"From the earliest days of Google, whenever Larry and I sought inspiration for vision and leadership, we needed to look no farther than Cupertino. Steve, your passion for excellence is felt by anyone who has ever touched an Apple product (including the macbook I am writing this on right now). And I have witnessed it in person the few times we have met. On behalf of all of us at Google and more broadly in technology, you will be missed very much. My condolences to family, friends, and colleagues at Apple."
— Sergey Brin
"I am very, very sad to hear the news about Steve. He was a great man with incredible achievements and amazing brilliance. He always seemed to be able to say in very few words what you actually should have been thinking before you thought it. His focus on the user experience above all else has always been an inspiration to me. He was very kind to reach out to me as I became CEO of Google and spend time offering his advice and knowledge even though he was not at all well. My thoughts are with his family and the whole Apple family."
— Larry Page
"Steve, thank you for being a mentor and a friend. Thanks for showing that what you build can change the world. I will miss you."
— Mark Zuckerberg
"He was dubbed a megalomaniac, but Steve Jobs often gambled on young, largely inexperienced talent to take Apple forward; Jony Ives and his team prove that such faith was spot on."
— Sir James Dyson, innovator and entrepreneur
"I got one of the first Macs, and my relationship with computers fundamentally changed. In both of his incarnations at Apple, he was a visionary. He provided tools. His victories were based on imagination and courage."
— Roger Ebert, Pulitzer-prize winning film critic
"No words can adequately express our sadness at Steve's death or our gratitude for the opportunity to work with him. We will honor his memory by dedicating ourselves to continuing the work he loved so much."
— Tim Cook, CEO of Apple
"Tonight our CityÊ-- a city that has always had such respect and admiration for creative genius -- joins with people around the planet in remembering a great man and keeping Laurene and the rest of the Jobs family in our thoughts and prayers."
— Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City
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R.I.P. Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011
Like everyone else on the Internet, all of us at GeekDad are shocked and deeply saddened by the passing of Steve Jobs. The outpouring of grief and fond remembrances on the various social media shows far better than any poor words we could write the effect his life’s work had on the world, and the [...]
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Steve Jobs’ Greatest Achievements
With Steve Jobs' passing, we have lost one of the greatest technological innovators of our time.
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Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011
Steven Paul Jobs, co-founder, chairman and former chief executive of Apple Inc., passed away Wednesday. A visionary inventor and entrepreneur, it would be impossible to overstate Steve Jobs' impact on technology and how we use it. Apple's mercurial, mysterious leader did more than reshape his entire industry: he completely changed how we interact with technology. He made gadgets easy to use, gorgeous to behold and essential to own. He made things we absolutely wanted, long before we even knew we wanted them. Jobs' utter dedication to how people think, touch, feel and interact with machines dictated even the smallest detail of the computers Apple built and the software it wrote.
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Steve Jobs Through the Years
To try and understand what made Steve Jobs a visionary, Wired.com takes a look back on the life of Steve Jobs, the man.
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Insightful Video Breaks Down The Matrix’s Inspirations
The Matrix took its influences from a host of movies that came before it. In just a little over six minutes, this video breaks down many of the films that came before the Wachowskis' sci-fi classic.
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Sprint Confirms Unlimited Data Plans for New iPhone 4S Owners
Like it or not, unlimited smartphone data plans are quickly becoming a thing of the past. But if you’re jonesing for the new iPhone 4S and need uncapped, unlimited bandwidth, there’s still one carrier left that will deliver. Sprint spokeswoman Michelle Leff Mermelstein confirmed to AllThingsD that the carrier would offer unlimited data plans for [...]
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Vinyl Gets Sliced, Reassembled in Analog Sampling Technique
Designer Ishac Bertran has developed an analog music-sampling technique by physically cutting and pasting pieces of vinyl together to create new tracks.
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Biofuels, Speculation Blamed for Global Food Market Weirdness
A new analysis of rapid, volatile rises in global food prices puts the blame on biofuel policy and mortgage meltdown-style speculation, which may have fundamentally changed how food markets function.
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What Do Your Games Say About You?
