Jennings Brown, Author at Gizmodo

Wildly Popular Kid YouTube Channel Accused of Deceptively Promoting Products to Millions of Children

Over the last three years, a consumer watchdog group has increasingly focused on the deceptive ad campaigns of social media influencers’ who maneuver within emerging platforms that are loosely regulated—but now the organization has turned its attention to how children are being exploited in this field. In late August the non-profit group Truth in Advertising…

Tech News Jennings Brown Sep 11

The iPhone Lenses Are Giving Me Trypophobia

I’ve been nauseous all afternoon. It started when I was scrolling through Twitter and saw the first glimpses of the iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max and their triple-camera horror show. [Editors Note: Trypophobia is a phobia for a reason, it freaks people out. If you’re afraid of clusters of small holes, read our blog…

Tech News Jennings Brown Sep 10

Taylor Swift Threatened Legal Action Against Microsoft Over Racist and Genocidal Chatbot Tay

Taylor Swift tried to block Microsoft from using the moniker Tay to a chatbot that turned into a depraved racist troll vessel, according to a new book from Microsoft President Brad Smith. In March 2016 Microsoft introduced a new chatbot in the U.S. that was built to speak with young adults and teens on social…

Tech News Jennings Brown Sep 10

Acupuncturist Went Too Deep, Punctured Patient’s Lungs

The New Zealand Health and Disability Commissioner (HDC) has admonished an acupuncturist for going too deep, way too deep. On Monday Commissioner Anthony Hill released a report determining that the practitioner breached the Health and Disability Consumers’ Rights code when she turned her client’s lungs into pin cushions. According to the report—first flagged by the…

Health Jennings Brown Sep 9

Amazon Office Workers Plan to Strike Over Company’s Inaction on Climate Change

Hundreds of Amazon employees have signed a pledge to strike later this month, standing against the company’s failure to take action to fight climate change. In the last two years, workers of tech companies have increasingly stepped up to show their anger over their employers’ actions and inactions. Google employees have protested the company’s work…

Earther Jennings Brown Sep 9

Google Bans Ads for ‘Experimental Medical Treatments’

Google plans to crack down on ads for bogus medical treatments, as the company has observed a rise in predatory scams that target desperate patients. The company announced on Friday a new policy that prohibits promotions “for unproven or experimental medical techniques” and therapies that have “insufficient formal clinical testing to justify widespread clinical use—giving…

Tech News Jennings Brown Sep 6

American Airlines Mechanic Charged with Sabotaging Flight

An aircraft mechanic has been charged with tampering with an American Airlines airplane before a flight of 150 passengers was scheduled to take off. The Miami Herald reports that American Airline employee Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani was arrested on Thursday for allegedly disabling a navigation system. A criminal complaint affidavit filed in federal court—cited by…

Transportation Jennings Brown Sep 6

Facebook Throttles Satirical Women’s Site Reductress for Sharing ‘Clickbait’

A satirical women’s site that lambasts clickbait content is being suppressed on Facebook because the social media platform determined Reductress was sharing clickbait. Upon first glance, Reductress stories look like the kind of, well, reductive posts that content mills churn out with the aim of infesting Facebook. Classic Reductress examples include “What Surprised Me Most…

Social Media Jennings Brown Sep 5

‘Don’t Panic’: Snakehunt Continues After Three-Foot Python Escapes Inside High School

A ball python in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, is having an excellent beginning of the semester after escaping from its science lab confines right before school started. Kai, the three-foot-long snake, is on the loose in Fond du Lac High School. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that a science teacher brought the snake to the school,…

Biology Jennings Brown Sep 5

Have You Seen This Infamous Knife-Snatching Crow?

Canuck, the bad-ass crow hero who likes knives, fire, and crime, has reportedly gone missing. The chaotic-good corvid gained notoriety in 2016 for tampering with a crime scene in Vancouver, British Columbia. A man allegedly set a car on fire and was threatening law enforcement with a knife. After the man was arrested, Canuck, who…

Biology Jennings Brown Sep 4

NYC Subway Workers Are Very, Very Tired of Picking Up Your Lost AirPods

Fallen AirPods are a plague upon New York City. Apple earbuds aren’t just causing anxiety for owners who fear losing one of their pricey headphones during their commutes—the ergonomic hockey-stick-shaped pellets are a pain in the tracks for the city’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority workers. According to The Wall Street Journal, the MTA is considering issuing…

Tech News Jennings Brown Sep 4

Tesla Malfunction Locks Out Owners Who Depended on App for Entry, Forces Them to Scramble for ‘Keys’

Some Tesla users who rely on the app to gain entry to their Model 3 were temporarily unable to get into their electric cars on Labor Day. The Next Web reported that a number of people tweeted out their frustrations on Monday when they were “locked out” of their car due to phone app issues.…

Tech News Jennings Brown Sep 3

Scammer Successfully Deepfaked CEO’s Voice To Fool Underling Into Transferring $243,000

