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Android Messaging Joins the 21st Century, Here's How to Turn It On
Say bye to SMS. As of last week, Google finished rolling out RCS messaging on Android phones in the U.S.—meaning, it’s available regardless of your carrier.Read more...
Instagram AI Will Shame Users Before They Post Offensive Captions
In Instagram’s latest push to be one of the least toxic of the major social media services, the platform is launching a feature that warns users before they post something that could be offensive.Read more...
Update Your Home Office With This Networking, Drive, and Memory Gold Box
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Monday's Best Deals: KitchenAid, Oral B, Crest, SimpliSafe Security, and More
A KitchenAid Artisan Gold Box, an Oral B, Crest, and Gilette Gold Box, and a $25 Blu-ray copy of Jurassic World 5-Movie Collection lead off Monday’s best deals from around the web.Read more...
North American Birds Are Migrating Earlier Because of Climate Change
Every autumn as temperatures drop and insect populations decline, billions of birds migrate across the U.S. in search of warmer nesting temperatures and more food availability—both extremely good answers to seasonal depression. In the spring, the birds fly back to mate.Read more...
California Waters Are Acidifying Twice as Fast as the Rest of the Oceans
The California Current is home to one of the most productive ecosystems on Earth. It would stand to reason we wouldn’t want to mess it up. And yet.Read more...
Here's When You Need to Order Your Gifts by to Avoid Ruining Christmas
Folks, you’re running out of time.Read more...
A Familiar Hero Will Make His Return to The Flash This Season
Hayden Panettiere’s newest ‘do sparks speculation about a potential new Scream. A Sarah Jane Adventures star is coming to Doctor Who, but with a twist. Stephen King discusses HBO’s adaptation of The Outsider. Plus, a tiny snippet of new Birds of Prey footage, and teases for what’s to come on His Dark Materials’…Read more...
The Best Free Alternatives to Netflix
Netflix has changed the way we think about watching movies and shows, but that monthly subscription isn’t as essential as you might think it is—a growing number of alternatives are appearing on the scene, and some of them are free to use. Here are the best Netflix-esque services that you don’t have to pay to use.Read more...
Today's Gold Box Is Dropping The Price on Select L.O.L. Surprise! Toys
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Why Am I Suddenly Afraid of Flying?
For years you’ve flown without issue—no breathing exercises, no pills—but suddenly you can’t board without picturing catastrophe. No one you know has recently died in a crash; you have not, to your knowledge, dwelled excessively on those Boeing catastrophes; and yet suddenly, out of nowhere, you’ve become the kind of…Read more...
Upgrade Your Home Security With a Huge SimpliSafe Discount
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Erdogan Threatens to Shut Down U.S. Military Base in Turkey Believed to Hold 50 Nuclear Bombs
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to close down two U.S. military bases in Turkey if sanctions against the country are approved by President Donald Trump. One of the U.S. bases, known as Incirlik, is believed to house roughly 50 nuclear bombs.
Ring Camera Hacks, Viral Fakes, and Decade Highlights: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week
December always goes by too fast in my opinion. One moment, it’s the first and I have all the time in the world to scope out Christmas presents, and the next moment I’m in a mad dash to slap a bow and some wrapping paper on whatever last-minute gift I managed to grab that morning as I rush out the door to…Read more...
UN Climate Summit Ends With a Whimper
The longest global climate conference in its 25-year history came to an end Sunday after negotiations ran nearly two days over its initial deadline. Unfortunately, talks in Madrid went about as well as they do every year at the United Nation’s (UN) historically ineffective summit: There was a lot of finger-pointing,…Read more...
If the Snyder Cut Does Ever Release, It Might Look Different Than Fans Expect
Okay, yeah, we’re talking about the Snyder Cut. Buckle up, this is going to be a ride.Read more...
How The Hell Did This K-Pop Star Manage to Lose 33 Pairs of AirPods?
Thirty-three pairs of AirPods.
Kathleen Kennedy Says Future Star Wars Films Will Move Away From Trilogies
Okay, The Rise of Skywalker is almost out. But: what’s next? That’s the big question looming over the Star Wars franchise as it reaches forward into uncharted territory, unmoored from stories about Anakin Skywalker and his big multi-generational fuck up. It’s also the subject Kathleen Kennedy, president of Lucasfilm,…Read more...
Here's Why The Porsche Taycan Turbo's EPA Range Is So Bad
This week, we learned the EPA rated the new 2020 Porsche Taycan Turbo’s range at just 201 miles on a charge. That’s worse than almost every other electric car on sale today, and far worse than the 300 miles Porsche teased a couple of years ago, so what made the EPA figure so low?
