Gadget News
ULTIX Outdoors MagGo 3.0 magnet-powered sling bag is the future of zipper-free sling bags
The Gadget Flow - 30 Oct 2023 16:00
Meet the ULTIX Outdoors MagGo 3.0 magnet-powered sling bag, which promises lightning-fast access to your essentials. That’s thanks to its innovative magnetic connection system. - Lightning-fast magnetic access: With...
Hasbro's Next Star Wars Toys Are Giving Us Some Phantom Menace Classics
Gizmodo - 30 Oct 2023 23:30
Hasbro's 6" line of Star Wars action figures, the Black Series, launched a decade ago, and has gone on to give us many great representations (and some not so great) of Star Wars heroes and villains from across the galaxy...
Android Users to Get Apple-Like Login Features This Week
Gizmodo - 30 Oct 2023 23:20
Android users can finally join the realm of the easy login life. Google revealed Monday that Credential Manager will arrive on Android devices beginning Nov. 1, ushering in the next phase of the company's conversion to p...
The Terrifying It Follows Is Finally Getting a Sequel
Gizmodo - 30 Oct 2023 23:05
In It Follows, an unstoppable entity stalks its victims to the ends of the Earth. It's slow, steady, and it can't be stopped. So it's almost fitting that while it took a long time, now, after a 10-year wait, a sequel is ...
Sony PlayStation Wireless Earbuds Set to Release Just in Time for the Holidays
Gizmodo - 30 Oct 2023 23:00
The PlayStation Pulse Explore earbuds will be available on Dec. 6, allowing holiday shoppers just enough time to grab the wireless, low-latency buds for $199.99, Sony revealed Monday. The earbuds will be the only Bluetoo...
NASA's Lucy Ready to Explore Its First Asteroid This Week
Gizmodo - 30 Oct 2023 22:55
After traveling millions of miles over the past two years, the Lucy spacecraft has almost reached its first destination. NASA's asteroid probe will briefly rendezvous with Dinkinesh in the main asteroid belt on Wednesday...
As Banks Write Down X, Musk Offers Employee Stock Options
Gizmodo - 30 Oct 2023 22:45
If the ship's going down, at least the employees all get a piece of the pie. As X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) continues to devalue itself with decisions that are scaring off advertisers and pissing off users...
Samsung ships Android 14 in record time
Ars Technica - 30 Oct 2023 22:37
European users are getting the update now, and the US version should come soon.
Sundar Pichai Defends Google Paying Billions to Remain Top Search Engine
Gizmodo - 30 Oct 2023 22:20
Google CEO Sundar Pichai upheld the company's decision to pay out billions of dollars to remain the top global search engine at the U.S. anti-trust trial on Monday, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. Pic...
Stars of the New Hunger Games Prequel Will Likely Walk the Red Carpet
Gizmodo - 30 Oct 2023 22:00
In a surprise move, Lionsgate has signed an interim agreement with SAG-AFTRA for the upcoming Hunger Games prequel film, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Variety reports. This means that the actors--including top-bill...
Fake Ozempic Has Sent Several People to the Hospital, Health Agency Warns
Gizmodo - 30 Oct 2023 21:53
Health officials in Austria are the latest to warn the public to stay away from sketchy sources of semaglutide, the active ingredient in popular weight loss drugs Wegovy and Ozempic, following recent reports of severe ad...
Bungie reportedly lays off staff, delays Marathon and Destiny 2: The Final Shape
Engadget - 30 Oct 2023 21:27
Bungie has reportedly laid off an unknown number of staffers and delayed two highly anticipated games. Bloomberg's Jason Schreier reports that the studio's CEO, Pete Parsons, warned staffers they would hear "some news to...
Doctor Who Reveals Anniversary Miniseries With Classic Stars
Gizmodo - 30 Oct 2023 21:20
This week the Doctor Who universe is expanding with the official launch of what is now being dubbed "The Whoniverse"--a streaming home for over 800 episodes of Doctor Who and its spinoffs from the BBC... and now, its fir...
Google, Amazon Pour Billions Into ChatGPT Competitor
Gizmodo - 30 Oct 2023 20:45
Google will invest up to $2 billion in Anthropic, a competitor to OpenAI, ramping up the race between artificial intelligence companies, originally reported by The Wall Street Journal Friday. Amazon committed a $4 billio...
Biden Issues Nation's First AI Executive Order. Here's What You Need to Know
Gizmodo - 30 Oct 2023 20:32
The Biden Administration is moving forward with a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence executive order aimed at creating new standards for AI safety and setting up new guardrails to prevent potential misuse. Today's...
World of Horror is a skin-crawling dread machine that does its inspirations proud
Engadget - 30 Oct 2023 20:30Meet Jormungandr, a 'Sea Dragon' From North Dakota
Gizmodo - 30 Oct 2023 20:30
No aquatic reptiles today can match mosasaurs, ocean-dwelling creatures of the Cretaceous period that looked something like a cross between a whale and a shark. Now, a group of researchers have discovered a mosasaur that...
A Poltergeist TV Series May Soon Haunt Small Screens
Gizmodo - 30 Oct 2023 20:30
This actually makes perfect sense, considering Poltergeist is about ghosts that gain access to a suburban family via their TV: the 1982 Steven Spielberg-produced and co-written horror classic, which spawned two sequels o...
Dealmaster: Early Black Friday 2023 deals
Ars Technica - 30 Oct 2023 20:29
It might still be October, but Black Friday sales are already happening.
Rising El Niño Intensity Sparks Global Food Security Concerns
Gizmodo - 30 Oct 2023 20:05
Global climate shifts this year are likely to disrupt food production throughout the world, straining food security worldwide. A report published this month by scientists associated with Famine Early Warning Systems Netw...
Google promises a rescue patch for Android 14's "ransomware" bug
Ars Technica - 30 Oct 2023 19:58
After ignoring the issue tracker for 10 days, Google is getting its act together.