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  • iPhone 4 gets its first unboxing [Gallery] (Update: More pics!) (Update #2: And video!)

    iPhone 4 gets its first unboxing [Gallery] (Update: More pics!) (Update #2: And video!)

    Posted on June 22, 2010 | No Comments
    As handfuls of iPhone 4s begin to slip through the cracks and into the grabby hands of hungry phone fans everywhere, the first batches of unboxing pictures are starting to go live as we type this. (You mean these people aren't waiting to open up their phones with the rest of us chumps on Thursday mornings? Jerks! You guys probably peeked at your Christmas presents as a kid, too. [Just kidding, of course -- tear those things apart.]) We're keeping an eye out for galleries as they go up; if you're amongst the many hundreds of thousands waiting on the edge of the seat, join as after the jump for these last minute teases.

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  • Chinese Internet addicts escape, then are returned to, treatment center

    Chinese Internet addicts escape, then are returned to, treatment center

    Posted on June 9, 2010 | No Comments
    A daring escape plan ended with parental scolding. Three patients (or "inmates," if you prefer) at a Chinese Internet addiction center staged a coup of sorts, overpowering guards and fleeing the area. All went according to plan until they hopped in a taxi and were unable to pay. The driver became annoyed, called the authorities, drawing the adventure to a close.

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  • Blizzard: DRM is a waste of everyone’s time

    Blizzard: DRM is a waste of everyone’s time

    Posted on May 27, 2010 | No Comments
    "We need our development teams focused on content and cool features, not anti-piracy technology." Thank you, finally! See, Blizzard gets it. The company's co-founder, Frank Pearce, recently told the good folks at Video Gamer that he thinks the fight against DRM is misguided. Not that he supports end-users going around torrenting his games till the end of time, but that the way to "beat" piracy is to embrace gamers and treat them like complete jerks.

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  • Save Dave: Twitter campaign rallies around Sirius XM’s Ron and Fez producer

    Save Dave: Twitter campaign rallies around Sirius XM’s Ron and Fez producer

    Posted on May 24, 2010 | No Comments
    There's a campaign brewing on Twitter that really ought to be highlighted, if only because it shows the power (well, potential power) of the site. Dave McDonald, a producer on the Ron and Fez show on Sirius XM (and part-time inventor), needs a raise. He needs a raise because he has a growing family to support. But let's not even bring up personal reasons. The man deserves a raise because he's a fantastic asset to the Ron and Fez show and to Sirius XM as a whole. Without a raise, Dave will have to leave the show, which is incredibly disappointing. He's a producer of the highest caliber—competent producers don't grow on trees, otherwise terrestrial radio might not be as dead as it is today—and yet he earns little more than an intern. If this were 20 years ago we might see picket lines forming outside the Sirius XM studios in New York, but because this is 2010, fans have turned to Twitter to send Sirius XM management a very clear message: Save Dave, Pay The Man.

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  • Epic Games says something silly about piracy

    Epic Games says something silly about piracy

    Posted on May 18, 2010 | No Comments
    Anyone else tired of video game publishers complaining about piracy? Like, human nature is such that you'll always have a bunch of knuckleheads who will hop on BitTorrent and download away. Forget them, they're jerks. Just focus on the non-jerks out there and go about your business. Anyhow, today the spotlight falls on Epic Games, makers of Unreal and Gears of War. Seems those guys think that all the money these days is in consoles, so PC gamers will have to get used to crummy ports or nothing at all!

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  • Apple doesn’t accept cash at the Apple Store, not even for an iPad

    Apple doesn’t accept cash at the Apple Store, not even for an iPad

    Posted on May 18, 2010 | No Comments
    A human interest story, brought to us by the fine people at KGO-TV in San Francisco. It goes something like this: a woman had saved up for a very long time to buy an Apple iPad. So goes into an Apple Store, tells the clerk that she'd like to buy an iPad, then whips out the requisite $600. Six-hundred in cash, mind you. Then the Apple clerk drops a bombshell: sorry, but we don't accept cash here.

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  • Another iPhone 4G prototype shows up, bares all including Apple’s own A4 chip

    Another iPhone 4G prototype shows up, bares all including Apple’s own A4 chip

    Posted on May 12, 2010 | No Comments
    This is just silly now. Another iPhone has leaked onto the Internet. What kind of ship does Steve Jobs run over there at Apple? This time around they aren't going to be able to bust down the owner/seller/stealer's door seeing as it all went down in Vietnam. Then again, anything is possible with the Apple gestapo. But somehow a Vietnamese website got a hold of the device. The back story really doesn't matter right now. They got and posted pics and video -- good for them. The site went a bit farther than Gizmodo, though. They actually tore it apart, revealing a nice little surprise.

