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With much of the U.S. still under orders to shelter in place, there’s not much to do besides stay home and binge…

While waiting for your flight to board, you look at your phone and realize its battery is at 1 percent. You look…

The following is an excerpt from How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, a new book from…

If you search YouTube for Facebook’s Libra, you’ll find plenty of videos that tell you how to buy the digital…

Update: Flickr has extended the deadline to March 12. See below for more details.

Over the weekend, China banned initial coin offerings (ICO) and briefly paused the seemingly unstoppable price…

It took Antonio Stradivari months to create one of his instrumental masterpieces, but you can make yourself a tiny…

On Tuesday, Facebook released its annual diversity report with a mighty claim. For the first time in three years,…

The next time you complain about spending thousands of dollars on a precision camera lens, stop and think about all…

It was only announced last week, and it’s not supposed to be available until later in the year, but somehow…

Everyone seems obsessed with Facebook’s fake news problem. So we here at Gizmodo have come up with a simple 3-step…

I don’t think it’s possible to make anything cooler with your own two hands than this homemade multicolor fire…

The marvels of modern manufacturing allow toymakers to add incredible detail to their products. But the reason the…

Instagram is now making it easier to keep trolls out of your comments.

Encryption is good for protecting sensitive data you don’t want anyone else to see. If some bad guy nabs your…

If you’re interested in melting metal, and you totally should be because it’s basically the most fun way to recycle…

Looking for a fun weekend project that promises to improve every last part of the forthcoming summer? Do what…

Apparently, there are two schools of thought when it comes to washing your hands. There’s the CDC (Centers for…

There are few natural phenomena as captivating as the northern lights. But you need to be in the right place at the…

Making crafts? Nice. Got a glue gun? Awesome. Only one? Crap. When you have a lot of glue sticks but only one gun to…