Casey Chan, Author at Gizmodo

How Everybody Will Use Facebook Graph Search (Hint: Inappropriately)

Nick Douglas of Slacktory shows everybody how Facebook Graph Search, as awesome as it can be, will quickly devolve into a completely inappropriate search engine for finding MILFs, GILFs, pictures taken at the beach and anything of that nature. Basically, it’s going to start innocently with people trying to find others with the same music…

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Here Are the Business Cards of Famous People

Even though business cards seemed like they would be one of the first things to get killed by some fancy techwiznology, they’ve managed to survive even though the use of dead paper is dying. Everybody has business cards—even the super rich and super famous. Here are a few business cards from people you definitely already…

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Watch This Video to See How Freaking Awesome People Can Be

I think everybody’s goal for 2013 should be to do something so awesome that you’d be included this wrap up video that shows how incredible humans can be. Yes, I understand that making it your life goal to be included in a YouTube video sounds ridiculously silly but watch it, it’s four minutes of extremely…

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Mega Is Going to Handle Password Resets Differently Than Everybody Else

Right now, Mega, the zombie file sharing service currently only useful for people with infinite patience and/or dial up Internet, doesn’t offer any sort of password reset or recovery system. If you forget your Mega password, you’re shit out of luck. That’s because the password you use is the master key in decrypting the files…

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Whoops, Best Buy Accidentally Gave Away $50 in a Coupon

Best Buy released a too good to be true coupon earlier today: Spend a $100 and save $50 automatically when you pay with a MasterCard credit card. The fine print had excluded a few products but it was pretty much a free $50 bucks for everything else. So predictably people took advantage of ol’ Best…

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Watch Men Cringe and Cry in Pain As They Go Through a Simulation of Giving Birth

Women have the ultimate trump card when it comes to dealing with pain: they give birth. And since men have no idea what giving birth even feels like, we really don’t know how painful it really is. Maybe it’s all a big conspiracy (kidding!). Maybe it’s not that bad (of course it is!). Well, two…

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See How Much President Obama Has Aged in the Past 5 Years

It ain’t easy being the leader of the free world. This is true on the face of the President of the United States of America Barack Obama and all the previous Presidents as well. Once you land the gig of head American honcho, the hair starts going gray, the wrinkles start getting deeper and life…

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Here’s a Simple Card Trick You Can Learn in a Minute

Our friends at BoingBoing put together a video to show you a simple and fun card trick that anyone can learn in no time: Using a deck of playing cards, make three piles of three cards each. Flip a pile over to note the bottom card and then combine all three piles into one, making…

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Twitter’s Bird Logo Was Inspired By a Middle Finger

When Twitter rebranded its old fat whale of a bird logo into the svelte upward jumping bird logo it is now, it went through a lot of early concepts to get the angle of the bird jusssst right. One of my favorite concepting sketches? The middle finger. Twitter should have totally used that bird as…

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This Is What It Looks Like to Be Spiderman in Real Life

Because Peter Parker was a nerd, every geek has wondered what it would be like to be Spiderman. Batman was too rich and good looking, Superman wasn’t from this world but Spiderman… he was just like us! So if you want to know what ol’ Spidey goes through on the daily, watch this incredible video…

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Is Twitter Completely Down for You?

Twitter is having big time problems in some places right now. Out in California, I can’t even get the website to load or the desktop app to show any tweets. It’s completely, utterly borked. But out in New York, no one seems to be having any problems. And Twitter on my phone works! What’s the…

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Genius Bank Robbers Dug a 100 Foot Long Tunnel to Rob a Bank

This is so incredible that I think I’ve seen this in a movie before.* And if I didn’t, it should be put in a movie immediately. Genius bank robbers dug a 100 foot tunnel from a parking garage across the street to the bank’s safe deposit room and walked away with over $15,000,000 in goods.…

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Listen to Call Me Maybe After It’s Been Put Through Google Translate Over and Over Again

Just like the French Prince theme song, Call Me Maybe, the candy pop song that desperately wanted to be the song of 2012 but got hijacked by Gangnam Style, has been put through Google Translate over and over until it was translated back to English. Which means the lyrics have been chopped up into an…

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Doctors Don’t Follow Their Own Advice on Medical Treatment

It’s been known that doctors tend to avoid their advice for patients when it comes to treating themselves but it’s pretty amazing how big the difference really is. Radiolab dug up a decade-long survey made by Joseph Gallo of John Hopkins that showed what doctors really think. The scenario the doctors were given was “irreversible…

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Everybody Needs to Watch This Geek Love TV Show

Oh man. I have a new addiction. Or guilty pleasure. Or whatever you call it when you watch shows like Keeping Up with the Kardashians because you love how the family sticks together. It’s called Geek Love and it’s amazing. An online reality TV show, the series focuses on geeks who are looking for, well,…

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Movie Posters Should Totally Spoil the Plot, Right?

