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Researchers Study How X-Rays Can Be a Flag for Domestic Violence

New research published on Tuesday may help radiologists identify survivors of domestic abuse through the study of x-rays. Researchers from the Departments of Radiology and Emergency Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, as well as a researcher from the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, conducted a pilot study…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz

The TSA Found an Average of 11 Guns a Day in Carry-On Bags Last Year

Americans broke a new record last year, but it’s nothing to write home about. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) found 4,239 firearms in carry-on luggage in 2018, breaking the previous record that was set in 2017. That’s an average of more than 11 guns per day. The number of guns found by TSA in 2018…

Tech News Matt Novak

Maybe Connecting Hospital and Grocery Store Freezers to the Internet Was a Bad Idea

Security researchers revealed on Friday that the temperature control systems used in freezers at thousands of locations ranging from grocery stores to hospitals to pharmaceutical companies are subject to simple sabotage. To raise hell, all anyone would need to know is where to look and the systems’ stupidly guessable default password. The vulnerability, researchers say,…

Privacy & Security Rhett Jones

Sprint Sues AT&T, Calling Bullshit on Fake 5G

AT&T has been branding a boosted version of its 4G service as “5G Evolution,” or as it appears on many phones—5G E. People who see the 5G E on their phones may think they have the next generation of mobile networks. But really, they have a type of 4G LTE with some special features that…

Gadgets Jennings Brown

YouTube Chrome Extension With Millions of Installs Pulled After Spamming Users With Ads

A popular extension has disappeared from Google’s Chrome Web Store days after it suddenly started spamming users with annoying pop-up ads. The “Automatic 4K/HD for YouTube” extension enabled its nearly 4.2 million users to automatically select the video playback quality they preferred, while preventing YouTube from streaming videos at lower resolutions. But according to a…

Tech News Victoria Song

My Favorite Childhood Gadget of the ’80s, the Speak & Spell, Is Back

I can’t remember when exactly the Speak & Spell first entered my life—it was sometime in the very early ‘80s when I was four or five years old—but I do remember being amazed that my parents allowed me to touch and play with this marvel of technology, when other devices, like the VCR and the…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

How to Protect Yourself Against Digital Services Shutting Down

In the next few months alone, movie locker service Ultraviolet and social network experiment Google+ are closing their doors for good, while photo sharing platform Flickr is shifting the rules about free and paid-for accounts. The moral of the story? Even digital services don’t stick around forever—but you can protect yourself against your favorite app…

Gadgets David Nield

Apple Is Compensating the Kid Who Figured Out Its Sketchy Eavesdropping FaceTime Bug

Apple has finally delivered a fix to its Group FaceTime bug that let users eavesdrop on others with an accidental workaround. But the real hero of this story is the 14-year-old kid who figured out that it existed, and whose mom reportedly used every imaginable method to reach the company and flag the security issue.…

Tech News Catie Keck

Apple Reportedly Threatens to Yank iOS Apps Recording Users’ Screens Without Their Knowledge

Following a Wednesday report from TechCrunch that popular iPhone apps are recording the in-app activity of users without their knowledge through analytics companies like Glassbox, Apple has reportedly responded by threatening “immediate action” if they don’t knock it off or inform their users that their activity is being recorded, the site reported Thursday. In a…

Tech News Catie Keck

Spotify May Suspend Your Account If It Catches You Using Ad Blockers

Spotify announced Thursday that it’s updating its terms of service, and that includes seriously cracking down on user attempts to bypass ads, according to the Verge. If you try to block ads with a free account anyway, you may risk losing it. In the user guidelines section of its updated TOS, Spotify notes that “circumventing…

Tech News Catie Keck

Will Tech Workers Rise Up Around Automation, Too?

Over the last year or two, it’s sure felt like a seismic shift’s been underfoot in the way tech employees think about labor conditions and work—or, at least, in the way the media portrays them doing so. Maybe it’s a bit of both. Regardless, a number of stories have documented both an ascendent drive for…

Artificial Intelligence Brian Merchant

Jeff Bezos Accuses National Enquirer of Using Unpublished Nude Photos as Blackmail

The saga of Jeff Bezos’s very public divorce slouches onward. The Amazon CEO published a personal post on Medium this evening containing leaked emails purported to be from the National Enquirer. The emails—at least one of which is marked “confidential and not for distribution”—threaten to publish revealing photos of him and his new girlfriend, Lauren…

