Michael Nunez, Author at Gizmodo

A List of Terrible Story Ideas My Editor Won’t Let Me Write

Ugh! Me so stupid! All I had to do was come up with some good ideas for Gizmodo’s Senior Week, and I went and fucked the whole thing up. The task was pretty simple: We were supposed to pitch the stories “we’ve always wanted to write” and spend the whole week “doing whatever the hell…

Tech News Michael Nunez Aug 9 '16

It Looks Like Apple Is Seriously Building an All-Glass iPhone

For months, rumors have swirled about Apple’s top secret all-glass iPhone. We’ve tracked the developments closely, saying early concepts looked ridiculous and would break too easily. But as a new patent shows, Apple is serious about this all-glass iPhone idea. In the patent, first reported by Patently Apple, Apple describes a curved display wrapping around…

Tech News Michael Nunez Aug 9 '16

Apple’s First Vehicle-Related Patent Is For a Bendy Bus With Tank Treads?

Apple was granted its first patent for vehicle hardware today, but it’s not for a car. The invention is related to “articulated vehicles” or ones with a pivoting joint in the middle of its construction like a large bus. So will there be an Apple bus in the near future? Who knows. The patent, first…

Tech News Michael Nunez Aug 9 '16

Mossberg: Why Am I So Cranky?

Walt Mossberg is a legend. I mean it—he’s someone I’ve tried to emulate for most of my professional career. He’s made a great living testing gadgets, hanging out with influential technologists, and giving everyday people advice on how to better use their consumer electronics. But lately, it seems like Mossberg’s love affair with tech is…

Tech News Michael Nunez Aug 8 '16

Delta Flights Grounded Worldwide After Unexplained Computer Shutdown (Updating)

Delta Airlines flights around the world have been indefinitely delayed this morning following a major “computer outage” affecting all of the carriers flights. The company made the announcement early this morning in a statement: 5:05 a.m. ET UPDATE: Delta has experienced a computer outage that has affected flights scheduled for this morning. Flights awaiting departure…

Tech News Michael Nunez Aug 8 '16

I Fell in Love With the Worst Computer Money Can Buy

The Freewrite is a simple machine. It has one button, a full keyboard, and a tiny e-ink screen that can barely update fast enough to keep up with the average typing speed. The device is built for one thing: writing stories and syncing them to the cloud. This “smart typewriter” is meant to be a…

Tech News Michael Nunez Jul 29 '16

5 Reasons You Should Update to Windows 10 If You Haven’t Already

Last call for free software. Microsoft is raising the price of Windows 10 upgrades from $0 to $120 starting tomorrow, July 30th. If you’re one of the holdouts, it’s time you wise up and download the damn thing. For many legacy users, Windows 10 update prompts have been a nightmare. Microsoft has been unreasonably aggressive…

Tech News Michael Nunez Jul 28 '16

Rich People Get Free* Houses in Silicon Valley

Are you a fresh-faced brogrammer with no money to spend on a house, but have a promising job at a company like Google, Twitter, or Facebook? You could be in luck. Lenders are beginning to target Silicon Valley workers with tailored loans that require almost no money up front. For example, San Francisco Federal Credit…

Tech News Michael Nunez Jul 27 '16

Blackberry Gives Up

Blackberry has basically given up. The dusty old smartphone pioneer is releasing its second Android phone, even after investors (and an uninterested public) urged CEO John Chen to ditch the handset business altogether. But alas, here we are, and so is Blackberry’s new smartphone, the DTEK50. The DTEK50 is about as nice as it sounds.…

Tech News Michael Nunez Jul 26 '16

Facebook Is Building Apartments Anyone Can Rent—But There’s a Huge Catch

Facebook could be your next landlord. In an effort to drum up support for the controversial expansion of its headquarters, the social media giant is trying to give back to the community by building at least 1,500 housing units that can be rented by the general public—not just Facebook employees. But there’s a catch. As…

Social Media Michael Nunez Jul 26 '16

Crushing 17 LCD Screens With a Steamroller Looks Satisfying as Hell

Work can be frustrating. Sometimes you just want to line up every computer screen in the office and run them all over with a 12-ton steamroller. Hey, YouTube channel Road Roller has already done the hard work for you and watching it is just as satisfying. Road Roller’s video gets straight to the good stuff:…

Sploid Michael Nunez Jul 25 '16

New York City Subway Faces Its Biggest Service Disruption in History

New York City’s subway system has been through a lot: it’s survived massive blizzards and fictional attacks from Godzilla. But now, it looks like time is finally catching up with the city’s beloved, 100-year-old transportation system. New York City will be shutting down the tunnels that host the L train, one of its most crowded…

Tech News Michael Nunez Jul 25 '16

WikiLeaks Just Published Tons of Credit Card and Social Security Numbers

WikiLeaks firmly believes in radical transparency, the idea that the world would be better if there were no secrets. That level of transparency can be used for good, like the time the site published a video called “Collateral Murder” showing innocent journalists shot to oblivion by US troops in 2010. But not always. The organization…

Privacy & Security Michael Nunez Jul 22 '16

Helpful Tips For Not Dying While Playing Pokémon Go

Pokémon Go can get you killed, and the Japanese government wants players to protect themselves from the worst-case scenario. When the game launched in Japan on Friday, the government’s National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity (NISC) issued public safety tips to keep people from dying or getting into other trouble while playing…

