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It’s Friday. We’re all ready to cut out of work and enjoy the weekend. But before you do, we’ve got a couple Android gems for you to download. From a new weather app, to a classic game, these are the Android apps of the week. Weather Live: Here’s another alternative for your default weather app.…
It’s great when apps make things easier, like giving you a way to easily access information. And this round of the best iPhone apps of the week will help educate you about your neighborhood, make it easier to share photos, and much more. So dive on in! Wink: Your friends always bug you about posting…
This is the most adorable little humidifier I’ve ever seen. The Tulip Stick Ultrasonic Humidifier is shaped like a sweet flower stalk and plugs right into your USB port. Who knew a humidifier could be this small and pleasant? This $92 product comes in four different colors—pink, yellow, green, and ivory, and it weighs just…
Google is so convinced you don’t want to see porn that it started filtering its own search results. Bullshit. Everybody wants porn, and nobody wants to admit it. Except me, of course, I don’t look at that smut. But for the rest of you: It’s time to fess up. https://gizmodo.com/google-is-blocking-porn-duh-nsfw-updated-5967934 After all, everybody knows you’re…
The entire point of technology is to work to our benefit, not against us. The entire point of being a responsible, reasoned human being is to face our failings head-on, not to hide from them. Those points seem inarguable. So why is it that the only time we’re not allowed to talk about guns as…
It’s that time of year again; Google’s leading its ostensibly lonely and unloved services out to pasture. This time Google Sync, and some more obscure calender options are headed for that big cloud storage unit in the sky. Google Sync allowed Google Mail, Calendar and Contacts access through the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync protocol. The introduction…
It’s party season. In fact, we have our office shindig tonight, and maybe you’re attending a holiday fete of your own. At the minimum, you avoid devolving into a sloppy drunken mess. Best case scenario, you actually come across as clever and well-informed. Here are your talking points for the week. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-increase-your-drinking-tolerance-so-you-dont-ma-5962095 Did you hear…
Conan O’Brien probably understands the absurdity of slow-motion destruction porn better than anyone else. But really, we’ve never seen anything like Andy Richter dressed as Santa getting doused by an ocean of egg nog in slow motion. So sticky. So good. Bless you, Conan. [Devour] https://gizmodo.com/conan-takes-super-slo-mo-to-absurd-new-heights-5930862
Dropbox just overhauled their iOS app making for a more “enhanced photos experience.” It’s better, faster and stronger.
Update 5:05 PM: It’s since come to my attention that not only are these the official Unofficial Shoe of Gizmodo, but also like, half the staff has a pair. Today you’ll pay less than any of us paid for our Bean Boots. [L.L. Bean] Update 7:08 PM: It looks like this deal will expire at…
Super detailed cookie cutters are cool. Cookies are awesome. What could possibly go wrong? This. No matter how intricate your fancy William Sonoma Star Wars cookie cutters may be, it seems you will be doomed to barely recognizable, vaguely brain-like monstrosities, as discovered by an unnamed Geekologie reader. Sure they might still be tasty, but…
Need, or just happen to want, random pictures of random things? Probably for placeholder images while building a website, but also maybe just for fun? Check out Lorempixel. It does those things. Lorempixel is a play on the placeholder text that starts lorem ipsum, and all the variants, like Bacon Ipsum. The placeholder idea isn’t…
You know the face. That obviously-disappointed-but-smiling-to-be-polite face that people make every time they open a present from you. Time to step up your game and start giving gifts that people actually want. Our friends at Oobject have assembled 21 of the most incredible, sock-rocking vintage gifts that you can buy. US Military TV 7 A…
More than a dozen children were just murdered in Connecticut. It’s time to take steps toward preventing this sort of tragedy. The Second Amendment was written when all Americans could remember being occupied by a foreign power. That was 220 years ago; the British are not coming. Red Dawn is not real. Give up your…
Having trouble finding the perfect holiday wrapping paper that says “hey, I actually put some thought into this gift this year”? Over on MiniEco Kate Lilley has provided a lovely set of non-traditional pixelated designs that you can download for free, and print off on your company’s laserjet. Technically the designs are actually cross-stitch patterns,…
The safe sexting app that automatically deletes pictures you send to friends a few seconds after they view it has added something that could get a lot raunchier: videos. Yep, Snapchat does video now. You can record a video up to 10 seconds long and send it to your Snapchat friends. They can only watch…
In the early 1960s, when ICBMs were still in their developmental infancy, the Soviet Union figured its best option for delivering a nuclear strike was to build an intercontinental supersonic bomber. Fortunately, they only got the second half right. The Tu-22 “Blinder” was the first supersonic bomber ever produced by the USSR and was built…
Looking to move up a rung on the iPhone ladder this Christmas? Just hold on for a couple of days, and you might be able to do it for ridiculously cheap. Walmart’s going to run some promotions like a 16GB iPhone 5 for just $127 and other related insanity. In addition to that iPhone 5…
Hey last-minute shoppers, good news: Apple just brought back the ability to gift apps from your iOS devices.
Wherever you are, there’s a swirling storm of interesting data churning invisibly behind the scenes. The new Sitegeist app developed by the Sunlight Foundation will dig up the best parts of that info for you and let you in on local factoids you never knew you wanted to know. It’s a simple idea really. Based…
