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Tech NewsTwo Weeks Later, Gmail Is Back in the App Store
Two weeks after it was posted and removed—on the same day—Gmail has returned to the App Store. Version 1.02 is now available for download. We can only hope that Google managed to fix all those “technical difficulties,” which, uh, made the last version suck so much we thought it was a joke. [iTunes via @Parislemon] … Continued
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Rumor: Apple Releasing iOS 5.0.2 To Fix Battery Issue (For Reals This Time)
You know the saying “measure twice, cut once”? Looks like Apple’s measuring twice and cutting twice to overcome the battery issues that still plague iOS 5 and the iPhone 4S; the company will reportedly push another update next week to fix the problem. Fingers crossed. The recent iOS 5.0.1 update was supposed to fix the … Continued
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Phosphor’s Touchable E-ink Watch Lets You Swipe Through Timezones
Making the case for a wider adoption of e-ink technology, Phosphor has introduced the World Time Sport. It uses the backlight free, low power display technology, but also eschews the buttons that would otherwise cramp its style. https://gizmodo.com/new-phosphor-watches-feature-curved-e-ink-displays-and-5260465 Unfortunately the slow refresh rate of e-ink has limited the functionality of Phosphor’s watches, making features like … Continued
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Amazon Puts Kindle Fire Source Code Up for Download
There’s source code everywhere! A few days ago, Google released the source code for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, and now Amazon’s released the code for its new Kindle Fire tablet. The Kindle Fire is pretty awesome, but it’s got a feeeew little UI quirks. The release will let hackers dig in and customize the … Continued
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Man Grows New Fingertip On His Stomach (Warning: Gross)
When you lose the tip of your finger in an accident, you figure you’ll go through the rest of your life being called Stumpy. But if you’ve got a stomach (and I think most of us do) and an enterprising doctor, you can grow that tip right back on your midsection. Which is brilliant and, … Continued
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Can Square Donations Save the Salvation Army?
It’s about to get a lot harder to dodge the charity you’ve been so studiously avoiding. The NYTimes reports that the Salvation Army is testing a new way of collecting digital donations this year: Santas with Sqaure. That ringing bell isn’t your conscience, it’s the future of your curbside charitable donation. Maybe. The Salvation Army … Continued
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Google Music: Everything We Know
After cautiously watching Apple to see how this whole “downloading music” thing panned out, Google will unveil its online music store this afternoon. Will it become your new favorite place to grab songs? Maybe! Here’s all the (rumored) dirt. https://gizmodo.com/november-16-google-music-event-will-apparently-go-to-el-5858792 What songs are available? Not all of them. Unlike iTunes, which has deals signed with … Continued
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Samsung Just Changed the Galaxy Tab’s Design Because of the iPad (OMG SOO DIFFERENT)
Apple and Samsung have been battling in German courts about whether the Galaxy Tab 10.1 stole ideas from the iPad or not (among other things). So to avoid the injunction, Samsung went ahead and changed the design of the Tab in Germany so it wouldn’t look like an iPad anymore. https://gizmodo.com/apple-wins-round-two-against-galaxy-tab-in-german-court-5838667 I’m not sure if … Continued
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Tech NewsThe ChefStack Pancake Parade Returns to Gizmodo Gallery
We’ve had delicious pancakes on our minds lately, because the ChefStack is making its triumphant return to Gizmodo Gallery this year. Last time around, the automatic pancake machine made more than 6000 pancakes. Bet we can do better this year. https://gizmodo.com/at-giz-gallery-09-chefstack-automatic-pancake-maker-5355113 It’s no overstatement that The ChefStack is the apex of human culinary automation. Just … Continued
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Today in the BlackBerry Holiday Hall of Fame: the BlackBerry Curve
How’s that song go again? Deck the halls with boughs of BlackBerry. Fa la la la la la? That sounds about right… Well, expect hear that version a lot over the next few months, because BlackBerry has released a stunning array of phones for the holiday season. Which is why we’ve been featuring the whole … Continued
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Shooting Challenge: Soft Focus
Imagine the first shot of a dame in an old black and white movie. She’s soft. She’s glowing. She’s radiant. She’s really just the byproduct of antique, flawed lenses. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, you’ll recreate soft focus. The Challenge Capture a photo in soft focus. The Technique Modern lenses have been engineered to be … Continued
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Just Leave Siri Out of It, Okay?
