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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)

Next up you can adjust your stride length (the tracker tries to work this out automatically, but you can enter a value manually too). Measure your stride length first (Fitbit recommends taking at least 20 steps then working out an average) then fill out the Stride Length and Running Stride Length fields under Personal Info on the online Settings page. … [Read more...] about How to Make Your Fitbit Even More Accurate

But the technical stuff, and I’ll speak straight to your Gizmodo audience right now: I had my lead cinematographer focus on these big beautiful shots, and have my secondary photographer figure out how to capture what was really going on. What that meant was that I had an A team and a B team. And the A team is operating all sorts of larger gear, so we’re shooting on Canon 5D Mark IIIs with big proper steady cameras, and locked off cameras, and shots that are set up. … [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

Dunlop says that red and processed meat still have a place in a healthy diet. “Regularly eating large amounts of red and processed meat, over a long period of time, is probably not the best approach if you’re aiming to live a long and healthy life,” he said. However, “Meat is fine in moderation—it’s a good source of some nutrients such as protein, iron and zinc. It’s just about being sensible, and not eating too much, too often.” … [Read more...] about Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Panic Over Processed Meats Causing Cancer

Our tipster, who claims to be working on a title for both consoles, sent us a series of messages from June through August to our SecureDrop. The first tip came in response to a nerdy theory we published following Microsoft’s E3 briefing. While Microsoft announced the basic specs for Project Scarlett, it left us confused as to why we had to wait another year for the console’s release. I posited that one reason the console wouldn’t arrive until 2020 was that AMD was slow to get ray tracing support onto Navi, its next-generation graphics platform that will be the basis for both Sony and Microsoft’s future consoles. In the message, the tipster said, “Correct that AMD Navi v late.” … [Read more...] about A Story About Two Tiny, Fuzzy Photos of a ‘PlayStation 5 Prototype’ [Updated]