Commerce Avery Ellis

Seal Poop Thumb Drive Mystery (Partially) Solved as Owner Steps Forward

On Tuesday, scientists in New Zealand announced they’d discovered a working USB drive in a sample of leopard seal poop that they hoped to return to its owner. In a surprise twist, the drive contained photos and videos of frolicking sea lions. Now, the owner of the fecal flash drive has come forward to tell…

Tech News Rhett Jones

I’m Still Searching for a Laptop Bag That Doesn’t Look Like Ass

As long as there have been laptops, people have been shoving them in bags. Incredible advances have occurred since that first big honking computer got shoved into a slighter bigger honking bag decades ago. Fabrics have grown more durable, straps more comfortable, and bag design itself has diverted into a wide number of directions. So…

Gadgets Alex Cranz

You Can Now Download a Fix for That Scary Apple FaceTime Eavesdropping Bug

Apple just started rolling out an update to iOS 12 and MacOS 10.14 that fixes a very scary Group FaceTime bug. This widely reported bug enabled callers to hear and even see recipients without the person on the other end of the line actually picking up the call. This is something you don’t want on…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

This Japanese Slow Cooker Is the Ultra-Precise, Overkill Crock-Pot of Your Fancy Kitchen Dreams

On a recent night this winter, I found myself considering two new additions to my kitchen that promised to help me cook a proper Sunday night meal with little effort or opportunity to mess things up. On one end of the counter was the Instant Pot my mother got me for Christmas; on the other…

Tech News Liz Stinson

The U.S. Army Is Developing a Grenade That Nabs Drones With A Net

Recent flight delays at airports in the U.S. and UK have given us a glimpse at the threats and the headaches that drones can cause. In the days leading up to the recent Super Bowl, the Federal Aviation Administration and the FBI warned the public repeatedly against flying drones near the stadium because the authorities…

Privacy & Security Jennings Brown

The GOP Is Introducing More Fake Net Neutrality Bills

This trick is getting old. GOP lawmakers are preparing to introduce yet another piece of legislation that purports to restore net neutrality just a year after Republicans moved to dismantle it. How kind. A supporter of the Federal Communication Commissions’ repeal of net neutrality, Rep. Bob Latta, a Republican of Ohio, is introducing H.R. 1001,…

Tech Policy Dell Cameron

Don’t Fall for This New Google Translate Phishing Attack

Sometimes, the most effective hacks are the simplest hacks. The technique of targeting users’ email accounts with malicious links that gather personal data is one of the oldest and most successful hacks around. And now, you should be on the lookout for phishing emails that are using Google translate to mask their nefarious nature. Phishing…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Want to Really Block the Tech Giants? Here’s How

Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple move more money than many medium-sized nations. Their extraordinary profits are won through extraordinary reach—this is not a secret. That a few companies are afforded unprecedented and shamefully unregulated access into our homes is now an unremarkable fact of living with tiny computers everywhere. When Gizmodo reporter Kashmir Hill,…

Tech News Dhruv Mehrotra

Researchers Study How X-Rays Can Be a Flag for Domestic Violence

The TSA Found an Average of 11 Guns a Day in Carry-On Bags Last Year

Maybe Connecting Hospital and Grocery Store Freezers to the Internet Was a Bad Idea

Sprint Sues AT&T, Calling Bullshit on Fake 5G

YouTube Chrome Extension With Millions of Installs Pulled After Spamming Users With Ads

My Favorite Childhood Gadget of the ’80s, the Speak & Spell, Is Back

How to Protect Yourself Against Digital Services Shutting Down

Apple Is Compensating the Kid Who Figured Out Its Sketchy Eavesdropping FaceTime Bug

Apple Reportedly Threatens to Yank iOS Apps Recording Users’ Screens Without Their Knowledge

Spotify May Suspend Your Account If It Catches You Using Ad Blockers

Will Tech Workers Rise Up Around Automation, Too?

Jeff Bezos Accuses National Enquirer of Using Unpublished Nude Photos as Blackmail

Seal Poop Thumb Drive Mystery (Partially) Solved as Owner Steps Forward

I’m Still Searching for a Laptop Bag That Doesn’t Look Like Ass

You Can Now Download a Fix for That Scary Apple FaceTime Eavesdropping Bug

This Japanese Slow Cooker Is the Ultra-Precise, Overkill Crock-Pot of Your Fancy Kitchen Dreams

The U.S. Army Is Developing a Grenade That Nabs Drones With A Net

The GOP Is Introducing More Fake Net Neutrality Bills

Don’t Fall for This New Google Translate Phishing Attack

Want to Really Block the Tech Giants? Here’s How

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