The CEO of an energy firm based in the UK thought he was following his boss’s urgent orders in March when he transferred funds to a third-party. But the request actually came from the AI-assisted voice of a fraudster. The Wall Street Journal reports that the mark believed he was speaking to the CEO of…

Privacy & Security Jennings Brown Sep 3

Oculus Co-Founder Accused of Sexual Assault

An Oculus VR founder has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman during a VR demo in 2016. Earlier this week Autumn Rose Taylor, a marketing director at video game developer Owlchemy Labs, posted a thread of tweets describing an incident in which Michael Antonov assaulted her. In the tweets, Taylor said the assault took…

Social Media Jennings Brown Aug 30

Mystery Russia Explosion Reportedly Happened During Mission to Recover Nuclear-Powered Missile from Ocean

U.S. intelligence has reportedly determined that a mysterious blast that occurred on Russia’s northern coast earlier this month took place during a mission to reclaim a nuclear-powered missile. Last week Russia signaled that it had no interest in shedding light on the August 8 explosion that killed at least five people. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister…

Tech News Jennings Brown Aug 30

All Systems Are a Go for Space Command, Would You Like to Know More?

President Donald Trump spoke at a ceremony on Thursday afternoon establishing the United States Space Command—a military division that was actually launched in 1985 in the midst of the Cold War. Speaking in the Rose Garden, Trump said he was “formally establishing” Space Command, which “will ensure that America’s dominance in space is never questioned.”…

Space & Spaceflight Jennings Brown Aug 29

Medicine Swap Screwup Gave Babies ‘Werewolf Syndrome’

A medicine imbroglio left several parents in Spain scrambling to figure out why their children were growing hair all over their bodies. At least 17 children in Spain recently started showing symptoms of “werewolf syndrome” or hypertrichosis, the Spanish health ministry told El País and Agence France-Presse. “My son’s forehead, cheeks, arms and legs, hands…

Health Jennings Brown Aug 29

YouTube Is Creating a New Website That Puts All of Its Problems With Kids’ Videos in One Place

YouTube has built a separate kids-only website in the wake of growing concerns about the platform showing disturbing videos to children. The video-sharing platform’s creepy kid problem started getting widespread public attention a couple of years ago after parents began noticing their kids were watching videos of Peppa Pig drinking bleach and Spiderman doing weird…

Tech News Jennings Brown Aug 28

Man Claims He Invented Bitcoin, Is Ordered to Pay Billions in Bitcoin

A man who has insisted he is the man behind the pseudonymous identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, inventor of bitcoin, has been ordered to pay half of his cryptocurrency bounty to a man believed to be his former colleague. A U.S. district court ruled on Tuesday that Australian computer engineer Craig Wright must pay the estate…

Crime Jennings Brown Aug 28

Here’s How You Can Get Disney+ for $4 a Month

There are still two and a half months before Disney launches its new streaming service, but if you are ready to commit to the platform, and Disney’s fan club, then you can get Disney+ for cheaper than Netflix and Hulu. When Disney+ launches on November 12, it will cost $6.99 a month. For comparison, Netflix’s…

Television Jennings Brown Aug 27

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Wildly Popular Kid YouTube Channel Accused of Deceptively Promoting Products to Millions of Children

The iPhone Lenses Are Giving Me Trypophobia

Taylor Swift Threatened Legal Action Against Microsoft Over Racist and Genocidal Chatbot Tay

Acupuncturist Went Too Deep, Punctured Patient’s Lungs

Amazon Office Workers Plan to Strike Over Company’s Inaction on Climate Change

Google Bans Ads for ‘Experimental Medical Treatments’

American Airlines Mechanic Charged with Sabotaging Flight

Facebook Throttles Satirical Women’s Site Reductress for Sharing ‘Clickbait’

‘Don’t Panic’: Snakehunt Continues After Three-Foot Python Escapes Inside High School

Have You Seen This Infamous Knife-Snatching Crow?

NYC Subway Workers Are Very, Very Tired of Picking Up Your Lost AirPods

Tesla Malfunction Locks Out Owners Who Depended on App for Entry, Forces Them to Scramble for ‘Keys’

Scammer Successfully Deepfaked CEO’s Voice To Fool Underling Into Transferring $243,000

Oculus Co-Founder Accused of Sexual Assault

Mystery Russia Explosion Reportedly Happened During Mission to Recover Nuclear-Powered Missile from Ocean

All Systems Are a Go for Space Command, Would You Like to Know More?

Medicine Swap Screwup Gave Babies ‘Werewolf Syndrome’

YouTube Is Creating a New Website That Puts All of Its Problems With Kids’ Videos in One Place

Man Claims He Invented Bitcoin, Is Ordered to Pay Billions in Bitcoin

Here’s How You Can Get Disney+ for $4 a Month

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Roborock Qrevo Series Robot Vacuum and Mop Breaks Last Week’s Low, New All-Time Low With Nearly 40% Off

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