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There's an ocean of apps out there. Whether you just got your iPhone and are feeling adrift or you're a salty old dog seeing what you might've missed, here are 50 absolutely essential apps.            


Gizmodo's Essential iPhone Apps, October 2010 [IphoneApps]

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The 11-inch MacBook Air is marvelously twee—most people will quite literally marvel at it. It's stupid thin. And if it were any lighter, it would feel more like a trick than a tiny wonder of engineering and design.


11-Inch MacBook Air Review: A Tiny Miracle [Video]

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We can geek out all we want, but the best way to choose is a phone is not just by the hardware or the OS, but the phone and the carrier. Here's the smartphone to pick on each...for now.

• AT&T—Apple iPhone 4
• Sprint—HTC Evo
• T-Mobile—G2
• Verizon—HTC
                                                        

The Best Gadgets of the Year (So Far)

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Tuesday's midterms could mean more than just a routine reshuffling of the House and Senate majorities. The fates of a number of important science and technology policies also hang in the balance.


What Tomorrow's Elections Mean for Science and Technology [Midterm Elections]

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In Shenzhen's electronics markets, an entire building is dedicated to Apple products. You can buy white iPhones—at least the backs—by the case. But why pick drab old white when you can get something even snazzier?            


I Found the White iPhones (And the Green Ones. And the Pink Ones) [Shenzhennotes]

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Foxconn's factory in Shenzhen, China, is home to about half of its 420,000 workers. They make many of our gadgets and computers, then walk to dormitories on the 2.1-kilometer-square campus. I got to look inside.

I traveled to China to report on Foxconn and Shenzhen as part of a special feature for WIRED, which will be published in an upcoming issue of the magazine. In the meantime, here's a small glimpse of some of the things I saw while in Shenzhen.         

Exclusive Look: Where The Workers Who Made Your iPhone Sleep At Night [Shenzhennotes]

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Take your DSLR in one hand. Unscrew the lens with the other. Tilt the lens away from the camera body-maybe even flip the optics backwards. And take photos that you never imagined you could without expensive upgrades.


101 Photos Taken With the Lens Detached [Photography]

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Shifts at a Foxconn factory are typically eight to ten hours a day. Since about half of the company's Shenzhen employees live on campus, an entire city has sprung up around them. They train. They eat. They play.   

Exclusive Look: Living at Foxconn [Shenzhennotes]

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Smartphones are the new portable cameras—almost. With these apps, though, you can turn your iPhone or Android handset into a true pocket camera killer.            



The Best Camera Apps [Appbattle]

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Microsoft's motion gaming peripheral is, if executed correctly, quite possibly the future of gaming. It might even be the future of WIndows 8 and computers everywhere. But how much fun is playing with Kinect right now?


Xbox Kinect Review: It's a Brand New Console