Jennings Brown, Author at Gizmodo

A Weed Breathalyzer Company Has Raised $65 Million to Make a Narc’s Best Friend

Now that weed is being decriminalized across the country, a startup is trying to make it easier for cops and bosses to figure out who’s actually high. Hound Labs announced on Tuesday that it has raised $30 million in Series D financing for the company, which is developing THC breathalyzer technology aimed at helping law…

Crime Jennings Brown Aug 27

FAA Warns: Don’t You Dare Put a Flamethrower on Your Drone

The Federal Aviation Administration probably isn’t a fan of the drone flamethrower attachment that went viral last month. It seems it was the newfound attention to this device, which allegedly allows a drone to spit fire 25 feet, that inspired the agency to remind Americans that operating a drone with a dangerous weapon attached is…

Gadgets Jennings Brown Aug 26

‘Time AI’ Crypto Company Sues Black Hat After People Laughed at Its ‘Time AI’ Tech

The creator of a curious encryption technology was heckled on stage during a bizarre presentation at the recent Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, and now the company has filed suit against the conference organizers for allowing them to be roasted. At the event, Crown Sterling founder Robert Grant gave a sponsored talk titled…

Privacy & Security Jennings Brown Aug 26

Google Stamps Out Political Speech Among Staff With New Workplace Guidelines

Google is fed up with employees expressing political opinions. The company has issued new community guidelines on Thursday that address what employees are allowed to say within the company. According to the new rules, “disrupting the workday to have a raging debate over politics or the latest news” doesn’t “build community,” and employees should, therefore,…

Tech News Jennings Brown Aug 23

Murder Suspect Caught After AI Detected Victim’s Face When Used to Apply for Online Loan

An online lending company tipped off police to a suspected murder after a man allegedly tried to scan his dead girlfriend’s face. When police found the 29-year-old man in southeast China, he was reportedly attempting to burn the woman’s body on a farm, according to the South China Morning Post, which says the story was…

Privacy & Security Jennings Brown Aug 23

‘Knewz’ Is Krupert Kmurdoch’s Kgoogle Knews Kalternative

There’s some good knewz for people who don’t mind really dumb names and do believe that big tech has an anti-conservative bias—New Corp has been building an alternative to Google News, tentatively called Knewz.com. The Wall Street Journal reported that its parent company is planning on releasing the news-aggregation platform later this year, but could…

Tech News Jennings Brown Aug 22

Apple: Our Precious Credit Card Must Be Handled Like a Delicate Flower From Heaven

This week, the Apple Card became available to the masses, but early adopters who choose to also obtain the physical card in addition to an iPhone-based one may want to store their delicate sliver of titanium in a vacuum-sealed glass box. Apple Insider first reported that on Tuesday a “How to clean your Apple Card”…

Tech News Jennings Brown Aug 22

Samsung Probably Got a Lot of Wedgies In High School

A lot of people are really weird about the color of text message bubbles. For some reason, unbeknownst to me, a message can somehow be more offensive if it is presented on an iPhone within a green bubble instead of a blue bubble. Apple makes any messages sent from Android devices appear green on iOS,…

Gadgets Jennings Brown Aug 21

Instagram Chief Debunks Copyright Apocalypse Hoax as Spread Reaches Top Levels of Government

If you follow a boomer on Instagram you’ve probably seen the latest viral hoax going around warning about the incoming copyright apocalypse. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, Pink, Julia Roberts, Julianne Moore, and Rob Lowe are just a few of the prominent people who spread the message to their millions of followers The meme is…

Social Media Jennings Brown Aug 21

The Internet’s Longest-Streaming Webcam Is Shutting Down

After a quarter-century of continuous operation, the San Francisco FogCam is set to go offline on August 30. Jeff Schwartz and Dan Wong, who go by Webdog and Danno, set up the cam on the San Francisco State University campus in 1994. Schwartz told SF Gate he decided to try the FogCam as an experiment…

Earth Science Jennings Brown Aug 20

YouTuber Found SD Card Showing Man’s Final Moments Before Drowning

Before a travel YouTuber named Rich Aloha went scuba diving at a waterfall in Tennessee he filmed himself saying he planned on doing “treasure hunting” in the water, and he expected to possibly find a drone, iPhone, or GoPro. Instead, he found an SD card that may provide some closure for a family mourning the…

Tech News Jennings Brown Aug 19

23 Texas Government Agencies Knocked Offline in ‘Coordinated Ransomeware Attack’

On Friday morning of last week, nearly two dozen state agencies across Texas reported having major computer issues. The state now believes that a single hacker is behind this crippling attack. The Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) said in a release on Friday that it is overseeing the response to a “coordinated ransomware attack”…

Privacy & Security Jennings Brown Aug 19

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Causes Havoc as Computer System Goes Down Nationwide

U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s computer systems are reportedly having issues across the country. The federal law enforcement agency tweeted out a statement Friday afternoon explaining that its processing system is having a “temporary outage,” and it is working to “address the technology disruption.” Bloomberg reports that the affected system processes passengers traveling on international…

Transportation Jennings Brown Aug 16

That Man Who Went Viral Claiming He Took a Delta Flight Alone Duped Everyone

Vincent Peone’s lucky flight story went viral earlier this week after he posted a video showing how he got his “own private jet” for an apparent trip from Aspen to Salt Lake City after Delta rescheduled his original flight. Turns out, people should have been more skeptical of Peone, who is a comedy film director…

