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1.

Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access To Your Shadow Contact Information (gizmodo.com)

1353 points by dhotson 2018-09-27 | 458 comments

2.

Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox (gizmodo.com)

1174 points by sagivo 2015-02-13 | 636 comments

3.

Yes, Google Uses Its Power to Quash Ideas It Doesn’t Like (gizmodo.com)

605 points by IBM 2017-09-01 | 190 comments

4.

RSS Is Better Than Twitter (gizmodo.com)

580 points by k1m 2019-03-30 | 250 comments

5.

Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool (gizmodo.com)

580 points by uptown 2018-08-07 | 167 comments

6.

The San Franciso Fire Department makes its own wooden ladders by hand (gizmodo.com)

579 points by lisper 2018-07-11 | 321 comments

7.

The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet (gizmodo.com)

522 points by curtis 2018-02-07 | 255 comments

8.

A rising sentiment that IBM’s Watson can’t deliver on its promises (gizmodo.com)

503 points by artsandsci 2017-08-10 | 279 comments

9.

NASA's Radar Found 4 Men Trapped in Rubble in Nepal by Their Heartbeats (gizmodo.com)

473 points by kaa2102 2015-05-07 | 86 comments

10.

Paper Centrifuge (gizmodo.com)

412 points by mhb 2017-01-11 | 129 comments

11.

Senator asks FBI director to name the cryptographers who support backdoors (gizmodo.com)

403 points by enraged_camel 2018-01-25 | 257 comments

12.

Facebook Knows How to Track You Using the Dust on Your Camera Lens (gizmodo.com)

403 points by huntermeyer 2019-01-06 | 221 comments

13.

Why people keep trying to erase the Hollywood sign from Google Maps (2014) (gizmodo.com)

370 points by c0riander 2015-11-08 | 179 comments

14.

The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Internally at Google (gizmodo.com)

353 points by akalin 2017-08-05 | 575 comments

15.

How Steve Wozniak Wrote BASIC for the Original Apple From Scratch (gizmodo.com)

351 points by mr_tyzic 2014-05-02 | 97 comments

16.

China Bans the Word 'Leica' on Social Media (gizmodo.com)

324 points by mmastrac 2019-04-21 | 260 comments

17.

FBI secretly collected data on Aaron Swartz earlier than was thought (gizmodo.com)

321 points by ahakki 2018-12-14 | 109 comments

18.

This Is a Photoshop and It Blew My Mind - Photosketch (gizmodo.com)

321 points by AjJi 2009-10-06 | 67 comments

19.

Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News (gizmodo.com)

320 points by uptown 2016-05-09 | 349 comments

20.

A vigilante trying to improve IoT security (gizmodo.com)

303 points by jgrahamc 2017-04-26 | 231 comments

21.

Prominent D.C. media firm implicated in fake FCC comments (gizmodo.com)

282 points by spac 2019-02-24 | 72 comments

22.

Facebook Patent Imagines Triggering a Phone’s Mic When Hidden Signal Plays on TV (gizmodo.com)

255 points by mmaanniisshh 2018-06-27 | 88 comments

23.

How does a fighter jet lock onto and keep track of an enemy aircraft? (2013) (gizmodo.com)

251 points by KhalilK 2014-10-10 | 85 comments

24.

Moody’s downgraded Equifax from “stable” to “negative” due to cybersecurity (gizmodo.com)

245 points by hsnewman 2019-05-23 | 92 comments

25.

Mathematicians Are Hoarding a Type of Japanese Chalk (gizmodo.com)

244 points by curtis 2015-06-16 | 109 comments

26.

Facebook asks users for email passwords, then “accidentally” uploads contacts (gizmodo.com)

240 points by alistairSH 2019-04-18 | 2 comments

27.

How Yahoo Killed Flickr (2012) (gizmodo.com)

238 points by uptown 2017-04-25 | 179 comments

28.

Why Does the International Space Station Have That Shape? (gizmodo.com)

234 points by curtis 2015-03-20 | 111 comments

29.

Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Contract (gizmodo.com)

233 points by rumcajz 2018-06-19 | 225 comments

30.

IRS Awards Equifax $7.25M Contract to Help 'Verify Taxpayer Identities' (gizmodo.com)

233 points by esalazar 2017-10-04 | 65 comments

31.

Bitcoin Blows Past $9,000 (gizmodo.com)

231 points by ourmandave 2017-11-26 | 258 comments

32.

How Magic Leap Is Creating an Alternate Reality (gizmodo.com)

230 points by ghosh 2014-11-20 | 110 comments

33.

A Visiting Star Jostled Our Solar System 70,000 Years Ago (gizmodo.com)

228 points by rbanffy 2018-03-22 | 86 comments

34.

Customer Service Agents Can See What You're Typing in Real Time (gizmodo.com)

219 points by curtis 2019-01-23 | 162 comments

35.

Visible signs left after Google Fiber abandons Louisville (gizmodo.com)

219 points by gumby 2019-03-14 | 180 comments

36.

