Catie Keck, Author at Gizmodo

Siri Pulls Up Image of an Actual Dick When Asked About Trump

Maybe you’re enjoying a nice Thanksgiving dinner with your family when the age of the president of the United States comes up in conversation. Perhaps your family is discussing whether nightly double-fisted Big Macs takes a toll on the body, or whether California’s wildfires can be mitigated with raking (spoiler alert: the answer is no).…

Tech News Catie Keck Nov 22

China’s Social Ranking System Is Getting Closer to Becoming a Terrifying Reality

China’s “social credit” system—the one straight out of a dystopian Black Mirror episode—is getting closer to becoming a reality. The lifelong social ranking system is set to be adopted in Beijing in 2021, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, with residents to be judged on data based on their social standing by the end of 2020. The program…

Privacy & Security Catie Keck Nov 22

Smoke From California’s Wildfires Reached All the Way to New York City

Smoke from the wildfires that have devastated California for weeks has stretched some 3,000 miles to East Coast cities. The Weather Channel reported this week that the haze was expected to linger through Wednesday before an arctic chill descends on the Northeast over the Thanksgiving holiday. While pictures shared on social media captured a colorful…

Earth Science Catie Keck Nov 21

Facebook Fall Guy Admits Doing the Bad Things in Conveniently Timed Memo

In a conveniently timed pre-Thanksgiving news dump on Wednesday, Facebook shared a previously leaked internal memo from the company’s ousted Head of Communications and Policy Elliot Schrage and an accompanying note from Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg addressing a recent damning report from the New York Times. In the memo, Schrage doubled down on the…

Social Media Catie Keck Nov 21

Tumblr App Has Inexplicably Disappeared From Apple’s App Store

Tumblr has mysteriously vanished from Apple’s App Store, and it’s not clear why. The issue was first reported Friday by tech blog PiunikaWeb, which pointed to user reports that the app wasn’t working and noted that some users were “not able to turn off Safe Mode.” As of Sunday, the app was still nowhere to…

Tech News Catie Keck Nov 18

Finland’s President Denies Having Conversation About ‘Raking’ With Trump

While visiting California this weekend, President Donald Trump said Finnish President Sauli Niinisto told him that “raking” was part of the country’s forest management before insinuating that it’s something the United States should be doing to mitigate wildfires. The remark was bizarre, to be sure. But now, Niinisto says that no such conversation ever happened.…

Earth Science Catie Keck Nov 18

You Can Now Watch Ad-Supported Movies for Free on YouTube

You can now add YouTube to your list of sites to scour for free movie streaming, as the video-sharing giant has now added no-cost, ad-supported films to YouTube Movies. A spokesperson for Google, YouTube’s parent company, told Gizmodo that it introduced the “free to watch” section to its site in October, though reports of the…

Tech News Catie Keck Nov 18

Is This Your Bedazzled Pigeon?

The Hot Duck has arrested our attention for weeks now, but there’s a new bird captivating the internet this week: the Bedazzled Pigeon. And this bird with flair is already in high demand. Jody Kieran, the owner of the Arizona-based bird rescue and rehabilitation center Fallen Feathers, tells Gizmodo that the male pigeon came into…

Biology Catie Keck Nov 18

Trump Suggests California Wildfires Can Be Avoided by ‘Raking’

President Donald Trump traveled to Northern California this weekend to survey the area affected by the Camp Fire, which has become the deadliest and most destructive fire in the state’s history. During the visit, the president appeared to double down on some of his previous rhetoric involving what he has described as forest mismanagement. CNN…

Earth Science Catie Keck Nov 17

Maybe Don’t Try to Bend Your iPad Pro Like a Paper Clip

Apple’s new iPad Pro may be the last great tablet, but you’d be wise to handle it carefully. Apple’s critical darling appears to bend pretty easily under the right amount of pressure, which you might expect but is no less visceral to watch. This observation comes courtesy Zack Nelson, the YouTuber behind popular product review…

Tech News Catie Keck Nov 17

Instagram Is Reportedly Down for Android Users Following Concerns Over Password Security [Updated]

Dozens of Android users reported that the Instagram app wasn’t working for them as of Saturday morning, with some posting about problems on mobile on Twitter late Friday. Instagram now says the issue is fixed. “Some users temporarily had trouble using Instagram on Android earlier,” the company said in a statement by email to Gizmodo…

Social Media Catie Keck Nov 17

Microsoft Realizes We Don’t Actually Want Ads in Our Mail and Gmail Is Just an Exception

If you’re a person even remotely annoyed by the pervasive presence of ads in virtually every digital space, it’s probably safe to assume you definitely don’t want them in your email. Microsoft appears to have only just realized this. The company seemingly backtracked on rolling out an A/B test for banners in its Windows 10…

Tech News Catie Keck Nov 17

Jennie-O Recalls More Than 91,000 Pounds of Raw Ground Turkey Amid Salmonella Outbreak

