In an attempt to illustrate the harmful effects of using crack cocaine, Talent, a Brazilian ad agency created a series of posters featuring images of addicts that are slowly eaten away and destroyed by Flour beetle larvae—or mealworms. Read More >>

Currently Microsoft's punting Windows 8 at a rather bargainous £25 a shot, but after tomorrow, it's going to jack that price right up to around the £120 mark. If you're ever likely to need an install of Windows, buy it now. Windows 8 really isn't that bad, for £25 that is. Read More >>

Ok, look. We've had some fun. We did some parodies, rode our invisible horses in some seriously weird flash mobs -- even had a live wallpaper. But enough. No jokes. People are actually dying. This has gone too far. Read More >>

I can't even count how many times I used my breath to fog up a camera lens to wipe it down clean. It's the photog equivalent of blowing into those old NES cartridges. I swear it works! Turns out, we might be ruining our camera lenses because our breath has harmful acids that can damage them. Read More >>

What good is a Gmail account if you love crispy fried chicken and can also have a customised @CrownFriedChicken address? Because if you consider yourself a member of the Crown Fried Chicken Family (and even if you don't think you are, you totally definitely are), you can soon have your own email address proclaiming that you belong to House Crown. Seriously. Seriously. Read More >>

This is great, just great. Laughing Squid has unearthed a glistening gem of a PSA from 1995. What is it PSAing? The Internet. The Internet, you ask? Yes, it is simply encouraging you to get your stonewash denim-era ass in gear and on the Internet. Read More >>

If you follow Gizmodo on Twitter, you may have noticed our account started spewing some garbage last night. We got hacked. Here's how it happened, and some steps you can take to keep it from happening to you. Read More >>

Whatever you do in the next six weeks, don't spend any money on iPhone accessories. No matter how enticing the sales are, no matter how frayed your case is. There are significant changes coming to Apple's marquee handset—and soon—that will render them nearly obsolete. Read More >>

The new Hotmail is here, and with it comes a whole new @outlook.com domain to colonise. That means it's time to act quickly to get your-name@outlook.com name before it's too late. Certain members of our staff with very very common names—not saying who—have scored in the Outlook landgrab. GOGOGOGOGO before it's too late! Protip: We've had better luck going for our full names. Sadly mario@outlook.com was gone before I could get to it. GO! Read More >>

LOCOG's just turned hundreds of people away from the opening stages of the Olympic archery because it's an "unticketed" event. Loads of bow-fans turned up to Lords to watch world records fall, but it was a non-public event, and wasn't even shown on TV, despite what scam sites claiming to sell tickets proclaimed. Read More >>

I wouldn't call myself a smoker -- I only have the occasional puff when I'm out boozing -- but watching Thailand's anti-smoking PSA will definitely make me think twice about my next one. This ad is bound to be talked about for weeks to come, so watch it before everyone else, over the jump... [HyperVocal via Gawker] Read More >>

Did you see Windows Phone 8 yesterday? Looks pretty good! And if you buy a WP handset any time between now and when it comes out, it'll never ever get all of those goodies. So don't. Wait until WP8 is officially official, which should be October at the earliest and, at the very latest, the end of the year. Read More >>

We've already seen a fake, malware-spreading version of Angry Birds Space for Android. Now there are reports of a fake, malware-spreading Instagram that's also making the rounds. Read More >>

At least two scams targeting users of file-sharing services have emerged over the last few days. So far the reports all come from overseas, but if it's happening in Germany then similar scams in the UK are very likely. Watch out. Read More >>

In what is a sure sign our generation has lost its way, those of you who've spent hundreds of pounds on a fancy messenger bag, backpack, or murse, no longer have to wince and whine when there's no other place to put it but on the dirty floor. This is just awful. Read More >>