Andrew Couts, Author at Gizmodo

Black Panther‘s Missed Opportunity, Bad Dog Breeding, and Nerdy Cooking Secrets: The Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

As we continue to reel from yet another week of revolting news, it’s worth taking a moment to remember that some glimmers of good remain. Being a shill can still get you in some deep shit, and arguing to your entire company that women are biologically inferior to men is still a totally good reason…

Tech News Andrew Couts

Black Panther, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, and Severed Heads: The Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Hey, it wasn’t all bad. In the past week, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket successfully took off, landed, and launched Elon Musk’s Tesla into the eternal abyss. Scientists made progress on cracking the secrets of mental illness. And, mercifully, one hero finally figured out what The Shape of Water’s fish dick looked like. Those are just…

Tech News Andrew Couts

Grammarly Bug Let Snoops Read What You Wrote, Typos and All (Updated)

Copyediting app Grammarly included a gaping security hole that left users of its browser extension open to more embarrassment than just misspelled words. The Grammarly browser extension for Chrome and Firefox contained a “high severity bug” that was leaking authentication tokens, according to a bug report by Tavis Ormandy, a security researcher with Google’s Project…

Privacy & Security Andrew Couts

Super Bowl I, Security Snake Oil, and Killer Flu: The Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

What a week, what a week. As January faded into memory and February began, we saw the return of a (likely intoxicated) Ken Bone, Mark Zuckerberg claim he’s actually happy we’re using Facebook less, Apple continue to make a boatload of cash selling iPhones (though perhaps not as many as it would like), and we…

Tech News Andrew Couts

The Tools Hackers Use to Steal Your Office’s Secrets

Hackers have a dirty secret—and no, it’s not that they still live in their parents’ basement and suffer from an unhealthy obsession with Alison Brie. It’s that much of their success at infiltrating a target’s social media account, PC, or company servers relies not on technical skill but on being really good at faking it.…

Privacy & Security Andrew Couts

I Live in the Woods, and Netgear’s Orbi Outdoor Satellite Sounds Like a Dream

As far as I can tell, the only downside to living in the woods, besides the bears and coyotes that are plotting to kill you at any moment, is the claustrophobic range of my home wi-fi router. But Netgear claims to have just the device to bring sweet, sweet internet into the great outdoors. The…

Gadgets Andrew Couts

Andrew Couts

Black Panther‘s Missed Opportunity, Bad Dog Breeding, and Nerdy Cooking Secrets: The Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Black Panther, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, and Severed Heads: The Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Grammarly Bug Let Snoops Read What You Wrote, Typos and All (Updated)

Super Bowl I, Security Snake Oil, and Killer Flu: The Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

The Tools Hackers Use to Steal Your Office’s Secrets

I Live in the Woods, and Netgear’s Orbi Outdoor Satellite Sounds Like a Dream

This Winter Fly Is Doing Something Scientists Didn’t Think Was Possible

Acer’s Mac Mini M4 Docking Station Drops to an All-Time Low, Supporting Up to 8TB Storage

Sony Is Hiking PS5 Prices for the Second Time in Less Than a Year

This Amazon Smart Plug Deal in the Spring Sale Makes Alexa Smart Home Setup Almost Too Easy and Cheap

Ryan Coogler’s ‘X-Files’ Reboot Has Found Its Other Big Star

Anker’s 100W Power Bank Hits Its Lowest Price of the Year on Amazon, Packing 25,000mAh and 3 Ports

Beats Solo 4 at 40% Off Is Now Apple’s Lowest-Cost Headphone Pick During Amazon’s Spring Sale

Now the Oscars Aren’t Just Moving to YouTube, They’re Moving Out of Hollywood

Fitbit Versa 4 Drops to a Record Low as Google Makes Another Push into Fitness Smartwatches Following the Pixel Watch

JBL Boombox 4 Speaker Didn’t Stay at Full Price for Long as Amazon’s Spring Sale Pushes It Close to Used Pricing

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

Apple Studio Display XDR Review: It Looks So Good, I Wish It Were an iMac

RayNeo Air 4 Pro Review: My Eyes Love These Video Glasses, but My Nose Disagrees