After you’ve found the final treasure with Nathan Drake, helped Solid Snake sneak past the last enemy soldier, or zapped another gang member with Cole MacGrath, you may have felt an emotional bond with these characters that you’ve controlled for countless hours. It makes sense, you’ve spent a lot of time with them and been through some [...]
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HP, Apple Buildings Locked Down in Cupertino Multiple Homicide Manhunt
Hewlett-Packard’s Cupertino campus was shut down on Wednesday while local police searched for a suspect of a multiple homicide still on the run who shot and wounded one of the company’s employees. At least three of Apple’s Cupertino, Calif. campus office buildings were also locked down in the wake of the shooting, Wired.com has learned. After [...]
10.05.11
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Stop-Motion Ninja Fight Slays With Awesomeness
Ninja brings together the ninja action of Kill Bill with the stop-motion animation stylings of Fantastic Mr. Fox for one truly impressive video short.
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Monkeys Control Virtual Limbs With Their Minds
Although real-life brain-controlled prosthetics that enable a person to, say, pick up a pencil continue to improve for amputees, limbs that can actually feel touch sensations have remained a challenge. Now, by implanting electrodes into both the motor and the sensory areas of the brain, researchers have created a virtual prosthetic hand that monkeys control using only their minds, and that enables them to feel virtual textures.
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Less Flash, More World Domination: Apple’s Tim Cook Era Begins
The key moment in Tim Cook’s first keynote as Apple CEO didn’t concern the new iPhone at all. Instead, it came near the end of his roundup of Apple’s business across its product lines. If you’re a professional or amateur Apple Kremlinologist looking for clues as to how Cook will run the company, or even [...]
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Guest Post: Occupying Facebook
Yesterday I was given a list of Occupy sites on Daily Kos, about 200 of them. Most were Facebook sites; there were a handful of blogs with feeds. Of course without feeds they can’t be part of occupyweb.org. But that’s okay, because occupying Facebook is every bit as good as occupying Wall Street. Seriously. And because of what’s [...]
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How the M00p Malware Gang Was Brought Down
How a years-long investigation by law enforcement agents and an anti-virus firm brought down the M00p malware gang.
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5 Things We Can’t Wait to Say to Siri, Apple’s Virtual Assistant
Apple's new Siri virtual assistant will let iPhone 4S owners request songs by voice, and music app developers will be able to let Siri control their apps, too. That means we should be able to say things to tomorrow’s music apps including, we hope, the these five things.
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Review: Arty American Horror Story Spikes Fright Formula With Kinky Sex
The bloody new soap opera respects its genre roots, hitting viewers with a full complement of creaky doors, squeaking stairs and whistling wind. But it freshens up the scare tactics with three-dimensional characters that have a lot more than ghosts to worry about as they settle into a mansion brimming with bad vibes.
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Software Makers Win Big in Supreme Court Copyright Fight
The Supreme Court is refusing to review a federal appellate panel’s decision that software makers may use shrink-wrap and click-wrap licenses to forbid the transfer or resale of their wares. Without comment, the justices on Monday let stand a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that is another erosion of the so-called “first-sale” doctrine, which [...]
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Why Apple Still Loves Its Media Player Business
At Apple’s iPhone event, CEO Tim Cook did a funny thing. He took a moment before introducing the new iPhone 4S to introduce two new iPods: a $199 iPod Touch running iOS 5, featuring Facetime and an HD video camera, and a quite cheap iPod Nano (just $129 for the entry-level model) tricked out with [...]
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Video: The Navy’s New Robo-Copter Heads to Afghanistan
Afghanistan's a dangerous place to drive a convoy and a really dangerous place to send a helicopter crew. That's why the Navy's shipping two robotic choppers to the warzone, ready to haul up to 6,000 pounds of cargo a day. This video shows the new K-MAX drone at work.
10.05.11
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Nobel Awarded to Researcher Who Redefined Crystalline
The Nobel Prize in chemistry has gone to a lone researcher who illuminated something even more basic than the universe's structure: His discovery of what's now termed a quasicrystal actually redefined what a crystalline solid is.
