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The boards have sent their approval, the money has exchanged hands and the regulatory hurdles have been overcome. Now it’s time for Skype to officially become part of Microsoft. Starting today, October 14th, Skype will become a division within Microsoft. All Skype employees will work for Microsoft and Skype CEO Tony Bates will become the…
Google Co-founder and CEO Larry Page spoke candidly about the future of Google during the company’s recent earnings conference call. Page wants to make Google’s products more social and the best way to do that is through Google +. Page said this about his idea of the new social Google which, ironically, sounds a lot…
9to5Mac stumbled upon a YouTube video that exposes one of Siri’s weaknesses – people who speak English with a heavy accent. These non-native speakers cause poor Siri to get all confused. The bewildered Voice Assistant keeps searching for Linda when the speaker wants the weather. And the response he receives when he asks Siri to…
Google’s not content with being just an online digital locker for your music, it wants you buy MP3s from it, too. A New York Times report suggests Google is looking to open an online MP3 store and is negotiating with the record labels to secure the necessary licensing agreements. Google currently has an online music…
Finally, a Live Strong-style bracelet that does more than serve as a smug fashion accessory! The Budwrap is a silicone wrist strap that securely stores your ear buds. You just tuck the buds under two integrated flaps, wrap the loose wire around it and insert the jack into a small hole in the band. And,…
If you were thinking about buying Hulu, we’ve got some bad news for you. You’re a day too late with your bid. In a brief statement, Hulu’s management announced the video streaming service is no longer for sale. Here’s what they said, “Since Hulu holds a unique and compelling strategic value to each of its…
In a bizarre medical mystery that’s like watching the life of Benjamin Button in reverse, a Vietnamese woman has appeared to age almost five decades in just three years after suffering an allergic reaction. The photo on the left shows how 26 year old Nguyen Thi Phuong looked just a few years ago, before she…
A US judge agreed with Apple’s claim that Samsung’s Galaxy tablets infringe on their iPad-related patents. According to Reuters, this comment was made as part of an injunction request by Apple. District Judge Lucy Koh stopped short of granting Apple an injunction that bans the sale of the Galaxy tablet in the US. She believed…
So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn’t worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case. Of Course They Did a Taiwan Animation for the BlackBerry Outage Look, I love these as much…
What happens when the extremely expensive helmet you cooked up for the extremely expensive F-35 doesn’t, uh, work? You strap together a new one in a hurry. This wicked looking replacement was gutted and filled with crazy killer optics. https://gizmodo.com/f-35-helmet-display-system-to-scare-the-bejeezus-out-of-260482 The original helmet was supposed to do some pretty insane things, DefenseTech reports, like give…
Sprint’s policy for unlocking the iPhone 4S is a confused mess. First it was reported the handset would be sold unlocked, then it was said this report was false. Now a third report claims both statements, though contradictory, are true. Confused? Let’s explain. The first report from Macworld claimed the Sprint iPhone 4S would be…
Researchers at Saarland University in Germany developed a system that replaces both the bike’s brake cables and levers with a wireless system that employs control algorithms typically found in aircraft and chemical plants. These super-dependable brakes reportedly offer 99.999999999997 percent reliability and are able to apply the brakes within 250 milliseconds of being activated—half the…
So you want an iPhone 4S on launch day, but you drug your feet on pre-orders and now you’ve got to wait in line. Where’s the best bet for finding an actual iPhone instead the promise of another shipment in a week or two? First of all, you should go in with a plan. Call…
The Large Hadron Collider scares me. It’s the baddest monster machine on the planet and it’s capable of creating material that’s denser than anything but black holes, it possibly found the Higgs Boson and probably can destroy humanity. It’s an unknown beast. How do you make it less scary? Get to know it. LHSee (heh)…
Apple’s new iPhone 4S personal assistant Siri looks amazing. (Or, you know, potentially humiliating!) But it only comes with one voice. Don’t you wish you could customize it? If you could choose anyone’s voice for Siri, whose would you pick? https://gizmodo.com/how-to-use-siri-on-other-peoples-phones-5849492 Let us know in the comments below, or by sending us a response on…
Gizmodo’s Joe Brown appeared on MSNBC on October 13, 2011 to talk about the Blackberry outages. Watch the clip above! For media requests, contact Kevin Prince at [email protected].
Gizmodo’s Sam Biddle joined CNBC’s Street Signs on October 13, 2011 to talk about the iCloud. Watch the clip above! For media requests, contact Kevin Prince at [email protected].
I have pretty secure passwords, as much to keep would-be miscreants at bay as to keep my friends and family from finding out just how horrible a life I’m living. But according to a study, a full 11 percent of Brits plan to leave their passwords in their will. There’s some sense to that, actually:…
I’ll say this for Casio: It makes some incredibly bad-ass videos. https://gizmodo.com/watch-this-maniacal-flight-down-a-mountain-5810406 To show off its G-Shock G9300 Mudman, Casio sent Cameron Zink and Kyle Strait to Virgin, Utah where they proceed to flip out on camera like you won’t believe. The whole episode is positively stomach turning. But the very end? You’re not going…
This is perfectly even mix of completely adorable and completely frightening. Adorable, because, well, it’s a baby being cute and infantile. Frightening because her mushy baby brain’s already been transformed by an iPad. As the video’s anonymous creator notes, for this 1-year-old girl, “A Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work.” She tries to…
