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Got your eye on a new Moto X or Moto G smartphone? Motorola will give you up to $300 on a cash card when you trade in your old smartphone. Hypothetically, that means you could buy a subsidized Moto and make money, if you...

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation may have seized the Silk Road and sold off its horde of ill-gotten Bitcoin, but the case isn't over yet -- the dark web site's creator still has to face trial. The defense of Ross U...

Here's a spectacular eruption of Mount Tavurvur in Papua New Guinea. What's cool about it is following the shockwave of the blast, the clouds immediately scatter away and the booming shockwave eventually reaches the peop...

The International Space Station has a cannon that launches tiny CubeSat microsatellites into orbit. Most of the time, those launches are triggered by human scientists on board or back on Earth. But this week, the ISS lau...

Apple's big iPhone 6 event is almost upon us, but a new leak could've spoiled what surprise is remaining, seemingly showing not only a functional handset but perhaps confirming mobile payments support too. The phone, sha...

"It's not a smartwatch," said Iqbal Arshad, Motorola's Senior VP of Global Product, to a roomful of journalists in Motorola's Chicago headquarters. Instead he, and by extension the rest of Motorola, prefer to think of th...

Where absent money leaves gaps, ingenuity fills in. Nowhere is that more true than in Detroit's fire departments, where, as Detroit Free Press reporter Tresa Baldas shows us, a soda can full of jangling coins and screws ...

The company that created the iPhone is no stranger to fashion. They've taken cues from - and given cues to - the fashion industry for years, for everything from product presentation to in-store packaging. Even an Apple S...

The countdown to Apple's special press event on September 9 is on. The company is expected to unveil a new iPhone 6 that could come in two sizes - 4.7 inches and 5.5 inches. The handset will ship with iOS 8 and will, if ...

This week revealed a lot about life on the internet. Most of it was pretty awful. Let's flush out the bad with the best--specifically, the best stories Gizmodo wrote this week.

It was going to be either me or my male colleague. That's a lie: It was absolutely going to be me. It was my last day at IFA, Europe's biggest technology show, and Brad Molen and I were sitting inside a sparsely decorate...

This week, we went hands on with the G Watch R, took a closer look at the Galaxy Edge's bent display, gawked at Dyson's robotic vacuum cleaner, strapped on Samsung's Gear VR, and more!

The tech blogging world was alight this morning with purported images and video of a leaked iPhone 6. That's not surprising--in the run-up to Apple's iPhone 6 event on Tuesday, leaks and rumors are inevitable. But as alw...

There are more than a few sketchy pot stores among the thousands of licensed dispensaries spread across the 23 states and DC where medical marijuana has been legalized. Fortunately, you can just have your weed order deli...

When it comes to the world of smartphones, there are many different models to choose from, especially when you are dealing with the Android-powered smartphones. If you would like to have far less headaches, then picking ...

We've seen way, way too many leaks of the next iPhone's design, but none of them have shown a truly functional device -- until today, apparently. With the help of cnBeta, Chinese leaker zzray has posted photos and video ...

Welcome to this week’s Tech.pinions podcast. This week Ben Bajarin, Bob O'Donnell, Tim Bajarin and Jan Dawson discuss the recent Apple iCloud security breach as well as general concerns around security on the web, digi...

There's probably a perfect moment in your favorite song where everything just clicks. Wouldn't it be great to skip right to the zenith of every tune? Music Machinery's Paul Lamere think so--he's just devised a Spotify pl...

The latest figures: Between January 1 and August 29 of this year, nearly 600 confirmed measles cases were reported to the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. The resurgence is the greatest th...

DARPA's new Ground X-Vehicle Technology project aims to design tanks with less armor, but are faster and more agile as a result. Now, in the movies, we always see these beefy military vehicles rolling along slowly to act...

Every new piece of technology has a few bugs. The iPhone 6 , when it comes out, will be no different. Apple has a stake in every step of its distribution chain, right up to the retail store. So when customers start retur...

Recommended Reading highlights the best long-form writing on technology and more in print and on the web. Some weeks, you'll also find short reviews of books that we think are worth your time. We hope you enjoy the read....