August 19, 2019 Spotify’s Premium Family plans get an explicit content filter Spotify is rolling out a new Premium Family Plan with a much-awaited setting. Parents will now have the ability to filter out songs with…
August 19, 2019 Spotify’s Family Plan will soon work better for actual families Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Spotify is adding new features to its Family Plan subscriptions to give parents more control over the…
August 19, 2019 NVIDIA ray-tracing on ‘Minecraft’ looks surprisingly cool Minecraft's blocky world might be the last place you'd think would need more realism. However, NVIDIA and Microsoft have announced that they've done exactly…
August 19, 2019 Minecraft will get ray tracing for Nvidia RTX graphics cards Image: Microsoft / Nvidia Minecraft is about to get a major graphics overhaul, thanks to real-time ray tracing support for any player using a…
August 19, 2019 Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo collaborate on AirDrop-style file transfer Three of China’s biggest smartphone makers are working together on a new wireless file transfer protocol that will work between their respective devices. Xiaomi’s…
August 19, 2019 MIT experts find a way to reduce video stream buffering on busy WiFi Is there anything more annoying that trying to watch a video on a slow internet connection shared with a bunch of other users? Skips,…
August 19, 2019 NASA selects proposals for smallsats built to study deep space NASA is expanding plans to use small satellites (aka smallsats) to explore the Solar System. The agency has picked two proposals for smallsat technology…
August 18, 2019 Twitter is displaying China-made ads attacking Hong Kong protesters Twitter is finding itself at the heart of a heated political battle. Pinboard and other users have observed Twitter running ads from China's state-backed…
August 18, 2019 ***** says Tim Cook made ‘good case’ that trade war helps Samsung over Apple Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images President Donald ***** says Apple CEO Tim Cook “made a very compelling argument” that tariffs on China will hamper…
August 18, 2019 Semen Smugglers, Spreadsheets, and Laughing to Death: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week It’s been a weird one this week at Gizmodo, folks: From hacking buttplugs and realizing our dog photos have personally identifiable information in them…