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Commenting FAQ: How to Make Your Comments Look Better

Our comment system allows you to use a handful of HTML tags. With them you can turn text bold, italic, or into links. The trick is simply to surround the text in these tags like this: bold italic. Ta da! For links, you can either just paste the URL in as is ( http://gizmodo.com/ )…

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Commenting FAQ: How to Get a Star and What to Do With It

You’ve seen those pretty little stars next to some commenters’ names and you want one. You don’t even care what it does, you just want one. Ok, easy to accomplish. You just need to blow away the moderators with some great contributions in the comments and they’ll reward you with a star. On some days…

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ROCR Bot Swings Up Walls Like a Monkey

The list of places we will be safe from robot attack continues to shrink, as the ROCR robot, courtesy of the University of Utah, can now efficiently scale walls. The diminutive bot can climb over six inches per second. https://gizmodo.com/wl-16rii-stair-climbing-robot-chair-102156 The ROCR is far from the first robot to pull off a wall climb, nor…

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Commenting FAQ: How and Why to “Heart” Your Friends

I’ve gotta admit that I was confused the first time someone told me that he “hearted” me for something. It felt a bit dirty to be honest. Turns out that “hearting” is how one adds friends using the Gizmodo commenting system. You just click on the little heart next to another person’s name and boom-ba-boom,…

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Commenting FAQ: About Your Commenter Profile Page

Your commenter profile page is located here: http://gizmodo.com/people/YOURUSERNAME (Of course, you need to replace the “YOURUSERNAME” part with your Gizmodo username. Do keep in mind that your username may be different from your displayed username.) You can also access it by clicking on your displayed username in the upper right hand corner of the site.…

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Commenting FAQ: How to Create a Gizmodo Commenter Account

So here you are, eager to start contributing, but you can’t figure out how to get a commenter account. The secret is to hit the “login” button in the upper right hand corner of the page. You’ll be offered the choice of logging into an existing commenter account or creating a brand new one at…

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Visit Clifton’s Cafeteria and step back in time to the birthplace of pulp science fiction

The best place in the United States to sit and feel the ghostly presence of early 20th century science fiction is probably Clifton’s Cafeteria in Los Angeles, which was the epicentre of 1930s pulp scifi. If there is a single city that must be associated with the Golden Age of Science Fiction it has to…

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Commenting FAQ: How to Link Your Gizmodo Account to Your Twitter Account

Before we jump into the instructions on linking your Gizmodo commenter account with your Twitter account, it’s important that you know that the feature doesn’t auto-tweet all your comments but simply provides you a “Tweet this?” option when submitting a comment. To set the feature up, you’ll head to your commenter profile page and find…

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Financial analyst uncovers unexplained market patterns created by bots

After the “flash crash” that brought the stock exchange to its knees a few months ago, data analysis firm Nanex started looking into some odd patterns in stock trades. They discovered bot armies are affecting trades on a microsecond-by-microsecond basis. Over at The Atlantic, Alexis Madrigal has a fascinating story about how Nanex software engineer…

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Dreaming Up a Day Without Technology

It almost sounds nice sometimes, right? Being totally off the grid, no technology whatsoever. Maybe just for one day. Here’s the winner of Good’s Doodle Project depicting just that. And if his vision doesn’t connect, try plugging into the runners-up: That last one? That’s by a six year old. Pretty incredible—thank goodness I was online…

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James Marsters explains the secret to playing a great supervillain

James Marsters told us the secret of playing a great villain: “You have to come to grips with the fact that it’s fun to hurt people.” He also explained his personal religion, and his scheme to come back to Torchwood. Marsters, who played Spike on Buffy The Vampire Slayer as well as Barnabus on Caprica,…

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Commenting FAQ: How to Use Tags to Filter Content

While you can use tags to have fun with comments, you can also use them to filter content on Gizmodo by creating a custom version of the site which either avoids or focuses on certain content. https://gizmodo.com/commenting-faq-how-to-use-tags-in-comments-5605752 The trick to doing this is to adjust the link you use to visit Gizmodo a little bit.…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Commenting FAQ: How to Use Tags in Comments

