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September 16th 2025

If You Hate Liquid Glass on iOS 26, Here’s How to Make It Better

If you can’t get used Apple's new liquidy and glass UI in iOS 26, there’s an option available for you.

Gadgets Kyle Barr

May 8th 2025

Your email inbox isn’t just an annoyance—it’s a privacy risk

Delete old accounts, protect your privacy, and cancel subscriptions.

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January 9th 2025

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A Lot of People Are Searching for How to Delete Facebook and Instagram, and We Would Like Their Clicks

There is an exodus of users who are ditching Meta platforms following the decision to end fact checking.

Social Media AJ Dellinger

September 13th 2024

How to Use Google Lens in a Chrome Browser

Searching for visuals on the web is easier than ever.

Tech News David Nield

September 2nd 2024

Forgot Your Wi-Fi Passwords? Here’s an Easy Way to Find Them Again

There's nothing more annoying than forgetting your WiFi password.

Gadgets David Nield

August 1st 2024

What to Do if Your Phone Gets Lost or Stolen

Lost your phone? Don't panic and follow these steps.

Privacy & Security David Nield

April 29th 2020

Android Users Can Now Be Free From Their Netflix Viewing Mistakes

With much of the U.S. still under orders to shelter in place, there’s not much to do besides stay home and binge watch streaming video. Thankfully, for people who’ve been watching a lot of Netflix on their mobile Android device, Netflix has finally made it possible to remove shows from your Continue Watching row. Up…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford

September 7th 2019

Why xkcd Creator Randall Munroe Wrote the World’s Most Extreme ‘How To’ Book

While waiting for your flight to board, you look at your phone and realize its battery is at 1 percent. You look around but can’t find a power outlet. There might be practical solutions to this problem. Or, you could follow Randall Munroe’s instructions and attach a paddle wheel to an escalator in order to…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum

September 4th 2019

The Most Extreme Way to Take a Selfie, According to xkcd Creator Randall Munroe

The following is an excerpt from How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, a new book from cartoonist and science communicator Randall Munroe. How To is available on Amazon here. We sometimes think of our eyes as a pair of cameras, but human visual systems are so much more sophisticated than any camera—it’s…

Books & Comics Randall Munroe

July 23rd 2019

Libra Scammers Are Promising Early Access to Facebook’s Digital Currency to Steal Private Information

If you search YouTube for Facebook’s Libra, you’ll find plenty of videos that tell you how to buy the digital currency. The problem is that many of the videos are published by scam artists who are apparently trying to steal your personal information. How do we know they’re scams? Libra hasn’t even been launched yet.…

Tech News Matt Novak

February 4th 2019

Last Call: Flickr Starts Deleting Your Old Photos on March 12 [Updated]

Update: Flickr has extended the deadline to March 12. See below for more details. Flickr, one of the best social media services of the 2000s, will begin mass deleting photos tomorrow, February 5. If you’d like to keep any of the photos that you uploaded to the service and maybe forgot about, now is the…

Tech News Matt Novak

September 7th 2017

What Are ICOs and Why Are They Getting Banned in China?

Over the weekend, China banned initial coin offerings (ICO) and briefly paused the seemingly unstoppable price increase of bitcoin. But the cryptocurrency has already bounced back. With the likes of Paris Hilton, Kim Dotcom, and John McAfee all jumping into the ICO world in one way or another, it seems worth asking what the hell…

Tech News Rhett Jones

August 29th 2017

How To Make a Tiny Popsicle Stick Violin to Play When Your Friends Start Whining

It took Antonio Stradivari months to create one of his instrumental masterpieces, but you can make yourself a tiny wooden violin in just a few hours using popsicle sticks, toothpicks, coffee stirrers, and string. It can’t be used to play Mozart, but you can still pretend to play it whenever your friends start complaining about…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

August 3rd 2017

How to Read a Silicon Valley Diversity Report So You Don’t Get Hoodwinked

On Tuesday, Facebook released its annual diversity report with a mighty claim. For the first time in three years, the company said it actually increased its proportion of black employees, from 2 percent to 3 percent. But here’s the thing: Facebook hasn’t released the hard numbers that would actually prove that. By omitting this crucial…

Tech News Sidney Fussell

April 27th 2017

Watching Someone Make a Camera Lens From Scratch Explains Why No One Makes Camera Lenses From Scratch

The next time you complain about spending thousands of dollars on a precision camera lens, stop and think about all the all hard work that went into its design and creation. As camera maker Mats Wernersson reveals, were you to make a lens yourself, you’d be spending days ensuring every last component was flawless. In…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

