Author: matt buchanan

A rumored peek at bestsellers on Apple’s iBooks reveals that the $9.99 ebook is very much alive, suggesting Apple does some pricing flexibility with bestsellers, and books that publishers sell for less than the average $26 hardcover price. More »

Gizmodo and actually respectable news program PBS Newshour, together—yes, it’s true. Just look at this fancy logo they made, complete with drop shadow. Anyways, I was there to talk about the iPad and where Bing really lives (it’s a scary place) as part of a new series they’re doing, NewsHour Plus, that’s all about science and tech. I was very tired, so pardon the droopiness. But we’re pretty excited to be working with NewsHour! More »

You’ll notice a major book publisher is missing from this slide: Random House, the biggest one in the world, actually. More »

Two of the more interesting Core chips in the pipe from Intel, at least for gamers: The 32nm Core i5-655K (dual core), coming in June, and the 45nm Core i7-875K (quad core), coming in July, both have unlocked multipliers, meaning it’s way easier to overclock the crap out of ’em. They will be expensive. [DigiTimes] More »

It’s appropriate, almost, that Warner Bros. is giving Blockbuster—the chain that’s closing 500 locations and bringing back late fees—a 28-day exclusive rental window over Netflix and Redbox. Two archaic institutions, sticking together. More »

Six months ago, we revealed Courier, and Microsoft has been atypically stoic regarding its existence. Until a post on its JobsBlog mentioned “the upcoming Courier digital journal.” Oops. More »

You’d think 3D was the new color, or something. The latest promise to go 3D is from Verizon, who says they’ll have 3D for FiOS in time for Christmas, to go with all of the 3DTVs that the industry’s selling you. Even if there’s nothing but crap to watch on them. [Verizon] More »

A unit of Intellectual Ventures—the patent firm started by ex-Microsoft chief tech dude Nathan Myhrvold and funded partly by Bill Gates—called TerraPower is talking with Toshiba about using its nuclear reactor tech to build underground reactors. More »

Genius: a cup sleeve that expands via endothermic reaction when the cup is filled with hot liquid, insulating your hot coffee and keeping your hand from getting roasted. Utterly horrifying: the end of this video. [Heatswell] More »

I was playing the Splinter Cell: Conviction demo after turning my Xbox on for the first time in a month, and thought, “man, it’s easy to stealthily snap necks.” JETProtect‘s CS300K Long Range Counter Surveillance Camera would’ve gotten me killed. More »

Mozilla’s officially abandoning development of Firefox Mobile for Windows Mobile in the wake of the shiny—er, matte—future of Windows Phone 7. Which they’re not latching onto, either, because there’s no native SDK. More »

“Why,” you’re probably asking, “would I want another browser on my iPhone, when mobile Safari’s the best one around?” Because Opera Mini on the iPhone makes pokey EDGE feel like 3G. Check it out. More »

If Señor Chen’s impressions of PlayStation Move weren’t enough, I beat the crap out of this gladiator dude with my bare hands (holding the glowy stickballs) and in a new demo, stretched Kratos’s face like taffy. Mmm, taffy. [PlayStation Move@Giz] More »

Frogman, a souped-up superhero take on Frogger, looks badass. Classic Frogger gameplay, with a dash of Tick-like attitude (I mean, look at that costume), and awesome-for-the-iPhone graphics. A couple years ago, this woulda been $20 on the DS. [YouTube] More »

Any TV show, on any screen, anytime. Free, or at least reallyreally cheap. That’s the dream. More »

SanDisk has figured out a way to cram 32GB of storage onto a chip the size of your pinkie that slides into your phone—if it’s got a micro SDHC slot, anyway. Which is awesome! Not awesome: It’s $200, which is as much as your phone actually cost. Oh well. It’d be kind of a steal if the iPad took ’em though. More »

I think it would taste like a Flinstones pop, but that’s just me. Like all Tee Fury shirts, it’s available one day only, for $9. [TeeFury via Geekologie] More »

Hello, we’re still looking for more awesome Gizmodo interns in New York City. Are you one? More »

The Kindle iPad app’s more than an iPhone port, with a new “tablet-based interface that redesigns the core screen and the reading experience,” says Kindle VP Ian Freed. In other words, it’s a peek at the future of Kindle. UPDATED. More »