Wait, Did J.J. Abrams Really Just Tease an Ahsoka Tano Cameo in The Rise of Skywalker?
J.J? Please, don’t tease me on this. It’s important.Read more...
Chinese Ambassador Casually Threatens German Car Industry Over Tech Privacy Concerns
The German automotive industry, including BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Volkswagen, and their subsidiaries, may soon be facing more problems in the declining Chinese car market over a dispute about 5G phone networks, of all things.Read more...
Victoria Mahoney, the First Woman to Direct a Star Wars Film, Explains How She Got the Job
Victoria Mahoney made Hollywood history when she became the second unit director on Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, making her so far the first (and only) woman to direct anything on a Star Wars movie, placing her alongside a handful of directors on The Mandalorian as the only women to direct Star Wars media in…Read more...
Read More In 2020, Get 3 Months of Kindle Unlimited For $1
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Feds Break Up Illegal Streaming Network That Dwarfs Netflix and Hulu Libraries
Two of the minds behind the nation’s largest pirate streaming services, iStreamItAll and Jetflicks, have pleaded guilty to criminal copyright infringement charges, federal officials said Friday. Now we all can rest easier knowing there are a few less bad actors getting one over on multi-billion-dollar giants like…Read more...
Even J.J. Abrams Can't Get Disney to Release 'Unspecial' Versions of the Star Wars Movies
The white whale of any Star Wars fan—besides my dream Ahsoka Tano video game—is an unmodified release of the original Star Wars trilogy. Forget the special editions, forget the even-specialier editions. Many of us, from film buffs to preservationists to shameless, Prequel-hating nerds, want to see the films as they…Read more...
UN Climate Summit Continues Spinning Its Wheels Into the Weekend, and Protestors Aren't Having It
The UN’s climate summit in Madrid—dubbed COP25 in UN jargon—continued into the weekend as countries remained deadlocked on divisive environmental issues, chief of which is how to handle a part of the Paris Agreement known as Article 6 that’s focused on carbon markets. After overrunning its initial deadline Friday, the…Read more...
Google Reveals Its Top Searches of the Year And, Yes, It's Mostly Memes
The Game of Thrones Starbucks cup debacle. Watching Notre Dame go up in flames. The moment the world fell in love with Baby Yoda. Going through Google’s top searches of the year feels like flipping through a scrapbook of the internet’s collective obsessions. Released this week, the company’s annual “Year in Search”…Read more...
HBO Max Is Moving Forward With Another Try at Adapting Snow Crash
If you ask any random fan off the street how to get into cyberpunk or science fiction influenced by cyberpunk, there’s a solid chance they’re going to tell you to read Snow Crash. Neal Stephenson’s 1992 classic is a massively influential cyber dystopian work that prefigured a lot of what modern cyberpunk pastiche…Read more...
A Quiet Place 2 Has a New Teaser—But Only If You See the Right Movie
Remember the good ol’ days, when, to see a movie trailer, you actually had to go see the movie the trailer was running before?Read more...
Orlando Jones Has Reportedly Been Fired From American Gods
Orlando Jones gave one of the breakout performances in American Gods as Mr. Nancy, an African trickster god who sharply reflected and reacted to America’s history of slavery and racism. In the second season, his role on the show increased, as Jones took on production and writing tasks alongside his stunning…Read more...
The Creators Behind HBO's Watchmen Are Being Very Cagey About a Second Season
When HBO’s ersatz Watchmen sequel was announced, it was framed, very clearly, as a miniseries. One season, in and out, one and done. But when asked the question now, the various answers given by the cast and crew of the show are... a bit different.Read more...
Why Google's Pixel Feature Drops Could Give You One Reason to Ditch Your iPhone
First came the Nexus, then, as Google continued to try and build its own iPhone: a winning (in theory) mix of mobile software and hardware that it has full control over, we got the Pixel. The Pixel feature drop is it’s latest ploy in getting you to switch, and we’re here to explain what exactly that is, and what…Read more...
Google's Covered A Whopping 10 Million Miles in Street View Imagery
Google and its armada of camera-rigged Steet View cars and other devices have been photographing the globe piece by piece for well over a decade now, and all that footage adds up to some pretty staggering tallies: more than 10 million miles of Street View imagery and 36 million square miles of Google Earth imagery,…Read more...
In 2020, Be Sure to Make a 'Haters' List for Your Enemies
The year is over. Whoop-de-doo.Read more...
