Not listening to your conversations, asserts Facebook

Edit Indian Express 07 Jun 2016
Facebook has denied the allegations and issued a statement saying it only uses microphone when given access. Facebook might be listening to users’ conversations to show related ads in their News Feed, says a report in the Independent ... Read More ... This is not true ... Gizmodo reports that a Reddit user made a similar comment in 2015, claiming he had started receiving pest control ads after he talked to his girlfriend about cockroaches ... ....

Five hidden Windows 10 tricks you should use

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 06 Jun 2016
Windows 10 has officially been with us for close to a year now, but even if you've spent a lot of time with the OS since its launch, you may not have found everything it has to offer ... The hidden battery report ... Advertisement ... Open the HTML file to get a host of useful stats and data on your battery ... Explore the smart design, breakthrough science and awe-inspiring tech shaping your future at Gizmodo Australia. ....

Facebook Forcing Users To Use Messenger App But Isn’t Listening Into User Conversations

Edit Inquisitr 06 Jun 2016
Facebook is continuing to make changes to their mobile service as well as adding new features to their social media site. After Google launched Google+, Mark Zuckerberg put Facebook on lock down with the intention of competing with Google+ as the top social site on the Internet ... Read #2 ... Gizmodo reported that some Facebook users believe that the site uses their microphones on their phones to discover what ads to serve....

Is 2016 the year of celebrity death?

Edit CNN 04 Jun 2016
(CNN)Enough already, 2016. Half way through the year, there's a theme. the death of larger-than-life stars. David Bowie, Prince, and now Muhammad Ali ... We go to social media to mourn ... Gizmodo UK crunched the numbers in early May and found, yes, several notable figures has passed this year, including former First Lady Nancy Reagan ... Still, depending on your definition of celebrity, 2016 has had more megastar deaths, Gizmodo UK determined ... ....

2016 MacBook Pro Angers Apple Fans Just Like iPhone 7

Edit Inquisitr 03 Jun 2016
Last week, details of the new MacBook Pro were leaked and, at first, it seemed to cause a lot of excitement. Gizmodo broke the news. “Dependable rumors suggest that the MacBook Pro is about to get major revamp. According to a new report from Ming-Chi Kuo at KGI Securities, Apple will release a dramatic redesign of the MacBook Pro in the fourth quarter. ‘Dramatic’ might be too small a word, actually.” ... smh....

The Other Tech Figure Who's Trying to Kill Gawker

Edit Bloomberg 03 Jun 2016
A report on Gawker's tech-focused website, Gizmodo, called into question Ayyadurai's claim to have created e-mail as a 14-year-old kid in Newark, N.J., citing evidence of e-mail existing a decade earlier ... A follow-up story on Gawker two years later even mocked Ayyadurai's wife in a headline. "If Fran Drescher Read Gizmodo She Would Not Have Married This Fraud." ....

Universe Is Expanding Faster Than We Thought

Edit Slashdot 03 Jun 2016
An anonymous reader writes from a report via Gizmodo ... It calculated this by measuring the distance between 19 faraway galaxies ... Read more of this story at Slashdot. ....

Aliens? Weird glowing spot seen hovering over Pluto

Edit Deccan Chronicle 03 Jun 2016
Well, the theory could be a rumour that aliens are around in our solar system. However, it’s definitely not them. NASA recently spotted a weird glowing patch on Pluto and the glow is over 10 miles across ... -Source. Gizmodo, Photo ... ....

The 15-year-old kid who 'found' a lost Mayan city says his critics are 'jealous'

Edit Business Insider 03 Jun 2016
Canadian teenager William Gadoury catapulted himself into the spotlight in April when he and his (grown-up) collaborators announced that he had discovered an ancient Mayan city lost to the sands of time. One year earlier, Gadoury presented his finding that Mayan cities seemed to align with the stars of various constellations ... "I think scientists are jealous," he said in the interview, which we first learned about from Gizmodo ... ....

Kotaku UK Deals: Dying Light, 7 Days to Die, UE Boom 2 Speaker and More

Edit Kotaku 03 Jun 2016
Good afternoon Kotaku UK! Welcome back to another round-up of the web's best daily deals on gaming and gadgets, the last of the working week before the weekend whisks us away. Here are your starters for ten... Featured Deals!. 7 Days to Die. On PS4 now £26.86 at ShopTo.Net ... The UE Boom 2 is one of the best Bluetooth speakers on the market according to our pals on Gizmodo UK, and the waterproof device normally sells for around £170 ... ....

Your Smart Refrigerator might be a Computer Hacker (Focus Financial Advisors Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 03 Jun 2016
(Source. Focus Financial Advisors Inc). By Jon Aldrich. Your refrigerator might be sending you spam e-mails. Your smart thermostat might be allowing hackers access to your wireless network. Could your coffee maker be giving you more than just a caffeine boost? ... that were breached by hackers to send the malicious e-mails ... Source. http.//gizmodo.com/how-creeps-will-use-the-internet-to-break-into-your-hom-1686867462 ... So What Can You Do? ... (noodl....

This is what Australia’s answer to home battery storage looks like – Gizmodo (RedFlow Limited)

Edit Public Technologies 02 Jun 2016
(Source. RedFlow Limited) ... Read more via Gizmodo.com.au. RedFlow Limited published this content on 02 June 2016 and is solely responsible for the information contained herein ... Original documenthttp.//redflow.com/this-is-what-australias-answer-to-home-battery-storage-looks-like-gizmodo/ ... (noodl. 33909305) ....

Pre-1997 cars banned from Paris streets as of this summer

Edit Treehugger 01 Jun 2016
Le sigh. The Citroën DS 19, described as "technically unsurpassed, completely inimitable and the most beautiful car of all time" may never again grace the streets of Paris. Neither will the working man's 2CV or Deux Chevaux, " "the most intelligent application of minimalism ever to succeed as a car." ... This is a good thing for air quality, but as Alissa Walker notes in Gizmodo, perhaps not a good thing for Égalité ... ....
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