Gadget News
Google Families website help parents raise kids around technology
Slash Gear - 17 Mar 2021 05:41
Technology is all around us and so are the devices that bring them to our fingertips, from smartphones to computers to the Internet. Many parents treat these as the modern world’s evils but, being a tech company, Googl...
Teen Who Hacked Twitter to Within an Inch of its Life Sentenced to Three Years in Prison
Gizmodo - 17 Mar 2021 00:55
Graham Ivan Clark -- the teenager who masterminded a sprawling Twitter attack last summer that involved hacking the accounts of dozens of high profile users to promote a bitcoin scam -- plead guilty in a Florida court on...
Lucid Motors Air EV gets a Dolby Atmos cabin
Slash Gear - 17 Mar 2021 22:28
Dolby Atmos is gradually arriving in more living rooms, but now the surround sound system is getting ready to pull up in its first car, thanks to a deal with Lucid Motors. The Lucid Air – the automaker’s upcoming lux...
Garmin adds new Approach golf wearables and rangefinder
Slash Gear - 17 Mar 2021 13:26
Garmin is probably best known for its line of GPS devices that are used in cars and other vehicles all around the world. The company also makes a line of wearables aimed at outdoors enthusiasts and sports fans. The compa...
Dropbox Passwords app will be available to free users with a catch
Slash Gear - 17 Mar 2021 04:57
Dropbox has become pretty much a dumping ground for anything and everything that needs to be stored on the cloud. Last year, Dropbox realized that those included even passwords, often stored in plain text files. While th...
Huawei to charge Apple, Samsung for 5G patent royalties
Slash Gear - 17 Mar 2021 03:41
Although it has so far managed to keep operating, it’s hard to deny that Huawei’s business has taken a significant hit in the past years. In addition to sanctions imposed by the US government over allegations of its ...
Russia 'Amplified' the Hunter Biden Story and Spread Election Conspiracy Theories, Intel Agencies Claim
Gizmodo - 17 Mar 2021 02:15
Russia wants America to hate Hunter Biden. That, and other odd claims, are at the heart of a newly declassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), the likes of which claims to show how...
SEC accuses trader of using Twitter to hype stocks with false claims
Slash Gear - 17 Mar 2021 01:16
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced charges against a California man accused of using Twitter to spread false claims about a ‘defunct company’ after purchasing millions of shares. This alleged ...
US tax deadline extended to May 2021
Slash Gear - 17 Mar 2021 23:49
The United States Internal Revenue Service announced today that the “file on” date for the 2020 tax season will be extended to May. Generally the required date by which taxpayers must file their tax forms in the Unit...
6 Essential Creepshow Horror Stories From Season 1
Gizmodo - 17 Mar 2021 23:15
Stacked with killer talent both in front of and behind the camera, Shudder's hit series Creepshow--based on the horror anthology films from Stephen King and George A. Romero--returns soon for season two, with a third ins...
RIP Piracy on YouTube?
Gizmodo - 17 Mar 2021 23:03
Anyone with hit with a copyright claim on YouTube can probably tell you about the complicated, confusing, and drawn out hassle that comes with them. Thankfully, the platform is releasing a tool to proactively notify crea...
Intel hires Justin Long to mock Macs in throwback to 2000s "I'm a Mac" ads
Ars Technica - 17 Mar 2021 22:54
"No one really games on a Mac."
PlayStation Play at Home serves up game freebies led by Horizon Zero Dawn
Slash Gear - 17 Mar 2021 22:52
Sony revived its PlayStation Play at Home promotion this month by giving away free copies of Ratchet & Clank for PS4 (which is still available if you haven’t yet claimed it), and now the company is detailing what’s n...
Intel Rocket Lake-S desktop gaming CPUs are here
Ars Technica - 17 Mar 2021 22:10
Rocket Lake-S looks like a solid gen-on-gen improvement--but not a Ryzen-killer.
The 10 Best Deals of March 17, 2021
Gizmodo - 17 Mar 2021 22:00
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Superman & Lois Is Starting to Realize It's a Superhero Show
Gizmodo - 17 Mar 2021 21:30
This week's Superman & Lois centers the classing superhero story push and pull--whatever is Clark Kent going to do about balancing his life with his family and his life as the Man of Steel? But while the episode has some...
Age of Empires IV details coming with Fan Preview event
Slash Gear - 17 Mar 2021 21:22
The Age of Empires series has enjoyed something of a resurgence in recent years. Slowly but surely, Microsoft has been releasing Definitive Editions of the existing games in the series, and with Age of Empires III Defini...
Why Medicare for All Must Be Part of the Green New Deal
Gizmodo - 17 Mar 2021 21:10
In 1991, Larry Barragan got word that the oil refinery in Long Beach, California where he was working would be closing. It was one of the scariest moments of his career. Barragan was nervous about losing his income, but ...
Who the Hell Is Behind the Zombie MoviePass Website?
Gizmodo - 17 Mar 2021 21:00
A mysterious new MoviePass website has resurrected the memory of one of the most chaotic services in paid subscription history.
The 'I'm a Mac' Guy Is Now Mocking Macs for Intel
Gizmodo - 17 Mar 2021 20:45
Intel has doubled down on its marketing blitz to persuade buyers that PCs are better than Macs, but this time there's a twist. As MacRumors spotted, the chipmaker has recruited Justin Long, the cool "I'm a Mac" guy from ...
Amazon's Kindle Author Service Dumps Problematic Mobi Files
Gizmodo - 17 Mar 2021 20:30
If you've read this far, you're probably a self-published author who has once struggled with Amazon's fussy Kindle Direct Publishing platform. The platform, which allows you to upload and sell ebooks and paperbacks, has ...
2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E Review - Beyond the Badge
Slash Gear - 17 Mar 2021 20:25
Two minutes into driving the 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E for the first time, I watched a man in a pickup miss his green light because he was too busy staring at the metallic red electric crossover. It set expectations for t...