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Messaging apps increasingly allow for some form of implicit privacy. But a backlog of sometimes years-old chats can still present a vulnerability. In its most recent update, Telegram believes it has solved that problem and then some. The major overhaul—which sets it apart from even chat apps with disappearing message functions—is that Telegram now allows…
Small-handsed iOS fans all over the world should be pleased today. Just a few hours before its big spring event, Apple started selling the iPhone SE in its store again—for as little as $250. This is not a new small-screen iPhone, however. It’s likely the last of Apple’s stock that the company has finally put…
A horrifying magnitude 7.9 earthquake hit Japan on September 1, 1923, killing over 140,000 people. And while news of the devastation reached newspapers around the world by the next day, there was no way to get film footage from Japan to the United States that quickly. But that didn’t stop filmmakers from making fake films…
In a move that goes against its recent trend of pulling out of foreign markets, ride-sharing giant Uber is preparing to purchase Dubai-based competitor Careem in a $3.1 billion deal, according to reports in Bloomberg and the Financial Times this weekend. Those reports indicated the deal could be signed as early as Monday and announced…
This week Gizmodo examined the many functions of various forms of technology in our everyday lives over the course of the last century. For a highlight reel of some of the beauty industry torture devices dreamed up over the course of the 20th and 21st centuries, don’t miss our feature on the most bizarre gadgets…
On Sunday, Attorney General William Barr released his summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s inquiry into alleged Russian interference to boost Donald Trump in the 2016 elections—a report that states it took “19 lawyers who were assisted by a team of approximately 40 FBI agents, intelligence analysts, forensic accountants, and other professional staff,” 2,800 subpoenas,…
The Federal Aviation Administration grounded models in Boeing’s 737 Max series earlier this month following two separate deadly crashes involving the jets, and a number of changes to aircraft software and training procedures are expected as soon as this week. In the meantime, however, American Airlines said it is canceling roughly 90 flights a day…
International shipping concerns are worried about a wave of major nautical blazes that have resulted in death and injury among crew as well as damage to ships and cargo running in the hundreds of millions of dollars, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. Per the Journal, major fires at sea have included the loss…
Apple’s highly anticipated Monday event will likely see an unveiling of Apple’s forthcoming TV streaming and subscription news services. But there’s a possibility that Apple may also touch on its rumored subscription game service, Bloomberg reported Saturday. The gaming service, reported by Cheddar in January, will reportedly focus on bundling games for its iPhones and…
Many of you probably get up every day with the help of an alarm on your smartphone. But are you using your phone’s alarm to its full potential, or settling for the standard default ringtone at a certain time and leaving it at that? These are the tricks, the apps, and the gadgets that can…
Following Boeing’s announcement earlier this month that it planned to release a series of updates to its operational training and 737 Max jets no later than next month, the Wall Street Journal reported that those changes have been “tentatively” greenlit by Federal Aviation Administration officials, though further checks and ground tests are needed prior to…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk really, really wants to keep tweeting without any other adults looking over his shoulder, despite a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission last year ordering him not to send out tweets that could affect Tesla’s stock without getting pre-approval from company officials. At issue is a Feb. 19 tweet in…
The perfect scenario for Google’s new Visual Position System, or VPS, is one you’ve probably been in already: Emerging from a subway station in a strange city. You’ve got your route planned out on your phone, but you don’t know which way is which, or the names of the roads—if you set off in the…
The Federal Emergency Management Agency may have put the personally identifying information of millions of disaster survivors at risk of fraud and identity theft, according to a recent report from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General. The March 15 report said that during an audit of FEMA’s Transitional Sheltering Assistance program, it…
It would seem nothing good is ever really free—even in Freetown. A Massachusetts man was reportedly arrested Monday over a flat-screen TV that he kept after it was delivered to his home by accident, Fox-affiliate WFXT reported Wednesday, and he is now facing potential jail time. Nicholas Memmo, 35, said he ordered a 74-inch flat-screen…
Another day, another Silicon Valley IPO, just as the prophecy foretold. San Francisco’s Pinterest just filed for an initial public offering on Friday, the latest in what’s shaping up to be an insanely busy year of tech companies going public in 2019. It had been about one whole hour since the last Silicon Valley IPO.…
A dispute between two German YouTubers reportedly incited a public brawl between their respective fans on Thursday. Bahar Al Amood a Berlin YouTuber with 14,000 subscribers and ThatsBekir a Stuttgart YouTuber with 263,000 have been beefing on social media, according to German newspaper Berliner Morgenpost. But they decided to take the fight offline recently and…
The attorney general for the District of Columbia may have obtained internal company emails showing that Facebook had knowledge of Cambridge Analytica’s data-harvesting efforts months earlier than CEO Mark Zuckerberg let on last year. Now, the company is arguing to keep the emails under seal, saying the firm’s data-scraping is unrelated to the breach of privacy…
In a strange twist of events, the lawsuit against FuckJerry alleging that the Instagram account stole a meme to promote JAJA tequila has been dismissed. Mainly, because the guy they allegedly stole the meme from actually stole it from someone else. The original suit was filed on Tuesday, and in it, the plaintiff Olorunfemi Coker…
In recent weeks Uber drivers in the greater Los Angeles area opened their apps to find the ridesharing company had enacted an approximately 25 percent reduction in their per-mile earnings to just 60 cents, a mere two cents above the IRS’s deductible standards. As a result, Drivers United, a coalition of drivers in the region,…
