Mat Honan, Author at Gizmodo

How To Kill That Awful Meebo Bar Forever (Updated)

Have you noticed Meebo, that annoying bar on the bottom of some websites like Boston.com’s Big Picture, Men’s Fitness, and TVGuide.com? Of course you have. It spits up ads and nags you to share stuff on Facebook while you’re just trying to read. It’s a website add-on increasingly used by publishers who hate their readers.…

Tech News Mat Honan Apr 25

SpaceX Will Launch Its Dragon Capsule to the Space Station On May 7

Elon Musk’s private spaceflight program, SpaceX, just announced NASA and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station approved a May 7 launch date for its COTS 2 mission. The mission is a demonstration launch for NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program, where SpaceX plans to blast a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon capsule into space.…

Space & Spaceflight Mat Honan Apr 24

Adobe Nearly Blown Away By Winds of Change

Adobe unveiled CS6 and Creative Cloud in San Francisco today. It trucked in a bunch of enormous, branded balloons because, you know, cloud. But it’s really windy today! And even with giant anchors, its having trouble keeping its stuff grounded. The company had to get a bunch of guys to hang on to they guy…

Tech News Mat Honan Apr 23

Adobe Creative Cloud Will Be 40 Percent Off For Current CS Customers

Adobe is betting big on Creative Cloud. It gives customers access to all of Adobe’s Creative Suite apps, constantly updated. But it’s also a bit pricey at $50 a month. https://gizmodo.com/adobe-creative-cloud-and-creative-suite-6-are-out-today-5903914 So at the launch event today it just announced that current customers of CS3, CS4 or CS5 can snag it for $30 a month…

Tech News Mat Honan Apr 23

Adobe Creative Cloud and Creative Suite 6 Are Out Today

Adobe is releasing its new Creative Cloud and Creative Suite 6 today, and clearly, it wants to push you towards the former. The company is betting big on its Internet-powered software and gambling that customers will pay to come along for the ride. Creative Cloud is basically what we’ve been expecting—a full compliment of Adobe’s…

Tech News Mat Honan Apr 23

Anonymous Makes Its Own Pastebin (But, Like, More Anonymous)

Pastebin is often the hacker’s tool of choice for posting exploits and information gleaned from them. But it does filter some content, and the site owner occasionally complies with law enforcement requests. So, Anonymous created its own version, called AnonPaste. Anonymous describes the site as “a minimalist, open source online pastebin.” The group says it…

Tech News Mat Honan Apr 20

Should You Check Your Email?

Friend-of-Gizmodo and Amazing Human Being Wendy MacNaughton painted this fantastic new chart that helps you decide whether or not you should check your email. (Spoiler: Email is the literal, biblical Devil.) If all infographics were this good we might actually publish more of them. It showed up on a Forbes blog post on managing distractions…

Tech News Mat Honan Apr 19

Are These the First Photos of the Samsung Galaxy SIII?

Our beloved Portuguese-speaking brethren at Gizmodo Brazil scored exclusive photos of what could be the Samsung Galaxy S III, which is due for a formal launch on May 3. If this is it, it does seems to be an incremental update rather than a major overhaul. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-to-unveil-galaxy-s-iii-on-may-3rd-5902249 According to Gizmodo Brazil’s source, the alleged-S III…

Tech News Mat Honan Apr 18

Google TV Update: Inching Toward Usability

Google TV just announced an update its TV & Movies App with more personalization features designed to make it easier to use and smarter about the shows you want to watch. The TV & Movies App is basically the backbone of Google TV. It’s sort of like a next generation DVR that can not only…

Television Mat Honan Apr 18

Google CEO Has A Tough Day In Court

Google CEO Larry Page took the stand in federal court today to answer questions from über-lawyer David Boies—he of U.S. v. Microsoft, Bush v. Gore and a bajillion other high profile cases—in a case that pits Oracle against Google. So how did it go? Er. Well it’s not quite noon here on the West Coast,…

Tech News Mat Honan Apr 18

Gmail Is Down (Update: It’s Back)

Gmail went down for a period of an hour or more today, affecting two percent of users worldwide. Google just confirmed that it has now resolved the issue, and everything should be back to normal. Hundreds of people began reporting Gmail was down today—on Twitter, Facebook Google+ and in our own comments. Google still hasn’t…

Tech News Mat Honan Apr 17

Windows 8 To Come in Three Editions (You Want The Last One)

Microsoft just announced what its Windows 8 lineup will look like. You’re going to have three options to choose from: Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro and Windows RT. But only two of those will be available as upgrades. Windows 8 will be for most people. It runs on both 32 and 64 bit x86 machines—which…

Tech News Mat Honan Apr 16

Look At This Deliciously Evil Eye of Sauron Cake (Updated)

So sure, you are probably all about Game of Thrones now, at least until The Hobbit drops. But that was before you saw this Eye of Sauron frosted delight! Despite some persistant Googling, I haven’t been able to turn up too much else about this Eye of Sauron cake other than multiple copies of this…

