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Roli’s $300 Light-Up Keyboard Is Like if Rock Band Taught You How to Play Piano

Sometimes when I’m scrolling through my timeline, it feels like I’m the only person who didn’t pick up a new hobby during quarantine. I’m not too proud to admit that, while others were busy learning to paint or knit or rollerskate, I was content scrolling through TikTok and sinking dozens of hours into Stardew Valley…

Gadgets Alyse Stanley

Amazon’s New Echo Show Will Soon Support Netflix, But What About Other Streaming Services?

Amazon’s annual product event introduced a host of new hardware and service updates, including a markedly different Echo Show design. But for those of us who prefer background noise while we’re whipping something up in the kitchen, the revamped Echo Show also introduces a new streaming option: Netflix. The Echo Show 10, a $250 smart…

Commerce Catie Keck

Trump Spox Matt Wolking Shoves Foot in Mouth While Bashing CNN, Gizmodo Reporters [Updated]

The Justice Department released—and later retracted—a statement on Thursday saying it had opened an inquiry into the discarding of nine military ballots cast for President Trump in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. The notice vanished from the DOJ’s website hours later only to be replaced by a “revised statement,” clarifying that two of the nine ballots are…

Politics Dell Cameron

Someone Is Anonymously Mailing Creepy QAnon Propaganda to Minneapolis Residents

Someone is mailing QAnon-themed material to residents of Minneapolis suburbs, the Intercept reported on Thursday, and it’s not clear who’s doing it or why. QAnon is a conspiracy theory that mashes various strands of paranoid thinking into a convenient narrative: That a worldwide network of Satanic pedophiles, comprising elites in everything from the Democratic Party…

Tech News Tom McKay

Louisville Police Take Down Inmate Lookup Site Amid Mass Arrest of Protesters

An estimated 127 people have been arrested since protesters took to the streets of Louisville, Kentucky, on Wednesday after a grand jury chose not to charge three officers for Breonna Taylor’s death. With hundreds more expected to be detained in the coming weeks, the Information Systems Team at the Louisville Metro Department of Corrections has…

Tech News Dhruv Mehrotra

Atari’s Vaporware Console Is Getting Blockchain-Based Games

In what is certain to be one of the least promising moves in console gaming in 2020, Atari has partnered with a company called Ultra Gaming to offer blockchain-based game streaming to its forthcoming VCS console. The fabled Atari VCS has long been a bit of fun vaporware that is currently suffering from shipping issues…

Tech News John Biggs

The Rallying Cry Against Apple’s App Store Policies is Getting Louder

Several developers and organizations have banded together to lead a campaign against Apple’s App Store policies. Announced today, the Coalition for App Fairness (CAF) is a new nonprofit dedicated to fighting for fair, competitive practices across the app ecosystem. The CAF’s founding members include Epic Games, Basecamp, European Publishers Council, Tile, Spotify, and several others…

Tech News Joanna Nelius

Attention, People of Illinois: It’s Time to Make Facebook Pay

With every passing day, Facebook gives us more evidence that it’s incapable of running itself responsibly, and every day it faces zero consequences. The profits rise and the what-are-you-gonna-do shrugs get more emphatic. But today is different. Today, some of you out there have a chance to cause the social network a little pain for…

Social Media Rhett Jones

Here’s All the Weird Shit Amazon Announced Today, Including a Drone for Your House

Amazon’s hardware event today was unsurprisingly filled with new Echo devices that let you talk to Alexa without looking at an ugly puck. The new Echos are actually…kind of cute, with a spherical design that evokes Disney’s Epcot Center. But there was also an indoor spy drone, because why not? Let’s dive into everything Amazon…

Commerce Caitlin McGarry

Amazon Upgrades Eero Router With Wifi 6 and the Ability to Talk Directly to Smart Home Gear

Given the advantages the systems already offer in terms of speed and reliability, companies making mesh wireless networking hardware have been slow to jump on the wifi 6 bandwagon. Now, a year and a half after acquiring Eero, Amazon’s second update to its mesh networking system is finally introducing support for the faster wifi 6…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Amazon’s Next-Gen Fire TV Streaming Stick Should Be Faster, But Use Less Power

Amazon’s annual products and services event is always a dizzying carousel of shiny new Alexa-enabled gadgets. But with services becoming a bigger focus for tech giants competing in the ever-crowded streaming wars, it was a pretty safe bet that Amazon would have a couple of new Fire TV products in store. Sure enough, Amazon today…

Commerce Catie Keck

Soon You Can Ask Alexa to Forget Everything You Ever Said

Privacy is the big thing that gives people the heebie-jeebies when it comes to digital assistants like Alexa. But at Amazon’s devices and services event today, the company announced it was expanding privacy settings with regard to voice recordings. Later this year, you’ll be able to say, “Alexa, delete everything I’ve said.” According to Amazon,…

