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Bono Wishes A Happy Birthday To Bill Gates

6:33AM Jesus Diaz | Bill Gates — one of my favourite Gizmodo readers, technology capo di tutti capi and philanthropist — was in Vancouver last week, watching a U2 in concert and celebrating. And of course, Bono greeted him. Belated Happy Birthday, SeƱor Gates. [Techflash]
Design

Bono Gets Laser Jacket, Public Probably Gets Eye Damage

2:20AM Jesus Diaz | Bono got all pew-pew at the first concert of U2’s new tour, wearing a black leather jacket with 240 red lasers built along his silhouette. Not LEDs, lasers. See how it worked on this video of him doing the monkey: More »
Phones

Bono Is Going to Make a ‘Spectacular’ BlackBerry (or Something)

9:20AM Matt Buchanan | Why did Bono abandon Apple, given their shared vision of beautiful things for beautiful people, for BlackBerry? It’s because, Bono says, “RIM is going to give us what Apple wouldn’t—access to their labs.” Dear God. More »
Online

Bono Loves Own Voice So Much He Blasts New U2 Album Loud Enough for Fan to Record, Leak It

7:00AM Matt Buchanan | Now, I know Bono is the kind of guy that loves the sound of his own voice a whole lot, but his predilection for his own crooning apparently led to four tracks from U2’s upcoming album getting leaked online. Bono was playing them so loud from his villa in southern France that a fan passing by recognised his voice and recorded the songs. More »
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Caption Contest: Bill Gates, Bono and Michael Dell Walk into a Bar

5:15AM Jason Chen | Have you seen Bono more uncomfortable than this? Caption this picture of him supporting the Dell & Microsoft RED campaign. AU: Come on AU, let’s see what your captioning skills are like… [Image courtesy Gadgetell] More »