Children Put Canada and Norway on Blast for Climate Failures
The teens are pissed. Perhaps you’ve heard.Read more...
Airbnb Bans Over 60 White Supremacists After Iron March Forum Database Leak
Short-term apartment rental site Airbnb has banned over 60 users of Iron March, the defunct white supremacist web forum that recently had its entire SQL database leaked to the internet, the company told Gizmodo.Read more...
Zoo Chimps Doing a 'Conga Line' Could Teach Us How Humans Evolved to Dance
A seemingly spontaneous conga line by a pair of captive chimpanzees might tell us something about how humans first learned to dance, scientists behind a new study say.Read more...
Emotion Recognition Is Creepy As Hell
Emotion recognition technology, at best, promises to read commuters’ mental anguish and adjust subway cabin conditions accordingly, and at worst, puts biased and buggy mental microscopes in the hands of corporate overlords. In a new report, the NYU research center AI Now calls for regulators to ban the tech.
Dark Matter 'Strikes Back' in Galactic Mystery
Dark matter could be responsible for the mysterious observation of gamma rays in the center of our galaxy, according to a new paper.
Cyberthief Allegedly Used Ill-Gotten Gains to Buy Royalty Rights to Rap Songs
An alleged SIM-swapping scammer is accused of using his spoils to purchase cars, expensive jewelry and diamonds, and the royalty rights for rap music.Read more...
Disgraced Ex-Google Exec Andy Rubin Blocks Everyone on Twitter, and Good Riddance
Android creator and disgraced former Google executive Andy Rubin has gone on some type of bizarre Twitter blocking spree, blocking virtually everyone who follows him on the site. Rubin now only has eight followers on the site, down from 11 on Wednesday and some 117,000 others that were following his account as of…Read more...
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Backlash Is Inevitable, According to Richard E. Grant
We’re now less than a week from Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and two emotions seem to be dominating the conversation. Excitement, of course—we’re about to get a movie fans have waited years for. But also, fear. Fear of what will happen in the movie and how it may change the discourse.
'I Slept With My Gun': What It's Like to Get Your Ring Camera Hacked
He was on his way home from the grocery store when he got the call. After a weekend out of town, John’s kids were finally asleep in his Houston area home. His wife, too, had been getting ready for bed—until she heard a stranger’s voice echoing down the hallway.
Italian Court Orders Facebook to Restore Neo-Fascist Party's Account
Back in September, Facebook blocked the account of Casapound, an Italian far-right party. Now, an Italian judge has ruled in favor of Casapound on the basis that removing the party’s account ‘prevented political pluralism.’ And to rub salt in the wound, Facebook also has to pay the group 15,000 euros ($16,500) in…Read more...
OSIRIS-REx Team Will Boop This Spot on Asteroid Bennu
The OSIRIS-REx team has decided on a location to collect a sample from the asteroid Bennu. It’s a 460-foot-wide crater that they’ve dubbed “Nightingale.”Read more...
Our Favorite Comics of 2019
Another year has come to an end, and we wouldn’t have gotten here without some pretty incredible comics to read along the way. We’ve had new dawns and final ends, epic sagas and intimate tales, serious drama and serious silliness. But above all, we’ve had some serious fun—and these series are the ones we had the most…Read more...
Motion Sensing Wifi Is a Limited But Fascinating Peek at the Future of the Smart Home
In 2013, researchers at MIT demonstrated how the wifi signals that fill every corner of your home with high-speed internet could also be used to detect the movements of pets and people—even through walls. Six years later, Linksys has introduced similar functionality on its tri-band mesh routers, and while the…Read more...
Looks Like a Penis
You know the world is ending when dicks start to take over entire beaches. No, I’m not talking about a penis havers-only nude beach. I’m talking about the fat innkeeper worm, or Urechis caupo if we’re talking sexy. The best version of its name, though, is penis fish because this worm looks like a fucking dick, man.…Read more...
30 Viral Fakes That Defined the 2010s
The decade of the 2010s saw the rise of social media and the proliferation of digital tools that allow people to alter photos and videos. When you put those two forces together, you get a lot of fake images circulating. And these were the ones that helped define the past 10 years.
AT&T Closes Out 2019 By Extending Real 5G Coverage to 10 Cities
With T-Mobile having flipped the switch on its nationwide 5G network and Sprint and Verizon’s 5G service available in 10 or more cities, AT&T is now following suit and closing out 2019 by turning on real 5G in 10 cities of its own.Read more...
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