Just released, ready in your iTunes. This update includes the iTunes Wireless Store, but if you have an unlocked iPhone, be aware that this firmware may make your iPhone unusable. After several hours of testing in house and with the iPhone Dev team, here is the summary of what it does:
• The update will work ok in iPhones with no modification.
• The update will work ok in iPhones with Installer.app (although it gets wiped out; the apps seem to remain in the iPhone, but they won’t appear in your screen).
• The update will work ok in unlocked iPhones, but it will return your iPhone to the activation screen. From there, no activation is possible. The iPhone doesn’t get bricked but —as expected— so if you want to keep using it, don’t update your iPhone.
• This has been confirmed with both anySIM and iPhone Sim Free.
• “Third-party applications won’t work after […]
Original post by Jesus Diaz
The MI5 says this chocolate bar is really a grenade. Made of steel and covered in chocolate, the Nazis designed this during WWII to kill British Royals, who were thought to be chocoholic and stupid. The Royals only had to open these and seven seconds later they will be dead. No bomb ever arrived to Britain, so the Royals remained as chocoholic and stupid as they ever where. [MI5 and Wikidpedia via Spluch]
Original post by Jesus Diaz
The MI5 says this chocolate bar is really a grenade. Literally an explosive grenade, not a calories one. Made of still, covered and chocolate, you open it, you break its end and seven seconds later, your enemy is death by either diabetic coma or deadly explosion. I can go either way. Sweet. [MI5 via Spluch]
Original post by Jesus Diaz
Nothing quite impresses a girl like an underwater cruise for two in the CQ-2 submarine. Debuted by C-Quester at Monte Carlo, the CQ-2 is a fully electric 2-seater submarine that runs on 36V electric motors and that can last roughly two and a half hours per 14-hour charge. Able to travel 15 feet below the surface while maintaining cabin pressure at one atmosphere, the CQ-2 makes underwater travelling surprisingly easy.
Still, the company requires a mandatory four to six day course that teaches the buyer everything from navigation to weather systems to how to avoid killing a sea turtle. Priced at a quarter million dollars, the sub is aimed more at the Richard Branson types, rather than, sadly, your average Gizmodo writer. [Gizmag]
Original post by Yuri Baranovsky
Google Earth is once again changing the world — or, more specifically, they’re changing the way swastika-shaped buildings are built. The Navy is spending upwards of $600,000 to modify a 40-year-old barracks that, when viewed by satellite imaging programs like Windows Live and Google Earth, looks like a giant swastika. It’s nice that the world has the ever-vigilant Google Earth watchers to monitor the shape of our buildings, otherwise we’d end up spending $600,000 dollars on something worthwhile, like making California’s TransAmerica building look less like a giant penis. [MSNBC]
Original post by Yuri Baranovsky