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Today the first DLC for the augmented reality game The Playroom built-in to the PlayStation 4 has appeared with the name Toy Maker. This update to The Playroom allows the user to take their smartphone or tablet and creat...

Welcome to our coverage of all the best Black Friday deals. Deals are continuing to pour in, and this post will be constantly updated right up to the point when our Cyber Monday guide goes live. These deals are all subje...

After months of rumblings about a standalone slate, Wacom finally unveiled not one, but two tablets back in September. On paper, the Cintiq Companion may be the more compelling mobile workstation, just because it runs Wi...

The German company TobyRich has launched a smartphone-controlled “smartplane” designed specifically for people who couldn’t fly a plane if their lives depended on it. Aptly dubbed “SmartPlane”, this gadget-and-...

Tech jobs are often hard, thankless, and generally unpleasant--but rarely do you see a company tell you, straight up, it's going to be miserable. The next systems admin for geeky web comic Penny Arcade certainly has thei...

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The first-person shooter game currently ripping up the charts, Call of Duty: Ghosts, has just received a variety of patches to improve gameplay for PS3 as well as PS4. Although the game is already getting top-spot review...

The World Expo Milano 2015 is still a few years years off, but details about the pavilions are starting to emerge. Today, we learn that a building sponsored by agricultural machinery company New Holland will feature a sl...

As if that recently announced trio of Desire smartphones wasn't enough, HTC today introduced a couple more, this time in Taiwan. Meet the Desire 700 and Desire 501, both aimed at the mid-range market in said Asian territ...

Today we largely take international air travel for granted. Every major city in the world is little more than a hop, skip, and jump away. But what was it actually like to fly halfway around the world in the 1930s, when t...

It would appear that the first appearance of the Nokia Lumia 520 as the most common smartphone in use across the world earlier this year was not just a fluke. Not by any stretch of the imagination. Instead we’re seeing...

Most of you will use ovens to cook your turkeys tomorrow. But most of you aren't NASA. We asked their engineers and science writers how they would cook a turkey to perfection using their high tech gear instead of traditi...

An emergency clean-up crew was dispatched to a full-size replica of the Space Shuttle Independence in Houston earlier this morning after some miscreants covered it in graffiti. "Houston We ARE the Problem" is almost a po...

With the release of the G4ME ONE gaming headphones alongside the slightly higher-end G4ME ZERO, Sennheiser reminds the public that they’re not just satisfied with bringing music to the aviator-inspired ear-blaster mark...

We took a brief break from constantly updating our Black Friday guide to bring you your regular Gizmodo deals roundup. The highlight is a series of discounts on Anker's best-selling products, which also happen to be your...

With so many people cooped up in a tiny cabin 30,000 feet in the air, it's inevitable that at least one flight experience in your life is going to be less-than-stellar. But some experiences are much, much worse than othe...

Folks in the Land of the Rising Sun will be pleased to know that there's now another option where they can rent or buy movies and TV shows. Today, Amazon announced the arrival of its Instant Video service in Japan, bring...

In the creation of the newest version of Google’s mobile operating system Android 4.4 KitKat, the developers responsible for testing it did so on modified Nexus 4 devices. One key element in the creation of the full fe...

World domination. It's happening. Slowly, but surely, Timmy is taking over the world. Our monkeys have been hard at work on trying to expand the list of countries we can ship to, and finally, it's happening: We are now a...

"Wild" fragrance firm Juniper Ridge has been running a pop-up shop this fall in Brooklyn, where it's been hosting sidewalk distillations of local plantlife--literally making cologne from the trees and bushes of Williamsb...

Commuters reading their newspapers on a train in Philadelphia circa 1955 -- decades before the invention of that grossly antisocial device: the smartphone.

The Wikimedia Foundation positions Wikipedia as hub for unfettered knowledge, but it's now obligated to police that content in the wake of a newly published German ruling. Stuttgart's Higher Regional Court has determined...