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iPhone 4S Introduces 4-Player Split-Screen Racing
I’m a sucker for new ways to play local multi-player games. In fact my favorite version of Driver San Francisco was on the Wii because of its multi-player mode that let a DS player join in. It’s no surprise then, that the AirPlay feature is the part of the iPhone 4S announcement that got me [...]
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Xfinity, FiOS and More TV Headed to Xbox 360 This Year
Comcast Xfinity, Verizon FiOS, HBO and many more television services are on their way to Xbox 360 this holiday season, Microsoft said on Wednesday.
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Tame Your CSS With ‘SMACSS’
Woolly, the CSS sheep. CSS is notoriously difficult to organize. The complexity of CSS selectors coupled with ever-changing project requirements and redesigns can quickly turn even the simplest of stylesheets into a snarled, tangled mess of code. Ugly code can be perfectly functional code (if it couldn’t the entire web would have collapsed in on itself [...]
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Kratos, Sackboy Collide in PlayStation TV Campaign
Ever wanted to see Uncharted’s Nathan Drake chat up Final Fantasy XIII protagonist Lightning? Sony’s newest TV advertisement, released on Wednesday, lets you watch all your favorite PlayStation all-stars interact. The commercial, which features CG versions of classic PlayStation characters from God of War’s always-angry anti-hero Kratos to the cute and cuddly Sackboy of LittleBigPlanet, is [...]
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Can Better Bathroom Design Combat Infections?
Are wash room door handles, hot-air blowers and bathroom design increasing our chances of infection? Superbug's Maryn McKenna takes a look at the research on the germiest hazards in public places, and a little on better design.
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How to Model Newton’s Cradle
You know about Newton’s Cradle. Either you have seen it as an office desk toy, or as a physics demo. It goes: click, click, click, click. So let me show you how it works. What better way to show this than to make a model of it. Oh, maybe you guessed it. [...]
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Penn & Teller Tell a Lie Is MythBusters Turned Sideways
Skeptics, rejoice! MythBusters no longer is the only show that aims to teach its viewers to question their perceptions of reality before deciding what to believe.
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The iPhone 4S’ Talking Assistant Is a Military Veteran
The premiere feature of the new phone has its roots in a decade-old Darpa program -- one that drew scorn and fear when it was first launched.
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A Stellar Puzzle Solution from ARGFest 2011
Stitch Media created a puzzle slipped into the programs at ARGFest 2011 that required puzzlers to apply their familiarity with mythology to a poem, pictured below. The handful of attendees who solved the puzzle were rewarded with candy-filled puzzle boxes in the mail. Read on for a detailed description of the solution process. By Michael [...]
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Leather Wallets for iPhones 4 and 4S
As predictably as worms squirming to the surface of a field after a rainstorm, a new Apple device fills every gadget blogger’s inbox with PR pitches for cases. The irony today, of course, is that all the existing iPhone 4 cases and accessories will still fit the iPhone 4S. But surfing right up on top of [...]
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Bluetooth Inter-Bike Communicator for Cyclists
Cyclist? Incorrigible gadget freak? Do you still — miraculously — have space on your handlebars to clamp one more widget? Then I have just the thing for you, you bearded freak, only you’re going to have to make some friends if you want to use it: The HIOD One cycling communicator. The HIOD One is a [...]
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Real Steel: Not Just About the Boxing Robots
If you watch TV at all, by now you must have seen at least a few trailers for Real Steel. If you’re anything like me, your first thought — and probably your second thought, too — was to wonder why they hadn’t simply called it “Rock ‘Em-Sock ‘Em Robots.” Having now seen the movie, I [...]
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Nissan Builds a Post-Fukushima Neighborhood Around the Leaf
If you're worried about natural disasters and energy dependence, Nissan's got a car and a house to sell you in the most exclusive of communities.
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What’s Inside: The iPhone 4S Camera
Apple may have added three more megapixels to the iPhone’s camera, but that’s just about the least interesting, and certainly the least important part of the 4S camera upgrade. The big news is threefold. Lens, sensor tech and processing hardware. Lens The iPhone’s lens now has a maximum aperture of f2.4, which not only lets in more light [...]
