Elon Musk Drug Rumors, Apple Pays Some iPhone Users $92, and More Tech News

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Click through for our coverage of the SEC Twitter/X hack, new Google TV features revealed at CES, Elon Musk’s alleged drug use, and more.

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Elon Musk smoked weed on camera with Joe Rogan. There are numerous stories about the billionaire taking drugs including cocaine, LSD, psychedelic mushrooms at parties all over the globe. He’s discussed using ketamine with a prescription, but there are anecdotes that Musk took the drug recreationally with his brother in Miami. In 2017, he reportedly showed up an hour late to an all-hands meeting at SpaceX, slurring his words to the point that another executive took over the presentation. Apparently, the issue is so bad that board members, colleagues, and friends are leaking stories about his alleged drug use to the press. According to Musk, however, it’s all lies. - Thomas Germain Read More

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Elon Musk endorsed a tweet Tuesday that suggested graduates from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have IQs approaching “borderline intellectual impairment.” This isn’t the first time the billionaire celebrated blatant bigotry on his platform in recent months. In November, Musk promoted a tweet that said Jews push “hatred against whites.” - Thomas Germain Read More

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Over the weekend, Apple users finally began receiving their piece of the ‘batterygate’ settlement in the form of $92 payments, as first reported by MacRumors. Apple admitted to slowing down old iPhones back in 2017 without notifying users, saying it was part of delivering “the best experience for customers.” - Maxwell Zeff Read More

CES 2024 was certainly interesting this year; while we did anticipate AI being inserted into everything from TVs to cars, there were some genuine surprises from the show floor here in Las Vegas. Despite going to what felt like a million press conferences and keynotes, the Gizmodo team did manage to find loads of cool, interesting, and just plain weird gadgets from this year’s show.

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It wouldn’t be CES in Las Vegas without a Google ad plastered all over the monorail. I’m still trying to capture a photo of this year’s wrapping, but until then, you’ll want to know about some new features to the Google and Android ecosystem. I’m incredibly excited about this next piece of news rolling out to the Chromecast with Google TV. - Florence Ion Read More

LG announced a new transparent TV at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. Gizmodo’s staff got to check it out in person, and it’s gorgeous. LG claims this is the world’s first wireless transparent OLED TV and is calling it the Signature OLED T (T for transparent). - Dua Rashid Read More

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X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, purged an unknown number of prominent accounts over the last 24 hours with little to no explanation, and then restored the accounts minutes after this article was published. The list includes popular accounts belonging to journalists, writers, and podcasters. Among them are Ken Klippenstein of the Intercept, writer and podcaster Rob Rousseau, Texas Observer correspondent Steven Monacelli, the account for TrueAnon, a left-wing politics and news podcast, and a number of others. One thing the accounts have in common is recent criticisms of the Israeli government. - Thomas Germain Read More

SEC Chairman Gary GenslerPhoto: Nathan Howard/Bloomberg (Getty Images)

The Security and Exchange Commission’s X account was hacked on Tuesday afternoon, sending an untrue tweet that the Bitcoin ETF was approved. Chairman Gary Gensler quickly tweeted from his personal account that the tweet was false and the result of a hack. In the following 15 minutes, the price of Bitcoin shot up to almost $48,000 and then quickly fell to below $46,000. - Maxwell Zeff Read More

C Seed showed off it’s N1 137-inch folding Micro LED TV at this years CES.

Gizmodo got a quick hands-on with the wearable advanced motion capture technology at CES. PalmPlug One is available for preorder now.