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Leaked Parler Data Points to Users at Police Stations, U.S. Military Bases

Location data gleaned from thousands of videos posted on the social network Parler and archived days before Amazon restricted access to the app reveal its users included on-duty police officers across the U.S. and U.S. service members stationed at home and abroad. The presence on Parler of active military and police raises concerns, experts said,…

Tech News Dell Cameron & Dhruv Mehrotra

A Teen Made $3 Million in Five Weeks on Snapchat, and How’s Your Life Going?

Last year, Snapchat announced what sounded like a real-life Scrumdiddlyumptious bar scheme to lure TikTok users with promises of riches beyond their wildest dreams. The company announced that, in order to promote its TikTok clone Spotlight, it would pay out $1 million total to creators, every day. The company provided scant additional details other than…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

This Was WhatsApp’s Plan All Along

Even if you aren’t the type of person who peruses WhatsApp on a regular basis, chances are you’ve tried perusing its new privacy policy. Emphasis on “tried.” The roughly 4,000-word tome fell under fire from countless WhatsAppers across the globe after the company told its users that they’ll be ejected from the platform unless they…

Privacy & Security Shoshana Wodinsky

New Intel CEO Talks a Little Trash About Apple While Trying to Reverse Company’s Woes

Pat Gelsinger was just named as Intel’s new CEO earlier this week, and apparently is off to a bold start following a recent employee meeting where Gelsinger told employees that Intel needs to deliver better PC products than anything made by that “lifestyle company in Cupertino.” Ouch. Following a rocky tenure mired by multiple delays…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

The World’s Blackest Paint and Sparkles Make a Car Look Like the Night Sky

By now we’ve all seen the astonishing results of covering an object in black paint that absorbs over 99% of light—it loses all shape, form, and depth. But what happens when you mix those super-black paints with highly-reflective color-shifting sparkles and then paint a car? The result is like staring into the deepest reaches of space.…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

A Startup Demonstrated a Wirelessly Powered TV at CES 2021 and I Want to Believe

A big TV no longer needs an even bigger home entertainment center to support it thanks to hidden wall mounts, but you still have to deal with wires. You can either route them through the wall so they’re out of sight or cross your fingers that this completely wireless TV technology demonstrated at CES 2021…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

MagSafe Might Be Coming Back to MacBook Pros and the Touch Bar Might Be Going Bye Bye

If you’ve been missing MagSafe, good news—rumor has it that Apple’s magnetic power adaptor is set to make a return to two upgraded MacBook Pros later this year. The news comes via Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who has a pretty good track record when it comes to Apple predictions. MagSafe was first introduced on the MacBook…

Tech News Victoria Song

It’s Hard to Be Excited About New Laptops and GPUs When Supply is Scarce

If you believed the rumors, AMD and Nvidia were supposed to deliver a bunch of show-stopping CES announcements. Rumors that Nvidia was going to announce a RTX 3080 Ti or a RTX 3070 Super. Rumors that AMD was going to launch its RX 6700 by the end of this month. Even Intel was quiet about…

Gadgets Joanna Nelius

Pro-Trump Extremists Got $520,000 in Bitcoin a Month Before Capitol Coup Attempt: Report

At least 22 individuals and groups, most with extremist pro-Trump sympathies, received roughly $520,000 in bitcoin a month before the violent siege on the U.S. Capitol that sought to overturn the 2020 presidential election, according to a new report from Yahoo News. And while there’s no evidence that the Dec. 8 distribution of funds has…

Tech News Matt Novak

Twitter Refuses to Engage in the Peaceful Transfer of Posting

When President Barack Obama left office on January 20, 2017, all followers of the official @POTUS and @WhiteHouse accounts were transferred to newly elected President Donald Trump. But that’s not happening this year when Joe Biden takes the oath of office on Jan. 20. Instead, Biden will have to start from scratch, according to Biden’s…

Social Media Matt Novak

NYPD Announces How It Plans to Spy On You This Year

After being pushed to do so by new legislation, the New York City Police Department has publicized a full inventory of the myriad spying instruments it uses to surveil the public. For years, it’s been well-known that the NYPD has a healthy war chest when it comes to surveillance gear. Indeed, the city that endured…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek

Parler’s Suit Trying to Force Amazon to Host It Again Does Not Appear to Be Going Well

Parler, the social network for conservatives with more guns than friends, isn’t doing so hot in its quest for a federal court injunction forcing Amazon to restore its web hosting services, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. On Jan. 6, a horde of pro-Donald Trump rioters trying to overturn the 2020 election results stormed the U.S. Capitol, incited…

Tech News Tom McKay

Consumer Groups Ask FTC to Investigate Amazon Prime’s Headache-Inducing Cancellation Process

It’s too goddamn hard to cancel your Amazon Prime account, a group of consumer advocacy organizations have told the Federal Trade Commission in a complaint letter. In the document, addressed to FTC chairman Joe Simons, groups led by the nonprofit Public Citizen asked that the agency investigate Amazon under Section 5 of the FTC Act,…

