Webb Telescope Not Damaged Following Recent Incident, NASA Says

The $10 billion space telescope is now scheduled to launch on December 22. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

The UK Just Banned Default Passwords for IoT Devices

The new bill would require unique passwords for IoT devices and would prevent those passwords from being reset to universal factory default. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

John Deere Reports $6B Profit After Fighting Workers over Meager Wages

Would have been relevant information for 10,000 workers who struck for five weeks to get a living wage. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

The TikTok-Ification of Spotify Has Begun

Another day, another app taking TikTok's signature vertical video feed for a spin. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

Southern California May Spend Thanksgiving on Fire, in the Dark

The Santa Ana winds kicking up and combining with unusually low humidity could create a dangerous Thanksgiving. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

Tesla Self-Driving Beta Drivers to Be Recorded When They Crash

Tesla's new requirement speaks to a larger issue around privacy trade-offs with certain types of in-car driver monitoring systems. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

Privacy-Protective Internet Browser Tor Is Low on Servers

The Tor Project has launched a campaign to encourage volunteers to run private bridge servers. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

CDC Finds No Smallpox in Frozen Vials Suspiciously Labeled ‘Smallpox’

The vials contained vaccinia virus, which is used as the base of past and present smallpox vaccines. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

DuckDuckGo Privacy Tool: App Tracking Protection for Android

The company's newest feature takes aim at the pesky trackers lurking in your mobile phone. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

The Search for Life Around Alpha Centauri Just Took a Major Leap Forward

A telescope dedicated to looking for potentially habitable planets around the nearest stars could be operational by 2023. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

Surreal Deep-Sea Photos Show Glitter Worms and Upside-Down Lakes [slides]

Images from a recent deep-sea expedition off the coast of Mexico sheds light on the little-understood life in the deepest oceans. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

Instagram Has Announced a New Feature Called 'Rage Shake'

Instagram head Adam Mosseri encouraged users to let out their rage when the app doesn't work and shake their phones to report the problem. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

Bill Gates-Backed TerraPower Picks Wyoming for First Advanced Nuclear Reactor

The plant would be built near a retiring coal plant and would mark one of the first large-scale demonstrations of a sodium-cooled reactor. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

Star Trek Discovery Is Lost to Most of the World, Days Before Its S4 Premiere

In a shocking move, the hundreds of countries who watch Discovery on Netflix will now have no legal way to stream the show, or its new season. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

A 1980s Space Telescope May Have Seen Planet Nine

Observations by the first infrared space telescope saw something weird beyond Uranus. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

Sound Waves Propel This Indoor Camera Drone for a Safer, Quieter Experience

Crashes would be no more catastrophic than a ball bouncing on the floor. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

Miami Plans to Give Out Bitcoin in Its Quest for Crypto Utopia

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez has announced that residents are getting crypto disbursements. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

Rolls-Royce Is Getting into the Small Nuclear Reactor Business

The company has reaped a combination of overseas investment and UK government money to kickstart a division to make small modular reactors. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

Company Wants to Launch Satellites into Orbit Using a Giant Spinning Slingshot

It's cheaper and safer than burning rocket fuel, but satellites have to be built Tonka-tough. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

Microsoft new laptops for schools to be repairable

With a $250 student laptop running a lightweight version of Windows 11, it sure seems like Microsoft is trying to take Google's lunch money. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

Robinhood hack compromises millions of customer email addresses and names

The trading platform said Monday that a social engineering scheme had compromised millions of users' names and email addresses. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

You.com Launches in Beta as a Privacy-Focused Search Alternative to Google

The new search engine is billed as an ad-free experience designed to "summarize the best parts of the internet." | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

Space Force Detects Mystery Object in Orbit Alongside Chinese Satellite

They’re calling it an “apogee kick motor,” but the object’s true identity and purpose remain unknown. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

Google Says the Pixel 6's Slower Fingerprint Sensor Is Due to Enhanced Security

It seems Google is erring on the side of caution when it comes to the speed of the Pixel 6's in-screen fingerprint sensor. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

Elon Musk Is Officially in the Texas Electricity Business

The SpaceX and Tesla billionaire has his sights set on a new venture: selling electricity in the Lone Star State. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

