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There are a lot of candidates for the most cyberpunk event of 2020. How about a drive-thru strip club with gas masks to protect the dancers from a pandemic? Or maybe covid-19 testing sites sponsored by Pepsi. Or a president shifting his duties to social media as he’s quarantined with an infectious disease. The list…
In all the excitement of Apple’s iPhone 12 announcement, you’ll be forgiven for missing a small detail: The new iPhones will ship without a pair of wired earbuds in the box. That means if you don’t have already have a pair laying around, you’ll have to buy some ‘buds. Conveniently, Apple-owned headphone maker Beats just…
Prime Day is upon us, an international holiday on which Amazon lures consumers with low, low prices for shit they don’t need, and advocacy groups plead with those same potential customers to think of the outrageous tax avoidance, union-busting, hazardous and potentially deadly working conditions, and the steamrolling of small businesses, just off the top…
MagSafe is now on the iPhone, and that means Apple has a new charger that will juice up both your iPhone and your Apple Watch. It doesn’t quite live up to the promise of AirPower, but it’s close enough. If you don’t remember MagSafe, it was the name of the charging system in older MacBook…
When Apple rebooted the iPhone SE earlier this year, fans of small phones were disappointed. The original was a teensy phone, and the SE simply puts a small display in a larger body. Well, folks, your time has come: The iPhone 12 Mini is here, and it is actually, legitimately small. The 5.4-inch iPhone is…
Here we are on day two of the largely foregone conclusion that is the Senate confirmation process of Judge Amy Coney Barrett. What a fucking nightmare. There have been several objections to Republicans rushing Barrett onto the Supreme Court less than a month after the death of liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, specifically that her…
Apple’s big iPhone announcement day has finally arrived, and, as we expected, the iPhone 12 is here. But that’s not all: Apple showed off four new iPhones, ranging in price from $700 to $1,100, and it seems like there’s something for everybody. Starting at $800, the basic iPhone 12 is a bit more expensive than…
Were we surprised that Apple announced a HomePod Mini today? Absolutely not. The stream of leaks suggesting Apple had planned a HomePod refresh has been steady and strong—hell we even had a last-minute leak this morning. And as suspected, the HomePod Mini made its official debut at today’s iPhone event—and it’s only $100. That $100…
On the last day for residents across Virginia to register to vote in the coming election, multiple websites housing the state’s voter registration portal were suddenly knocked offline. Now, local authorities are pinning the blame on a mysteriously cut fiber optic cable. The news comes courtesy of Virginia’s Department of Elections, which tweeted out earlier…
If the election had ended last month, I’ll have remembered Democrats’ attempts to reach the youth on the internet as historically lame. Apparently not taking the hint from 2016’s “Pokemon GO to the polls” gaffe, Democratic strategists forced the memes on the internet, and the internet struck back with a savage pillory of reaction memes.…
If it seems like we just wrapped an Apple gadget event, that’s because we did—last month. But today, Apple is set to unveil a whole different lineup of new products. And if today’s earlier leaks were any indication, time around, it’s looking like Apple is giving us our first official look at its new iPhones…
OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei has left the company to work on a new venture, according to a report by TechCrunch. Pei has not announced the move officially, but persons familiar with the decision said he will not be joining Samsung, a company seen as a model for his own. He is also said to be…
Look, I already had beef with Amazon Prime Day 2020. And while our friends over at The Inventory actually care about the decent, possibly even “good,” deals you might find, we here at Gizmodo have an annual tradition of finding the garbage that Jeff Bezos and his goons are trying to peddle so they can…
It’s Prime Day and that means sorting through heaps of garbage to find that one item you didn’t really need but it’s just too good of a deal to pass up. Or is it!? The Camelizer knows. The latest version of the Camelizer extension dropped last week, and if you’re not using it, Prime Day…
Whelp, a whole lot of Apple products just leaked. We are, as of this writing, hours away from Apple’s much anticipated iPhone (we assume) event. I just wrote a whole blog on how to watch the dang thing! Yet a whole lot of the line up leaked early. Evan Blass, the noted Android phone leaker,…
I know it feels like we JUST had a big Apple day last month—and that’s because we did! First, there was the Watch and iPad event in September; there are rumors of a MacBook event in November; and for October? It’s iPhones, baby. Well, iPhones, and possibly headphones, earbuds, a new Tile competitor, and even…
President Trump promised that a Foxconn manufacturing plant would create 13,000 jobs in the state of Wisconsin, even calling it the “eighth wonder of the world.” But the electronics maker never built the factory it had originally pitched to Wisconsin legislators, nor did it hire anywhere close to 13,000 people. Now, Foxconn will not receive…
We probably could have seen this coming. Disney announced today that it’s restructuring its media and entertainment businesses to focus on its streaming services—one area that’s currently thriving as other parts of the Walt Disney Company grapple with the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Indeed, Disney+ has been a monumental success since it launched late…
Microsoft has obtained a court order to seize servers the company says are part of the Trickbot botnet ahead of the 2020 elections, the Washington Post reported on Monday. Microsoft vice president of customer security and trust Tom Burt told the Post the botnet poses a “theoretical but real” threat to election security, as it…
By 2009, Facebook had established its first content moderation team known internally as the “porn cops.” The responsibility of hunting down posts containing spam and porn fell to a team of 150 entry-level workers. Four years later, it was paying contractors in countries like Turkey, Mexico, and India $1 an hour to scan for illicit…