Transportation Jennings Brown Aug 16

FCC Fines Jimmy Kimmel Live $400,000 for Using Emergency Alert Tone in Very Expensive Joke

Last October Jimmy Kimmel Live! made some expensive jokes about President Donald Trump’s ability to send emergency alerts to approximately 225 million phones across the country. The Federal Communications Commission is cracking down on misuse of Emergency Alert System (EAS) tones. In a news release issued on Thursday, the FCC announced it reached settlements with…

Tech News Jennings Brown Aug 16

AOL Could’ve Saved the World

Can you imagine a world where AOL owned YouTube and Facebook? It sounds delightfully boring. And it almost came to be, according to the former AOL CEO Jon Miller. In a CNBC interview published on Thursday, Miller revealed that in 2006 the company attempted to buy YouTube and Facebook. Miller told CNBC that he spoke…

Privacy & Security Jennings Brown Aug 15

UPS Has Been Delivering Cargo in Self-Driving Trucks for Months And No One Knew

The self-driving freight truck startup TuSimple has been carrying mail across the state of Arizona for several weeks. UPS announced on Thursday that its venture capital arm has made a minority investment in TuSimple. The announcement also revealed that since May TuSimple autonomous trucks have been hauling UPS loads on a 115-mile route between Phoenix…

Artificial Intelligence Jennings Brown Aug 15

Farmers Jailed for Smuggling Boar Semen in Shampoo Bottles

A pair of farmers in Australia have been sentenced to prison for their involvement in an elaborate semen racket. Henning Laue and Torben Soerensen pled guilty to breaking biosecurity and quarantine laws for smuggling Danish pig semen into the country, according to Australia’s ABC News. The traffickers concealed the semen in shampoo bottles and imported…

Biology Jennings Brown Aug 14

Mysterious Russian Nuclear Explosion Upgraded From Weird to Baffling Amid Evacuation Confusion

Russia military officials issued conflicting reports this week about whether residents in areas near a mysterious nuclear explosion must evacuate. The confusing orders came about five days after an explosion at a military testing site killed at least seven people and caused a spike in radiation levels in a nearby city. The Russian Ministry of…

Tech News Jennings Brown Aug 13

Sixteen States Now Suing to Stop the T-Mobile and Sprint Merger

Oregon has joined several other states in a lawsuit to stop the planned T-Mobile merger with Sprint, adding strength to a movement to stop the shrinking telecom market from becoming even less competitive. In late July the Department of Justice approved T-Mobile’s takeover of Sprint, a $26 billion deal that would allow U.S.’s third-largest wireless…

Tech News Jennings Brown Aug 13

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A Weed Breathalyzer Company Has Raised $65 Million to Make a Narc’s Best Friend

FAA Warns: Don’t You Dare Put a Flamethrower on Your Drone

‘Time AI’ Crypto Company Sues Black Hat After People Laughed at Its ‘Time AI’ Tech

Google Stamps Out Political Speech Among Staff With New Workplace Guidelines

Murder Suspect Caught After AI Detected Victim’s Face When Used to Apply for Online Loan

‘Knewz’ Is Krupert Kmurdoch’s Kgoogle Knews Kalternative

Apple: Our Precious Credit Card Must Be Handled Like a Delicate Flower From Heaven

Samsung Probably Got a Lot of Wedgies In High School

Instagram Chief Debunks Copyright Apocalypse Hoax as Spread Reaches Top Levels of Government

The Internet’s Longest-Streaming Webcam Is Shutting Down

YouTuber Found SD Card Showing Man’s Final Moments Before Drowning

23 Texas Government Agencies Knocked Offline in ‘Coordinated Ransomeware Attack’

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Causes Havoc as Computer System Goes Down Nationwide

That Man Who Went Viral Claiming He Took a Delta Flight Alone Duped Everyone

FCC Fines Jimmy Kimmel Live $400,000 for Using Emergency Alert Tone in Very Expensive Joke

AOL Could’ve Saved the World

UPS Has Been Delivering Cargo in Self-Driving Trucks for Months And No One Knew

Farmers Jailed for Smuggling Boar Semen in Shampoo Bottles

Mysterious Russian Nuclear Explosion Upgraded From Weird to Baffling Amid Evacuation Confusion

Sixteen States Now Suing to Stop the T-Mobile and Sprint Merger

We Just Saw Behind the Scenes on ‘Godzilla Minus Zero,’ and It’s Bigger and Darker Than Ever

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

This Experimental Drug Could Be a Game Changer for Pancreatic Cancer

Meta Thinks Its Smart Glasses Could Stalk People in a ‘Thoughtful’ Way

Marshall Major V On-Ear Headphones Drop Back to Black Friday Pricing, Now Under $100 on Amazon

Lucid Finds Its New CEO, Expands Robotaxi Partnership With Uber

The ‘Passenger’ Trailer Invites You on a Road Trip to Literal Hell

Sony Inzone H6 Air Review: A Perfect Case for Open-Back Gaming Headsets

DEWALT Cordless Drill and Driver at 42% Off Is Now a Best-Selling Power Tool Kit on Amazon, Includes 2 Batteries and Charger

The RAM Crisis Just Royally Screwed Microsoft Surface PCs

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