#broken, #whitenoise, #tips, #whateveryouwant. You’ll see plenty of these tags in the comments. Each of them links to a corresponding tagpage which is like a forum of sorts. You can contribute to one of those pages by using the box right next to the Gizmodo logo. Just enter whatever tag you want to use, be…

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Commenting FAQ: What to Avoid

Just as a writer, editor, or comment administrator can approve your commenter account, he or she can ban it. This means that your previous comments will remain on the site, but you’ll be unable to make any new ones. We rarely re-approve banned commenters, so if you feel that you’ve learned whatever lesson there was…

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Electrons viewed in real time for the first time ever

In an unprecedented achievement, physicists have managed to directly observe electrons moving about the outer orbit of an atom. It’s all thanks to some nifty quantum trickery and a machine that measures time in quintillionths of a second. The actual process used by the scientists, called attosecond absorption spectroscopy, is about as fiendishly complicated as…

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A USB Hub With a Power Strip State of Mind

I can see the rationale for sticking the ports on the back of the USB hub: it keeps the cords hidden. But what if keeping them in plain sight meant you could cut the power to each device individually? That’s the idea behind Japanese company Elecom’s latest attempt to re-engineer the humble USB hub, a…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Bahrain’s Crown Prince Says Middle East BlackBerry Bans Are “Ignorant”

Bahraini Crown Prince Sheikh Salman Al-Khalifa chimes in on the BlackBerry bans set to happen tomorrow in Saudi Arabia and the UAE over worries of encryption. Via his Foreign Minister’s twitter account, he’s quoted as calling the bans “Ignorant, short sighted and unenforceable.”

Tech News Brian Lam

This Is Probably Taking Your Apple Hate Too Far

A 25-year-old moving to New York is willing to pay $1400 for a room in SoHo. However, there’s no way in hell he would put up with any iPhone or iPad user, so apartment sharing candidates must be Apple-free: The New York Observer says that Vince Thomas—the guy who posted the ad—is a big Android…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

10 SF authors who became fictional characters

The history of science fiction is full of unforgettable characters. So it’s no surprise that famous writers often appear in fiction themselves — either by name, or wearing the thinnest of disguises. Here are our 10 favorite science-fiction writer cameos. HG Wells, Time After Time HG Wells pops up in fiction on a regular basis.…

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Leaked iPod Touch Parts Reveal FaceTime Camera Plans

Images that MacRumors tipsters claim are the front LCD and bezel of the fourth-generation iPod Touch clearly show a front-sided hole just big enough for a front-facing FaceTime camera. And it looks relatively legit. The part is labeled “Apple (c) 2010” (check the full res version), which granted could have been done by anyone! But…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Commenting FAQ: How to Make Your Comments Look Better

Commenting FAQ: How to Get a Star and What to Do With It

ROCR Bot Swings Up Walls Like a Monkey

Commenting FAQ: How and Why to “Heart” Your Friends

Commenting FAQ: About Your Commenter Profile Page

Commenting FAQ: How to Create a Gizmodo Commenter Account

Visit Clifton’s Cafeteria and step back in time to the birthplace of pulp science fiction

Commenting FAQ: How to Link Your Gizmodo Account to Your Twitter Account

Financial analyst uncovers unexplained market patterns created by bots

Dreaming Up a Day Without Technology

James Marsters explains the secret to playing a great supervillain

Commenting FAQ: How to Use Tags to Filter Content

Commenting FAQ: How to Use Tags in Comments

Commenting FAQ: What to Avoid

Electrons viewed in real time for the first time ever

A USB Hub With a Power Strip State of Mind

Bahrain’s Crown Prince Says Middle East BlackBerry Bans Are “Ignorant”

This Is Probably Taking Your Apple Hate Too Far

10 SF authors who became fictional characters

Leaked iPod Touch Parts Reveal FaceTime Camera Plans

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