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Funny or Die's iSteve Beat All the Other Steve Jobs Biopics to the Screen. Maybe Because It Was Shot in Five Days

Gawker Goes to L.A: West Coast Expansion Includes New Editor in Silver Lake, Possible Porn Column

To us rednecks over here in Angel town, Gawker has always been the pinnacle of New Yorkiness. It started in 2003 as an uber-meta NYC media spy, but even as it has expanded to national/international coverage and Hollywood gossip, the site has retained a distinctly East Coast attitude. That is to say: ... More >>

'Applefied Ads': Santa Monica Ad Intern Delights Internet by Giving Household Products the Apple Treatment

White background. Stark chrome letters. Floating Apple product, suspended from heaven. Bleh. Bryan Evans, a recent Pepperdine graduate and summer intern at the Rubin Postaer and Associates ad agency in Santa Monica, is so over the Apple advertising formula. "At one point, Apple had the most ground ... More >>

Mark Gurman, Apple's Toughest Beat Journalist, is High School Teen From L.A.

Apple has been known to have thin skin when it comes to journalists who expose its secrets. Remember when an iPhone prototype ended up in the hands of a Gizmodo journalist and his home was searched by cops? Yeah. But maybe the behemoth from Cupertino has met its match in the form of a high schooler ... More >>

Apple to Build Employee-Only Restaurant to Keep Out Spies and Competitors

Say your company has top-secret information that it would like to contain within the confines of its campus. But, your employees eat, as people do, at public restaurants. And at these public restaurants, they, as people unfortunately do, talk about their work, which often includes inadvertent disc ... More >>

Coca-Cola Machine Dispenses Can of Coke for the Price of a Hug

Happiness, apparently, is a warm embrace. At least, for Coca-Cola, which recently installed a "Hug Machine" that dispenses cold sodas in exchange for warm hugs on the National University of Singapore campus. According to Mashable, the huggable machine is part of the soda company's "Open Happiness" ... More >>

Kirin's Frozen Foam Draft Beer: When Beer Meets Soft Serve

When we visited Asia's largest food and beverages expo, FoodEx, a few weeks ago, we found a few products available in Japan that we wish also are readily available Stateside. To the list, which currently includes ridiculously cute and functional packaging and a street called Ramen, we add Kirin's ... More >>

Groupon Settles Lawsuit Over Expiration Dates How to Use Expired Groupons

Bought a $20 Groupon for $40 worth of cupcakes sometime over the last year or so, then promptly forgot all about it before the Groupon expired? Well, you can have your cake and eat it too: Reuters reports that the online deal company just agreed to an $8.5 million settlement in a nationwide class a ... More >>

Violet Beauregardes Rejoice: Chewing Gum Provides a Mental Boost

T. NguyenAccording to researchers, chewing gum provides a short mental boost.​Is gum a food? If it is -- the International Chewing Gum Association certainly thinks so, and its manufacture is regulated by the Federal Drug Administration -- it may be one of few that can boost one's mental perfo ... More >>

Cellphones in Your Butt: The Extreme Lengths Prisoners Take to Get Phones Inside California Prison

SamsungIs that a phone in your arse or are you just happy to see me?​At LA Weekly we've been all over the prison cellphone-smuggling story. It's gotten so bad that authorities have had to ask Facebook to cancel the accounts of people known to be behind bars. (They can get accounts through smar ... More >>

Prosthetic Records Is The Third L.A. Metal Label To Pull Their Catalog Off Of Spotify

Skeletonwitch's new album - not coming to Spotify​We recently told you about how Norwegian metal giant Indie Recordings was partnering with Inglewood-based label Prosthetic Records. Now there's more news on the Prosthetic front. The imprint has revealed to West Coast Sound that they are in t ... More >>

Jon Finkel, Magic Champion, Acted Just as Shallow as Kiss-and-Teller Alyssa Bereznak

Newsday via Washington PostJon Finkel, Magic champion and OkCupid "victim."​I know this Magic vs. Gizmodo horse has been beaten halfway to hell since Monday, but before the Internet moves onto its next memestorm for good, there's one week-ending piece of information that I feel must be weighed ... More >>

Donald LeBuhn Files Class Action Lawsuit in LA Against Apple: Says iPhone 4 Glass Casing Sucks and is Not as Strong as Apple Advertises

Gizmodo​If you own an iPhone 4 and the glass casing has broken, you are not alone. So many people have complained, in fact, that the phenomenon has even earned the nickname, "Glassgate." Apparently fed up and pissed off, California resident Donald LeBuhn filed a class action lawsuit earlier thi ... More >>

Thanksgiving Day Roundup: TSA 'Opt Out' A Giant Bust; Two-Legged Chihuahua Finds Home; Food Trucks Finally Post Health Grades; Bell Embezzlement Worse Than We Thought; Guide To Free Food; It's #$%&ing Cold Outside

ZimbioBe thankful you're not Robert Rizzo today​We have a lot to be thankful for in Los Angeles today, from the slow, excruciating drag-out of former Bell City Manager/embezzler Robert Rizzo's humiliation to a little black chihuahua with only hind legs who hops around like a kangaroo with a br ... More >>

