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If I had to pick my favorite Giz story that anybody ever wrote, though, that would be Mat Honan’s fever dream while taking a dump at CES. It was the best piece of writing to come out of CES that year, or any year, and it looked into the dark heart of the shiny-on-the-surface consumer electronics world. It was so honest, so brutal, and so completely crazy. And that’s the thing, I honestly don’t think that any major outlet but Gizmodo would have published a story like that back then. That kind of thing was a testament to the type of freedom afforded its writers and to the site’s mission as a whole. It was a thing of beauty. … [Read more...] about The Best Gizmodo Posts of All Time (So Far)

No matter how much you wear your Fitbit fitness tracker, it won’t do you much good if it’s not counting steps correctly. Thankfully, we know a few ways to make your Fitbit even more accurate, so you never have to worry about the quality of the data it’s collecting. … [Read more...] about How to Make Your Fitbit Even More Accurate

And that arrogance, that idea is to me what represents so much of the CLA project and this experience that has been the last 5 months of my life with Mercedes Benz, which is just like fuck it. Grab it by the horns, grab it by the steering wheel, drop the hammer and just do it. We don’t know what this commercial’s going to be, let’s figure it out. We don’t know what this video’s going to be, let’s go to Germany. We don’t know how to shoot this thing in the Salt Flats—-whatever, let’s just get the car delivered. It’s pouring rain out? Fuck it, let’s do it. … [Read more...] about How Casey Neistat Shot an Amazing Car Commercial With Zero Planning

A band of hooligans raided our camp, stole from us, pulled and sliced all of our electrical lines leaving us with no refrigeration and wasting our food and, glued our trailer doors shut, vandalized most of our camping infrastructure, dumped 200 gallons of potable water flooding our camp. … [Read more...] about Fancy Burning Man Camp Ransacked by Vandals

Experiments to test whether a food causes cancer pose a massive logistical challenge - they require controlling the diets of thousands of test subjects over a course of many years. For example, one group would be assigned to eat lots of meat, and another less, or none. But for a variety of reasons involving cost and finding test subjects, such experiments are rarely done, and scientists instead often use other less direct methods, known as epidemiological or observational studies, to draw their conclusions. … [Read more...] about Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Panic Over Processed Meats Causing Cancer