Gadget News
Apple is Blocking Its Own News App in China
Gizmodo - 11 Oct 2015 18:30
Apple's News app has officially launched in the US, with trials in the UK and Australia. But if you're an American traveling to China, don't plan on accessing the app from your phone. Apple itself is reportedly blocking ...
Brown Leather and Wool Felt Key Organizer by S-Key
The Gadget Flow - 11 Oct 2015 10:00
Get beyond the cacophony of jangling keys with the Brown Leather and Wool Felt Key Organizer by S-Key. Designed and manufactured with your everyday routine in mind, the strong metal clasp of the S-Key design won't fail y...
The After Math: It all adds up
Engadget - 11 Oct 2015 19:00
Microsoft and Dell added a slew of new products to their portfolios this week. But those aren't the only additions to the industry over the past seven days. Netflix added a dollar to the price of its popular streaming se...
Apple's News app is disabled in China
Engadget - 11 Oct 2015 22:05
The News app in iOS 9 is officially available only in the US, but you can still access stories when you're traveling abroad... unless you're visiting China, that is. A New York Times source understands that Apple has com...
Sunday's Best Deals: Sub-$4 Kindle Books, Sweaters, Bluetooth Headphones
Gizmodo - 11 Oct 2015 19:09
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China's ridesharing services will require special licenses
Engadget - 11 Oct 2015 09:27
Ridesharing services are big in China, but they've run into many of the same regulatory concerns you see everywhere else -- officials are worried about holding drivers accountable for their behavior. Accordingly, the cou...
Windows 10 didn't stop PC sales from dropping this summer
Engadget - 11 Oct 2015 05:33
Windows 10 may have breathed new life into your PC, but it didn't do anything to juice PC sales this summer. Both Gartner and IDC estimate that computer sales dropped several points year-over-year (between 7.7 and 10.8 p...
Unity Engine working to keep years of browser games alive
Engadget - 11 Oct 2015 03:02
One of the big factors to game engine Unity's success is that for awhile it ran on basically any platform be it Oculus, PS Vita or home consoles like the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. But according to the developer, recent...
Rinspeed's latest concept is a self-driving sports car
Engadget - 12 Oct 2015 01:11
Most prototype self-driving cars are designed for comfort, not performance. After all, wouldn't you want to take the wheel if you really wanted a thrill? Rinspeed thinks there's a case to be made, though: it just teased ...
This is What a Mass Die-off of Earth's Coral Reefs Looks Like
Gizmodo - 11 Oct 2015 21:30
Earlier this week, we learned that Earth's coral reefs are in the midst of a massive dieoff , triggered by abnormally hot temperatures in ocean basins worldwide. It's hardly the first time in recent history that we've wi...
Australia Probably Won't Be a Drone Utopia For Much Longer
Gizmodo - 12 Oct 2015 01:00
Australia is known as the drone hobbyist's utopia. It has relatively lax laws and a booming drone industry. But the fire season in Australia is about to begin, and firefighters there are already worried about what we saw...
A Legendary Hollywood Set Lies Buried on the California Coast
Gizmodo - 11 Oct 2015 23:00
Welcome to Reading List, Gizmodo's weekly collection of great tech, science, and culture reads from around the web. This week we explore how the remains of an ancient Egyptian city became buried in a dune field along Cal...
Voters Now Automatically Registered at the DMV in California
Gizmodo - 11 Oct 2015 22:30
Are you getting or renewing your driver's license in California soon? Don't worry about registering to vote. California just became the second state in the country to pass a law creating automatic voter registration at t...
These Astronauts Designed Experiments for Space by Swimming Underwater
Gizmodo - 11 Oct 2015 22:00
December 18, 1975: This is no casual swim: astronauts Carolyn Griner, Ann Whitaker, and Mary-Helen Johnston train in the Neutral Buoyancy Simulator to help design new experiments to conduct in the challenging environment...
The patron saint of the internet is Isidore of Seville, who tried to record everything ever known
Gizmodo - 11 Oct 2015 22:00
In 1997 Pope John Paul II declared Isidore of Seville the patron saint of the internet. Saint Isidore died in the year 636, long before the first host-to-host ARPANET connection in 1969. But Isidore did try to record eve...
Microsoft Surface Pro 4 ups the ante for tablet markets
Coolest Gadgets - 11 Oct 2015 21:30
Tablets are pretty useful mobile devices to tote around – they get the basics of computing done on the move, without requiring the kind of technicality involved with a desktop or a laptop, and yet is extremely light an...
Microsoft Surface Book brings a new paradigm shift to the portable computing arena
Coolest Gadgets - 11 Oct 2015 20:32
It does feel as though we have more or less hit a plateau when it comes to tablets – where the world is firmly entrenched in the extremely popular iOS-powered iPad range, as well as the Android-powered tablets that hai...
Living with the Jolla Tablet: a promising device with few apps
Engadget - 11 Oct 2015 20:30
There's no question that the Jolla Tablet is an odd duck. It's a crowdfunded, first-generation slate running an unfamiliar platform (Sailfish OS), and some of its features are based on your input -- if enough of the Sail...
Watch Teddy Roosevelt's First Aeroplane Flight, 105 Years Ago Today
Gizmodo - 11 Oct 2015 20:30
On October 11, 1910 Teddy Roosevelt became the first president to fly in an airplane. Well, technically he was an ex-president at the time. But that somehow makes it even more badass.
Use Cabinet to Manage Files on Your Android Device
Gizmodo - 11 Oct 2015 20:25
File management on Android is improving, but it's still not great, and it can be frustrating trying to take control of exactly which files are saved and where they're stored. Numerous third-party apps have rushed in to f...
The Fourth Man To Walk On the Moon Also Paints Beautiful Space Art
Gizmodo - 11 Oct 2015 19:15
Since you consume the internet excessively, you've probably at some point seen the image above, maybe with the added text: MY NOSE ITCHES. This is a very funny meme, well done internet.
Matt Damon Does Even More Science in Deleted Scene From The Martian
Gizmodo - 11 Oct 2015 18:15
If you didn't get enough of Matt Damon's Mark Watney sciencing the shit out of his accidental home in the feature cut of The Martian (and to be honest, we could always watch more), here's an entry from Watney's video dia...