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Newspaper Writer Accidentally Tweets a Porn Link to Thousands of Followers

Poor Vito Stellino. The Florida Times-Union sportswriter made the embarrassing everyman mistake of accidentally tweeting a porn link to xHamster.com instead of a sports article. The randy tweet stayed up for nearly an hour and gave his thousands of followers a pleasant surprise. According to Awful Announcing and judging from the hilarious reactions on Twitter,…

Tech News Casey Chan

How To Use Android

Android is awesome and powerful, but it has, shall we say, a learning curve. That scares some people away. After all, iOS is so intuitive that babies can use it. Literally. But you’re not a baby. Android may require a little effort to learn and set up, but you get a tangible return on that…

Tech News Brent Rose

Magnifying Glass Vase Greatly Exaggerates Your Gardening Skills

Even if the garden you planted in the spring ends up looking like a devastated warzone by the summer, you can still impress your friends with what appear to be giant healthy blooms thanks to this magnifying Big Bloom vase. At $50 it’s cheaper than hiring a master horticulturist or even several bags of Miracle-Gro.…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Elderly Couple Dies After AT&T Drops Nine Calls for Help

Madeleine Morris survived Nazi-occupied France, and went on to happily marry a wonderfully trained musician. Then she went on a trip the country, where their car slammed into a ditch. Nine dropped AT&T calls later, they were both dead. This certainly puts your dubious AT&T coverage in perspective, don’t it? The ol’ dropped call in…

Tech News Sam Biddle

UK Prime Minister Thought ‘LOL’ Meant ‘Lots of Love’

Former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks is getting grilled today as part of an inquiry conducted by the British Parliament over last year’s hacking scandal. For the most part, it’s a bit dull, but there was one amazing tidbit that surfaced. British Prime Minister didn’t know what LOL really meant until a couple…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Apple Television Set Confirmed By Foxconn Boss

Hell? Frozen! The fabled Apple television set has been confirmed by Foxconn’s bossman Terry Gou. According to Gou, Foxconn is getting ready for the manufacturing of Apple’s television. What would this magical device be? Here’s the shopping list: • High definition (to be called Retina Display for sure). • Aluminum construction. • Siri controls (good…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Siri Doesn’t Think the iPhone Is the Best Smartphone

Time to add another to the long list of Siri’s ailments: self-loathing. Because when you ask your iPhone’s robot lady butler what the “best smartphone ever” is, she opts for a direct competitor. Personal assistants say the darndst things! https://gizmodo.com/siri-is-apples-broken-promise-5864293 But, uh, if it’s not the iPhone, what is it? Turns out the apple of…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Build An Old-Fashioned Nixie Tube Desk Clock, Just Like Grandpa Did

If you’ve got decent soldering skills, a soft spot for dated 1950s technology, and $150 burning a hole in your pocket, this DIY Nixie desk clock kit will let you experience what gadget lust was like for your grandparents. Before LEDs, Nixie tubes were used as numeric electronic readouts on everything from lab equipment, to…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

There’s a Sequel to “Friday” With No Rebecca Black But Way More Unbearable Awfulness

So what’s your favorite part about internet sensation and untalented tweeter Rebecca Black’s smash single “Friday?” If you said “I think there was a rap interlude in there somewhere that didn’t make me die a small death in the most secret parts of my soul,” then you’re going to love this. https://gizmodo.com/rebecca-blacks-2-000th-tweet-is-very-bad-5909003 Haha, just kidding,…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Fifteen Years Ago Today, a Computer Became the World’s Best Chess Player

On this day in 1997, Garry Kasparov sat down to his final day of chess with IBM’s Deep Blue. It didn’t go well, and eventually the computer won, beating the expert on the final day of a six-game competition. The result changed the way we think about computer intelligence for good. Admittedly, it was the…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Report: Apple Is Dropping Google Maps from iOS 6

Apple hasn’t really needed Google maps for a while now, but until now it’s continued to lean on the service to power iOS’s Maps app. 9to5mac is reporting that Apple will drop Google’s mapping service in iOS 6 in favor of an entirely in-house system. https://gizmodo.com/why-apple-doesnt-need-google-maps-anymore-5891562 According to 9to5’s sources, the experience with the new…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Your Alarm Clock Could Be Making You Fat

People make all kinds of excuses for being a little overweight. But a new study suggests that tensions between our biological clocks and enforced working hours could be making us all pile on the pounds. We humans are creatures with natural, biological tendencies to work and sleep at certain times—and we’re all slightly different. Researcher…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

What Is This Trippy Burst of Light?

