Emily Lipstein's posts

My computer needs are different from pretty much all of my coworkers at Gizmodo. I’m not a gamer, I’m not looking to…

As Earther’s social editor and the youngest person on Gizmodo’s staff, our writers and editors frequently come to me…

Where there are people, there are rats. Or, more accurately: Where there are well-off white people, there are…

Today, scientists revealed the first-ever image of a black hole at a press conference in Washington, D.C. This is a…

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular roundup of all things good and wallet-draining on the internet. This week:…

About two seconds before dropping a selfie in PopSugar’s Twinning app, a web app that generates your celebrity…

Let’s be real here: I’m vain as shit.

I’m a simple woman. When I’m riding the bus, walking down the street, or working in the open offices here at Gizmodo…

There you are, in your boat, kayaking, in the water, in New Zealand or whatever. Here it comes, a seal! Or is it a…

Last year, Gizmodo launched Earther, a new website dedicated to the environment, the people and entities working to…

A family of Eastern grey squirrels in Wisconsin got a little too close-knit this weekend after five juveniles got…

MoviePass failed me last night—and now I know why.

In a way, cities are giant science labs, providing an environment for organisms that’s unlike anywhere else on the…

A new interactive climate change exhibit will open at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) this week,…

They’re a bit late to the party, but Instagram has finally answered our prayers by adding a mute feature to its main…

As you’ve probably heard, it’s Groundhog Day, the one day a year where it’s fine for everyone in the country to…

Welcome to WTF, Emily?, the column where the Lifehacker staff’s closest thing to a teenager explains what the hell…

Newly proposed guidelines under consideration by the Unicode Consortium, the non-profit group that maintains Unicode…

For many, the holidays are one of the more stressful times of year. Between cooking for a motley crew of relatives,…

Dogs and cats are the best and I just can’t get enough of them. For months, my Facebook feed has been chock full of…