Jennie-O Turkey recalled more than 91,000 pounds of raw ground turkey this week amid a nationwide Salmonella turkey outbreak. The move marks the first reported recall of non-pet food meat in the outbreak that’s sickened at least 164 people and is linked to one death. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, instances…

Health Catie Keck Nov 16

Alphabet Halts Project for Glucose-Sensing Smart Contact Lens

Alphabet has halted a project under its biotech division Verily that aimed to create smart contact lenses for people with diabetes. The ambitious, years-long endeavor aimed to measure glucose levels in tears using on-lens sensors. Verily made the announcement Friday in a blog post about its decision with Alcon to table the project for the…

Tech News Catie Keck Nov 16

Mistake in Filing Suggests WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Has Been Charged

Following an earlier report that the Justice Department was looking to prosecute WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the Washington Post has now reported that Assange may have been charged under seal in a revelation that appears to have stemmed from a mistake in a court filing. The circumstances by which this information was disclosed, if indeed…

Tech News Catie Keck Nov 16

Should You Be Eating a High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Like Keto? Scientists Weigh In

Diet fads often make the lofty claim that adjusting food habits one way or another will produce the dieter’s desired results. More specifically: Eat this, not that, and watch the pounds fall off. But diets are hard to sustain, and it seems like diet debunking is constantly calling into question what and how much we…

Health Catie Keck Nov 15

Democratic Senators Press Carriers Over Allegations of Video App Throttling

Following recent research that found U.S. telecom companies were throttling video streaming services like Netflix and YouTube, three Democratic senators are now calling for a response from those major mobile carriers in letters to their respective company heads. Citing a multi-university study that collected data on the practice using an app called Wehe—which was developed…

Tech News Catie Keck Nov 15

Raccoons Suspected of Having Rabies Were Actually Just Drunk as Hell [Updated]

Following recent reports that two masked perpetrators were raising alarm in a town in West Virginia, police say they have reason to believe the troublemakers had just gotten wrecked. (See update below.) The Milton Police Department reportedly received accounts of stumbling and disoriented raccoons at least twice in the last week, and locals worried the…

Biology Catie Keck Nov 15

Amazon Ordered to Hand Over Possible Echo Recordings Related to Double Homicide

A judge has ordered Amazon to turn over any data it has pertaining to a New Hampshire double homicide that happened in January of 2017, saying the court has probable cause to believe an Echo may have created recordings that could be useful to the case. But Amazon doesn’t seem eager to fork over audio…

Tech News Catie Keck Nov 14

More Than 1,000 People Are Missing in the Camp Fire, and Many Are Senior Citizens [Updated]

Nearly a week after the Camp Fire devastated an entire town, destroying 7,600 homes and at least 260 commercial properties, officials say hundreds of people are still missing, and many among them are senior citizens. An updated list from the Butte County Sheriff’s Office shows that a significant number of the individuals identified as missing…

Earth Science Catie Keck Nov 14

Catie Keck

Siri Pulls Up Image of an Actual Dick When Asked About Trump

China’s Social Ranking System Is Getting Closer to Becoming a Terrifying Reality

Smoke From California’s Wildfires Reached All the Way to New York City

Facebook Fall Guy Admits Doing the Bad Things in Conveniently Timed Memo

Tumblr App Has Inexplicably Disappeared From Apple’s App Store

Finland’s President Denies Having Conversation About ‘Raking’ With Trump

You Can Now Watch Ad-Supported Movies for Free on YouTube

Is This Your Bedazzled Pigeon?

Trump Suggests California Wildfires Can Be Avoided by ‘Raking’

Maybe Don’t Try to Bend Your iPad Pro Like a Paper Clip

Instagram Is Reportedly Down for Android Users Following Concerns Over Password Security [Updated]

Microsoft Realizes We Don’t Actually Want Ads in Our Mail and Gmail Is Just an Exception

Jennie-O Recalls More Than 91,000 Pounds of Raw Ground Turkey Amid Salmonella Outbreak

Alphabet Halts Project for Glucose-Sensing Smart Contact Lens

Mistake in Filing Suggests WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Has Been Charged

Should You Be Eating a High-Fat, Low-Carb Diet Like Keto? Scientists Weigh In

Democratic Senators Press Carriers Over Allegations of Video App Throttling

Raccoons Suspected of Having Rabies Were Actually Just Drunk as Hell [Updated]

Amazon Ordered to Hand Over Possible Echo Recordings Related to Double Homicide

More Than 1,000 People Are Missing in the Camp Fire, and Many Are Senior Citizens [Updated]

FCC Exempts Netgear from Foreign-Made Router Ban for Some Reason

Jamie Dornan Is Your New Aragorn in ‘The Hunt for Gollum’

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The Trump Phone Still Looks Like Total Trash

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