AI That Annoys Telemarketers (gizmodo.com)

216 points by mhb 2016-02-05 | 184 comments

37.

Video of Glitter Bomb for Package Thieves Exposed as Partial Fake (gizmodo.com)

209 points by mbrubeck 2018-12-21 | 124 comments

38.

FamilyTreeDNA: It’s Our ‘Moral Responsibility’ to Give FBI Access to Your DNA (gizmodo.com)

207 points by kaboro 2019-04-06 | 83 comments

39.

Pokémon Go Is Teaching Americans the Metric System (gizmodo.com)

206 points by ahmedfromtunis 2016-07-23 | 161 comments

40.

Yes, Amazon Echo Is an Ad Machine (gizmodo.com)

206 points by ourmandave 2018-01-03 | 165 comments

41.

FBI's Use of Paid Best Buy Informants Goes Deeper Than We Knew (gizmodo.com)

204 points by dsl 2018-03-07 | 111 comments

42.

An AI Lie Detector Is Going to Start Questioning Travelers in the EU (gizmodo.com)

203 points by atlasunshrugged 2018-11-01 | 202 comments

43.

The Turds Who Voted to Sell Out Your Online Privacy Get Their Faces Plastered (gizmodo.com)

195 points by hackerkid 2017-05-05 | 62 comments

44.

Google de-emphasizes 'Don't Be Evil' motto in its code of conduct (gizmodo.com)

194 points by ourmandave 2018-05-18 | 169 comments

45.

The Last of the Iron Lungs (gizmodo.com)

194 points by ohjeez 2017-11-20 | 64 comments

46.

Before 1948, LA's Power Grid Ran at 50hz (gizmodo.com)

191 points by curtis 2017-07-08 | 163 comments

47.

Google helps Pentagon analyze military drone footage (gizmodo.com)

189 points by fraqed 2018-03-06 | 165 comments

48.

20 Years Ago, Microsoft introduced its optical mouse (gizmodo.com)

188 points by turtlegrids 2019-05-07 | 174 comments

49.

A bug in Samsung’s default texting app is sending random pics to other people (gizmodo.com)

186 points by ilarum 2018-07-02 | 84 comments

50.

The Pyrex Glass Controversy That Won't Die (gizmodo.com)

184 points by curtis 2019-03-16 | 131 comments

51.

The Magic Leap Con (gizmodo.com)

180 points by danso 2018-10-13 | 132 comments

52.

Sweden Leaks the Personal Information of Millions of Its Own Citizens (gizmodo.com)

175 points by brainpool 2017-07-25 | 71 comments

53.

EU suppressed results of a study that found piracy doesn’t harm sales (gizmodo.com)

174 points by ABS 2017-09-23 | 38 comments

54.

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Is Able to Drill Holes into Rocks Again (gizmodo.com)

171 points by wglb 2018-05-24 | 34 comments

55.

Mathematicians are hoarding a type of Japanese chalk (2015) (gizmodo.com)

170 points by florian_s 2019-04-22 | 123 comments

56.

Hackers Who Shut Down PSN and Xbox Live Now Attacking Tor (gizmodo.com)

170 points by conover 2014-12-26 | 154 comments

57.

Don't Buy Anyone an Echo (gizmodo.com)

164 points by rbanffy 2017-12-05 | 186 comments

58.

How Palantir Is Taking Over New York City (gizmodo.com)

163 points by jonbaer 2016-09-23 | 106 comments

59.

Uber’s iOS App Had Secret Permissions That Allowed It to Copy Your Phone Screen (gizmodo.com)

163 points by thisjustinm 2017-10-05 | 21 comments

60.

Judge Says IP Address Doesn't Prove Anything in Piracy Case (gizmodo.com)

159 points by JobBoardWPTheme 2016-06-29 | 49 comments

61.

Roomba's Next Big Step Is Selling Maps of Your Home to the Highest Bidder (gizmodo.com)

159 points by ourmandave 2017-07-24 | 65 comments

62.

Facebook Figured Out My Family Secrets, and It Won't Tell Me How (gizmodo.com)

154 points by nreece 2017-08-26 | 122 comments

63.

The House That Spied on Me (gizmodo.com)

154 points by surlyadopter 2018-02-07 | 72 comments

64.

Tips to Improve Your Mental Math Ability (gizmodo.com)

153 points by artsandsci 2017-02-23 | 50 comments

65.

Google Won't Renew Contract for Project Maven, Pentagon Drone AI Imaging Program (gizmodo.com)

152 points by mark-ruwt 2018-06-01 | 145 comments

66.

Watch Tesla’s Autopilot Brake for a Crash Before It Even Happens (gizmodo.com)

152 points by obi1kenobi 2016-12-28 | 3 comments

67.

Goodbye Big Five: Google (gizmodo.com)

152 points by kaboro 2019-01-29 | 116 comments

68.

