Biggs is the East Coast Editor of TechCrunch and former editor
of Gizmodo.
(Thiel secretly funded a lawsuit that led to the bankruptcy
of Gizmodo's former parent company, Gawker Media.)
Other contributors to this guide include Jacqui Cheng, Wirecutter editor in chief and former senior editor at Ars Technica; Brian Lam, Wirecutter founder and former editor in chief
of Gizmodo; Kevin Purdy, author of our Android smartwatch guide and former Lifehacker editor; and Jim McDannald, Wirecutter fitness writer, residency - trained podiatrist, distance - running coach, and the author of our fitness tracker guide.
This post was produced by the Special Projects Desk
of Gizmodo Media.
Last week news broke of the epic hacking
of Gizmodo's Mat Honan.
It's truly a wonder; Adam Clark Estes
of Gizmodo wants one so bad.
Brian, Graham, and I —
of Gizmodo, TreeHugger, and my own blog, respectively — will choose one Grand Prize winner and one Runner - up after that.
He is former senior editor of Dwell magazine, a contributing editor at Wired UK, and Editor in Chief
of Gizmodo.
One of the first results of the Gawker / VNU - Deal is a german version
of gizmodo (de.gizmodo.com), which is really terrible.
Today in the musty sub-basement
of Gizmodo we call Remainders, Star Trek's Simon Pegg is having AppleCare difficulties, Santa gives you GPS directions, Star Trek: TNG gets bizarrely and hilariously re-dubbed, Adult - Swim - style, and Sony renames their ebook store.
We were curious about the habits
of Gizmodo readers.
«The Xbox One's dashboard is an obvious evolution from the latest version of the Xbox 360's UI, but it's also very much its own entity,» writes Eric Limer
of Gizmodo.
In the wake of a series
of Gizmodo reports this spring that accused Facebook of suppressing conservative news, the document also feels like a further defense of its own neutrality.
Katie Drummond, the editor - in - chief
of Gizmodo, called her publication's story «accurate» in a statement released to Reuters Tuesday.
Not exact matches
Gizmodo reports dozens
of complaints have been filed with the Federal Trade Commission alleging Jessica Alba's Honest Company has been charging customers for a subscription diaper service under «misleading conditions.»
«You need a lot
of raw materials from asteroids to enable that,» CEO Daniel Faber told
Gizmodo in August.
Perhaps one
of the most shocking conspiracy theories that turned out to be true was a CIA program called MKUltra, which had the stated goal
of developing biological and chemical weapons capability during the Cold War, according to
Gizmodo.
He said he would be inviting «leading conservatives» and people from all across the political spectrum to talk with him and share their points
of view about the issues raised by the
Gizmodo story.
In a blog post, a Facebook vice president said the
Gizmodo story was inaccurate, and that the site doesn't «allow or advise our reviewers to discriminate against sources
of any political origin, period.»
In addition,
Gizmodo reports that there is no evidence that Uber ever took advantage
of this access to gain personal information from Uber users.
Gizmodo, Lifehacker, Kotaku, Jalopnik, Deadspin, Jezebel represents about 90 %
of the audience
of the group.
First
of all, I think that properties like
Gizmodo and Lifehacker and Deadspin and Jezebel have a much better chance
of prospering in this new world than general news brands, news and media brands.
The investigation comes after
Gizmodo reported on Monday that a former Facebook employee claimed workers «routinely suppressed news stories
of interest to conservative readers,» while «artificially» adding other stories to the trending list.
It's also easy to say Facebook is over-compensating following reports from
Gizmodo that members
of the company's trending team had been suppressing conservative perspectives.
Wikipedia was apparently unaware
of the plan, with a Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson telling
Gizmodo «we are always happy to see people, companies, and organizations recognize Wikipedia's value as a repository
of free knowledge.
With that said, tech news blog
Gizmodo recently published a list
of several Airbnb listings for homes in Rio in the thousands
of dollars, so there's a range.
A report from
Gizmodo this week suggests that a team
of «news curators» subjectively selected stories for the objective - sounding «trending» section
of the Facebook homepage.
The app, launched over the summer, has been downloaded nearly 50,000 times, and it has generated scores
of positive reviews, from
Gizmodo to Wired.
Gizmodo has reached out to Uber for comment on nature
of Tuesday's board meeting and we'll update this post when we receive a reply.
Annalee Newitz, who ran Gawker's tech blog iO9, was placed at the helm
of a combined iO9 and
Gizmodo entity to oversee a turnaround.
First, there is no incentive for Facebook to do any
of this; while the company denies this report in
Gizmodo that the company shelved a change to the News Feed algorithm that would have eliminated fake news stories because it disproportionately affected right - wing sites, the fact remains that the company is heavily incentivized to be perceived as neutral by all sides; anything else would drive away users, a particularly problematic outcome for a social network.2
On Wednesday, just before the company went public with its news,
Gizmodo reported that employees
of Cambridge Analytica's U.S. offices learned that their jobs were being terminated when they were ordered to hand over their company keycards.
Gizmodo reports that complaint shareholder Fan Yuan has accused the company
of making «materially false and / or misleading» claims about its handling
of user data, and failing to disclose the ongoing situation has reduced the value
of Facebook shares.
