Hasta La Gadget!

Day one has come and gone, but we are just twenty percent of the way through our weeklong mission to give out five iPhones. Today’s contest is made possible by Tanga, an e-tailer known for offering tech magazine subscriptions on the cheap as well as closeout prices on just about anything you can think of. Tanga is hooking the lucky winner up with an Apple gift card with enough credit to cover the no-contract cost of an iPhone 5, which means you have more flexibility in choosing a carrier. So head below, read the rules and leave a comment to enter again! You have until Saturday to get your entry in, but the longer you wait, the easier it is to forget — believe us, that happens to us all the time. (At least, we think it does.)

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With the Halloween just around the creepy corner, DIY guru Nathan decided to turn his pumpkin into a video game machine that can play Tetris. Illustrating the details of his project, Nathan explained that he originally wanted to shape pumpkins into Tetris pieces as they grew, then stack them together for Halloween. Realizing the short time he had, he opted to create a pumpkin that can play the classic game of Tetris on it instead. Nathan used 140 amber LEDs, a pair of LED Matrix “backpacks”, and a short handle joystick from SparkFun as its controller.

He then created the LED matrix, soldered short wires into a daisy chain, poked holes into a foam-core board for the LEDs, and did the coding for the game. Nathan had to poke holes once again, this time, into the pumpkin using a drill bit and cut squares outside the holes to make it look more realistic. As for the ingenious joystick, he drilled a hole into the stem and inserted a shaft to act as a controller. If you’ve got lots of time to waste over the weekend, you can follow his DIY project here.

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Hurricane Sandy did its work over the night, and Twitter has been more busy than usual, with users reporting power outages, flooding, and other weather-related damage in their area. Some of those users are actual websites and even entire website networks. Gawker, Buzzfeed, and the Huffington Post have reported outages of their respective websites due to Hurricane Sandy.

The Gawker Media network consists of eight websites, such as Gizmodo, Lifehacker, and Kotaku, and all eight of them were taken down last night, and as of this writing, they’re still down. Buzzfeed also reported on Twitter last night that the website was experiencing some technical difficulties, but it seems to be back up and running as of this morning. The Huffington Post is partially back up, but the main website still seems to be down. The company has been tweeting the news, as well as posting on a temporary blog.

Both New York City and New Jersey have been experiencing flooding, and approximately 6.5 million people across the northeast US are without power. There have been no reports of any major flooding, but New York City major Michael Bloomberg is urging residents to stop evacuating and stay inside until the storm passes.

Apple‘s 5th Avenue flagship store ended up preparing for potential flooding, and GameStop cancelled all of its midnight releases of Assassin’s Creed III because of the hurricane. And while Google still announced all of their new products and features, they had to end up canceling their Android event in New York City due to the storm.

[via PC Mag]

Hurricane Sandy knocks out Huffington Post, Gawker, and Buzzfeed is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Along with the iPad mini, the 4th-generation iPad arrives on Friday, bringing with it the new A6X chip, as well the new Lightning connector and a better FaceTime camera. However, aside from Apple‘s claims, how much faster is the new iPad compared to its predecessor? It turns out that it’s more than twice as fast as Apple’s third-generation tablet.

The fourth-generation iPad runs off of Apple’s newest A6X processor, which now has quad-core graphics in order to run the tablet’s 2048×1536 Retina display more efficiently. It also appears to be clocked at 1.4 GHz compared to the third-generation iPad’s A5X clocked at 1 GHz, but it comes with the same 1GB of RAM as the previous model.

The chart above that compares Apple’s newest products, such as the iPhone 5, third-gen iPad, and the iPad 2, really puts into perspective not only how powerful the fourth-generation iPad is, but how much more powerful the iPhone 5 is compared to the third-gen iPad, which is most likely thanks to the A6 chip running at 1.3 GHz.

We would’ve liked to have seen the iPhone 4S in the benchmarks considering they had the older iPad 2 in the mix, just to round out the comparison a bit more, but we can’t complain. Either way, this should help out those who might be thinking about upgrading to the fourth-gen model. Most people will upgrade solely because of the performance boost, but the slightly upgraded camera, WiFi, and the new Lightning connector might also entice a few prospective upgraders as well.

[via Primate Labs]

iPad 4th gen gets benchmarked, reveals 1.4 GHz A6X and 1GB of RAM is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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In an attempt to help our fellow beloved citizens in the U.S., particularly in the East Coast, Google has released a new crisis response map at the height of Hurricane Sandy to track the Frankenstorm’s progress. The map, which can be viewed here, will also show other vital information such as location tracking, public alerts, radar and cloud imagery, evacuation information, shelters and recovery centers, and storm footages via YouTube. Google even released a specific map for New York that features information from NYC Open Data, open shelters, weather information and live webcams.

Additionally, Google is launching a new service called Public Alerts which is now available on Google Search & Maps in your browser, on Google Maps for Android, and also on Google Now for Android devices running Jellybean. Google says that the new service will provide warnings for natural disasters and emergency situations. “If you are searching for superstorm Sandy, you’ll see content at the top of the Search page specific to this crisis. For other searches, you’ll see public alerts where and when they are live,” said Nigel Snoad, Product Manager of the Google Crisis Response Team. To learn more about Public Alerts, you can visit the official page.

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