Movie posters should be less cliched and more spoiler-y. I don’t want to see scantily clad actresses from behind (yes I do), I want to know what’s gonna happen in the movie! Like these posters made by designer Matteo Civaschi. They’re like movie hieroglyphics—you can actually decipher what the movie is going to be about.…

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Finding Iron in Your Cereal Looks Pretty Gross

There is iron in cereal. That’s good! But it looks pretty gross. Here’s how to find it: soak a cup of cereal in a Ziploc bag with water, mix it up and then rub a magnet over the bag. You’ll see the metallic iron trailing the magnet. You eat that! But as you should know,…

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Can You Recognize a City By Its Foursquare Check-Ins?

If you plotted out all the check-ins made on Foursquare, you should be able to get a pretty good handle on the geographic layout of a city. It’s like modern day map making or check-in cartography. So do you think you can recognize a city just by its Foursquare check-ins? Foursquare slapped together a map…

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What Happened on the Internet in 2012 in Numbers

It’s still that part of the new year where you forget it’s actually 2013 and not 2012 so we can still wrap up last year without feeling like it’s too late, right? Anyway. If you were curious as to what happened on the Internet in 2012 in numbers, like how many e-mails were sent or…

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Go Download Temple Run 2 Right Now

Here’s what you’ll be doing for the rest of the week: Temple Run 2. So tell your Mom to hold the dessert. Call your boss that you’ll be sick. And let your teacher know that you won’t have any homework. Because you have to download Temple Run 2, the sequel to the ridiculously popular running…

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How Everybody Will Use Facebook Graph Search (Hint: Inappropriately)

Here Are the Business Cards of Famous People

Watch This Video to See How Freaking Awesome People Can Be

Mega Is Going to Handle Password Resets Differently Than Everybody Else

Whoops, Best Buy Accidentally Gave Away $50 in a Coupon

Watch Men Cringe and Cry in Pain As They Go Through a Simulation of Giving Birth

See How Much President Obama Has Aged in the Past 5 Years

Here’s a Simple Card Trick You Can Learn in a Minute

Twitter’s Bird Logo Was Inspired By a Middle Finger

This Is What It Looks Like to Be Spiderman in Real Life

Is Twitter Completely Down for You?

Genius Bank Robbers Dug a 100 Foot Long Tunnel to Rob a Bank

Listen to Call Me Maybe After It’s Been Put Through Google Translate Over and Over Again

Doctors Don’t Follow Their Own Advice on Medical Treatment

Everybody Needs to Watch This Geek Love TV Show

Movie Posters Should Totally Spoil the Plot, Right?

Finding Iron in Your Cereal Looks Pretty Gross

Can You Recognize a City By Its Foursquare Check-Ins?

What Happened on the Internet in 2012 in Numbers

Go Download Temple Run 2 Right Now

KitchenAid 4.5-Quart Stand Mixer Is Back at Its Lowest Price, a Last-Minute Spring Sale Deal Outside Amazon Prime Day

‘Pizza Movie’ Has a Hilariously Grisly New Way to Say ‘This Is Your Brain on Drugs’ (Exclusive)

Amazon Makes a Last Push for Govee LED Strip Light at a Black Friday Low as the Spring Sale Winds Down, Works with Alexa and Google Assistant

Forget Shokz, Anker Pushes Soundcore AeroClip Open-Ear Earbuds to an All-Time Low in the Final Hours of Amazon’s Spring Sale

Google Pixel 10 Pro Gets Cleared Out at a Record Low, Now Even Cheaper Than AirPods Pro With Trade-In

Meta’s Two New Smart Glasses Are Slimmer and More Like Regular Glasses

JBL Boombox 3 Speaker at 40% Off Is Now Even Cheaper Than Renewed Units on Amazon

Elizabeth Olsen Promises She Knows Nothing About Her Marvel Future

NASA Rover Finds Glowing, Ruby-Like Crystals on Mars for the First Time

Anker Prime Docking Station Hits Its Lowest Price as Amazon’s Spring Sale Winds Down (14 Ports With 160W Output)

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset