It’s hard not to be won over by the charms of the original 2008 Iron Man movie. But it’s possible—just possible—that you were so busy appreciating Marvel’s whizzbang treatment and Robert Downey Jr.’s roguish charms that you missed these GIANT GLARING PROBLEMS. Some are jokes. Many are not. And all of them ultimately aren’t going…
A recent Wall Street Journal article posits an interesting question: Is Apple a hardware company or a software company? Does it sell iPhones or iClouds? The answer has deep meaning for the analysts who evaluate the company’s worth. It’s framed as an identity crisis, one with dangerous implications for the most dominant consumer electronics company…
While we had previously seen the stunning thermal images that helped police confirm that Boston Marathon bombing suspect was indeed hiding in a boat, under a tarp, in Watertown, Massachusetts, now the raw video of the camera in action has been released. https://gizmodo.com/the-crazy-accurate-thermal-images-that-saw-dzokhar-tsar-5995153 It’s absolutely mesmerizing. The three-minute video shows off footage captured by the…
There was no small amount of technology that went into the capture of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev, but perhaps none was more impressive than the helicopter-mounted, forward-looking infrared camera that confirmed once and for all that there was someone hiding in a boat in Watertown, Massachusetts. And that he was almost certainly Dzokhar…
The second suspect in the brutal Boston Marathon bombings has been apprehended, after five days of uncertainty and fear. And while all credit for Dzhokar Tsarnaev’s capture goes to the men and women of the many, many agencies that spent the last week tracking him down, technology played as prominent a role as it ever…
Whether Apple will release a budget iPhone this year is subject to no small amount of debate, but it seems almost certain that the company is at least testing one out. Which is why this rumored cheap iPhone shell, published by Tactus, could very well be legit. Whether it actually makes it into stores is…
To say that Twitter Music is debuting today would be to discount the man hours Ryan Seacrest and other celebrities have spent assaulting their earholes with it. But, as shared on Good Morning America, Twitter’s music service has finally arrived on the web and on the iPhone for the common man. So what are we…
Did you hear? Nearly half of Justin Bieber’s Twitter followers are fake. Fake! Belieber nation is a fraud, life has no meaning, the abyss of treachery and betrayal that is life grows deeper by the hour. https://gizmodo.com/justin-bieber-has-the-fakest-twitter-followers-5994569/ But wait! Surely other celebrity Twitter accounts aren’t afflicted by this unforgivable deceit. Right? Actually… most of them…
Sure, our supervillains are more of the geopolitical type, but it’s inevitable that some day a mad scientist will come along with an oxygen-stealing ray. And when he does, as this Buzzfeed video—based on an imaginative Quora thread—points out, we’re all in a whole lotta trouble. Hope you weren’t too attached to your inner ears!…
According to our bleep bloop brethren at Kotaku, the next Xbox will require an internet connection to start games. Egad!
It’s your inalienable right, as a citizen of the internet, to curse and swear as creatively as possible at all times. That’s 80-percent of why anyone fires up a browser to begin with. Which is why AT&T’s move to ban naughty language in passwords created no small amount of ire. So what gives? Before you…
Hello, Gizmodo reader! Let’s have a quick talk. Over the next few weeks, we’re going to be refining and expanding our areas of coverage. And we want you to help us separate the wheat from the chaff. Gizmodo has always been about all things new and beautiful and good. We love the bright and shiny.…
BlackBerry announced two corkers this morning; founder Mike Lazaridis is leaving, and the company actually made money.
Google’s finally starting to reveal the winners of its #ifihadglass promotion, and surprise! You’re not one of them. Not yet, anyway, unless you happen to be one of the following six golden ticket recipients. https://gizmodo.com/how-google-hacked-our-imaginations-with-ifihadglass-5989915 A quick reminder that being selected for your world-changing #ifihadglass idea doesn’t score you a free pair of Google compuspecs.…
T-Mobile has the iPhone now. It’s only a hundred bucks! There’s no contract! Unlimited everything! But before you get too excited about the prospect of jumping ship for forgotten carrier, let’s take a look at how exactly that its iPhone 5 data plans compare to the other big dogs. Following is a chart that compares…
T-Mobile LTE went live today in seven cities, including Baltimore, Houston, Vegas, KC, DC, Phoenix, and San Jose.
If you’re an AT&T U-Verse subscriber, you’ll no longer have to live in frothing jealousy of those with WatchESPN.
According to a report from AllThingsD, lack of customers wasn’t the only reason Google Reader will meet its untimely end on July 1st. It was also, for Google, a potential source of bungling that it wasn’t worth shoring up. Google has run into so many privacy issues of late—Wi-Fi snooping chief among them, but there…
The IRS made a Star Trek parody video, and it’s just about the most amazingly bad thing ever. Check it out over at i09.
It’s always felt like something’s missing from your local public bathroom’s hand dryer tutorial. Something simple, yet crucial. Something like, say, this missing third step that Doghouse Diaries has so smartly proposed. Or maybe it’s more warning than instruction; your hands may get dry, but your shirt and/or pants will most definitely end up wet.…