Jerry Brown Or Meg Whitman? Your Phone Is A 'Tell'

Gizmodo​It might be a little scary knowing that pollsters and political operatives can take one look at you or, rather, at your mobile phone, and have some idea of who you will vote for in California's November gubernatorial race. That is, at least if you have one of the two most-popular smart ... More >>

Apple Schedules Special Press Conference To Address Problems With iPhone 4

Gizmodo​Apple scheduled a press conference Friday to address a growing roar of discontent with its iPhone 4, which this week was found by Consumer Reports to have serious issues with reception. The San Jose Mercury News called the last-minute conference "unprecedented" for the normally quali ... More >>

Steve Jobs Rolls Out iPhone 4 Fix: A Free, $35 Case

Gizmodo​In a hastily organized news conference called to respond to criticism that the iPhone 4 has serious reception problems, Apple chief Steve Jobs announced a solution that sidestepped a recall that could have cost the company $1.5 billion: Free, $35 cases that seem to put virtual duct tap ... More >>

Is The New iPhone 4 An Epic FAIL? Consumer Reports Gives It A Thumbs Down

Gizmodo​Hold on to your Ray-Bans, Echo Park hipsters: The iPhone 4 has been declared a FAIL by Consumer Reports magazine (via LA Biz Observed). It wasn't AT&T's new reaming digital data plan that will certainly put most monthly iPhone bills above $100. It wasn't the fact that the new phone ... More >>

Verizon iPhone Service In January? Yes: Hipsters Rejoice

Gizmodo​Woo-hoo. Echo Park hipsters rejoice. Verizon is said to be breaking AT&T's lock on iPhone service starting in January, when it will start selling the devices with its own service attached, according to Bloomberg News. Forget the improving economy, a win by your favorite World Cup team ... More >>

Lines For The iPhone Could Mean Leak Of New Gadget Did Apple Good

​One of Apple's arguments in its push to condemn the website Gizmodo and those journalists who helped to leak images and information about the new iPhone was that the unauthorized previews hurt sales of its existing phone model because, getting a taste of the edgy new gadget, people would wait ... More >>

L.A. Press Club Joins Chorus Of Disapproval For Raid On Journalist Who Exposed New iPhone

Gizmodo​The Los Angeles Press Club this week joined other journalism organizations and news outlets in expressing support for a California journalist whose home was raided as part of an investigation into his expose of what's believed to be the next Apple iPhone. The L.A. Press Club said it i ... More >>

Journalist's Home Searched For Information On iPhone Seller; Coveted Apple Prototype Sold For $10,000

An affidavit and search warrant unsealed at the behest of the Los Angeles Times and other news organizations revealed that authorities in Silicon Valley searched a reporter's home in order to obtain more evidence on a suspect who sold an Apple iPhone prototype to the writer. The Times reports that ... More >>

Is AT&T Dangling Next iPhone In Front Of Customers?

gizmodo.com​Reports (like this one from Yahoo) indicate that AT&T has quietly revised upgrade eligibility dates to allow current customers to get a new handset at a discount on June 21 -- the same day a new AT&T-enabled iPhone is rumored to be released. Echo Park hipsters rejoice: The new iPh ... More >>

L.A. Times Joins Battle Over Reporter Searched After Revealing New iPhone

gizmodo.comThe next iPhone.​The Los Angeles Times has joined a group of news organizations that asked a judge to help reveal why a journalist had his home raided last month after he helped to reveal the next-generation iPhone via Gizmodo.com. The request was denied Thursday by San Mateo Count ... More >>

Reporter Who Wrote Story Of Missing iPhone Prototype Has Computers Seized

​The computers of the California-based Gizmodo reporter who unveiled how a next-generation iPhone prototype was apparently left carelessly at a bar were seized over the weekend, the website reports. The California's Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team served search warrants on Jason Chen's ... More >>

iBallz: Protective Balls for Your Tablet Device

This Saturday, Apple will begin selling the much-hyped iPad and new users of the tablet device will begin wondering, how am I going to protect my new, expensive gadget. L.A. DJs Derek Michael and Lee Doerr think they have the answer and it's called iBallz. ​ Consisting of four balls attached ... More >>

Pedraza vs. Macintosh: Worms in the Apple

Star Wars in Concert: How Many Ways Can You Interpret "The Imperial March"?

​The appeal of a piece of music can be measured by how well it can be covered. If you can change not just the musicians, but the instruments, and still come out with something solid, then it's a winner. Take "The Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme)" as an example. Ever since its first appeara ... More >>

This Site's Dead Anyway: Twitter DDoS Overlooks MySpace, Does an Attack Signal a Site's Relevancy?

Yesterday, if you were searching for a short-form, self-indulgent way to describe what you had for breakfast, you were shit out of luck. Basically, the Internet's most popular social networking sites broke. Web sites that were down yesterday included: Facebook, Livejournal, YouTube, Google, and the ... More >>

WGA Strike's Fountain of Youth

How a troubled old guild is being saved by a gutsier, newly radicalized crowd