February 3rd 2017

How to Turn Nerf’s Newest Blaster Into a Foam Bullet Fire Hose

It was only announced last week, and it’s not supposed to be available until later in the year, but somehow YouTube’s LordDraconical managed to get his hands on Nerf’s new Rival Nemesis MXVII-1oK. He promptly gutted it and then upgraded it to turn it into a wacky foam bullet-shooting monster. https://gizmodo.com/nerfs-colossal-new-gun-blasts-100-rounds-at-70-mph-1791572357 To upgrade the new…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

November 29th 2016

How to Fix Facebook’s Fake News Problem in 3 Easy Steps

Everyone seems obsessed with Facebook’s fake news problem. So we here at Gizmodo have come up with a simple 3-step solution. If we all just follow the steps below, Facebook’s fake news is gone forever! Click on this link. Click “Delete Your Account” Type in your password. And you’re done! Tell your friends!

Social Media Matt Novak

November 21st 2016

How to Make an Awesome Fire Tornado with No Moving Parts

I don’t think it’s possible to make anything cooler with your own two hands than this homemade multicolor fire tornado that spins around and weaves itself together with absolutely no moving parts. The only thing you need to do is cut up a glass cylinder and then offset the half-cylinders a little bit to let…

Sploid Casey Chan

November 11th 2016

How to Turn a BB-8 Toy Into an Authentic-Looking Movie Prop

The marvels of modern manufacturing allow toymakers to add incredible detail to their products. But the reason the BB-8 toy you bought looks almost nothing like the BB-8 seen in The Force Awakens is because you need to add a weathered, worn finish like the film’s prop makers did. However, you don’t need to be…

io9 Andrew Liszewski

September 13th 2016

How to Keep Trolls Out of Your Instagram Comments

Instagram is now making it easier to keep trolls out of your comments. A new feature that which was announced in June lets users filter out potentially offensive comments from their posts. Users can also filter out their own list of words or phrases. Speaking to Mashable, Instagram wouldn’t comment specifically on what words or…

Tech News Christina Warren

How To

If You Hate Liquid Glass on iOS 26, Here’s How to Make It Better

Your email inbox isn’t just an annoyance—it’s a privacy risk

A Lot of People Are Searching for How to Delete Facebook and Instagram, and We Would Like Their Clicks

How to Use Google Lens in a Chrome Browser

Forgot Your Wi-Fi Passwords? Here’s an Easy Way to Find Them Again

What to Do if Your Phone Gets Lost or Stolen

Android Users Can Now Be Free From Their Netflix Viewing Mistakes

Why xkcd Creator Randall Munroe Wrote the World’s Most Extreme ‘How To’ Book

The Most Extreme Way to Take a Selfie, According to xkcd Creator Randall Munroe

Libra Scammers Are Promising Early Access to Facebook’s Digital Currency to Steal Private Information

Last Call: Flickr Starts Deleting Your Old Photos on March 12 [Updated]

What Are ICOs and Why Are They Getting Banned in China?

How To Make a Tiny Popsicle Stick Violin to Play When Your Friends Start Whining

How to Read a Silicon Valley Diversity Report So You Don’t Get Hoodwinked

Watching Someone Make a Camera Lens From Scratch Explains Why No One Makes Camera Lenses From Scratch

How to Turn Nerf’s Newest Blaster Into a Foam Bullet Fire Hose

How to Fix Facebook’s Fake News Problem in 3 Easy Steps

How to Make an Awesome Fire Tornado with No Moving Parts

How to Turn a BB-8 Toy Into an Authentic-Looking Movie Prop

How to Keep Trolls Out of Your Instagram Comments

The 2026 M5 MacBook Air Is Already Cheaper on Amazon Than the Apple Store Ahead of the Big Spring Sale

You Have to See the Oscars’ Awesome ‘Sinners’ Performance (Again)

Echo Show 11 Is Down to Its Lowest Price Ever, Amazon’s Big Spring Sale May Have Started Early

Meta Has Smart Glasses Spiraling Towards Glasshole 2.0

Apple Goes All-In on AirPods 4 After MacBook, Its Lowest Price Yet Changes the Wireless Earbuds Game

Here Are the 2026 Oscar Winners

Nissan Kills NissanConnect EV for Cars Made as Late as 2022

The F-35 Program Can’t Seem to Pull Off a Needed Software Update While Its Jets Fight a War

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

Apple Studio Display XDR Review: It Looks So Good, I Wish It Were an iMac

RayNeo Air 4 Pro Review: My Eyes Love These Video Glasses, but My Nose Disagrees

M5 MacBook Air Review: A Laptop With Real Middle Child Energy

MacBook Neo Review: No Other Budget Laptop Can Compete

M5 Max MacBook Pro Review: Preeminent Power In the Same Old Shell

iPhone 17e Review: So Much More Bang for Your Buck

M4 iPad Air Review: The ‘Better’ iPad Is Now Really That Good

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