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What's the Best Medicine?
Thousands of medicines have made it to market in the last century or so. Some of these medicines have single-handedly eradicated illnesses that have plagued humanity from the dawn of time; some have made chronic conditions at least somewhat more tolerable; others have plunged people into sleepless hallucinatory…Read more...
Another Face From Arrow's Past Will Return for the Final Season
A Raid legend could join the Snake Eyes movie. We could be getting another glimpse of The Rise of Skywalker soon. Get a look at the new Midnight Society from the Are You Afraid of the Dark? revival. Plus, what’s to come on both Fear the Walking Dead and The Walking Dead, another look at Kara’s new Supergirl suit, and …Read more...
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Apple and Foxconn Accused of Breaking Labor Laws in China to Produce iPhones
Apple and Foxconn have been accused of violating labor laws at a factory where the tech giants are producing the new iPhone, according to a new report from China Labor Watch. Additionally, the nonprofit watchdog alleges that workers at the Foxconn plant in Zhengzhou, the largest iPhone factory in the world, are…Read more...
Healing Crystals, Hurricane Dorian, and a $14,000 Gamer Chair: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week
The first week of September 2019 is over, folks, and we came back from Labor Day cool, relaxed, and ready for news—and boy did we get it.
Australian Internet Providers Ordered to Block Eight Sites Found Hosting Christchurch Footage
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner ordered the country’s internet service providers to block eight sites for purportedly hosting footage of the Christchurch massacre, the Guardian reported Sunday, protocol officials recently outlined at this year’s G7 leader’s forum.Read more...
Report: Trace Amounts of Uranium Found by Inspectors at Iranian Site
Diplomats who have closely observed the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) work in Iran said that investigators discovered traces of uranium at a Tehran-based storage facility, Reuters reported on Sunday, and that Iran has yet to issue any explanation why.
These Dancers Put on a Surreal Superhero Light Show
I don’t watch America’s Got Talent, but maybe I should, just so I can better parse things like this. Because, uh, wow. This is… something else.
NOAA Told Its Scientists to Keep Their Mouths Shut About Trump's False Forecast: Report
Hurricane Dorian may have come and gone, but apparently the debacle over Donald Trump’s faulty Alabama forecast has yet to reach rock bottom. Before the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration debased itself Friday by siding with Trump, a top NOAA official gave staff the downright Orwellian warning not to…Read more...
Andy Muschietti Is Really Serious About This It Supercut Thing
Do you want your horror movies to be five hours long? Well, have I got a treat for you.Read more...
MIT Built a Theranos For Plants
The prestigious multidisciplinary MIT Media Lab built a “personal food computer” that worked so poorly that demos had to be faked Theranos-style, per a weekend report in Business Insider. Word of the project’s troubles comes as the Media Lab’s attempts to cover up its extensive financial ties to late financier and…Read more...
Another DC Hero Saddles Up For the Arrowverse Crisis Crossover Extravaganza
This one, at least, we’ve seen before.Read more...
The Final Trailer for Doctor Sleep Is Ready to Go Back to the Overlook Hotel
“There’s a place...” One of the scariest places in fiction, a place of power and terror and one awful dad. That’s right, Doctor Sleep is gearing up to go back to the Overlook.Read more...
Joker's Trick: Todd Phillips' Joker Takes Home the Highest Honor at the Venice Film Festival
Inspirer of meme accounts and Blockbuster films alike, the Joker has a new honor to lay at his unstable feet: film festival winner. That’s right, seriously, it happened: Joker, starring Joaquin Phoenix as the DC supervillain, won the Golden Lion, the top prize at the Venice Film Festival.Read more...
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MIT Media Lab Director Joichi Ito Resigns After Financial Ties to Jeffrey Epstein Revealed
The director of MIT’s Media Lab, Joichi Ito, stepped down on Saturday after his and the research institution’s extensive ties to late financier and accused pedophile Jeffrey Epstein were exposed, the New York Times reported.
DHS to Ramp Up Social Media Monitoring of People Entering the Country
The Department of Homeland Security is stepping up the government’s existing program of demanding people entering the country hand over the details of their presence on social media, CNN reported on Friday.
The BBC Joins Up With Google, Facebook, and Twitter To Try To Tackle Misinformation Online
The BBC is teaming up with some of the biggest names in tech to coordinate a defense against the online disinformation campaigns endemic to some of their platforms, the outlet announced Saturday.