Commerce Victoria Song

Ring’s New Always Home Cam Is Actually an Indoor Spy Drone

Among an avalanche of new Echo and Ring devices announced by Amazon today, there’s one that stuck out as a clear step towards our dystopian future: the Ring Always Home Cam. While its name might suggest that the Always Home Cam is simply just an updated home security cam, it’s way more than that. Ring…

Commerce Sam Rutherford

Amazon Luna Is Stadia and Microsoft’s Newest Cloud Gaming Competitor

Amazon has a game streaming service. It’s been rumored for years now and it’s finally here. Starting at $6 a month with early access, the new service—dubbed Luna+—will have Twitch integration, a special channel just for Ubisoft games, and an optional controller that connects directly to the cloud. Luna+ wasn’t a possibility as much an…

Internet Alex Cranz

Amazon’s Echo Is Now a Ball

Amazon has upgraded its Echo lineup, giving the Echo, Echo Dot, and Echo Dot with Clock a spherical design that looks less awkward in your house than a cylinder or puck. The Kids’ Edition Dots got similar treatment but instead of a bright candy cane design, these little guys now have Panda and Tiger faces…

Commerce John Biggs

Secret ‘Man Cave’ Discovered in Room Beneath Grand Central Station

Dreams do come true—but sometimes, they also get you in deep shit. A trio of almost-clever Metro-North employees are at risk of losing their jobs after bosses at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority uncovered their secret “man cave” deep in the bowels of New York City’s Grand Central station, according to a newly released report by…

Tech News Andrew Couts

System Reboot: Gizmodo’s New Podcast to Fix a Broken World

Gizmodo has a podcast! Again! Two years after The Gateway dug deep into the way YouTube algorithms enable larger-than-life personalities to develop followings online, we’re back with a new podcast. System Reboot is a weekly podcast exploring the big things that are broken and talking to very smart people who have ideas about how to…

Tech News Alex Cranz & Brian Kahn

Covid-19 Data Is Coming to Google Maps

While contact tracing flails in the U.S. thanks in part to government dysfunction, Google’s deploying a feature to at least help us avoid covid-19 hotspots. Sometime this week, Android and iOS users will be able to toggle on color-coded overlays in Google Maps, representing the concentration of positive cases on the country, state, city, and…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

Wikipedia’s Getting an Overdue Makeover

Wikipedia, a platform beloved by nerds the world over for its seemingly endless buffet of scholarly rabbit holes, is finally getting a facelift. It’ll be the first time the site’s altered anything about its image in a decade. According to a blog post put out earlier today by the Wikimedia Foundation, the goal of these…

Tech News Shoshana Wodinsky

Adobe Update Actually Makes PDFs Readable on Your Phone

Adobe has been hyping its Sensei AI for a while now, and it finally has a use case for the tech that might make the average user’s life a little easier. The Adobe Reader app now uses machine learning to reformat PDFs in a way that makes them actually readable on mobile devices. The new…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Roli’s $300 Light-Up Keyboard Is Like if Rock Band Taught You How to Play Piano

Amazon’s New Echo Show Will Soon Support Netflix, But What About Other Streaming Services?

Trump Spox Matt Wolking Shoves Foot in Mouth While Bashing CNN, Gizmodo Reporters [Updated]

Someone Is Anonymously Mailing Creepy QAnon Propaganda to Minneapolis Residents

Louisville Police Take Down Inmate Lookup Site Amid Mass Arrest of Protesters

Atari’s Vaporware Console Is Getting Blockchain-Based Games

The Rallying Cry Against Apple’s App Store Policies is Getting Louder

Attention, People of Illinois: It’s Time to Make Facebook Pay

Here’s All the Weird Shit Amazon Announced Today, Including a Drone for Your House

Amazon Upgrades Eero Router With Wifi 6 and the Ability to Talk Directly to Smart Home Gear

Amazon’s Next-Gen Fire TV Streaming Stick Should Be Faster, But Use Less Power

Soon You Can Ask Alexa to Forget Everything You Ever Said

Ring’s New Always Home Cam Is Actually an Indoor Spy Drone

Amazon Luna Is Stadia and Microsoft’s Newest Cloud Gaming Competitor

Amazon’s Echo Is Now a Ball

Secret ‘Man Cave’ Discovered in Room Beneath Grand Central Station

System Reboot: Gizmodo’s New Podcast to Fix a Broken World

Covid-19 Data Is Coming to Google Maps

Wikipedia’s Getting an Overdue Makeover

Adobe Update Actually Makes PDFs Readable on Your Phone

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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