![Google Shut Down Gmail For Two Hours to Demonstrate Its Immense Power* [Video]](http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17hqsvathkxxgjpg/original.jpg)
According to The Onion, Google reportedly shut down its Gmail servers for almost two hours today. Maybe the company is getting tired of its ‘nice guy‘ image? When anyone tried to sign on, they were greeted with the following message instead of access to their email: More » Gizmodo
Editor’s note: This guest post is written by Uzi Shmilovici, CEO and founder of Future Simple, the company behind Base—a simple CRM for small businesses. Welcome to 1889. The field of photography was just changed forever. Up until recently, the process of taking and developing photos was expensive and cumbersome. As a result photography...
Who’s coming to Disrupt NYC this year, you may ask? Well, we aren’t going to reveal all of the fun surprises we have in store quite yet, but we are excited to announce a couple key speakers who will be joining us this year. This year’s lineup kicks off with a strong set of...
![The New Trailer of The Avengers Shows Even More Awesomeness [Trailers]](http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17f0b7g23p7egpng/original.png)
Any time you put together Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, the Hulk and Scarlett Johansson as a female superhero in a movie, well you got my attention. The Avengers just released its latest trailer and it shows even more explosions and awesomeness. Watch it at Apple. More » Gizmodo
![Compact Slide-Through Toaster Works In Just 90 Seconds [Food]](http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/images/4/2012/02/small_697ec9a1815c83f818966c417bc4d1b7.jpg)
Conveyor belt toasters help restaurants keep up with the breakfast demand, but the compact QuikServe from WestBend is instead designed for home use using a motorized system to pull your bread through, toasting it in a mere 90 seconds. More » Gizmodo
![Have You Ever Unlocked Any Of These Computing Achievements? [Humor]](http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/images/4/2012/02/small_759197b835f549f1308eb0a057a7c6f3.png)
No matter if you work at the IT department or not, you probably have unlocked or help unlock some of this achievements, whether it’s the “Have you tried to restart?” or “The Network is down.” We all have been there. More » Gizmodo
![Google Is Betraying Itself [Blockquote]](http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/images/4/2012/01/small_5d553717a3db49b5cb313ec6d7522449.jpg)
From a 2004 Playboy interview with Larry Page, in which the Google co-founder describes a very different company from the one we use now: More » Gizmodo
Editor’s Note: David Binetti is the CEO and co-founder of Votizen, a consumer technology company based in Mountain View, CA focussed on giving voters a greater voice. You can follow Binetti on Twitter @dbinetti. I have a stark fact to share with the majority of registered voters in the United States: your vote is...
![How to Get Your Free Cool Facebook Timeline Personal Cards Now [Facebook]](http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/images/4/2012/01/small_d06dee902a744cc9661346923ceb54aa.jpg)
Good news for Facebook fans: now you can get a free set of cool color personal cards based on your timeline. They’re giving 200,000 sets of 50 cards for free, so you’ve to hurry up. Here’s how to get yours: More » Gizmodo
![Smack All SOPA Supporters With This Automated Robocall Service [Video]](http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/images/4/2011/12/small_14b8c14886cd0a1aa7f2c29f0f3cb65b.jpg)
This is going to feel good: now you can call all supporters of SOPA and PIPA, the dreadful US internet censorship laws, using a simple web site. Just record your very own message, pay some dollars and fire away. More » Gizmodo