Aug 17
Facebook friendship is fleeting and borderline meaningless. But that doesn’t mean rejection and betrayal don’t sting. Getting dumped is horrible, painful, and guaranteed to happen. Here’s how to handle a devastating digital breakup. More »
Aug 17
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Review: What the Future of Laptops Should Be [Review]
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The Lenovo X1 Carbon does the impossible. It makes a business laptop—a business anything—cool. Cool because it looks good, sure, but also because it works the way it’s supposed to. And somehow, that’s become one of the bigger compliments in tech. More »
Aug 17
#Hashtags are perfect for #connecting you and your #pals on #the Twitter, and making you look like a #doofus everywhere else. Here are some #HandyTips on how to use them, from the #pros. More »
Aug 17
Earlier this year, a devastating virus dubbed Flame made its way through power plants in Iran, wreaking havoc on system software, and prompting the country to disconnect itself from the internet. Now comes word from Kaspersky Labs that there’s a copycat virus doing the same thing to “at least one organization in the energy sector.” More »
Aug 17
For as long as we’ve bothered to care about heavenly bodies other than our own, we’ve thought that the size of the Sun varies throughout its 11-year solar cycles. Intense magnetic forces, the theory went, rendered it as malleable as a sturdy stress ball. That was a good theory, backed up by decades of data. More »
Aug 16
There are now two female staffers writing for Gizmodo, myself and Leslie Horn, and neither of us blew anyone for our job. More »
Aug 16
Twitter Wants to Stop You from Using Twitter Apps Not Made By Twitter [Twitter]
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Twitter just posted details about the upcoming updates to its API and the big news is this: Twitter will be limiting the amount of users that can use third-party Twitter apps. Basically client apps like Tweetbot and Twitterific now have a Twitter-enforced ceiling on how many users it can have. It’s Twitter walling in and limiting every other Twitter app not made by Twitter. More »
Aug 16
Therapik Bug Bite Relieving Gadget Review: We Can’t Believe This Actually Works [Lightning Review]
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Are you being eaten alive by mosquitos? Is the itch driving you completely and utterly insane? Us too! So when we heard about this magic wand that supposedly takes the itch away, we had to call it in to make fun of it. More »
Aug 16
Snow blindness, arc eye, welder’s flash, bake eyes—these all describe the common effects of staring at an intensely bright light source. But what actually happens to your eyes when you try to hold a staring contest with our closest star? It’s not pleasant, that’s for sure. Here’s a look at what you shouldn’t see for yourself. More »
Aug 16
Mirrorless cameras are generally geared toward the enthusiast or semi-pro consumer. Some companies, like Canon with its new EOS M offering, are seeking to cater to a broader market in features and styling. More »
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