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Scareware launched from tech blog
Source: BBC News

Visitors to technology blog Gizmodo are being warned that they could have picked up more than tips about the latest must-have gadget.

Pole Dance Doll - Worst doll ever.
Source: The San Francisco Chronicle

This doll doesn't burp or wet its pants. It doesn't walk or talk, or sing or breast-feed. No. This baby doll whirls and twirls around a pole.

Feel Better, Steve
Source: Gizmodo

Publishing rumors about Steve Jobs' health is one of the most distasteful things I've done in a long time. Let me just get this off my chest. Do not read on if you have a problem with foul language. Whoa.

Rotten Reporting: The Media's Coverage of Apple Bites - Here's Why.
Source: Newsweek

For the past six months Steve Jobs has been looking terribly ill. But only this week did Apple finally acknowledge that Jobs isn't doing well, when the company announced that Jobs would take a leave for six months.

On Apple Reporting: Fake Steve Rips CNBC a New One
Source: Gizmodo

When we published this we got raked across the coals by Jimbo over sources. Unfortunately, that was wrong. UPDATE: Fake Steve Jobs is "banned" for asking Jim to apologize on CNBC.

Was Gizmodo's source correct about Steve Jobs after all?

Two of my recent articles have contained a strong rejection of information presented by Gizmodo regarding the health of Steve Jobs, based on a report by an anonymous source. Paraphrasing:

Steve Jobs is dying. Oh, wait. No. Jesus Diaz was wrong.

Last week, I published an article in an effort to call out Jesus Diaz on his use of an anonymous source as the basis for an article about the "dire" health of Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Attempts to contact Diaz went unanswered.

Photoshop Contest: 115 More Pieces of Amazing Iranian Technology
Source: Gizmodo

This is a follow-up to an earlier article "Iran You Suck At Photoshop - Internet Responds With Humor":

In 24/7 Web world, some writers blog till they drop
Source: The Seattle Times

They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home.

Retro Arcade Gaming Fan Heaven is Worth Infinite Quarters
Source: Gizmodo

Retro Arcade Gaming Fan Heaven Is Worth Infinite Quarters Peter Hirschberg has just finished his stunning retro-gaming heaven, a Valhalla for the best arcade video games ever.

How To Discover Secret Gadgets Through the FCC
Source: Gizmodo

Long the well of gadget blog content, the FCC website is chock-full of unannounced gear ripe for the plucking. Finding these gadgets is a simple process, but for many, knowing where to begin is a difficult task.

Giz Banned For Life and Loving It: On Pranks and Civil Disobedience at CES
Source: Gizmodo

A Gizmodo writer has been banned from CES for a prank.

Gizmodo officially banned from CES
Source: CNET News.com

In reaction to "Gizmodogate," the gadget blog's prank of shutting down flat-screen displays on the show floor and during demos at CES (see Bloggers behaving badly), the conference's organizer, the Consumer Electronics Association, sent me this statement:

Over the Line at C.E.S.
Source: The New York Times

So the stunt wasn't clever or funny; it was obnoxious and mean, and I'm embarrassed for the Gizmodo folks.

ExtravaTech-What's Next in Shi Shi Speakers, Cutting Edge Cells, and Go Anywhere GPS

Tech toys' MSRPs get slashed as often as Sidney Crosby's hockey stick. It's mainly a function of the increasing speed at which today's new technology becomes yesterday's news. But not all gadgets have the shelf-life of a Christmas fruit cake.

Greenpeace respond: iPhone's hazardous chemicals
Source: Greenpeace News

When we released our iPhone testing results that revealed toxic chemicals in the iPhone, chemicals that other phone makers have removed, we expected the news to travel.

iPhone's hazardous chemicals
Source: Greenpeace News

Scientific tests, arranged by Greenpeace, reveal that Apple's iPhone contains hazardous chemicals. The tests uncovered two types of hazardous substances, some of which have already been eliminated by other mobile phone makers.

Apple TV Hack Allows External USB Storage - Gizmodo
Source: Gizmodo

At last someone has developed a patch to expand the Apple TV's storage through its USB 2.0 port, using the internal hard drive to boot and one fat external 2TB drive to stockpile as many TV series, photos and porn movies as you want.

Google Streetview cameras being spotted in the wild! Cool or creepy?

Google has its eye on us with its fleet of camera vehicles shooting pictures for its Streetview mapping service, so we decided to turn the tables and put our eyes on Google. -From Gizmodo

Gizmodo.com - Technology Reviews + Humor
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A review of Gizmodo.com, a blog that offers technology reviews as well as humor.

Xbox 360 has a failure rate of 30% say retailers
Source: Gizmodo

We always knew the Xbox 360 failure rate was high, but the only time Microsoft's put any sort of solid numbers on the thing it was always somewhere around 5%. Retailers, on the other hand, have just reported a failure rate of somewhere over 30%. That's pretty ridonkulous.

Thou Shalt Not Digg Thyself
Source: The New York Times

In the race to draw more readers of the Web, individual sites seek any edge they can find, from sketchy marketing tactics to partnerships with larger sites to the dark arts of search engine optimization.

Top 25 most popular Blogs
Source: ebizmba.com

We at eBizMBA have decided that in order to get a more accurate picture we needed to combine data from multiple sources.

Finger Saver: Amazing SawStop Cuts Anything But Your Fingers
Source: Gizmodo

This new table saw uses a mechanism to almost guarantee your finger never getting cut. Watch it nearly self destruct in order to not cut a hot dog.

Behold the Annoy-o-Tron
Source: The New York Times

BEHOLD the Annoy-o-tron. The easy-to-hide magnetized device promises to drive a co-worker insane.

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