The Greatest App of All Time Day 6: YouTube vs. Words With Friends
It’s day 6 of Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time and things are heating up. Thus far in the competition, we’ve had some…
The Greatest App of All Time Day 5: Snapchat vs. Vine
Welcome back to Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! Flappy Bird punched above its weight in yesterday’s contest but ultimately folded and with…
This Guy Made a Dating App Where You Can Only Date Him
“I’d never really done the online dating thing,” Los Mayers said. Mayers, an app developer living in Brooklyn, had met all of his previous partners in person the old-fashioned way.…
Snap is recalling every Pixy drone that it ever sold
snapchat / Snap It turns out that Snap’s discontinued Pixy drone is a fire hazard. The alarming news came via a notice issued by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission…
Snap Recalls All of Its Selfie Drones Due to Fears They’ll Become Flying Fireballs
A couple of years ago, Snap (the company behind Snapchat) decided that the selfie production pipeline needed to be improved upon. Bathroom mirrors and selfie sticks were not cutting it.…
Weekend Tech Roundup January 27, 2024
Photo: Tada Images / Shutterstock.com (Shutterstock) iPhone apps including Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, and X/Twitter are skirting Apple’s privacy rules to collect user data through notifications, according to tests by security…
‘On My Way to Blow Up the Plane’: Teen Faces Huge Fine After Joke Leads to Fighter Jets Scrambling
Photo: NIKOLAY DOYCHINOV/AFP (Getty Images) In the summer of 2022, 18-year-old Aditya Verma was boarding a flight to Spain at London’s Gatwick Airport when he sent a message to his…
Everything Announced at Samsung Unpacked 2024, Including The Mysterious Galaxy Ring
Smartphones, AI, and rings, oh my! Samsung is at it again, coming out with its latest Samsung Galaxy S24 series phone with a list of long-expected features, a new titanium…
Trend of the Week: Silicon Valley Has the Woke Mind Virus on the Brain
This week in trends, Big Tech bros could not stop talking about the woke mind virus. Many Silicon Valley leaders crowed that the ousting of Harvard’s President was the beginning…
Everything Big Tech Killed Off in 2023
Google Stadia finally met its end in January this year, but it was just a drop in the bucket for the number of products and services the company killed in…