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Photo: Myyart When we think of 3D printing we usually think of a little robot that squirts out endless lines of plastic onto a surface. But vacuum...

A vial of Covishield, the name given to AstraZeneca/Oxford University’s covid-19 vaccine in IndiaPhoto: Punit Paranjpe/AFP (Getty Images) The covid-19 vaccine...

Image: 8BitDo 8BitDo’s SN30 Pro+ is not only a better option than nearly every other third-party controller on the market, its extreme customizability and $50...

Photo: SpaceX (Getty Images) SpaceX successfully launched one of its Falcon 9 rockets into space for a record ninth time on Sunday, making it the first in the...

Photo: Mark Schiefelbein (AP) Clubhouse, the invite-only audio chat app that has enamored the tech industry elite, is on the lookout for influencers. Because...

Last weekend I attended two days of the Brunswick Music Festival in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. In front of a sea of semi-socially distanced picnickers...

Photo: Philippe Huguen (Getty Images) Authorities say a Pennsylvania woman anonymously sent her daughter’s cheerleading coaches deepfake photos and videos of...

Screenshot: Gizmodo Taking a page from Google’s book, Microsoft is speeding up the release schedule for its Edge browser and will issue updates every four...

Screenshot: Disney+ Who’s been messing up everything? It was almost someone else. That’s what WandaVision creator Jac Schaeffer said in an interview with...

Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) Apple is reportedly discontinuing its original HomePod smart speaker as the company pivots focus to the HomePod mini, its...

Photo: Patrick Smith (Getty Images) The seeds of the robot apocalypse are apparently being sewn in Minor League Baseball. Or rather, the minor leagues appear...

A Texas DPS State Trooper at a coronavirus checkpoint near the border with Louisiana in Orange, Texas, in April 2020.Photo: David J. Philip (AP) The Texas...

Photo: Jesse Kumin/Permission of Hock Wah Yeo With GameStop’s stock exploding and shrinking on a weekly basis, it’s easy to forget that until recently, it was...

President Joe Biden gives a primetime address to the nation from the East Room of the White House on March 11, 2021 to mark the one-year anniversary of the...

Photo: Catie Keck/Gizmodo Roku’s first exclusive series to arrive on the Roku Channel will premier this month. The streamer acquired exclusive rights to...

Necessity breeds innovation, and during this pandemic that has resulted in some unique ways to curb the spread of Covid-19. Door handles in well-trafficked...

Photo: Chip Somodevilla / Staff (Getty Images) If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again, the old maxim goes, and apparently, that advice counts double if...

Though incredible strides have been made to stabilize the current public health crisis, the pandemic is far from over. For many parts of the country, outdoor...

Photo: Ian Tuttle (Getty Images) Today, the online children’s gaming platform Roblox is dumping 199 million shares of mammon onto the market through its direct...

Short clip from a new video produced by Sky Candy Studios, titled “Right Up Our Alley.”Gif: Sky Candy Studios Do you love expertly choreographed drone videos...

Photo: Martin Bureau (Getty Images) A hacker group claims to have broken into the networks of cloud-based surveillance startup Verkada, gaining unfiltered...

Photo: Joanna Nelius/Gizmodo You are definitely not hallucinating that Micro Center display case full of AMD CPUs. Consumers can purchase AMD 5000-series CPUs...

Photo: Leon Neal (Getty Images) About a year and a half ago, Google began auctioning off the chance to be one of the search engines that European users could...

Photo: JOSH EDELSON / Stringer (Getty Images) A newly released set of security fixes from Apple is “recommended for all users,” meaning that for anyone with an...

A man washes himself at a water pipe to cool down along the railway tracks in New Delhi.Photo: RAVEENDRAN/AFP (Getty Images) If we can hit the most aggressive...

Photo: Andrew Liszewski/Gizmodo If the PocketBook InkPad Color was an attempt to bring the benefits of a tablet’s larger screen to e-readers so ebooks like...

Image: OnePlus Rumors of a partnership between OnePlus and Hasselblad have been swirling for months, but now the two companies are making it official at the...

Photo: Scott Olson (Getty Images) Both China and Russia were reportedly behind two cyberattacks last year at the European Medicines Agency that compromised...

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The new iMac Pro is displayed during the 2017 Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) at the San Jose Convention Center on June 5, 2017 in San Jose...

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s first tweet is well-known on the platform. Published nearly 15 years ago, the tweet reads, “just setting up my twttr.” While there’s...

Photo: Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Netflix (Getty Images) After essentially creating a show made of pure Spielberg-King fanfic, Matt and Ross Duffer will...

Screenshot: Unfortunately.io/Gizmodo Crushing a starry-eyed startup’s hopes and dreams can be a pain, but now you can outsource that emotional labor to a...