The Hawkeye TV Show Now Has an Acclaimed Writer at the Helm
Finally, we have some idea of the creative direction the new Hawkeye show is going. Well, at least, more than “like that one great comic run.” And that’s because we finally know who’s going to be writing it.Read more...
Jason Isaacs Sheds a Little Light on the Original Five-Season Plan for The OA
Jason Isaacs loved being on The OA, and he’s heartbroken about its loss. Read more...
EA Received A Guinness World Record For Most Downvoted Comment In Reddit History
Back in 2017, EA was dealing with the mess that was Star Wars Battlefront II and its hated loot boxes. During that time an unknown community manager used the official EA Community Team Reddit account to respond to a complaint about unlocking characters. Over 600k downvotes and two years later, EA’s infamous comment…Read more...
This Video Primer Is a Perfect Introduction to Stephen King's Horror Fantasy Multiverse
Did you know that Stephen King’s books are almost all interconnected? You probably did, it’s definitely one of those fun facts about the prolific author that gets thrown around a lot. But do you know how that multiverse comes together and just how deep those connections go?Read more...
Philly News Anchor Sues Facebook, Reddit After Her Photo Shows Up in Dating, Erectile Dysfunction Ads
A Philadelphia-area Fox 29 anchor, Good Day Philadelphia co-host Karen Hepp, is suing Facebook, Reddit, and other platforms in federal court after discovering that a photo of her taken in a convenience store was popping up in dating and erectile dysfunction ads, per the Verge.
Wikipedia Goes Dark Across Europe, Middle East After DDOS Attack
Wikipedia went offline Friday afternoon and into Saturday morning after a cyber attack forced an international shutdown. The outage affected millions of users across Europe and in parts of the Middle East.
Microsoft's Interns Made a Musical, And It's Only a Little Weird
Next year’s interns at Microsoft have a high bar to beat because 2019's class made a whole damn musical over the summer.Read more...
Dorian Death Toll in the Bahamas Is Expected to Drastically Rise
Reports from the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian are dire in the Bahamas, with a death toll now at 43 and expected to increase in coming hours and days. According to CNN, hundreds of Bahamians are still missing, likely buried in rubble nearly a week after the Category 5 storm pummeled the northern Bahamian islands.Read more...
There's Something More Powerful Than Qi Wireless Charging and It Could Soon Power Your Blender
My kitchen is cramped, and chances are yours is too. That’s why the Wireless Power Consortium is pushing its new Ki cordless kitchen standard at IFA—so one day we can power all our kitchen appliances directly from the countertop.Read more...
This Fan Trailer Imagines the Ahsoka Tano Movie Star Wars Fans Still Need
Ahsoka Tano, the breakout heroine of The Clone Wars and Star Wars: Rebels, feels like she deserves a bigger spotlight. Even though she’s one of the most important characters in the episodic animated arm of the universe, her presence isn’t really strongly felt outside of it. Which is a shame.Read more...
Why xkcd Creator Randall Munroe Wrote the World's Most Extreme 'How To' Book
While waiting for your flight to board, you look at your phone and realize its battery is at 1 percent. You look around but can’t find a power outlet. There might be practical solutions to this problem. Or, you could follow Randall Munroe’s instructions and attach a paddle wheel to an escalator in order to power a…Read more...
Google Confirms DOJ Scrutiny, Says It Must Hand Over Antitrust Records
The Department of Justice is mandating that Google’s parent company, Alphabet, hand over any information regarding previous antitrust investigations into the tech giant, Google announced Friday.Read more...
First a Rainbow Logo, Now a Rainbow Cube; Apple, What Does it All Mean?!
The days are ticking down until Apple’s annual fall soiree, but that doesn’t mean the rumor mill has to stop churning any time soon.Read more...
In a Dangerous Move, NOAA Debases Itself in the Name of Trump's Bad Tweet
Against all odds, we have reached an even lower nadir in Donald Trump’s war on the hurricane forecast. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the federal agency in charge of making sure every American has access to trusted, life-saving forecasts, sent out a Friday news dump press release…Read more...
A Woman in Her 70s May Be the Oldest New Mom Ever After Giving Birth to Twins
An Indian woman named Erramatti Mangayamma has seemingly made history by becoming the oldest new mother ever documented. Her doctors reported that Mangayamma, said to be either 73- or 74-years-old, delivered a set of healthy twin girls via cesarean section Thursday. The feat was made possible through in-vitro…Read more...
Apple Can Feel Its Reputation for Bulletproof Security Slipping Through Its Fingers
With its flagship iPhone event just a few days away, it appears that Apple is getting a little nervous about recent reports regarding the state of its lauded security features. On Friday, it took the unusual step of publishing a blog post to refute some recent claims about its operating system made by Google…Read more...