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Hello Kitty World, the Secret Nintendo Game
The forgotten classic Hello Kitty World isn't a crappy licensed game, it's a Nintendo-developed action game based on Balloon Fight.
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Nobel Prize in Physics Hits Close to Home
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded yesterday. I have to tell you that I was shocked and thrilled when I heard the announcement on the radio. You see, when I was working at Space Telescope Science Institute, one of my absolute favorite programs that I worked on was a high-z supernova search lead by [...]
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Earthquake Swarm Keeps Iceland’s Katla Rocking
A swarm of small earthquakes below Katla volcano in Iceland could indicate movement of magma.
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An In-Depth Review of Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple
Back in April Michael Harrison brought us news about an ongoing Kickstarter campgain for Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple. At the time, the game’s creator, Daniel Solis, was hoping to raise $4,000 to help fund the cost of printing the book. Owing to the openness in which the game was created as well as [...]
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FGTV Meets Spyro at Toys for Bob
Following up from my Dungeon & Dragons Meets Spyro post, here’s an extra Family Gamer TV show from San Francisco. This week we went to visit Toys for Bob, the developer behind a new Spyro game: Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure. But wait, before you move there is actually more going on here than first appears. The biggest [...]
10.05.11
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Geek Girl Con This Weekend!
Seattle-area geeks, especially geek girls, get thee to the first annual Geek Girl Con this weekend, October 8-9, at the Seattle Center Northwest Rooms and the EMP Museum. Though it is named Geek Girl Con, everyone is welcome to attend, although children under 16 need to be under adult supervision. For a con in its first [...]
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Ash: Old-School RPG on the iPhone
Let me get this out of the way right up front: I’m not really much of an RPG fan. I think I probably would enjoy playing role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons but I never did as a kid and just haven’t yet made the time to try it out as an adult. But RPGs [...]
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Apple Launches 30-Pin to USB iPhone Adapter for EU Compliance
Last year, the European Commission decreed that all future cellphones would have but one kind of charger. No longer would we see different cables for Nokia, Sony, and Samsung. Instead, there would be one charger to rule them all: Micro USB. Which of course led everybody to wonder if Apple would play ball. There was of [...]
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Theo Prins’ Stereoscopic Paintings
Theo Prins is an artist who creates digital paintings with some real depth to them. His illustrations, obviously inspired by travels in Asia, have a sort of post-apocalyptic feel about them. Bazaars and shops set up in the shadows of ancient highway overpasses, tangles of power lines, the odd juxtaposition of high and low tech. [...]
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Software Update Turns Old iPod Nano Into New iPod Nano
The biggest non-upgrade announced at yesterday’s Apple event wasn’t — despite what some entitled whiners might have you believe — the iPhone 4S. No, the littlest upgrade was reserved for the littlest iPod: the iPod Nano. Sure, the Nano got a built-in pedometer, bigger icons and a 18 different clock-face designs, but hardware-wise, it hasn’t changed. [...]
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The GeekDads Episode #101: Han Shot First, Fahgettaboudit!
Ken, Matt, and John Booth talk about the Apple iPhone 4S announcement, the Kindle Fire, Real Steel, The Muppets, and more. Enjoy! GeekDad.com is the parenting blog at Wired.com, edited by Ken Denmead, Matt Blum, Jonathan Liu, Z and Chris Anderson. It is a community of like-minded geeky parents writing about our experiences raising [...]
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Upgrade From iPhone 4 to iPhone 4S? There’s an App for That
Want a shiny new iPhone 4S? Of course you do. Trouble is, you’re already locked into a pesky contract with AT&T. Thanks to a new app, you can easily find out if you are eligible to upgrade, what kind of upgrade you can do, and how much it will cost you. Then, if you like [...]
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Lost Worlds Survive in Living Fossils
The ancient world lives on in these plants and animals that have remained nearly unchanged for millions of years.
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The Plan to Bring an Asteroid to Earth
Scientists and engineers met last week at Caltech to discuss the possibility of capturing an asteroid and placing it in orbit near Earth to use as a base for manned space missions further into the solar system.
