It’s Monday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
Logitech Revue with Google TV: $100 at Logitech
Originally priced at $300 the Logitech Revue with Google TV is now a much, much, much more manageable $100. The Revue sits in between your cable box in your TV and acts as a connected, layered interface allowing you to browse …
Norway’s still reeling from the shocking mass murders allegedly performed by Anders Breivik 10 days ago, and the latest cultural repercussions will make it harder to find certain video games in the massacre’s wake.
Coop Norway, one of the country’s largest retailers, announced late last week that they’d be removing 51 video games and …
Foxconn, the Chinese manufacturing contractor that often produces Apple’s newfangled iDevices, has decided that they’re going to up the ante, slowly replacing factory workers with robots.
Within the next three years, Foxconn plans to include 1 million robots in its workforce while phasing out some of its human workers. Currently, …
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And so it begins again. Boy Genius Report has an exclusive scoop from an “unproven” (ooh!) source: Apple is in talks to buy Barnes & Noble, the country’s last remaining national bookseller. As BGR points out, the acquisition would get Apple B&N’s digital books and other publications (which it might conceivably want) and Nook …
“This twitter account will be deleted soon. Forget Anders.”
That was one of the messages left on Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik’s Twitter account shortly before it was wiped clean.
(MORE: A Killer in Paradise: Inside the Norway Attacks)
Another message read: “This twitter account has been seized by #NORIA. …
When you’re God, the world is your puzzle.
That’s the main conceit powering From Dust, a game from legendary designer Eric Chahi, best known for his early PC gaming masterpiece Another World. It’s a graphical and aesthetic update to the god game, a genre which saw its greatest popularity more than a decade ago in titles like Populous …
Acer continues to ignore the memo that Android tablets aren’t supposed to be priced competitively. Its 7-inch tablet, the Acer Iconia A100, will arrive in August for a mere $300 — at least according to a memo sent to retail partners and snagged by Engadget.
Last we heard, the Iconia Tab had a 1024-by-600 resolution display, 1 GHz …
Fair warning: We’re defining “man” here in a much more nerdy way than, say, the tree-chopping, Dos Esquis-swigging sense. Here, we’ll be talking about male tweeting tendencies when computed from raw data through a field of study called sociolinguistics.
The study here was originally uncorked by Fast Company and is taken from a paper …
Tired of clicking through on shortened links from Twitter only to find yourself looking at something that you probably shouldn’t be looking at on a work computer? Perhaps you should spend less time clicking through blind links on Twitter… or perhaps you’ll be interested in the service’s new “Possibly Sensitive” filter.
The company …
Finally, it’s been officially proven: Animals doing human things are better than humans pretending to be animals doing human things. To promote its travel search site, Hipmunk has released the viral video to end all viral videos, “Internet Memes Better with Cute Animals,” in which humans re-enact some (in)famous YouTube clips to prove …
If you don’t believe that the tech-consuming public could ever be so fixated on shapes and sizes, you need only look to the latest batch of iPhone 5 rumors.
First, we have a report from 9 to 5 Mac of an Apple employee supposedly playing around with the iPhone 5 on a train, complete with grainy photos snapped by a tipster. Apparently the
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So you’re using OS X Lion’s nifty new application brain-center, Launchpad, maybe in spite of your inclination to view it as a pretty wall of semi-redundant iOS-style buttons. Hey, it’s more satisfying than selecting ‘Go – Applications’ from Finder, or popping Stacks off the dock by way of an Applications folder shortcut.
But if you’re …
