It’s Tuesday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
Refurbished MacBook Air: $699 at Apple
Apple’s blowing out its 2010 MacBook Air ultraportable line, with prices starting at $699 for the 11.6-inch version. Though these are refurbished models, each carries a one-year Apple warranty. If you’re looking for a more touch-friendly …
Do you “like” Facebook? Pretty soon, you may have the chance to also mark things “read,” “listened,” “watched” and “want” on Facebook as well. According to a TechCrunch source, Facebook may be unrolling these new features at its “f8” developer conference later this week.
As the conference gets closer, everyone is …
Gears of War 3 represents the kind of game that’s become deeply embattled as bite-sized smartphone gaming and freemium models shift the economics and expectations around the video game medium. It’s big and loud and costly to make. It runs on only one game platform and appeals mostly to a meat-and-potatoes fanbase that doesn’t appear to …
The lowly battery: It’s one of the most important parts of any modern-day gadget, yet it’s been one of the slowest pieces of the technology puzzle to evolve. That smartphone in your pocket is exponentially more powerful than the first computer you ever used, yet you still have to plug it in every night.
We’ve had access to lithium-ion …
It’s finally arrived as expected. In a tweet and a blog post that went live just a few minutes ago, Google announced that their new Wallet system is finally available for the masses (and by masses we mean owners of the Sprint Nexus S 4G).
The app will be rolled out via an over-the-air update and will allow users to tap and pay at over
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Netflix is losing in the court of public opinion after announcing plans to rebrand its mail-order DVD service as a separate business, called Qwikster. On Facebook and Netflix’s own blog, the vast majority of comments about the shake-up are negative.
If you missed the news, Qwikster will replace Netflix’s mail-order service and will …
If nothing else, you have to feel sorry for poor Joel Tenenbaum, a Boston University student who managed to get his $675,000 file-sharing verdict reduced to $67,500… and then watched as an appeals court bumped it back up to its original amount again, reports Ars Technica.
Tenenbaum was ordered to pay $675,000 by a jury after being …
The idea of four-cents-per-megabyte 3G wireless data with no two-year contract might just be simple enough to work. And when I say “work” I mean both for consumers and for the company providing the service.
Here’s the deal: This company, TruConnect, is offering access to Sprint’s nationwide 3G data pipe for $5 per month and 3.9 cents …
Another day, another fresh stack of iPhone 5 rumors. We’ve parsed through all the hearsay to bring you the crème de la crème in wild-eyed Apple speculation. Let’s take a look.
Spotted in the wild: the iPhone 4S?
Let’s see. The iPhone 4 16GB Black? Check. The iPhone 4 32GB White? Check. The iPhone 4s whit…—WHOA WHOA …
Whether by grand design or coincidence, Twitter seems to be going through some interesting changes recently, saying goodbye to some important figures from its past and making us wonder just what kind of updates we should be expecting, in 140 characters or less.
Last week, the company lost its Chief Scientist, as Abdur Chowdhury …
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The best-known name in the business of renting DVDs by mail is, of course, Netflix–a brand that’s been with us since 1998, and which is as synonymous with its category as any American company ever has been.
But now it’s reserving the name “Netflix” for its streaming business and redubbing the snail-mail portion as …
How amazing is this: Gamers playing a protein-folding game called Foldit have helped unlock the structure of an AIDS-related enzyme that the scientific community had been unable to unlock for a decade.
The solution represents a significant step forward in the quest to cure retroviral diseases like AIDS. AIDS, or acquired …
