Sam Biddle, Author at Gizmodo

Teen Buys Camera with Picture of Dead Uncle Inside

You never know what you’re going to find at a garage sale, but you can usually be pretty sure it won’t be an unexpected image of a dead relative from 23 years ago. This Kansas kid got just that. The Wichita Eagle reports 13-year-old Addison Logan found a Polaroid camera for only $1, and snatched…

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The Best Ice Cube Tray of All Time

It’s pretty much summertime. It’s hot out. You want a cold drink. You need ice to make your drink cold. Here lies the best tray for slinging cubes. Ahhhhhhhhhh. This ain’t smartphone and tablet territory, boyscouts—this is primal stuff. The spec that matters most here is the ease with which you can pry those precious…

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Use Facebook to Throw a Party Without Making Everyone Hate You

BBQ season is about to unleash its smokey, greasy, beer-y vibes all over you. Are you ready for a summer of meat and day drinking? Good—but first, here’s how to get everyone together online without offending anyone. Paperless Post is for weddings. Mass text invites end in chaos. Group emails are a pain in the…

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Facebook Camera vs. Instagram: Ultimate Mobile Photo Sharing Smackdown

A new challenger appears! Facebook is now beginning to eat up its children, releasing a Camera app that competes directly with its recently purchased Instagram. Is it any good? Should you use both? Which one is better? Let’s dig in. https://gizmodo.com/facebooks-new-camera-app-is-pretty-much-instagram-5913053 Instagram and Facebook Camera have the exact same promise: the easiest (and most fun!)…

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This Kid Spent Two Months Secretly Living in AOL’s Offices

It turns out there is at least one person who likes AOL—enough to even eat, sleep, shower, and live out of their Palo Alto HQ like some sort of Silicon Valley hobo for months. Meet Eric Simons. Eric was a crappy high school student with bad grades. Eric turned this failure into an idea for…

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Read All the Haunting Texts You Sent a Year Ago

TimeHop is a curious thing—it’s the purest form of the stupid Internet faux nostalgia phenomenon. But it’s also a lot of mindless, sentimental fun, a snapshot of your (digital) life a year ago. Now it reads your texts. https://gizmodo.com/the-new-internet-will-make-you-sad-forever-5869802 The new feature doesn’t siphon your text messages away from your cell carrier—rather, TimeHop sucks them…

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Google Glasses Still Make You Look Nerdy

If you’re Katy Perry, you’ll look dumb wearing the Google Glasses—at least in their current prototype form. And unfortunately, being a Google billionaire won’t make it any easier to pull off the look, either. Larry. Larry… https://gizmodo.com/do-you-care-how-ugly-the-google-glasses-are-5899190 TechCrunch was tipped off by someone in Page’s London audience, where he strutted around stage with the futuristic…

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How to Destroy the Internet

Remember when Anonymous threatened to destroy the entire internet? We laughed, and ultimately their words were just hacker hubris. But it got us thinking—could someone actually destroy the Internet? We did some digging, and guess what: With enough effort, the entire thing can be shattered. Physically. Completely. Here’s how to kill the net. Before we…

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Better Cell Phone Towers Kill People (Updated)

AT&T’s network sucked in 2008, glutted with iPhones and facing the menace of a 3G rollout. So like its competition, it put together a slapdash operation to build towers at any cost. Even a human cost, ProPublica reports. A joint investigation by ProPublica and PBS’ Frontline dug up a corporate culture of rampant neglect, workplace…

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Facebook Testing New Profile Look You Might Hate (Again!)

Plenty of people are still unwrapping their undies after the move to Facebook’s super-graphical Timeline look—and now the company is ready to mix things up again. Check out what your profile might look like soon. https://gizmodo.com/facebook-timeline-review-this-is-the-greatest-thing-fa-5843354 Looking at the profile of TPM’s Carl Franzen, who already has the new Timeline (apparently in beta testing), the…

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The Religious Extremists Who Want to Ban the Internet

The average home attendance for the New York Mets this year has been 27,683. On Sunday, Citi Field drew 40,000—almost full capacity. Why? Not baseball, but religious radicals who think the internet is a dangerous, mortal evil. Godliness is often at odds with a web full of porn and piracy, but it’s usually the pot-clanging…

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Very NSFW: What Happens When You Visit an Internet Stranger Who Wants to Drink Your Pee?

