July 11, 9:20 PM PST Lost all ways to recharge batteries, down to emergency battery. Just like an aeroplane. More »
Stefan Eriksson, head of Gizmondo (the failed handheld gaming company who couldn’t even plagiarise our name correctly), was sentenced to 1.5 years in prison for robbery, attempted blackmail and making illegal threats (which threats are legal?). More »
As if you needed more evidence that texting is more dangerous than swine flu, a 15-year-old girl from Staten Island walked into an open manhole while texting. She’s fine, don’t worry, although she did lose a shoe in the sewer. More »
Author Boyd Morrison wrote and uploaded a book called The Ark, pictured, to Kindle, and found such success that he has now signed a two book deal with Simon and Schuster in that weird, dying papery format your grandparents like. More »
Despite having showed no changes to the OS X UI at WWDC, it looks like there are at least a few tweaks in the new test build. Could the minor changes spotted already indicate more are to come this fall? More »
Smartphone users just don’t know what they want. One of the biggest, loudest complaints about all-touchscreen phones like the iPhone is its lack of a hardware keyboard, and now a survey shows Pre users most want a soft keyboard. More »
This iPod dock concept seems pretty feasible, if not incredibly practical in its current form: You can stack as many of the pods as you want underneath the dock itself, allowing for multiple speakers, lights, or (oddly) air purifiers. More »
In the wake of the Google Chrome OS news, it’s worth taking a look back at those other OSes that just didn’t quite make it. Not to say that Chrome OS is doomed, but these are murky, unforgiving waters. More »