In fact, the Echo Spot does everything that the Echo Show can do, making
Gizmodo's Alex Cranz question the existence
of the Echo Show.
Screenshots from the company's internal chat service obtained by
Gizmodo show a darkly comic mood in anticipation
of the call.
He also cited a 2016
Gizmodo report about a former Facebook worker who said the company prevented conservative topics from appearing in the list
of trending news topics (a Facebook executive said the company «found no evidence that the anonymous allegations» were true).
Zuckerberg's insistence that Facebook strives for political neutrality is not any more likely to convince conservatives that the company is not suppressing their speech than the denial
of the 2016
Gizmodo report.
In May 2016, Republican Senator John Thune
of South Dakota demanded Facebook explain a
Gizmodo report accusing «trending» news staff members
of intentionally suppressing articles from conservative sources.
The details
of the store designs were recently leaked and picked up by
Gizmodo and the plans were pretty ambitious.
«It's luck
of numbers,» Grant tells
Gizmodo.
The ruling is still being appealed, but if it's upheld it could put Gawker Media — which publishes sites like Jezebel and
Gizmodo in addition to Gawker itself — out
of business.
• The Economy ≠ The Stock Market (Irrelevant Investor) see also Strong Jobs Market, Weak Stock Market (A Wealth
of Common Sense) • Here's What Happened To All 53 of Marissa Mayer's Yahoo Acquisitions (Gizmodo) • Brexit and Democracy (Mainly Macro) see also Brexit pricing precedents: an empirical study (Macro Man) • Hedge fund fee structure consumes 80 % of alpha (FT) • How to Psychologically Prepare Clients for Bear Markets (Advisor Perspectives) • Kansas» experiment in conservative economics still a bust (Chicago Tribune) • Ego is the Enemy: The Legend of Genghis Khan (Farnam Street) • Be Wary Of Claims About How The Orlando Attack Will Affect The Election (FiveThirtyEight) see also Florida cut $ 100 million from its mental hospital
of Common Sense) • Here's What Happened To All 53
of Marissa Mayer's Yahoo Acquisitions (Gizmodo) • Brexit and Democracy (Mainly Macro) see also Brexit pricing precedents: an empirical study (Macro Man) • Hedge fund fee structure consumes 80 % of alpha (FT) • How to Psychologically Prepare Clients for Bear Markets (Advisor Perspectives) • Kansas» experiment in conservative economics still a bust (Chicago Tribune) • Ego is the Enemy: The Legend of Genghis Khan (Farnam Street) • Be Wary Of Claims About How The Orlando Attack Will Affect The Election (FiveThirtyEight) see also Florida cut $ 100 million from its mental hospital
of Marissa Mayer's Yahoo Acquisitions (
Gizmodo) • Brexit and Democracy (Mainly Macro) see also Brexit pricing precedents: an empirical study (Macro Man) • Hedge fund fee structure consumes 80 %
of alpha (FT) • How to Psychologically Prepare Clients for Bear Markets (Advisor Perspectives) • Kansas» experiment in conservative economics still a bust (Chicago Tribune) • Ego is the Enemy: The Legend of Genghis Khan (Farnam Street) • Be Wary Of Claims About How The Orlando Attack Will Affect The Election (FiveThirtyEight) see also Florida cut $ 100 million from its mental hospital
of alpha (FT) • How to Psychologically Prepare Clients for Bear Markets (Advisor Perspectives) • Kansas» experiment in conservative economics still a bust (Chicago Tribune) • Ego is the Enemy: The Legend
of Genghis Khan (Farnam Street) • Be Wary Of Claims About How The Orlando Attack Will Affect The Election (FiveThirtyEight) see also Florida cut $ 100 million from its mental hospital
of Genghis Khan (Farnam Street) • Be Wary
Of Claims About How The Orlando Attack Will Affect The Election (FiveThirtyEight) see also Florida cut $ 100 million from its mental hospital
Of Claims About How The Orlando Attack Will Affect The Election (FiveThirtyEight) see also Florida cut $ 100 million from its mental hospitals.
Gizmodo reports that some
of the so - called cryptocurrency «whales» (those who own large amounts
of bitcoins or other cryptocurrencies) have been cashing out
of their positions.
Funniest: Jesus Diaz at
Gizmodo with «The Worst Book Covers
of All Time Have Destroyed My Faith in Humanity»
As reported in
Gizmodo yesterday: Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories
of interest to conservative readers from the social network's influential «trending» news section, according to a former journalist who worked on the project.
Water with a little bit
of tritium in it is often released from nuclear reactors, notes
Gizmodo, and tritium in general (which emits a relatively weak form
of radiation) is not dangerous unless it's ingested.
The lingering gravitational effects
of a star that passed by our solar system some 70,000 years ago can be seen in the movements
of dozens
of comets today,
Gizmodo reports.
A strange dolphin skull that sat in the Smithsonian Institution National Museum
of Natural History collections for more than 50 years actually belongs to a previously unknown marine ancestor
of the long - beaked South Asian river dolphin,
Gizmodo reports.
Astronomers say they have found evidence
of one
of the youngest planets ever observed, smack in the process
of being ripped apart by its juvenile star,
Gizmodo reports.
The
Gizmodo Gallery,
gizmodo.com's roving exhibition
of technology marvels, stops by the Big Apple