Commerce Tom McKay

These Are the Wearables That Stood Out at CES 2021

Usually, when people think of wearables, their mind conjures an image of a smartwatch. Fair! But at CES, wearables are a much, much broader category. They include everything from “hearables” and smart rings, to futuristic proof of concept devices that may never actually see the light of day. While CES 2021 was an all-digital experience,…

Gadgets Victoria Song

Ring’s Neighbors App Had Flaw That Revealed Users’ Home Addresses

Ring, the Amazon-owned friend to nosy police departments everywhere, has suffered another embarrassing security stumble. The surveillance company’s Neighbors app—which was launched in 2018 as a kind of “neighborhood watch” feature—apparently left users exact geographical data and home address information exposed to the internet. Neighbors is Ring’s online forum where users can share public safety…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek

This Complicated Nintendo Hack Makes You Ride an Exercise Bike to Win at Mario Kart

From games like Wii Tennis to accessories like the Wii Balance Board, Nintendo has mad it possible to turn its consoles into fitness devices to help gamers get active. But hardware hacker Mike Choi may have just come up with the ultimate way to stay fit with the Switch by turning Mario Kart 8 Deluxe into…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Mayoral Hopeful Andrew Yang: New York Needs Hype Houses

Former Presidential candidate Andrew Yang commenced his run for New York City mayor yesterday with an ad indicating that he’s familiar with the subway system, pizza, and—ayyy—the Knicks. Yang, who’s never held public office in New York City, or anywhere, is staring down a maelstrom of once-in-a-generation crises: millions to be vaccinated, potential city bankruptcy,…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

Intel Just Quietly Launched Its New Phantom Canyon NUC 11 Lineup

Intel focused much of its time at this year’s virtual CES on its new desktop and mobile processors, as well as spotlighting the laptops that will feature its new hardware debuting in the next few months. But what didn’t get much attention was Intel’s line of mini PCs, or NUCs, and NUC kits. Intel’s giving…

Gadgets Joanna Nelius

Nendo Has Made a Soccer Ball You Never Need to Inflate

Soccer is the world’s most popular sport partly because the only piece of equipment you need is a ball. But to maximize the sport’s accessibility, particularly in impoverished communities where a deflated ball can mean game over, Japanese design studio nendo created a non-inflatable soccer ball alternative that assembles like a jigsaw puzzle. Working with…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

I Adore the Coffee Cup-Sized ‘Latte’ Projector

More portable projectors, please! I’m a bit of an outlier here at Gizmodo when it comes to projectors. I love them, and I’m especially hooked on portable projectors that can move with you from room to room depending on where you feel like streaming something. Sure, a beautiful 65-inch OLED is great for watching premium…

Gadgets Catie Keck

Leaked Parler Data Points to Users at Police Stations, U.S. Military Bases

A Teen Made $3 Million in Five Weeks on Snapchat, and How’s Your Life Going?

This Was WhatsApp’s Plan All Along

New Intel CEO Talks a Little Trash About Apple While Trying to Reverse Company’s Woes

The World’s Blackest Paint and Sparkles Make a Car Look Like the Night Sky

A Startup Demonstrated a Wirelessly Powered TV at CES 2021 and I Want to Believe

MagSafe Might Be Coming Back to MacBook Pros and the Touch Bar Might Be Going Bye Bye

It’s Hard to Be Excited About New Laptops and GPUs When Supply is Scarce

Pro-Trump Extremists Got $520,000 in Bitcoin a Month Before Capitol Coup Attempt: Report

Twitter Refuses to Engage in the Peaceful Transfer of Posting

NYPD Announces How It Plans to Spy On You This Year

Parler’s Suit Trying to Force Amazon to Host It Again Does Not Appear to Be Going Well

Consumer Groups Ask FTC to Investigate Amazon Prime’s Headache-Inducing Cancellation Process

These Are the Wearables That Stood Out at CES 2021

Ring’s Neighbors App Had Flaw That Revealed Users’ Home Addresses

This Complicated Nintendo Hack Makes You Ride an Exercise Bike to Win at Mario Kart

Mayoral Hopeful Andrew Yang: New York Needs Hype Houses

Intel Just Quietly Launched Its New Phantom Canyon NUC 11 Lineup

Nendo Has Made a Soccer Ball You Never Need to Inflate

I Adore the Coffee Cup-Sized ‘Latte’ Projector

Trump Says He’ll Sign Order to Pay TSA

Deadpool Will Deface ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Classics for a New Secret Lair

Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them

Why ‘For All Mankind’ Season 5 Is the Key to the Rest of the Series

ASUS ZenScreen 15.6-Inch Portable Monitor Is Now Cheaper Than Black Friday in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

Early Wildfires Are Surging Across the US—and Trump’s New Fire Agency Isn’t Ready

INIU Brings Another Power Bank to the Spring Sale as SnapGo Keychain Portable Charger Drops to Its Lowest Price

Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases

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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