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It's no longer novel for militaries to respond to cyberattacks with physical force (the US used a drone strike in 2015), but now they're being treated with the same urgency as real-world bullets and missiles. Israel Defe...

What should have probably been an uneventful weekend, or a weekend spent watching Avengers: Endgame, turned out to be a mini-nightmare for the folks at Mozilla. The developers of the Firefox web browser spent the past tw...

Online multi-user tools like Google Docs may have changed the way we collaborate, but Microsoft’s new Fluid Framework aims to tear up the common interpretation of a shared document. Announced at Build 2019 today, the n...

If your Firefox add-ons were borked over the weekend, you're not alone. Late on Friday, many Firefox users found that many extensions were suddenly useless or impossible to install after Mozilla pushed out an update to v...

Microsoft may have abandoned Windows 10 Mobile completely but those who still have a Lumia phone want to hold on to that dream for as long as they can. If they have a Lumia 950 XL or even a Lumia 950, that dream has just...

2018 was a big year for privacy and not in a good way. It was a year where privacy violations were exposed left and right and not all of them involved Facebook. Just as scandalous was the revelation that the four major U...

The US Air Force just edged closer to its goal of outfitting aircraft with laser weapons. Testers at the White Sands Missile Range have successfully shot down multiple air-launched missiles using the Self-Protect High En...

Apple is reportedly planning a shake-up to the 2019 iPhone antennas, making “vast changes” that could add up to improved wireless performance for the new smartphones. Although the 2019 iPhone isn’t expected to feat...

The European Union might just believe that Spotify's complaint against Apple has some merit. Financial Times sources have claimed that EU competition commissioners have decided to launch an antitrust investigation into a...

Amazon is rolling out a number of new options for Alexa routines. Starting today, you can set up a routine to trigger actions when your alarm stops. You might prompt Alexa to read your flash briefing a few minutes after ...

America's top consumer watchdog will face questions from congressional lawmakers this week concerning a veritable laundry list of privacy-related incidents, including many that will be centered around Facebook's own prot...

Air conditioners require lots of energy to run, meaning they result in lots of greenhouse gas emissions. But maybe they don't have to? In a recently published Nature paper, researchers with the Institute for Micro Proces...

A new concept for providing emergency wifi to areas struck by natural disasters has completed a successful test in Puerto Rico. The system uses rubber duck-inspired devices to create what the developers are calling a "Cl...

An upcoming experiment aboard the International Space Station will test the effects of microgravity on living cells mixed with tiny ceramic particles. The test could result in powerful new antioxidants to treat the delet...

Swedish company Urbanears has announced its newest headphones model, the Pampas. These wireless over-ear headphones promise a combination of style and functionality, the most notable of which is more than 30 hours of aud...

Before any of you wiseacres say, "Technically yes, now I have," just take a sec and think, because there's a very distressed man in Portland, Oregon who would like to be reunited with this handsome feline.

As of today, Twitter users can include GIFs in their retweets. Users can also include up to four photos or a video. The update is rolling out on iOS, Android and mobile.twitter.com, and accounts like @GameOfThrones and @...

We've long seen Varys as a schemer, willing to do anything and betray anyone to secure power for himself. But, as we saw in the latest episode of Game of Thrones, Varys might be the only one doing something right.

Researchers at the Food and Drug Administration have found that people who regularly use certain sunscreens may be absorbing higher-than-safe levels of active ingredients into their bodies. But the scientists caution tha...

After three years of toil, Gizmodo Media Group's last Executive Managing Editor Alex Dickinson is off to his next adventure.

Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, or WWDC, starts up in just a few weeks on June 3. That makes this time of year ripe for speculation about potential iOS updates, and while some years are pretty quiet, the rumor m...

The new Windows Subsystem for Linux will use a real Linux kernel.