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Many folks don’t know that you can use your Samsung Galaxy phone or tablet as a desktop experience using Samsung DeX. If you’re completely new to the idea of DeX, the “Desktop eXperience” runs from your Galaxy device and lets you use your phone or tablet with a monitor, mouse, and keyboard. Samsung’s OneUI Android…
A newly released set of security fixes from Apple is “recommended for all users,” meaning that for anyone with an iPhone, iPad, Mac or Apple Watch, it’s probably time for an update. According to Apple, the patch will correct a security bug that left WebKit — the engine that powers Apple’s Safari browser — vulnerable…
About a year and a half ago, Google began auctioning off the chance to be one of the search engines that European users could choose as their default on Android devices. And for the past year and a half, we’ve seen some familiar ad-targeting giants continue to take those expensive slots. This auction was the…
Keeping your cryptocurrency in the exchange where you bought it, be it Kraken, Coinbase, or Gemini, is inherently dangerous. Most of us will dip a toe into the crypto markets by visiting one of these markets and buying a few hundred dollars in currency. But then what do you do with it? Well, you can…
Mike Lindell, America’s pillow man, may be being sued for $1.3 billion for spreading hoax, pro-Donald Trump conspiracy theories claiming election tech manufacturer Dominion Voting Systems engaged in massive fraud to get Joe Biden into office. But soon that might only be a sliver of the MyPillow founder’s riches, because he’s launching some sort of…
Last week, Microsoft announced that the on-premises version of its widely used email and calendaring product Exchange had several previously undisclosed security flaws. These flaws, the company said, were being used by foreign threat actors to hack into the networks of U.S. businesses and governments, primarily to steal large troves of email data. Since then,…
Tricking a terminator into not shooting you might be as simple as wearing a giant sign that says ROBOT, at least until Elon Musk-backed research outfit OpenAI trains their image recognition system not to misidentify things based on some scribbles from a Sharpie. OpenAI researchers published work last week on the CLIP neural network, their…
Google TV is bringing new parental controls to its streaming device. The company announced that beginning Monday, parents or guardians can now create individual profiles for each of the kids in their households with either their name and age or an existing Google account, should they have one. From these new profiles, account holders will…
In a move that’s not at all desperate, Atari claims it will be launching an online casino in May. More specifically, an Ethereum blockchain casino built around “Atari-themed games.” The venture is a partnership with Decentral Games, and according to the company’s blog, the Atari Casino will feature nostalgia-tinged games, with some being luck-based, while…
Six months ago, Microsoft announced plans to buy ZeniMax and its game publisher Bethesda for $7.5 billion in cash. Now, thanks to approval from both EU and U.S. regulators, Microsoft can now proceed with the acquisition of famous gaming franchises including Fallout, Doom, and The Elder Scrolls. Microsoft cleared the first major hurdle back on…
Who says shame can’t be an effective motivator? Less than a week after we shared Wesley Liao’s experiments using machine learning to train an AI to play QWOP, one of the hardest video games of all time, the AI was re-trained with the goal of maximizing its speed, resulting in a new world record. Starting…
You may assume that you have to rely on Google, Apple or Microsoft for fast and free email, but that’s not true. If you want to break away from the big tech giants, there are other options. One of those is ProtonMail. Many Gizmodo staffers rely on Gmail, but some of us also use ProtonMail,…
Oprah Winfrey’s explosive new interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry was all anyone seemed to be talking about online Sunday night, but if you missed the live show on CBS, it seemed you were out of luck. There was no way to watch the interview anywhere after the fact, including the new CBS streaming…
Rumors of a partnership between OnePlus and Hasselblad have been swirling for months, but now the two companies are making it official at the OnePlus 9 launch on March 23. While OnePlus didn’t go into specifics about its upcoming products, in a press release issued today, the company repeatedly used the phrase “OnePlus 9 series,”…
It’s no secret that Google has some serious internal issues with systemic racism and sexism, but now it’s surfaced that when employees report incidents of workplace discrimination to HR, they’re often met with this baffling response: Get therapy. That’s according to nearly a dozen current and former Google employees who spoke with NBC News, including…
Tesla is looking to harness the power of its stans to help it advance its goals. In recent days, it launched Tesla Engage, a social platform that brings together its public policy team and its Tesla’s Owners Clubs. Tesla Engage, which soft-launched last year, will replace the official Tesla Forums, a place where Tesla fans,…
While the rumblings over Apple’s planned venture into augmented reality, virtual reality and mixed reality have been getting louder recently, we now have a series of dates for these devices by prognosticator Ming Chi-Kuo, a good source with a reliable track record on all things Apple. In a research note with TF International Securities obtained…
Both China and Russia were reportedly behind two cyberattacks last year at the European Medicines Agency that compromised documents related to covid-19 vaccines and treatments. That’s according to sources familiar with the ongoing investigation who spoke with the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant per Reuters. In December, the Amsterdam-based European drug regulator released a statement disclosing a…
Apple is discontinuing the iMac Pro and will sell the ones it has left “while supplies last,” according to a new message added to the desktop’s product page Friday. MacRumors first spotted the new notice on the iMac Pro’s product page and then confirmed with Apple that the device is being discontinued. Apple told the…
We may not have flying cars yet, but 3D-printed organs? That sci-fi fantasy just got one step closer to reality thanks to a rapid 3D-printing method developed by University of Buffalo engineers. Their work was recently included in a study published in the journal Advanced Healthcare Materials, which you can read here, and is also…
