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How the Hashtag Is Ruining the English Language (Updated)

If Twitter is useful for anything beyond a flamethrower of breaking news and URL errata, it’s forcing us to be considerate about language—we have to use space wisely. Unfortunately, the hashtag is ruining talking. #NotGonnaLie This modern use of hashtags was pioneered several years ago by one dude: Chris Messina, a Google employee. Messina thought…

Social Media Sam Biddle

The Fastest RAM for Your Gaming PC

You just bought the fastest (and most expensive) desktop platform on the planet. Which company’s memory will you use to populate Intel’s quad-channel controller? We tested four purportedly high-end kits in order to find out which set is the best. Anyone willing to drop one thousand dollars on a CPU probably wants to match it…

Tech News Thomas Soderstrom--Tom's Hardware

The Sad Story of a Real Life R2-D2 Who Saved Countless Human Lives and Died

Robots can’t have feelings. But humans develop feelings for them. You know, like R2-D2 in Star Wars. Or like Scooby Doo, a real life small robot that saved the day 19 times. This is his single-tear story. Scooby Doo was an iRobot PackBot. PackBots are 60-pound, treaded robots that are used for reconnaissance, surveillance, and…

Tech News Brent Rose

Shooting Challenge: Long Party Exposures

New Year’s Eve is this weekend, meaning that most of us are attending parties. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, I want you to capture that party…in a really long exposure. 15 seconds to 30 minutes. The Challenge Take a long exposure of an NYE party. The longer, the better. (And feel free to use lights…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Vote for the Most Important Gadget of the Year: Round 3

Round 2 of our Most Important Gadget of the Year tournament is in the books, and you made some, let’s say, interesting choices to get us down to just eight gadgets. You might be pretty surprised about what made the cutoff. https://gizmodo.com/vote-for-the-most-important-gadget-of-the-year-round-2-5871333 There were a few big upsets this round, like the iPhone not making…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

The Most Pirated Movie of 2011 Really Sucks

The list of the most pirated movies on BitTorrent reveals that as society, we’ve got incredibly bad taste. Fast Five is the winner. It was downloaded more than 9 million times this year. The list gets worse. [jump] The Hangover II, Thor, Sourcecode, and I Am Number Four. I can’t believe that millions and millions…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

What Are The Windows “Superphones” Coming Late 2012?

A leaked Windows Phone roadmap shows what we’ve got to look forward to in 2012. In the short term a batch of cheapy phones for the masses, but by the end of next year we could be looking at “superphones”. The October roadmap shows us a skeleton of what we can expect from the Tango…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

How To Peel A Whole Head of Garlic In Less Than Ten Seconds

If you are cooking this holidays (or ever) you will love this MAGIC tip: how to peel a whole head of garlic in less than ten seconds. It just requires two bowls and some shaking. Aaaah-mazing. [Thanks Joe!]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

This Guy Spent $16,000 On a Virtual Sword Before The Game Was Released

This man is holding an image of a sword that doesn’t exist in real life. In fact, it doesn’t even really exist on a virtual world—he paid $16,000 for a game sword that he can’t play yet. He got the virtual sword at an auction to celebrate the launch of a highly anticipated game called…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

How to Disembowel 30 Salmon in Under a Minute

The world consumes more than 2 million metric tons of Salmon annually—both farmed and wild. That’s a lot of lox. And to get that much fish to market in a timely manner, one can’t gut them by hand. That’s why there’s the Gutmaster8000. To minimize spoilage and avoid the “fishy” smell that comes with it,…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Smack All SOPA Supporters With This Automated Robocall Service

This is going to feel good: now you can call all supporters of SOPA and PIPA, the dreadful US internet censorship laws, using a simple web site. Just record your very own message, pay some dollars and fire away. The service is called Reverse Robocall. It will robocall proponents of the Stop Online Privacy Act…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

The Best Rants of the Year

We really hated hated hated these things. Like, almost as much as we hate Nazis. That’s a lot of HATE. So we ranted about them. You should read these because… well, because these aggressions shall not stand, man. 1. PowerBalance Admits Their Wristbands Are a Scam I don’t think this would surprise anyone, but PowerBalance—manufacturers…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

I Want This 18th Century English Tower Turned Into Awesome Home

I always wanted to live in a lighthouse. Now I want to live in a lighthouse reformed like the Round Tower, this old English building that was restored and extended into a dream house by architects De Matos Ryan. Some historians say that the Round Tower started its life as a windmill circa 1790 on…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

