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December 31st 2015

Here Are Our Favorite Gizmodo Stories From 2015

Drones and Apple Watches. Lost planets and lurking chaos. The truth about dogs and cats. Star Wars—lots of Star Wars. Behold, our favorite stories from the past 364 days. We asked all the Gizmodo contributors to send along their favorite story from 2015. (If they were too humble to comply, we picked our favorites.) These…

Tech News Gizmodo Staff Dec 31

October 9th 2015

The Best of Gizmodo This Week

While were all busy watching The Martian, three Nobel Prizes — “the Oscars of Science” — were announced this week, and we explained the significance of the winners in chemistry, physics and physiology or medicine. Meanwhile, Microsoft introduced a slew of new gadgets, including the latest Surface laptop and Windows phones. Here are the highlights…

Tech News Meg Neal Oct 9

October 2nd 2015

The Best of Gizmodo This Week

First off, there were lots of new phones to play with this week. We reviewed the iPhone 6s and played with two new-and-improved Nexus phones while livebloggin’ from Google’s event. We were also at Tesla covering the big reveal of the Model X, and debuted the Indefinitely Wild video series with an explainer on how…

Tech News Meg Neal Oct 2

September 25th 2015

The Best of Gizmodo This Week

We introduced a new series this week, Living With Data, which will help you decode how the massive amount of personal data hidden from your is affecting your life and your future. We had a bunch of great reviews too, from two new smartwatches on the market to what Siri means for your car. Here…

Tech News Meg Neal Sep 25

September 18th 2015

The Best of Gizmodo This Week

The theme this week on Gizmodo was “survival”—how to survive a natural (or unnatural) disaster, the wilderness, the apocalypse, what have you — including, of course, Apple’s new mobile OS. Here are the highlights from this week. 23 Things You Can Do in iOS 9 That You Couldn’t Do in iOS 8 It may have…

Tech News Meg Neal Sep 18

September 4th 2015

The Best of Gizmodo This Week

This week saw the debut of some exciting gadgets — a new Moto X, Intel’s latest processor, Google’s wifi router — but the Star Wars BB-8 toy droid stole the show. We reviewed it and found it to be the Best Toy Ever. Here are the highlights from this week. Ashley Madison Code Shows More…

Tech News Meg Neal Sep 4

August 28th 2015

The Best of Gizmodo This Week

The Ashley Madison hack dominated tech headlines again this week, and we analyzed the leaked data to expose an interesting and sad twist to that story. That and more favorites from this week below. Almost None of the Women in the Ashley Madison Database Ever Used the Site When hacker group Impact Team released the…

Tech News Meg Neal Aug 28

August 7th 2015

The Best of Gizmodo This Week

RIP hitchBOT. RIP iTunes. Hello lab-grown meat and zero emissions. Here’s the best of Gizmodo from this hot summer week. Hitchhiking Robot Lasts Just Two Weeks in US Because Humans Are Terrible When hitchBOT the hitchhiking robot started his journey in Boston two weeks ago he wanted to see the entire country. Unfortunately, he never…

Tech News Meg Neal Aug 7

July 31st 2015

The Best of Gizmodo This Week

Guys, Windows 10 is out, and we played with it alllll week. Tl;dr? We like. We also tested out two hotly anticipated smartphones (that we also like) and the redesigned Chuck Taylors, which made for some great shoe porn. Here are the highlights from this week. I Installed Windows 10 and Now I’m Talking to…

Tech News Meg Neal Jul 31

July 24th 2015

The Best of Gizmodo This Week

We were busy playing with Windows 10 all week, and published some great science explainers and debunks, none of which fascinated the internet quite as much as Converse sneakers’ first redesign in nearly a century. Here are the highlights! I Installed Windows 10 and Now I’m Talking to My Computer Unless you’re one of the…

Tech News Meg Neal Jul 24

July 17th 2015

The Best of Gizmodo This Week

This week was alllll about Pluto for Giz and space nerds everywhere. As it should be! Though, nearly just as hyped as the New Horizons flyby was… Amazon’s “Prime Day,” which, unlike Pluto, turned out to be a giant let down. All that and more in this week’s story highlights! Everything We’re Learning About Pluto…

Tech News Meg Neal Jul 17

July 5th 2015

The Best of Gizmodo This Week

Apple jumped into the streaming music game this past week, and we give it a try. We had some thoughts. We also previewed the new Mac OS El Capitan, and tested a bunch of inexpensive laptops to find the very best. Meanwhile, our weekly podcast discussed what would happen if a star exploded near Earth,…

Tech News Meg Neal Jul 5

June 26th 2015

The Best of Gizmodo This Week

It was a good week. And it ended on a goddamn awesome note. Here are the highlights: You Can Freeze Your Fat and Poop It Out When I heard about a cosmetic procedure that freezes your fat in a single afternoon, I thought it was just another brazen entry into a crowded market of slogans…

Tech News Meg Neal Jun 26

June 19th 2015

The Best of Gizmodo This Week

This week was space habitats week at Gizmodo and io9, and we had a ton of great stories on the topic of exploring and colonizing the cosmos. We also played with some crazy futuristic tech at E3. Check out the favorites. Interplanetary Spacecraft, Ranked We may be dirty monkeys at heart, but humans have done…

Tech News Meg Neal Jun 19

June 5th 2015

The Best of Gizmodo This Week

This week, lots of you devoured our “morning inspiration” series—glad to know there are optimists reading Gizmodo! We did a deep dive into high-speed rail and continued to shame people about the California drought. Here are the favorites. First off, I skipped the Best of Giz post last week, so let me give a shout…

Tech News Meg Neal Jun 5

May 22nd 2015

The Best of Gizmodo This Week

This week at Gizmodo, we got our hands on Buckminster Fuller’s FBI file, recounted your worst PayPal horror stories, told you why you need to stop drinking bottled water, and hung out with Neal Stephenson to chat about his latest novel. Here are the highlights. Stop Drinking Bottled Water There are few things on this…

Tech News Meg Neal May 22

May 15th 2015

The Best of Gizmodo This Week

Two new and fantastic things we’ve kicked off at Gizmodo: we launched our podcast “Meanwhile In the Future” with a premier episode about artificial wombs, and a new diagonal, “Throb,” all about science and sex. This week was also Action Hero Week, which meant we got to nerd out about all the tech making humans…

Tech News Meg Neal May 15

May 9th 2015

The Best of Gizmodo This Week

We had some great explainers on Giz this week, elucidating in-flight wifi, DNA editing, and the problem with electric bicycles. Also: exploding Apple Watches, “X-Philes” fandom, and some weird-ass gadget erotica. Here are the favorites. Everything You Need to Know About CRISPR, the New Tool that Edits DNA CRISPR, a new genome editing tool, could…

Tech News Meg Neal May 9

May 1st 2015

The Best of Gizmodo This Week

We were pretty stoked about Tesla’s new battery this week, and also Windows 10, Hololens, and the future UI Microsoft quietly introduced during its Build event. Here are a few of our favorite stories from the week — enjoy! The Information Age Is Over. Welcome to the Infrastructure Age. Nobody wants to say it outright,…

Tech News Meg Neal May 1

April 24th 2015

The Best of Gizmodo This Week

What I really want to point out this week is two original Gizmodo videos, both awesome. We time-warped to the lair of badass swordsmith and watched him forge swords. And we created a totally bizarre yet oddly soothing video of Jony Ive crooning adjectives about the Apple Watch. Speaking of Apple Watch… Why I Bought…

Tech News Meg Neal Apr 24

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