New Antibody based drug to prevent Migraines

On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first drug explicitly developed to prevent migraines. But while the drug may signal a new wave of effective treatments for this debilitating—yet often ignored and dismissed—medical condition, there are still questions as … | Continue reading


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Google Removes 'Don't Be Evil' Clause from Its Code of Conduct

Google’s unofficial motto has long been the simple phrase “don’t be evil.” But that’s over, according to the code of conduct that Google distributes to its employees. The phrase was removed sometime in late April or early May, archives hosted by the Wayback Machine show. | Continue reading


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Malware-Testing Service Scan4You Convicted on Three Federal Charges

One of the men behind the Scan4You, a counter-antivirus tool used by cybercriminals to determine whether their malware would be flagged during routine security scans, has been convicted on three counts in federal court. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 6 years ago

Malware-Testing Service Scan4You Convicted on Three Federal Charges

One of the men behind the Scan4You, a counter-antivirus tool used by cybercriminals to determine whether their malware would be flagged during routine security scans, has been convicted on three counts in federal court. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 6 years ago

The Future Is Knit: Why the Ancient Art of Knitting Is High-Tech Again

When you think about knitting, you might picture grandmas clicking big wooden needles or something wintery, like a snow-covered lodge. But knitting is everywhere, producing just about everything you put against your skin each day, from socks and t-shirts to hoodies and beanies. A … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 6 years ago

Lizards with Toxic Green Blood Are Super Freaky

Lurking quietly in the deep dark jungles of New Guinea are a group of lizards who share a rather striking feature: green blood. It’s a rare trait for vertebrates to have, but new insights into this strange blood could lead to innovative medical treatments. | Continue reading


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Report: Rich Guys Can't Find Anyone to Run Their Incredibly Vague Healthcare Co

Earlier this year, billionaires Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, and Jamie Dimon promised to launch a new partnership that would upend the healthcare industry and lower the cost of care for the employees of their very large companies. That has yet to come to fruition, in large part du … | Continue reading


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Every Senator Who Voted Against Net Neutrality and When to Vote Them Out

A surprising thing happened on Wednesday: The Senate did something good. | Continue reading


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US Senate Votes to Save Net Neutrality

In a monumental decision that will resonate through election season, the U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted 52-47 to reinstate the net neutrality protections the Federal Communications Commission decided to repeal last December. | Continue reading


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Fingerprint Analysis Could Finally Get Scientific, Thanks to a New Tool

There wasn’t anything particularly unusual about the court-martial at the Fort Huachuca military base in Arizona at the end of February. But when the analyst from the Department of Defense forensic laboratory presented a report on fingerprint evidence, it included an element that … | Continue reading


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Galileo May Have Flown Right Through a Plume of Water on Jupiter's Moon Europa

Sometimes, scientists have the answers all along—they just don’t think to ask the question. For example, it appears that in 1997, the Galileo orbiter flew through a jet of water shooting out from Jupiter’s moon Europa without even trying. | Continue reading


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Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract

It’s been nearly three months since many Google employees—and the public—learned about the company’s decision to provide artificial intelligence to a controversial military pilot program known as Project Maven, which aims to speed up analysis of drone footage by automatically cla … | Continue reading


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Deep Learning Can Now Flawlessly Correct Photos Taken in Almost Complete Dark

There are typically two approaches to taking usable photos in low-light conditions. You can either use a slow shutter, which requires a tripod to eliminate blur, or electronically increase the sensitivity of a camera’s sensor, which introduces ugly noise artifacts. But there’s no … | Continue reading


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Australia Bans Cash for All Purchases Over $7,500 (Jul 2019)

Australia’s Liberal Party government has announced that it will soon be illegal to purchase anything over $10,000 AU ($7,500 US) with cash. The government says it’s, “encouraging the transition to a digital society,” and cracking down on tax evasion. But not everyone is happy wit … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 6 years ago

FCC Hits Robocaller with $120M Fine but Calls Won't Stop Anytime Soon

The Federal Communications Commission summoned all of its regulatory strength Thursday and dropped a record $120 million fine on a notorious robocall operator who placed nearly 100 million spoofed calls. It’s just a shame that the punishment probably won’t accomplish anything. | Continue reading


