Nothing harshes a good mellow like sick buds. Thankfully, there may one day be an app for that. Hidden from the hazy Friday afternoon of Las Vegas, tucked away in the basement of the Flamingo casino, a group of likeminded hackers and security resea… - 6 hours ago, 10 Aug 18, 9:36pm -
Well, apparently Twitter does have a line when it comes to unhinged hate speech.The company suspended accounts associated with the Proud Boys ahead of the white supremacist Unite the Right rally in Washington, D.C., this weekend. The move was origin… - 7 hours ago, 10 Aug 18, 8:36pm -
Donald Trump Jr. was caught red-handed for a terrible Photoshop job, but this time it wasn't because he airbrushed his pores into oblivion. In a now-deleted Instagram post, Don Jr. shared a CNN report comparing Trump's approval ratings with statist… - 8 hours ago, 10 Aug 18, 7:42pm -
Who would have thought that, in the end, it would be the humble voicemail that would do us all in?Your Google, Microsoft, Apple, WhatsApp, and even Signal accounts all have an Achilles' heel — the same one, in fact. And it turns out that if you're… - 9 hours ago, 10 Aug 18, 6:48pm -
Wikileaks just got served with a tweet.On Friday, the law firm representing the Democratic National Committee served Wikileaks with a single tweet, linking to a number of legal documents related to its lawsuit against the organization founded by Jul… - 10 hours ago, 10 Aug 18, 5:48pm -
Twitter may have suspended the Proud Boys and their controversial leader Gavin McInnes, but it was never their platform of choice. The Proud Boys, a self described “Western chauvinist” organization that often flirts with more hard-line groups of… - 4 hours ago, 10 Aug 18, 10:59pm -
There are no secrets in consumer electronics anymore. Sometimes it’s the fault of flubs and flaws and leakers. Sometimes it’s by design. In the case of the Galaxy Note 9, it’s a little bit of both. The Galaxy S9 wasn’t the blockbuster Samsung… - 7 hours ago, 10 Aug 18, 8:40pm -
I have good news! The infamous SS7 networks used by mobile operators to interoperate, e.g. when you’re roaming — which were built on trust, essentially devoid of security, and permitted rampant fraud, SMS hijacking, eavesdropping, password theft,… - 7 hours ago, 10 Aug 18, 8:02pm -
Zain Jaffer may be gearing up for a fight to take back control of Vungle, the mobile ad company he founded. Jaffer was removed from his role as CEO last fall following his arrest on charges of assault with a deadly weapon and performing a lewd act on… - 10 hours ago, 10 Aug 18, 5:48pm -
Federacy, a member of the Y Combinator Summer 2018 class, has a mission to make bug bounty programs available to even the smallest startup. Traditionally, bug bounty programs from players like Bugcrowd and HackerOne have been geared toward larger org… - 12 hours ago, 10 Aug 18, 2:54pm -
Ofgem, the U.K. government’s regulator for gas and electricity, has revealed that projects trialled under the Low Carbon Networks Fund (LCNF) could save 215 tonnes of CO2. The program ran for six years, ending in 2015, with the aim of helping Dist… - 14 Dec 16, 10:00pm -
The Internet of Things is sweeping across the globe at breakneck speeds, and before we know it, our entire lives will be facilitated by connected technology. We’re already seeing the IoT make an incredible impact on how the industrial world operat… - 14 Dec 16, 9:15pm -
PARC, the research and development arm of Xerox, announced on Tuesday that it has secured part of $19 million in federal funding from the Energy Department to develop peel-and-stick sensors for homes, businesses, and other buildings. The peel-and-st… - 14 Dec 16, 8:30pm -
Studies of traffic congestion regularly point much blame at cars circling for parking. To tackle this perennial problem, Get My Parking is joining a smart city initiative to launch a smart parking pilot in India. As reported in Firstpost, the Delhi-… - 14 Dec 16, 7:27pm -
According to a recent Gartner survey, almost a third of fitness tracker or smartwatch owners end up ditching them. The survey studied about 9,000 users from the U.S., Australia and the U.K. Reasons for the dropped tech use vary from wearables breaki… - 14 Dec 16, 3:00pm -
Anyone who manages a Facebook page that has a "large audience," which is the somewhat nonspecific language Facebook uses in a new blog post today, has some new rules coming down the pipe that they'll have to follow if they want to keep running their… - 4 hours ago, 10 Aug 18, 11:34pm -
A few years ago, there was seemingly a huge exodus of engineers who left Apple to work at Tesla. And though hopping between tech companies in and around Silicon Valley is certainly common, the sheer volume of ex-Apple employees who departed for Tesla… - 5 hours ago, 10 Aug 18, 10:02pm -
