Sam Biddle, Author at Gizmodo

This Might Be the Craziest Computer Case We’ve Ever Seen

Whether it’s so ugly it’s beautiful or just plain beautiful is hard to pin down, but the GreatWhite SHK979C chassis looks like an alien torture probe. Luckily, it’s just a fantastically designed, super-frosty enclosure for your gaming setup. The GreatWhite tosses out a lot of what you’d expect from a case. Little things like, uh,…

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Does Google Have Any Social Skills at All?

Google revealed a lot at Google I/O: a shimmering tablet at a good price, a sci-fi home theater orb, seriously sophisticated search, and Jelly Beans. It also revealed an unsettling lack of human understanding. https://gizmodo.com/google-i-o-day-one-hardware-galore-5921803 We’ve had privacy concerns before, but could it be more? Could it be that Google just doesn’t get real people?…

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The Google Nexus Tablet Is Here, and It’s Out to Kill the Kindle Fire (Updated)

Google just conjured up its platonic ideal of an Android tablet: killer specs, the most pristine possible software, and a $200 price. Wil this be the Android tablet that finally makes Android tablets exciting? Is Amazon going to lose? The Nexus, a slim, trim piece of gear packed with the latest Jelly Bean release of…

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It’s Safe to Assume Apple TV Is Getting Apps

Now this is interesting! A sharp-eyed Apple TV beta tester spotted wobbling icon rearrangement in the newest update, allowing you to customize your home screen. Sound familiar? It should—it’s exactly what we saw right before downloadable iPhone apps. The ability to download 3rd party apps didn’t hit Apple’s phone until the 2.0 version of iOS,…

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Nvidia’s Fastest GPU Cooled in Total Silence

The Nvidia GTX 680 is a beast of a graphics chomper, delivering some of the fastest speeds you can possibly get from a single processor. But video cards are often loud as hell. Fans! Ugh! Not this one. It’s simple physics: video cards suck down a lot of electricity, create a lot of heat, and…

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Never Spill Your Beer on the Beach Ever Again, Brah

The only thing more sure to sour a trip to the beach than a shark attack or acid rain is a drink knocked over. Your soda or alcoholic beverage of choice, drained into the sand. Enough! Give your drink feet. Turtlebacks are pretty simple—essentially clawed coasters, that’ll dig into sand (or dirt, probably) to give…

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Apple AirPort Express (2012) Lightning Review: Probably the Best Router Ever

It’s hard to have significant feelings about a router—it’s supposed to just work and shut up, or not. But no router has ever just worked and shut up like Apple’s newest AirPort—a white inch closer to networking perfection. What Is It? A fast, $100, dual-band 802.11a/b/g/n wireless router with built-in AirPlay support. Who’s it For?…

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Here’s Proof Your Windows Phone Will Look Great Even if You’re “Screwed” Out of the Upgrade

Following Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 reveal, plenty of owners were salty over what they considered the ultimate betrayal: not a single WP on the market was eligible for the super upgrade. But please, don’t fret! The consolation prize is awesome. https://gizmodo.com/windows-phone-8-looks-great-but-it-screws-existing-use-5919915 If you can’t get Windows Phone 8, many of you can still upgrade to…

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This Website Is Telling the World Your Dirty Public Facebook Secrets

The notion of a private secret sounds contradictory, but in the Facebook Age, it makes sad sense. There’s a whole horde of uninformed FB users who broadcast their weed smoking and boss hating for the entire internet. Read it here. Due to years of simultaneously trying to simplify privacy settings and urging us to share…

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Facebook Just Changed Your Email Without Asking—Here’s How to Fix It (Updated)

Hey, here’s something really stupid and annoying: Facebook abruptly switched everyone’s default email address to the @facebook.com account you’ve never used. Here’s how to switch back Facebook’s obnoxious overreach right now. So people can actually, you know, contact you. Remember long, long ago, when Facebook launched a Facebook email system and then nobody used it?…

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Bloomberg: Apple Chooses Lamest Partner for iOS 6 Maps

Bloomberg says Apple will include locational checkins with its new homemade Maps app, no extra app download needed. That’s actually very cool! Except it will allegedly use Yelp, and it’s hard to imagine a dumber choice. There’s a decent chance you didn’t know Yelp even offers Foursquare-style checkins, and that’s okay—nobody uses it. Yelp is…

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Is This War in Afghanistan or on the Moon?