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NYPD Testing 'Skim Reaper' to Fight Credit Card Fraud

The New York Police Department is testing out a device called the “Skim Reaper” in an effort to hinder credit card fraud. | Continue reading


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Social ranking company Klout is shutting down

You probably haven’t experienced the crippling anxiety of thinking about increasing your Klout score in quite some time. As of May 25, you won’t have ever have to do it again. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 6 years ago

Microsoft Kinect Refuses to Die

Kinect was never for you. Yeah, you with the Xbox One that was bundled with a Kinect. That big honking spatial camera was an impressive piece of tech, but it never did you much good as a console add-on did it? | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 6 years ago

The Fight for a Massive Pentagon Cloud Contract Is Heating Up

Top tech companies are launching a bidding war for a massive Pentagon cloud contract, even as their workforces are pressing them to refuse all military work. In addition to the protests from employees, the bidding process for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 6 years ago

Uhh, Google Assistant Impersonating a Human on the Phone Is Scary as Hell to Me

Google could soon have a feature that lets your phone impersonate people—because consumer-facing artificial intelligence isn’t terrifying enough. Called Duplex, it’s intended to make people’s lives easier by handling standard phone calls that are necessary, but not especially per … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 6 years ago

Microsoft's New Plan to Colonize Your Phone with Windows

Last year, Microsoft assured us that the death of the Windows phone didn’t mean the death of Windows on your phone. Today, the company teased a future where Android users will have the same cool phone-to-PC experience iOS users with a Mac currently enjoy. The Windows phone may be … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 6 years ago

Simulated Moon Dust Kills Cells and Alters DNA

Astronauts hoping stay on the moon long-term missions have another reason to worry about moon dust: It could be quite harmful if inhaled, as demonstrated in a new study. | Continue reading


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The Price of This Drug Went Up 100,000 Percent Since 2001 for No Good Reason

Did you catch 60 Minutes last night? If you did, you may have learned about a drug called Acthar that went from $40 in 2001 to over $40,000 today. It’s a perfect illustration of just how poorly regulated the US pharmaceutical industry continues to be and how there’s absolutely n … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 6 years ago

Tesla Will Lock Out Contractors on Monday Unless Employees Vouch for Them

Elon Musk is apparently planning to purge Tesla factories of contractors in the strangest way possible. The company CEO is planning to cut off access to the company to any contractor who doesn’t have a Tesla employee to vouch for the quality of their work. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 6 years ago

I Knew Buying a Newly Redesigned MacBook Pro Was Stupid and I Did It Anyway

Do not be me. I was desperate for a new Apple laptop to replace my dying 2012 one and as soon as the 2016 Macbook Pro with Touch Bar was available to buy I ordered it. This was a major redesign for Apple, and experience with other products told me that buying the first generation … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 6 years ago

Genealogy tourism is booming as Americans search for identity in DNA and abroad

Liza Lizarraga has spent hours combing through paper and digital archives to track her family’s history the old-fashioned way, and she has spit in a test tube to find out what morsels of her family’s history might be revealed by her DNA. In September, though, Lizarraga will walk … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 6 years ago

Equifax Board Members Keep Their Jobs Despite Data Breach Blunders

After a calamitous data breach exposing the personal information of more than 145 million U.S. citizens, Equifax shareholders this week voted to re-elect all of the company’s board members following its first annual shareholder meeting since the incident. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 6 years ago

The Strange History of How a Gene Was Named “Sonic Hedgehog” (2015)

There's a gene that's pivotal in not only separating your right brain from your left, but also in making sure that you have two, individual eyes. That gene, and the protein it codes for, are both called Sonic Hedgehog. Here's how that happened. | Continue reading


@io9.gizmodo.com | 6 years ago

Amazon to Affordable Housing: Screw You

Amazon has a big middle finger today for all the affordable housing proponents out there. According to a Wednesday report in the New York Times, Amazon—Seattle’s largest employer with 45,000 staff in the city—has abruptly decided to halt a “huge” two-building, 7,000 employee expa … | Continue reading


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Systems That Control Water, Power Plants Are Shockingly to Hackers, Study Finds

