The Greatest App of All Time Day 17: Instagram vs. WhatsApp
Welcome back to Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! Yesterday’s tournament was a bloodbath with Calculator taking more than 87 percent of the…
That Viral Photo of ‘Hollywood Mountain’ California Is Completely Fake
Have you seen a stunning photo of Hollywood Mountain, California recently? One image is making the rounds on social media platforms like Facebook and BlueSky depicting what appears to be…
Ready Player One Author Gives First Look at His Metaverse Battle Royale Game
Photo: Mat Hayward/FilmMagic (Getty Images) Earlier this year, author Ernst Cline announced that he would be launching a metaverse company. What made this deeply ironic was that Cline famously wrote…
Facebook, Instagram Coming Back Online, White House Monitoring the Major Outage
Facebook and Instagram appears to be coming back online as of 12:30 p.m. ET after a nationwide outage. Roughly 580,000 Facebook users and 92,000 Instagram users experienced issues, according to…
The Greatest App of All Time: March Madness Bracket Day 2
Graphic: Gizmodo It’s day 2 of Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to crown the greatest app of all time! The mighty Fart App has fallen to Instagram in our first…
Wendy’s Surge Pricing, AI Willy Wonka Sham, R.I.P Apple Car and More Fun With Phones
Photo: Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto (Getty Images) Putting your phone in airplane mode when boarding a flight feels like common sense. You wouldn’t be crazy for thinking your phone signal could interfere…
Facebook Killing Hard-To-Find News Tab Because It Says Users Don’t Care About News
Facebook plans to “deprecate” its News tab for users in the United States and Australia by April, according to an announcement published Thursday night. What does that mean? As best…
Facebook Is Killing Its News Tab Because It Says Users Don’t Care About News
Facebook plans to “deprecate” its News tab for users in the United States and Australia by April, according to an announcement published Thursday night. What does that mean? As best…
Meta Kills Facebook News Tab Because It Says Users Don’t Care About News
Facebook plans to “deprecate” its News tab for users in the United States and Australia by April, according to an announcement published Thursday night. What does that mean? As best…
Why Is the Facebook App Chirping?
Photo: Wachiwit (Shutterstock) Facebook users reported hearing a bizarre chirping sound while using the social media platform on mobile devices on Tuesday. In fact, many people thought it was something…