William Turton, Author at Gizmodo

Google’s New Phone Will Be Verizon Exclusive [Updated]

Google just announced its new Pixel phones. And they seem cool! But there’s one small problem: the phones are exclusive to Verizon. https://gizmodo.com/googles-pixel-phones-everything-you-need-to-know-1787381364 Google’s new phones were starting to look pretty badass, but exclusivity to one carrier in the US might make them dead in the water. If you’re outside of the United States, here’s…

Tech News William Turton Oct 4

Google Just Tricked Hundreds of Thousands of People Into Listening to a Computer Science Lecture

Google Day! Aren’t you so excited about new phones? You know what’s more exciting than new phones? Computer science research. Last month, Google its artificial intelligence powered assistant last month inside its messaging app Allo. Now, Google followed up the extreme amount of hype behind its new products with a drab lecture from its CEO…

Tech News William Turton Oct 4

Best Buy Will Pay $3.8 Million Penalty for Selling Loads of Recalled Gear

Best Buy has agreed to pay $3.8 million for “knowingly [selling] and [distributing] 16 different recalled products from 2010 through 2015,” according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The Commission says Best Buy sold recalled products about 600 times. “CPSC staff charged that Best Buy failed to implement adequate procedures to accurately identify, quarantine, and…

Tech News William Turton Oct 3

Google Wants to Fix Your Broke-Ass Wifi With Its Smart New Router

Google’s new vision for your home wireless network is called, appropriately enough, Google Wifi. Can Google make the most annoying thing about the internet disappear? Google Wifi isn’t the company’s first foray into home connectivity. The new devices follow the simple and easy-to-use OnHub routers, which Google designed in collaboration with hardware manufacturers. Here’s the…

Tech News William Turton Oct 3

Toyota Made a Robot Baby to Replace Actual Babies

Japan’s birth rate has been on decline for some time now, so engineers at Toyota have come up with an ingenious solution to help people apparently feel the companionship of kids: an annoying robot. “He wobbles a bit, and this is meant to emulate a seated baby, which hasn’t fully developed the skills to balance…

Tech News William Turton Oct 3

Enraged Frenchman Smashes iPhones and Fights With Security at Apple Store

Have you ever been so pissed off in an Apple store, filled to the brim with obnoxious teens and clueless old people, that you wanted to smash all of the shiny devices on display? When this frenchman didn’t get his way with Apple customer support, he did exactly that. It’s not entirely clear why this…

Tech News William Turton Sep 30

Train Crashes Into New Jersey Station—1 Dead, Dozens Injured [Updated]

A train crashed into a station in Hoboken, New Jersey around 8:45am this morning, according to reports. There are 74 injured and three in serious condition. The train’s conductor is in critical condition. One fatality has been confirmed by officials. (Correction 12:03pm: We previously cited NBC News which reported that three people had been confirmed…

Tech News William Turton Sep 29

Facebook Protects Your Privacy, Just Look

Facebook, the company that collects as much of your intimate information as it can in order to make money from advertisers, wants you think it protects your privacy. The same company that decided to start sweeping up user data from an app with over a billion users in order to make even more money from…

Social Media William Turton Sep 28

How Yahoo Totally Blew It on Security

A new report by The New York Times reveals the extent to which Yahoo didn’t really care about its user’s security, instead focusing on products and new features. Last week, Yahoo admitted that hackers had breached its servers in 2014, stealing the personal details of over 500 million Yahoo users. It’s the largest hack ever…

Privacy & Security William Turton Sep 28

Russian Hackers Might Have Gotten Into Democratic Smartphones, Too

The Federal Bureau of Investigation thinks Russian hackers may have targeted the mobile phones of democratic party officials, according to Reuters. The US government also blamed Russia for the hack on the Democratic National Committee, which exposed a trove of embarrassing internal emails and documents. According to the report, elected officials may be among those…

Privacy & Security William Turton Sep 27

Elon Musk Is Always Late

Elon Musk, innovation bad boy and guy who recently blew up Mark Zuckerberg’s expensive satellite, is always late. Today, he was 25 minutes late to his own event about colonizing Mars. Nice going, asshole! This isn’t the fist time the rich electric car guy has been late, as a quick review of Twitter demonstrates. And…

Tech News William Turton Sep 27

German Regulators Ban Facebook From Collecting WhatsApp Data

Earlier this year, WhatsApp betrayed its longstanding commitment to privacy when it announced that it would share user data with its parent company Facebook for the purpose of selling ads. Today, a German regulator announced it is putting the brakes on Facebook’s plan. From The New York Times: The city of Hamburg’s data protection commissioner…

