Google has officially announced the new look that's coming to Gmail.com after images of its redesign leaked a few days prior. The revamp brings with it, besides a much-need paint job, some long-awaited features that users could only get through third-party email clients.

Facebook has publicly released its most complete community guidelines to date after many years keeping the specific rules its moderators used to govern the platform secret. The update tacked over 5000 more words onto the already unwieldy document, which now includes highly specific examples of banned or heavily regulated content.

It was recently confirmed that the new Gmail will contain a 'Confidential Mode' which will allow users send emails that will be destroyed after a set period of time.

This is cool and all, but there are still significant questions that need to be answered around compatibility and security.

The good news is that there are a bunch of alternative email clients that offer far more features and privacy.

If you were concerned about Facebook tracking your every move, do I have news for you that will just make your day - or not.

Surprise! You're constantly being tracked by almost every platform online. But we're here to help you, for just five easy monthly payments of $49.95 - nah just kidding here's some free advice, my friends. Run, be free.

Our smart speakers continue to get smarter over time, and one of the features recently added to the kit made by Amazon and Google is support for multi-room audio -- in other words, the option to play the same tunes in multiple rooms at once. Here's how to set it up with a group of Amazon Echos, Google Homes, or Sonos smart speakers.

Brief news items of note for Lifehacker readers, including: The sad news of Ursula K Le Guin's passing, the Australian Federal Court probably don't play a lot of video games, bogus life hacks and more!

There's small screwups and big screwups. Here is tremendously huge screwup: Virtually all Intel processors produced in the last decade have a major security hole that could allow "normal user programs - from database applications to JavaScript in web browsers - to discern to some extent the layout or contents of protected kernel memory areas," the Register reports.

Brief news items of note for Lifehacker readers, including: NeoGAF has reopened but the users revolt, Stranger Things season 2 will live up to expectations (yes!), Australian CEOs share some of their secrets to success.

Brief news items of note for Lifehacker readers, including: Where to build a colony on the moon, Call of Duty implied assault scene altered in Australia, Canberra breeds more boys than girls.

Brief news items of note for Lifehacker readers, including: Why stop signs are red, using microwaves to make bigger hard drives, video game marketing makes it clear nazis aren't welcome.

Brief news items of note for Lifehacker readers, including: Grand Theft Auto gets the LEGO treatment, Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams gets a release date and the great lengths an Aussie company went to to get an employee fired.

IBM Australia's workforce has been cut from 6,463 to 5,489 people - a loss of almost 1000 jobs - following a 68 per cent fall in profit.

Apple has wrapped up its big event to announce a swathe of new products including the iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s, iPad Pro and iPad Mini 4. Our sister publication, Gizmodo Australia, was on the ground in the US to cover the event and has provided information on the Australian availability and pricing for the four new devices. We've consolidated the information into a nice little package for you here.

Tired of being a slave to the bitchy baristas in your local coffee joint? Invest them out of your life with this awesome DeLonghi coffee machine.

Gizmodo's reader photo challenge this week is particularly impressive: taking an awesome photo of you as a child and recreating it as an adult. I had promised Giz editor Danny that I'd submit my own entry, but when I went to do it, I realised something: I have done a lousy job of scanning my childhood photos.

One day and iOS 5 has been hacked already. Gizmodo reader and Apple lover Mert Erdir has discovered how to upgrade to iOS 5 without developer accounts, using a simple backdoor. Everyone can do it following these extremely simple instructions.

If you've ever owned an HTC Android smartphone, you'll know that HTC is pretty tight-fisted when it comes to internal storage, especially when compared with similarly-specced phones from manufacturers such as Motorola and Samsung. What gives?

Fancy a sweet new dual-core Samsung Galaxy S II? Gizmodo has an awesome competition giving away three of these super Android devices -- you just have to prove how badly you need one. Get in quick before the competition closes on Sunday!

BlackBerry's PlayBook tablet is one of the major gadget releases of the year. You've already heard Lifehacker's thoughts on the device, but what does a dedicated gadget hound like Gizmodo editor Nick Broughall think of it? Find out as we go head-to-head.