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Bluetooth Security Flaws Impacting ‘Billions of Devices’ Come With Some Serious Caveats
Photo: AP Leaving your phone or computer’s Bluetooth on all the time has never been a good idea, but now researchers at the cybersecurity firm Armis are claiming to have discovered a series of vulnerabilities that allow them to silently hack devices over Bluetooth. However, the claims come with some serious caveats—iPhones running the most…
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I’m Going to Buy the iPhone X, and I Hate Myself for It
Nearly a year ago, I retired a shattered iPhone 6 for a sparkling jet black iPhone 7. It wasn’t an impulse decision. It took me two months of research and deliberation to decide that Apple’s payment plan made sense for me. It meant that I’d spend an additional $35 a month on a brand new…
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Data Analysis Exonerates Rotten Tomatoes for Hollywood’s Failures
Hollywood's Movies Suck, and It Doesn't Want You to Know Hollywood is struggling through a particularly rough financial patch at the moment, and it’s… Read more Yves Bergquist manages the Data & Analytics Project at USC’s Entertainment Technology Center and he’s helpfully looked over the data from Rotten Tomatoes over the last 17 years to…
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Silicon Valley’s ‘Bodega’ of the Future Is a Bougie Vending Machine With No Cats
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The Motorized Longboard Is the Vape of Transport and IDGAF I Love It
All images: Alex Cranz/Gizmodo Electric personal transporters are mostly horrible. Segways are reserved for mall cops and helmeted tourists interested in experiencing both the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial without taking a single step. Hoverboards, which also explode, are just fodder for America’s Funniest Home Videos. Everyone I’ve ever seen riding one of those…
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Giraffes Could Have Evolved Their Long Necks For a Surprising Reason
Image: Derek Keats You probably think you know how giraffe necks evolved. Maybe the ancestors of giraffes ate leaves from trees, and the ones who could reach the most leaves were the fittest, and therefore passed that trait down to the silly looking long-necked animals we see today. But scientists don’t know that—in fact, there…
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Waymo Scores Key Legal Win, Will Get to See Super Secret File Made About Some of Its Former Employees
Photo: Getty Waymo, the self-driving car company spun out of Google, just scored a major win in its ongoing legal battle against Uber. Waymo is suing the ride-hailing company, claiming that a former Waymo employee stole trade secrets about its autonomous vehicle technology and took them to Uber, where Uber then incorporated them into its…
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Martin Shkreli Gets Himself Thrown in Jail Ahead of Schedule
Photo: AP Martin Shkreli, the cancer drug price-jacking pharmaceutical executive and convicted securities fraudster for whom the moniker “Pharma Bro” is among his politer nicknames, will be behind bars a little earlier than anticipated. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto revoked Shkreli’s $5 million bail, the Washington Post reported, citing the con’s goblinoid social…
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Facebook’s ‘Fake News’ Solution Isn’t Going to Solve the Problem
Photo: AP Ever since the term was popularized by then-presidential candidate Donald Trump—and subsequently appropriated by Democrats—the stupid controversy over “fake news” has become a swirling vortex of pointlessness that refuses to go all the way down the drain. Now everyone’s calling legitimate articles and opinion pieces that contradict their own prejudices “fake,” as though…
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Oh Man, You’re Gonna Hate What Equifax Just Admitted About That Security Breach