Eve Peyser, Author at Gizmodo

Ordering Your Steak Well-Done Like a Baby Is Also Dumb for Health Reasons

On Sunday, we learned Donald Trump eats his steak well-done with ketchup. If you’ve ever eaten steak—in Trump’s case, an expensive, tender piece of New York strip—you probably know that well-done with ketchup is simply not the way to go. The president should give medium-rare a try, not only for the sake of his palate,…

Tech News Eve Peyser Feb 27

Bill Gates Made a David S. Pumpkins Video and I Want to Die

Bill Gates made a parody Christmas-themed David S. Pumpkins video in order to promote his Reddit Ask Me Anything on Monday. While the previous sentence is straight out of a piece of dystopian fiction, it’s real, and now I want to die. How do you feel? Are you okay? Sure, I might be overreacting. Of…

Tech News Eve Peyser Feb 27

Report: Trump to Announce Massive EPA Cuts

On Monday, Trump will announce major cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency as he starts to build the budget for the next fiscal year, according to reports from Axios and the New York Times. A top official reportedly told Axios we can expect “transformational” cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency, especially when it comes to climate…

Tech News Eve Peyser Feb 26

Apple ‘Looking Into’ Exploding iPhone 7 After Smoking Hot Video Goes Viral

On Wednesday an Arizona teen tweeted a video of her iPhone 7 Plus smoldering in its thick plastic case after it apparently exploded. Apple is “looking into it,” according to a company spokesperson. “Dude, what the fuck?” Brianna Olivas, 18, softly exclaimed, her phone teeming with smoke in a video taken by her boyfriend Wednesday…

Tech News Eve Peyser Feb 24

Texas Turns to Chemical Warfare to Bring ‘Feral Hog Apocalypse’

Texas’s 2.5 million feral pigs may soon fall victim to chemical warfare. On Tuesday, the state’s Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller changed the rules of the Texas Administrative Code to permit the legal poisoning of these unsuspecting hogs. Before feeling too bad for the poor piggies, know that feral hogs are a national problem that cost…

Tech News Eve Peyser Feb 22

South Koreans May Soon Live to Be 90, But Our Short, Violent Grandkids Won’t

Here’s the good news: According to a comprehensive new study, the average life expectancy will increase globally by 2030, with South Korean women born that year expected to live 90.8 years, the longest of the 35 countries analyzed. Here’s the bad news: Americans will die younger than their international peers and possibly even shorter than…

Health Eve Peyser Feb 21

The President of the United States Owns 3,643 Websites Including IHateTrumpVodka.com

Over the years, the Trump Organization has invested in thousands of domain names for potential business ventures, future campaigns, and often, simply as an attempt to stay one step ahead of the haters. DonaldTrumpSucks.com, IHateTrumpVodka.com, TrumpRussia.com, and TrumpFraud.org are part of the president’s vast portfolio. A CNN Money investigation published Sunday notes he purchased 93…

Tech News Eve Peyser Feb 20

Trump’s FCC Chair Praises Amazon Prime, Possibly Violating Same Ethics Rules as Kellyanne Conway

In what appears to be a violation of the federal ethics rule that prohibits a government employee from using “his public office for his own private gain, for the endorsement of any product,” Ajit Pai, the controversial new chair of the FCC, tweeted and subsequently deleted praise for Amazon’s PrimeNow service. “Needed something in pinch &…

Tech News Eve Peyser Feb 19

New York’s City-Funded Tech Hub Looks Like a Prison Built by Ikea

On Friday, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio released the latest designs for the Union Square Tech Hub, a $250 million project that aims to “create a central convening point for technology training and networking” as the Big Apple tumbles into the increasingly digital future. As evidenced in the designs released by the mayor’s…

Tech News Eve Peyser Feb 19

Ex-Uber Engineer Says the Company Has a Culture of Sexual Harassment

Uber is not known for treating its drivers particularly well, but it gets worse: According to allegations from an ex-engineer Susan J. Fowler, the ridesharing app has a culture of misogyny, and threatened to fire her after she reported sexual harassment. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has already responded to the allegations, saying in a statement…

Tech News Eve Peyser Feb 19

What’s Going on With Kellyanne Conway’s Twitter Account?

Kellyanne Conway has had a wild day on Twitter. After getting into some trouble for retweeting a white nationalist Twitter account, people began speculating that Conway was on the outs with the Trump administration, using flimsy evidence that Trump had unfollowed her as proof. But as tweeters conjured up fantasies of Conway getting the boot,…

Tech News Eve Peyser Feb 14

This Plane Fucks

Happy Valentine’s Day! On Twitter Monday night, American Airlines effectively declared itself the unofficial airline of BDSM. As evidenced by the tweet—a magnificent black and white photo of a glistening American Airlines jet—this plane fucks. “We found our fifty shades,” wrote the airline in an apparent allusion to the Fifty Shades of Grey series, suggesting…

Tech News Eve Peyser Feb 13

Genius Behind Suicide Squad Now Fifth in Line For the Presidency

On Monday night, the United States senate confirmed the executive producer of Suicide Squad, Steven Mnuchin, as Treasury Secretary. This is, perhaps, the most twisted presidential cabinet in our nation’s history. The Secretary of the Treasury, a post first held by Alexander Hamilton, is fifth in the presidential line of succession. 52 Republican senators and…