Photo: GERARD JULIEN / AFP (Getty Images) Microsoft announced this week that another one of its email products, Exchange, had been compromised by a hacking...

Photo: Mike Groll (AP) The reign of telecoms shills meddling in internet regulations seems to be coming to a close, at least for now. The New York Times...

File photo of Chamath Palihapitiya speaking at the TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 at The Manhattan Center on April 29, 2013 in New York City. Photo: Brian Ach...

Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) Griddy, the Texas power supplier that’s made headlines recently for customers’ sky-high energy bills in the wake of...

Photo: Lisa Maree Williams (Getty Images) A young teen boy’s years of nasal congestion and other bizarre symptoms had an unusual culprit. His doctors say that...

Photo: Sarah Jacobsson Purewal/Gizmodo It’s hard to call an $800 gaming monitor “reasonably” priced—even one that looks good and delivers on its promises of...

The Navajo Indian Reservation, Arizona, circa 2002.Photo: David McNew (Getty Images) If you want a good example of the kind of havoc a well-placed cyberattack...

Image: Apple For anyone who feels like they’ve been held hostage by iCloud’s 5GB of free storage or just wants to try out a different photo storage app, this...

Screenshot: AMD Today, AMD officially revealed the newest member of its Radeon 6000-series family: the RX 6700 XT. Situated just below the RX 6800, AMD said...

Photo: Spencer Platt / Staff (Getty Images) After acquiring the delivery startup Postmates for $2.65 billion last year, Uber Technologies announced on Tuesday...

Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images) In the latest in a string of security-related headaches for Microsoft, the company warned customers Tuesday that state...

What’s the hardest video game you’ve ever played? If it wasn’t QWOP then let me tell you right know that you don’t know how truly difficult a game can be. The...

Austin Beutner, Superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), receives the covid-19 vaccine on March 1, 2021 in Inglewood, California...

Exhausted and disoriented, I arrive tempest-tossed on the shores of our dystopia to tell you the good news: Apps are birth control now. On Monday, the period...

A rare image of a vampire squid.Image: © 2010 Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute The elusive vampire squid wears its red flesh like a voluminous cape...

Image: Google In April, the old Google Pay app is losing its key functionality, which means you’ll need to move over to the new Google Pay app before then to...

Photo: Carsten Koall (Getty Images) If you’re the type of person that still needs more storage, Apple might have answered your prayers. According to 9to5Mac...

An aerial view of the iceberg that broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf. It measures roughly 490 square miles (1,270 square km) and is nearly 500 feet (150 meters)...

A photo of blood samples being studied in one of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine trials in Elandsdoorn, South Africa. Photo: Jerome Delay (AP) Yet another...

A 280-meter-long screen shows virtual devotees participating in an online candle lighting ceremony at Wat Phra Dhammakaya on February 26, 2021 in Bangkok...

Photo: Chris Delmas/AFP (Getty Images) The s0-called GameStonks saga had some help from automated bots hyping up “meme” stocks on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter...

Diversity has always been an issue in STEM. Although a 2018 Pew report found that women make up half of the U.S. workforce in STEM occupations, it also found...

I don’t think about the iconic Windows XP wallpaper often, but when an article or a video comes across my social media feed reminding me of it, nothing but...

Photo: Alexander Hassenstein (Getty Images) Multiple authorities have confirmed that commercial airline pilots recently saw, well, something, hurtling through...

Our readers know what’s up. Whenever we ask a question like “What’s the best projector?”, we know we’ll always get a good mix of thoughtful responses and great...

File photo of Yusaku Maezawa in Tokyo, Japan on Oct. 9, 2018.Photo: Koji Sasahara (AP) Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa is teasing a “big update” for...

Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images) TikTok has agreed to fork over $92 million to settle a class-action complaint regarding alleged privacy violations...

Photo: Sean Gallup (Getty Images) Just two months after running a full-page ad decrying Apple’s impending updates, Facebook is rolling out another campaign...

Photo: Joanna Nelius/Gizmodo I know, I know, it’s hard to be excited about new graphics cards when there’s a chip shortage and scalpers and crypto miners are...

Photo: Spencer Platt / Staff (Getty Images) GameStop, little diva that she is, is in the spotlight once more after shares of the company skyrocketed more than...

The vehicle used in the attack on Nashville on December 25, 2020, as released in a photo by the Metro Nashville Police Department.Photo: Metro Nashville Police...

Photo: Simon Dawson (Getty Images) New government-funded research this week should offer some reassurance to people who have survived covid-19. It suggests...

Photo: Mark Wilson (Getty Images) Apparently not content with having penetrated the networks of such piddling federal agencies as the U.S. State Department...

Graphic: Mozilla Mozilla beefed up Firefox’s already impressive arsenal of privacy-preserving tech on Tuesday with the addition of a new tool in its flagship...