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Oct. 5, 1986: Israel’s Secret Nuke Arsenal Exposed
A former technician blows the whistle to The Times of London, and Israel's nuclear capability is revealed to the world. The whistleblower becomes a hero to the peace movement and a traitor to Israel.
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Arcade Brawlers Slug It Out on iPhone
The three classic "brawler" games -- Final Fight, Streets of Rage and Double Dragon -- are now available on iPhone. Which is best?
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3 New Portable Sequels Worth Playing
One seldom uses the phrase “more of the same” as a compliment, but as I get older I find I have more respect for consistency. Do I want new and innovative ideas? Of course! And yet I am also down to enjoy a minor variation on an old theme. Providing, of course, that the concept [...]
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Justice Department Official: Muslim ‘Juries’ Threaten ‘Our Values’
FBI intelligence analysts weren't the only ones teaching their colleagues that the U.S. is at war with the Islamic religion. Justice Department officials -- and even teachers at the Army's top intellectual center -- are delivering similar messages.
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Make Sure Your Kids Are Standards-Compliant with HTML for Babies
As he was reading picture books to his infant son, John Vanden-heuvel realized most books simply used simple words and objects to familiarize kids with language basics, not a far cry from the objects and language Vanden-heuval used in his day job as a Web designer. “I realized that I could be exposing him visually [...]
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Comics Spotlight on Steve Rogers & The Silver Surfer
When Marvel sent me a review copy of Deadly Storm, I took the opportunity to ask if they had any other trades they wanted to send for review. When they said “yes,” I didn’t expect a boatload of trade paperbacks in return but I received two boxes worth of stores. Some are from series I’ve never [...]
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A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Wednesday, October 5th
As we’ve reported before, our good friends over at Google are starting up a daily puzzle challenge. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. And much to our enjoyment, they’ve decided to share the puzzles with us at GeekDad (hmm… Google a Day? GD? GeekDad?), [...]
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Dungeons & Dragons Meets Spyro in New Skylanders Game
I got a sneak peek at the new Spyro game last week during a tour of the game’s developer Toys for Bob. While I’ll leave the whole story about the developer for another post, I wanted to talk about the game itself right now: Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure. Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventures isn’t what I expected. Rather than [...]
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iPhone 4S Rumor Fact Check: How Pre-Event Speculation Held Up
To say expectations were high for Tuesday’s iPhone event at Apple HQ would be an understatement. Apple is infamously secretive, and few words of what news Apple’s event held in store were leaked prior to the event. Or rather, few accurate words. Most of the other rumors were dispelled. We’ve taken a look at a [...]
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Hayden Urges Congress to Let NSA Monitor Public Networks for Threats
Former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden revived a controversial meme on Tuesday when he urged Congress to allow his former agency to monitor public networks in order to defend against malicious activity coming from nation states and others.
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Win Obsessed With Star Trek Talking Trivia Book
Calling all Trekkies: A new book embedded with an audio module poses 2,500 trivia challenges designed to test even the most devoted Star Trek know-it-all. Compiled by Chip Carter, the 320-page Obsessed With Star Trek organizes minutiae gleaned from Star Trek creator Gene Rodenberry’s sci-fi television and movie empire. To answer multiple-choice questions printed on [...]
10.04.11
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Supreme Court Declines Music Download Case
The Supreme Court is declining to decide whether downloading a song is a public performance requiring artists to get paid additional royalties.
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Super Small: Top 20 Microscope Photos of the Year
We're never disappointed with the photos from the Nikon Small World contest, and the top 20 judges picks contained in this gallery suggest that the photographers just keep getting better. This year's winners include images of a dinosaur bone, a microchip, a mouse nerve and HeLa cells.
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Say It Ain’t So, Walt! Disney Announces More 3D-Conversion Travesties
If you paid to see The Lion King 3D at a movie theater, this is your fault. Partly, anyway. Due to the huge box office receipts from the film — about $80 million in the U.S. alone at the time of this writing — Disney has announced four more 3D conversions to hit theaters in [...]
