Sunday, May 10, 2009

Mobile

Best Buy Internals List Palm Pre Touchstone Price ($70!), Dubious Stock Date

11:15PM May 10, 2009 | Jack Loftus

So what do you think? Is the upcoming Palm Pre Touchstone inductive charging station kit worth $US70?

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Geek Out

Hackers Break Into UC Berkeley’s Database, Steal Nearly 100,000 Social Security Numbers

7:45AM May 10, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

An unknown number of hackers broke into UC Berkeley’s database and were able to access the personal and health information of over 160,000 students and former students. They’re still at large.

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Entertainment

Famous Old Person Helps Other Old People Understand This Digital Television Contraption

7:00AM May 10, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

Is there anything Official DTV Spokesperson Carol Brady can’t do?

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Computing

Awesome 1980s Computer Pop-Up Book: A Floppy What Now?

6:00AM May 10, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

Now this is one amazing Goodwill find: A vintage pop-up book designed to teach burgeoning nerds about the wonders of the modern computer. Floppy disks, ASCII, and the dot-matrix printer. Oh my.

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Cars

Ford Engineer Builds Street-Legal, 53km/L Hybrid in His Garage

5:15AM May 10, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

The “HyperRocket” was built by a Ford efficiency expert in his garage, and with two seats, a whopping 53km/L, and a comfortable cruising speed of 105kph, we’re awfully tempted to buy the thing.

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Software

An iPhone App Developer’s Take on Piracy: Work With Pirates, Not Against Them

4:30AM May 10, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

The creator of iCombat weighed in with his thoughts on newly-popular piracy of iPhone apps with an interesting conclusion: It’s not worth the trouble to police the pirates, and they might even prove helpful.

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Science

From Earth To Moon Redux: How The Next Moonshot Will Happen

2:30AM May 10, 2009 | Wilson Rothman

May 2019: Our scheduled return to the moon. There’s plenty of labouring to be done on the Constellation Program before then, but the foundation is set. Here’s how you—as an astronaut—would experience the mission:

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Cameras

New Entry-Level Sony DSLRs Feature Revamped GUI, HDMI-Out

1:30AM May 10, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

We’ve heard rumors on the new Alpha series DSLRs before, and now a larger leak on Sony’s Russian site shows the Alphas have been slimmed down and further geared toward the casual user.

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Online

Some Other, Non-Giz-Affiliated Astronaut to Answer Questions Live From Space

1:00AM May 10, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

Because NASA’s hip with the kids, dammit, they’re using both YouTube and Twitter to let the public ask questions of astronaut Mark Polansky, commander of the International Space Station.

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Online

In the Online Equivalent of Crude Bathroom Graffiti, Is the Bathroom Responsible?

12:00AM May 10, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

After her jackass ex-boyfriend created fake profiles on Yahoo! to persuade other men to call her repeatedly for sexual favours, Cecilia Barnes found little help from Yahoo! in having them removed.

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