I thought Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt looked a little tense during their meeting today, and body linguistics expert, Janine Driver, who used to be an officer for the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, agrees. Awkwardness: confirmed. More »
Can a three billion transistor GPU that eats power supplies for lunch find love and glory in the hearts of gamers? More »
Here's an offer no girl can refuse: Show your boobs or the snake eats the baby bird! It works. Every single time. Or maybe not every time, but there are plenty of chickens. The sophistication level of Chatroulette is bottomless. More »
Some of the hard specs on Nvidia's completely next-gen Fermi graphics cards have been out there, but this is what you can actually buy around April 12: The $500 GeForce GTX 480 and $350 GeForce GTX 470. More »
The International Space Station is almost done. This is Rassvet, one of the last three modules to be installed. It was shown today in Florida, and will travel to space in the last flight of the Atlantis. More »
Well, hello! App Annie stumbled onto the "actual iPad feed for the app store" and has produced screenshots of the iPad App Store which are giving us a peek at some of the apps which will be available at launch. More »
In today's remainders: Apple hints at an LTE iPhone, augmented reality finds a new niche, Thomas Edison brings down the house, and Microsoft comes clean about its cryptic ads. More »
We loved Nota, a piano learning app, on our iPhones. But we love the iPad version far more. Just look at how much better the iPad app looks when put right next to its iPhone counterpart: More »
AT&T and Apple finally allowed iPhone apps to stream video over 3G, but now they're enacting a new condition: To get approved, Justin.TV's new iPhone app needed a low quality video stream to downgrade to during periods of network congestion. More »
Why, what a nice ad this is for Palm's webOS! Let's see, you've got the clearly communicated feature set, the driving soundtrack, and no creepy lady heads talking at you. If only it'd been made by Palm. More »
Maybe Steve Jobs had coffee with Fujitsu's CEO too: They've given the "iPad" trademark to Apple. After the iPad event, making the name official, a confused Fujitsu claimed the name "iPad" was still very much theirs. Not anymore. More »
Not every Android user will have a use for iConcertCal (those who insist on carrying an iPod around, for example), but if you store music on your phone the personalized concert recommendations would prove very handy. More »
Has Coby dared go down the same route as Apple, by releasing an MP3 player sans controls? It's not clear how the Micro player works, but judging by the lack of buttons it'd appear the controls are in the headphones. More »
AndroidAndMe has rewatched the Samsung Galaxy S keynote from earlier in the week (barrel of laughs 'round their way!) and realized that the 1GHz chip they mentioned—which can "process a staggering 90 million triangles per second" actually works out to three times faster than the Snapdragon processor. More »
Foursquare's Windows Phone 7 app blows away their implementations on any other platform with a redefined aesthetic and new features, like a heat map. Which makes us pretty hopeful about what devs can do on WP7: [Artificial Ignorance via TechCrunch] More »
You've probably seen some reviews of Sony Ericsson's first Android phone, the Xperia X10, which tries to do something a little different with its custom interface. We've got one, but the software is riddled with strange issues, and Sony Ericsson confirmed to us that when the phone's actually released in a couple months, consumers will be running a muchly updated OS. So! We're gonna wait to we review the phone you're actually going to pay money for. More »
Blu-ray transfers are notorious for overzealous noise (film grain) reduction, and as avsforum points out, Lord of the Rings looked better on a 17Mbps MPEG-2 broadcast than it does the upcoming 23Mbps VC1 Blu-ray. More »
