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Stitcher is already a heavy hitter in the world of mobile apps, but users will now find their favorite radio shows and podcasts are accessible from the desktop. Today, the company announced an HTML5 version of its popula...

Flood Destruction in Staten Island Could Be Much Worse than We Think (Updated) Post-Sandy conditions on Staten Island are both horrific and tragically underreported—many have died in mass flooding, either unwillin...

Google Wallet Looks Like It’s Getting a Physical Credit Card By Kyle Wagner We’ve been hearing on and off that this might happen, but Android Police just got a pretty real-looking tip from a leaked build of...

Staten Island Middle School Being Used as a Morgue, Residents Say Post-Sandy conditions on Staten Island are both horrific and tragically underreported—many have died in mass flooding, either unwilling or unable t...

Would You Pay $300 For a Toaster That Looked This Good? By Andrew Liszewski For most people the $20 toaster they got from the bank when they opened their savings account is more than adequate. So KitchenAid is clearly ta...

Evernote 5 for Mac is finally here ... sort of. At least the beta is here, but that's totally out now. Of course, you may not wanna jump into the madness of a beta -- Evernote's warning users that they could suffer data ...

iOS 6.1 Beta’s Biggest Change So Far Looks Like Bug Reports for Apple Maps By Kyle Wagner The very minor iOS 6.0.1 update came out just a bit ago, and Apple already has the beta for the hopefully more substantial ...

Google Wallet hasn't had much uptake in the real world. When most of its use has revolved around one carrier, few payment points and even fewer phones, most of us have had to sit on the sidelines. If an Android Police so...

This Weighted Pen Will Never Roll Off a Table By Andrew Liszewski How much would you pay for a miraculous pen that’s guaranteed to never roll off a table? What’s that you say? Maybe a couple of bucks becaus...

Did This Handful of Sandbags Save an AT&T Store Prowling around Water St. in lower Manhattan today and came across this AT*T store looking all lonely and dark, but with a resilient iPhone 5 banner hanging in the window. ...

Google has revealed just how it harnesses your idle curiosity on every subject imaginable to supercharge its voice search. A database of 230 billion googled words was fed into a language model that can then work out the ...

Join Gizmodo’s Movember Team: Gizmovember Gonna keep this brief: Movember is cool, and we at Gizmodo officially like it. It’s a really good charity that gives money to a variety of serious organizations doi...

The National Hurricane Center Totally Nailed the Sandy Forecast By Mario Aguilar The National Hurricane Center saw Hurricane Sandy coming from thousands of miles away, which is why authorities were able to effect evacuat...

You realize that Star Wars will never be the same again after Disney bought Lucasfilm, even if George Lucas didn’t until it was too late. This means that at some point in the near future, Star Wars memorabilia wil...

Hurricane Sandy's taken out more than the electricity of hundreds of thousands of Northeastern USers -- it's also pillaged the internet connections of many, leaving our Netflix and Hulu Plus subscriptions unused, and sub...

ShadowMe Lets You View Anyone’s Twitter Feed From Your iPhone By Adrian Covert Stop pretending like you’re not a social media stalker. That person you have a crush on. That head honcho you interviewed with....

Anyone who checks Google Now compulsively on a Jelly Bean-equipped Android phone might have noticed a surprise appear while they were checking for directions home from that big Halloween bash. An unannounced pedometer ca...

Path for iPad: Your Small Social Network Gets a Bigger Look By Leslie Horn If you’re not so inclined to share every detail of your life with each person you once sat next to in a sociology lecture, you’re p...

Hot on the heels of its HiRise for iMac release, the Mac-only accessory maker known as Twelve South is outing a similar riser for MacBook products. Engineered to hoist MacBooks from 11 to 15 inches up off of one's table,...

iOS Update 6.0.1 Is Out, and It’s Mostly Bug Fixes By Kyle Wagner Apple just pushed out an update for iOS. Great! It’s almost all bug fixes. Uh… still great, sort of. Here’s the list:  Fixes...

That was quick -- not long after launch details of the LG Mach were caught lurking in Sprint's catalog, the carrier has confirmed them. Fans of the Korean firm's aesthetic who also like their QWERTY keyboards can buy the...

Adorama Is Setting Up a Charging Station in Manhattan for Sandy Victims Without Power By Leslie Horn  We’ve seen the pictures of swarms of Manhattan’s Sandy victims huddled around outlets, struggling to ...