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 | 2 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 | 2 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 | 2 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 | 2 years ago

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


@gizmodo.com | 2 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 | 2 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 | 2 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 | 2 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 | 2 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 | 2 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 | 2 years ago

Engineer One-Ups Apple by Adding a Working USB-C Port to an iPhone

It's not easy, but someone figured out how to make what Apple refuses to do. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

Apple's App Tracking Transparency Feature Doesn't Stop Tracking

Research shows shady app developers are still grabbing your data without your permission, and Apple hasn't stopped them. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

Tesla Halts Rollout of FSD Beta to Drivers with ‘Perfect’ Safety Scores

Tesla planned to release beta version 10.2 to roughly 1,000 drivers on Friday, but it didn't happen. Musk cited "last-minute concerns about the build." | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

Chrome's New RSS Feature Rolling Out to Android Users Now

It makes it so much easier to follow what your favorite sites are posting. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

Mining Bitcoin Using Nuclear Power May Be Fine

It's not the world-changing solution some technofuturists think it is—but there are some interesting possibilities. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

The Expanse Season 6 First Teaser and Premiere Date: NYCC 2021

At New York Comic Con 2021, the Amazon sci-fi series announced a December return for its sixth and final season. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

WhatsApp Swallowed Half the World

When the app suffered a six hour outage this week, millions of people's lives were thrown into turmoil. Why were they there at all? | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

Earth Is Getting Dimmer; Decades of earthshine data show planet is less bright

Decades of earthshine data show the planet is less bright than it used to be. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

Ozy Media's Lies Made It Go Up in Flames

The media company announced it was closing on Friday after a week of dramatic revelations. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

Russia Threatens Retaliation After YouTube Deletes RT Germany Account

RT Germany's YouTube account was deleted for spreading misinformation about covid-19. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

So Much Ice Has Melted, That the Earth’s Crust Is Shifting in Weird, New Ways

Nowhere can escape climate change. Even the Earth's crust is feeling the impact of rising temperatures and melting ice. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

Leaked Facebook Docs Depict Kids as 'Untapped' Wealth

Kids between 10 and 12 are a 'valuable but untapped audience,' company research says. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

Babylon 5 Reboot in the Works on the CW

J. Michael Straczynski returns to his beloved sci-fi series for a new reboot on the CW. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

One Doctor Who Fan Brought Color to the Show's Classic Era

Doctor Who fan and professional colorizer Rich Tipple tells io9 how he restored some of the show's earliest stories in technicolor glory in his spare time. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

Amazon Wants to Put a Giant Echo on Your Wall

The company has a slew of Echo gadgets in the works, some of which we may see next week. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

200k-Year-Old Hand Art Found Near a Tibetan Hot Spring

The carefully arranged impressions may have been made by children. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

The Endangered Internet Archive Is Full of Treasures

The Internet Archive set out in the 1990s with an improbable mission to become the “Library of Alexandria Two”; by 2020, they’ve arguably surpassed that goal, plus delivered their collection straight to the masses. It’s the only repository where a NASA recap of the Space Shuttle … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

Archaeologists See Ancient Teotihuacán with Aerial Mapping Tech

Lidar scans of the Teotihuacán Valley reveal how the landscape was engineered centuries ago. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

FBI Had Ransomware Decryption Key for Weeks Before Giving It to Victims

After the Kaseya attack, the feds somehow came into possession of a decryption key but waited nearly a month before delivering it into the hands of businesses. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 years ago

Why eugenics will always fail

I don’t think I’m taking a bold stance by saying that any real attempt at eugenics is indefensible. Practically speaking, though, eugenics is just as much of a bust as it is morally. We can’t positively select for “better people,” and we may face dire consequences if we try to we … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

App Annie Fined $10M in Case That Is the Future of Insider Trading

The scheme involves people's private data, some secret algorithms, and a lot of apps. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Mysterious QUX kickstarter device by MAGA supporters

Is it a streaming box? An end-to-end encrypted content-sharing network? Or a store? What? | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Inventor of 'Game of Life' and Prop Designer for Star Trek Dies

The Milton Bradley game was invented in 1960 and has sold an estimated 70 million copies worldwide. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Lawmakers Ask Zuck to Drop 'Instagram for Kids' Since App Made Kids Suicidal

A separate group of Senators is also launching an investigation into Instagram claiming it's working with a whistleblower. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

A Vanished Supernova Will Reappear in 16 Years

Three dots of light reached Earth in 2016, then disappeared. A fourth is still on its way. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

FEC Finds Twitter Blocking Hunter Biden Story Wasn't Illegal Campaign Donation

Moderation decisions aren't an "illegal in-kind contribution," the FEC told the National Republican Committee. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Seriously Scary Radioactive Products from the 20th Century (2013)

Before we understood that radiation exposure can be deadly, people thought it was just a fun ingredient to make things glow. Here are some of the amazing, disturbing products from those simpler times. None of these would be deemed even remotely safe today. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Steve Wozniak Appears to Be Launching a Space Garbage Company

Space needs a burdensome and expensive deep clean, and Woz's Privateer apparently wants to take care of the mess. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

NLOS Keyhole Imaging Can See Inside a Closed Room

If you're worried about privacy, it might be time to cover up your front door's peephole. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

The World’s Biggest Plant to Suck Carbon Dioxide from the Sky Is Up and Running

The new plant can suck carbon dioxide from the air and turn it to stone underground, sequestering 4,000 tons of pollution a year. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Stern’s Pinball Machines Are Getting Gaming Console Features

Stern is borrowing features from video game consoles to entice pinball players. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

WhatsApp Moderators Can Read Your Messages

WhatsApp isn't the impenetrable private messaging service Facebook likes to claim, ProPublica finds. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Amazon Is Reportedly Making Its Own TVs Because of Course It Is

The Alexa microwaves weren't enough, so Amazon-branded TVs are rumored to launch as early as October. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

GoDaddy Boots Texas Right to Life Abortion 'Whistleblower' Site

GoDaddy said it had given the pro-life tip line 24 hours to find a new hosting provider. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Why the New York Subway Keeps Flooding–and What to Do About It

Rains once again inundated the New York subway system, showing how vulnerable it remains to water nearly a decade after Sandy. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Larry Ellison's Oracle Started as a CIA Project (2014)

Yesterday, Vox somehow managed to write an entire article about the history of Oracle and its founder Larry Ellison without mentioning the CIA even once. Which is pretty astounding, given the fact that Oracle takes its name from a 1977 CIA project codename. And that the CIA was O … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

How to Turn Your Car into a Tiny Camper

Whether you plan to hit the road for weeks at a time or just take the kids on a road trip, you need some gear for your car. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago