http://www.gizmodo.co.uk Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:00:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/the-future-of-civil-disobedience-online/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/the-future-of-civil-disobedience-online/#comments Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:30:42 +0000 Gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=174759 Familiar political tools like petitions, fundraisers, mass letter-writing, call-in campaigns now have online equivalents. But what about protest tactics like street marches, picket lines, sit-ins, and occupations? Where is the room on the internet for civil disobedience? In the offline United States, civil disobedience is widely respected as a valid form of political activism. It [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/the-future-of-civil-disobedience-online/feed/ 0 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/apple-branded-a-sordid-smut-peddler-by-angry-china/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/apple-branded-a-sordid-smut-peddler-by-angry-china/#comments Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:30:01 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=159003 China’s not happy with all the risqué content Apple’s apparently trying to push to its citizens. The state-run The People’s Daily, named and shamed Apple in a porno-shock investigation, labelling it as one of the biggest providers of the sordid material behind the Great Firewall of China. Oh the irony. Even if Apple is notorious [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/apple-branded-a-sordid-smut-peddler-by-angry-china/feed/ 13 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/margaret-thatcher-the-scientist-mightve-invented-soft-ice-cream/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/margaret-thatcher-the-scientist-mightve-invented-soft-ice-cream/#comments Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:00:21 +0000 Chris Mills http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=156520 Margaret Thatcher’s death has had, erm, mixed reactions, from gushing editorials to merry renditions of Tramp the Dirt Down. But one thing they’ve largely failed to mention is that before she spent twenty years fighting off unions and steadfastly not turning, she was a rather successful scientist. Miss Margaret Roberts, as she was known before wedding long-suffering [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/04/margaret-thatcher-the-scientist-mightve-invented-soft-ice-cream/feed/ 61 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/reddits-first-orignal-web-mini-series-is-bold-intelligent-and-completely-adorable/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/reddits-first-orignal-web-mini-series-is-bold-intelligent-and-completely-adorable/#comments Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:00:59 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=151516 Reddit’s trying out something new: it’s launched its own, original mini-series of web videos. Bases on its Explain Like I’m Five subreddit, it explores political and social issues in a way anyone can understand. This first one, for instance, takes on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche — and explains it to five-year-olds. The idea at [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/reddits-first-orignal-web-mini-series-is-bold-intelligent-and-completely-adorable/feed/ 4 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/heres-how-you-preserve-a-dead-dictator-forever/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/heres-how-you-preserve-a-dead-dictator-forever/#comments Sat, 09 Mar 2013 08:30:04 +0000 Leslie Horn http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=148959 Hugo Chavez died a few days ago, but he’s not exactly going six feet under any time soon. The late Venezuelan leader’s body is going to be on display for a week so people can pay homage. But bodies starting rotting immediately, and regular old funeral home embalming only lasts a matter of hours. How [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/03/heres-how-you-preserve-a-dead-dictator-forever/feed/ 16 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/watch-the-canadian-parliament-hilariously-debate-the-zombie-apocalypse/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/watch-the-canadian-parliament-hilariously-debate-the-zombie-apocalypse/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:30:47 +0000 Casey Chan http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=143044 That’s it, I’m moving to Canada. They know how to have fun. Even in politics! In Canada’s House of Commons today, there was an incredible ‘debate’ about creating an international zombie strategy “so that a zombie invasion does not turn into a zombie apocalypse.” Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs John Baird told everyone that there [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/watch-the-canadian-parliament-hilariously-debate-the-zombie-apocalypse/feed/ 11 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/could-you-pass-the-new-british-citizenship-test/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/could-you-pass-the-new-british-citizenship-test/#comments Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:00:38 +0000 Chris Mills http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=138739 If you’re applying to be a British citizen, you have to pass a cunning test filled with questions about ‘Life in the UK’, just to check you’re down with the homies or something. After changes in 2011, it was filled with exciting questions about pregnancy rates and unemployment law. Now, it’s been re-jigged to focus [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/could-you-pass-the-new-british-citizenship-test/feed/ 84 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/do-you-really-hate-europe-that-much/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/do-you-really-hate-europe-that-much/#comments Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:30:19 +0000 Chris Mills http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=137543 David Cameron, being the pandering politician that he is, has promised us a referendum on Britain being part of the European Union (as long as the Conservatives win the next election, that is). Although this isn’t strictly a classic Gizmodo topic, it’s sure as hell important. So before the whole country gets to have its [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/do-you-really-hate-europe-that-much/feed/ 168 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/eric-schmidts-daughter-recounts-the-duos-bizarre-trip-to-north-korea/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/eric-schmidts-daughter-recounts-the-duos-bizarre-trip-to-north-korea/#comments Sun, 20 Jan 2013 21:00:10 +0000 Eric Limer http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=136756 Eric Schmidt’s trip to North Korea in order to spread the good word about open Internet has been kind of strange from the start. Today, he posted on Google+ how he warned the country that it might be left behind. You know, Internet. Politics. All that jazz. Schmidt’s daughter, who accompanied him on the “vacation” [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/eric-schmidts-daughter-recounts-the-duos-bizarre-trip-to-north-korea/feed/ 5 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/wsj-schmidt-is-giving-north-korea-what-for/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/wsj-schmidt-is-giving-north-korea-what-for/#comments Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:30:42 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=134138 The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Eric Schmidt isn’t being backward at coming forward during his trip to North Korea. In fact, he’s been challenging officials over global Internet access, nuclear-development, and US detainees. The Journal reports that Schmidt was keen to point out the economic disadvantages that a censored internet brings: “As the [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/wsj-schmidt-is-giving-north-korea-what-for/feed/ 2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/12/george-osborne-decides-smaller-cities-get-to-feel-the-high-speed-broadband-love/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/12/george-osborne-decides-smaller-cities-get-to-feel-the-high-speed-broadband-love/#comments Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:15:59 +0000 Chris Mills http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=125667 Our illustrious chancellor George Osborne is a man of the people. Honest. In his mini-budget speech today, he announced a whole raft of new, smaller cities that’ll finally get to experience that super-fast broadband that us city mice already know and love, proving once and for all that he cares about things outside London and [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/12/george-osborne-decides-smaller-cities-get-to-feel-the-high-speed-broadband-love/feed/ 9 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/english-defence-league-gets-hacked-again/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/english-defence-league-gets-hacked-again/#comments Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:30:17 +0000 Chris Mills http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=119579 Whoops, looks like the English Defence League should think about some slightly better security. The far-right political action group was hacked (again) this weekend, losing control of their entire website for a good 24 hours, and still haven’t got control of their domain back. The defacement (which can be viewed at defacement mirror zone-h.org here, quite NSFW) [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/english-defence-league-gets-hacked-again/feed/ 40 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/the-story-behind-the-internets-most-popular-photo/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/the-story-behind-the-internets-most-popular-photo/#comments Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:30:21 +0000 Brent Rose http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=118976 This photo, along with the simple caption “Four more years” became the most tweeted and most-liked-on-Facebook photograph ever, and it did so with incredible speed. We thought you’d like to hear the story behind it. It’s probably not what you imagined. To get the scoop, we went straight to the woman who snapped the photo herself. [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/the-story-behind-the-internets-most-popular-photo/feed/ 8 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/could-dna-hacking-be-used-to-wipe-out-world-leaders/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/could-dna-hacking-be-used-to-wipe-out-world-leaders/#comments Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:30:09 +0000 Adrian Covert http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=115289 In this month’s issue of the Atlantic, there’s an interesting theory put forth in a story about biowarfare. Drawing on advances in genome decoding, the previous revelations that any stray materials containing the president’s DNA are frequently destroyed, and that Hilary Clinton has ordered the collection of DNA from other foreign leaders, the Atlantic posits [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/could-dna-hacking-be-used-to-wipe-out-world-leaders/feed/ 4 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/how-david-cameron-shouldve-done-his-first-fortnight-on-twitter/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/how-david-cameron-shouldve-done-his-first-fortnight-on-twitter/#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:00:26 +0000 Chris Mills http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=113051 So, Call-me-Dave’s finally seen the way the wind is blowing and wants to engage the 10 million Brits on Twitter. Thing is, he’s making a bit of a hash (pardon the pun) of it, and there’s nothing but some (slightly funny) abuse aimed at him on Twitter. Question is, what should he really have done [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/how-david-cameron-shouldve-done-his-first-fortnight-on-twitter/feed/ 23 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/09/uh-huh-yeah-nick-clegg-autotune-remix-in-the-house/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/09/uh-huh-yeah-nick-clegg-autotune-remix-in-the-house/#comments Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:30:12 +0000 Gary Cutlack http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=104452 Poor old Nick Clegg was trying to say sorry for bailing on one of his party’s bigger manifesto promises, releasing an extremely sincere YouTube video in which he apologised for letting Lib Dem followers down. That video has now fallen into the wrong hands. The result is the autotuned Clegg remix featured above, with the [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/09/uh-huh-yeah-nick-clegg-autotune-remix-in-the-house/feed/ 9 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/06/dont-menshn-the-crippling-security-holes-in-this-mps-twitter-rival/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/06/dont-menshn-the-crippling-security-holes-in-this-mps-twitter-rival/#comments Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:45:44 +0000 Tom Davenport http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=81159 As if we needed another social network, Menshn is here to bring topic-orientated chat in Twitter-sized chunks. But what about all these leaky security holes that hackers found upon its UK launch? You’ve got to hand it to programmers. They grind code out all day at work, then happily carry on into the wee hours, [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/06/dont-menshn-the-crippling-security-holes-in-this-mps-twitter-rival/feed/ 6 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/06/divorce-theres-an-app-for-that/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/06/divorce-theres-an-app-for-that/#comments Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:45:24 +0000 Jacob Lewis http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=81105 The government thinks it’s found a way to streamline divorce, with an app. It’s not clear whether the app will be just web-based or for mobile too, but either way, it sounds insane. The government said it will be putting a colossal £15 million into the Divorce app project. If that sounds a lot of [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/06/divorce-theres-an-app-for-that/feed/ 4 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/05/this-twitter-powered-road-painting-printer-wants-to-hear-from-you/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/05/this-twitter-powered-road-painting-printer-wants-to-hear-from-you/#comments Sat, 19 May 2012 16:00:07 +0000 Molly Oswaks http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=70359 An advocacy group known as One has designed a sorta genius giant towable inkjet printer that prints messages of peaceful protest, in non-toxic water-soluble paint, on city streets. In anticipation of the upcoming G8 Summit, the One Street Tweeter, as it is known, has already begun printing messages around Maryland and Washington D.C. And, if [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/05/this-twitter-powered-road-painting-printer-wants-to-hear-from-you/feed/ 0 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/04/the-uks-friendly-neighbourhood-pirate-party-trains-its-guns-on-scotland-and-manchester/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/04/the-uks-friendly-neighbourhood-pirate-party-trains-its-guns-on-scotland-and-manchester/#comments Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:30:24 +0000 Sam Gibbs http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=56828 Following Sweden and Germany’s lead, we have our own branch of the Pirate Party attempting to swashbuckle its way into power here in the UK; now it’s drawing a broadside on May’s local elections in both Scotland and Manchester. The Pirate Party UK aims to fight anti-piracy laws (and ACTA); reduce copyright to just 10 years, [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/04/the-uks-friendly-neighbourhood-pirate-party-trains-its-guns-on-scotland-and-manchester/feed/ 4