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Apple’s New Mothership Campus Shows Mysterious Research Facilities

The City of Cupertino has published the complete proposal for Apple new mothership campus. There’s a lot of interesting new things that nobody has seen yet, like a mysterious “research facilities” separated from the main building and an underground auditorium. My guess is that the independent research facility would be the top secret, high security…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The Ultimate History of Cute Robots

Cute robots have been a fixture in the pop culture landscape, ever since C-3PO and R2D2 crashed on Tatooine in the original Star Wars — but there have been cute robots in pop culture for way longer. The history of cute robots is a proud and totally cuddly one, full of beeping, blooping noises. Here’s…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders and Gordon Jackson

What Does Nexus Mean for Android Anymore?

The reason you buy a Nexus phone isn’t just because it’s the best Android phone. It’s a pure distillation of everything Google has to offer. The best Android can possibly be at a given moment in time. But that won’t be the case for the Galaxy Nexus on Verizon. It’ll be missing a pretty big…

Tech News Brent Rose

So What’s Taking Instagram So Long to Hit Android?

Instagram. It’s one of the iPhone’s most popular apps—50 million users just a year after launch—probably our favorite social network, and the envy of Android users worldwide. However, at the Paris LeWeb conference today, Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom announced—again—that a team is working to port the app to Android OS. Promises, promises. The announcement was…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Android Phone Name Generator: Funny Because It’s Sad

Oh, to be an Android brand manager, brewing up new device names by tossing darts at a Saturday morning cartoon adjective board. But why work even that hard? This Android phone name generator does it to sweet, sad, cliched perfection. Below are a few of the favorites that I’ve encountered at my new favorite single-serve…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Save This Cheeseburger Wrapping Paper for Your Juiciest Gifts

Extravagant? Maybe. But embracing this mouth-wateringly wonderful cheeseburger wrapping paper might actually save you in the long run. I mean, when you wrap and stack six gifts to look like a Royale with cheese, well, who cares what’s in the boxes? The five-piece set (buns, tomato, lettuce, cheese, patty) still has a decent way to…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Kung fu Gecko will kick your ass first, ask questions later

Ah, geckos. So cute. So harmless. So unassuming. Or maybe that’s just what they want us to think. This photo is from a series by Indonesian photographer Shikhei Goh that features geckos doing what I can only assume they get up to when we humans aren’t huddled around their tanks, pleading with them to come…

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This iPod Dock Is the Size of a Car

OK, a really small car, but still: Behringer’s iNuke Boom is f*cking huge. Its four feet tall, eight feet long, and weighs 700 pounds. Not impressed? 10,000 watts. Yeah, thought so. While the dock is clearly an attempt to stir up some publicity for its new Eurosound consumer electronics brand, the iNuke Boom is apparently…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Facebook’s Top Trends of 2011 Should Make Us All Embarrassed

Facebook’s big report on what we humans blabbed about online is here! The good news: three of the top ten topics of the year were important. The bad news: the rest is inane, sad, incoherent shit. We suck. The top status of the year? “LMS,” for “like my status,” perhaps the most vivid indicator of…

Social Media Sam Biddle

Why our minds have probably evolved as far as they can go

Humans evolving into hyper-intelligent beings is a powerful idea in science fiction, but that’s probably where the idea will have to stay. Our brains have reached an evolutionary “sweet spot”, and we can’t get much smarter without making major trade-offs. That’s the finding of psychologists Thomas Hills of the University of Warwick and Ralph Hertwig…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Secrets of Rise of Planet of the Apes‘ Epic Golden Gate Bridge Battle!

The bloody final battle between humans and apes was the climax of this summer’s blockbuster Rise of the Planet of the Apes. But how did Fox capture a human-vs.-animal showdown on the legendary Golden Gate Bridge? Simple: Weta Digital, and lots and lots of ape-men in grey performance-capture pajamas. Watch how this film brought an…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Cloaked bubble UFO in Italy perplexes onlookers

On November 13, Antonio Urzi captured this stealthy bubblecraft buzzing over Cinisello Balsamo in Italy. Here’s a six-minute take on the story. Remember, if you’re trying to sell your UFO footage to the public at large, be sure to score it with the Pure Moods soundtrack. Gentle synths wash away all skepticism! Take it away,…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Gizmodo’s Joe Brown On MSNBC

Gizmodo’s Joe Brown joined MSNBC’s NewsNation on December 7, 2011 to talk about Facebook security. Watch the clip above! For media requests, contact Kevin Prince at [email protected].

