Google has just released Gesture Search , a new and experimental feature for phones running the Google Android 2.0 software or above. Gesture Search is pretty straightforward: you open it up and then draw letters. Draw a M and you’ll get contacts, bookmarks, and apps that start with M. Draw an o and you’ll …

It’s not easy to be a buyer of computers with all these technology roadmaps flying about, but in case you’re brave enough to peer into the future, Fudzilla has word on Intel’s upcoming laptop chips. The “Huron River” platform will replace Calpella (the current crop of mobile chipsets), and continue…

The Twouble with Twitters is that the Twitter jokes are pretty much dead. It’s no shocker anymore that tweets are pointless babble . So who else can Current TV pick on with its viral video parodies ? Easy: MySpace. Or rather the death of MySpace . In its latest SuperNews! masterpiece — the …

For this week’s Photoshop Contest , I asked you to re-imagine the current Late Night battle through the lens of your favorite sci-fi movies. And wow, some of these are absolutely epic. One of our best contests yet, to be sure. First Place —Greg Reese Second Place —Jelani…

Comcast has been hampering the peer-to-peer downloading protocol BitTorrent, and a federal appeals court will likely reject the Federal Communications Commission’s attempt to sanction the company for it. The FCC moved against Comcast as part of an overall strategy to defend and promote Net Neutrality . Proponents of Net Neutrality — which include…

Update: Facebook looks to be operational again. We’ll continue to monitor the status of the platform for any further issues. - First it was Twitter problems , then Facebook API problems, and now the entire Facebook network has crashed. Neither we nor the rest of you can find a way to bring…

We’ve known that a major privacy overhaul has been in the works for some time at Facebook , and last week a letter from founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg let everyone know that changes were imminent. Today, the company plans to start asking all 350 million of its users to review and update their settings …

Yes, it happened: Live video streaming has come to the iPhone courtesy of Ustream. In a move that many suspected would never happen — surely the carriers would loathe the increased data usage resulting from such apps — Apple has approved the Ustream Live Broadcaster application, bringing live streaming video straight from the iPhone to…

Seagate just announced their first line of SSDs, named Pulsar. It’s a 2.5-inch drive in slightly odd 50GB, 100GB and 200GB sizes, and it looks ready to compete with the current SSD leaders. The Pulsar drives are all 3Gb/s SATA compatible, offering top read/write speeds of 240MB/s and 220MB/s, …

The rumors published last week may be true after all: Google is testing a new search interface on random people, as these screenshots from Gizmodo reader Matt Karolian confirm. Like the Google Wave-inspired interface for Gmail, the new user interface is cleaner and bolder than the current version, offering …