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Intel tried desperately to change the subject from Spectre and Meltdown at CES

January 13th, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

Intel had a bad week last week. It was so bad that the chip maker has to be thrilled to have CES, the massive consumer technology show going on this week in Las Vegas, as a way to [...]

As David Letterman’s first Netflix guest, Barack Obama warns against the ‘bubble’ of social media

January 12th, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

David Letterman seems to be taking the title of his new Netflix show very seriously: On the very first episode of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman, he’s joined by former U.S. President Barack Obama. [...]

Intel is having reboot issues with its Spectre-Meltdown patches

January 12th, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

It hasn’t been a fun time to be Intel. Last week the company revealed two chip vulnerabilities that have come to be known as Spectre and Meltdown, and have been rocking the entire chip industry ever since (not [...]

Russian hackers are targeting U.S. Senate email accounts

January 12th, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

According to a new report, the same group that hacked the Democratic National Committee actively targeted the U.S. Senate through the latter half of 2017. The revelation comes out of a new report from Trend Micro, a Japanese [...]

Cherry’s new low-profile switches may help bring mechanical keyboards to more laptops

January 12th, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

You may not think much about the switches that sit underneath the keycaps of your keyboard, but there are many enthusiasts who really, really care. The trend is clearly going toward slim keyboards — and that’s not lost [...]

Netflix was 2017’s top non-game app by revenue

January 12th, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

Netflix was the top earning app of 2017 that wasn’t a mobile game, according to Sensor Tower’s new year-end report on the most successful apps and publishers across Apple’s App Store and Google Play. In previous years, the [...]

39 million Americans now own a smart speaker, report claims

January 12th, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

One in six Americans now own a smart speaker, according to new research out this week from NPR and Edison Research – a figure that’s up up 128 percent from January, 2017. Amazon’s Echo speakers are still in [...]

Waymo’s self-driving Chrysler Pacifica begins testing in San Francisco

January 12th, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

Waymo is bringing its self-driving cars back to San Francisco streets for testing. TechCrunch has obtained pictures of the Waymo Chrysler Pacifica autonomous test vehicle on SF city roads, and Waymo confirmed that it is indeed bringing test [...]

Google is shutting down Chrome’s parental control features, replacement to launch later this year

January 12th, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

Google is preparing to launch a new set of parental control features for users of its Chrome browser. The announcement was made in an email sent this week to users of its current system for parental controls and [...]