GizModo: Top Tech News and Reviews [March ‘11 Diet]

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    Apps are the most important part of any tablet right now. But great apps need great hardware to run.            More »

Source: Specs Still Matter (Or: iPad 2 vs. Motorola Xoom) [Ipad 2]

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                      Twenty years ago today, Rodney King was savagely beaten by a team of LAPD officers during a DUI arrest. The act itself was horrific—but affected only one man. What thundered across the country was, rather, amateur video footage of the act. In 1991, the act was an unspeakable sight. In 2011, it's unthinkable that we wouldn't see it.            More »

Source: Twenty Years After Rodney King, Nothing Goes Unseen [Video]

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    Here are the best stories on Gizmodo today. Enjoy them!            More »

Source: Best Stories of Today, March 3, 2011 [Total Recap]

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    Isn't it irritating how you have to sync a song you've already downloaded on one device to the various other Apple devices you own? Wouldn't it be easier to be able to download the same song, for free, using iTunes? According to Bloomberg, Apple's working on cloud-based download back-ups, with a decision to be reached mid-year between all the various music labels.            More »

Source: Apple Considering Unlimited Downloads of iTunes Purchases [Unconfirmed]

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                      NASA has released this beautiful, crystal-clear video of Discovery's launch. It was taken from an HD camera mounted on the left solid rocket booster, during liftoff of the shuttle for mission STS-133.            More »

Source: This Is What 44,000,000 Horsepower Looks Like [Video]

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                     According to recently unearthed—and completely fake—scientific papers posted in Russian forum  Stepashka, the Soviets took over where the Nazis and Dr. Frankenstein left it: During the 1950s, a team of communist scientists from Moscow University and the Soviet Academy of Sciences lead by Dr. Vladimir Demikhov worked on the creation of a giant robot controlled by a dog head in secret facilities created by Joseph Stalin.            More »

Source: The Freaky Story of the Dog Head Transplants and the Giant Dogbot That Never Was [Video]

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    Here are the best stories on Gizmodo today. Enjoy them!            More »

Source: Best Stories of Today, March 4, 2011 [Total Recap]

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    Here are the best stories on Gizmodo this week. Enjoy!            More »

Source: Best Stories of The Week [Total Recap]

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    This is really nuts. The people from National Geographic have built a house inspired by the Pixar's movie Up! Yes, a house tied to gas balloons that actually flies. I'm so giddy I can barely type.            More »

Source: The House From Up! Now Exists In Real Life—and It Flies! [Awesome]

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    Did anyone catch 60 Minutes just now? Bob Simon—who always seems to get the really interesting international assignments—was invited to go along on a polar bear expedition at the top of the world. What he saw there was amazing and...robotic?            More »

Source: Robot Spy Cameras Have Captured Truly Awe-Inspiring Images In the Arctic Circle [Robots]