The 404 568: Where we have a warrant for your arrest (podcast)

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Published April 27, 2010 at 2:35 p.m.
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Thanks Blake (click for larger) ... (Credit:Blake Stevenson) ... Gizmodo's story of the lost iPhone just got a little too real, with San Mateo County police raiding Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's Fremont, Calif., home in search of any information surrounding the acquisition of the 4G prototype ... According to an account by Chen, the police used a search warrant to visit his home while Jason was away and immediately searched him for "weapons or sharp objects" upon his arrival ... After finding what

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Police Raid Reporter's Home Over iPhone Leak

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Published April 26, 2010 at 6:00 p.m.
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Police raided the home of a Gizmodo reporter on Friday and seized his computer equipment in an investigation of how the site obtained the iPhone prototype for a recent scoop ...

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Police investigating lost iPhone prototype raid Gizmodo editor's home

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Published April 26, 2010 at 5:23 p.m.
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The backstory of the lost fourth-gen iPhone prototype acquired by Gizmodo last week is certainly already the stuff of some legend, but hold on tight, because it just got even wilder: Giz editor Jason Chen's house was apparently raided by California's REACT computer crimes task force under the authority of a search warrant on Friday night and his computers and several other items were seized. That means a criminal investigation led by the San Mateo police and district attorney is almost

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Another Best Buy leak reveals placeholders for new Apple hardware

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Published Feb. 17, 2010 at 8:20 a.m.

New MacBook Pros are coming, new iMacs are coming! The cries of an impending MacBook Pro and iMac refresh are coming this time from Gizmodo which has gotten its hands on a Best Buy inventory screenshot from a Canadian retailer… ...

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Allegedly leaked Nexus One purchase page answers, raises questions (update: we've got the terms of sale)

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Published Dec. 29, 2009 at 9:02 p.m.
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So apparently the cats over at Gizmodo have gotten their hands on leaked pics of the Nexus One's landing and purchase page. First, the meat. According to the pages, the phone will be available in two ways: as a $529.99 unsubsidized and unlocked device, and as a $179.99 T-Mobile device locked to a two year contract. Sound familiar? It should, because it's exactly the same story as every other phone available on the market right now. Additionally, the pics seem to suggest that there will only be

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Blio seeks to take digital reading in a new, more inclusive, and colorful direction

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Published Dec. 29, 2009 at 6:32 a.m.
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As if we didn't have enough pretenders in the ebook space, here's Ray Kurzweil with a new format of his own and a bagful of ambition to go with it. Set for a proper unveiling at CES in a week's time, the Blio format and accompanying application are together intended to deliver true-to-life color reproductions of the way real books appear. Interestingly, the software has been developed in partnership with Nokia, in an effort to turn Espoo's phones into "the smallest text-to-speech reading devices

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Remainders - The Good, Bad and Ugly Things We Didn't Post (and Why) [Remainders]

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Published Dec. 12, 2009 at 12:20 a.m.
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Buckle the eff up for Remainders today, because we've got: A man in a chicken suit playing "What Is Love," two separate Christmas-themed videos (one Muppet, one Guitar Hero), minor Apple updates, and a severed hand crafted of breakfast foods ... Man in a Chicken suit plays "What is Love" on Pianica from Ring Mod on Vimeo ... Man in a Chicken Suit Plays "What Is Love" on Melodica ... If that headline isn't enough to make you watch this video, I'm really not sure if the internet is your cup of

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NASA turns iPhone into chemical sensor, can an App Store rejection be far away?

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Published Nov. 13, 2009 at 7:36 a.m.
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People have been trying to turn cellphones into medical and atmospheric scanners for some time now, but when it's NASA stepping up to the plate with a little device to monitor trace amounts of chemicals in the air, it's hard to not start thinking we might finally have a use for all those tricorder ringtones. Developed by a team of researchers at the Ames Research Center led by Jing Li, the device is a small chip that plugs into the bottom of an iPhone and uses 16 nanosensors to detect the

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The Great Gizmodo Halloween Roundup [Halloween]

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Published Oct. 31, 2009 at 8:00 p.m.
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Since I'm feeling festive evening, I thought I would leave you with some of our Halloween posts. OK, really I just can't pass up a chance to put up these masks of Chen and Blam again. Happy Halloween everyone! ... • This Is Why You Shouldn't Put Drunk Ewoks On Live TV ... • Next Year, I'm Time Travel Trick or Treating ... • Scientifically Haunted Room Shows That Ghosts Are Only In Your Head ... • Twelve Beautiful Jack-o'-Lanterns ... • Ghostbuster Proton Pack Uses Real Lasers, Can

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Gizmodo's Essential iPhone Apps: October '09 Edition [IPhone Apps]

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Published Oct. 31, 2009 at 4:00 p.m.
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Each month, the best new iPhone apps—and some older ones—are considered for admission into Gizmodo's Essential iPhone Apps Directory. Who will join? Who will live? Who will die? ... The Month's Best ... Layar: There's the obvious reason to be excited about this: ... Layar, the first camera-based AR app to really blow us (or anyone) away, has quietly slipped into the App Store. As with the Android version, the app overlays all kinds of information onto a live view of the world around you ...

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