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Android Apps of the Week: WiFiKill Downloader, Imgur, and More

This week was a little light on Android app quantity, but the quality of the ones we do have for you is pretty fantastic. Perhaps not entirely, well, 100% ethical in a certain WiFiKiller’s case—but fantastic nonetheless. Imgur: Imgur, everyone’s favorite super simple image hosting site, finally has an app. And it’s certainly taken them…

“Game Consoles” Are the Final Key to Digital Domination

Google might be building a game console, rumors say. Apple too. Actually, everyone’s building game consoles. It’s just, they aren’t game consoles, exactly. They’re puzzle pieces. https://gizmodo.com/wsj-google-is-making-an-android-video-game-console-and-603197957 Game consoles have historically been their own little colony off to the side of technology. For a while that’s because they were seen mainly as an expensive kids’…

You Can Turn Your HTC One Into a Google Edition With This ROM

Well that didn’t take long. The Google Edition of the HTC One has really only just gone on sale in the US, but already some enterprising hackers have dumped its ROM and made a version any GSM HTC One owner can install on their non-Google Edition devices. You didn’t exactlylove Sense, right? Of course to…

You Can Explore the Ghost Island That Inspired Skyfall on Street View

If this view looks familiar, it’s because it was the inspiration for the Javier Bardem’s cyberterrorist HQ in Skyfall. Now, you can explore the real-life island on Street View. While none of the Bond movie was actually filmed on the island, found just off Japan’s Nagasaki Peninsula, it’s certainly clear that the researchers spent some…

WSJ: Google Is Making an Android Video Game Console and Smartwatch

According to the WSJ, Google is currently developing an Android-based video game console and an Android-based ‘smartwatch’. More Android in more places means more fun. Less interestingly though, Google is also supposedly developing a second version of the Nexus Q. Supposedly, Google is making these Android-powered devices in reaction to Apple’s upcoming devices. Or what…

Facebook is now letting Android users test out beta versions of its main app. But ironically you’ve got to sign up for Google Groups to get in on the fun.

Google Now is getting two new cards today: Offers and TV. Offers will notify you when you’re near a store that you’ve saved an offer for, while the latter works like Shazam but for IMDB-like content. You’d think it would tell you when shows are on, but it doesn’t. Oh well. [Google]

The Omnipotent Engineers at Google Have Banished Clouds From Earth

Google Earth may give us a real, live view of what our blue marble actually looks like, but even reality could stand to be improved a bit now and then. So to make sure you get the beautiful summer you deserve—while you’re sitting inside a dark room hunched over your computer screen—Google has taken steps…

Galaxy S4 and HTC One Google Edition Hands-On: The Best Got Better

For years, one of Android’s biggest problems has been Android skins that weigh down the best hardware the platform has to offer. But now the two best Android phones in the world—the HTC One and the Samsung Galaxy S4—come in pure, stock Google Editions. And after spending some time with both, we can confirm that…

Motorola: A Google Joint

What you’re looking at above is Motorola’s new logo, which apparently drifted into the wild ahead of a major rebranding effort. In case you didn’t already know, Google owns Moto and dictates much of its company policy. Oh you didn’t know? Here’s a reminder for the rest of eternity. [The Verge]

According to a report by Juniper Networks, mobile malware has grown by 614 percent over the last year. And, perhaps unsurprisingly, 92 percent of it is on Android…

Why Google banned brainteasers from their interview process

How many piano tuners are there in the city of Chicago? As recently as a couple of years ago, knowing how to approach a brainteaser like this might have helped land you a job at Google. The company used to pose stumpers like this in a lot of their interviews, but the practice was recently…

Bike Doctor: Repair Your Bike As Well As the Pros Without the Price

For the beginning (or even experienced) cyclist, making your own bike repairs can seem like a daunting task. Most bike repair guides you’ll find around the ol’ internet can be complicated labyrinths of instruction that end up doing more harm than good. But taking your wheels to a pro can come with a major price…

YouTube Tackles Immense Annoyance of Slow-Loading Videos

What is the saddest thing? For millions of people who fool around on the Internet all day while other people do the work, the saddest thing is a web video that’s slow to load. YouTube is on the case, and Gizmodo has an exclusive look at how online video will change forever.

Inside YouTube’s Master Plan to Kill Lag Dead

There is a moment between when you click on a video and when it starts playing. That moment is the worst part of your day. The agony of waiting! The torture of anticipation! YouTube understands that, and on a visit to YouTube HQ in San Bruno, CA, we got a look at what’s coming to…

Pigeon-Headed Humans Prank Google Street View In Japan

When the Google Street View team rolled through Tokyo recently, a bunch of writers from a Japanese humor website were there with these eerie pigeon masks. The “human pigeons” then stood around gawking at the Google van, and here are the weird results.

Google Reveals Data on Sites That Are Phishing and Installing Malware

Google’s latest Transparency Report is out, and in its latest incarnation, the document reveals data on its “Safe Browsing” initiative, which attempts to protect users from sites that are either phishing for data or installing malicious software. According to Google, it keeps 1 billion users safe and flags some 10,000 sites per day. Additionally, Google’s…

Barnes & Noble Is Going to Stop Making Nook Tablets

Barnes & Noble has announced that it’s going to leave manufacturing of its Color tablet line up to third party manufacturers. In a press release, B&N explained that it will create a “partnership model for manufacturing in the competitive color tablet market.” The move is clearly driven by poor financial performance, and the company explains…

Sony’s SmartWatch 2 Promises to Be Better This Time

We really wanted to love Sony’s SmartWatch last year, but we couldn’t. Which is to say, it made us want to bite our own arms off. Sony is back at it again, though, and thankfully the sequel looks like a real improvement over the previous generation. https://gizmodo.com/sony-smartwatch-review-maybe-the-worst-thing-sony-has-5926728 For starters, the SmartWatch 2 has a bigger…