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Heartbreak, that's what happens. The video, made by Anthony Sherin, captures the life of a piano left on the streets of New York City. It starts out nicely, people play a few notes, others join in and then... it gets ran...

As anticipated, several countries pushed to expand the UN's authority to regulate the internet and the US, along with many of its allies, have said they will not sign the updated treaty. Interestingly, the collapse of ne...

If Twelve South's BookBook for iPad is War and Peace, its new BookBook for iPad mini case is The Old Man and the Sea: a lot smaller, but no less appreciated. The black, brown or red shell protects Apple's tiny tablet wit...

Femtocells are rarely subtle devices, including Vodafone's earlier Sure Signal models. That's what makes a newly revamped version of the Sure Signal so noteworthy -- it's very nearly unintrusive. The new edition plugs di...

If you hadn't noticed, it was a pretty big day for Google. The Google Maps app came out late last night and completely dominated Apple Maps and to celebrate, Google—as only Google can—had its YouTube, Googl...

You've been able to turn your iPhone into a low-quality Holga camera for some time now with this case that puts a spinning wheel of filters at your disposal. But DSLR users can now make the images from their thousand dol...

It's been but a mere few days since Adobe added some much-welcomed Retina support to its Photoshop and Illustrator CS6 apps, but that's not stopping the outfit from coming back with more updates today. This time out, how...

There are two things we here at Gizmodo love unabashedly: science and beer. So, when we saw that the gang at the UK's Institute of Physics had launched a site about the physics of beer, we just had to invite them to come...

Bing's desktop version recently underwent a bit of a makeover and Microsoft has now added its search engine's new social sidebar for the iPad's Safari users. Upon performing a web search, folks will have access to a side...

It's that time of year again; Google's leading its ostensibly lonely and unloved services out to pasture. This time Google Sync, and some more obscure calender options are headed for that big cloud storage unit in the sk...

Most of us would call the Dropbox mobile app very utilitarian, built for browsing files and not much else. It's becoming more of a media viewer in its own right with its just-arrived Dropbox 2.0 for iOS users. The cloud ...

It's party season. In fact, we have our office shindig tonight, and maybe you're attending a holiday fete of your own. More »

In each issue of Distro, editor-in-chief Tim Stevens publishes a wrap-up of the week in news. This turned into a surprisingly busy week in news, and I'm proud to say we made a little of our own this week with the announc...

Seasons change and web services shut down -- such in life. Google today announced some "difficult decisions" regarding a number of properties, particularly Calendar, which will see the end of several "less popular" featu...

Envoyé Spécial, a 60 Minutes-like program from public TV station France 2, went undercover at the Zhengzhou iPhone 5 Foxconn factory recently (within the past two months) and reported many of the same problems the ...

Update 5:05 PM: It's since come to my attention that not only are these the official Unofficial Shoe of Gizmodo, but also like, half the staff has a pair. Today you'll pay less than any of us paid for our Bean Boots. [L....

With CES looming like an electrically charged storm of news and announcements, it's time for us to give you our best bets on what you'll see come January. During the month of December, we'll bring you a series of CES pre...

Super detailed cookie cutters are cool. Cookies are awesome. What could possibly go wrong? This. No matter how intricate your fancy William Sonoma Star Wars cookie cutters may be, it seems you will be doomed to barely re...

Go ahead -- lambaste me for even mentioning it. I'll wait. Now, how's about we look beyond the surface -- the beautified tile regime and the whimsical animations -- and focus on what actually matters when looking at a sm...

Need, or just happen to want, random pictures of random things? Probably for placeholder images while building a website, but also maybe just for fun? Check out Lorempixel. It does those things. More »

You know the face. That obviously-disappointed-but-smiling-to-be-polite face that people make every time they open a present from you. Time to step up your game and start giving gifts that people actually want. Our frien...

We've seen a couple of ways to change the depth of field (DOF) in pictures after they've been shot, but those methods have all featured specific hardware for the job. Knowing that most aren't inclined to fork over the no...