This Stupid Prada Phone Is the Best Looking Android I’ve Ever Seen

This is pathetic. Motorola and HTC, with their circus vixen’s arsenal of makeup slathered over Google’s native UI, ought to be ashamed. This idiotic LG/Prada luxury phone that nobody will buy has one thing going for it: it looks nice. The hardware is nothing special—black rectangle, tacky branded back, gloss, etc. A phone made for…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Sony Needs to Revive This Gorgeous Sliding Radio As a Bluetooth Speaker

Sometimes Sony can make some questionable business decisions, but rarely am I able to fault them on design. Particularly back in the 1970s—just look at this cubic portable AM radio. As far as radios go today, a single set of sliders for volume and tuning are pretty low-tech. But were the TR-1825 resurrected as a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The Best Songs Ever Written About A Robot Friend

Grandaddy’s magnificent album from the year 2000, The Sophtware Slump, features a recurring character, a humanoid robot called Jed. After his creators tire of him, Jed gets drunk, and his system crashes. But first, he writes some poems. I love this fan-made video about Jed’s poetry, for the song “Jed’s Other Poem, Beautiful Ground.” And…

Tech News Mat Honan

Because I’ll Get Lost Eventually, I Need Fire

I like living. Living is my number one priority in life. Because of that I end up doing things like riding my snowboard off trails, into areas I’ve never been before. That’s why stormproof matches are the best $6 I’ll ever spend. Sold by sports store REI, the matches are coated in a chemical that…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

The Best Crazy Food Stories of the Year

Man has been augmenting his culinary efforts with technology since the advent of the skewer (which, as we all know, immediately followed the advent of fire and burned fingertips). From on-demand Morton’s to whatever chicken nuggets are actually made from, these mouth-watering stories from 2011 will have you looking at your dinner in an entirely…

Tech News Gizmodo

The Time I Planted a Pipe Bomb Under Someone’s Truck

I almost crash into a truck, at first. I can turn on a dime and accelerate like a tiny nitrous-oxide-fueled bat out of hell—even though I’m holding a 10-pound pipe bomb, 30 percent of my body weight. I don’t know what I’m doing, really. But by the time I get to the truck to plant…

Tech News Brent Rose

What to Get with Your Returned Gift Store Credit: Target Edition

Your relatives are lovely. Really, they are. But some of their gifts might have sent you poking around for a gift receipt. You know, in case this isn’t quite my size. Here’s the best stuff you can get at Target on your return visit. Click here to view as a single page. https://gizmodo.com/what-to-get-with-your-returned-gift-store-credit-targe-5871388 Under $10:…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

How the Hashtag Is Ruining the English Language (Updated)

The Fastest RAM for Your Gaming PC

The Sad Story of a Real Life R2-D2 Who Saved Countless Human Lives and Died

Shooting Challenge: Long Party Exposures

Vote for the Most Important Gadget of the Year: Round 3

The Most Pirated Movie of 2011 Really Sucks

What Are The Windows “Superphones” Coming Late 2012?

How To Peel A Whole Head of Garlic In Less Than Ten Seconds

This Guy Spent $16,000 On a Virtual Sword Before The Game Was Released

How to Disembowel 30 Salmon in Under a Minute

Smack All SOPA Supporters With This Automated Robocall Service

The Best Rants of the Year

I Want This 18th Century English Tower Turned Into Awesome Home

This Stupid Prada Phone Is the Best Looking Android I’ve Ever Seen

Sony Needs to Revive This Gorgeous Sliding Radio As a Bluetooth Speaker

The Best Songs Ever Written About A Robot Friend

Because I’ll Get Lost Eventually, I Need Fire

The Best Crazy Food Stories of the Year

The Time I Planted a Pipe Bomb Under Someone’s Truck

What to Get with Your Returned Gift Store Credit: Target Edition

‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

Good News! You Can Finally Change That Ridiculous Gmail Address

ExpressVPN Just Launched ExpressAI: Your Prompts Are Now Invisible

VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

The Best Gadgets of March 2026

‘Supergirl’ Will Feature David Corenswet’s Superman in a Sort of Big Brother Role

Report: FDA Set to Unban RFK Jr.’s Favorite Peptides

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

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