10 page anti-diversity screed circulating internally at Google (gizmodo.com)

151 points by cszerzo 2017-08-05 | 149 comments

69.

IBM takes first 3D image of atomic bonds (gizmodo.com)

149 points by jedliu 2009-08-27 | 49 comments

70.

Why Is My Smart Home So Dumb? (gizmodo.com)

146 points by mparramon 2015-02-13 | 150 comments

71.

Last Words of Programmer Bill Zeller (2011) (gizmodo.com)

145 points by thinkmore 2017-11-23 | 44 comments

72.

Researchers Made 25-Ton Boulders They Can Move by Hand (gizmodo.com)

144 points by mcenedella 2019-04-21 | 45 comments

73.

In Tuesday's Vote, California Opts for Year-Round Daylight Saving (gizmodo.com)

143 points by ourmandave 2018-11-07 | 134 comments

74.

The Mess at Meetup (gizmodo.com)

134 points by rfreytag 2018-02-17 | 95 comments

75.

Nuclear Weapons Nerds (gizmodo.com)

132 points by smogcutter 2018-08-22 | 42 comments

76.

The First 3D-Printed Steel Bridge (gizmodo.com)

131 points by odabaxok 2018-04-03 | 51 comments

77.

Amazon's Aggressive Anti-Union Tactics Revealed in Leaked Video (gizmodo.com)

127 points by amaccuish 2018-09-26 | 23 comments

78.

Verizon and AT&T Are Slower After Adding Unlimited Plans (gizmodo.com)

126 points by ourmandave 2017-08-03 | 79 comments

79.

A Huge Diamond Mine That Helped Build The Soviet Union (2014) (gizmodo.com)

126 points by mitul_45 2017-07-11 | 57 comments

80.

Bizarre Glasses Promise to Cure Motion Sickness (gizmodo.com)

125 points by curtis 2018-07-10 | 72 comments

81.

FCC Chair Ajit Pai “jokes” about being a Verizon shill (gizmodo.com)

121 points by warent 2017-12-11 | 67 comments

82.

Netflix on an NES (gizmodo.com)

117 points by deirdres 2015-03-10 | 26 comments

83.

Engineers Say They've Created a Way to Detect Bombs and Guns Using Basic Wifi (gizmodo.com)

116 points by kiyanwang 2018-08-16 | 46 comments

84.

Ex-Google Employee's Memo Says Executives Shut Down Pro-Diversity Discussions (gizmodo.com)

115 points by MBCook 2018-01-12 | 98 comments

85.

Caterpillar's new smartphone with built-in thermal imaging (gizmodo.com)

114 points by uphoff 2016-02-22 | 63 comments

86.

Cinder (YC W15) – Smart Countertop Grill (gizmodo.com)

112 points by InternetofJim 2015-03-05 | 78 comments

87.

Do Not, I Repeat, Do Not Download Onavo, Facebook’s Vampiric VPN Service (gizmodo.com)

111 points by ourmandave 2018-02-13 | 40 comments

88.

Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract (gizmodo.com)

110 points by evo_9 2018-05-14 | 113 comments

89.

What Happened to All 53 of Marissa Mayer's Yahoo Acquisitions (gizmodo.com)

108 points by ghosh 2016-06-16 | 114 comments

90.

Defense of Amazon's Face Recognition Tool Undermined by Only Known Police Client (gizmodo.com)

107 points by smacktoward 2019-02-03 | 35 comments

91.

How Much Do Skyscrapers Actually Move? (gizmodo.com)

107 points by mhb 2015-06-03 | 39 comments

92.

IBM's Watson recommended 'unsafe and incorrect' cancer treatments (gizmodo.com)

107 points by airstrike 2018-07-26 | 65 comments

93.

FCC Commissioner Vows to Ignore Staff's 'Serious Concerns' About Net Neutrality (gizmodo.com)

107 points by ourmandave 2017-01-12 | 50 comments

94.

US Government Fears Another Explosion Of The Ransomware Plague It Helped Create (gizmodo.com)

106 points by JumpCrisscross 2017-05-15 | 77 comments

95.

DNA Testing Botched My Family's Heritage (gizmodo.com)

106 points by anarbadalov 2018-01-16 | 47 comments

96.

Why Do Laptop Makers Have Such Terrible Websites (gizmodo.com)

105 points by amaccuish 2018-11-23 | 87 comments

97.

Two Chinese Stalagmites Are a 'Holy Grail' for Accurate Radiocarbon Dating (gizmodo.com)

104 points by curtis 2018-12-15 | 25 comments

98.

Secret FBI Watchlist Leaks Online (gizmodo.com)

104 points by gmays 2021-08-18 | 17 comments

99.

What Happened When Facebook Hired Some Journalists (gizmodo.com)

102 points by hollaur 2016-05-08 | 99 comments

100.

The Surprisingly Innovative Future of Wood (gizmodo.com)

99 points by curtis 2016-02-07 | 45 comments

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