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Turing says 2018 phone will have three Snapdragon 830s, 18GB RAM, 1.2TB storage... and ALAN

Andy Weir — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 20:24:01 +0000

After describing a new phone with an improbable range of specs that it says will arrive in 2017, Turing has announced details of an even more implausible device: the Monolith Chaconne, due in 2018. Read more...

WTF: Like-A-Hug vest inflates when you get a Facebook like

Tim Schiesser — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 13:33:53 +0000

This is absolutely the best invention of all time! (Of all time!). It's a vest, that when you get a "like" through Facebook, inflates to give you a hug void of all human contact and real emotion. Read more...

Trivia Tuesday: The day Carl Sagan sued Apple

Tyler Holman — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 10:25:59 +0000

In 1994, a storm was brewing at Apple: by unwittingly bestowing the internal codename Carl Sagan on the Power Macintosh 7100, Apple engineers had set the stage for one of tech's weirdest legal battles Read more...

Verizon: it's our Constitutional right to make your Internet suck

Tyler Holman — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 16:02:02 +0000

In a last ditch effort to control their networks with an iron fist, Verizon is falling back to the US Court of Appeals, claiming that net neutrality violates their First Amendment rights. Read more...

Squatter lived in AOL HQ for 2 months

Tyler Holman — Mon, 28 May 2012 06:42:06 +0000

Once upon a time, AOL was a mighty titan in the tech world, but now it's just a place for entrepreneurs and squatters to crash. If that ain't a sad fate, what is? Read more...

AVG tries (and fails) to kill the original Rickroll

Tyler Holman — Wed, 23 May 2012 17:52:04 +0000

In an unusual course of events, anti-virus maker AVG has begun a bizarre (hopefully accidental) crusade to end the practice of 'Rickrolling' by having the original meme banned from YouTube. Really. Read more...

Greenpeace invades Apple HQ

Tyler Holman — Wed, 16 May 2012 03:32:12 +0000

Two Greenpeace demonstrators dressed as iPhones ended up getting arrested in front of Apple's Cupertino HQ after projecting anti-Apple messages and climbing into a 'pod' bearing the Apple logo. Read more...

File sharing religion weds first couple

Tyler Holman — Mon, 07 May 2012 22:04:09 +0000

Serbia's SHARE file sharing conference saw the wedding of the world's first Kopimistic couple, members of the officially recognized file sharing religion, complete with a Guy Fawkes mask-clad priest. Read more...