Looking to remind people, hey, we made this thing, Microsoft’s upcoming Kinect software development kit for the PC (which anyone can grab) will include a variety of features most hackers and code enthusiasts haven’t been able to manage on their own. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/sfwsDiivJ-g/microsofts-official-kinect-software-is-better-than-most-hackers Rosario Dawson

More than half the internet is filled with videos and more than half the fun of videos is sharing them. Showyou combines all the videos shared from your friends and turns them into a personalized TV network for your iPad. The beautifully interactive 2D wall will give you material to watch for days. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/8eaPuQjx0vo/showyou-for-ipad-and-iphone Minka Kelly

Youtube link for mobile viewing So at Microsoft’s MIX developer conference today in Las Vegas, Microsoft VP of Windows Phone Program Management Joe Belfiore did a little HTML test showing IE9 on a future version of Windows Phone. And it appears to blow the Nexus S and iPhone 4 out of the water. What’s odd is that I can’t even get the Nexus One I have here to run it that well. Want to try it yourself? What [...]

  See Also: Q&A Human Spaceflight’s 50th: Glorious Past, Uncertain Future Book Excerpt Space Shuttle Owners’ Workshop Manual This Day in Tech April 12, 1961: Soviets Orbit Gagarin, First Human in Space See Also: Inside the Soviets’ Secret Failed Moon Program Russian Cosmonaut’s Blog Much Funnier Than NASA Russia Leads Nuclear Space Race After U.S. Drops Out Photoshop of Horrors: Wired Readers Show BP [...] Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/04/soviet-space-propaganda/ Tricia Helfer

U.S. pilots are doing exactly what the Obama administration promised they wouldn’t be doing after NATO took command of the Libya war: bombing Libya. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, never an enthusiast for this third simultaneous U.S. conflict, pledged to Congress that America’s combat commitment to Libya stopped when NATO came to lead what’s now called Operation [...] Source: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/04/what-you-thought-the-u-s-was-done-bombing-libya/ Salma Hayek

Albert Gonzalez, the hacker who masterminded the largest credit card heists in U.S. history, is asking a federal judge to throw out his earlier guilty pleas and lift his record-breaking 20-year prison sentence, on allegations that the government authorized his years-long crime spree. Gonzalez, 29, admitted last year that he and accomplices hacked into TJX, Office [...] Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/04/gonzalez-plea-withdrawal/ Scarlett Chorvat

  See Also: Q&A Human Spaceflight’s 50th: Glorious Past, Uncertain Future Book Excerpt Space Shuttle Owners’ Workshop Manual This Day in Tech April 12, 1961: Soviets Orbit Gagarin, First Human in Space See Also: Inside the Soviets’ Secret Failed Moon Program Russian Cosmonaut’s Blog Much Funnier Than NASA Russia Leads Nuclear Space Race After U.S. Drops Out Photoshop of Horrors: Wired Readers Show BP [...] Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/04/soviet-space-propaganda/ Magdalena Wróbel

Free Comic Book Day is coming on May 7th and in the hopes of gaining some publicity, Radical Comics sent me a copy of their free offering, Jake the Dreaming, a little early. I’m glad they did because it looks to be an excellent book. Summary: The Free Comic Book day edition of Jake the Dreaming isn’t [...] Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/04/comics-spotlight-on-jake-the-dreaming/ Rhona Mitra

TEPCO started using large remote-controlled excavation vehicles to clear the debris around the Fukishima plants this past weekend, including power shovels and bulldozers. The work is being controlled by operators in lead-covered operating rooms using cameras mounted on the robots and around the area. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/XMCuhTkLQgo/robots-are-clearing-the-fukishima-debris Rachel Nichols

Zoho has offered an iOS app for a while now — at least for the iPhone and iPod touch. Those of you who have been wanting to use the Zoho app on your iPad were out of luck, but that’s no longer the case. Zoho Docs 2.0 has landed in the App Store, and the most notable change is that it’s now a universal app. Now you’re able to take advantage of the app’s mobile [...]