Blake Montgomery
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San Francisco, CA, United States
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Recent articles by Blake:
Everything Apple Announced at WWDC 2023
A 15-inch MacBook Air, then major iOS updates, then the grand finale: the long-awaited Vision Pro augmented reality headset. → Read More
Publisher Drops Author After TikTok Backlash and GoodReads Review Bombing
Sarah Stusek posted a TikTok going after a GoodReads reviewer, which sparked a BookTok storm and got her dropped from her publisher. → Read More
Facebook Accuses FTC of Power Grab Over Proposed Changes to $5 Billion Privacy Settlement
Facebook says the FTC is trying to get around going to court. The FTC says Facebook repeatedly violated its $5 billion privacy agreement. → Read More
Montana Bans TikTok
Montana's governor signed the nation's first state ban into law as the federal government considers prohibiting the short-form video app nationwide. → Read More
Can You Make Facebook Memes Into a Movie?
A 30-minute mockumentary based on a 2015 Facebook meme represents another evolution beyond the text and image format by social media’s most innovative creators. → Read More
Iceland's President Offers Socks to the Disabled Ex-Twitter Employee Mocked by Elon Musk
"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." → Read More
Facebook Whistleblower Aims at a New Target: Meta’s Would-Be Investors
In a closed-door call, Frances Haugen urged investors to force transparency on Mark Zuckerberg's company with their dollars. → Read More
Photos: How Do You Translate Memes Into Live Stand-up?
Meme makers are taking their subject matter and talents to a surprising place: the stage. → Read More
Twitter Blue Bug Seems to Let Users Keep Their Checkmark Without Paying
The struggling subscription service has fewer than 300,000 paying users—and some of them might not even be forking it over any more. → Read More
Navy Releases Up-Close Pics of Chinese Spy Balloon Retrieval
The "civilian airship," as China insisted on calling it, was shot down off the coast of South Carolina after crossing the U.S. → Read More
Instagram Memers Are Performing in Sold-Out Live Shows
The funny, faceless people behind meme accounts are taking their talents to stages around the country in an unexpected evolution of online humor. → Read More
How Would a Self-Driving Car Handle the Trolley Problem?
In an excerpt from "Robot Ethics," professor Mark Coeckelbergh examines how self-driving cars would decide which humans to save → Read More
Elon Says He'll Resign as Twitter CEO When He Finds a Successor 'Foolish Enough'
Two days before, the Tesla CEO owned himself in spectacular fashion when he tweeted out a poll asking, “Should I step down as head of Twitter?" → Read More
The Twitter Files, Part Two, Explained
Are “shadow banning” and “visibility filtering” synonymous, and should you care? → Read More
The Twitter Files, Explained
What should you make of the mess of Elon Musk, Matt Taibbi, the ‘Twitter Files,’ and Hunter Biden’s laptop? → Read More
Read a Story of Queer Love and Hope for the Future in the Apocalypse
Gizmodo's own Blake Montgomery weaves io9 a tale of connection and despair in the face of an unraveling world in "Post-Nihilism." → Read More
How a 'Playboy' Centerfold Became Part of the Creation of the JPEG
Lena Sjööblom posed for Playboy in 1972 and forgot about it. Little did she know her image would become the standard for computer image recognition. → Read More
Why Are There so Many Lasers in James Bond Movies?
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. → Read More
Grindr's Founder Hates Your Headless Torso Pic
Joel Simkhai is back with a new gay dating app, Motto, that aims to tamp down on behavior most associated with his previous creation. → Read More
Interview With a Genius: Macarthur Fellow Yejin Choi Talks Teaching Common Sense to Artificial Intelligence
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.” → Read More