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Aspartame--the artificial sweetener found in drinks like Diet Coke--is not good for you. If you believe otherwise, I admire your commitment to self-delusion. A new study published by a team of investigators at Massachuse...

A group of election lawyers and prominent computer scientists have reportedly asked Hillary Clinton's team to consider a recount in three crucial swing states--Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania--that were won by Donal...

Facebook is building a censorship tool so that the company can return to the Chinese market in a move that has angered employees and caused some to leave, The New York Times reports. Facebook was banned from China in 200...

Yesterday we learned that there were plans afoot to produce the Galaxy S7 in black with a glossy finish. The device was already offered in a matte black version. Since the iPhone 7 comes in both matte and glossy black mo...

Holiday season isn't just shopping season. It's also gaming season. Which is why game makers usually go all out during this time to ensnare bored or willing victims into their choice of escape from reality. And nothing s...

Building websites is as much an art as it is (computer) science. And, let's face it, not everyone has what it takes to craft beautiful, not to mention engaging, websites, nor do we always have a web designer on call. Don...

It's been a pretty busy month for Niantic Labs and it's really no mystery. The holiday and travel season is upon us, which makes it a lucrative opportunity to get Pokemon Go up to snuff ASAP. Quickly following its rebala...

Gamers who preordered Titanfall 2 will be able to download the game's first free DLC starting on November 30. If you didn't preorder the game, you'll still get access to the DLC, but you'll have to wait until December 3 ...

Even if there is too much CGI in movies these days (and there is), let's be thankful that the CGI we're bombarded with looks good. Or, at least, it looks so much better than the utter crap computers spat out back in the ...

US regulators want to limit what you can do with your smartphone while you're behind the wheel. Today, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) published its first safety guidelines regarding driver dis...

Verizon has revealed its Black Friday deals, and they include some fairly big incentives for folks coming in for other carriers. They also include a list of phones that could potentially be free, assuming you have an eli...

I just spent 15 minutes wandering around the office, trying to shoot ghouls in the face with lightning. Before that, I dropped a virtual rococo sofa into the empty space next to my desk, just to see if it would fit. And ...

President-elect Trump may cut NASA’s climate research funding despite a pair of new reports highlighting unexpected spikes in Arctic temperatures. According to a recent report from Stanford, quickly rising temperatures...

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Shopping for gifts for the holidays can be a shitshow, but Gizmodo is here to help.

US President-elect Donald Trump promised Apple incentives to bring manufacturing to America, claiming to have spoken to CEO Tim Cook about the possibility. Restoring America’s position as a manufacturing behemoth was o...

The European Space Agency has released new information about the crash of the ExoMars Schiaparelli lander. Soon after the deployment of its parachute, the lander made a miscalculation so bad that it thought it was below ...

Researchers have been trying to build durable, low-cost synthetic muscles for years but to no avail. The systems developed so far have either been too expensive to produce en mass (like carbon nanotube) or too delicate a...

Steam is looking to get in on all the Black Friday excitement, launching its annual autumn sale today. There are nearly 12,500 games being discounted during this sale, which is a fairly staggering number. You won’t hav...

This week Niantic enabled Ditto, one of the final 150 Pokemon available in the first wave of Pokemon GO pocket monsters. This unique creature allows its user to battle as an opposing Pokemon, transforming before a battle...

The mystery of what happened to Scott Summers has hung over the X-books ever since Marvel's "All-New, All-Different" universe kicked off late last year. All we knew was that he died, creating a whole mess of a situation ...

HTC has updated its Desire smartphone line with the new HTC Desire 650. This phone, as with the model before it, falls into the budget-tier with a design that’s very similar to the Desire 630 launched earlier this year...