A disturbingly high percentage of industrial control systems (ICS)—the technology used to manage everything from water treatment plants to the International Space Station—are eminently vulnerable to malicious hackers, according to tests performed by a leading global security firm … | Continue reading


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The Rebirth of Palm Could Happen Later This Year

No, your calendar isn’t wrong—it’s not the year 2010. But if a report from Android Police is to be believed, the once legendary phone brand Palm is going to make a return to stores sometime in the second half of 2018 on Verizon. | Continue reading


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Boeing Brags About Size of Its Rocket, Says SpaceX's Is Too Small for NASA

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Cambridge Analytica Just Shut Down All It’s U.S. Offices

On Wednesday, Cambridge Analytica employees learned that its parent company, the SCL Group, was shuttering the business, with American-based workers directed to return their keycards immediately, according to documentation reviewed by Gizmodo. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 6 years ago

Toshiba has a plan to extend quantum security to record-breaking distances

Toshiba has devised a feasible new way to use the laws of quantum mechanics to send secure messages using present-day technology. Now it just has to build it. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 6 years ago

Why NASA's Next Mars Lander Will Launch from California Instead of Florida

NASA is set to launch its next Mars lander, InSight, early Saturday morning. But something’s different about this launch. It’s taking place on the West Coast, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 6 years ago

Early Humans Were Hunting Rhinos in the Philippines Over 700,000 Years Ago

Our species, Homo sapiens, weren’t the first humans to leave Africa—not by a long shot. The remarkable discovery of a 709,000-year-old butchered rhino fossil in the Philippines shows that so-called archaic humans were romping around the islands of southeast Asia a full 400,000 y … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 6 years ago

Cambridge Analytica Just Shut Down All Its U.S. Offices

On Wednesday, Cambridge Analytica employees learned that its parent company, the SCL Group, was shuttering the business, with American-based workers directed to return their keycards immediately, according to documentation reviewed by Gizmodo. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 6 years ago

Apple Posts, Deletes Job Listing for In-House iPhone Modems

Apple put up, and then took down, a job posting that suggested the company is preparing to give up on wireless chips manufactured by Qualcomm—a supplier it is currently in a contentious legal battle with—and is possibly cutting out Intel as well for future generations of iPhones. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 6 years ago

New Analysis: Our Galaxy Was Walloped by a Neighbor in Its Not-So-Distant Past

Space is a chaotic, ever-changing place. But that’s not limited to exploding stars and colliding black holes. Even our own Milky Way galaxy could have recently received a massive jolt from which it is still recovering. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 6 years ago

Huawei Reportedly Developing Its Own OS as a Backup Plan

With ZTE facing the threat of losing access to Android after being slapped with a ban from buying parts from American companies by the DoJ, fellow Chinese phone maker Huawei may find itself in a similar position, now that it, too, is being investigated for violating U.S. sanction … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 6 years ago

Why the Heck Is Intel Struggling to Make Smaller, Faster CPUs?

It looks like Intel has got some issues with its next generation of CPUs. Yesterday during an earnings call, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich admitted that Intel would be delaying the highly anticipated Cannon Lake processor until 2019. The delay means Intel’s CPUs won’t see a very large … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 6 years ago

Foxconn Will Drain 7M Gals of Water / Day from Lake Michigan to Make LCD Screens

This week, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources gave the go-ahead to Taiwanese tech manufacturer Foxconn to siphon off seven million gallons of water per day from Lake Michigan, despite protests from conservation groups. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 6 years ago

Facebook Is Shrinking Fake News Stories Because Nothing Else Has Worked

For what feels like the umpteenth time, Facebook is introducing another new plan to fight against the scourge of fake news that populates the platform, this time by making shrinking the size of links to bogus claims and hoaxes. It probably won’t work because people are just the w … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 6 years ago

Inside AMD's Quest to Build Chips That Can Beat Intel

There are few gambles in the tech world as big as spending billions to build a new computer processor from scratch. Former AMD board member Robert Palmer supposedly compared it to Russian roulette: “You put a gun to your head, pull the trigger, and find out four years later if yo … | Continue reading


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