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GPS Inventor Urges Supreme Court to Reject Warrantless Tracking
The principal inventor of the Global Positioning System is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to renounce the Obama administration’s position that it may affix GPS devices to vehicles and track their every move without a court warrant. Roger L. Easton, awarded the National Medal of Technology in 2006, joined the Center for Democracy & Technology, the [...]
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Infinity Blade 2 Will Stab iPhone This December
Developer Epic Games will release a sequel to popular iOS game Infinity Blade on December 1, it said Tuesday at an Apple press conference.
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Free MP3s: Cool Kid Mikey Rocks’ Solo Mixtape
The mixtape Premier Politics is credited to “Sir Michael Rocks,” but those familiar with Chicago hip-hop know its auteur as Mikey Rocks — one half of the duo Cool Kids. Mr. Rocks, who the Underwire has been following since catching the Cool Kids at South by Southwest in 2008, goes in deep on this solo [...]
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Dork Tower Tuesday
Read all the Dork Towers that have run on GeekDad. Find the Dork Tower webcomic archives, DT printed collections, more cool comics, awesome games and a whole lot more at the Dork Tower Website.
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Encourage Your Kids to Walk or Bike to School Tomorrow
Roughly 26 million children in the United States take a bus to school every weekday, and many others get there via a family car. There is a movement that has been growing for over a decade now, though, to get kids to walk or ride a bicycle to school, even if only for a day. The [...]
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Twitter Fans Decide Paranormal Activity 3 Premiere
Behold the power of Twitter. The studio behind Paranormal Activity 3 is choosing the cities that will be the first to see the latest installment of the spooky franchise based on how many tweets each city can muster. Between now and Oct. 13, Paramount Pictures will be logging which cities churn out the most [...]
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Iraq Militants Brag: We’ve Got Robotic Weapons, Too
U.S. forces used a combination of spy drones and bomb-handling robots to help beat back Iraq's insurgents. Now, those militants have a warning for those American troops still remaining in Iraq: We've got robots, too.
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Electric Airplane Wins $1.35 Million Prize From NASA
NASA announced this week it has awarded the $1.35 million prize for its CAFE Green Flight Challenge to the team from Pipistrel-USA.com. The twin-fuselage, four-seat electric airplane beat out the eGenius team from Germany during two competition days held last week at the Sonoma County Airport in California.
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Body May Use Cannabinoids to Make Placebos Work
New evidence suggests part of the placebo effect -- treatment of a symptom using a benign stand-in for a real drug or procedure -- results from the cannabinoid pathway.
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Slide Show Time: Building a Future-Friendly Web
Embedded above is an excellent presentation by Brad Frost. Below you can find a video that goes along with the slides. Frost’s slides and talk revolve around the idea that the web is changing too rapidly to claim we can create future-proof websites or webapps. Instead we need to think in terms of future-friendly sites. In [...]
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Robin Williams Loses Beard In Zelda: Four Swords Commercial
Actor Robin Williams goes all in during this commercial for The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords.
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Adobe Acquires Typekit Web-Font Service
Adobe has purchased Typekit, one of the driving forces behind the growth of creative web typography.
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Climate Shifts Sparked 17th-Century Conflicts
A controversial new study suggests that most of humankind's maladies -- from wars to epidemics to economic downturns -- can be traced to climate fluctuations.
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Watch: ‘Invisibility Cloak’ Uses Mirages to Make Objects Vanish
Researchers from the University of Dallas have hijacked one of nature's most intriguing phenomena -- the mirage -- to make an invisibility cloak. It can hide objects from view, works best underwater and even has a near-instant on/off switch.
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Why Do Some People Learn Faster?
Do we ignore mistakes, brushing them aside for the sake of our self-confidence? Or do we investigate the errors, seeking to learn from the snafus? The latter approach, suggests a series of studies, could make you learn faster.
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The Joy of Going to the Library
When I started this new position a couple months ago I made a pact with myself to go to the library at least once a week. That is, to physically walk to and spend some time inside the building on campus that houses tangible books. Although I was fortunate enough to have digital access to [...]
