Sunday, May 10, 2009
Phones
Best Buy Internals List Palm Pre Touchstone Price ($70!), Dubious Stock Date
11:15PM Jack Loftus | So what do you think? Is the upcoming Palm Pre Touchstone inductive charging station kit worth $US70? More »
Random Stuff
Hackers Break Into UC Berkeley’s Database, Steal Nearly 100,000 Social Security Numbers
7:45AM 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. More »
Entertainment
Famous Old Person Helps Other Old People Understand This Digital Television Contraption
7:00AM Dan Nosowitz | Is there anything Official DTV Spokesperson Carol Brady can’t do? More »
Computers
Awesome 1980s Computer Pop-Up Book: A Floppy What Now?
6:00AM 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. More »
Vehicles
Ford Engineer Builds Street-Legal, 53km/L Hybrid in His Garage
5:15AM 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. More »
Software
An iPhone App Developer’s Take on Piracy: Work With Pirates, Not Against Them
4:30AM 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. More »
Science
From Earth To Moon Redux: How The Next Moonshot Will Happen
2:30AM 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: More »
Cameras
New Entry-Level Sony DSLRs Feature Revamped GUI, HDMI-Out
1:30AM 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. More »
Online
Some Other, Non-Giz-Affiliated Astronaut to Answer Questions Live From Space
1:00AM 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. More »
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