Live Every Week Like it’s Shark Week

Shark Week, the brainchild of a stoned Discovery Channel employee that became a national holiday, starts officially tonight at 9PM. But you don’t need no stinkin’ designated week. Live every week like it’s Shark Week with the help of Giz! More »

Our Favorite Laptops, Phones, Gadgets, Gear, and More

It’s been another month, and an amazing batch of gadgets has once again piled up on our doorstep. If we were being honest about which we’ve loved the most the past few weeks, this list would be nothing but air conditioners. But apparently we’re not allowed to do that. So here are the other gadgets that captured our hearts and minds in July. More »

Why Did This F-16 Crash?

Thankfully the pilot wasn’t injured, but this crash at Wisconsin’s OshKosh 2011 EAA AirVenture air show is insane. [YouTube] More »

Why An Amazing Surf Director Thinks FCP X Should Be Called Final Cut Amateur

Cyrus Sutton is a surfer. And he’s reviewing Final Cut Pro X for Gizmodo. Why? Because he’s one of the best surf flick directors in decades. His movies exude a summertime vibe I wish I could bottle up for winter. More »

London’s Olympics Medals Are the Heaviest Bling Yet

Designed by the model-maker for Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, the 2,100 medals created for the 2012 Olympics are the heaviest medals that’ll ever hang around a summer games athlete’s neck yet, at 400grams each. More »

Why Ratings Will Ruin Wikipedia

Did you know you can rate pages on Wikipedia now? It’s new. And it’s meant to get you involved, with the ultimate goal of increasing the site’s accuracy, diversity and completeness. It won’t work. More »

Why Did It Take So Long for Spotify to Come to the US?

Spotify is not the first internet music service. There’s Pandora, Rhapsody, MOG, Rdio, Zune, iTunes, Amazon Music, Google Music, and plenty of others. Yet despite not having a product in the US, Spotify became legend. A musical unicorn. More »

Google temporarily suspends Realtime search, thanks to expired Twitter deal

If you noticed a distinct lack of tweetage in your Google search results yesterday, you weren’t alone. Turns out, the company has temporarily suspended its Realtime search feature, as part of its ongoing Google+ launch. El Goog made the announcement, ironically enough, in the form of a tweet, explaining that it needs time to integrate Google+ within its social network-based search tool, but without offering a specific time frame. Mountain View later revealed further details with the following statement, provided to Search Engine Land:
Since October of 2009, we have had an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in our search results through a special feed, and that agreement expired on July 2. While we will not have access to this special feed from Twitter, information on Twitter that’s publicly available to our crawlers will still be searchable and discoverable on Google.
Twitter offered a similarly curt explanation, saying that it would continue to provide tweet integration to companies like Microsoft and Yahoo, while adding that it still works with Google in “many other ways.” Google’s Social Search, meanwhile, continues to function, but has been stripped of all Twitter data. No word yet on whether the two sides have entered negotiations, but when they do, the fate of humanity will certainly be hanging in the balance.

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Gizmodo’s 4th of July Block Party

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The Best Gadgets (So Far)

The year’s half over and summer is upon us. That can only mean one thing: it’s time for the young among us to sit in a dark room and stare at a backlit screen for 18-20 hours a day (and for the rest of us to be jealous of them). Here’s the newest batch of Bestmodo gadgets to keep you an unhealthy shade of alabaster and carrion all summer long. More »