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Illustration: Angelica Alzona (Gizmodo) In April, the day before taxes were due, the IRS’ online filing system failed, just as procrastinators were settling into the annual TurboTax panic. How did this happen, especially before the most important tax day of the year? And why does this keep happening to government websites? A few days later,…

Photo: Jeff Swensen (Getty) During a heated televised debate Tuesday evening, a T-Mobile adviser and disgraced former Trump campaign employee derided a 10-year-old child with Down Syndrome while defending the Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant children from their parents at the U.S.–Mexico border. The T-Mobile adviser, Corey Lewandowski, appeared on Fox News to show…

Image: EFO Films Last week, Gotti joined the short list of films to that have received a zero percent “fresh” rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Still, it had an oddly high rating from audiences, and one of the film’s financiers, MoviePass, decided to turn that into a marketing opportunity. The more people looked, the…

Photo: AP An Arizona man who once styled himself as a hacktivist “Bitcoin Baron” has been sentenced to prison for a distributed denial-of-service attack against the city of Madison, Wisconsin’s computer networks. According to the Department of Justice, the attack “crippled” the city’s emergency communication system, causing “delays and outages in the ability of emergency…

Photo: Adam Clark Estes (Gizmodo) It seemed unbelievable last year, when a handful of TV companies started selling 4K TVs with HDR and Dolby Vision for around $600. TCL’s Roku-powered P-Series was the best of them, and this year, the company is selling an even better version called the 6-Series. The best part? Same price,…

Company Xiaomi sent out invitations to journalists at a press event on 25 June 2018, which will be presented a new smartphone Xiaomi Redmi 6 Pro and tablet Mi Pad 4. Regarding the Xiaomi Redmi 6 Pro pre-the following is known. This device is mid-tier frameless design with cutout screen in the style of iPhone…

Bethesda Softworks company at the recent E3 2018 announced the launch of a testing a free version of the game Quake Champions from 10 to 17 June. Now the period of free access is extended till 25 Jun 2018. During this event, players can try out free version of Quake Champions in early access. Moreover,…

The company Oppo has introduced not only the flagship smartphone Oppo Find X, but its premium version — Oppo Find X Lamborghini Edition. She received not only external differences, but the hardware “bells and whistles”. So, Oppo Find X Lamborghini Edition is the first smartphone featuring the Super VOOC Flash Charge, introduced at MWC 2016.…

Mail.Ru Group has announced the launch of the service Notify in Vkontakte and Classmates. As explained by the developers, it is free for users service notifications via social networks. Notify allows the client to receive the usual notifications about the status of your order in the online store, data about payments and deposits from banks…