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Tech NewsGoogleSamsung Captivate Launching July 18 on AT&T For $200
AT&T customers who’ve been pining for a legitimate Android experience won’t have much longer to wait: the Samsung Captivate, a promising Galaxy S phone with a 4-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen, 1GHz Hummingbird processor, a 5MP camera that records 720p video, and up to 32GB of combined onboard and external storage, will hit stores July 18th … Continued
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Tech NewsGoogle
Social Gaming Network OpenFeint Coming to Android
Good news for Android users who are miserable due to the limited game selection on their devices: Social gaming network OpenFeint is coming to Android and it’ll hopefully encourage development of more games for the mobile operating system. OpenFeint To Bring World’s Largest Mobile Gaming Developer Community To Google’s Android Platform Mobile Social Games Network’s … Continued
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The Government’s “Perfect Citizen” Program Will Protect Companies By Monitoring Them
In order to curb cyber attacks on companies that control critical infrastructure, the US federal government is launching a new surveillance program dubbed “Perfect Citizen.” The people behind it are already calling it “Big Brother.” The purpose of the “Perfect Citizen” program is to monitor critical infrastructure like electricity grids and nuclear-power plants and prevent … Continued
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Tech NewsDesign
There Has To Be a Logical Reason for the Carbon Fiber Toilet
Italian designer Alberto Del Biond has created a carbon fiber toilet. Why? That’s what I want to know. It’s part of his line of Nerocarbonio design, that go from Bimota bikes to basins and this toilet. He declares himself fascinated with carbon fiber because of it’s lightness and depth. Somebody should tell him that carbon … Continued
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What DirectX 11 Is, and What It Means To You
The new graphics API comes with new buzzwords. We’ll tell you what they mean and how they matter to your gaming experience. Just when you think you’ve grasped all the jargon surrounding 3D graphics, new terms and technologies flood onto the market. AMD has been aggressively shipping DirectX 11 GPUs in almost every price category, … Continued
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Solar-Powered Plane Flies Through the Night For the First Time
Every few months, the Solar Impulse aircraft embarks upon another test flight, working gradually toward the goal of circumnavigating the globe. Yesterday, it flew for 26 hours, powered through the night by sun it collected during the day. https://gizmodo.com/around-the-world-under-the-sun-5511934 The flight, according to the Solar Impulse team, was both the longest and the highest ever … Continued
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Canon Firmware 1.0.8 Update Fixes Video Glitch in T2i and 1D Mark IV
It’s not a huge update, but if you’ve been suffering from a problem where your manual exposure has shifted during a video shoot, you’ll appreciate that Canon has addressed it with new 1.0.8 firmware. Don’t you wish these updates were OTA? I’m sure a huge segment of the population never installs these updates—many of which … Continued
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What Would Happen If the Earth Stopped Spinning? (This)
“The following is not a futuristic scenario. It is not science fiction. It is a demonstration of…an extremely* unlikely, yet intellectually fascinating query: What would happen if the earth stopped spinning?” SPOILER: Our continents become one. If that spoiler wasn’t enough, the slightly longer explanation is that, without centrifugal force, the ocean water near the … Continued
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Tech NewsFacebook
Second Facebook Movie Trailer Looks Even More Ridiculous
Click to viewThe first trailer for The Social Network was just a series of big portentous words. For the encore, a series of big portentous status updates! Everyone involved in the creation of Facebook sure could type fast. https://gizmodo.com/the-official-facebook-movie-trailer-5577254 I still don’t know what’s odder: that this is actually a movie, that David Fincher directed … Continued
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Tech NewsApple
Shanghai Apple Store Opens for Business This Weekend
Chinese Apple fan club members have a new meeting place to talk about Apple in, with the Shanghai Apple Store opening this weekend. Fanatics descend from street level through a 40-foot cylinder, then serenely glide in via glass staircase. https://gizmodo.com/apple-friend-bar-is-a-genius-idea-5581506 Not so much a Shanghai Dream Cube, more of a standard, US-style collection of glass … Continued
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Sony New Point-and-Shoot Cameras Put Together 3D Panoramas via 100 Image Scan
Don’t get too excited about the 3D element of Sony’s WX5 and TX9 snappers—the smallprint uses the phrase “3D-style viewing effects” so we suspect it’ll be a bit of a, to use a technical phrase, mish-mash. The single-lens 3D system works by capturing a rapid-fire burst of 100 frames as you sweep the camera around, … Continued
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Tech NewsGoogle
Google Street View Partially Broken on Android Phones
Android users—you are not going mad. When accessed through the Android app, Google Street View is currently missing some features, namely the ability to pull up photos of locations while navigating. On some phones it’ll be glitchy, on other models it has disappeared altogether. But Google knows about it and is working on a fix. … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Secret Film of the CIA Supersonic Spy Plane’s First Flight
This declassified Lockheed Martin video shows the first flight of the A-12, the super-secret spy plane precursor of the SR-71 Blackbird. Only 15 were made under the CIA’s OXCART program. The story of this technological wonder is fascinating. https://gizmodo.com/the-thrill-of-flying-the-sr-71-blackbird-5511236 The OXCART program story began in 1957, when a contractor suggested that high-altitude supersonic flight was … Continued
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Chinese Scientists Claim Diamond Bullet Could Achieve Nuclear Fusion
Science, what with all of its rigorous procedure and stifling detail, can sometimes be a bore. But this wacky new study that says we could achieve cold fusion with an ultra fast diamond bullet: not boring at all! Chinese researchers say that firing a tiny, millimeter-sized diamond bullet into a block of methane at 1,000 … Continued
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Tech NewsThe History of Everything, In Wondrous Stop-Motion Street Animation
It’s hard to imagine Italian artist BLU producing a more involved work than 2008’s astonishing MUTO street animation. And yet! “Big Bang Big Boom” tackles the history of life itself in frame after glorious frame of wall-painted animation. It’s unreal. https://gizmodo.com/muto-is-among-the-more-astounding-videos-weve-seen-onli-5021854 The effect is essentially stop-motion: a still image is painted on a wall, photographed, … Continued
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Tech NewsAmazon
Now Available
A big graphite Kindle DX. A super fast 4G WiMax Wi-Fi Hotspot. A bamboo laptop. For all the mobile warriors who demand the biggest, fastest and eco-friendliest, your devices are now available. The just refreshed Kindle DX improves on the old Kindle DX in that it offers 50% better display contrast, which means better text … Continued
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Tech NewsCreating 20-Foot-Tall Blasts of Fire With Your Mind
Toys that use brainwaves to “control” what’s happening? Super lame. Gigantic propane fire launchers that use brainwaves to “control” the explosions? Awesome. The PK4A project combines an EEG headset, a control unit and a bunch of propane tanks to allow the user to set off huge towers of flame just by thinkin’ real hard. Sure, … Continued
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