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The end of summer is fast approaching, though the fun in the sun is coming to an even swifter conclusion for some of us: Take the tale of Paul Ceglia, the man who allegedly used forged documents naming him as a Facebook co-owner to try and rip off CEO Mark Zuckerberg in court. This week, police reportedly arrested Ceglia very far from his native home of upstate New York after three years on the run in Ecuador, and all without ever getting a taste of those sweet Facebook billions. But you, reader, probably have fewer good excuses than Ceglia to be spending your remaining summer nights locked up inside—You’re just addicted to a screen. Well, same here. And as long as you’re hiding from the outside world, you might as well read the best Gizmodo stories of the week. How Much Sleep Is Too Much Sleep? An entire industry—with its own spokespeople, podcasts, best-sellers, retreats, truisms, etc.—has sprung up around sleep. Give or take a contrarian or two, the … [Read more...] about Sleep Science, DIY Submarines, and Infectious Kissing Bugs: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Read anything interesting in the news lately? No, really. I’m still catching up, because for much of the past week, I was vacationing in lovely Cook Forest, Pennsylvania, during which my access to the internet was limited to whatever stretches of 4G could be obtained amid supply runs to town. This was indeed lovely—an excuse to regroup all of those neurons that have been battered into retreat by the news cycle in 2018 and also go kayaking—but I’m still wary I missed a brief war, everyone at the Gizmodo offices has secretly been replaced by pod people infiltrators, or something like that. Fortunately, we have an opportunity to get back on the same page with this week’s roundup of the best of Gizmodo, where we’ve got everything from Facebook vigilantes and ugly-ass gaming laptops to red tide and “mini-moons.” Let’s get caught up, shall we? The Vigilantes on Facebook Who Stream To Catch a Predator-Style Ambushes of Alleged Pedophiles … [Read more...] about Facebook Vigilantes, Ugly Laptops, and Red Tide: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

July 2018 is nearly out the door, and it’s certainly been a long one, ladies and gentlemen. In this era of the 24-hour news cycle, here are some things you may not have remembered happened just weeks ago: Gizmodo’s IRL Week. Scandal boy and EPA chief Scott Pruitt resigned. They found that Thai soccer team trapped in a cave, Elon Musk went to the cave, people who were not Musk rescued the soccer team, then Musk called one of those other people a pedophile for some reason. Mysterious hums. The beginning of California’s increasingly never-ending wildfire season. And, let’s not forget, the president maybe sending an Elton John CD to North Korea. Let’s be real, your brain may well be too fried to catch up on all this old stuff (it’s basically history now!). Fortunately, we have you covered with all this crazy good new stuff. Shall we begin? Rhetorical question, it’s mandatory: When a Stranger Decides to Destroy Your Life Monika Glennon has lived … [Read more...] about Strangers From Hell, Fungal Acne, MacBook Pro, and Magic Leap: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

First, the bad news: Sunday is the anniversary of the disastrous white supremacist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that culminated in a neo-Nazi car attack that killed local woman Heather Heyer and wounded scores of others, as well as resulted in the deaths of two police officers. The organizer of that rally, Jason Kessler, is holding another rally in the nation’s capital today—and once again, racist, far-right activists crawled out of their internet hidey-holes into the real world. But there’s somewhat better news, too. This time, indications are that many of Kessler’s buddies simply didn’t show up, while thousands of counter-protesters were ready to make it known that supremacists aren’t welcome in their town by staging their own much larger rallies. That follows on a largely disastrous years for the various personalities that head the so-called “alt-right”: Its leaders have turned on each other, tech platforms have … [Read more...] about Facebook Got Mad at Us, Samsung Note 9, and Ajit Pai: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Well, we did it. In spite of everything, we made it through 2018, a year that felt eternal. Even the last week of 2018 was trying it with that “super blood wolf moon” bologna. There were definitely some fantastic comics and great movies, though—including Bird Box, our review of which you definitely shouldn’t miss. There are only a couple days left in the year (thank god), but we’ve already started looking ahead to what’s in store for 2019. For starters, there will be some pretty stellar stuff happening in space, including missions to the Moon, drilling on Mars, close-ups of Jupiter and the Sun, celestial eye candy, and so, so much more. Jordan Peele’s Us will arrive to scare the shit out of us. And Apple—well, Apple is maybe another story. Before you duck out of 2018, don’t miss these and other best Gizmodo stories of the week. … [Read more...] about ‘Super Blood Wolf Moon,’ Bird Box, and Apple’s Rotten Future: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week