Just when we thought the comedic potential of Siri had been thoroughly exhausted, they went and introduced the two things that guaranteed make anything funnier: a collapsing marriage and abundant cursing. https://gizmodo.com/the-five-funniest-siri-videos-5856123 The full video, which should be listened to with headphones if you’re in the office and with Kleenex if your relationship has devolved … Continued
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Tech NewsSteam-Powered RC Trike: The Apex of Mechanical Eye Candy
It’s slow, it’s pink, and it’s piloted by an innocent looking stuffed animal wearing goggles. But that doesn’t make YouTube user prallplatte’s remote control trike any less badass. Better still: the trike is actually powered by steam, courtesy of a large boiler running down its spine. That’s crazy. It isn’t going to win any races, … Continued
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Boxee’s New Live TV Dongle Gives You Another Reason to Ditch Cable
Boxee just announced a new dongle that’ll let Boxee users watch Live TV on their Boxee Box. Sounds cool! Well, sort of. Boxee’s Live TV only supports local networks and costs 50 bucks but it will route everything you watch through Boxee’s sweet interface. The Live TV dongle comes with an HD antenna to grab … Continued
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New Li-Ion Batteries Will Run Ten Times Longer and Charge Ten Times Quicker
While gadgets improve by leaps and bounds every year, the technology that powers them hasn’t. Batteries still suck, unless something comes of this research at Northwestern University that promises new lithium-ion alternatives that charge ten times faster with ten times the capacity. Inside a battery, lithium ions travel between an anode and a cathode, passing … Continued
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Largest Porn Company In the World Harasses HTC With Cease and Desist Letter
Man, HTC is becoming everyone’s favorite law court gimp. Now even porn behemoth Vivid—the largest in the world—is threatening to sue them. Vivid sent a cease and desist letter saying that their HTC Vivid smartphone is breaching their trademark. https://gizmodo.com/at-ts-first-lte-phones-arrive-november-6th-5854799 If they don’t change the name by Monday, they will sue, says Vivid. HTC legal … Continued
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You Can Root Your Kindle Fire Now—But Should You?
In a move that should surprise absolutely no one, the Android faithful have achieved root access to the Kindle Fire though a simple, one-click process, opening the doors to mucho customization. But just because you can, should you? Having root access to a device means that its software can be removed and replaced with something … Continued
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Intel’s Newest Chip Has 50 Cores and Will Eat Your Family
Yes. Fifty cores. Five zero. All on a single, tiny chip. It’s real. Intel beamed over their 50-core “Knights Ferry” processor yesterday at a supercomputing conference in Seattle, Brier Dudley of the Seattle Times reports. And they have good reason. The tiny chip is capable of 1 teraflop of processing power—an esoteric way of calculating … Continued
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Nook Tablet Released Into the World Early
Even though customers who pre-ordered the Nook Tablet aren’t supposed to start receiving deliveries until Friday, the new Nook has already been spotted in the wild a whole two days early, and people who pre-ordered can expect deliveries early as well. https://gizmodo.com/nook-tablet-its-like-the-nook-color-on-speed-updated-5857020 Barnes and Noble is shipping its 7-inch tablet into the world early—just like … Continued
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AIM Is Back From the Dead, but Will Your Old Buddies Sign Back On?
AIM has risen like Lazarus. And don’t think this will be a haphazard update either. AIM has been reimagined from the ground up. As an AIM user since its earliest days, this is the first revamp/update that’s excited me in quite sometime. https://gizmodo.com/remember-when-aol-instant-messenger-was-our-facebook-5800437 AOL gave the platform to Jason Shellen and his team, who were … Continued