Another day, another drone—but this RQ-7 Shadow looks like it’s being launched in the vacuum of space against some lunar insurgency. Through a combination of a serious photo flash and Afghanistan’s already moonlike surface, we get one killer view of Forward Operating Base Pasab in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province, where American paratroopers are looking to do…

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Sony NSZ-GS7 Review: Google TV Is Still Bad

Google TV has been, for quite some time now, promising to do for your TV what it’s done for phones: smarts, apps, convenience, bliss. It hasn’t worked—at all. Now Sony’s next stab is here. Maybe next time. Why It Matters When last we exchanged awkward glances with the Google TV, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt promised…

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A Complete Guide to Sexting

We all want to have sex with each other all the time, but we can’t. So we transfer our screw-and-fondle energy into our smartphones—often with disastrous, humiliating results. It doesn’t have to be this way. Here’s how to sex-text like a champion. As stated when we groped this topic last summer, the pure, true definition…

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Facebook Just Stole an Apple Design Guru

One of Apple’s top interface talents, frogdesign veteran and UI Design Manager Chris Weeldreyer, just jumped ship. And he’s paddling straight for the muscular, Poseidon-like arms of Mark Zuckerberg. Is Facebook about to become beautiful? 9to5Mac points out Weeldreyer has some serious design clout under his well-designed belt (we’re assuming it’s well-designed): He is listed…

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All the Beautiful New Things from the MoMA Design Store

The words “modern” and “store” connote “shit I can’t afford,” but the newest offerings from the Museum of Modern Art’s gift shop are within reach! Seriously. And they’re also the best way of injecting some super-class into your pad. OK fine—a lot of the “new” stuff from the MoMA store isn’t technically new. In fact,…

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AMD’s New Graphics Card King Is Here: The HD 7970 GHz Edition

Nvidia’s been holding AMD slightly under the water lately, but if AMD’s newest Radeon beast performs as well as it looks like it could, the tables are turned. Is this the best possible GPU you can buy? The GHz Edition lives up to its name, delivering a GPU clock speed of 1,000 MHz with the…

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We’ll Pay You for Photos of Mark Zuckerberg

For someone who doesn’t believe in privacy, Mark Zuckerberg is awfully guarded. He has made Facebook public by default, and yet his own public posts are few, far-between, and tend towards the anodyne. Facebook’s share-everything CEO even went so far as to keep his recent wedding a secret from his own friends, presumably to avoid…

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How to Get the Internet to Pay for Your Lunch

Sites like Indiegogo and Kickstarter are great for raising money to build a cool looking lamp or direct a movie shot on your iPad. But they’re also perfect for getting people to give you money for no reason at all. After reading about the story of Karen Klein—an upstate New York bus monitor harassed to…

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Mark Zuckerberg Walking His Fluffy, Rich Dog on a Cloudless Day (Updated)

Mark Zuckerberg loves his dog, Beast, a kind of Hungarian Sheepdog. Sometimes Beast is carried around like a furry emperor, or sometimes Zuck just takes him for a nice stroll. But who is this mysterious man with them? We’re not sure, but it’s probably a friend of Mark Zuckerberg. Are they negotiating the purchase of…

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This Might Be the Craziest Computer Case We’ve Ever Seen

Does Google Have Any Social Skills at All?

The Google Nexus Tablet Is Here, and It’s Out to Kill the Kindle Fire (Updated)

It’s Safe to Assume Apple TV Is Getting Apps

Nvidia’s Fastest GPU Cooled in Total Silence

Never Spill Your Beer on the Beach Ever Again, Brah

Apple AirPort Express (2012) Lightning Review: Probably the Best Router Ever

Here’s Proof Your Windows Phone Will Look Great Even if You’re “Screwed” Out of the Upgrade

This Website Is Telling the World Your Dirty Public Facebook Secrets

Facebook Just Changed Your Email Without Asking—Here’s How to Fix It (Updated)

Bloomberg: Apple Chooses Lamest Partner for iOS 6 Maps

Is This War in Afghanistan or on the Moon?

Sony NSZ-GS7 Review: Google TV Is Still Bad

A Complete Guide to Sexting

Facebook Just Stole an Apple Design Guru

All the Beautiful New Things from the MoMA Design Store

AMD’s New Graphics Card King Is Here: The HD 7970 GHz Edition

We’ll Pay You for Photos of Mark Zuckerberg

How to Get the Internet to Pay for Your Lunch

Mark Zuckerberg Walking His Fluffy, Rich Dog on a Cloudless Day (Updated)

Getting Stuck Inside a Glitching Robotaxi Is a Whole New Thing to Be Scared of

Artemis 2 Live Updates: Humanity’s Epic Return to the Moon 🔴

NASA’s Artemis 2 Mission Blasts Off

Disney’s Robot Olaf Dying Is the Funniest Thing to Happen in 2026

Kia’s EV3 Is Headed to the US This Year With Up to 320 Miles of Range

This Is the Way to Lego’s April Releases

Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI

Amazon Facilities in Bahrain Hit Again as Iran Follows Through on Threat, Report Says

Why the PS6 Handheld Will Matter More Than the PS6

DNA Study Casts Even More Doubt on Shroud of Turin’s True Origin

The Best Gadgets of March 2026

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?