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Don’t Think About It! ‘Tight Collar’ Makes Best American Sports Writing
Today’s a good day: The Tight Collar, my story about choking under pressure, is officially published in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Best American Sports Writing 2011. I’m thrilled that it was selected by guest editor Jane Leavy, who wrote the incomparable bio Sandy Koufax. And I’m deeply honored that my story will run alongside The Patch, a [...]
10.04.11
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Explosions and Earthquakes at Anak Krakatau as Alert Status Raised
Very quick post this morning, but a number of people have mentioned that Anak Krakatau experienced new explosions today. The volcano had been experiencing a very sharp increase in seismicity, numbering over 6,000-7,000 earthquakes a day (well above the background of 100-300 per day). The PVMBG had raised the alert status to “four“, (it looks [...]
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It’s That DonorsChoose Time of the Year
What is DonorsChoose? This is pretty simple. As stated on the DonorsChoose site: You give to a classroom project. They (DonorsChoose) deliver the materials to the class. Kids learn and show it in photos and thank-you notes. See, I said it was simple. Really, this project is important. Even basic physics activities requires some simple equipment. [...]
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Pittsburgh Picks Up Predictive Parking
The nation’s first predictive parking program has debuted in downtown Pittsburgh, directing drivers based on real-time data and historical models. ParkPGH, available through an iPhone app, website, mobile site, SMS service and phone number, calculates the number of parking spaces available in 10 lots — over 5,300 spaces, and 25 percent of the garage parking in [...]
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Obama’s Favorite Think Tank: Cut The Army, Forget Counterinsurgency
Updated 3 p.m. The Obama administration’s favorite defense think tank was once a hothouse of counterinsurgency theory. But now that the government is trying to crawl out of its massive debt, the Center for a New American Security is less about big ground conflicts and more about how to shrink the defense budget. First on the chopping [...]
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Doom Modders Design Rage, id’s Latest Shooter
Rage not only represents id's first new franchise in quite some time, but a culmination of two decades of first-person shooter design.
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Oct. 4, 1957: Soviets Put Man-Made Moon in Orbit!
The shock of Sputnik reverberates around the world, heralding not only the dawn of the Space Age but the ratcheting up of an already heated Cold War.
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Busy September for Costa Rican volcanoes
Hard to believe we’ve already entered October, eh? Some news on volcanic rumblings from Costa Rica: We tend to talk about three volcanoes in Costa Rica: the ever-active Arenal, the renewed Turrialba and Poás. Now we can add another volcano to the watch list, that being Rincón de la Vieja (see above). Like the other Costa Rican [...]
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Evolutionary Treasures Locked in the Teeth of Early Whales
Whales are highly-modified, once-hoofed mammals which are entirely aquatic. This is arguably one of the greatest of evolutionary punchlines. We just didn’t get the joke until relatively recently. Upon viewing a whale skeleton, the fact that the animal once had terrestrial ancestors is not too difficult to detect – hints that their forerunners walked the prehistoric [...]
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Exclusive: Paul Cornell’s Lunar Stormwatch Lunacy
Check out an exclusive preview of the upcoming issue of DC Comics' Stormwatch, written by Doctor Who scribe Paul Cornell. In the second installment of the reboot of Jim Lee's Image Comics series, the moon fearsomely comes alive and threatens to destroy planet Earth.
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Recent Human Evolution Detected in Quebec Town History
Though ongoing human evolution is difficult to see, researchers believe they've found signs of rapid genetic changes among the recent residents of a small Canadian town.
10.03.11
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The Simpsons Couch Gets Ren & Stimpy Treatment
For those that missed Sunday night’s episode of The Simpsons, there was a brilliant “couch gag” in the opening credits: the Simpson family animated by The Ren & Stimpy Show mastermind John Kricfalusi. The bit (above) was bizarre, awkward, weird (yes that’s Homer pouring a beer directly into his cranium), and wonderful. Basically, it’s all the [...]
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Perry Arrives Late for U.S. Invasion of Mexico
Texas governor and presidential candidate Rick Perry is floating the idea of invading Mexico. Too late: The U.S. military is already up to epaulets there.
