Marcus Gilmer is Mashable's Assistant Real-Times News Editor on the West Coast, reporting on breaking news from his location in San Francisco. An Alabama native, Marcus earned his BA from Birmingham-Southern College and his MFA in Communications from the University of New Orleans. Marcus has previously worked for Chicagoist, The A.V. Club, the Chicago Sun-Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.
By Marcus Gilmer
Read the Apple keynote from the year 2120
We got a glimpse into the future of tech and it's dark.
Baseball card apps bring a classic hobby into the digital age
An old hobby gets a digital glow-up
Trump's 'census' ads certainly seem like they violate Facebook's rules (UPDATED)
These don't look right ...
West Virginia dumps controversial voting app before primary
Looks like the Iowa mess really freaked people out.
Report: Apple, Amazon, and Google use supply chain factories that rely on forced labor
Forced labor and reeducation of Uyghur Muslims has drawn sharp criticism from human rights organizations
Sharp converts factory to make 150,000 face masks a day amid coronavirus outbreak
The effectiveness of masks for healthy people, though, is questionable at best.
Apple punishes facial recognition company Clearview AI for ignoring developer rules
The controversial company just made another powerful enemy.
The NSA's $100 million call surveillance program was a big flop
There were way more misses than hits.
TikTok now banned for TSA employees
The list of government agencies forbidden from using the app grows
iOS 14 might have an extremely useful iPad feature
This could make multitasking a lot easier.
New Apple patent is another hint that it may ditch iPhone's Lightning Port
And here's what it could look like ...
Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk face off in crazy 'Star Trek' deepfake
Unsettling in so many ways.
Nevada is just gonna use Google Forms on Caucus Day
But there are still a lot of unknowns.
Here's how much replacing a Galaxy Z Flip screen will cost
But you'll only get this deal once.
Jeff Bezos commits $10 billion to fight climate change
Bezos puts his money where his mouth is.
Forget foldable phones: Leaked TCL images reveal slide-out screen
That's one way to embiggen the screen.
SpaceX juuust misses drone ship landing in otherwise successful mission
A rare missed landing from SpaceX.
Creator of TikTok 'Renegade' dance steals the show at NBA All-Star Game
Jalaiah Harmon was the real All-Star in Chicago.
iFixit says the Razr is the 'most complicated' phone it's ever taken apart
This is going to be a hard phone to fix yourself.
Facebook takes down accounts based in Iran and Russia
Some of them were targeting users in the U.S.
Here's how the T-Mobile-Sprint merger might actually affect you
From bills to 5G, what you can expect.
Here's everything Samsung announced at its Unpacked event
Apple, you paying attention?