Image: Google While we wait for Android 12 to officially go live later this year, Google has a bunch of tweaks and updates coming to Android this spring...

Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images) Dish Network is doubling down on its intention to launch its 5G network in major cities by September, The Verge reports. Since...

This undated photo provided by the National Security Agency (NSA) shows its headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland.Photo: NSA (Getty Images) New research...

Photo: Andrew Liszewski – Gizmodo A robot built out of Lego can solve a Rubik’s Cube in about 3.2 seconds, but some 40 years after I first picked up the...

Screenshot: TikTok Have you seen those viral videos on TikTok and Twitter where users are burning snow to “prove” that it’s actually fake? Needless to say, the...

This illustration photo taken on June 30, 2020 shows the logo of delivery app Postmates on a smartphone screen in Los Angeles.Photo: Chris Delmas / AFP) (Getty...

Image: Netflix After years of everyone being all “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia” about his Justice League cut, I almost forgot about Zack Snyder’s return to the...

Huge metal chunks of debris rained down on a Colorado suburb Saturday afternoon after the engine on a United Airlines plane overhead burst into flames. United...

James Hetfield of Metallica performs on stage during a concert at the Ernst-Happel-Stadion in Vienna, Austria on August 16, 2019.Photo: Georg Hochmuth / AFP...

Photo: Olivier Douliery (Getty Images) It’s hard to believe that almost a year into the pandemic pushing everything virtual, there are people still struggling...

Graphic: Elizabeth Lanier A 2-way remote start system and a case of Pedroncelli rosé lead Saturday’s best deals. Jump to: Tech | Gaming | Home | Lifestyle |...

The OG Nyan Cat meme uploaded to YouTube in 2011. Gif: Chris Torres Nyan Cat is turning 10 years old in April (feel old yet?), and to celebrate the anniversary...

Photo: Alex Cranz/Gizmodo Plex appears to be exploring an integration with Apple’s streaming app. The feature, which was spotted and shared on Twitter by Will...

Even in a suburb of Montreal that’s well versed in dealing with winter storms, inclement weather can still overwhelm basic services like power, an issue with...

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg during morning media appearances in the Media Gallery at Parliament House on February 19, 2021 in Canberra, Australia.Photo: Sam Mooy...

Photo: Sajjad Hussain (Getty Images) Microsoft has announced an update to its productivity suite, Office 2021, for consumers along with a variant specifically...

Photo: David J. Phillip (AP) It’s been a hard week for everyone living in Texas as blackouts, boil notices, and bone-chilling cold rattle the state. But data...

In a time when even basic human interactions are discouraged for safety reasons, there’s an even greater demand for alternate sources of companionship. But if...

File photo of Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg from 2018 in San Jose, California.Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) Facebook blocked dozens of...

Photo: Spencer Platt (Getty Images) Early on in the pandemic New York Attorney General Letitia James promised an investigation into Amazon’s safety practices...

Photo: Mandel Ngan (Getty Images) A ransomware gang claims to have stolen over 100 gigabytes of data from Jones Day, a prominent global law firm that recently...

3D image showing the pharaoh’s badly damaged skull. Image: Sahar Saleem The forensic analysis of a 3,600-year-old mummy is providing fascinating new insights...

Mike Lindell, the founder and CEO of MyPillow and likely future legal piñata.Screenshot: Absolute Proof/Mike Lindell Conspiracy theorists, pro-Donald Trump...

Photo: Leon Neal (Getty Images) If you’re currently using LastPass’s free tier, I have some bad news. Starting March 16, you’ll only be able to use one type of...

Apple Watch Series 5 devices are displayed in the Apple Marunouchi store on September 20, 2019 in Tokyo, Japan.Photo: Tomohiro Ohsumi (Getty Images) If you’ve...

Image: Mohamed Abdiwahab (Getty Images) Consumer DNA testing remains a booming industry, but new research released Monday suggests that it has a glaring flaw...

The Vision kisses his wife goodbye.Screenshot: Marvel Studios WandaVision is a tense show, and it’s only getting tenser. As we barrel towards its conclusion...

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Photo: Robyn Beck / AFP (Getty Images) There are signs the waiting could be over. It seems like Google has finally decided to start updating its major iOS apps...

Something in your eye, Clark?Screenshot: Warner Bros. Trailer FrenzyA special place to find the newest trailers for movies and TV shows you’re craving...

Photo: Loic Venance/AFP (Getty Images) Maryland decided to take a chunk of Big Tech’s advertising dollars on Friday, successfully passing legislation that...

Image: NOAA Satellite and Information Service And here’s the last Valentine we have, folks. I must admit, while I love the Valentine itself, I don’t think...

Photo: Olivier Douliery (Getty Images) The House Financial Services Committee will hold a virtual hearing on Feb. 18 as part of its investigation into the...