Gadget Lab Podcast: Twitter’s Major Design Overhaul
On Monday, Twitter began rolling out its first desktop redesign in seven years. It was a mostly aesthetic makeover, with changes like a new layout, […]
Amazon Warns Customers: Those Supplements Might Be Fake
On the second evening of Prime Day, Amazon’s annual sales bonanza, Anne Marie Bressler received an email from Amazon that had nothing to do with […]
This App Lets Your Instagram Followers Track Your Location
A new app knows what your Instagram-loving friends did last summer. Called Who’s in Town, the iOS and Android app is ostensibly designed to show […]
Congress Is Pissed at Facebook and the FTC
Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike are furious over reports that the Federal Trade Commission is prepared to settle with Facebook over widespread privacy violations for […]
High tech bikes that could win the Tour de France
A bike is a bike, right? Wrong. Especially if you’re a professional bike team. With margins for the winner of a stage of the Tour […]
While Washington Talks Antitrust, Europe Takes Action
It’s been a strange, conflicted week for antitrust in Washington, DC. In one set of congressional hearings, tech leaders, facing possible far-reaching regulation, fended off […]
High-Stakes AI Decisions Need to Be Automatically Audited
Today’s AI systems make weighty decisions regarding loans, medical diagnoses, parole, and more. They’re also opaque systems, which makes them susceptible to bias. In the […]
5 Best Portable Espresso Makers You Can Buy (2019)
I take my espresso seriously. I put myself through college making espresso for others and I even married my favorite barista. It’s been a while […]
Everyone Wants Facebook’s Libra to Be Regulated. But How?
Everyone from President Trump to Representative Maxine Waters (D-California) says Libra, Facebook’s planned cryptocurrency, should be heavily regulated. But nobody seems to know how—including Facebook. […]
DoNotPay’s New Service Automatically Cancels Your Free Trials
Every time you sign up for a free trial of any kind, you’re forced to take stock of your outlook on life. Realists accept that […]