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In 1984, Steve Jobs purchased the 17,250, 14-bedroom Spanish Colonial Revival Jackling House. Built in 1925 by copper mining mogul Daniel Jackling, many thought it historic, but Jobs never really liked the home. As quoted in the NYT, Jobs said of Jackling: ”He was a very wealthy man. Unfortunately, he didn’t have very good taste.”…
Apple’s WWDC Keynote will happen on Monday June 8th, at 10am. Phil Schiller will be presenting, as he has the last two Apple events. It’s tempting to start asking, “Where’s Steve?”, because it’s June. Don’t. Somewhere along the way, people worked the question into their mind that it was a possibility that Steve Jobs would…
Not much has been left to mystery with Microsoft’s Windows Mobile app store—we even know what it’ll look like. Now it has officially opened its doors to developers, and published all the rules. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-what-the-windows-mobile-marketplace-looks-like-5239852 Microsoft seeded most of the important stuff in advance, and at first glance these new materials don’t contain many surprises. A…
In the largest trust-busting fining in EU history—about twice as severe as the infamous Microsoft antitrust ruling of 2004 and a hair worse than the ensuing $1.44 billion penalty for noncompliance—Intel has been ordered to pay $1.45 billion by European Commission regulators. What the hell did they do? EU competition commissioner Neelie Kroes said Intel…
Triumph international, the same guys who came up with the eminently practical Chopstick Bra, have channeled their proudly insincere energies into fake-solving Japan’s declining marriage rate. Behold… The Marriage Hunting Bra. https://gizmodo.com/bra-its-whats-for-dinner-319887 The garment’s described objective is to allow marriage-minded women to essentially wear their ambitions, with a chest-mounted countdown clock (to what?) , pen…
They’re not the first major manufacturer to ship 32-gigabit NAND chips, nor are they the first to sell 32-gigabyte embedded cards. But they are the biggest, which means this step could have huge, fantastic consequences. https://gizmodo.com/toshiba-flash-chips-doubled-to-32gb-good-for-pmps-cel-5034627 Papa Samsung does have a legitimate FIRST!! claim here, in that these moviNAND cards are the only ones to…
Sony’s OLED, Wi-Fi Walkman has been stickered with $299 and $399 prices for the 16GB an 32GB models, respectively. Now it’s confirmed, along with details like the presence of Slacker radio service and YouTube. UPDATED UPDATE: Sony has released more details, adding content partners (Slacker radio!), elaboration on noise cancellation, and gestures like “scene scroll”…
We don’t know where, when, or by whom this was filmed, but it looks very real to us, confirming our earlier suspicions that the Pre will be packaged in a box. Update: https://gizmodo.com/palm-pre-box-shots-leak-suggest-pre-will-come-in-box-5249934 It’s from CES says Josh T. It’s the same difference to me, because I am indifferent to unboxing, but if this isn’t…
Comedian Aziz Ansari lambasted IMAX’s watered-down “IMAX Experience” theaters. And he’s now challenged IMAX’s CEO to a debate. We think he should just read Mark’s feature on the subject. [Aziz is Bored, Main Street] https://gizmodo.com/cineplexes-getting-imax-but-is-it-imax-or-conspiracy-5250625
Apple’s new ad takes solid aim at Microsoft’s recent much-talked-about Laptop Hunters ad series with the Apple style fully intact. In other words, it’s really, really smug. The ad has a Lauren-type actress give her list of specifications, and of course, bunch by bunch, the drab-suited PCs are disqualified until she gets to “something that…
We all know that tens of thousands of iPhones streaming TV 3G from their Slingboxes would slow down AT&T’s already saggy network. What we don’t get is how AT&T is justifying their position. Here’s AT&T’s stance: Slingbox, which would use large amounts of wireless network capacity, could create congestion and potentially prevent other customers from…
Sure, this mod looks great. But sooner or later, somebody’s going to ask about the contrast between this classiness and the seven pizza boxes on the floor. Created out of some beautiful leather upholstery, this mod takes Western Digital’s “MyBook” theme to its logical conclusion. The vents, for those who are wondering, are on the…
This illustration of an “aerial battle of the not-distant future” appeared in the November 20, 1900 Duluth Evening Herald (Duluth, MN). As with most of my posts involving newspapers from Minnesota, this image was found in the microfilm library of the Minnesota History Center. A special thank you to the MNHS for keeping their facilities…
We’ve been hearing more about card skimmers on ATMs throughout America. Reports now say that it has gotten to the point that $2M has already been stolen via card-skimming in New York alone. https://gizmodo.com/a-man-finds-an-actual-card-skimmer-in-the-wild-in-the-5201176 Recently, four Romanians living in Florida have been charged for stealing $1.8 million from banks all around New York, including New…
Here’s a look at what our worlds might look like if we lived amongst futuristic megastructures, including modernized Arcosanti ruins, Blade Runner’s Off-world, or even EPA/Simpsons-esque domes in the middle of Manhattan. Head to the source for a full gallery. [Oobject]
Here’s the stuff that we didn’t post today. (Until now, obviously.) • BlackBerry Tour shows up in Bell’s inventory for $600. We hate to say we don’t care about Canadians, but we don’t really care about Canadians. [Boy Genius Report] • D-Link routers get CAPTCHA protection, solving a problem nobody really has. It’s like trying…
JVC latest projectors—one at 8K (8,192×4,320pixels) and the other at 4K (3,840×2,160pixels)—come with 10,000 lumens of brightness and produce a 5500:1 contrast ratio. JVC has also created a prototype of their new 4K handheld camcorders, which shoot in 4240p and was made to be more of a broadcasting camera. Although release dates and prices are…
As seen in Apple’s Cupertino parking lot. [Valleywag] http://valleywag.gawker.com/5251304/why-apple-is-doomed-without-steve-jobs
A man from Ohio was recently sentenced to 15 months in prison after being convicted of “hacking” for using his work computer to look at pornography and upload nude photos of himself to adult websites. In the span of 5 months, Richard Wolf spent approximately 100 work hours using his work computer for personal use,…
Proclaimed as the Lego of lights, the TwistTogether Lamp is a colorful lighting display made up of LED-filled blocks that can be stacked, twisted and reconfigured to create unique designs. Although the lamp is powered solely through one block, twisting on additional blocks onto the original one will cause the array to light up. For…