Tech News Mat Honan Apr 16

Still Sunk: The Last Great Mystery Wrecks of the Ocean Floor (Updated)

The Titanic sat undiscovered on the ocean floor for 73 years before Robert Ballard found it. The ocean keeps its secrets hidden tight. Here are four other great wrecks that await discovery on the ocean floor. USS Indianpolis The Indianapolis played a pivotal role in winning World War II before it dropped below the waters…

Tech News Mat Honan Apr 14

How To Make Your Own Damn Hot Dog Stuffed Crust Pizza Right Now

The great tragedy of modernist American cuisine is that the Pizza Hut hot dog stuffed crust pizza isn’t available here. If you wanted one, you had to travel internationally—until now. Because Gizmodo loves you/wants to kill you, we brought this pizza to America where it belongs. https://gizmodo.com/i-cant-believe-this-hot-dog-stuffed-crust-pizza-isnt-am-5899852 Here’s how to make the greatest advancement in…

Tech News Mat Honan Apr 13

How To Design Your Life: Q&A With Author Mike Monteiro

Life is a design problem. Which is why reformed Philadelphian Mike Monteiro’s new book, Design Is a Job, isn’t just about how to maneuver through the Web design business, it’s an instructive life lesson. You may know Monteiro as one of Twitter’s more, er, notorious users (even the background image on his Twitter page is…

Tech News Mat Honan Apr 13

The Easiest Way To Check For And Remove the Mac Flashback Trojan

The Flashback trojan has infected more than half a million Macs (and counting!). But until now, detecting it and removing it hasn’t been dead simple. F-Secure, the same company that previously posted instructions for detecting and removing Flashback via the Terminal, just released a free app to diagnose whether or not your system is infected,…

Tech News Mat Honan Apr 11

Too Bad You Can’t Copy Radiohead’s Floppy

When it dropped, OK Computer sounded exactly like our computerized future. Nevermind that Kid A better captured the clicks and whirs of life inside a server room, Radiohead’s third album was an instant classic that dropped just as we fully entered the digital age. But even if you were a huge fan, here’s a piece…

Tech News Mat Honan Apr 10

This Huggable Vending Machine Will Never Love You

In Singapore, you can hug a vending machine and get a free Coca-Cola in return. Coke is, apparently, planning to roll the campaign out across Southeast Asia. Would you hug a machine? Coke is expressly asking people to show it affection and in return, it will reward them with something both enjoyable and at least…

Tech News Mat Honan Apr 10

How To Keep Facebook From Ruining Instagram

So your favorite little startup just got bought out by an Internet behemoth. We’ve played this game before! It usually doesn’t turn out too well for anyone without a financial stake in the deal. Which is to say: you. https://gizmodo.com/facebooks-buying-instagram-for-a-billion-dollars-5900352 When small startups with passionate user bases are absorbed by larger companies—think Flickr, Blogger, Brizzly,…

Social Media Mat Honan Apr 9

Mat Honan

How To Kill That Awful Meebo Bar Forever (Updated)

SpaceX Will Launch Its Dragon Capsule to the Space Station On May 7

Adobe Nearly Blown Away By Winds of Change

Adobe Creative Cloud Will Be 40 Percent Off For Current CS Customers

Adobe Creative Cloud and Creative Suite 6 Are Out Today

Anonymous Makes Its Own Pastebin (But, Like, More Anonymous)

Should You Check Your Email?

Are These the First Photos of the Samsung Galaxy SIII?

Google TV Update: Inching Toward Usability

Google CEO Has A Tough Day In Court

Gmail Is Down (Update: It’s Back)

Windows 8 To Come in Three Editions (You Want The Last One)

Look At This Deliciously Evil Eye of Sauron Cake (Updated)

Still Sunk: The Last Great Mystery Wrecks of the Ocean Floor (Updated)

How To Make Your Own Damn Hot Dog Stuffed Crust Pizza Right Now

How To Design Your Life: Q&A With Author Mike Monteiro

The Easiest Way To Check For And Remove the Mac Flashback Trojan

Too Bad You Can’t Copy Radiohead’s Floppy

This Huggable Vending Machine Will Never Love You

How To Keep Facebook From Ruining Instagram

‘Lee Cronin’s The Mummy’ Will Please Gross Horror Fans

Somehow Paramount’s ‘Avatar’ Movie Has Leaked, Too

The World Is Basically Begging for Another iPod

Anker’s EufyMake E1 Finally Brings Printers Out of the Dark Ages

OpenAI Says Elon Musk Is ‘Injecting Chaos’ with Recent Legal Maneuver

Google Displayed Polymarket Bets as News ‘In Error,’ Google Says

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‘How Do We Make Sure That Claude Behaves Itself?’: Anthropic Invited 15 Christians for a Summit

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Indie Animation Is Having a Moment on YouTube

This Loud-Ass Party Speaker Almost Got Me High AF

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