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These Are the 10 Startups That Nike Is Paying To Make Its Apps Better

Late last year Nike announced that it was partnering with TechStars for its first ever Nike+ Accelerator program. In theory, the 10 startups chosen for this inaugural class would help strengthen and fix any glaring holes in Nike’s existing FuelBand and Nike+ apps. https://gizmodo.com/help-fix-nike-and-nikefuel-so-they-suck-less-5977111 The program aims to leverage the success of the Nike+ platform…

You can now reply or archive Gmail messages straight from notifications on your Android device running OS 4.1 or higher.

How To Watch (Or Record) Gizmodo TV

By now you’ve heard that our special is airing tonight on BBC America after the season finale of Top Gear UK. If you haven’t, please see this, this and this. Oh, and this. Now, to make things easier for you and everyone else you’re going to share this link with, we’ve started a handy guide…

If Magneto Were Shopping For a Watch, He’d Buy This Omega

This past January at SIHH, Omega announced that it had created the world’s first anti-magnetic watch movement that’s resistant to magnetic fields up to 15,000 Gauss. Previously both Rolex and IWC were the only other watch manufacturers with anti-magnetic time pieces. But Omega’s new Seamaster Aqua Terra (calibre 8508) is 15x more resistant than either…

Ugh. If you’re the type to record video on your iPad, then you might as well use YouTube’s Capture app. Ugh.

Amazon has lowered the price of the 8.9-inch Kindle Fire to $270 for the Wi-Fi model and $400 for the 4G model.

Virgin Galactic Nearing First Rocket-Powered Test Flight

The photo you see above was taken on February 28th when the Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites team tested, for the first time, the rocket that will power its first test flight before going into orbit. And it was a raging success. It’s hard to believe that Virgin Galactic has been around since 2004 when…

Want a constant stream of music videos on your Xbox? Say hello to Vevo TV. (This could have been you, MTV!)

Watch SpaceX’s Grasshopper Hover 80 Meters In the Air

When we last saw SpaceX’s Grasshopper, it had just finished a test flight that carried the vertical takeoff/landing rocket up to 40 meters. A couple months later, it’s now hovering in at around 80 meters! Progress! And Johnny Cash! https://gizmodo.com/spacexs-grasshopper-rocket-takes-off-and-lands-vertical-5971543

Remember when Google ‘accidentally‘ mined Wi-Fi network data? Well, $7M is supposedly what’s going to make it go away.

Is This Google’s First Third Party App for Glass?

Yesterday the NewScientist put out a report that Google was funding the development of an app called InSight for Glass, which would recognize people based on their clothing and not their actual faces. After some head-scratching about why anyone would need such an app—and I scratched a lot of people’s heads about this—it turns out…

Digg’s iOS app now includes a “dark mode” for night time reading and easier access to more stories.

BlackBerry 10: Which Apps Will (and Won’t) Ever Be There

Earlier this week it was reported that Netflix has no plans to develop a BlackBerry 10 app. While that specific nugget of news wasn’t surprising, we began to wonder what other popular apps may or may not be coming to BB10. After all, BlackBerry did say at launch this past January that BlackBerry World had…

Shopikon: Track Down Your Nearest Indie Shop

There was a time when you’d shop for things in person as opposed to online. Convenient. Which then made shopping in person pretty boring because, well, it’s all the same crap everywhere you go. Then the same thing happened to the Internet save for a few “indie” sellers on Etsy and some hipsters on Kickstarter.…

A Dumb Truck Makes Me Feel Like We’re Living In The Future. What About You?

Nothing seems very futuristic to me. Not my phone, not my tablet, not my computer, not my TV, not my watch. None of it. We don’t have flying cars and we have hoverboards that don’t hover. What sort of world are we living in? Google’s Glass is very futuristic but we’re still a long ways…

Sorry BlackBerry 10 owners but Netflix isn’t coming to a handset near you anytime soon. Maybe even ever.

Some People Are Filming a “Documentary” Using Google Glass in New York Right Now

There’s a lot of really weird stuff that happens on any given day in New York City. Which is why I like to take the occasional day off during the week just to walk around and take in my surroundings. Take, for example, this random video shoot I came across of some grungy folks equipped…

Web TV service Aereo is expanding to 29 counties, including those in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut.

Google Drive now lets you preview 30 different file types, like PSDs, Excel and RAR.

Apple just pushed out iOS 6.1.2 to fix an Exchange calendar bug but no word on whether this fixes the lock screen snafu. https://gizmodo.com/ios-6-1-security-risk-anyone-can-bypass-your-iphones-l-5984190