This is not a screensaver. Nor is it what happens if something goes wrong at the LHC, or the result of too much LSD. In fact, it’s what happens if you have an over-active imagination and go out light paining with a remote control helicopter. Destin, from Smarter Every Day, recently took one of his…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Steve Jobs and Woz in a Crazy Apple Ghostbusters Spoof

It seems all of Apple’s secret 1980s propaganda videos are leaking out of Cupertino. Just a week after we saw Steve Jobs bizarrely masquerading as FDR, here’s another super-corny cameo-ridden treat for you. Apple’s 1984 Ghostbusters spoof, called Bluebusters, takes the fight to IBM. Seems they had a lot of fun with internal videos in…

Tech News Sam Gibbs - gizmodo uk

Intel: Windows 8 on ARM Is an Uphill Fight

Windows 8 is stirring up a fair deal of controversy for Microsoft. Now, Intel has come out as saying that it thinks that running the new OS on ARM hardware is going to prove difficult. https://gizmodo.com/is-microsoft-planning-to-limit-your-browser-choice-on-w-5909150 During an investor meeting, Intel’s CEO Paul Otellini pointed out that the heritage of x86 hardware will make support…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Facebook Is Testing a Pay-For-Promotion System Everyone Can Use

If you don’t feel people pay enough attention to your Facebook status updates, here’s some news you’ve been waiting for. Facebook is reportedly testing a scheme which will allow any user—not just businesses—to promote their status, in exchange for cold, hard cash. The new feature, called “Highlight”, lets a user pay a few dollars in…

Social Media Jamie Condliffe

Dancing Dragon Towers Will Have a Breathable, Scale-Like Skin

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill, an architecture firm that is arguably one of the world’s leading designers of skyscrapers, has just unveiled plans for a pair of towers that will grace the skyline in Seoul, South Korea with an absolutely stunning dragon-like facade. The towers, 88- and 77-stories respectively, will a breathable, scale-like skin of…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

It’s Possible That You Actually Need These Shitty Earbuds

Great headphones are great. No argument there. But it is possible that you also need a pair of janky earbuds like your life depends on it. The reason is simple: car horns, sirens, bike bells, whatever––tuning these things out is great when you want to enjoy your music unmolested. But who among us hasn’t gotten…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Iron-Pressed Hash, Bill Nye Dances, and the Dead Do Germany

Grateful Dead 3-28-81 Rockpalast Festival Grugahalle Essen Germany Of all the places for the Grateful Dead to play, who’d expect Germany? Are there a lot of hippies in Germany? #seriousquestion Cannabis hydroponics Vertical 52 oz hydroponics Rockwool slab grow Now this is a slick space-saving way to maximize your yield if your floor-space is limited.…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

The Bottom-Barrel Basics for Drinking a Glass of Wine

I have a confession to make: I’ve only just recently begun to understand and appreciate wine in terms more nuanced than white or red. What helps is knowing how best to drink a given varietal, and why. First of all, stop putting ice cubes in your white wine. You’re not on The Real Housewives of…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Newspaper Writer Accidentally Tweets a Porn Link to Thousands of Followers

How To Use Android

Magnifying Glass Vase Greatly Exaggerates Your Gardening Skills

Elderly Couple Dies After AT&T Drops Nine Calls for Help

UK Prime Minister Thought ‘LOL’ Meant ‘Lots of Love’

Apple Television Set Confirmed By Foxconn Boss

Siri Doesn’t Think the iPhone Is the Best Smartphone

Build An Old-Fashioned Nixie Tube Desk Clock, Just Like Grandpa Did

There’s a Sequel to “Friday” With No Rebecca Black But Way More Unbearable Awfulness

Fifteen Years Ago Today, a Computer Became the World’s Best Chess Player

Report: Apple Is Dropping Google Maps from iOS 6

Your Alarm Clock Could Be Making You Fat

What Is This Trippy Burst of Light?

Steve Jobs and Woz in a Crazy Apple Ghostbusters Spoof

Intel: Windows 8 on ARM Is an Uphill Fight

Facebook Is Testing a Pay-For-Promotion System Everyone Can Use

Dancing Dragon Towers Will Have a Breathable, Scale-Like Skin

It’s Possible That You Actually Need These Shitty Earbuds

Iron-Pressed Hash, Bill Nye Dances, and the Dead Do Germany

The Bottom-Barrel Basics for Drinking a Glass of Wine

Deadpool Will Deface ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Classics for a New Secret Lair

Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them

Why ‘For All Mankind’ Season 5 Is the Key to the Rest of the Series

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