Social Media Scott Kidder

The Internet’s Best 404 Error Pages

The internet isn’t just a bunch of cables, wires, modems, computers, silicon, protocols, h-tee-tee-pees and h-tee-em-els. There are people behind it! People with personality. People who like to laugh. People who put up hilarious 404 error pages so whenever something goes wrong on the Internet, people will remember that they exist! The regular 404 error…

Tech News Casey Chan

The World’s Biggest Multi-Touch LCD Is a Hypnotic Plaything (Updated)

We at Gizmodo rarely get to feel like TV news bigshots, but since Gizmodo Gallery is all about making dreams come true, Perceptive Pixel is bringing us the world’s largest multi-touch LCD. Think CNN’s Big Board—only way cooler. Update after the event below Sometimes we’re lucky enough to be on CNN, but they never friggin…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Give the Gift of iGadget Personalization

You may have no idea what to buy your people this holiday season, but, rest assured, you’ll find something for everyone at the Gawker Artists Shop. Finding a print that’s right for your giftees is incredibly easy. Whether you’re into the summery dream-like portraits from Rachel Bellinsky or the macabre human hearts and skulls work…

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Sneak a Peek at the Finished Apple Store in NYC’s Grand Central Terminal (Updated)

Look at this sneak peek of Apple’s newest monumental store, located in the hall of New York City’s Grand Central Terminal. From this angle, it doesn’t look very special. It’s like someone just set up some tables around. Of course, given the magnificent architecture of the hall, perhaps you don’t need much more than that.…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Does Newt Gingrich want to make Neuromancer come true?

U.S. Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich calls himself a futurist, and never tires of prognosticating. Beloved of Future Shock author Alvin Toffler, who coined the term “futurist,” Gingrich co-authored a “conservative futurist” book in 2006 called The Art of Transformation (available in paperback for $70.00 on Amazon). He’s also a fan of alternate history, and has…

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Google Buys More than One Company Every Week

There are plenty of very smart people at Google, but sometimes it’s easier to just buy smart things that other smart people are doing. Especially when you’ve got more money than Jesus Christ and Michael Jackson combined. The Google Way. TechCrunch reports Google is “acquiring around one company per week,” according to bossman Eric Schmidt.…

Tech News Sam Biddle

AT&T LTE NYC: DEC

New York City has long been AT&T’s 3G Waterloo, if Napoleon hadn’t only lost the battle, but all of his weapons turned into sand and he fell into a ditch with his shoes tied together. But LTE is upon us! Big Blue says NYC will have its supafast LTE switch flipped “by year-end 2011.” That’s……

Tech News Sam Biddle

Apple’s New Mothership Campus Shows Mysterious Research Facilities

The Ultimate History of Cute Robots

What Does Nexus Mean for Android Anymore?

So What’s Taking Instagram So Long to Hit Android?

Android Phone Name Generator: Funny Because It’s Sad

Save This Cheeseburger Wrapping Paper for Your Juiciest Gifts

Kung fu Gecko will kick your ass first, ask questions later

This iPod Dock Is the Size of a Car

Facebook’s Top Trends of 2011 Should Make Us All Embarrassed

Why our minds have probably evolved as far as they can go

Secrets of Rise of Planet of the Apes‘ Epic Golden Gate Bridge Battle!

Cloaked bubble UFO in Italy perplexes onlookers

Gizmodo’s Joe Brown On MSNBC

The Internet’s Best 404 Error Pages

The World’s Biggest Multi-Touch LCD Is a Hypnotic Plaything (Updated)

Give the Gift of iGadget Personalization

Sneak a Peek at the Finished Apple Store in NYC’s Grand Central Terminal (Updated)

Does Newt Gingrich want to make Neuromancer come true?

Google Buys More than One Company Every Week

AT&T LTE NYC: DEC

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