ZDNet is receiving tips claiming Apple will upgrade its Mac Pro line with an Intel Core i7-980x chipset certainly isn't the first time we've heard Core i7-shaped gossip. Supposedly it'll all be unraveled next Tuesday, the 16th of March. [ZDNet via BGR] More »

Nokia was rumored to be building it, but according to the WSJ Verizon Wireless' first 4G handset will debut mid-2011, running on the LTE network that's launching end of this year after Boston and Seattle guinea pigged the service. More »

#google




Cynics will likely say China's forcing Motorola to include Bing search instead of Google in Chinese Android phones, due to the ongoing war o' censorship with Google. Me? Well, Bing is the better search engine. Kidding! More »

#browsers




The latest beta version of Opera Mini for Androids is now out as of today, with a new interface and multi-tabs support thrown in. It's not entirely dissimilar to Opera Mobile 10 on Symbian and WinMo, though. More »

#music




Pioneer is known to make digital mixers that leave us drooling and wishing for some DJ skills. First they gave us the CDJ-2000 with its beautiful LCD screen, and now they've given us the DJM-2000, a multitouch screen-having per-frequency-mixing beauty. More »

#heavyhardware




It doesn't matter if the machine you are using is a massive crane or a tiny smartphone: You will always curse in the same way when it crashes. The deafening noise, however, won't be the same. More »

#imagecache




It's hard for a lot of us to relate to what goes on in fashion, but Alexander McQueen, recently deceased, strode across some familiar territory in his final works. Shots like this are as sci-fi as they are high-fashion. [BoingBoing] More »

#lego




You really have to suck a whole lot of Lego Star Wars minifigs to do what this girl is doing: Identify the characters by putting them inside your mouth. Somehow, I find all this strangely arousing. [Youtube via Boing Boing] More »

#plastics




Earlier this week, IBM researchers announced a discovery that could lead to plastics made from plants instead of petroleum. The new plastics will be more energy efficient, more versatile, and infinitely recyclable (until we move to our space colony). More »

#diy




Once upon a time being alone meant you were unable to play a decent game of rock-paper-scissors, but now you can finally amuse yourself with just your own hand. Granted you'll have to actually make a glove like this first. More »

#imagecache




That's not the sun. But for a brief period, in a small Arctic town in Canada, in the dead of winter, it was the next-best thing. More »

We thought that Google's Reader Play is perfect for tablet computers, but the New York Times' Nick Bilton has other ideas. He thinks that the feature is perfect for TVs and other larger screens. [NYT] More »

32GB, 64MB cache, and read and write speeds of 25MB/s and 70MB/s aren't terribly exciting when it comes to a solid state drive, but the OCZ Onyx still caught our eye because it's among the first SSDs to slip below $100. [Hot Hardware via CrunchGear] More »

#interactivity




What's more terrifying than a call coming from inside the house? The call coming from inside the theater. That's the thought behind Last Call, an interactive horror film in which the main character calls a random audience member for help. More »

#hands




Hand models have it pretty good, don't they? Show up, hold something for a few hours, collect checks, repeat. It's such a sweet gig, there's gotta be something wrong with them, right? Wait... they're all attractive, too? Well nuts. More »

#film




It's one thing to shoot an entire short film on a Canon flatbed computer scanner. It's another to do it well. With Memoirs of a Scanner, Mindfruit Films pretty much nailed it. More »

#cars




The most fuel efficient hybrid for sale in the US gets 51 MPG, but a startup called Transonic Combustion claims they can improve that. They claim their fuel-injection system will get 64 MPG. More »

#playstationmove




Sony's finally put a name to their motion controller, and it's called PlayStation Move. Live Updating More »

#iphone




$13 dollars. Whole package. Must. Resist. More »

#wtf




Next time someone complains about your habit of using a cellphone in the movie theater, just casually tell him this story of a man who got stabbed with a meat thermometer after making a similar complaint. More »

#science




In yet more research funded by Bill and Melinda Gates (and Intellectual Ventures), Stanford University's Ken Caldeira explores a mechanically simple ocean pump that could significantly diminish the power of a hurricane. More »

#google




The mad scientists at Google Labs have unleashed their latest concoction: Google Reader Play, a new way to look at your feeds one Google-suggested site at a time. It's actually pretty neat! And would be perfect for the iPad. More »

#rumors




The multi-touch language is getting complex. In addition to the iPhone conventions and the long press we saw at the keynote, the new iPhone 3.2 Beta 4 is adding the triple tap. [9to5] More »

#iphoneapps




It's not that Brizzly's perfect, or that it does justice to its source material (the unassailably pretty, wonderfully lean Birdfeed)—it's that it comes close enough, and it's free. More »

#asus




ASUS calls the Cine5 "the world's most compact five-channel speaker," but who cares about that when the thing actually looks good and supposedly provides ultra-realistic surround sound? Sadly we don't know when it'll be available or for how much. [Asus] More »

#rant




The App Store censorship horse may have been beaten to dead, but the German media—now under Apple's fire—isn't surrendering. Hopefully, their blitzkrieg will be successful, and the European Union will open an investigation that the US would follow. More »

#remainders




In today's Remainders: Efficiency. Get out of your house and watch the Final Four basketball games in 3-D; treat yourself to some Chilean wine while supporting their relief effort; test out Razer's new Mac drivers, and more. More »

#projects




A few pieces of shelving. A PC fan. An air filter. A shower curtain. Some lighting. Combine, and you have a budget space fit for swapping lenses and analyzing moon rocks. [I Heart Robotics via MAKE] More »

#powervr




I spoke to Imagination Technologies—maker of the PowerVR chip that powers smartphones like the iPhone, Droid and many others—and they said, definitively, that you'll have graphics comparable to the PlayStation 3 in 3 years. More »

#photography




With a single candle, your photos were stupendous. So for this week's Shooting Challenge, we're tying a different hand behind your back: color. More »