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Here they are: The WWDC 2009 banners are up at San Francisco’s Moscone Center. “One year later. Light-years ahead.” What could this mean? My guess is that it’s a sharky comment about Palm Pre and all the competition. While they are starting up now, Apple is about to launch their third generation and have a…
On April 4 2007, Curtis Melvin—a PhD student at George Mason University—decided to start the “North Korea Uncovered” project. Two years later it became the definitive reference for the country’s secrets, thanks to an army of amateur spies. Curtis describes the project like this: This Google Earth project offers an extensive mapping of North Korea’s…
If a device has a 10.1-inch touchscreen, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 512MB of RAM, 1GB of flash storage, Windows, a browser and an IM client, isn’t it really just a PC? If you’re SilverPac, apparently not. [Slashgear via BBG]
A guy called Mordacil created this Halo Spnkr rocket launcher with speakers in the barrels to play music from his MP3 player and embarrass himself in front of everyone at school. At one point today, Mordacil will also probably claim he’s not a virgin in the comments. [Deviant Art via Hawty McBloggyvia Technablog]
Bing’s launch has officially reached stage two: Microsoft has rolled out a mobile version of the site, and debuted the search engine’s first TV ad. How are they? The ad: Crammed full of memes and hard on the eyes, it’s a little obnoxious! That’s sort of the point, though, and it does a good job…
When Asus claims that their limited edition, Quad-SLI-capable ASUS Mars GTX 295 is the worlds’ fastest graphics card, they are not kidding. Or at least that’s what this video of Far Cry running at 3840 x 2160 pixels shows. According to Asus, each of these things are 21% faster than the fastest reference graphics card…
As WWDC ’09 races towards us, we keep being bombarded by alleged iPhone 3G Summer 2009 images. This is the last one, which looks totally FAKE to me. (Click to enlarge both images.) https://gizmodo.com/first-iphone-3g-2009-screens-look-very-real-to-me-5273348 Whatever. I don’t care at this point. Or I do, but seriously: People, if you are going to send us images…
Satellite provider EchoStar has been ordered to pay TiVo $103m for lifting some of their DVR software technology. (Again.) This is great news for TiVo, who hasn’t been doing so well lately. Not so much, though, for EchoStar customers, who might end up losing DVR functionality in their set-top boxes for a while. [Reuters] https://gizmodo.com/tivo-and-echostar-dvr-patent-saga-ends-with-104-millio-5059553
Microsoft wants us to move away from the term “netbook”, instead referring to the tiny, cheap laptops, which the company says demand recognition for handling more than just browsing, as—brace yourselves—”low cost small notebook PCs”, according to Digitimes. Sorry, Intel! https://gizmodo.com/psions-netbook-copyright-fight-is-officially-dead-in-th-5273801 Steven Guggenheimer, general manager of Application Platform & Development Marketing, outlined the plan in…
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The Opera 10 browser beta has opened to the public, cloaked in a slightly new interface and boasting a couple key features over the last version. Live tab previews and new navigation are the most conspicuous changes, though the most important one is under the hood: like Opera Mini and the upcoming version of Opera…
Google has turned out a new web interface for viewing YouTube, called YouTube XL, which reformats the site to suit web-connected TVs, game console browsers, and, perhaps unintentionally, touchscreens. The interface isn’t quite the full experiential revamp that a dedicated app like Hulu Desktop is, but it’s definitely a different approach than the normal site…
Amazon’s listing for the upcoming Zune HD is a little sparse for the time being, given how little we actually know about this device. Buried in the product description, though, are clues for a possible bombshell: game and app support. This scroungy little rumor breaks down into two sections: the believable, important half; and the…
This is the Sony Ericsson W995a, a $600 unlocked Wi-Fi and A2DP-enabled 3G cellphone that puts together a 8.1-megapixel camera—with geo-tagging capabilities, face detection, flash, autofocus, and dedicated buttons—and a Walkman. It even has Media Go support, like the PSP. https://gizmodo.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-psp-go-5275966 The Sony Ericsson W995a comes with Google Maps built-in to show to you where…
AMD demoed their buzzed-about DirectX 11 graphics processor at the Computex show in Taiwan, offering proof that they’re making progress in getting to market first with their product. https://gizmodo.com/amd-promises-directx-11-in-2009-5058473 Engadget says details are scant, but mention that AMD says that new DX11 features, such as the Compute Shader, will help improve Windows 7 performance, among…
Day One of E3 is over, and along with our own coverage, Kotaku’s got a bunch of gaming news you should check out. • Last Guardian trailer, from the team that made Ico and Shadow of the Colossus • Miyamoto on making hardcore games easier for casual players • Miyamoto wants to announce a new…
Even though non-military satellites don’t have powerful enough resolution to zoom in on a particular penguin—or any critter—certain clues can help locate them in the frozen antarctic. Yes, when mapping experts spotted up the unmistakable reddish-brown smears of penguin poop—penguano?—on the antarctic ice, the jig was up for a huge colony of emperor penguins that…
German researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems have embedded a head-mounted microdisplay into a pair of glasses—allowing the user to access and manipulate data with simple eye movements. The [CMOS] chip measuring 19.3 by 17 millimeters is fitted on the prototype eyeglasses behind the hinge on the temple. From the temple the image…
We’re at a Q&A session at E3 with Nintendo’s wizard Shigeru Miyamoto. Asked about Sony and Microsoft’s motion controls revealed earlier this week, through a translator he said that Nintendo’s policy is to actually do development and figure out how the hardware is going to be used with software before making an announcement. Oooo smack…
If you own a Rolls Royce, there’s no doubt that you’re also the type to treat your fancy, expensive designer purse like a baby. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the 200EX Royce is equipped with a baby bolster for your bag. After sensing a bag on top of the holder—a slide-out tray…