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Stick an SLR Lens on Your iPhone 4 for Delicious Diminishing Returns

The iPhone 4’s camera is already pretty stellar (given its size), but what’s it lacking? A bigger, better image sensor, and a more sophisticated lens. How about a giant, possibly-superfluous SLR lens? Okay, why not! The SLR Mount, available in both Canon EOS and Nikon SLR flavors, isn’t going to imbue your phone with some…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Lock Loop Shackles Bike Tires Together for Extra Thief-Repellant

Getting your bike stolen is expensive and traumatizing and overall shitty. But so is having to juggle a bunch of heavy locks. So you’re just screwed! Unless you use some clever design and create something like the Lock Loop. The Lock Loop still requires you to carry around some extra bulk, but at only a…

Privacy & Security Sam Biddle

Apple Sics Secret Service on Spy Cam Artist

That video artist whose software grabbed pictures of Apple Store computer users? He’s been tracked down by Apple and raided by the Feds. He had to see this coming. Every morning for three days, Kyle McDonald would trek down to the New York Apple Stores in SoHo and West 14th St. and install software that…

Tech News Ryan Tate

Anti-Blackout Drug to Undermine Your Hard-Earned Binges

Okay, scientific community. I love it when you cure disease and I get super excited when you discover new elements and all. But this study into what causes drunken blackouts—and how to prevent them—is giving my favorite coping mechanism a sad. Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine have identified the specific brain cells…

Tech News Brian Barrett

5 Ways Google+ Could Steal Music Fans from Facebook

Google’s social network, Google+, is late. Facebook has a big lead, having ousted MySpace, which in turn deposed Friendster, the site that started us all on this path towards recreating our social fabric as a network of connected personal nodes. Facebook is an excellent tool for sharing music—usually in the form of Google’s YouTube videos—but…

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I Flunked My Social Media Background Check. Will You?

Your next job application could require a social media background check. Odds are, you have no clue what that means. Nobody does. It’s new and scary and probably scours the Web for pictures of you puking on the beach. But screw speculation. We wanted to know. So we ran background checks on six Gizmodo employees.…

Social Media Mat Honan

Your Kindle NY Times Subscription Finally Gets You Free NYTimes.com Access

As it was promised, so it has been given: those who (totally inexplicably) subscribe to the New York Times on their Kindles now have carte blanche access to the Grey Lady’s website. Congratulations! Although honestly why weren’t you just doing this the whole time? https://gizmodo.com/kindle-ny-times-subscribers-get-nytimes-com-for-free-5786578 Kindle New York Times Subscriptions Now Include Access to NYTimes.com…

Commerce Brian Barrett

Who Wouldn’t Want a Floating Robotic Balloon Recording Every Minute of Their Vacation?

I know how it is—you’re vacationing, but you feel the need to share important updates with the world about how tasty those crabs were. Or how many glasses of sangria you knocked back. But you’re lazy, right? This Seed balloon concept is, thankfully, a concept—one which proposes following you about, gathering intel on everything you…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

1.2 Million Accounts Compromised in Washington Post Hack

If you’ve been looking for work in the Washington Post’s Jobs section, you might have one more thing to worry about. User IDs and e-mail addresses for 1.2 million accounts were compromised on June 27th and 28th. No passwords or other personal information was accessed. The hack was attributed to an “unauthorized third party,” though…

Privacy & Security Kyle Wagner

Mark Cuban’s College Days Of Debauchery

Yesterday, while innocently patrolling the internet, we came across a link to Mark Cuban’s Google+ gallery of old computer ads. We found this gallery to be very boring, and out of curiosity, we clicked back to Cuban’s Google+ profile, where we found multiple public galleries of his rugby years at Indiana University. They were not…

Tech News Apisuper

The Gizmodo vs. Deadspin iPhone Repair Contest: If It Ain’t Fixed, Break It

Seems like everyone’s carrying around a battle-scarred iPhone 4 these days—after all, they’re made of glass. This is news to our jocky sister-site, Deadspin—they’re convinced that their jocky readers break their phones worse than the Giz Gang does. Bullshit. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-4-design-flaw-could-lead-to-epidemic-of-cracked-5658352 They may be playing NBA Jam all day, all sweatypawed from a lunchtime handball sesh,…

Tech News Joe Brown

‘iPad HD’ Arriving With iPhone 5 in the Fall?

