The white iPhone may be available on AT&T and Verizon this month, YouTube’s Copyright School, Verizon gets rid of their “Tester Man”, the view from the world’s fastest electric motorcycle, what schizophrenia looks like on a molecular level, Tweetbot, the coolest wedding invitation ever, the death of MySpace and much more!
1. In more iPhone rumor news: the white iPhone 4 might finally be here by the end of this month. This phone has been pure myth online for a while and been filled with delayed release dates. Due to complications with a sensor in the iPhone 4 amongst some other manufacturing issues. Its black counterpart has been by its lonesome for months but we may not have to wait any longer for the new model. [Businessweek]
2. YouTube copyright violators will be sent to “Copyright School”. [Gawker]
Copyright school consists of watching an animated PSA (above) explaining YouTube’s copyright policies, then passing a quiz to prove you were paying attention. If you don’t pass, you can’t upload anymore videos. Ostensibly this is to educate violators to keep them from screwing up again, but in reality it’s all about humiliating adults by making them watch cartoon rabbits explain piracy. Unfortunately, there’s no little certificate you can send away for and hang on the wall of your office.
3. We’re going to miss hearing the ever-famous and yet awkward “Can you hear me know?” Verizon’s Test Man, Paul Marcarelli is being let go due to the company’s decision to “take its ads to a new direction.” [Engadget]
4. Ever ponder on what the view from the fastest electric motorcycle would be like? Watch this. The SWIGZ team’s driver pushed a 241HP electric bike to 190MPH, from a standing start in under 30 seconds and had the awesome idea of strapping a camera to his headgear. Too bad you can’t feel the wind whipping your hair back & forth. [Gizmodo]
5. This is what schizophrenia looks like on a molecular level. [Gizmodo]
6. This just might be the coolest wedding invitation we’ve seen in a long time. Created by designer Kelli Anderson, she wanted to create something original for the wedding of her friends Karen Sandler and Mike Tarantino. Look at (and listen to) this masterpiece. The card turns into a manually-operated paper record player that plays a song recorded by said bride and groom. [Mashable]
Paper Record Player from kellianderson on Vimeo.
7. There’s new hype surrounding an iOS twitter app by the name of Tweetbot, its the version 1.0 Twitter client from Tapbot. The app requires iOS 4.1 of later and rumored to be worth the $1.99. [Engadget]
8. You are looking at RIM’s Blackberry Playbook. Check out TechCrunch’s review of Blackberry’s contester in the tablet race for best device. [TechCrunch]
9. Speaking of tablets, George Washington University’s Hugo Scheckter fell victim to iPad theft. Being the cunning kid that he is, he used Apple’s device tracking software, MobileMe to track it down. The next night Hugo was able to pinpoint its location, down to a specific room in a Maryland house. He tweeted: “Currently tracking my iPad. It’s in Maryland. Police won’t go after it though, and don’t really want to drive there and fuck them up.” Not wanting to risk his health or life to roughen some hooligans up, he left the iPad but the theft is still under investigation. The person in possession of Hugo’s iPad told cops they’d bought it from someone, and authorities are now looking for the seller. [Gawker]
10. Wow! The good people over at Gizmodo have the photos behind one of the largest counterfeit audio stings in history! [Gizmodo]
11. Virgin Atlantic strives to make its flight experience more hip than those other airlines. Just when bragging about the stamps in your passports wasn’t enough, Virgin, Facebook & Foursquare are combining checkins to award passengers badges ranging from “ground crew” to “captain” (50 checkins). Passengers will randomly be awarded prizes, like t-shirts and flight vouchers, based on their checkins. [Mashable]
12. China’s overpowering cyberspies are having the upperhand. According to U.S. investigators, China has stolen terabytes of sensitive data, ranging from usernames and passwords from State Department computers to designs for multi-billion dollar weapons systems. Director of Research at information-security training group SANS Institute, Alan Paller, explains that “the attacks coming out of China are not only continuing, they are accelerating.” Scary. [HuffPost]
13. How to use Kinect to control your Netflix account from your Xbox 360. So after burning all of those calories from Zumba dancing, you can just signal an item from your queue with a wave of the hand. Soon we won’t need that “Easy” button after all. [Gizmodo]
14. MySpace is dying more and more each day. Even though its presence has gone back to the site’s original use, for actual artists, its still inching more and more to the grave. According to Mike Arrington at TechCrunch, who obtained finance documents, MySpace is projected to lose $165 million in the current fiscal year, due to the revenue tumble. [Gawker]
15. How Google has tackled its early porn problem. [HuffPost]
16. Here’s a list of 9 Gadgets that smartphones made obsolete. Land-line phones are completely gone. Can you think of anyone who still uses their land lines? Just on one hand right? [HuffPost]
17. NYC Mayor Mike Bloomber declares April 16th, 2011 FourSquare Day! 4/16 is the fourth sixteenth of the year. What a numerologist. Make sure you’ve downloaded the app onto your smartphones and check-in everywhere you can on Saturday. [MikeBloomberg]
18. Non-paying users are getting ditched on Spotify. Today they announce that its drastically reducing the amount of free music that its non-paying users will gain access to. Probably due to supporting non-paying customers comes at a substantially higher cost compared to other types of Internet services. [TechCrunch]
19. Rustled feathers over at the Twitter headquarters. Seems like lately there’s more twitter drama in it’s offices than online. Its been fueled by secret board meetings, power struggles, one too many consultants and disgruntled founders. Are they secretly campaigning for a Twitter movie? [FortuneTech]
