5 hours ago

Submitted by Esjay from Google Reader: The mysterious website owned by Valve based around the fictitious band the Midnight Riders has been updated with a great deal of new content. We mentioned a few days back this site had players intrigued and the belief is that the Midnight Riders are likely candidates for Left 4 Dead 2 DLC. References to the band are seen an (Read More)

7 hours ago

Wired: Threat Level An online debate over global warming science has broken out after an unknown hacker broke into the e-mail server at a prominent, British climate-research center, stole more than a thousand e-mails about global warming research and posted them online.Global warming skeptics are seizing on portions of the messages as evidence (Read More)

8 hours ago

Lifehacker It won't affect your PS3, Wii, TiVo, or other licensed YouTube partners, but Google's streaming video service will start blocking access to TV-connected devices as of Dec. 2. The COO of set-top box maker Popcorn Hour writes that the firm tried to negotiate with YouTube to retain the service, but YouTube/Google seems to be s (Read More)

8 hours ago

Gizmodo Black Friday is a week away, and thousands of markdowns are already announced. Our master list of Giz-friendly deals—a hefty read—includes similar items priced differently at different stores. Keep it refreshed, cuz we'll be updating it all week. Doorbuster items marked with an * Cell Phones AT&T Sony Ericsson W518a - Free (Read More)

1 day ago

Techmeme Paul Graham: Apple's Mistake  —  I don't think Apple realizes how badly the App Store approval process is broken.  Or rather, I don't think they realize how much it matters that it's broken.  The way Apple runs the App Store has harmed their reputation with programmers more than anything else they've ever done. (Read More)

11 hours ago

Gizmodo Tony Hawk Ride comes with a skateboard controller. You know what that means: dogs playing video games. What's amazing about this video is just how good this dog is. Impressive! [YouTube] . (Read More)

15 hours ago

CrackBerry.com blogs First Live Photos of the new BlackBerry Pearl 9100!! OoohHHH BaBy!! Any BlackBerry Pearl fans out there? I know there are. And I know so many of you have been waiting for Research in Motion to release an updated version of the candybar-styled BlackBerry Pearl 81xx Series Smartphone. Good news. The wait is getting shorter, b (Read More)

12 hours ago

Smashing Apps If you’re wondering whether it’s a good idea to paint your kitchen red, you can test it with Colorjive. It just takes a few clicks. You don’t even have to pick up a brush. You can paint virtually with Colorjive. They have got thousands of colors for you to choose from. They have a basic account that is absolutely free. With (Read More)

16 hours ago

Kotaku Just about everybody involved with digital distribution is coy when it comes to sales numbers. Nobody wants to give the game away. But that doesn't stop some - like publishers/online retailers Stardock - from trying to guess! Stardock boss Brad Wardell says "Our estimation is that Steam - as the current market leader - enjo (Read More)

13 hours ago

zlabs   T-shirts, as you’ll surely agree, play a big part in the design world. Sometimes, we designers don’t get the kinds of projects we want, and so we are left to apply our creativity in some other way, many of us opting to submit graphics in t-shirt competitions or printing them ourselves and selling them through shopping c (Read More)

21 hours ago

Submitted by Esjay from Google Reader: I subscribed to MidnightRidersBand’s channel on YouTube. (Read More)

1 day ago

Submitted by Esjay from Google Reader: In some of the Left 4 Dead 2 campaigns you might have noticed a poster hanging, specifically at the end of the Rollercoaster Dark Carnival campaign part, with some rockstars on there called the Midnight Riders.  Now we might call it a rumour or it might be a brand new campaign or new characters that is coming to Le (Read More)

1 day ago

Submitted by Esjay from Google Reader: They were the melodies that announced that cartoon funtime was here, that it was time again to surrender to the animated haze. In our Pavlovian raptures, us kids didn't notice that a lot of those songs were pretty lousy. Presenting part two of a three-part exploration we're calling Saturday Morning Nightmare: The Worst Them (Read More)

1 day ago

Android Phone Fans The gPhone is still dead.Despite two years of fighting off the gphone vs. android phone fallacy, people still didn’t get it. Starting with industry analysts who perpetuated the distant rumors, trickling all the way down to consumers who had no clue what Android was or is but have heard about some sort of Google Phone or (Read More)

1 day ago

Official Google Blog Since we first announced captions in Google Video and YouTube, we've introduced multiple caption tracks, improved search functionality and even automatic translation. Each of these features has had great personal significance to me, not only because I helped to design them, but also because I'm deaf. Today, I'm in Washingto (Read More)

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