Social Media William Turton Sep 27

Trump: DNC Hacker Could be ‘400-Pound Person’

Donald Trump once again displayed his ignorance on all issues cyber at tonight’s presidential debate. For starters, Ol’ Don has some theories about who might have been behind the devastating hack of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). It could have been Russia, or maybe China, or it could have been “someone sitting on their bed…

Tech News William Turton Sep 26

Palantir Sued By Department of Labor For Race Discrimination

Palantir Technologies, the secretive CIA-funded startup founded by Peter Thiel, is being sued by the United States Department of Labor for discriminating against Asian applicants. According to a press release sent out by the Department of Labor, Palantir used a “hiring process and selection procedures that discriminated against Asian applicants for software engineering positions on…

Tech News William Turton Sep 26

Now Everyone Can Use the Most Secure Messenger on Desktop

Signal has already offers the best way to send secure and privacy conscious messages on Android and iOS, and now, an update offers everyone the opportunity to us Signal’s on the desktop. The desktop beta had previously been limited to Android users, but with a new update to the iOS Signal app out today, iPhone…

Privacy & Security William Turton Sep 26

PSA: Your Instagram Stories Are Public

Instagram did such a good job of completely ripping off Snapchat’s stories feature that you might think the two features work exactly the same. Well, I’ve got some bad news for you: your Instagram stories are totally public. That’s right, unlike Snapchat, where only people who can see your stories are people you have added…

Tech News William Turton Sep 26

Facebook Censors Palestinian Journalists for No Reason

Over the weekend, Facebook scrambled to make things right after mistakenly locking out administrators from two of the most widely read Palestinian news outlets. The company has recently struggled with censorship on its platform. It frequently removes posts that have news value and then blames the deletions on moderation errors, saying that its team processes…

Social Media William Turton Sep 26

Man Claims Uber Laughed at Him When He Tried to Report Sexual Assault

A New York man says he was laughed at by an operator at Uber’s emergency hotline after reporting that he was sexually assaulted by an Uber driver this month. The operator later hung up after refusing to refer the man to her manager. The driver has since been banned from the platform. Kevin Ko says…

Tech News William Turton Sep 23

The Feds Will Probably Get Records of Anthony Weiner’s Alleged Sexts With a Teenager

Earlier this week, the Daily Mail broke a story reporting that former New York congressman Anthony Weiner was sending explicit texts to an underage girl. Now, federal authorities have issued a subpoena for Weiner’s “cell phone and other records,” according to CNN. The CNN report is still thin on details, and the federal subpoena isn’t…

Privacy & Security William Turton Sep 22

What to Do With Your Hacked Yahoo Account

Yahoo just announced that it was the victim of a devastating state-sponsored hack that resulted in the personal data of half a billion users being breached. If you’re a Yahoo user, your account may have been comprised. It’s so far unclear exactly which accounts were breached. Yahoo says personal information “like names, email addresses, telephone…

Privacy & Security William Turton Sep 22

William Turton

Google’s New Phone Will Be Verizon Exclusive [Updated]

Google Just Tricked Hundreds of Thousands of People Into Listening to a Computer Science Lecture

Best Buy Will Pay $3.8 Million Penalty for Selling Loads of Recalled Gear

Google Wants to Fix Your Broke-Ass Wifi With Its Smart New Router

Toyota Made a Robot Baby to Replace Actual Babies

Enraged Frenchman Smashes iPhones and Fights With Security at Apple Store

Train Crashes Into New Jersey Station—1 Dead, Dozens Injured [Updated]

Facebook Protects Your Privacy, Just Look

How Yahoo Totally Blew It on Security

Russian Hackers Might Have Gotten Into Democratic Smartphones, Too

Elon Musk Is Always Late

German Regulators Ban Facebook From Collecting WhatsApp Data

Trump: DNC Hacker Could be ‘400-Pound Person’

Palantir Sued By Department of Labor For Race Discrimination

Now Everyone Can Use the Most Secure Messenger on Desktop

PSA: Your Instagram Stories Are Public

Facebook Censors Palestinian Journalists for No Reason

Man Claims Uber Laughed at Him When He Tried to Report Sexual Assault

The Feds Will Probably Get Records of Anthony Weiner’s Alleged Sexts With a Teenager

What to Do With Your Hacked Yahoo Account

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