Health Michael Nunez Jul 22 '16

Someone Already Made a Kickass Torrents Clone

The game of whack-a-mole continues. Less than 24 hours after being taken down in an international sting operation, Kickass Torrents (KAT) is back—well, sort of. The popular torrent link site isoHunt has created a mirror for KAT at KickassTorrents.website. According to a Venture Beat report, the KAT mirror is hosting files from about the last…

Tech News Michael Nunez Jul 21 '16

What Happens When You Get a Perfect Score on Pac-Man Will Blow Your Mind

Billy Mitchell takes video games very seriously. He’s been called one of the greatest arcade gamers ever, and there’s even a documentary about his insane high score in Donkey Kong called The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. Even with his own full-length documentary film, Mitchell is still best-known for one thing: He was…

Sploid Michael Nunez Jul 21 '16

Building Your Own Air Hockey Table Is Surprisingly Easy

Air hockey is Canada’s greatest pastime. Okay—that’s not exactly true, but who the hell doesn’t love a game of air hockey? The low-pitch buzzing of the table’s fan, the constant thwack of the puck bouncing off the boards, the excitement you get when you score: It all brings back some of my fondest memory at…

Sploid Michael Nunez Jul 21 '16

Egypt Is Such a Beautiful Rectangle, Man

You ever notice how rectangular Egypt is? Me neither—until I discovered some very unscientific research from Australian statistician David Barry. In a recent blog post, Barry compared the rectangularness of all countries in the world and found that it doesn’t get any better than Egypt. Just look at it. It’s a rectangular masterpiece. Barry’s search…

Tech News Michael Nunez Jul 20 '16

The Hyperloop Lawsuit Shitshow Just Got More Insane

The Hyperloop One boys are at it again. This time, the company is reportedly countersuing its co-founder and chief technology office Brogan BamBrogan for $250 million, claiming that he and three others tried to stage a hostile takeover and conspired to start their own company. The countersuit comes one week after an explosive lawsuit was…

Tech News Michael Nunez Jul 19 '16

Netflix Claims Customers Freaked Out Over Price Hike

After a decade of explosive growth, Netflix is experiencing some growing pains. Though Americans are watching more online video than ever, Netflix is facing steeper competition (from rivals like Google, Amazon, Apple, and HBO) in addition to an uncertain future in international markets. These uncertainties—combined with slowing subscription growth—sent Netflix stock plummeting 15 percent in…

Tech News Michael Nunez Jul 18 '16

Michael Nunez

A List of Terrible Story Ideas My Editor Won’t Let Me Write

It Looks Like Apple Is Seriously Building an All-Glass iPhone

Apple’s First Vehicle-Related Patent Is For a Bendy Bus With Tank Treads?

Mossberg: Why Am I So Cranky?

Delta Flights Grounded Worldwide After Unexplained Computer Shutdown (Updating)

I Fell in Love With the Worst Computer Money Can Buy

5 Reasons You Should Update to Windows 10 If You Haven’t Already

Rich People Get Free* Houses in Silicon Valley

Blackberry Gives Up

Facebook Is Building Apartments Anyone Can Rent—But There’s a Huge Catch

Crushing 17 LCD Screens With a Steamroller Looks Satisfying as Hell

New York City Subway Faces Its Biggest Service Disruption in History

WikiLeaks Just Published Tons of Credit Card and Social Security Numbers

Helpful Tips For Not Dying While Playing Pokémon Go

Someone Already Made a Kickass Torrents Clone

What Happens When You Get a Perfect Score on Pac-Man Will Blow Your Mind

Building Your Own Air Hockey Table Is Surprisingly Easy

Egypt Is Such a Beautiful Rectangle, Man

The Hyperloop Lawsuit Shitshow Just Got More Insane

Netflix Claims Customers Freaked Out Over Price Hike

WD_Black Gen4 NVMe SSD Crashes to Almost 50% Off in Final Clearance Push With Blazing 7,250MB/s Read and 6,900MB/s Write Speeds

Apple Pushes AirPods 4 to a Record Low on Amazon This Memorial Day While AirPods Pro 3 Discounts Dry Up

The Company Behind the Flipper Zero Hacking Tool Is Making a Cyberdeck

‘The Boroughs’ Is Like ‘Stranger Things’ Until It Isn’t

Pentagon Reportedly Plans to Adopt and Weaponize Latest Cyber-Capable AI Models

Former FTX Guys Launch Unholy Combination of AI and Prediction Markets Promising No Losses

The Scandal Over a Supposedly AI-Written, Award-Winning Short Story Is Troubling. Or Just Mean?

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Anker Solix E10 Review: No Power? No Problem

Nvidia Wants to Decouple Its Reputation From Meta, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft

Bose Lifestyle Ultra Speaker Review: Sonos Can Start Sweating Now

Bose Lifestyle Ultra Soundbar Review: A Boisterous Stab at Dominating Home Theater

Dell’s XPS 16 (2026) Is Almost Everything I Could Have Asked for… Almost

Smart Glasses With Subscriptions Are As Bad as They Sound

iBuyPower’s Trace X Gaming PC Is the Fishbowl You Want to Swim In

Govee Ceiling Light Ultra Review: AI Art Ain’t It

JBL Live 780NC Review: Solid Wireless Headphones You Can Live Without

Acer’s Swift 16 AI (2026) Gets a Lot Right, But I Can’t Get Past the Trackpad

Samsung Galaxy A57 5G Review: Not Worth It at Full Price

Logitech G G512 X Review: The Tasting Menu of a Pro Gaming Keyboard