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An Incredibly Hot Woman Who Is A Fantastic Cook Is Here to Answer All Your Thanksgiving Questions

How do you celebrate Thanksgiving? With a cardboard-dry turkey and some Stove Top? I pity you. But it’s only Wednesday, and I can still help you make a fantastic holiday dinner. I know how to do this. I’ll be here for the next hour to help you make the best Thanksgiving dinner ever. What are…

Cheap Android Tablets Are Your Black-Tuesday Deal of the Day

This Friday—Black Friday—is the one day a year where there’s a really great chance you come away with a stupid good steal. And if you’re going to brave the crowds and go hunting for sales, there’s only one map you need. Check out our Amazingly Complete Black Friday Cheatsheet here and you’ll be the most…

Autonomy Founder: HP’s a Bunch of Lying Liars

The HP-Autonomy multi-billion dollar ticklefight has escalated quickly from buck-passing to finger-pointing; in an interview today with the Wall Street Journal, Autonomy founder Mike Lynch gently explains his considered viewpoint that HP can go shove it. https://gizmodo.com/guy-responsible-for-hps-humiliating-11-billion-autonom-5962160 For those just joining us, HP this morning declared a massive $9 billion write-down due to accounting improprieties…

An American Moral Crisis: Gizmodo Talks Drones with Dennis Kucinich

There’s Foxconn, there’s torrented TV shows, there’s patent bickering. But for the use of right and wrong in technology, there’s one question that supersedes all others: Should our country be killing ordinary people with robotic soldiers in the sky? I sat down with Congressman Dennis Kucinich after a briefing on UAV warfare. He makes an…

Nokia Maps for iOS: Why Is Something So Good So Ugly?

Nokia Maps (officially titled “Here”) is a potential godsend for anyone fed up with Apple’s subpar offering. It’s blazingly fast, routes via public transportation with ease, and doesn’t mix up Manhattan with Siberia. Unfortunately, it’s bogglingly hard on the eyes. Nokia Maps is equal to or better than Apple Maps is virtually every way. It…

Remember the bug in Android 4.2 that won’t let you enter the month of December? Yeah, Google IS ON IT. [Google+]

11 Photos In Old School 3D

You kids and your Avatars. Back in my day, we say 3D in two colors and we liked it. Here are the results for this week’s Shooting Challenge: Anaglyphs. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-old-school-3d-5960437 WINNER: High Speed Train Of course I forgot to place the order for the 3D glasses on time, so I (probably) purchased the most expensive…

And Now, an iPhone That Actually Shaves Your Beard

These things look like iPhone 4 clones down to the buttons on the metal band and the glass finish. So much that they are probably risking a cease-and-desist. Except they are travel USB-based electric shavers from Shavetech. Your own Jon Ive baby face comes at $40 a pop. [Shavetech]

Razer’s New Gaming Mouse Has the World’s Most Precise Optical Sensor

When you’re on the hunt in a first-person shooter, the very tiniest fraction of a movement can mean the difference between nailing a shazam headshot and dying. That’s why the new 2013 version of the Razer DeathAdder gaming mouse has a 6400 dpi optical sensor, compared to the 3500 dpi infrared sensor on its predecessor.…

It’s the End of the Mother of All Shooting Challenges, and We Feel Fine

So after four months, a half-dozen globe-trotting photographers, and one bout of Costa Rica-acquired Dengue fever, our Intel-Inspired Ultrabook™ Shooting Challenge has finally come to a close. Of course, the way we see it, this isn’t just a time for mourning: It’s also an excuse to throw a party. Last Wednesday night, all six of…

Guy Responsible for HP’s Humiliating $11 Billion Autonomy Purchase: Don’t Look at Me!

The man who engineered HP’s disastrous $11.1 billion purchase of Autonomy—a company whose accounting improprieties just cost the laptop behemoth a whopping $9 billion—is Léo Apotheker. So what does the man who let an acquisition of this size go through without proper due diligence think about the deal after today’s revelations? https://gizmodo.com/company-hp-bought-for-11-billion-just-cost-hp-9-billi-5962107 Totally not his…

Dorm-Warming Gifts for Your College Roommate

You’re young, you’re probably broke and you might not even really like your roommate. But you know what? That college roommate of yours is on the short list of people—which includes your parents, your brothers and sisters and your husband/wife—that you’re going to live with. You want to get them something. Here’s what. Hey there!…

Here’s $420 Million of Your Tax Dollars Crashed and Burned

Over the weekend, a gigantically-expensive F-22 stealth fighter crashed. Again. And just like every other time, the Air Force is throwing up its hands and stroking its chin about why the thing crashed. But one fact remains: your money’s burned. https://gizmodo.com/as-if-it-wasnt-broken-enough-a-f-22-raptor-crashed-in-5961076 This is the scene of the crash, next to a highway in Florida. The…

How Many Balloons Would You Actually Need To Lift a House?

Last night we reported about Jonathan Trappe, a man who’s hoping to fly a tiny balloon-tethered house across the Atlantic ocean. But his Up-inspired planning would probably have been a lot easier had he access to this online calculator that lets you know exactly how many helium filled balloons you’d need to hoist your home.…

Company HP Bought For $11 Billion Just Cost HP $9 Billion

All is not well at Meg Whitman’s HP, we learned during the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call this morning. HP just recorded a $9 billion devaluation of its assets stemming from serious accounting tomfoolery at a company that HP bought for $11 billion last year. Ouch. Last August, HP bought the British software company Autonomy for…

A Green Bean Matherole Sounds Deliciously Educational

If you like your Thanksgiving dinner guests to walk away with brains as full as their bellies, YouTube’s favorite mathematician Vihart serves up a side of learnin’ with your annual feast. It’s hard to turn your nose up at a green bean casserole when it’s used to elegantly explain and illustrate the concept of vectors.…

A “White Smell” Could Hide The Most Repellant of Odours

Imagine eternally odorless public restrooms, or stink-free changing rooms. Amazingly, researchers claim to have discovered what they’re calling a “white smell”—an odor made up so many complex aromas that it’s neither pleasant or foul-smelling, in no way overwhelming, and could be the most effective air-freshener ever. Taking its name from the concept of white noise—sound…

French Press Mug Brews a Perfect Single Serving of Coffee

Single serve French presses are far from a new innovation, but with the Minibru you don’t need a pile of separate hardware, or one of those ridiculous looking, over-engineered French press travel mugs. It’s designed to look like a regular old coffee cup, and keep the brewing process simple. To whip up a morning batch…

Are Cash Traps the New Card Skimmers?

There’s no shortage of ingenious card skimmers out on the streets to part you from your cash. But there might be a new, more direct breed of scam in town: a simple cash trap. https://gizmodo.com/you-cant-even-see-the-latest-atm-card-skimmers-5928513 Krebs on Security is reporting that a number of security experts are reporting a dramatic rise in the use of…

Running OS X on an Old Macintosh Portable Is Difficult, Pointless But Awesome

This video shows an old Macintosh Portable seemingly running OS X. But how did it happen, and was it worth the effort? It’s worth pointing out, first off, that this is real. But while it might look like a Macintosh Portable, in fact it borrows heavily from an old Toshiba NB100 laptop Patrick Blampied had…