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My favorite movies in the world are those that involve time travel. I can't help it, it's my weakness. I also love any move with Joseph Gordon Levitt. And Bruce Willis. And hell let's just add Piper Perabo because she's ...

Facebook, home of the Like, News Feed and Timeline, is now a social search company. Or at least it desperately wants to be. AllThingsD Senior Editor and friend of Gizmodo Mike Isaac snapped a picture of the new front sig...

Do you like being that extremely annoying person at parties, concerts, or sporting events that everyone wishes security would quickly escort away? That's all but guaranteed if you show up with the Deaf Leopard: a CO2-pow...

Earlier this month word got out that Facebook was trialing a free voice calling feature in Canada. We said that, if those tests went well, the company would expand to the US. Well, things must have gone swimmingly becaus...

This is a problem. It's not the biggest problem in the world, but it's a just such a dumb, thoughtless, annoying design flaw that it bears mentioning. Apple's doing headphone jacks wrong. Actually, no, everyone's doing t...

There's some good news today for T-Mobile customers looking to add a few more Nexus devices to their lives. The carrier announced today that the Nexus 7 tablet is now available to order with a T-Mobile SIM from the Googl...

Considering how terrible this year's flu is, odds are good that you've already become a languid pile of festering contagions. And in case you've managed to evade the virus thus far, get thee a flu shot ASAP, obviously--b...

With security cameras on every corner and surveillance drones soaring overhead, designer Adam Harvey decided that average citizens needed an easy to way to protect their identity and privacy. So he created a line of "Ste...

As much as it's important to have every component of a PC stuck together in a laptop, that same monolithic strategy is a major liability for server clusters: if one part breaks or grows obsolete, it can drag down everyth...

Most people probably remember having a song, album, or band change our lives. It's a fairly common experience, even for those unfortunate beings who don't live and breathe music. It's a good thing to have happen to you (...

In the land of gorgeous phones you won't be able to play with, Sony's red Xperia ZL is king. The prototype was pawed around at the south east asian launch of the handset, but the company has conceded to XperiaBlog that i...

Everyone's ears are shaped differently. In fact, often, a person's right and left ears aren't even identical. So it's hard to find earbuds that fit just right. More

Amazon's running a pretty cool promotion on shoes today. The code NEWYOU2013 takes $20 when you spend $100 on selected sneakers--but this is Amazon, and they've got a pretty great selection. Of course, there's a lot of p...

It's been a slow process, but AT&T is gradually making FaceTime over Cellular (Apple's video chat service) available to more people. The feature was introduced with iOS 6, but it was up to carriers on how they wanted to ...

In a move overdue since FaceTime over cellular launched in September, AT&T is finally letting most of its customers actually freaking use it. In a blog post, AT&T says it has extensively tested the feature and that it wi...

Apple has repeatedly stressed that China is important to its bottom line, but it faces a dilemma given the premium associated with its name: when it can take weeks' worth of typical pay to buy an iOS device, let alone a ...

Electric razors have always had a bit of a bum rap, derided for being louder and less efficient than a "real" blade. But today, electric razors look more like Jetsons props than mid-century mechanizations. We collected a...

That's right folks -- tonight, at 11:55PM PT, the special discount on Expand tickets is set to expire. Don't fret just yet, because you still have time to order tickets at the rock bottom price of $75, before they climb ...

For most of us, it's winter. Which means it's soul-suckingly cold. But for this week's Shooting Challenge, we're celebrating all of those frozen motifs--ice, snow and frosty breath. For this week's Shooting Challenge, sh...

This practical joke could have turned into tragedy: watch as some "friends" throw a guy out of a boat after seeing a great white shark in the distance. As they approach the shark, the animal turns around and goes straigh...

This has been a long time coming. Microsoft Play just added 15 Xbox Live Arcade games to Windows 8 and RT through the Windows Store. And it's about time. More

Microsoft signaled its intent to directly back Windows 8 gaming before the OS was shipping, and it's proving true to its word through a new Play program. The team-up with NVIDIA brings Xbox (or really, Xbox Live Arcade) ...