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  • AI Can Now Fake Fingerprints That Fool Biometric ID Scanners

    Photo: Leon Neal (Getty) Artificial Intelligence researchers used a neural network to create fake fingerprints that could be a hacker’s dream tool. Five researchers, led by Philip Bontrager of the New York University engineering school, developed what they have called “DeepMasterPrints.” The Guardian reported that the research was presented at a biometrics conference in Los…

  • The FDA Will Restrict, but Not Ban, the Sale of Flavored E-Cigarettes in Stores

    Photo: Steven Senne (AP) The Food and Drug Administration has taken its hardest swing yet against teen vaping—though not as hard as we were expecting. On Thursday, FDA chief Scott Gottlieb unveiled a series of steps aimed at forcing the e-cigarette industry to work harder at keeping its products out of the hands of minors.…

  • Is Juul the Best Pod Vape or What?

    myblu by bluPhoto: Adam Clark Estes (Gizmodo) For this battle, we blew clouds with all the vapes and measured the results, not only the cloud size but also how quickly it dissipated. The Rubi, a vape pen made by Kandypens, produced the biggest, thickest cloud. This might be because there are a couple of extra…

  • Firefox will now alert you when you visit hacked websites

    Firefox will now alert users when they visit a breached sitePhoto: Mozilla It can be hard to know if and when you might have been impacted by a data breach. That is, unless you’re a Firefox Quantum user. Today, Mozilla announced it’ll alert desktop users when they stumble upon a site that’s recently reported a…

  • Couple and Homeless Man Charged With Conspiracy Over $400,000 GoFundMe

    Image: Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office On Thursday, the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office in New Jersey announced formal charges against the three people involved in a viral GoFundMe campaign that raised $400,000 last year to help a homeless man get on his feet. Authorities said that “the entire campaign was predicated on a lie.” At a…

  • Your Phone’s GPS Accuracy May Suck Less Soon Thanks to a New FCC Order

  • Samsung’s New Theme Policy Sounds Like Some Bullshit

    Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo) Android 9 Pie was released more than three months ago, but Samsung phones, including the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy Note 9, still aren’t running the latest software. As Samsung works on updating its devices to Android 9 in the coming months, today we learned there’s one really annoying change in policy…

  • FCC Approves Launch of Another 7,500 SpaceX Satellites for Space Internet

    A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocketPhoto: Bill Ingalls The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has authorized part of SpaceX’s application to build and launch more than 7,500 satellites, according to a press release. These would make up part of a proposed constellation of almost 12,000 satellites designed to improve internet connectivity. Satellite communications currently rely on satellites…

  • Japan introduced a smartphone with two cutouts

    Sharp introduced in Japan smartphone Aquos R2 Compact. Its main feature are two cutouts on display — not only the usual “eyebrow” on top, but “chin” at the bottom. Such a strange way the company solved the problem with display size, while retaining the fingerprint scanner and home button. The smartphone is equipped with 5.2-inch…

  • Sony begins to close the game servers for the PlayStation 3 in January 2019

    Sony started to distribute to your users consoles PlayStation message, affecting the PlayStation 3 — some game servers will be closed in January 2019. The closure of the game servers rather affects a relatively small number of games, none of which can boast of a large number of players currently. The letter shall contain the…