Gadgetory

welcome to the buzz report I'm Brian Cooley in for Molly Wood who's still trying to figure out google wave so she can explain it to the rest of us this week we find porn lurking in the most unlikely of places dorks lurking in the usual places and we finally answer the age-old question do cell phones cause cancer no we don't first it's the gadget of the week okay I'm sorry this week no piece of the usual plastic digital crap could be nearly as cool as the wet and slippery badasses of the US Navy's marine mammal program commando dolphins and sea lions who stole the show at a homeland security demonstration in San Francisco Bay these guys can do all kinds of ops minesweeping with remote sensors on a fin dropping a marker buoy where they sense an underwater threat even swimming down with an ankle cuff they tether to a terrorist who's approaching underwater so they could be reeled in like some big catch please don't email me with the Navy SEAL joke I beg of you all right now I've been told your money's no good here a few times but that's usually at a bar after a few too many in this case the bar was the genius bar and it was a woman at the palo alto apple store getting turned away from buying an ipad because she wanted to pay with cash silly the t-shirt team at the store showed her the policy limit of two iPads per customer no cash no gift cards oral DNA swab required well abc7 reporter Michael Finney dropped in on ms Diane Campbell after she got the disk give us a stir break okay I'm not gonna go sell my ipad and all of a sudden the company that calls in police raids realized it was about to get its other I blackened so Steve mobilized the Apple PR departments warm and fuzzy unit which they've kept pretty damn well hit in the last decade or so and delivered a free iPad to miss Campbell and changed their ridiculous no cache policy on the product now i'm sure she thanked Apple profusely but she might also want to send a thank you card to gizmodo whose door kicking persecution by Apple is what got them thinking maybe their next headline should be a positive one oh and by the way hold your email rothschild conspiracists turns out it is perfectly legal to refuse to take us cash money for a purchase huge dust-up at Wikipedia this week founder Jimmy Wales was reportedly stripped of rank after he yanked thousands of porn images from the site he was afraid they would spook sponsors apparently but of course Wikipedia is sort of one big intellectual Summer of Love so doing anything on your own just as he cool man of course as soon as we heard about this every monitor at cnet got angled carefully so we could do a good thorough journalistic search for whatever might still be on the site now if Jimmy did pull images that would spook lily-white sponsors he's not very good at it I mean I can't show you what's still there but it's pretty easy to find if you know a little Latin like this and this what is that oh and that now Wikipedia denies that Wales was knocked down about ten pegs and they say he voluntarily gave up his super editor privileges that he enjoyed his co-founder he was unavailable for comment they say he was locked in his office performing a self flagellation the other morning I was having breakfast watching some TV news show when they went to a story about quidditch on college campuses and I damn near spit out my bourbon here were a bunch of jackasses playing some combination of rugby soccer and basketball while one of them's dressed like a big Queen in gold lamay and all the rest are running around gripping their broomsticks do they know what that looks like is this what they do at Hogwarts this will give you Hogwarts look when I went to college everybody was playing hacky sack or Ultimate Frisbee so I know stupid happens but do these guys realize a they're not flying there on the ground and be Jimmy Wales is going to pull the Quidditch page on Wikipedia if you keep this up another week another cell phone radiation study but this one's different the biggest-ever un-sponsored spanning 13 countries 10 years 13 thousand users and costing 24 million dollars the findings are mm-hmm the usual mumbo jumbo about being inconclusive blah blah blah how come no one can figure out if these damn things are killing us so let me boil it down for you with just two points out of the report number one people who reported using cell phones a lot had a forty percent higher incidence of a certain kind of brain tumor and number two moving the phone as little as four inches from your body reduces the radiation impact to basically zero now you know what to do without spending millions of dollars and we are done with these in net radiation studies that's the buzz report for this week I'm Brian Cooley in from Hollywood