October 21, 2011 – In Florida—yes, LOVELY Florida—there exists a place where one can steal copper wire from things and exchange that copper wire for crack. How do I get there? According to Miami's WPLG, the screening processes that copper thiefs encounter when trying to sell their looted wire has worked... [Gizmodo]

October 21, 2011 – Because Google and Samsung are being coy about what carriers the Galaxy Nexus is coming to (people registering for more info select a preferred carrier), we have to wait for the carriers to confirm one-by-one. [Gizmodo]

October 21, 2011 – The ePub e-book standard has always been built on top of HTML. As has MOBI. But now, Amazon is taking it one step further with their Kindle Format 8 standard, supporting HTML5-based formatting options. [Gizmodo]

October 21, 2011 – The Measurement Lab program conducted a study between mid-2008 and mid-2010 to see which ISP was the least bittorrent friendly (i.e. throttling down data transfer rates for the protocol). [Gizmodo]

October 20, 2011 – I don't have any particular affinity towards blade wielding of any kind (I generally just gnaw on whole slabs of steak), but when I look at Gerber's Gator Machete Pro, I have a strong desire to slice something in half. Equipped with the ability to function as a machete, ax or knife, the Gator... [Gizmodo]

October 20, 2011 – FlatpanelsHD put together an interesting analysis of why Samsung's Galaxy Nexus' 4.65-inch, 1280x720 Super AMOLED screen probably isn't comparable to Apple's 326 ppi Retina Display despite having a pixel density of 315 ppi. [Gizmodo]

October 20, 2011 – Attempting to gain some of the visual flair that iPad apps such as Weather HD have, the Weather Channel went and revamped their own app, endowing it with stylized animations which visualize the current weather outside your window. There's also a 3D globe chock full of weather reports to go along... [Gizmodo]

October 20, 2011 – On paper, Best Buy is now offering a new curated directory for Android and iOS apps. In reality, they're just slapping their logo over the directory already offered by Appolicious and tasking a stockboy with making a few featured picks. According to TechCrunch, Best Buy Blue Shirts' App Picks will... [Gizmodo]

October 18, 2011 – I'm not even sure what the analog would even be for this audio device, which is shown in a photo circa 1889. It's part-phonograph, part-walkman, part-jukebox, all-strange. According to Life, who featured this music maker in their timeline of music players, the device funneled noise from the record... [Gizmodo]

October 18, 2011 – Last year, Marina Abramovic made you cry. Now she's going to analyze the activity in your synapses while making you cry. She's essentially remixed her performance art piece, "The Artist Is Present," this time tossing in a scientific research angle. The original exhibition featured Abramović... [Gizmodo]

October 18, 2011 – For the time being*, the Droid RAZR is Motorola's top dog, and one of the best Android handsets around. That warrants a close comparison of its guts versus the internals of other top phones. On paper, it matches up well against the top offerings from other manufactuerers and platforms. [Gizmodo]

October 18, 2011 – Cnet has found postings on Apple's support forums with users complaining of an excessively yellowed display on the new iPhone 4S when compared to the iPhone 4. [Gizmodo]

October 18, 2011 – Fermi's Large Area Telescope has detected 1873 gamma rays out in space. Most come from objects such as pulsars or blazars. But for 600 of those rays, scientists have no idea where they're coming from. Not that they don't have their suspicions about where these mystery rays are coming from. [Gizmodo]

October 17, 2011 – When RIM's Blackberry servers were melting down across the globe last week, the business-centric cities of Abu Dhabi and Dubai experienced a sharp drop-off in reported traffic accidents, leading authorities to proclaim that roads were much safer when BlackBerry stopped working. According to the... [Gizmodo]

October 17, 2011 – Like Amazon, Opera wants to build a more efficient web browser for Android than what is offered by Google. According to Cnet, they're calling it Opera with Turbo. [Gizmodo]

October 17, 2011 – SquareTrade really likes breaking new things. And true to form, they've gone and abused not only the new iPhone 4S, but also Samsung's Galaxy S II. But which one proved more durable? [Gizmodo]

October 17, 2011 – NASA's space shuttle program may be kaput, but that doesn't mean they've given up their space adventuring entirely: in the future, Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo will house research missions for the government organization. According to Gizmag, NASA will pay as much as $4.5 million to have 1300... [Gizmodo]