Google Bans Ads for 'Experimental Medical Treatments'
Google plans to crack down on ads for bogus medical treatments, as the company has observed a rise in predatory scams that target desperate patients.Read more...
The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything, Finally Cracked
We all know that 42 is the answer to life, the universe, and everything, thanks to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Now, we also know that it’s the sum of three cubes.Read more...
Climate Change Could Be Ruining the 'Greatest Orgy in the World'
Climate change may be messing with corals’ ability to reproduce, threatening them with extinction, according to a new study.Read more...
Russian Startup 'Muffin Computer' Wants to Keep Your Smartphone Cozy on Cold Days
I was chugging coffee and eating currywurst in the press room at Messe Berlin, scrolling through the IFA app when I found Muffin Computer. Or should I say Muffin Computer found me.Read more...
An Extremely Detailed Look At The Porsche Taycan's Engineering Designed To Take On Tesla
Porsche’s first fully electric car is here, and depending on who you ask, it could be the most serious competition the Tesla Model S has faced yet. It’s called the Porsche Taycan, and it is an all-electric sport sedan promising up to 750 horsepower, acceleration from zero to 60 mph in 2.6 seconds, and a fast-charging…Read more...
Watch Live as India Attempts to Land Its Vikram Probe on the Moon
India hopes to become just the fourth nation to successfully land a probe on the Moon and the first to land a probe near the lunar south pole. India’s Press Information Bureau is providing live coverage of the historic landing attempt beginning today at 3:30 p.m. ET (12:30 p.m. PT), which you can stream below.Read more...
DOJ Is Illegally Withholding Records About Phone Location Data Collection, Lawsuit Claims
One of the nation’s leading privacy groups is challenging the Justice Department in court after it refused to turn over records concerning the collection of cell-site location information, which had been routinely obtained from phone companies without a warrant prior to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year.
You Can Always Count on Fossil to Bring a Million Smartwatches to a Party
Ever since it got into the smartwatch game, Fossil never fails to show an army of wrist computers everywhere it goes. This year’s IFA is no exception. In addition to showcasing its newly launched Gen 5 smartwatches, Fossil—and its horde of designer brand partners—brought four totally new watches and some familiar…Read more...
Mazda's 1990s Eunos Cosmo Is Still Wilder Than Any Car On The Road Today
It’s been decades and there is still no car like Mazda’s triple-rotor Eunos Cosmo, a vehicle more ambitious, more foolish and more amazing than many cars made since.
Hurricane Dorian Caused an Oil Spill That Could Be a 'Socioeconomic Tragedy'
Hurricane Dorian’s devastation has killed at least 30 in the Bahamas. All this death has a distinct smell, Sam Teicher told Earther. The founder of Coral Vita, a coral-growing operation based Grand Bahama, had that awful, hair-raising stench in his nose all day on Thursday as he drove around trying to help those in…Read more...
Deadly Vaping Illness Could be Related to Vitamin E, New York Health Officials Say
The number of people stricken by acute lung disease linked to e-cigarettes continues to grow, with nearly 500 suspected cases reported across the U.S. as of this week, along with two more deaths in Oregon and Indiana. But while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and others are still saying there are…Read more...
What to Expect From Apple's Big 2019 iPhone Event
We’re days away from Apple’s big annual iPhone party. It’s safe to assume we’re about to learn a whole lot more about this year’s models. But what else is there to learn? This Apple event doesn’t have the massive groundswell of hype September Apple events usually do. We know we’ll get phones with a big camera bump…Read more...
Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano Unexpectedly Triggered a Gigantic Phytoplankton Bloom
Volcanic eruptions are typically associated with death and destruction, but the recent eruptions on Hawaii’s Big Island resulted in an unexpected biological boom—a gigantic plume of algae extending for hundreds of miles into the Pacific Ocean.
Gen Z Is Already Afraid Automation Will Eat Their Jobs
A middle-aged man, holding a tool from the machine shop, looking forlorn and wistful. That’s what we might call the stock image of automation fears. It’s the picture that graces the news story about grim job-loss forecasts or think pieces about whether the robots are ‘coming for our jobs.’ (It’s either that or a…Read more...
American Airlines Mechanic Charged with Sabotaging Flight
An aircraft mechanic has been charged with tampering with an American Airlines airplane before a flight of 150 passengers was scheduled to take off.Read more...
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