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Coronavirus Death Toll Has Now Surpassed 50,000 in the U.S.

The number of deaths being attributed to the novel coronavirus has now exceeded 50,000, according to data maintained by Johns Hopkins University. The staggering figure comes mere days after the death toll soared past 40,000 earlier this week, though tracking the true number of positive cases and deaths from covid-19 has proven difficult with limited…

Tech News Catie Keck

For the Love of God, Don’t Use Facebook’s Video Chat Rooms

Facebook is now rolling out a Messenger Rooms platform that will allow video calls to simultaneously host up to 50 people, up from eight in existing Messenger video conferences. According to CNBC, the initial launch will feature a lower capacity than that, but the company is working to hit the target of 50 in the…

Social Media Tom McKay

Your Nintendo Account May Have Been Exposed, So Here’s How to Enable 2FA

Following a growing number of reports of Nintendo users claiming their accounts had been hacked, Nintendo has confirmed that roughly 160,000 may have been accessed and exposed personally identifiable information about those users. In a statement on its Japanese support site, Nintendo said Friday that it is now preventing users from logging in to their…

Gadgets Catie Keck

Bye, Witch

Kelly Bourdet is either a ghost, a witch, or a sorceress, depending on who you ask. Perhaps she’s all three. She is also, without fail, a genius editor, a fierce advocate for great journalism, and a Very Good Boss. So good, in fact, that roasting Kelly in any true sense is virtually impossible. The worst…

Tech News The World

Facebook’s FTC Settlement Is Officially a Train Wreck

Well, it’s finally over. According to a post penned late Thursday by Facebook’s Chief Privacy Officer on the company’s official blog, the social media giant got a federal court’s sign-off on its settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, marking the end of a historic case that involved roughly a full year of back and forth…

Privacy & Security Shoshana Wodinsky

The Flying Pinto Was the Worst Idea in Flying Car History

What happens when you combine a car like the Ford Pinto with a plane like the Cessna 337? Nothing good, it turns out. People have been dreaming of flying cars for over a century now, with purely theoretical weird designs of the 1920s, and small-run novelties of the 1950s. But when two guys in California…

Tech News Matt Novak

Another Text Bug Is Crashing iPhones and iPads

It’s been a couple years since people were able to crash iPhones and iPads simply by sending a few symbols in Telugu. But now, it appears Apple has another debilitating text bug that’s causing problems for iOS devices. The new issue stems from a handful of characters from the Sindhi language that, when combined with…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

“View From My Window” Is the Last Good Group on Facebook

Most of Facebook is a cesspool, filled with conspiracy theories, pyramid schemes, and baby photos posted by someone you think you probably went to high school with, or maybe you used to work together, but whatever, it’s mostly garbage. Enter the only wholesome social Facebook group on the planet, “View from my window”: a butt-free…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

Adobe Created a Tool That Could Make Building Accessible Websites as Easy as Using Spell Check

A good web designer ensures that a site looks nice and functions properly across various devices and browsers. A great web designer, however, also ensures the site is accessible to all who visit, including those with visual impairments or disabilities like dyslexia. Assuring full accessibility can be a challenge, but a new tool from Adobe…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Instagram Live Has Replaced the Gym During Quarantine, and the Classes Are Actually Good

You may be too anxious to even think about missing the gym, but your gym misses you. Or at least the money you pay every month to go or…not. The nationwide covid-19 lockdown has gyms and fitness studios in a bind. Gyms make a large part of their profit from people who pay to be…

Tech News Sarah Jacobsson Purewal

How to Use Your Gadgets When They’re Broken

What with everything that’s going on, it might not be all that easy for you to get your gadgets repaired at the moment—but should a keyboard fail, or a screen crack, all might not be lost. There are a number of useful tricks and hacks you can use to keep your hardware operational until you’re…

Gadgets David Nield

Lysol Warns Against Drinking Disinfectants After Trump’s Bizarre Coronavirus Rant

Reckitt Benckiser, the British company that makes cleaning products like Lysol and Dettol, issued a statement Friday morning warning consumers against ingesting or injecting disinfectants. The company said it needed to issue the advice after “recent speculation” about using disinfectants to treat the new coronavirus. And if you saw the news from the White House…

Tech News Matt Novak

Google Will Make All Advertisers Prove They Are Who They Say They Are

Google will soon begin vetting all advertisers with the same identity verification requirements that previously only applied to political advertisers, John Canfield, Google’s director of product management for ads integrity, announced in a blog post Thursday. With so many online conspiracy theorists, scammers, and grifters trying to make a buck off this coronavirus pandemic, this…

Tech News Alyse Stanley

Facebook Pulls Down ‘Interested in Pseudoscience’ Ad Category With Over 78 Million Users

