Hacked sites attacked thousands of iPhones every week for years using undiscovered exploits
In what’s being touted as potentially one of the biggest attacks on iPhone users ever, Google has revealed that a collection of websites were hacked to...
Google lets David Drummond do the talking
Anyone wondering if Alphabet might reprimand its chief legal officer, David Drummond, for a long-ago extramarital, inter-office affair that continues to be a distraction to the...
Uber and Lyft are putting $60 million toward keeping drivers independent contractors
In light of gig worker protection legislation Assembly Bill 5 making its way through California’s legislature, Uber and Lyft are amping up their efforts to do...
Being Drunk and Helmet-less Is a Recipe for E-Scooter Disaster
The e-scooter craze has been convenient for some, annoying to others, and painful or even deadly to an unlucky few. A new study out Thursday seems...
Apple Gets Halfway to Allowing You to Repair Your Own Shit
In an apparent flip on its position on independent repair operations, Apple this week announced that it will finally provide the parts and tools needed to...
Surgeon General Warns America That 21st-Century Weed Can Really Fuck You Up
The Surgeon General issued a very somber advisory to the people of the United States on Thursday: Weed may be legal in a lot of states...
All Systems Are a Go for Space Command, Would You Like to Know More?
President Donald Trump spoke at a ceremony on Thursday afternoon establishing the United States Space Command—a military division that was actually launched in 1985 in the...
You can murder each member of your family (emoji) courtesy of Google
If you hate emoji, there’s an interesting way to safely take out your rage on them, thanks to Google. Twitter user Brooke Watson uncovered something very...
Windows 10’s Tablet Mode May Be Replaced With the Desktop
Lukmanazis/Shutterstock.com Microsoft is now rolling out “a new tablet experience” for convertible PCs. This is a beta, but it looks like that Windows 8-style Tablet Mode...
What’s Bill Gates’ worst fear? Netflix’s new docuseries will try to figure him out
Next month, Netflix will release a three-part documentary series called “Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates,” in which Davis Guggenheim (director of “An Inconvenient Truth” and...
