• Sprint Sagsøger AT&T, at Kalde Bullshit på Falske 5G

    Foto: AT&T AT&T har været branding en forstærket version af sit 4G-tjeneste som “5G Evolution,” eller, da det synes på mange telefoner—5G E. Mennesker, der ser 5G E på deres telefoner kan der tror, de er den næste generation af mobile netværk. Men virkelig, de har en form for 4G LTE med nogle specielle funktioner,…

  • Måske Forbinde Hospital og Købmand Frysere til Internettet Var en Dårlig Idé

    Foto: Getty Sikkerhed forskere afslørede fredag, at den temperatur kontrol systemer, der anvendes i frysere i tusindvis af steder lige fra dagligvarebutikker til hospitaler, til farmaceutiske virksomheder, der er omfattet af simple sabotage. At raise hell, alle, nogen ville behøver at vide er, hvor de skal lede, og de systemer,’ dumt guessable standard password. Den…

  • TSA har Fundet et Gennemsnit på 11 Kanoner en Dag i Carry-On Poser Sidste År

    Foto: Getty Amerikanerne brød en ny rekord sidste år, men det er ikke noget at skrive hjem om. Transportation Security Administration (TSA), der er fundet 4,239 skydevåben i carry-on bagage i 2018, til at bryde den tidligere rekord, der blev sat i 2017. Det er et gennemsnit på mere end 11 kanoner per dag. Antallet…

  • Twitter Finally Gives Us an Idea of Just How Few People Actually Use Twitter Each Day

    Psst. Jack, I have an idea. Get rid of the Nazis.Photo: Getty Images We now have a better idea of just how many people use Twitter’s cursed microblogging service on a daily basis. In its fourth-quarter 2018 earnings, Twitter revealed it has 126 million “monetizable” daily users, up from about 115 million a year ago.…

  • I Cut the ‘Big Five’ Tech Giants From My Life. It Was Hell

    I needed A LOT of stuff to replace my usual tech giant devicesPhoto: Myra Iqbal I don’t think I could have done this cold turkey. I needed to wean myself off various services in the lead-up, like an alcoholic going through the 12 steps. The tech giants, while troubling in their accumulation of data, power,…

  • Want to Really Block the Tech Giants? Here’s How

    Goodbye Big FiveReporter Kashmir Hill spent six weeks blocking Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple from getting her money, data, and attention, using a custom-built VPN. Here’s what happened.   Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple move more money than many medium-sized nations. Their extraordinary profits are won through extraordinary reach—this is not a secret. That…

  • How to Protect Yourself Against Digital Services Shutting Down

    Apps can change their terms, or go away completely.Photo: David Nield (Gizmodo) In the next few months alone, movie locker service Ultraviolet and social network experiment Google+ are closing their doors for good, while photo sharing platform Flickr is shifting the rules about free and paid-for accounts. The moral of the story? Even digital services…

  • Chronic Pain Patients Describe How New Opioid Policies Have Made Their Lives Worse

    Oxycodone pillsImage: Mark Lennihan (Getty Images) Much of the attention surrounding the opioid crisis has focused on the lives tragically lost to it. That focus is understandable, given the rapid climb in opioid-related fatalities in recent years, with nearly 50,000 deaths in the U.S. seen in 2017 alone. But rarely do we hear from those…

  • First Images from New Night-Sky Camera in California Show Gorgeous View of Andromeda Galaxy 

    A composite ZTF image of Andromeda.Image: ZTF/D. Goldstein and R. Hurt (Caltech A new sky survey project has released its first round of incredible data, results, and images, including this amazing new view of our neighboring Andromeda galaxy. One theme that goes all the way back to the earliest days of astronomy is the observation…

  • Von Generation zu Generation. Das iPhone XS und XS Max knacken der Kamera

    Auf der offiziellen Apple-Forum gab es viele Beschwerden von Nutzern des iPhone XS und XS Max ein Problem mit den Kameras. Sicherheitsglas über dem Modul der Hauptkamera platzt ohne sichtbare Beteiligung seitens der Benutzer.