According to This Is My Next, sources are saying that, along with the thinner, lighter iPhone 5, there will be an updated iPad 2 with a Retina-grade display come fall. As hard as it might be to believe, the new tablet is said to sport a double resolution screen (2048 x 1536), and will be…

Tech News Adrian Covert

US Army Bans Toe Shoes for Looking So Damn Goofy

FiveFingers running shoes and the rest of the quasi-barefoot movement are a pretty zealous bunch—they wear a pretty polarizing shoe. But the debate is now quashed in the military, with an official ban. Why? They look too silly. According to an official Army memo, GearJunkie reports, FiveFingers and any similar shoes “that feature five separate,…

Tech News Sam Biddle

How to Turn a Point and Shoot Into a Night Vision Camera

Over at Instructables, there’s a sweet little DIY project that can turn any ‘ol point and shoot into a night vision camera. The secret is adding more infrared. Which isn’t much of a secret, I guess. The DIY night vision camera does require some drilling and soldering, so it’s not for amateurs, but the rest…

Tech News Casey Chan

Tougher ISP Piracy Stance Isn’t Actually That Tough

Just how many times can you illegally download content and get away with it, officially speaking? A new agreement between major US ISPs and the music and movie industry has pegged it at six. Give or take. Honestly, they don’t really care that much. https://gizmodo.com/the-isps-are-about-to-take-a-harder-stance-against-pira-5814819 In addition to being twice as generous as an MLB…

Tech News Brian Barrett

WTF Is a Cosmic Panda?

It’s not a distant cousin of the Nyan Cat, it’s YouTube’s friendly new face. Gone is the cluttered look and flashing buttons, instead their new (opt-out-of-able!) interface is clean and pared-down. This is one redesign Twitterites won’t protest about. You can try it out over on YouTube now, but do let us know via the…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Photojournalism Goes Down a New Path With the Vía PanAm App

Trekking from Chile to Alaska, the photojournalist Kadir van Lohuizen chose the perfect tool for informing fans of his work—a $4 iPad app, Vía PanAm. Everything he sees is being documented as blog posts, videos or, naturally photos. Having launched an app with the promise of frequent updates, he’s bound by the rigid schedule of…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Mark Zuckerberg Recruits Talent by Taking Them on Romantic Hikes through the Woods (Updated: We Hit the Trail!)

A normal job interview: you, a desk, a guy in a suit. Penetrating questions about goals, risk, strategy. Some handshakes, and you’re gone. At Facebook? Zuckerberg takes you along this scenic trail, promising your techie dreams, the NYT reports. Swoon. According to some anonymous Silicon Valley wunderkinds courted by Zuck, select recruits bypass the entire…

Social Media Sam Biddle

The World’s Most Powerful Laser Will Create Tiny Stars on Earth

While CERN researchers are busy potentially obliterating the Earth by creating a black hole in France, scientists at the Lawrence Livermore Lab have their own Doomsday machine: a 10-story laser that may well create a miniature star over Northern California. The $3.5 billion, 192-beam National Ignition Facility of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Belarusian iFrukt Juice Laughs at Apple’s Puny American Trademarks

The juicemongers behind iFrukt either give zero fucks about the legal ramifications of ripping off Apple’s trade dress and using the come sue us! iPrefix—or maybe there just aren’t any intellectual property laws in Belarus? Infringement is delicious! The juice line, which features a our-juice-looks-like-laptops bitten logo, is made by Savushkin Product, which Copyranter cites…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Stick an SLR Lens on Your iPhone 4 for Delicious Diminishing Returns

Lock Loop Shackles Bike Tires Together for Extra Thief-Repellant

Apple Sics Secret Service on Spy Cam Artist

Anti-Blackout Drug to Undermine Your Hard-Earned Binges

5 Ways Google+ Could Steal Music Fans from Facebook

I Flunked My Social Media Background Check. Will You?

Your Kindle NY Times Subscription Finally Gets You Free NYTimes.com Access

Who Wouldn’t Want a Floating Robotic Balloon Recording Every Minute of Their Vacation?

1.2 Million Accounts Compromised in Washington Post Hack

Mark Cuban’s College Days Of Debauchery

The Gizmodo vs. Deadspin iPhone Repair Contest: If It Ain’t Fixed, Break It

‘iPad HD’ Arriving With iPhone 5 in the Fall?

US Army Bans Toe Shoes for Looking So Damn Goofy

How to Turn a Point and Shoot Into a Night Vision Camera

Tougher ISP Piracy Stance Isn’t Actually That Tough

WTF Is a Cosmic Panda?

Photojournalism Goes Down a New Path With the Vía PanAm App

Mark Zuckerberg Recruits Talent by Taking Them on Romantic Hikes through the Woods (Updated: We Hit the Trail!)

The World’s Most Powerful Laser Will Create Tiny Stars on Earth

Belarusian iFrukt Juice Laughs at Apple’s Puny American Trademarks

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

‘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

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VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

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