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iPhone 4: The Definitive Guide
We already showed you the new iPhone from every angle, inside and out. Today, Steve Jobs re-revealed it, telling us about the remaining details. Here’s the exhaustive guide to all the features of the new iPhone 4. The design The hardware design hasn’t changed from the one we already knew about. It uses the same … Continued
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Finally! A Full Netflix iPhone App
We knew that Netflix had grand plans for the future and today we know what they are: An iPhone app. A full version of Netflix in an iPhone app. We’ll be able to start movies on our TVs or iPads and resume them on other devices. Sounds great and reminds us about a patent we … Continued
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iBooks Update: PDF Support and Bookmarks, Coming This Month
iBooks just got a decent-sized update, bringing native PDF support (yes!) as well as bookmarks. Your PDFs will get their own seperate bookshelf. The update drops later this month. GDGT” /> Click to view Follow Everything iPhone on Facebook From the best iPhone apps and games to the biggest iPhone news stories and all the … Continued
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If John Noble doesn’t get an Emmy nomination, we will BURN THIS PLACE TO THE GROUND
Scifi has traditionally been ignored by the TV Academy — which’ll be handing out nominations on July 8th — but Noble did such deft, powerful work last season as Fringe’s Walter Bishop that to overlook him would be a crime. The campaigning is starting, fast and furious — ads are being taken out in the … Continued
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Gadgets and Multitasking Are Ruining Your Life
Do you know why you can’t concentrate on one thing at a time? Why you can’t get engaged with your family? Why you need to check your email every five minutes? Because gadgets and multitasking are screwing up your brain. According to this lengthy NY Times article, our brains just aren’t wired for the amount … Continued
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Do you suffer from sexsomnia? You’re not alone.
It’s one of the most common, and most poorly understood, sleep disorders. Sexsomniacs have sex with bedmates in their sleep, or sometimes while sleep walking. Now a new study sheds light on the phenomenon. Presented today at the annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, this new study of sexsomnia revealed that 7.6 percent … Continued
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How To Keep Up With WWDC News On Twitter And Facebook
Curious about what WWDC will bring? If our meta-liveblog is too overwhelming for you, then you can pick just the right dose of WWDC news for yourself by following along on Twitter or Facebook: On our Facebook page, we’ll be posting the most important news, while there’ll be immediate updates on our Twitter account—complete with … Continued
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Russell T. Davies explains how the new Torchwood will continue the story!
The elite alien-fighting squad of Torchwood — well, the two members who remain — will return at last. The BBC announced a co-production deal with U.S. cable network Starz. Update: Russell T. Davies speaks! I think we can all heave a sigh of relief that the Fox version of Torchwood never came to pass. Instead, … Continued
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Australian Sun Installation Can Be Controlled By iPhones or iPads
Melbourne is famed for having four seasons in one day, so it’s only fitting that a 14m (diameter-wise) animated scale model of the sun should be suspended in the sky, controllable with an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. It was created by artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer for the Light in Winter festival in Melbourne. Beamed onto … Continued
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These Cellphone-Charging Boots Will Never Exist
UK cell carrier Orange always puts out a publicity-garnering concept device before the Glastonbury Festival to drum up chatter about its sponsorship. This year’s? Cellphone-charging Wellies. Yes, these sure-to-never-be-produced rain boots charge up your phone via the heat generated by your feet. Nevermind the obvious silliness of sticking your cellphone on the outside of boots … Continued
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The First iPad Webcam Is a Sad Sight
It was only a matter of time before someone ruined the iPad’s simple elegance with an atrocious webcam. By a company named Photofast, this iPad webcam is planned for launch later this year. With a 2MP still camera (not 200, despite what the picture may say), it promises 640×480 video streaming in messaging apps. It … Continued
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Charlie Kaufman takes you inside your own mind
On Saturday, Charlie Kaufman, the screenwriter behind Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John Malkovich, came to New York to talk to us about the nature of consciousness. Here’s what he had to say. The event was part of New York City’s annual World Science Festival, which often pairs groundbreaking scientists with brilliant … Continued
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The New Apple iPhone Meta-Liveblog Starts Now
As you heard, we weren’t invited into the WWDC keynote itself, but that doesn’t mean we’re not going to be liveblogging today’s events. We’ve had an impressive outpouring of support from our readers on the inside to help us liveblog. Our liveblog is, as usual, over at live.gizmodo.com, so head over on there now, because … Continued
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HP ePrint: Print From Pretty Much Anything to Anywhere
HP’s vision: a fleet of printers, all connected to the cloud, all with their own email addresses. No more drivers, no extra cost. You’ll be able to print from your smartphone or iPad. If printing has a future, it’s this. It’s not as though we didn’t see this coming: the New York Times spilled some … Continued
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WWDC 10: Here Comes the New iPhone, But What Else?
We’re just a few hours away from Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference. Before we know for absolute certainty what they’ve got planned, let’s see if we can’t separate probable fact from probable fiction. UPDATED: Will the new iPhone be announced? Ever since Apple’s next-generation iPhone was uncovered, there’s been speculation that the early reveal would push … Continued
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The moving rocks of Racetrack Playa
In the arid desert of Death Valley, there’s a flat patch of land where the rocks mysteriously move along the sun-baked ground — with no evidence as to how, or why. Some of these “sailing stones” weigh hundreds of pounds, and the only evidence that they’ve moved is a rock-sized trail in the dirt — … Continued
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Spiral UFOs spotted over Australia
Remember those crazy spiral UFOs spotted over Norway last year? Now there’s video of another one, this time over Australia. And the explanation for both phenomena is likely the same. Just as the spiral light in Norway was probably a rocket spiraling in the atmosphere, so too are these spiral lights caused by a rocket. … Continued