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Jason Kidd Became a Basketball Legend At This Tiny High School

This is “Saint Joe’s,” the tiny Catholic high school on the tiny San Francisco Bay island of Alameda where Jason Kidd became a legend. It was here, playing for the St. Joseph Pilots, that Kidd first took a team to the championships. By the time the Pilots won the state title in 1991, the team…

Can I Use the Same Charger for Multiple Devices?

The mobile computing revolution may have freed us from wall sockets, but only for as long as our batteries last. And with a charger for every gadget, there’s now a menagerie of wall warts and power cords clustered around your power outlets. Here’s how to clear out the electronic rat nest and recharge most of…

Hello Kitty Apparently Has a Reversible Plush Line Straight from Hell

Despite what we were taught as kids, it seems those big golden birds we serve up at Thanksgiving might not actually be turkeys—at least if you’re from Japan. If this $28 Hello Kitty plush toy is assumed to be biologically accurate—and I see no reason why it shouldn’t be—turkey dinners actually come from cute cultural…

Intel Haswell Review: Can a Laptop CPU Keep Enthusiasts Happy?

Faster hardware shouldn’t be this somber. Yet we can’t help but furrow our brow in concern over Intel’s fourth-generation Core i7 CPU, Haswell. Yes, in typical Intel fashion, it’s a tour de force of technical achievement and features that’s the envy of the free world. It’s also, by the way, quite fast. How fast? *Spoiler…

Lego Must Make These 80s TV Show Cars ASAP

I’m eagerly awaiting for Lego to release the official Back to the Future sets—note to Billund: you should make the RC model too—but I want more. I want all my childhood remade using Danish bricks (never mind that most of my childhood was actually made of Lego bricks). I really want all the sets above…

A Kindle Fire HD for Dad Is Your Deal of the Day

Amazon clearly thinks that moms are a key demographic—it even offers a Prime-style membership for moms. There isn’t an analog for cool dads, but Amazon is running a few good promotions for Father’s Day, and you don’t even have to be a dad to get the savings. https://gizmodo.com/every-kindle-fire-is-on-sale-today-if-youre-a-mom-5967788 Right now you can take $20 off…

Amazon Wants to Be Your New Grocery Store

Amazon already controls virtually every corner of the retail market—every corner except for one that is: America’s grocery stores. But that may soon change, as they’re planning to expand testing of a new online grocery delivery service. The company’s new branch, called AmazonFresh, has already been testing out consumer response in Seattle—for the past five…

There Were Plans for 3D Movies Even Before There Were Talkies

If you think the glasses you have to wear at every 3D movie today are a pain, remember to be grateful that we’re not all stuck with the early 20th century’s version. Back in the 1910s, many people were experimenting with next-big-thing technologies for motion pictures. Much of the promise was in developing synchronized sound,…

What’s the Weirdest Stock Photo You Can Find?

Here at Gizmodo, we often find ourselves depending on stock photos to illustrate what our time and resources simply wouldn’t allow. And by god do these noble stock photographers ever deliver. No time to amputate the arms of a derelict, life-size doll and photograph it in your questionably defunct subway tunnel? That’s alright—it’s already been…

The Pocket-Picking Facebook Malware That No One Knows How to Stop

A particularly nasty breed of malware is raiding people’s Facebook profiles and emptying their bank accounts. Its name is Zeus, and yes, it is all powerful. Because despite the fact that this money-grubbing, Likejacking malware has been around for years stealing both private and government data, cybersecurity experts are still stumped about how to stop…

Good news iOS users: you’re the latest group to get hit with the beautifully redesigned Gmail app. It’s optimized for both iPhone and iPad, and you can pick it up at the App Store right now.

Hey Spotify, Just Show Me the Album I Want to Listen To

I pretty much never ever want to hear the edited version of any album. But for some reason, that ‘s exactly what Spotify wants me to hear. Or it least that’s the way it seems. In most cases, the cleaned up version is what Spotify shows you by default, and you have to do extra…

A Classic Fiat 500 Had To Die So You Can Keep Your Drinks Cool

Though it was reborn back in 2007 as a similarly compact model, the original Fiat 500 showed the world, not just Europe, that you didn’t need a giant land yacht of a vehicle to be comfortable. So it’s a little sad to see that Smeg is working with Fiat to hack apart these iconic rides,…

Watch Every Single Version of Windows Ever in One Exhaustive Video

A very patient soul spent hours and hours of his life installing each version of Windows from 1.0 to 8.0 Pro, then sped up the footage. The result? The entire history of the operating system condensed into just over an hour. Bonus points: Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories as the soundtrack. It’s fun to see…

A Waggable Tail Lets This Crawling Robot Turn on a Dime

UC Berkeley might be able to claim the title of ‘world’s fastest turning robot‘ and it’s all thanks to an innovation that Mother Nature came up even well before the dinosaurs: a wagging tail. It turns out that tails aren’t just a handy way to know when your dog is excited. They also provide extra…

An Internet Pioneer Foresaw the Tech Bubble’s Filthy Rich Programmers

In 1969, internet pioneer Paul Baran predicted that by the year 2000, computer programmers may very well be the richest people in the world. Remember, this is when Bill Gates was just a 14-year-old nerd in Seattle. The ARPANET had not yet drawn its first breath when Baran wrote his 1969 paper, “On The Impact…

Robo Sally: The Best Bomb Disposal Bot Is Also the Most Human

Of the 25,000 Explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) missions conducted by the US military in Iraq, only 30 have resulted in fatalities according to Army Col. K. Reinhard, commander of the joint EOD teams operating in the theater. That’s still 30 too many. And that’s why DARPA’s developed the most advanced EOD surrogate ever, a veritable…

The Private Yacht of Kitchen Sinks Has Room For Weeks of Dirty Dishes

If you can’t help but stare in awe whenever you get the chance to peek inside a professional kitchen at a restaurant, you’ll be ecstatic to hear that KWC’s Waterstation is actually designed for home use. Albeit a home with a very big kitchen and enough disposable income to afford a $15,000 sink, but it’s…

How Smartphones Are Trying to Replace Your Doctor (But Can’t Yet)

For most of time medicine was a guessing game. Doctors, or witch doctors, or shaman would inspect a patient, stir a potion and hope it would work. With some notable exceptions, modern medicine isn’t so different. The data collection—blood pressure, heart rate, weight, reflexes—is largely rudimentary. We’re getting by, but technology can take us so…

Bose QuietComfort 20: Noise-Canceling Engineered to Fit Your Ear Holes

Today, Bose introduced the in-ear evolution of the awesome noise-canceling headphones that have been hanging on the heads of weary travelers for years. I just listened to the QuietComfort 20 buds, and I can’t believe how much tech—and powerful sound—Bose crammed into my ears. The headphones will be available “this summer” for $300 in an…