When last we spent some video time with Vice’s interent love pioneer Karley “Slutever” Sciortino, she had hopped over to London to meet her anonymous online sex slave. But while in the neighborhood, why not meet up with one more? https://gizmodo.com/very-nsfw-what-happens-when-you-visit-your-anonymous-i-5902125 We asked Karley to give us the deets on this golden rendezvous, and she…

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Zuckerberg Just Got Married

Mark “IPO” Zuckerberg just dropped a Facebook status update bigger than the NASDAQ bomb: he and longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan are married, only a day after he became one of the richest men on the planet. He wore a suit! https://gizmodo.com/mark-zuckerbergs-newest-facebook-status-im-a-real-bill-5911422 As far as anyone can tell, the news of the marriage between the notoriously…

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How to Be Popular on Twitter

Whether you are or not, everyone just wants to be loved and envied. No, shh, it’s true. And thanks to the ease of the internet, you can finally realize the dream. Here’s how to be the center of Twitter attention. Twitter, as delusional and perverse as it may be, serves as a social barometer of…

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The 11 Funniest Tweets About Facebook IPOpocalypse

Facebook money money stock Facebook NASDAQ hoodie Zuckerberg Facebook. There’s a lot of noise today, but amid the foam-mouthed financial babble, here are some funny things instead. Instead of becoming rich, let’s laugh today. It’s hard to make an initial public offering funny, because, really, it’s a dry and complex financial event, not a celebrity…

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Newest Facebook Status: I’m a Real Billionaire, You Bitches

In case you just woke from a coma at the center of the earth’s core, Facebook’s IPO blasts off today. And here’s a casually obnoxious reminder from Mark Zuckerberg, who has something to do with this, if you weren’t sure. https://gizmodo.com/reminder-the-facebook-ipo-wont-make-you-rich-5911275 The status update—Mark Zuckerberg listed a company on NASDAQ. — with Chris Cox and…

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Poor People Photograph Rich People on Times Square Jumbotron

Today is Facebook IPO day, which means a select group rich people will become richer beyond our ability to comprehend wealth. Outside the NASDAQ money castle, the peasantry has lined up, cameras in hand. Look, son—billionaires! Inside, while Mark Zuckerberg grinned wider than the first time his face felt the touch of synthetic fleece, and…

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Cupcake-Filled Sausages Are Beyond Gross

Gizmodo salutes culinary daring—the egg waffle is still one of the great breakthroughs of our time. But pizza in a jar? Not pizza. And meat sausages filled instead with chocolate and grilled crispy? Disgusting. https://gizmodo.com/you-can-and-must-cook-eggs-in-a-waffle-iron-5852088 We’ll hand it to Stef over at The Cupcake Project—the “cupcakewurst” idea is a brave one. But after walking through…

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Senators Want to Ban Facebook’s Co-Founder from America Forever

Dirtbag IPO tax dodger/tragic startup victim Eduardo Saverin is about to get double teamed by the United States: Senators Chuck Schumer and Bob Casey want to him permanently exiled from the country for renouncing his citizenship to save a buck. https://gizmodo.com/mark-zuckerberg-betrayed-facebooks-cofounder-in-this-em-5910458 The proposed legislation, called the Ex-PATRIOT Act (geeeeeeeet it?) specifically targets Saverin’s $100 million…

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There’s No Such Thing as a Brogrammer

A spectre is haunting startups—the spectre of the brogrammer. Several prominent, quivering articles would lead you to believe the frat houses have emptied into tech, spreading misogyny, keg stands, and chest bumps throughout. This is bullshit. I met one. The underlying terror is that the same assholes who were assholes in college are now assholes…

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Teen Buys Camera with Picture of Dead Uncle Inside

The Best Ice Cube Tray of All Time

Use Facebook to Throw a Party Without Making Everyone Hate You

Facebook Camera vs. Instagram: Ultimate Mobile Photo Sharing Smackdown

This Kid Spent Two Months Secretly Living in AOL’s Offices

Read All the Haunting Texts You Sent a Year Ago

Google Glasses Still Make You Look Nerdy

How to Destroy the Internet

Better Cell Phone Towers Kill People (Updated)

Facebook Testing New Profile Look You Might Hate (Again!)

The Religious Extremists Who Want to Ban the Internet

Very NSFW: What Happens When You Visit an Internet Stranger Who Wants to Drink Your Pee?

Zuckerberg Just Got Married

How to Be Popular on Twitter

The 11 Funniest Tweets About Facebook IPOpocalypse

Mark Zuckerberg’s Newest Facebook Status: I’m a Real Billionaire, You Bitches

Poor People Photograph Rich People on Times Square Jumbotron

Cupcake-Filled Sausages Are Beyond Gross

Senators Want to Ban Facebook’s Co-Founder from America Forever

There’s No Such Thing as a Brogrammer

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

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