deaths
Online
Facebook Status: Resting In Peace
7:20AM Brian Lam | Facebook is now letting users memorialise pages of friends who have passed away. More »
Phones
i-mate Briefly Reappears On Everyone’s Radar, Just To Die
11:22PM John Herrman | Oct 23 2007: The last time we posted a story on i-mate, a once-hopeful early player in the Windows Mobile handset field. Since then, the company’s story has been one of restructuring, layoffs, missed orders and debt. And today, at long last, death. [ITP]
Vehicles
Jetpod Flying Taxi Creator Falls To His Death Testing Prototype
5:20AM Joanna Stern | We’ve been all about the air lately, but sometimes we just forget what some do to give us our future areo technology. The inventor of the Jetpod flying taxi, Michael Robert Dacre, died yesterday while testing his latest twin-engine aircraft. More »
Music
Les Paul, Inventor Of The Solid-Body Electric Guitar, Dies At 94
7:30AM Sean Fallon | Les Paul, the legendary inventor behind the birth of rock n’ roll, died today of complications from pneumonia at the age of 94. More »
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Billy Mays, Well-Known TV Pitchman, Dead At 50
2:50AM Jack Loftus | TV pitchman Billy Mays was found dead this morning in his Tampa Bay home. The unmistakable Mays, whose signature high decibel delivery was a staple for dozens of quirky TV commercial wares and gadgets, was 50. More »
Computers
Girl Dies By Electrocution While Tweeting In Bathtub
9:00AM Adrian Covert | Two things here in what seems to be the world’s first Twittercide: don’t use your computer while taking a bath. And if for whatever reason you do, don’t be like this 17-year-old Romanian girl and risk your well-being to Tweet. More »
Software
RIP Microsoft Encarta, 1993-2009
1:30AM John Mahoney | Woe: Microsoft has officially pulled the plug on Encarta, a reference work that, for many of us, was probably more formative than anyone would like to admit. More »
Phones
Mobile Phones Don’t Kill People, Crazy Homemade Guns Kill People
9:20AM Sean Fallon | Not surprisingly, it turns out that there was more to the story behind the mysterious death of a Chinese computer salesman. Apparently, it was a crazy homemade gun that killed him—not an exploding mobile phone. More »
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