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  • A sneak peak at the Scosche in-vehicle iPad mount

    A sneak peak at the Scosche in-vehicle iPad mount

    Posted on April 30, 2010 | No Comments
    Yup, you read that right. An aftermarket iPad dash mount is coming real soon and we have a video demo.

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  • TED talk: To save the world, we have to play 21 billion hours of video games per week

    TED talk: To save the world, we have to play 21 billion hours of video games per week

    Posted on March 22, 2010 | No Comments
    Yes, you read that right. According to Jane McGonigal, we as a people need to play online games for 21 billion hours per week in order to solve the world's problems. Real problems, too, not silly things like making sure Simon Cowell stays on for another season of American Idol. We're talking poverty, having access to clean water and healthy food, climate change, obesity, global conflict, etc. The real deal. Hey, this is McGonigal talking, not me. I'm fine with using World of Warcraft as nothing more than a giant time sink.

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  • Construct your own Head Mounted Display for fun and profit

    Construct your own Head Mounted Display for fun and profit

    Posted on February 13, 2010 | No Comments
    While you jerks are wasting away watching the Olympics this weekend, I'm going to attempt to make this sweet-ass Head Mounted Display. The Instructable doesn't seem that hard. Basically I'll just be transplanting the screens from my busted Myvu personal media glasses into some utility or ski glasses. Maybe I'll make one for me and one for the wife, solving my Valentine's Day shopping conundrum.

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  • Greenpeace will be at CES cutting a promo on anti-green companies

    Greenpeace will be at CES cutting a promo on anti-green companies

    Posted on December 18, 2009 | No Comments
    I've inexplicably become CrunchGear's go-to green writer. If there's a “green” tech story out there, I'm on the scene. Why, I don't know, especially because my attitude toward the environment is, “Meh, I'm lucky if I hit 70 years old, what do I care?” Don't tell that to Greenpeace though. The activists made famous by that Seinfeld episode will be at next month's CES (as will all of your friendly neighborhood CrunchGear writers) to give the lowdown on what companies are green and what companies are a bunch of jerks.

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  • Amazon selling Samsung Moment for $100 less than Sprint

    Amazon selling Samsung Moment for $100 less than Sprint

    Posted on November 25, 2009 | No Comments
    Amazon is continuing its fabulous tradition of making carriers look like money-grubbing jerks this week with a solid deal on Samsung's Android-powered Moment for Sprint, which can now be yours for $79.99 on contract. That's versus a considerably more finance-destroying $179.99 figure if you were to walk into a brick-and-mortar Sprint store -- and even bests Best Buy's deal by $20. Considering that OLED display and the fact that the Sammy's core clips along at 10 times the megahertz of Amazon's price, $80 out-of-pocket sounds pretty reasonable. Unfortunately, Android 1.5 doesn't sound as reasonable these days -- so here's hoping that 2.0 trickles down to this sucker on the double.

    [Thanks, Ron]

    Amazon selling Samsung Moment for $100 less than Sprint originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Woot! Pioneer Blu-ray player for $135

    Woot! Pioneer Blu-ray player for $135

    Posted on October 15, 2009 | No Comments
    Some people are jerks about their AV gear. They simply must have certain brands. If that’s you and Pioneer is your company of choice, head over to Woot for a surprisingly good deal on a modern Blu-ray player. When I first saw this model on Woot, I thought that it was probably one of their earlier [...]

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  • Verizon looks at the BL40, wimps out, goes with some boring handset

    Verizon looks at the BL40, wimps out, goes with some boring handset

    Posted on September 21, 2009 | No Comments
    Look, Verizon. I know that we’ve given the BL40 (or “Chocolate Touch”) a lot of crap since it first leaked out. It was a pretty grand departure from Chocolates past and, well, it looked big enough to churn butter with. That said, we liked it. Apparently we were the only ones – either that, or the [...]

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  • Employees hate IT

    Employees hate IT

    Posted on August 27, 2009 | No Comments
    The IT CrowdSlate's Farhad Manjoo has thrown down the gauntlet by comparing IT workers to the hated TSA goons at airports. I, for one, won't stand to have my hard work besmirched in such a way! Sure, there are some power-hungry jerks working in IT, taking great delight in causing consternation and frustration to hapless users. But not all IT folks are like that.

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