Facebook has removed an ad targeting category for users it has identified as interested in “pseudoscience” after a report in the Markup highlighting how it was being used to market to conspiracy theorists. The company removed the category after the Markup found the Facebook ad portal listed 78 million users in the category, per Reuters.…

Social Media Tom McKay

Report: Amazon Uses Marketplace Seller Data to Make Its Own Competing Products

While Amazon faces antitrust scrutiny in the U.S. and EU, the company has consistently denied any allegations of wrongdoing. It’s been accused of things like changing algorithms to favor its own products to using seller data for its own profit. Amazon’s associate general counsel, Nate Sutton, told Congress in July 2019 that the company doesn’t…

Commerce Joanna Nelius

What Time Is the Reckoning?

Over 26 million people have filed for unemployment over the past five weeks in the United States. Multiply that by 1,000, and you will still have less than the total number of dollars Jeff Bezos has collected since the outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic. The Institute for Policy Studies, a research center that focuses on…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

Quibi Comes to TVs Next Month, Sort Of

Quibi’s solution to its big no-TV problem could be rolled out as soon as next month, according to its founder. Speaking with Reuters, founder Jeffrey Katzenberg said that some Quibi users would have support for TV casting beginning in May. (We reached out to Quibi for additional information but did not immediately hear back.) While…

Tech News Catie Keck

A Symphony of Filth and Wanking, in Art Gifs [NSFW]

Gizmodo is looking at a lot of net art these days, but you’ll have to scan further than Google Arts and Culture to find it, so we asked net artists for help. Today, Lorna Mills tells us about the gif that launched a thousand works. “I just want to wallow in extremely marginalized peculiarity” Lorna…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

Telemedicine Doesn’t Need Boston Dynamics’ Nightmare Robot Dog

Right now, telemedicine could be key to keeping frontline healthcare workers safe. To that effect, plenty of robots have been deployed to help hospitals remotely monitor patients, disinfect surfaces, make deliveries, and bring food to quarantined people. Now, Boston Dynamics is jumping on this bandwagon with its nightmare robot dog, Spot. To that, we say:…

Tech News Victoria Song

This Guy Turned a 90-Year-Old Typewriter Into a Drum Machine, and It Sounds Fantastic

Aside from nostalgia, or maybe loaning it out to filmmakers as a prop for period pieces, there are not many practical uses for a 90-year-old Remington portable typewriter anymore. Against all odds, William Sun Petrus did manage to find one novel use for the hardware; he turned it into a makeshift drum machine that rewards his…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Coronavirus Death Toll Has Now Surpassed 50,000 in the U.S.

For the Love of God, Don’t Use Facebook’s Video Chat Rooms

Your Nintendo Account May Have Been Exposed, So Here’s How to Enable 2FA

Bye, Witch

Facebook’s FTC Settlement Is Officially a Train Wreck

The Flying Pinto Was the Worst Idea in Flying Car History

Another Text Bug Is Crashing iPhones and iPads

“View From My Window” Is the Last Good Group on Facebook

Adobe Created a Tool That Could Make Building Accessible Websites as Easy as Using Spell Check

Instagram Live Has Replaced the Gym During Quarantine, and the Classes Are Actually Good

How to Use Your Gadgets When They’re Broken

Lysol Warns Against Drinking Disinfectants After Trump’s Bizarre Coronavirus Rant

Google Will Make All Advertisers Prove They Are Who They Say They Are

Facebook Pulls Down ‘Interested in Pseudoscience’ Ad Category With Over 78 Million Users

Report: Amazon Uses Marketplace Seller Data to Make Its Own Competing Products

What Time Is the Reckoning?

Quibi Comes to TVs Next Month, Sort Of

A Symphony of Filth and Wanking, in Art Gifs [NSFW]

Telemedicine Doesn’t Need Boston Dynamics’ Nightmare Robot Dog

This Guy Turned a 90-Year-Old Typewriter Into a Drum Machine, and It Sounds Fantastic

Should We Be Hyped—or Freaked Out—About Nuclear Microreactors?

Roku’s 2025 Streaming Stick HD Is 40% Off to Compete With Amazon Fire TV Stick During Spring Sale

Epstein Victims Sue Google, Claim AI Mode Exposed Personal Information

‘Wicked Spot’ Is a Fun, Sapphic Rom-Com That Yeets a Witch Into the Magical World of Influencer Culture

Anthropic and OpenAI Just Gave Us a Glimpse Into the Future of Model Pricing

Amazon Slashes 63% Off Acer Aspire Desktop for a Limited-Time Spring Sale, With Keyboard and Mouse Included

Smart Glasses Now Have One of the Vision Pro’s Best Features

Marvel Just Put ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2 in a Very Weird Place in the MCU Timeline

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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