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Analogue’s New Duo Console Reminds TurboGrafx Fans They’re Not Forgotten

After resurrecting some of the most popular classic consoles of the ‘80s and ‘90s including the NES, Super Nintendo, and Sega Genesis, the team at Analogue is turning its attention to reviving a lesser known family of systems in the annals of retro gaming. If consoles like the TurboGrafx-16 still remain close to your heart,…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Don’t Look Away Yet, New Rumor Claims Apple Has One More Event Planned for November

In case you thought two big Apple events this fall wasn’t enough, it seems the company still has one more big announcement planned—this time for the Mac—slated for sometime in mid-November. The latest info comes from Jon Prosser, who had a somewhat spotty track records for rumors earlier in the year but has been more…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

This Is the iPhone 12 You Should Buy (if You Can’t Wait to Preorder)

Normally, we’d ask you to wait for your favorite consumer tech team to review the new iPhones before handing Apple your money. But we get it. Sometimes you just need to upgrade your phone as soon as possible. This year’s annual iPhone event was a little different than in years past. Due to the pandemic,…

Tech News Victoria Song

Google Made Some Improvements to Search, and I Have Concerns

Google is taking a cue from the Apple-owned music recognition app Shazam by enabling a search feature that will recognize any song you hum to it—and you don’t need to hum on-key either, apparently. Hum to Search, along with a few other new features, is one of a few ways Google is improving its search with…

Tech News Joanna Nelius

FCC Conveniently Seeks to ‘Clarify’ Section 230 Just When Republicans Are Mad at Facebook and Twitter

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai has announced that he plans to “move forward with a rulemaking” to “clarify” Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which, among other protections, shields social media platforms from liability over moderating certain types of content. Interesting timing, because Republicans have spent the last 24 hours threatening to annihilate…

Tech News Whitney Kimball & Dell Cameron

Google Hangouts Is Officially Biting the Dust

Earlier today, Google announced in a corporate blog post that the die-hards currently left on the Hangouts messaging platform are officially getting the boot. Starting in early 2021, the company will start making moves to “automatically migrate” everyone’s Hangouts chat history and contacts to the Google Workspace-ready alternative, Google Chat. While the exact timing on…

Tech News Shoshana Wodinsky

Twitter Is Down for Some Users, and Here’s Hoping It Stays That Way

The place online where hopes and dreams go to die, Twitter dot com, is evidently down for a number of users—which honestly sounds like the best news I’ve heard in a while. Multiple Gizmodo staffers reported having trouble with the service a little before 6 p.m. ET, though it appeared some staff members were still…

Tech News Catie Keck

WeChat Likely Won’t Be Banned While Court Battle Proceeds, Judge Indicates

A federal judge in San Francisco indicated that the Department of Justice still doesn’t have jack shit to convince her to allow the Trump administration to move forward with a ban on new downloads of Chinese messaging app WeChat while court battles proceed, per the Verge. In the past few months, the White House has…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay

Trump’s Free Pass on Twitter Could End January 20, 2021

In the past three years and change, it seems as though the entire world has learned to revolve around our very special boy in chief, Donald Trump, in ways big and small. Hardly the most consequential of these: Twitter—by far his favorite platform for whipping his base into a frenzy—was forced to create an entirely…

Politics Avery Ellis

Rudy Giuliani Accidentally Uploads YouTube Video of Himself Making Racist Jokes About Chinese People

Rudy Giuliani may be best known as the burnout former mayor of New York, and more recently, Donald Trump’s wildly incompetent personal attorney and disinformation peddler. He’s also a self-declared cybersecurity expert who has yet to find a digital rake he can’t step on. Giuliani has no tech experience of any note whatsoever beyond founding…

Politics Tom McKay

This Company Is Inventing the Blue Checkmark for Photos

If you were on Twitter yesterday, you may have seen the photo of Senator Cory Booker, a hair’s breadth from Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s mouth, making the rounds thanks in part to Republican Senator John Cornyn of Texas, who tweeted: “Masks?” The implication was that the image was taken at Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearing, but…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

YouTube Bans QAnon, With a Catch

Over the last couple of weeks, social media networks have finally enacted a glutof the content moderation policies that critics have spent years demanding. The latest crackdown comes from YouTube, which announced on Thursday that the ban hammer is dropping on QAnon videos—with caveats, of course. While Facebook groups were seen as a digital home…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Government Privacy Watchdog Asked to Investigate Surveillance of Black Lives Matter

A group of Democratic lawmakers on Thursday urged the government’s privacy and civil liberties watchdog to launch an investigation into claims of government surveillance at protests against police violence and racial inequality spurred this year by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody. Citing concerns that federal agencies may have violated Americans’ rights…

Tech News Dell Cameron

10 Tips to Make You an Oculus Quest 2 Master

Cast VR to your TV for maximizing your time with the Quest 2 specifically.