Ten years ago this May, Iron Man arrived in theaters. On top of being a massive success in its own right, it kicked off a decade of dominance for Marvel Studios at the box office. In celebration of this milestone, Marvel is going to spend a week at t… - 6 hours ago, 10 Aug 18, 9:31pm -
Jet Black is probably the sleekest and sexiest color option Apple ever created — and it was available for exactly one year. Apple introduced it on the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus as a way to help encourage upgrades since it was reusing the same phon… - 6 hours ago, 10 Aug 18, 9:01pm -
After a delay that still feels way too long, Fortnite is finally coming to Android. It's launching first through the Samsung Galaxy App store, and after that, it will be available for anyone to download directly from Epic Games, Fortnite's develop… - 7 hours ago, 10 Aug 18, 8:00pm -
Qualcomm notched a victory in its effort to preserve its patent-licensing business, saving the company nearly $700 million in fines. - 9 hours ago, 10 Aug 18, 6:44pm -
Elon Musk’s latest piece of showmanship—an offer to take electric-car maker Tesla private—amounts to a slap in the face for shareholders, writes James Mackintosh. - 11 hours ago, 10 Aug 18, 4:08pm -
The regulator is examining whether Mr. Musk’s statement was truthful and inquired why the disclosure was made on Twitter. - 12 hours ago, 10 Aug 18, 3:14pm -
Joyce Arrastia, film editor of ‘Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation’ on her love of electric BMWs, making the first move on dating apps and the hypnotic powers of ‘The Crown.’ - 12 hours ago, 10 Aug 18, 2:55pm -
About this Episode Episode 62 of Voices in AI features host Byron Reese and Atif Kureishy discussing AI, deep learning, and the… - 2 days ago, 9 Aug 18, 8:00am -
Food security is a growing concern for many, as we live longer and as the population grows. It goes without saying that… - 9 days ago, 2 Aug 18, 1:14pm -
About this Episode Episode 61 of Voices in AI features host Byron Reese and Dr. Louis Rosenberg talking about AI and swarm… - 9 days ago, 2 Aug 18, 8:00am -
Ever since I was involved in developing a mobile application myself, I have gained an undue fascination of mobile application platforms –… - 15 days ago, 27 Jul 18, 10:00am -
For just about his entire life, Ron Smith has been a subject of a scientific inquiry. At birth, in 1972, he was studied by scientists, and then assessed again at age three to document his physical fitness, mental health and intelligence. Every few ye… - 27 Jun 17, 9:43am -
Kevin Feige still has hope for Blade’s return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Stephen Amell wants a more socially-minded Oliver Queen on Arrow. Plus, one familiar face will not return to American Horror Story next season, and new pictures from th… - 27 Jun 17, 9:34am -
By now we’ve all heard the biggest news of 2017, fated in the heavens for eons before humanity’s earliest ancestors walked the savannahs: There’s an eclipse this August 21st, and it’s carving a path right through these great United States of… - 27 Jun 17, 9:28am -
The RoboVac 11 from Eufy (a division of Anker) is one of your favorite robotic vacuums, and in my own testing, it’s every bit as good—and far quieter—than my Roomba. So if it’s been on your radar, our readers can save $20 today with promo cod… - 27 Jun 17, 8:34am -
Forbes recently released its list of the richest person in every state. But when we’re talking about so much money, it can be hard to wrap our heads around just how wealthy these people are. But don’t worry, Gizmodo is here to help.Read more... - 27 Jun 17, 7:30am -
Is Sling TV better than Hulu, or should cord-cutters subscribe to PlayStation Vue? Or YouTube TV? We compare all the TV streaming services, and one rises to the top. - 8 hours ago, 10 Aug 18, 7:14pm -
"Multiple" Diablo projects in the works. Blizzard's words, not mine. Diablo IV is an obvious bet, but what are the others? Diablo III on Switch? A Hearthstone successor? Rocket League, but with demons? Warcraft IV, except all the Warcraft characters… - 9 hours ago, 10 Aug 18, 6:02pm -
Learning is a process, right? It certainly has been for HyperX and its keyboards. First there was the stripped-down HyperX Alloy FPS in late 2016—a no-frills budget keyboard that, as I wrote at the time, “focused on the fundamentals.”The new Hy… - 13 hours ago, 10 Aug 18, 2:09pm -
While motherboard companies continue to outdo themselves releasing data on Intel’s upcoming 9000-series processors, HP has accidentally disclosed details regarding another of Intel’s upcoming chips: its “Whiskey Lake” notebook processors.As d… - 14 hours ago, 10 Aug 18, 12:59pm -
