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Seattle 3G Data Test: AT&T, Sprint and Verizon
As a recent transplant to the Pacific Northwest, I got a chance to test out 3G in both Seattle and Portland. As you can imagine, most of my stops were in coffee shops. Maple Leaf (Wednesday, 4pm) Dining room table at our lovely rental house in this mostly residential upper Seattle neighborhood. Redmond (Thursday, 4pm) … Continued
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SF and Bay Area 3G Data Test: AT&T, Sprint and Verizon
SF intern Andi Wang set out to test over three afternoons, covering a wider range than most testers by hitting not just SF but Marin and a good bit of Silicon Valley. Googleplex (Wednesday, 1pm) Having been born and raised in Silicon Valley, I like to brag that Google’s Headquarters is just 10 minutes away … Continued
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New York City 3G Data Test: AT&T, Sprint and Verizon
New York editor John Mahoney was all over this project, not only initiating testing in NYC but helping set up the program so that everyone else could follow suit. Bryant Park (Sunday, 7:25pm) Was in Bryant park on a nice warm Sunday night. Drank a coffee, tested 3G sticks. It’s in midtown, but midtown on … Continued
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Stunning Zenithal Shot of Space Shuttle Flying On Top of 747
Seeing the space shuttle flying on top of its modified 747 carrier is rare. This image of Endeavour riding it over the Mojave a few days ago, however, is absolutely awesome. Updated with 1600px-wide version. Click on the image above to get the 1600 x 1200 pixel version Space Shuttle mission STS-126-which brought the materials … Continued
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How Not to Treat People When Pitching Them Stories
Just when you think PR folks and bloggers got along semi-decently, you get a report of one such exchange where the PR person challenges the blogger to a fistfight. Updated 2:43 PM EST To set the scene, December is the season where all the PR companies are throwing out 50x the normal amount of emails … Continued
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Microsoft Responds to Xbox 360 Disc Scratching Allegations
While recently unsealed documents suggests that Microsoft knew about Xbox 360 disc scratching problems all along, Microsoft has finally stepped forward to respond to the allegations. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-allegedly-knew-xbox-360-was-scratching-discs-5110840 Speaking with Edge, a Microsoft spokesperson explained: While we have had some users contact us with concerns about scratched discs, it is much less than 1 percent of … Continued
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Macworld Expo Organizers IDG Have No Plans To Bail on 2010 Show
Even though Apple pulling out of Macworld after this year probably spells the end, IDG is going on record saying they’re barreling ahead with Macworld 2010. No, it’s not the most shocking announcement, since Macworld is arguably one of the brighter jewels in IDG’s portfolio of trade shows that includes everything from the DEMO conference … Continued
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Television App For iPhone is Not Quite Hulu, But Getting Warmer
The creatively name “Television” aggregates web TV sources like CNN, CBS, NBC and BBC, making Bob Schieffer, Brian Williams and the gang from Top Gear just a single tap away. Television is only an aggregator-meaning all of the content available already exists out on the web for free. And, it only works on wi-fi, which … Continued
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Nick Fury, Agent Of ARG
Marvel Comics’ new series Secret Warriors may be more than just a comic book, if a “leaked” website launched yesterday is anything to go by. Is this the start of the latest Mighty Marvel ARG? A fake Post-It note attached to the solicitation image for the new Marvel comic’s second issue, released yesterday, directed fans … Continued
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Microwave Jingle Bells Will Heat Up Your Geekest Jolly Spirit
Ideas company AKQA has created one of the coolest Christmas video cards I’ve ever seen: 49 microwave ovens stacked on a wall, all set to play Jingle Bells. As you can see in the video, it required some careful planning. First, finding the microwave ovens with the right “ping”, so they could have the notes … Continued
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Golden-Age Science Fiction And Gay Chickens Went Hand In Wing
Hugo Gernsback, who invented the term “science fiction,” also started a magazine called Sexology in 1933. The same boundless curiosity that led to Amazing Stories also spawned articles on priapism and other sexual oddities. The Best Of Sexology, which came out this past fall, includes a host of pulpy essays from Gernsback’s seminal (so to … Continued
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The Best of the Worst of Skymall
What in the name of all that is good, sacred, and smells of PVC is this? A deer having sex with a trailer hitch? It’s just one of the worst things in SkyMall’s catalog. Actually I like it. It goes perfectly with this: But maybe I have had too much of accelerated wine and liquor: … Continued
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Kristin Kreuk Shares Details Behind The Making Of Chun-Li’s Power Thighs
The lovely Kristin Kreuk took a minute to explain the tragic backstory behind her character in Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li before she was a yup-yupping, butt-kicking bad ass. In an interview with Sci Fi Wire Kreuk explained that her character remains pretty true to the Chun-Li history: “It’s about the character Chun-Li. It’s … Continued
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Nyko Redesigns ‘Kama’ Nunchuk, Nintendo Lawsuit Settled
Today, Nintendo announced that they’d settled a lawsuit with Nyko over the wireless Kama controller. Along with what we’re guessing was a sizable check, Nyko agreed to redesign their controller. Here’s how they placated Nintendo: https://gizmodo.com/nintendo-suing-nyko-over-wireless-nunchuk-5016278 From a Nyko spokesperson: • Wider shape to fit hands comfortably • Curved Z button to reduce finger slippage … Continued
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New Magazine Ad Displays 3D Car in Augmented Reality
We’ve seen webcam-based augmented reality before, like in NSFW Japanese dating games and the PS3’s Eye of Judgment. But in a publicly distributed Mini Cabrio ad? A realtime 3D rendering is actually useful. https://gizmodo.com/virtual-webcam-girlfriend-is-entrancing-if-a-little-pe-5075130 What appears to be little more than a black and white advertisement in three recent German automotive magazines becomes a 3D … Continued
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Asteroids Watch Needs To Be Mass Produced Now
Electronics genius John Maushammer has a new version of his Pong game watch, one that plays Asteroids and can be controlled with a tilt sensor. https://gizmodo.com/pong-watch-a-smaller-geekier-pong-clock-200341 Usually, the computer plays automatically & it keeps time. But, it also has a tilt-sensor so you can aim the ship by moving your wrist around. It’s not done … Continued
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Huge Hole Found on Earth’s Magnetic Field, Run Around In Panic Now
NASA’s Themis, a satellite flotilla studying geomagnetic disturbances, have discovered a large hole on Earth’s magnetic field, which protects us against solar particles, which can cause severe disturbances in power grids, computers, and communication. Updated. https://gizmodo.com/themis-satellites-discover-northern-lights-are-powered-5028889 What we observed was the breach in the levee. This has taken us completely by surprise. The opening was … Continued
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Evil Foot Massage Machine Kills Three People
The rise of the machines is happening already: Three people were killed in Japan by an evil foot massage machine. Or maybe the machine wasn’t that evil and the people were just thick. Actually, the foot massage machine wasn’t evil at all. Maybe a little bad tempered and with some personal interrelation issues, but it … Continued
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