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U.S. Signs International Anti-Piracy Accord
The United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore and South Korea signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement on Saturday, an accord targeting intellectual property piracy.
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The iPod Changed Computing Forever. Now It Will Disappear
Ten years ago this month, in a small-ish theater at Apple Computer headquarters at One Infinite Loop, I saw Steve Jobs unveil the iPod. On Nov. 2, 2001, I wrote, “The iPod is revolutionary in a number of ways, and its descendants will replace the PC.” I think I was right, as we’re starting to see now with the widespread [...]
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Yahoo, ABC, HuffPo, ESPN: How Do You Run a News Portal?
First thing Monday morning Yahoo and ABC News announced a new distribution deal — familiar stuff, albeit between two big partners. It will encompass gems from the TV network’s global news and politics coverage, involve the broadcast anchors and star correspondents, include original online content, inspire the occasional collaboration, all served up directly to Yahoo’s [...]
10.03.11 -
Chevy Volt Sales Fall Short
General Motors has repeatedly claimed a sales target for 2011 of 10,000 units for the plug-in hybrid Chevy Volt sedan. But, nine months into the year, they've only shipped 3,895 off the lot. In fact, in September sales numbers, released an hour ago, GM sold only 723 Volts. Will GM fail to meet its own sales predictions?
10.03.11 -
Zombies, Run! Makes Your Workout a Race for Survival
Zombies, Run!, to be released early next year for iPhone and Android, is an app in the style of Runkeeper, with an exciting undead twist.
10.03.11 -
Back to Basics: Analog Photography Project Aims to Slow Things Down
Sometime in early November, Florida photographer Chip Litherland will load five 35mm cameras with color film, carefully pack them into shipping cases, and mail them to five different photographers around the globe. Each photographer who receives a camera will be challenged to shoot just one picture before they have to ship the camera on to someone else.
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Mercs Tried to Bribe Indian Tribe … With a Playground
How to convince a reluctant Indian tribe to let a private security firm lease its land? For mercenary company Eagle Rock Training Center, the answer is to go after the tribe's kids: Offer them free iPods, trips to Disneyland and a brand-new playground.
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Google Maps, Now With Virtual Helicopter Rides
Google has announced a new 3D preview option in Google Maps. The Google LatLong blog refers to the new route preview as “helicopter view,” since it offers an aerial view (courtesy of Google Earth) of your route, a bit like taking a helicopter instead of your car. To see the helicopter preview in action, just plug [...]
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Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011
10.05.11 -
Leather Wallets for iPhones 4 and 4S
10.05.11 -
HP, Apple Buildings Locked Down in Cupertino Multiple Homicide Manhunt
10.05.11 -
Why Do Some People Learn Faster?
10.04.11 -
Why Apple Still Loves Its Media Player Business
10.05.11 -
Less Flash, More World Domination: Apple’s Tim Cook Era Begins
10.05.11 -
The iPhone 4S’ Talking Assistant Is a Military Veteran
10.05.11 -
Penn & Teller Tell a Lie Is MythBusters Turned Sideways
10.05.11 -
5 Things We Can’t Wait to Say to Siri, Apple’s Virtual Assistant
10.05.11 -
Vinyl Gets Sliced, Reassembled in Analog Sampling Technique
10.05.11 -
Super Small: Top 20 Microscope Photos of the Year
10.04.11 -
Biofuels, Speculation Blamed for Global Food Market Weirdness
10.05.11 -
The Plan to Bring an Asteroid to Earth
10.05.11 -
Iraq Militants Brag: We’ve Got Robotic Weapons, Too
10.04.11 -
Watch: ‘Invisibility Cloak’ Uses Mirages to Make Objects Vanish
10.04.11 -
Video: The Navy’s New Robo-Copter Heads to Afghanistan
10.05.11 -
Software Makers Win Big in Supreme Court Copyright Fight
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Lost Worlds Survive in Living Fossils
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iPhone 4S Introduces 4-Player Split-Screen Racing
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Steve Jobs’ Greatest Achievements
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