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Still waiting for a 128GB iPad? One could come sooner than you think. According to 9to5Mac, Cupertino is preparing to add a new SKU to its fourth-generation tablet line up, slotting next to the existing 16GB, 32GB and 64...

In addition to protecting itself from your pirated content with its see-no-evil encryption, Kim Dotcom's Mega service aims to stay on the law's good side by playing nicely with copyright takedown requests and keeping tha...

Stale tobacco smell. It clings to clothing, permeates wall paint, saturates upholstery, and brands everything it touches with that unmistakable scent. Here's how to keep from smelling like an ashtray just because your ro...

What's worse than the Star Wars prequels? The Star Wars prequels ramrodded in your face with an extra dimension. Lucasfilm was planning on subjecting idiots with loose wallets to re-released 3D Young Anakin, but Disney s...

If you haven't heard of Vine--Twitter's video-sharing app--before today, it might've come across your screen this morning after a brief scandal: a dildo porn clip was featured as an "editor's pick." Porn on Vine--crazy, ...

Facebook's got a fresh update for its main iOS app, and it's got some pleasant additions coming your way. The social network is throwing in the ability to send voice messages and share video recordings directly through t...

Not even Hollywood's most beautiful are inmune to our brain's faulty image processing. Liv Tyler, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Gwyneth Paltrow, Halle Berry, Robert Downey Jr., Keira Knightley, Christina Hendricks--all of t...

Oh man, Vine is fun. It is already apparent that with creativity and planning you can produce something approaching an epic experience in a 6-second video. Vine is a perfect enhancement of Twitter's casual "what's happen...

There's no denying that Facebook's voting system for privacy policies is flawed -- when halting any measure requires enough votes to populate a large country, the attempt at democracy is more of a token gesture. As propo...

It's the dead of winter, your outdoor herb garden is buried under a foot of snow, and you've got a margherita pizza in desperate need of fresh basil. What do you do rookie? What do you do? More

Looks like Yakko, Wakko, et al. have been overlooked for yet another executive level position at their namesake corporation. Instead, Time Warner has opted promote Kevin Tsujihara to CEO at Warner Bros. Tsujihara, who wi...

You've probably got a TV languishing unused somewhere in your home. Or you've got a beautiful modern dumb TV and no easy way to stream Netflix on it. Either way, it's hard to find a less expensive way to add internet to ...

You probably juggle a phone number or two around in that skull of yours just out of necessity, but there are memorization experts out there who would put you to shame. At this year's World Memory Championships, champion ...

I thought Not Pacman--a version of Pac-Man that uses gravity to control the yellow hungry monster--was awesome and needed to be ported to iOS and Android ASAP. Gizmodo reader Pierre-Yves Gatouillat agreed with that opini...

Few things are as satisfying as watching a building get demolished. Bonus points for if it's a gigantic structure, like Texas Stadium, or, say, four water cooling towers for a power plant. Their crumble and fall was show...

While NHK's Super Hi-Vision 8K TV is still some distance away from becoming an everyday presence in our living rooms, we may get the next best thing soon. Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications expects t...

Instagram just got a little more like Facebook and Twitter. The service has started sending out emails alerting you when you've been tagged in a photo. It's a fairly small addition, but probably a sign that Facebook's pu...

Hey makers, tinkerers, and inventors -- have you entered our Insert Coin: New Challengers contest yet? Seriously, you could win $20,000 at Expand this March, a review on Engadget, and a nice promotional boost before you ...

It looks like the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch aren't the only Apple devices getting a software update today. The company has also rolled out an update to the Apple TV, which adds Bluetooth keyboard support, along with th...

A year on, Nike's Flyknit technology (a second skin, if you will) continues to permeate the company's running shoe line. Today Nike announced the Flyknit Lunar1+, an ultra lightweight, all-purpose runner that combines a ...

Hewlett-Packard didn't have the best 2012, but that's not stopping the US company from getting on the Chromebook bandwagon. The HP Chromebook Pavilion was spotted by Slashgear on HP's own web store, despite the additiona...

John Naughton at the Guardian has a perfect--albeit obvious--observation: Despite their overwhelming dominance, Facebook and Apple will eventually fall. "History should teach us that for today's technology industry titan...