Blake Montgomery

Broadcasting from Apple Park in Cupertino, California, Apple CEO Tim Cook and other executives are taking the stage Tuesday to announce updates to the company’s major product lines. In the tradition of Apple’s September events—usually more hardware-focused than the software-heavy WWDC in early summer—the company is updating the iPhone and Apple Watch. The iPhone is converting from Lightning charging to USB-C to comply with European Union law in a major shift. Say goodbye to your current tangle o…

I have no sense of direction after using Google Maps for 15 years; I can’t flirt because of Grindr; now I wonder what ChatGPT will render vestigial.

This story is part of our new Chief Innovation Officer Forecast series with Quartz, a business report from the front lines of the future. For our series on innovation, Gizmodo spoke to Olivia Grace, senior director of product management at Slack’s headquarters in San Francisco, about recent and upcoming changes to the company’s flagship chat software. Gizmodo: How does Slack think about innovation? How does the company try to entwine it into daily work? Is it one person’s job, like a chief inn…

The FTC, the SEC, and the CFTC filed suit against Alex Mashinsky and Celsius on the same day.

A Q&A with a Bluesky protocol engineer about innovation, custom algorithms, and the chance to grow when the biggest tree in the jungle falls.

A 15-inch MacBook Air, then major iOS updates, then the grand finale: the long-awaited Vision Pro augmented reality headset.

Sarah Stusek posted a TikTok going after a GoodReads reviewer, which sparked a BookTok storm and got her dropped from her publisher.

Why someone would pay for print copies of images freely available online remains a question for Midjourney magazine and for the media business writ large.

“Halli has earned his free socks in so many ways,” wrote Guðni Jóhannesson. Haraldur Thorleifsson said it was “the best thing you can give someone.”

The Secretary of State cancelled a trip to Beijing. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene made a meme. D.C. is obsessed with the "civilian airship."

At 9:30 p.m. on a Tuesday night in a small Manhattan comedy club, Annie Rauwerda brought down the full house with a PowerPoint slide, a blurry picture of Vienna bread illustrating a Wikipedia entry. The baked good was enhanced with motion-blur, looking inexplicably like an oncoming car. The audience, around a hundred 20- and 30-somethings, roared. On Instagram, the doctored picture brought in less than half the likes that screenshots of the Wikis for “Saudade,” “Mr. Ouch,” and “Unparliamentary…

In an excerpt from “Robot Ethics,” professor Mark Coeckelbergh examines how self-driving cars would decide which humans to save

What should you make of the mess of Elon Musk, Matt Taibbi, the ‘Twitter Files,’ and Hunter Biden’s laptop?

Gizmodo’s own Blake Montgomery weaves io9 a tale of connection and despair in the face of an unraveling world in “Post-Nihilism.”

In an excerpt from the new book “Superspy Science,” a chemist traces how death rays became “fatal status symbols” for every would-be world-dominator.

Joel Simkhai is back with a new gay dating app, Motto, that aims to tamp down on behavior most associated with his previous creation.

The professor was awarded a “Genius Grant” for her work encoding “very trivial knowledge that you and I share about the world that machines don’t.”

After a dozen years, I left the lonely city of San Francisco, where I found an odd companionship with self-driving cars on late pandemic nights.

According to the new book “Like, Comment, Subscribe,” a senior executive proposed a drastic solution to the eerie kids content raking in views.

The death of Yu-Gi-Oh’ s creator resurrected a strange and surprising pang of loss. The game I had loved years ago had grown unrecognizable to me.