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New Yorkers whose smartphones are presumably dead from hurricane power outages—but still. When was the last time this happened in the industrialized world? 1993? And who even remembers anyone else’s phone n...

io9updates: By Charlie Jane Anders Hurricane Sandy has caused untold billions of dollars in damage and insane casualties. And we saw the “Frankenstorm” coming, for days in advance. We can send people into spa...

Needless to say, we're all well aware of Yelp's popularity amongst people who love a thing or two about visiting restaurants and, in turn, eating some good ol' food. And while the service could be considered relatively g...

What happens when you gut a pumpkin and replace its insides with heat-shrink tubing, solder, 128 LEDs, eight AA batteries, an Arduino board and clever programming? You get what self-proclaimed tinkerer Nathan Pryor calls...

App of the Day: Runtastic Fitness Collection. A Little Coaching Can Get You to 100 Push Ups By Leslie Horn  Runtastic makes a great app for running, and now it has released a couple of standalone fitness apps for sit ...

With Microsoft's latest operating system officially official now, we can certainly expect a massive wave of Windows 8-tailored peripherals to be ready to meet most consumer needs. Naturally, Korean electronics giant LG i...

Giz Readers Show Off Their Best Halloween Costume Fun Times We asked you to send us your best (and geekiest) costumes. You didn’t disappoint. Here are our 10 favorites, but you can find the rest on Facebook ...

Air New Zealand Hires the LOTR Effects Wizards For Its Flight Safety Video By Andrew Liszewski If you’re ever lucky enough to fly Air New Zealand, you might want to actually pay attention to the safety video that ...

Ten Ways To Smash a Pumpkin in Mesmerizing Slow-Motion By Andrew Liszewski You shouldn’t use this video as inspiration for going out and destroying other people’s jack-o-lanterns this evening. But if you wa...

The Terrifying Tech in Classic Horror Films By Leslie Horn From evil cars with minds of their own to chainsaws used to torture and taunt—many of our favorite horror movies would be nothing without a little technol...

If you were one of the many who funded OUYA and have been sitting on pins and needles waiting for tangible progress updates, you just received them in spades. The fledgling console builder is on track with its Engineerin...

Because Nothing Says Acer Like Megan Fox Talking to Dolphins By Brian Barrett I don’t know what this is but it should probably never have existed.  At least the pitch meeting must have been fun: ACER MARKETING ...

AT&T and T-Mobile Share Networks to Keep New York and New Jersey Covered After Sandy By Mario Aguilar AT&T and T-Mobile have agreed to share their GSM and 3G networks so that they can provide customers in New York and Ne...

Communication has been all too spotty across much of New York City and New Jersey since Hurricane Sandy struck the region, and those who can get through on their cellphones have found themselves on particularly crowded n...

In partnership with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), Google announced on Wednesday that it has added AMBER Alerts to its Search and Maps services for desktop and mobile devices. AMBER Alert...

Comcast Unlocks Its Wi-Fi Hotspots to Hurricane Sandy Survivors by Andrew Tarantola Paywalls guarding the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal fell first. Now Comcast, one of the largest cable operators in the coun...

By Jesús Díaz Good news! Limited subway service in NYC is starting at TOMORROW MORNING. These are all the updates: R trains operate in BK btwn Jay St & 95th St making all local stops N trains operate bt...

Deadspin.com Updates: "The Impact On Science Will Be Terrible": Sandy's Effect On NYU Hospital Is Worse Than You Think: deadspincom: An executive at another New York City hospital, who asked to remain anonymous, just sha...

Film’s Most Horrifying Homes Become Paper-Thin Art By Ashley Feinberg Hacking and slashing may be the stuff horror movies are made of, but Marc Hagan-Guirey takes a much more delicate approach to the art of fright...

Facebook Is Fixing the Thing You Hate Most About Your Profile By Sam Biddle Timeline is the most beautiful thing to happen to Facebook, but it’s not without its detractors. Complaint numero uno: the double-column ...

By Kif Leswing Today’s a great day to buy this Networked 2TB Iomega Hard Drive. Newegg’s got it for $100 with free shipping, which is a pretty good deal for a external 2TB hard drive period, and a really gr...

Here Are Criterion’s Scariest High-Brow Horror Films By Adrian Covert Traditionally, scary movies are very, very campy in the best of ways and not always considered brilliant without some sort of qualifier. Of cou...