List of "-gate" scandals
Technology

List of "-gate" scandals

Section Title: Technology
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Name	Year	Description	Country	References

Antennagate (also known as Gripgate)	2010	The name the media applied to the controversy over the iPhone 4's antenna after initial users complained of dropped calls and Consumer Reports would not recommend it.	United States

Bendgate	2014	Numerous people reported bent iPhone 6 Plus phones, which was later reported on by Consumer Reports.	United States

Dieselgate (or Emissionsgate)	2015	International Council on Clean Transportation and West Virginia University caught Volkswagen cheating on emissions tests on about 11 million diesel cars by programming them to enable emissions controls during testing, but not control NO x pollution during real world driving	Worldwide

Donglegate	2013	A series of events following a double entendre on the word "dongle" overheard at a programmers' convention on March 17, 2013, which led to two people being fired and a DDoS attack.	United States

Chipgate	2015	Apple used two different kinds of processors in the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus, one made by Samsung and the other by TSMC, with the Samsung one running hotter and using more battery life.	United States

Shirtgate	2014	Matt Taylor, a Rosetta mission project scientist, wore a homemade shirt at an ESA press conference that caused concern.	United States

Staingate	2015	Anger over reports that the anti-reflective coating appeared to be wearing off several MacBook Pros, including mid-2012 to mid-2014 models sold between June 2012 and present.	United States	[unreliable source]

Pengate	2015	Anger over Samsung's design flaw in the Galaxy Note 5 which allows the stylus to be put in backwards. Once the stylus was put in backwards, it got stuck and destroyed the sensors that detected stylus removal.	United States

Petrikgate	2009–2012	An attempt by the Russian pseudoscientist Viktor Petrik and the politician Boris Gryzlov to get a contract for a massive amount of low quality water filters for an inflated price under the guise of cutting-edge new technology.	Russia

Resolutiongate	2013–present	A controversy about the resolution on the Xbox One console.	United States

Hissgate	2016	Some users reported an audible hiss coming from somewhere near the Apple logo of their iPhone 7 during CPU intensive tasks.	United States

Notegate	2016	Lithium-ion batteries spontaneously combusting in Samsung's Galaxy Note 7.	Worldwide

Twittergate	2016	The revelation that child pornography was being shared between thousands of Twitter accounts.	United States

Rapidgate	2018	A phenomenon in the rapid charging of a few electric car models (especially Nissan Leaf 2nd generation) where the charging speed is greatly reduced due to repeated rapid charging.	Worldwide

Bumpgate	2008	Nvidia Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) chips experienced high failure rates because a design flaw lead to cracked solder bumps	Worldwide

Webcamgate	2010	Lower Merion School District allegedly do surveillance by using student's MacBook	United States

Sentence(s)

The Volkswagen emissions cheating scandal was described as both 'dieselgate' and 'emissionsgate'.

final_sentence: The Volkswagen emissions cheating scandal was described as both 'dieselgate' and 'emissionsgate'.