Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: Do You Really Understand How Calendars Work?
Image: Photo: Shutterstock Graphics: Vicky Leta ‘Tis the season for New Year’s resolutions. As we all sign up for gym memberships or invest in a Peloton that will just gather…
The New Digital Dark Age
For researchers, social media has always represented greater access to data, more democratic involvement in knowledge production, and great transparency about social behavior. Getting a sense of what was happening—especially…
The Fight to Unite iPhone and Android Users Is Far From Over
Right, and this is a very US-centric problem, because in other places those third-party messaging apps are more dominant. Yes. So iMessage is integrated in the iPhone operating system in…
It’s No Wonder People Are Getting Emotionally Attached to Chatbots
Replika, an AI chatbot companion, has millions of users worldwide, many of whom woke up earlier last year to discover their virtual lover had friend-zoned them overnight. The company had…
The Battle for Biometric Privacy
In 2024, increased adoption of biometric surveillance systems, such as the use of AI-powered facial recognition in public places and access to government services, will spur biometric identity theft and…
Digitization Beats Deforestation
If you ever had pastries at breakfast, drank soy milk, used soaps at home, or built yourself a nice flat-pack piece of furniture, you may have contributed to deforestation and…
Synthetic Data Is a Dangerous Teacher
In April 2022, when Dall-E, a text-to-image visio-linguistic model, was released, it purportedly attracted over a million users within the first three months. This was followed by ChatGPT, in January…
To Make an Impact, Join Tech’s Exodus
The gulf between tech and government is legendary. In the 2010s, tech talent flocked to startups and big platforms where they could move fast, break things, and get people to…
Photos From CES 2024: Electric Skis, Exoskeletons, Valet Parking Robots
The giant spectacle known as CES hasn’t yet spread its wings and taken flight, but we’ve already gotten a preview of what to expect. The show officially starts on Tuesday,…
Gene Editing Needs to Be for Everyone
At the end of 2023, we witnessed an important moment in the history of medicine: For the first time, the US Food and Drug Administration approved a therapy that uses…