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We’re not getting a Death Star. The White House made that official. But what does the Galactic Empire think about Earth abandoning our Death Star project? Well, they think our “unimaginatively named planet” is filled with cowards! https://gizmodo.com/this-isnt-the-white-house-response-to-the-death-star-pe-5975377 The response is hilarious and totally official as it’s straight from StarWars.com. Even though we don’t get…
Everyone wants you to share. Share the music you listen to, the movies you watch, the articles you read, the books you read. So Johannes Osterhoff is sharing, just with the guy in charge. Osterhoff’s “performance” piece is to send Jeff Bezos a personalized email every time he sets a bookmark on his Kindle. The…
Facebook, home of the Like, News Feed and Timeline, is now a social search company. Or at least it desperately wants to be. AllThingsD Senior Editor and friend of Gizmodo Mike Isaac snapped a picture of the new front sign at Facebook HQ and it’s now the Graph Search logo. Before it was the ubiquitous…
Bike sharing programs have blossomed in major cities around the world as a cheap way for tourists and vehicle-less residents to quickly get around. But Udi Rimon wants to make the services even more useful with this brilliantly designed Tel-O-Porter trailer that makes rental bikes useful for hauling heavy cargo too. You won’t be moving…
It’s cold. Not bone freezing, icy lung cold (unless it is for you, which, sorry) but it sure as hell ain’t bikini season (unless it is for you, which, damn you). And when the cold stays too long, it starts to hurt. Everyday, pain. So how do you make yourself feel good in the Winter?…
OKCupid’s new blind date app came out today, to some fanfare and probably a little more mockery. But it’s hit a snag: Apparently, it was coughing up users’ emails and birth dates for anyone who bothered to dig for them. https://gizmodo.com/okcupids-new-blind-date-app-aims-to-find-you-love-or-r-5976070 The information was leaked when you “tweaked” the web traffic info from the app,…
JimmyJane’s new Hello Touch may be the best sex toy ever invented. It will turn two of your fingers in natural vibrators that you can apply all over your body, inside and out. It also looks designed by Tony Stark and Jon Ive, which kind of makes you and your partner look like superheroes in…
Don’t post too many Instagrams in a row. Stop photographing your food. Hefe is best for capturing supernatural events. No, stop, you’re all wrong. Rihanna has the best advice for how to take the perfect Instagram: Get a good light. Get a good angle on what’s working for you that day. If it’s boobs, make…
A photo of your dog? A generic picture of a sunset? Get the hell out of here. The wallpaper of your iOS device can be much more beautiful, and the reason is a wonderful little app called Deko. What does it do? Creates lovely, abstract designs for your wallpaper with a simple swipe of your…
Finally tired of being trounced by its competitors in the on-board internet arena, United Airlines has outfitted its first international widebody plane with satellite-based Wi-Fi. The service should be rolled out to 300 additional aircrafts by the end of the year. United’s first foray into the new Wi-Fi capability is being granted to a trans-Atlantic…
Roomba has some problems with the apartment. Roomba does not like my dining room table. Roomba has trouble with the Swiffer, which he (?) mounts and then cannot free himself from—like a copulating wolf. (Wolves do that, right?) Today Roomba must have cleaned up a puddle of bourbon (it happens), because he’s having some trouble…
If you’re a sucker for maps, or you just like repping your city in a cool way, you’re going to go bananas for Mr. City Printing’s Latitude Longitude Maps. Ever seen anything like them? The simple black and white posters are 11 inches by 14 inches and they’ll run you $25. Find the usual suspect…
Going over your mobile data cap limit costs more than a long distance phone call from a hotel room and for what? Crossing some invisible line in the sand drawn by your carrier? That’s some bullsh*t. Brian Boyko explains exactly why data caps don’t so much protect network infrastructure as generate revenue. [Blogphilo]
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Google just confirmed it will fix A2DP streaming audio in the next Android (4.2.2) release! Rah rah Bluetooth audio?
While Russia’s submarine fleet remains a formidable force in the 21st Century, the country still relies on craft built before the Iron Curtain lifted. Today, a lot of the subs are getting long in the tooth. However, the new SSBN Yury Dolgoruky will provide Mother Russia with a fresh set of nuclear fangs. The SSBN…
Las Vegas is probably a lovely place to live. But spending a week in the desert at a trade show like CES—talking to thousands of people, handling hundreds of devices that countless others have touched, spending all your time going from taxi to casino to buffet along the Strip—it can leave you feeling incredibly grungy.…
Sometimes Google translate doesn’t get it quite right. To illustrate that point in the most outlandish way possible, CDZA took the Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme, crunched it through Google Translate for all 64 supported languages, then took it back to English. The results are rather hilarious. Just one question—what exactly in the song…
Today’s deal is simple. Skype, the VoIP program owned by Microsoft, is offering gift cards at 30% off. That means if you already use Skype to call phone numbers or text folks, you can purchase your credits today for significantly less than you can normally. That could end up being huge if you call overseas…
Facebook Graph Search is an amazing feature with a terrible name. It takes the massive, inordinate amount of personal information and experiences you’ve charted over the years, and pulls them up with a few keystrokes. Watch it in action. https://gizmodo.com/facebook-just-declared-war-on-google-meet-your-new-sea-5976014 Although Graph Search isn’t as speedy as I’d like—not as smooth as Google—the thing is…
