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Saying that the Motorola Atrix is the best Android phone isn't a big deal; that throne gets usurped every few months. But even though the Atrix's accompanying laptop dock is slow and and expensive, the idea behind it is one of the first innovations in mobile technology in quite a while.

Source: Motorola Atrix Review: Great Phone, Weak Netbook [Video]

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    In 100 years, we'll still appreciate black and white street photography. I mean, it'll fly at our retinas at warp 9 and we'll be tasting it via synesthetic implants, but it'll still be in black and white.            More »

Source: 120 Striking Street Photos [Shooting Challenge]

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    Journalist Nir Rosen managed to do the near-impossible. He published some tweets offensive enough to rise above the din of the Internet's general state of offensiveness and lost his fellowship at NYU.            More »

Source: Breaking News: Man Tweets Without Really Thinking About It First [Twitter Twit]

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                      There are plenty of tools for finding flights, but when you're doing it on your phone, a streamlined experience is of the essence. Hipmunk doesn't clutter up search with stuff you don't need and makes the most painless flight of the lot easy to find.            More »

Source: Hipmunk Flight Search for iPhone [Video]

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

Apple Will Unveil iPad 2 On March 2

All Things D just reported that Apple will be holding their iPad 2 unveiling on March 2. No official invites have gone out yet, so think of this one as a strong rumor.

The Fantasyland Toyota Factory

Currently on display as part of the Prix Pictet Exhibition in Paris, Stéphanie Couturier's dense composite photograph of a Toyota assembly plant is probably what it feels like like to work in one of those crazy high-tech car factories, even if it isn't exactly what it looks like to work in one.

Source: Best Stories of Today, February 22, 2011 [Total Recap]

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Apple fans! Apple detractors too! Exciting new stuff is almost here. Keyboards around the world are clacking with anticipation over new MacBooks and iPads—but rather than scouring the internet wastes, check out everything you need to know below.

Source: Everything Apple (Might) Have Up Its Sleeve [News]

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                     "The Power of Decision" may be the first (and perhaps the only) U.S. government film dramatizing nuclear war decision-making.  Commissioned by the Strategic Air Command in 1956, the film has the look of a 1950s TV drama, but the subject is the ultimate Cold War nightmare.  By the end of the film, after the U.S. Air Force has implemented war plan "Quick Strike" following a Soviet surprise attack, millions of Americans, Russians, Europeans, and Japanese are dead.  The narrator, a Colonel Dodd, asserts that "nobody wins a nuclear war because both sides are sure to suffer terrible damage." Despite the "catastrophic" damage, one of the film's operating assumptions is that defeat is avoidable as long as the adversary cannot impose its "will" on the United States.  The film's last few minutes suggest that the United States would prevail because of the "success" of its nuclear air offensive.  Moscow, not the United States, is sending out pleas for a cease-fire.            More »

Source: How the USAF Envisioned Nuclear War [Video]

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Apple just confirmed their leaked iPad event by sending out invites to the press. Usually it's not this obvious what Apple's announcements are about, but this has the corner of an iPad right there in the image.

Here's what we believe the next iPad will have.

A Basic Sketch of the Next iPad

Speaking of which, here's our increasingly spot-on depiction of what Apple will likely flash around at the aforementioned RUMORED BIG EVENT: the iPad 2. Or whatever they'll call it.

Source: Apple Confirms March 2 iPad Event [Apple]

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Before starting Urbanscale, his own design firm, Adam Greenfield spent two years as Nokia's head of design direction for user interfaces and services. Here, he explains how Nokia's focus on commodity over user experience led to the company's precipitous decline.

OK, you got me.

You knew I couldn't go for very long without having some kind of outlet for random thoughts and personal opinions. To paraphrase Forest Whitaker in The Crying Game - and boy, does that date me - expressing same is in my nature.

Source: Nokia: Culture Will Out [First Person]

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Apple and other digital retailers are planning to offer 24-bit audio to consumers. It should be an easy sell; recording studios use 24-bit, it's how the music was mixed, and it's how the consumers should hear it. Right? Wrong.

Source: Why 24-bit Audio Will Be Bad For Users [Audio]