The Best Gadgets of 2024: Our Favorite Phones, Laptops, Speakers, and More

Get ready for your daily dose of tech excitement! [View this email in your browser]( The Future Is Here October 29, 2024 --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Best Gadgets of 2024: Our Favorite Phones, Laptops, Speakers, and More]( By Jorge Jimenez on Oct 29, 2024, 8:00 am [[Gizmodo Best of Main] See all the winners of Gizmodo's Best of 2024 Awards.]( [Read More »]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [TikTok’s ‘Infinite Money Glitch’ Reportedly Comes Back to Bite Fraudsters]( By Todd Feathers on Oct 28, 2024, 5:00 pm [[People withdraw money from a bank of Chase ATMs.] JPMorgan Chase is apparently suing several people who stole hundreds of thousands of dollars through check fraud scheme that went viral on social media.]( [Read More »]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [NASA Astronauts Hospitalized After Splashdown in Rare Incident]( By Passant Rabie on Oct 28, 2024, 2:20 pm [[Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, left, NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, second from left, Matthew Dominick, second from right, and Jeanette Epps, right are seen inside the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN shortly after having landed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. Dominick, Barratt, Epps, Grebenkin are returning after seven-months in space as part of Expedition 70 aboard the International Space Station.] One of the four Crew-8 astronauts was forced to stay overnight at the Florida hospital for reasons not made clear.]( [Read More »]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Apple Reveals the New 2024 iMac: Familiar on the Outside, but With New Power Inside]( By Kyle Barr on Oct 28, 2024, 11:15 am [[Apple Imac M4 Photoshop] Apple showed off a new 24-inch iMac with a variety of color options, though there's still no option for a M4 Pro chip.]( [Read More »]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Jaw-Dropping Report Reveals Causes of Arecibo Telescope Collapse]( By Isaac Schultz on Oct 28, 2024, 12:55 pm [[The Arecibo Telescope being demolished in December 2021.] An investigation by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine found Hurricane Maria worsened a slow decay of the Arecibo Observatory's support cables.]( [Read More »]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [McDonald’s to Resume Selling Quarter Pounders Everywhere After E. Coli Outbreak]( By Matt Novak on Oct 28, 2024, 3:25 pm [[The McDonald's logo is seen on a sign outside the fast food restaurant.] The illnesses were caused by onions, not the beef.]( [Read More »]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [What Does Open-Source AI Actually Mean? There’s Finally a Definition]( By Todd Feathers on Oct 28, 2024, 2:15 pm [[A magnifying glass over the phrase Meta Llama 3] Companies like Meta have been calling their products open source. They're not.]( [Read More »]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Google Searches for Comedian Who Told Racist Jokes at Trump Rally Surpass Taylor Swift]( By Lucas Ropek on Oct 28, 2024, 6:45 pm [[Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe performs at Trump rally] Who is Tony Hinchcliffe?]( [Read More »]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Gizmodo on X]( [Gizmodo on Facebook]( [Gizmodo on YouTube]( Copyright © 2024 Gizmodo USA LLC, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Gizmodo USA LLC 41E 11th St, 11th FlNew York, NY 10003 [Add us to your address book]( Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](.