Let’s say you need to send a private message to a group of people, but you’re afraid one of them will leak the message elsewhere, and you won’t know who. Fast Forward Labs has a rough-and-ready solution that will expose anyone who publicly copi… - 27 Jun 17, 10:00am -
Fresh figs are luxury items: they’re so delicious, so expensive (in my neck of the woods, Peapod.com is selling them for $1.17 a piece) and so tragically short-lived. All too often, in my experience (Is it me? My refrigerator?) after I’ve decided… - 27 Jun 17, 9:00am -
The Grapevine Everything You Wanted to Know About the Migos, Joe Budden, Chris Brown Fights but Were Afraid to Ask | Deadspin 10 Years After The Chris Benoit Killings, Pro Wrestling Still Can’t Fix Itself | Jezebel The Tabloids Are Having a Hard… - 26 Jun 17, 6:03pm -
Verizon-owned social media platform Tumblr, along with a laundry list of other Yahoo services, is potentially locking users out of their accounts due to an ending partnership between Yahoo and AT&T, according to Techcrunch. If you’re a Tumblr, Flic… - 26 Jun 17, 6:00pm -
We’re living in a time of secrets. Whether it’s the health-care bill, Russia’s secret connection with our recent election, or the lies we all tell, secrets plague us all. In this episode of The Upgrade, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, author of “Ev… - 26 Jun 17, 5:00pm -
After a CNN inquiry found ten tweets from Alex Jones' accounts that it felt should've qualified as breaking Twitter's rules, the service admitted late Friday that it agreed on seven of them. The tweets have been deleted, and CNN reports that on his I… - 3 hours ago, 10 Aug 18, 11:56pm -
We've all had moments trying to hunt down films that just don't seem to be anywhere online, whether on streaming services, for rent or to purchase. Screenwriter John August (Charlie's Angels, Big Fish, the upcoming live-action Aladdin) noticed that R… - 4 hours ago, 10 Aug 18, 10:53pm -
There's a new Halo game out this summer and you don't need an Xbox to play it. Instead, all you have to do is roll up to any Dave & Buster's and start popping quarters into it. Halo: Fireteam Raven is a four-player co-op on-rails arcade shooter devel… - 5 hours ago, 10 Aug 18, 9:57pm -
Video game streaming service Twitch launched Communities in February of last year. These were ostensibly hub page for specific games or topics that members could create to help people find content. Now the company will shut these pages down mid-Septe… - 9 hours ago, 10 Aug 18, 6:34pm -
Marvel is going all-out to mark the 10th birthday of its Cinematic Universe, and that includes upgrading the quality of the movies themselves. It's hosting a 10th Anniversary Film Festival between August 30th and September 6th, and you'll have to vi… - 11 hours ago, 10 Aug 18, 4:34pm -
Sometimes, the most delightful musical discoveries happen completely by accident: a song you hear at a party or catch the tail end of on the radio without the DJ bothering to tell you what it's called can wind up being one of the tunes that's alway… - 6 hours ago, 10 Aug 18, 9:00pm -
A few days after skipping out on the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ebola decided, ‘nah,’ cropping back up in a town of around 60,000 potential carriers called Mangina, located in Congo’s North Kivu province. Since the latest outbreak was identi… - 8 hours ago, 10 Aug 18, 7:00pm -
Geographic information systems used to be 2-D maps, but new AR technologies are letting users see where pipes and other underground infrastructure is through augmented reality .Brief video showcasing a few features of the vGIS Utilities system… - 9 hours ago, 10 Aug 18, 6:00pm -
Ugly is an animated film by Nikita Diakur and Redbear Easterman that examines the way all living things are connected, even the ugly ones. (more…) - 9 hours ago, 10 Aug 18, 5:59pm -
Donald Trump Jr. wanted to brag about his father's approval rating, but the only way to brag about it would be to fudge the numbers, so that's exactly what he did. But not very well.Junior wanted it to look like Trump's approval rating was better t… - 10 hours ago, 10 Aug 18, 5:23pm -
Determining the source of locked accounts can be difficult and time-consuming. Use this technique to help troubleshoot this problem. - 20 Jul 17, 2:29pm -
If you constantly log in and out of your servers with ssh, Jack Wallen shows you how to make this task a bit more efficient, with the help of ssh-agent. - 20 Jul 17, 1:07pm -
Countly is a powerful tool that can enable various types of data analysis. Here's how to install this server app on the Ubuntu platform. - 20 Jul 17, 11:12am -
A recent blog from Senrio detailed a new flaw called Devil's Ivy, found in an open source code library, that could be used to hijack security cameras and for other nefarious purposes. - 20 Jul 17, 11:09am -
