February 16, 2012 – AIM, Gchat, FaceTime, and iMessage—too many ways to communicate between too many different devices. Not anymore. The new Messages app—available as a beta from OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion—fixes that. More »
All the Best New Toys
February 15, 2012 – Toy Fair, a staggeringly large collection of playtime gadgets for kiddos and immature adults, has come to an end. Phew! We wandered through aisle after aisle of bouncy balls and model dinosaurs to find the cream of the crop: More »
Hands On: Cyborg Fashion Photo Barbie
February 15, 2012 – Barbie, at once a gender pioneer and enabler of countless anorexic, has found her newest role: human-machine hybrid. Barbie Photo Fashion is just like any other digital photog out there—immaculate blonde hair, chunky heart-bejeweled belt, eyes the size of pancakes, and a enormous LCD... More »
Is This the Evolution of Planking?
February 15, 2012 – A storm more violent than anti-SOPA rage is sweeping across the otherwise serene plains of the internet. Families are turning against fathers, mothers against children, flocks against shepherds: More »
Foxconn’s Crazy 130,000 Person Intern Program Actually Sounds Pretty Good!
February 15, 2012 – Internships suck, whether you're in New York, LA, DC, or wherever. You do menial work for token payment (or none), all in the name of experience. At Foxconn, it's about the same—but you get free housing and more money. Motherboard relays the research of Ross Perlin, author of Intern Nation,... More »
Every Single James Bond Film at Once
February 15, 2012 – The only thing better than watching an attractive actor have lots of attractive sex, shoot evil Soviets, and spew corny one-liners, is to watch it happen twenty two times simultaneously. More »
How iPhone Apps Steal Your Contact Data and Why You Can’t Stop It
February 15, 2012 – The internet is starting to realize something unsettling: our iPhones send information about the people we know to private servers, often without our permission. More »
The Great Nerf Guns of 2012
February 14, 2012 – Will we ever feel too old to love Nerf guns? No, I doubt it. What about Super Soakers? Oh hush, of course not. Shooting things with toy guns is an intrinsic human joy. More »
The Coolest Action Figures You Can’t Buy Yet
February 14, 2012 – Toy Fair is full of lame jigsaw puzzles, toy horses, and other antique things nobody cares about anymore. But! There's also plenty of unreleased Star Wars, Spider Man, and other stuff that makes us feel like excited kids again. More »
TECHNOLOGY RED ALERT: SEN. CHUCK GRASSLEY H V AN IPHONE
February 13, 2012 – It's not easy being Chuck Grassley. First, some jerk makes fun of your inability to spell on Twitter. Then, you continue to use Twitter without learning how to use a keyboard. More »
The iPad 3 Will Appear March 7th?
February 13, 2012 – Pour yourself a glass of red wine and put on your tech gossip pants, because we've got another iPad 3 rumor: iMore says Apple's next tablet will be announced on March 7th, packing serious power. According to their sources "who have been reliable in the past," we can expect the following: Apple... More »
PlayStation Vita Review: You Don’t Need Another Beautiful Smart Gadget
February 13, 2012 – The PSP never exploded. The Nintendo 3DS is a letdown. Now it's 2012, and Sony has the chance for a clean start that'll put console-caliber games in your bag. More »
Anonymous Explains CIA Takedown
February 11, 2012 – It took a few days, but an purported representative of Anonymous (as far as there is such a thing) has given Gizmodo a manifesto of sorts, explaining Friday's DDoS attack against the CIA. Their statement, unabridged, below: Citizens of the World, We are Anonymous. We are people. More »
Spike Jonze’s Next Film: Man Falls in Love with Siri
February 10, 2012 – Spike "I'm Friends With Rappers, Too" Jonze has been behind some big name films: Where the Wild Things Are, Jackass: The Movie, uh, Björk: Volumen Plus (?), the music video for Otis was pretty great... More »
The 19th Century Version of Facebook
February 10, 2012 – Looks like Mr. Zuckerberg has some explaining to do—he clearly stole the entire idea for Facebook from this 19th century girl's "friend urn"—or, if you will, Vasebook. The eBay seller says the vase is likely "a graduation present for the young lady in the center." Yeah, you see her? More »
Anonymous Says They’ve Killed the CIA’s Website (Updated)
February 10, 2012 – One of Anonymous' Twitter mouthpieces claims the hacker collective just took down CIA.gov. It's definitely down. If this is what it looks like, it could be Anon's greatest hit so far. The attack—so far cosigned by two of the largest Anon Twitter accounts with a combined 600,000... More »
This Is What Nuking an Earth-Killing Asteroid Looks Like
February 10, 2012 – You might think Armageddon was just a lot of Bruce Willis sobbing and Aerosmith-fueled sex, but there was actually some truth in there! If an enormous space rock ever heads our way, we're already planning on nuking it to hell. More »