Gadgets David Nield

Mysterious Sightings of Person Flying in Jetpack Near LAX Continue

Something strange is going on around the Los Angeles International Airport in recent weeks. On Wednesday, a flight crew for China Airlines reported seeing a person flying around LAX wearing what appeared to be a jetpack. It was the second sighting in the past two months and so far, authorities seem to be stumped for…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Shipt’s ‘Effort-Based’ Model Is Cutting Pay for 40% of Workers, Study Shows

Stefanie started working for the Target-owned grocery shopping app Shipt two and a half years ago. She’d previously been working for one of the app’s main competitors, Instacart, but friends told her that Shipt paid better. While Instacart and similar apps like DoorDash paid workers based on a black box algorithm, Shipt paid a predictable…

Tech News Dharna Noor

U.S. Lawmaker, Citing Snowden, Seeks Probe of NSA Searches for Congressional, Supreme Court Emails

The acting intelligence community inspector general, Thomas Monheim, has been asked to investigate claims that Edward Snowden, while working as a contractor for the National Security Agency, was able to search a classified database for the private emails of a senior member of Congress. Rep. Anna Eshoo, Democrat of California, requested the investigation based on…

Tech News Dell Cameron

This Touchscreen Digital Board Game Table Is Rage Flip Resistant and Has Tons of Hasbro Games

In just a few years’ time Arcade1Up has managed to make a name for itself with a collection of DIY, Ikea-like arcade cabinets perfect for retro gaming collectors with limited space. The company is now targeting board game fans too with its new Infinity Game Table that lets players crowd around a giant touchscreen to…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

YouTube Now Says It Will Remove Videos Lying About Coronavirus Vaccines

YouTube announced on Wednesday that it will now be extending current rules about lies, propaganda, and conspiracy theories about the coronavirus pandemic to include misinformation about coronavirus vaccines. Per Reuters, the video giant now says it will prohibit content about coronavirus vaccines that “[contradicts] expert consensus from local health authorities or the [World Health Organization]”—such…

Tech News Tom McKay

Your Preferred Music App Finally Has an iOS 14 Widget

I’ve tried—I have tried—to make Apple Music my default streaming app, but I always end up deferring to my trusty algorithm-generated Discover playlists on Spotify. When home screen widgets rolled out with iOS 14, Spotify was front of my mind as a great application for this iPhone feature. Today, Spotify officially launched its iOS widget in both…

Tech News Catie Keck

Analogue’s New Duo Console Reminds TurboGrafx Fans They’re Not Forgotten

Don’t Look Away Yet, New Rumor Claims Apple Has One More Event Planned for November

This Is the iPhone 12 You Should Buy (if You Can’t Wait to Preorder)

Google Made Some Improvements to Search, and I Have Concerns

FCC Conveniently Seeks to ‘Clarify’ Section 230 Just When Republicans Are Mad at Facebook and Twitter

Google Hangouts Is Officially Biting the Dust

Twitter Is Down for Some Users, and Here’s Hoping It Stays That Way

WeChat Likely Won’t Be Banned While Court Battle Proceeds, Judge Indicates

Trump’s Free Pass on Twitter Could End January 20, 2021

Rudy Giuliani Accidentally Uploads YouTube Video of Himself Making Racist Jokes About Chinese People

This Company Is Inventing the Blue Checkmark for Photos

YouTube Bans QAnon, With a Catch

Government Privacy Watchdog Asked to Investigate Surveillance of Black Lives Matter

10 Tips to Make You an Oculus Quest 2 Master

Mysterious Sightings of Person Flying in Jetpack Near LAX Continue

Shipt’s ‘Effort-Based’ Model Is Cutting Pay for 40% of Workers, Study Shows

U.S. Lawmaker, Citing Snowden, Seeks Probe of NSA Searches for Congressional, Supreme Court Emails

This Touchscreen Digital Board Game Table Is Rage Flip Resistant and Has Tons of Hasbro Games

YouTube Now Says It Will Remove Videos Lying About Coronavirus Vaccines

Your Preferred Music App Finally Has an iOS 14 Widget

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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