Tech News Eve Peyser Feb 13

Report: National Security Advisors ‘Struggle’ to Form Policy From Trump’s Tweets

The staff of the National Security Council is “struggl[ing]” to turn Donald Trump’s tweets into actual policy, according to a New York Times report released Sunday. The paper described the atmosphere at the NSC as “chaotic and anxious,” and said that officials “get up in the morning, read President Trump’s Twitter posts and struggle to…

Tech News Eve Peyser Feb 12

California Town Given One Hour to Evacuate Before Dam Spillway Collapses [Updating]

“This [is] NOT A Drill. This [is] NOT A Drill. This [is] NOT A Drill,” the Butte County Sheriff’s Department wrote on Facebook Sunday afternoon, urging residents of Oroville, California to evacuate immediately. “Officials are anticipating a failure of the Auxiliary Spillway at Oroville Dam within the next 60 minutes,” wrote the California Department of…

Tech News Eve Peyser Feb 12

Verizon Brings Back Unlimited Data Plans For $80 a Month

Data junkies rejoice—Verizon is bringing back its unlimited data plan starting Monday. According to a CNBC report, the company will sell these plans for $80 per month for single users or $45 per line on a four person family plan. The only catch is that after you use more than 22GB of data per month…

Tech News Eve Peyser Feb 12

Ecuador Can’t Wait for Adult Son Julian Assange to Move Out

Ecuador is extremely ready for its adult son and growing annoyance, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, to move of out of the country’s London embassy—like as soon as possible. How soon? “We would like the next step to be tomorrow,” Ecuador’s foreign minister Guillaume Long said in an interview with The Guardian, as he called for…

Tech News Eve Peyser Feb 9

Microsoft Kicked in $250,000 for Trump’s Big Party Before Speaking Out Against Muslim Ban

Microsoft, along with a slew of other major tech companies who opposed Trump’s immigration ban, donated lots of cash and free services to the president on inauguration day, according to new Politico report. After donating a reported $250,000 in cash, and the same amount in technical services, to the Trump’s inauguration parties on December 28,…

Tech News Eve Peyser Feb 7

If You Bought a Computer When Livestrong Bracelets Were Popular, You Can Probably Get $10

If you bought a PC with a disk drive between 2003 and 2008—the golden age of Livestrong bracelets and trucker hats—you might be eligible for $10 thanks to an antitrust class action suit. In December, Sony, NEC, Panasonic and Hitachi-LG settled a seven-year suit which alleged the companies colluded “to inflate the prices of optical…

Tech News Eve Peyser Feb 7

‘$100,000’ Harambe Cheeto Is Everything Stupid About the Internet

A little over a week ago, seller valuestampsinc posted a listing on eBay for a Flaming Hot Cheeto vaguely resembling Harambe. On Monday, this inevitably became a viral story due to its exorbitant price—as of 11:45PM, the bidding is currently at $97,600. Cheeto Harambe is the perfect paradigm for internet virality at its worst. In…

Tech News Eve Peyser Feb 6

Eve Peyser

Ordering Your Steak Well-Done Like a Baby Is Also Dumb for Health Reasons

Bill Gates Made a David S. Pumpkins Video and I Want to Die

Report: Trump to Announce Massive EPA Cuts

Apple ‘Looking Into’ Exploding iPhone 7 After Smoking Hot Video Goes Viral

Texas Turns to Chemical Warfare to Bring ‘Feral Hog Apocalypse’

South Koreans May Soon Live to Be 90, But Our Short, Violent Grandkids Won’t

The President of the United States Owns 3,643 Websites Including IHateTrumpVodka.com

Trump’s FCC Chair Praises Amazon Prime, Possibly Violating Same Ethics Rules as Kellyanne Conway

New York’s City-Funded Tech Hub Looks Like a Prison Built by Ikea

Ex-Uber Engineer Says the Company Has a Culture of Sexual Harassment

What’s Going on With Kellyanne Conway’s Twitter Account?

This Plane Fucks

Genius Behind Suicide Squad Now Fifth in Line For the Presidency

Report: National Security Advisors ‘Struggle’ to Form Policy From Trump’s Tweets

California Town Given One Hour to Evacuate Before Dam Spillway Collapses [Updating]

Verizon Brings Back Unlimited Data Plans For $80 a Month

Ecuador Can’t Wait for Adult Son Julian Assange to Move Out

Microsoft Kicked in $250,000 for Trump’s Big Party Before Speaking Out Against Muslim Ban

If You Bought a Computer When Livestrong Bracelets Were Popular, You Can Probably Get $10

‘$100,000’ Harambe Cheeto Is Everything Stupid About the Internet

The Nazis’ Most Notoriously Complex Cryptographic Machine Is Now Available Online

‘Good Omens’ Season 3 Is Still Just One Episode, Despite Being Called That

Steam Gaming Has Arrived on Apple Vision Pro, and It’s Unexpectedly Glorious

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