After seeing two men fleeing the Gresham, Oregon, AT&T store with multiple stolen iPhones, Roger Witter tried to stop them. They escaped. He's in jail. More »
IPhone - Smartphone - Handhelds - Apple - AT&T
In a word: Persistence. Partly the traditional, inspiring, one man against all odds type of persistence, but more the obsessive, borderline insane persistence. But whatever, this dude's building his own metro, like a CITY, so I should probably shut up. More »
Do it yourself - Business - Recreation - DIY - Home and Garden
Audiophile. That'd be a nice distinction to have. But what makes an audiophile, really? An obsession with high fidelity audio, for one thing. But also the ownership of incredible-sounding, incredibly-expensive gear, like these $1700 Ultrasone Edition 8 headphones. More »
Headphones - Audio - Shopping - Business - Consumer Electronics
Alan Wake (fantastically entertaining game) is one of the more conspicuous about in-game advertising. Hell, they even work products into the gameplay itself. Penny Arcade's take on this is only slightly exaggerated, if you can believe it. More »
Game - Arcade game - Video game - Coin-Op - Alan Wake
Shanghaiist got ahold of this memo being sent out to Foxconn employees, trying to help them deal with whatever working conditions is leading toward this recent string of suicides. It starts off good, then, well, gets not so good. More »
Foxconn - Suicide - Apple - Death - China
The keyboard accessory we were looking forward to in Rock Band 3 is supposedly actually a KEYTAR. Good, I suppose, for mobility and rockitude, but not for learning how to actually play the keybo...oh god I've become an old man. [Ars Technica] More »
Music - Arts and Entertainment - Rock Band 3 - Bands and Artists - Canada
Be it oil painting or digital photography, the self-portrait has become one of the most fascinating motifs in art. Sometimes brazen, like Chuck Close's Big Self-Portrait, sometimes hidden, like Michelangelo's in The Crucifixion of St Peter...good self-portraiture is always fascinating. More »
Photography - Portrait - Business - photographer - Arts and Entertainment
All systems are go for BP's latest "top kill" oil spill fix, and they're broadcasting the process live. The 21st Century: disastrous oil spills and the technology to let you watch them from your desk. Video feed after the jump. More »
BP - Oil spill - Environment - Energy - Petroleum in the Environment
So, it's happened. By at least one metric, for at least this very moment—it could change tomorrow—Apple is now bigger than Microsoft. Apple's market cap passed Microsoft's today, just two months after edging under Walmart. The latest showing from Google Finance puts Apple's market cap at $225.98 billion to Microsoft's $225.32 billion. More »
Apple - Microsoft - Business - Monopolies and Oligopolies - Economic
For a while I carried a USB drive on my keyring, but it never helped me rescue a computer lab damsel in distress like I had hoped it would. Maybe I'll fare better with Scosche's FlipSync folding USB key fobs. More »
Universal Serial Bus - Scosche - Hardware - Accessories - Cables
This is Dr. Mark Gasson. He's a human being who's managed to contract a nasty computer virus. Don't feel too bad for him, though: he did it to himself. More »
Computer virus - Security - Malicious Software - Viruses - Detection and Removal Tools
And you know what? They spent the whole conversation talking about Gossip Girl. Well, they would've done—had the super-rare, never-seen-before footage not been filmed in 1922. More »
Gossip Girl - David Cameron - Arts - Television - Programs
Recently, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz forecasted trouble for Google because search accounts for "99.9% of their business." In a talk with Michael Arrington today, Google's President of Global Sales Operations Nikesh Arora leveled this response. Giddyup. More »
Google - Search - Search Engines - Companies - Yahoo
BP will attempt to shut down the oil well that's been spewing into the Gulf of Mexico later today. Step one: the "top-kill" method, wherein heavy drilling mud is forced deep into the well. Let's pray it works. Video explanation: More »
Oil Spill - BP - Gulf of Mexico - Environment - Business
Lifehacker's got a quick Q&A with one of Chrome OS's UI designers. It's quite interesting if you want to get into their mindset about how they make a browser into an entire OS. Plus, they're thinking about touch! [Lifehacker] More »
Google - Google Chrome - Lifehacker - Clients - WWW
According to BGR's source in AT&T, the next iPhone will be available in June, and "not even late June." Such seems incredible, but not impossible, given that we haven't seen the new iPhone appear at the FCC yet. [BGR] More »
IPhone - Smartphone - Handhelds - Apple - BGR
This afternoon, Facebook will announce the privacy changes they've been promising over the past several weeks. And while all we know so far is that the fix involves simplified settings, here are the adjustments they'd be crazy not to make. More »
Facebook - Privacy - Social network - Security - Online Communities
With the new Wired app, Conde Nast has built, unequivocally, the best magazine for the iPad. And yet I find myself asking, is this it? And will it cost this much? More »
IPad - Vanity Fair - CondeNast - GQ - Magazines and E-zines
