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Military strategist David Kilcullen was in New York City earlier this week to talk about the future of urban warfare at the World Policy Institute here in Manhattan. Gizmodo tagged along to learn more about "future confl...

The return of Kozmo.com, albeit in a new incarnation, brings back memories of that wild and crazy Internet boom.     

​ When you're in the game of leaking your own products, why not do it properly? Those self-supporting Yoga Tablets we saw sneak out via Lenovo recently seem to tally well with the above pictured IdeaPad press shots. Th...

Instagram is getting ads! Tumblr already got 'em. Snapchat probably will. Ads are starting to appear in the Android Gmail app too. Basically, anything and everything you use will eventually have ads on them. That's how t...

The phrase, "the weirdest thing on the Internet tonight" is bandied about a lot these days, but this! This my fine stoney friends, is easily the weirdest thing on the Internet tonight so far. Prepare to question your fai...

The annual World Architecture Festival is about more than just awards: attendees can check out a pretty packed line-up of talks and crits, browse galleries and installations, and hob-nob with fellow folks from the biz fr...

Alt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative tech stories from the last seven days. Your Facebook status updates may seem like witty prose to you, but to a bunch of scientists they're nothing but typographic...

The man alleged to be "Dread Pirate Roberts," the founder and operator of the Silk Road--an online marketplace where bitcoins were traded for a range of goods and services, including drugs--was arrested by the FBI in San...

Groups like the RIAA are putting in millions of DMCA requests to pull "pirate" links off Google, and even though it doesn't seem to help , the landslide's not letting up. As of last month, Google was taking down nine pir...

High speed web browsing and airborne streaming make Gogo an essential element of any tech obsessed traveler's itinerary, but the company thinks it can offer a little more. Today the firm announced a deal with Magnolia Pi...

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Observatories don't just gaze into the endless starry abyss above our heads; sometimes that's not enough. Sometimes they shoot righteous 40-watt lasers into the great beyond too. Obviously it looks awesome, and this stel...

The company that built a country has lost its aura and relinquished the controls.     

Attention, Mac people who just bought or are about to receive a new iPhone. If your old iPhone is still fairly new, you don't have any kids yammering for an iPod Touch (that you want to give them), and you have no other ...

Here in the US, it's easy to slip into the comfortable idea that the internet is unrestricted, a home for free speech and exploration, whether it's meaningful and important, or dumb hashtags. It's not that way everywhere...

Form an orderly queue for your free Windows Phone license.     

Samsung built a smartwatch but forgot to make it do stuff.     

Unless you've been horrifyingly oblivious to absolutely everything happening around you, you know that the government has been in a state of shutdown since Monday. Other than the confirmation that, yes, congress is just ...

Following the lead of several other TV providers, AT&T U-verse has launched internet streaming for some of the channels it carries. Subscribers can tune into up to 108 channels while at home, and about 25 while away from...

cold fjord writes with this excerpt from the Weekly Standard: "A portion of the website of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) was apparently hacked as long as two months ago. SAMHSA is...

Tweeter Home Entertainment Group, a consumer electronics retailer that declared bankruptcy in 2007, saw its share price balloon on Friday thanks to confused traders who thought they were buying into the newly announced ...

Beginning around midnight ET tonight, users of Comcast's new X1 platform from areas across the country have reported blank screens from their boxes. As of about 3AM, at least a few indicate service is coming back on, whi...