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A 10-page rant against Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL)'s moves toward diversity has gone viral at a time when Silicon Valley is under fire for its treatment of women and minorities. The memo by an unnamed male software engineer at the company, which prompted a pointed rebuke from...

There are many instances when the fate of a product is decided by reviews posted online by users or the number of Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) likes, Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) followers and Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG)'s YouTube video views. However, do these metrics really reflect the...

Think your dinky quad-core computer is fast? Computer geeks are freaking out over the horsepower-heavy new processor unveiled by Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), which sports a blistering 18 cores and 36 threads. “This is the most extreme desktop ever introduced,” Gregory Bryant, Intel...

Business Insider's Will Martin made a keen observation recently by correlating the theft of grease to "The Simpsons." Sounds crazy, but smart criminals know where the money is. Restaurants hire waste handlers to safely remove and dispose of leftover grease from their fryers and...

A landmark case that could have ramifications for more than one industry is before the U.S. Supreme Court, and the case has polarized people as varied as companies, scholars, consumer advocacy groups, government and the legal fraternity as well. The Printer Cartridge Patent Case The U.S. Supreme...

The New York Times has announced it is buying The Wirecutter, a five-year-old online consumer guide/product-recommendation service for a reported $30 million.   The Wirecutter, founded by former editor at Gizmodo Brian Lam, provides recommendations for technology products "...

Fitbit Inc (NYSE: FIT) is the world's biggest seller of activity trackers. The Fitbit Charge 2 has been called the best fitness tracker ever by Gizmodo, but The Verge said bugs plagued the product. Investors are seemingly concerned with Fitbit's new product sales, with the stock plummeting nearly...

Someone at Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) may have made a giant blunder. According to Gizmodo, Amazon accidentally released its shopping page for iPhone 7 accessories a full hour ahead of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) official announcement and release of the new phone. The pictures on Amazon's...

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB), said he found "no evidence" with respect to a report that said the social media giant's contractors "routinely suppressed conservative news" in trending topics. Zuckerberg responded to the report with a following post on...

The trending news section of Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) has sometimes pushed stories that weren't trending at all, a report on Gizmodo reported. "Workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers," the report read. "Several former curators described using something called...

Mark Zuckerberg wants Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) to take over the digital news business. The first step in that process may be the company’s experimental “trending news” project. The trending news section has been around since early 2014. The section appears in the top right...

'Drone Manufacturers, Assemble!' The Drone Manufacturers Alliance, a four-company strong coalition of drone developers, is made up of 3DR, DJI, Parrot and GoPro Inc (NASDAQ: GPRO) and while it is the thing of science fiction or superhero comics, it does provide a glimpse into an innovative and...

E-commerce giant Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has been blamed for falling sales at brick and mortar competitors like Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) and Macy's, Inc. (NYSE: M). The company's dominance in the retail market was often attributed to the convenience of online...

Silent Circle claimed at a launch event that its new secure smartphone, the Blackphone 2, it is going to replace BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ: BBRY), according to a Gizmodo report. The company's security specialist, Mike Janke, said, "We don't care that BlackBerry's CEO is throwing...

After a story in Gizmodo seemed to prove that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) had a motion sensor issue, one tech blogger believes he found the answer: the accelerometer. Originally, reports began appearing on the internet noting that the new iPhone’s motion sensors were wrong specifically when it came to...