi Shield

Famed Russian yacht-fanatic Roman Abramovich added a new feature to his 557-foot, $1.2 billion monstrosity, Eclipse: A laser shield that sweeps the boat’s surroundings for paparazzi and then fires a bolt of light at the camera to destroy any photo. The lasers detect CCDs, or charge-coupled devices, which are used in most (but not all;…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Push Gmail Finally Comes to the iPhone, Symbian and Windows Mobile

Get an Xbox 360 Elite for $250 if You’re Willing to Deal with Mail-In Rebates

Microsoft Stealing From Apple Again: This Time It’s Retail Staff

Microsoft: Any Xbox Bought Today Will Work with Project Natal Tomorrow

SGI’s ‘Personal Supercomputer’ Handles 80 Cores, 1TB of RAM

Apple Approved Almost 1400 iPhone Apps Last Friday…Fourteen Freaking Hundred

MaruBot Football League Is Next-Gen Foosball Without Wrist Fractures

Backwards Painted Truck Doubles as Pants Crapper 3000

Motorola Entice W766 Feature Phone Hits Verizon

EcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger

PlayStation 3 Motion Controller Slated for March, Dreamcast Titles Inbound?

UMID M2 Gets Faster, Cheaper: Windows 7, 1GB RAM for $500

Space Foosball Table Looks Ready for Star-Trek

Samsung Intros Processors, Cameras and Chipsets for Mobile Devices

WTF? Police Taser Legless Man in Wheelchair

Unplug Your Laptop to Keep Your Li-Ion Battery Healthy

Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post

AMD Confirms Six-Core Consumer Processors Codenamed “Thuban”

MSI Wind U110 Eco Updated (Slightly) With 15-Hour Battery Life

$1.2 Billion Russian Yacht Comes Equipped With Laser-Powered Anti-Paparazzi Shield

Trump Says He’ll Sign Order to Pay TSA

Deadpool Will Deface ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Classics for a New Secret Lair

Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them

Why ‘For All Mankind’ Season 5 Is the Key to the Rest of the Series

ASUS ZenScreen 15.6-Inch Portable Monitor Is Now Cheaper Than Black Friday in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

Early Wildfires Are Surging Across the US—and Trump’s New Fire Agency Isn’t Ready

INIU Brings Another Power Bank to the Spring Sale as SnapGo Keychain Portable Charger Drops to Its Lowest Price

Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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