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Google Play Movies and TV Finally Comes to iOS

First Google Play Books made its way to iOS. Then Google Play Music undertook the pilgrimage. So, it should be little surprise that today Google Play Movies and TV has finally made the jump. This is significant not just because it brings Google’s formidable library of content to iOS, but because of the capabilities it…

Ex-Apple Exec Scott Forstall Finds New Career as City College Model

You thought you’d heard the last of Scott Forstall when he was ousted from his Cupertino corner office a little more than a year ago over the Apple Maps fiasco. But friend of Gizmodo Don Lehman just spotted Mr. Forstall’s rebirth, as unsuspecting model for a student charge card at City College in New York.…

Apple has settled its suit with the FTC over disclosures that it was too easy for kids to make in-app purchases. As Tim Cook’s letter to Apple employees. notes the company had previously agreed to refund 37,000 claims. The settlement will additionally require Apple to disclose the 15 minute window after entering your password during…

Brilliant, Overdue App Forces Your Phone to Take Horizontal Videos

You can tell your friends and family they should be shooting videos horizontally all you want, but that won’t stop them from capturing unwieldily vertical clips that are impossible to fullscreen on a computer. But there’s finally a solution to this problem. Simply hide their default camera app—bury it deep in a folder somewhere—and replace…

Yep, Of Course There’s an iPad Paper Towel Holder Dock

CTA Digital always brings its A-game to CES, and this year is no different. In addition to the company’s potty training iPad dock and its iPad toilet paper stand comes this must-have addition to any kitchen. It’s a paper towel holder, it’s an iPad holder, it’s everything you’ve ever dreamed of. Thirty bucks secures one…

Finally, an iPhone Case That Provides Extra Storage Space

Many of us have been there. You want to take a beautiful picture of a beautiful thing with your iPhone and up pops a very ugly alert: “Cannot Take Photo.” Storage full. And without a memory card slot, you can’t exactly add more. Until now. Mophie, the makers of those handy battery pack cases, just…

The marijuana economy in California, battling obesity in Oklahoma City, the real underground in London, plus buildings that used to be Pizza Huts, and much more, all in this week’s urban reads. Colorado may have just legalized pot, but California has nurtured a thriving industry for years. A peek inside the state’s weed economy [Next…

Wow, Siri Does Not Like Being Asked About Spike Jonze’s Her

Is Her a beautifully rendered near-future vision of what life will be like when we start falling in love with artificial intelligence? Not if you ask Siri. She doesn’t like Her one bit, and she’ll let you know that in no uncertain terms. Unlike Siri’s biting but witty thoughts on Google Glass, her take on…

A Rainbow USB Cable With Every Charging Adapter You Need—Also Nokia

It may seem a little opulent, but a lot of us won’t leave home with at least our smartphone—maybe even two—and a tablet. And eventually one of them is going to need a battery boost, so instead of carrying charging cables and adapters for every single device, toss this single colorful USB adapter in your…

Mac Pro Teardown: An Apple Rig You Can Actually Tinker With

It looks like a waste paper bin, costs a fortune and is, perhaps, the best workstation you’ve ever owned. But what lurks beneath that shiny black shell? https://gizmodo.com/a-fully-loaded-new-mac-pro-will-cost-you-14-00-1486321039 Fortunately, you must ponder no longer, because iFixit has kindly ripped apart the new Mac Pro and spread its guts out on the floor for all to…

The NSA Has Crazy Good Backdoor Access to iPhones

We already knew that the NSA had developed a taste for intercepting packages to put backdoors in electronics. Now, it turns out that those hacks provide it with almost complete access to the iPhone, too. https://gizmodo.com/the-nsa-actually-intercepted-packages-to-put-backdoors-1491169592 Documents shared by security researcher Jacob Appelbaum and German magazine Der Spiegel reveal that the NSA can spy on…

The Design Genius Behind the NYT Mag Is Leaving to Revamp Apple

Bad news for New York Times readers, great news for anyone who’s ready to see Apple deviate from its twee ad campaigns: Arem Duplessis, the Design Director at the NYT Magazine, is leaving his post to become a Creative Director at Apple. You may not have heard of Duplessis, but you’ve almost certainly seen his…

The Most Important Gadgets of 2013

Every year, we’re hit by yet another wave of new gadgets. Some of them are good, a lot of them are bad, but a very select few manage to be important. Here are the gadgets that had the biggest impact on the technological landscape in 2013. The following are listed in no particular order, and…

Martin Scorsese’s Hugo is free on iTunes today as part of its 12 Days of Gifts promo. That’s pretty great!

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

Well, one holiday week has drawn to a close, and another is nearly upon us. Frankly, that means a slow-ish week for apps. And yet! There were still some notable newbies to the app scene. Download these babies and let your phone feel as bloated as you do. Multi-Platform Updates Translate Powered by Translate.com, this…

Family Opens Beats Headphones on Christmas, Finds Tuna Instead

It’s Christmas Day. You’ve carefully wrapped the Beats headphones your daughter’s been dreaming of, and she’s just about to see that dream become reality. Looking on with glee, you watch as she tears the paper from her brand new set of cans only to find that these were cans of a markedly different sort. Tuna,…

The Top 10 Time Capsules of 2013

It was an exciting year for time capsules! Am I allowed to say without getting my lunch money stolen and then violently stuffed into a locker? The oldest known message in a bottle was discovered in Canada. We finally found the long-lost Steve Jobs capsule in Colorado. And a time capsule even left the solar…

I would totally buy this awesome Apple curved HDTV

Tim Cook says that Apple has BIG plans for 2014. Everyone is assuming that it will finally be the fabled Apple TV set. Our friend Martin Hajek joined forces with Andrew Ambrosino to make this awesome curved Apple TV set which supposedly would reduce glare and reflection. Martin thinks that he likes the way Andrew’s…

This Year’s 20 Must-Have Mac OS X Utilities

Without further introduction, here are all the utilities that have been especially useful in enhancing my productivity during 2013.

13 Teens Bitching About Teens Bitching About Christmas Gadgets

Christmas time has come and gone, and it brought its fair share of iPhones and Xboxes and PS4s and MacBooks and gadgets galore. And of course, also some spoiled teens who weren’t too happy about the (awesome) stuff they got: But the real plague? The high-and-mighty teens who will not quit whining about spoiled teens:…