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Is This the 20 Year Old Hacker Wreaking Havoc With Journalists Everywhere?

Security writer Brian Krebs has stumbled across new information which could link the recent hack of his own website with attacks on Ars Technica and Gizmodo alumnus Mat Honan’s iCloud breach. https://gizmodo.com/apple-and-amazon-know-about-a-massive-hack-exploit-and-5932176 Following his own lead—that he was the target of a team of hackers annoyed by an article he wrote about a black market…

Wacom’s New 13-Inch Multitouch Tablet Won’t (Quite) Break the Bank

If you love the idea of pretending to be a hipster graphic designer with one of Wacom’s beautiful Multitouch Cintiq tablets but can’t quite stretch to the $3,7o0 price tag, good news. The company has just announced a cute—and much more wallet-friendly—13-inch version. https://gizmodo.com/wacoms-multitouch-cintiq-gets-all-your-fingers-in-on-th-5924709 The Cintiq 13HD offers up a 13-inch HD pen display and…

Samsung Exec Confirms Upcoming Smart Watch

Samsung’s mobile executive VP Lee Young Hee has come out and confirmed that the company is hard at work preparing a new smart watch. Bloomberg reports the news, adding that the he indicated a desire to be first to market with a new breed of smart watch, saying: “The issue here is who will first…

Reddit’s First Orignal Web Mini-Series Is Bold, Intelligent… and Completely Adorable

Reddit’s trying out something new: it’s launched its own, original mini-series of web videos. Bases on its Explain Like I’m Five subreddit, it explores political and social issues in a way anyone can understand. This first one, for instance, takes on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche—and explains it to five-year-olds. The idea at Reddit though,…

ARM has announced that its CEO Warren East is retiring after 19 years, to be replaced by current President Simon Segars.

Feds: We Don’t Want a Warrant to Track Your Car With GPS

The government is claiming that authorities should be allowed to fasten GPS tracking devices to any vehicle—and then monitor its movements—without any form of warrant. Wired reports that the Obama administration is maintaining the controversial stance, despite the fact that the Supreme Court ruled last year that such a procedure amounted to search protected by…

UAE Opens Biggest Solar Power Station In The World

The Shams Power Company opened their Shams 1 concentrated solar power station this week in Abu Dhabi. The station generates 100 MW and can power 20,000 homes while reducing CO2 emissions by 175,000 tons per year. Not to be outdone, two companies in California proposed solar towers yesterday that will generate 500 MW and power…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Buttonhole

Award winning director Peter Sluszka collaborated with cinematographer Ivan Abel to produce this frightening short about the dark and sinister forces prowling a child’s imagination. Buttonhole is a project created for and produced by Kid-In, a virtual space for designers, artists, and photographers to explore and share the concept of childhood. Robot Repair contributed the…

Navigate Intel’s Future of Television With Swipes of Your Remote

Intel is super cereal about disrupting the broadcast television industry. The company is reportedly hard at work developing an inclusive, on-demand library of the past 30 days worth of programming. But a managing or even browsing a month’s worth of shows (all of them, not just what you specifically record) can get out of hand…

Bowers & Wilkins Z2: A Beautiful AirPlay Speaker with a Cozy Nest for Your iPhone

Speaker docks outfitted with Apple’s Lightning dock connector seem like kind of waste these days. Wireless music is the future, homie! But does this new beauty from Bowers & Wilkins look like a dock? Where’s the port? It’s hidden by clever design. The Bowers & Wilkins Z2 is an evolution of the almost-amazing Zeppelin Mini…

A new kind of zombie comes to life in disturbing BBC series In the Flesh

The terrifying and depressing new BBC series In the Flesh delivers an original take on the often-tired zombie metaphor. In this post-apocalyptic tale, the world fell prey to a zombie plague — until scientists figured out a medication that rehabilitates many who suffer from “partial death syndrome.” The problem? Humans aren’t ready to welcome these…

There Has Never Been A More Random Way To Cook Eggs, Or Maybe Anything

There are a lot of weird ways to cook eggs. There are also a lot of normal ways to cook eggs that people try to avoid for some reason. If you like surreal, somewhat phallic egg cooking techniques, though, you need a Rollie. https://gizmodo.com/why-bother-boiling-when-you-can-toast-your-eggs-instead-5982172 This baby is pan free, cleanup free, and has “vertical cooking…

Backward Walking Played Backward Is A Good Introduction To Opposite World

Everyone is too conventional these days. Time is linear, it can only move forward blah blah blah. Are we just gonna take this for eons? And if so can someone at least play some video backward so it looks like time is moving forward and all our minds can be blown? To be fair Coldplay…

This Building Is Too Insane To Be a Bank

The Nord LB Building is freaking crazy. Located in Hanover, Germany, it’s home to one of the country’s largest banks and is far too absurd to be home to a financial institution. Perhaps that’s exactly the point, because a bank is probably not the most exciting place to go to work every day. Especially considering…

A Multi-Functional Table With the Layers to Match

Unfortunately, space-saving and beauty don’t often go hand-in-hand, so when something like the multilayer Toldo Table comes along, we’re glad to take note. This lovely, handmade piece combines function and form, with each surface providing flexible storage depending on what you want most readily accessible. Mexican designer Christian Vivanco found inspiration in the layered fabric…

At last, Once Upon a Time uses fairytale tropes to rip out your heart

Another triumph for Once Upon a Time last night. Can we just stop spending the budget on silly fairy crap, and keep focusing on better writing? For the first time in two years, Once did something we’ve always wanted to see on screen: Demonstrate how broken the fairytale mindset of good vs. evil truly is.…

In the aftermath of the War of the Gods, one man will stop at nothing to get payback

Chuck Wendig wowed us with Mockingbird and Blackbirds, and now he’s creating a brand new fantasy series, with the ultra twisted Gods and Monsters: Unclean Spirits. And we’ve got a brand new exclusive excerpt, right here. Here’s the official synopsis of Unclean Spirits, which promises a backstory full of demonic enslavement, warring gods and deadly…

Seamless Is Celebrating Gizmodo’s TV Debut With Cheap, Delicious Delivery Food For You

You’re already prepped for Gizmodo: The Gadget Testers on BBC America tonight, right? Right? But how are you fixed for snacks? Don’t fret: our foodie pals at Seamless are going to hook you up with an exclusive internet delivery coupon for tonight’s broadcast. You don’t want to have to slave over a boiling stew or…

This Gorgeous Knife Draws Inspiration From Our Ancestor’s Stone Tools

While crude by today’s standards, the stone tools used by our ancestors were obviously more than adequate for their survival. After all, were they not, Italian designer Michele Daneluzzo wouldn’t be around today to craft this beautiful homage to the flint cutting tools of the Stone Age. The knife, appropriately dubbed the Primitive, actually has…

Oz: The Great and Powerful concept art is lovely in its whimsical simplicity

Sam Raimi’s Oz: The Great and Powerful was a visual feast, full of gorgeous CG imagery — but some of the concept art for the film is more stark, and thus more striking. Check out some more of the whimsical, sweet Oz art below. The above image comes via Dylan Cole, who’s worked on many…