Gizmodo : Politics

The U.S. says it’s punching back in the digital cold war over emerging technologies with a new “Disruptive Technology Strike Force.”

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A team of engineers studying the 500-year-old, backward writings of Leonardo da Vinci have found evidence that the Italian polymath was working out gravity a century before its foundations were established by Galileo Galilei.

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Gizmodo : Technology

After months of reports of Bluetooth tracking devices like Apple’s AirTags being used to stalk people for miles, one of the first companies to popularize these trackers, Tile, is adding a feature that will make its devices “undetectable” to the company’s own app that scans for nearby unwanted devices.

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Instagram is getting a new ‘channels’ feature added to its platform, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Thursday on Facebook. The new addition to the app is a broadcast channel feature that will be familiar to Telegram users.

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Soon, Paramount+ subscribers will have to shell out more per month to access the same subscription tiers. The streaming service announced it will increase the cost of both its “essential” and “premium” plans in 2023, during a Thursday morning earnings call with investors.

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A secretive Israeli cyber company is engineering ongoing influence operations directed at elections all over the world, a consortium of more than 30 news organizations reports. The CEO of the company, a former Israeli special forces agent named Tal Hanan, boasted to undercover journalists that his team of…

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With an earnest, can-do attitude, Taron Egerton stars as Henk Rogers, the video game designer and producer who helped bring the ‘80s video game Tetris out of the Sovie

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Tech waste is a real thing, and while the majority of tech companies are focussed on making the next thinnest, fastest, or most powerful laptop, Framework is doing things a little differently. The San Francisco based company is shunning the throwaway culture we’ve all become used to and instead have released a laptop…

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On Thursday, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, who has been on the job since 2014, told staff she was stepping down from her position. It’s the end of an era for Google’s mainstay video platform and one of its mainstay execs.

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Gizmodo : Technology

Hope you weren’t expecting to finally catch a glimpse of Apple’s mixed reality headset any time soon.