How about riding a bicycle? How fast should I bike before it makes me die sooner? And how loing distances?

Me2. I thought we didn't acknowledge software patents but apparently I was wrong. And the politicians don't seem to care (except for the pirate party but they don't have a single seat in the parliament).

So if I'm right it will be like autocomplete, but creepier. Sounds great.

You can make phonecalls again after you remove remotely identifiable traces of the original owner from the phone (mainly the simcard I think), and then those calls will no longer be tied to the phone number the phone had when it was stolen. If the thief is skilled he will probably also manage to disable find my phone…

Do people even know at what time their phone got stolen?

Of course it is a good thing to recycle shredded paper, just as long as it is PROPERLY shredded to the point where it can not be read anymore and is near-impossible to reconstruct. Seriously even if the paper is not recycled I'd still say the police need a better shredder.

"Or, tell us why you don't wish to apply for this job."

It's not just motorcycles which are required to have a deliberately wrong speedometer, cars too (at least here in the Netherlands). I think the idea is that people tend to drive too fast so to make them drive the right speed they have to think they're going faster. However as someone who does not have a tendency…

If you replace that dumbphone with an iPhone and assume the pictures will be transferred wirelessly this mockup could be pretty accurate. Though I personally think the phone will be taped to the back rather than the side.

You sir made my day.

The image you used suggests this is about Palm, only when reading the article I found out it was about some other company HP took over.

You can usually get some techies aboard if you have some unique feature, because tech blogs will be likely to give it coverage. The PixelQI screen is the feature which drew me to NI's first Adam tablet, and is very nice indeed. Sadly the software is really bad (the best available is an ICS rom which is still in…

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I think the problem with driverless cars is they can drive perfectly safe as long as other cars act as expected (for example because they're driverless too), but as soon as a human-driven car does something unexpected it will be very hard to make the driverless car react appropriately. There are just too many…

Let's hope this gets preceded by a LaTeX compiler for Android (I mean one which actually does the compilation on the device itself rather than in the cloud). That would be much more useful to me.

Tax the internet? We don't even do that here in Europe. Sorry to disturb your fantasy. (of course we do pay VAT on our internet subscription, but there aren't any specialized internet taxes)

Eventually someone will find a way to have an Android phone report itself as a Windows phone and gain access to these hotspots. Let's hope this day comes soon and puts an end to the platform-tying of wifi hotspots.

Usually I'm a big hater of the whole patent-it-so-nobody-can-make-it thing, but in this case go Microsoft! (assuming they aren't really gonna make this) Let's hope this will never invade our living and/or gaming rooms.

OMG is that an extendable antenna? Seriously?

One request: can you keep the RSS feed the way it was when Gizmodo was down? I like that I get the entire post in my feed (as opposed to just the first paragraph and a "read more" link), especially on my mobile devices which display only one article at a time anyway. I know people who mostly use scrolling RSS readers…