Apple Fixes macOS Monterey Bug That Left Macs Unable to Turn on After Update

The bug was related to an issue with the firmware on the Apple T2 security chip, which is used on 16 Mac models released from 2018 to 2020. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

Mattel Wanted Remote Workers to Be OK with Regular Surprise Visits from the Boss

"Seasonal Customer Service Home Agents" are also required to work in a closed-door area with no distractions and be free from taking care of others. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

Science Publisher Retracts 44 Papers for Being Utter Nonsense

Unadulterated gibberish snuck into Springer Nature’s Arabian Journal of Geosciences, and not for the first time. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

2022 iPhone and Apple Watch May Be Able to Detect Car Crashes

Like a similar feature on Google's Pixels, the devices' accelerometers would detect impact and auto-dial 911. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

Squid Game Cryptocurrency Scammers Make Off with $3.3M

The SQUID coin scam was covered uncritically by mainstream news outlets. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

Climate Scientists Expect Catastrophic Levels of Heating and Damage Soon

A survey of the world’s top climate researchers shows a stark finding: Most expect catastrophic levels of heating and damage soon—very soon. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

Architect Says Dystopian Dorm Is a Dangerous Psychological Experiment

Warren Buffet's right-hand man, Charlie Munger, designed a mammoth dorm with limited windows and only two entrances for 4,500 students. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

Generation X Is Sick of Your Bullshit (2011)

You're going to read this, and you're going to say, how is this about tech? I'm gonna head you off at that pass: This is a message from Internet, the generation that became the voice that set the tone for everything you love about the Net. And it's pissed. -Editor | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

Global Money Laundering Watchdog Says Uh, Yeah, Better Regulate Cryptocurrency

An international task force focused on curtailing financial crimes has published a new report suggesting the need for additional strictures on digital currency. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

Big Oil Newsletter Ads Spread Misinformation Ahead of Misinformation Hearing

Fossil fuel companies are sponsoring some of the Beltway's most-read newsletters in an attempt to win influence in Washington, DC. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

Roku Is Making It Easy for Advertisers to Target You While You Stream TV

Your Roku-watching habits are up for grabs now that the company's Nielsen ratings are taking effect. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

You Can Now Buy Bitcoin at Some Walmart Stores Across the U.S.

Coinstar, the company that allows you to trade in coins for cash or gift cards, has launched a bitcoin purchase pilot at 200 kiosks located in Walmart stores. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Trump's Social Media Platform Legal Issues

The Don has released a beta of his new social media platform and, predictably, it's a knock-off version of an already existing platform. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Pablo Escobar's Cocaine Hippos Are Legally People, Court Rules

The drug kingpin's hippos have run wild in Colombia. A new court ruling could help pave the way for a humane way to deal with the world's most invasive species. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Lego's New 3,955-Piece Home Alone Set Will Help You Forget the Remake

A holiday classic gets the massive Lego playset it deserves—no parents or sibling minifigures included. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Segway Debuts Kit to Turn a Hoverboard into a Bead-Blasting Tank

Remember hoverboards? Segway's still thinking up alternate uses for the contraptions. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Facebook would be following in a long and not-so-proud tradition of toxic companies. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Fisher Price's Chatter Telephone Now Makes Phone Calls

Kids can learn the agony of phone tag and conference calls before they can even walk. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

The Campaign to Wipe Out the Common Sparrow

Back in the 1950s, China was going through its Great Leap Forward, an effort to transform China from a largely agrarian nation to a thriving industrial Marxist powerhouse. These sweeping (and often brutal) reforms, touched virtually every facet of Chinese life — and as one partic … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Ransomware Hackers Reportedly Targeted 3 U.S. Water Facilities This Year Alone

A new government report shows the increasingly dangerous lengths cybercriminals will go to make a buck. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

ReMarkable's E Ink Tablet Now Requires a Subscription to Access Best Features

Existing reMarkable users get access to the new subscription plans for free. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Clever Halloween Hack Uses Sound Waves to Simulate a Spooky Doodling Ghost

It's time to take your Halloween decor to the next level. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Specialized (Brand) Bicycles Recalled in U.S. over Frames That Can Crack

The bikes were sold from July 2020 to August 2021. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago