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Like a Boomerang, Jai Courtney Is Coming Back Around for The Suicide Squad
One of DC’s most delightful D-List villains is coming right back around the bend for The Suicide Squad.Read more...
The Online Icons That Didn't Survive the Web's First 30 Years
As March draws to close, so does our celebration of the World Wide Web’s 30th birthday, making it as good a time as ever to take a look back at some the features and formats that bit the dust along the way.Read more...
America's Government Scientists Are Eyeing a Future in Politics
PHILADELPHIA—As the Trump administration continues to attack science, scientists continue to push back, whether by joining rallies and strikes or running for office. In the next election cycle, the ranks of those choosing the latter route may include more federal government scientists, a group that has traditionally…Read more...
RSS Is Better Than Twitter
There is a good reason people call Twitter the hell website.
Load Up On Flash Storage With Amazon's One-Day Blowout
You can never have enough flash storage, especially with deals this cheap. Today only, SD cards, microSD cards, and flash drives from PNY are down to some of the best prices ever on Amazon.
Tesla Hacking Report Is a Good Reminder of the Risks of Stored Data
It can be easy to forget how much personal data we share with the various technologies geared at streamlining our lives, be they voice assistants, smart home devices, or the phones we carry with us virtually everywhere. And if you own a car, that may go for your ride too.Read more...
Company Ordered to Pay Woman $459K After Spamming Her With More Than 300 Robocalls
A Tennessee woman has been awarded nearly half a million dollars after a furniture company illegally hounded her with hundreds of robocalls, sometimes more than 10 times per day, even after she asked them to no longer contact her, per court records.
The Silence Is About Creatures Who Kill You If You Make a Sound...Wow, That's a Great Idea
Last year around this time, a movie about creatures that would kill you if you made a sound was released. This year, the same exact thing is happening.Read more...
The 10 Best Deals of March 29, 2019
We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.
Climate Change Drove Neanderthals to Cannibalism, New Research Suggests
Neanderthals are famous for having lived through the last major ice age, yet for a period of around 14,000 years they had to endure the effects of a naturally occurring global warming cycle. Struggling to adapt to the changing conditions, the Neanderthals turned to cannibalism in desperation, according to a…Read more...
Overwatch Pro Blocks Racist Message With His Own Face During Stream
During a recent stream, New York Excelsior Overwatch player and impossibly pleasant married person Jong-ryeol “Saebyeolbe” Park came up against a particularly unpleasant foe. Another player decided to use Overwatch’s in-game notification system to spam Saebyeolbe with a racist message he couldn’t immediately block.
The Head of the FTC Just Debunked the FCC's Favorite Excuse for Killing Net Neutrality
Two weeks before voting to rollback the net neutrality rules, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post in which he laid out his case for killing off the policy that ensured a free and open internet. In it, he offered up one widely-disputed argument for doing so: that blocking, throttling,…Read more...
Section 230 Is the Foundation of the Internet, So Why Do Republicans Want to Change It?
Without Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, most of your favorite websites would not survive—nor would they have existed at all. The modern internet would be a much different place without this short little bit of legislation that has become a sort of First Amendment of the web. Now, a growing contingent of…Read more...
A Major Change to How Doctors Talk About Mammogram Results Is Coming Soon
Doctors across the U.S. may soon be required to provide women with more information about their mammography results. This week, the Food and Drug Administration announced plans to update a rule that would mandate doctors tell patients if they have dense breast tissue, a complicated risk factor for breast cancer.
AirPower Is Dead, But Style Is Not. Take Your Pick of Leather Apple Watch Bands For Just $7.
The lowkey best part about the Apple Watch is that it’s incredibly easy to change bands, and you can get extras for very cheap, as long as you aren’t buying them in the Apple Store. This leather band comes in a ton of different colors (choose from the dropdown), and is available in both 42/44mm and 38/40mm sizes. Get…Read more...
Verizon's Spam-Blocking Call Filter Is Now Free
Robocalls are annoying as hell, and it seems the problem is only getting worse. But if you’re on Verizon, you may have a new way to block them with the company’s Call Filter app, which recently became free for all Verizon customers.Read more...
YouTube Product Chief: Extremist Rabbit Holes? What Extremist Rabbit Holes?
In a New York Times interview published today, Neal Mohan, YouTube’s chief product officer, sought to debunk “some myths” about the platform’s alleged tendency to radicalize users through its recommendations algorithm. It could have gone better.Read more...
Serial Swatter Sentenced to 20 Years for Hoax Call That Led to Police Killing of Kansas Man
Tyler R. Barriss has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for a string of phony emergency calls, one of which was made over a Call of Duty deal and led to police killing an innocent Kansas man.Read more...
The Gravitational Wave Detectors Are Turning Back On and We're Psyched
The LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors are set to resume their hunt for gravitational waves on April 1. This go-around, they’ll be even more sensitive thanks to a set of upgrades to their lasers, mirrors, and other components. This next run will be a big deal—for different reasons than the first two…Read more...
We Must Go to the Moon—and Bring Back Our Piss
Vice President Mike Pence announced this week that the Trump administration wants NASA to put American astronauts on the moon no later than 2024. And here at Gizmodo we heartily endorse this idea. America must go to the moon. We must go to the moon and bring back our piss and our shit.Read more...
Scientists Find Fossilized Fish That May Have Been Blasted by Debris From Asteroid That Ended the Dinosaur Age
At one of the most important ancient graveyards on Earth in North Dakota, paleontologists unearthed the fossilized remains of fish seemingly killed by the effects of the asteroid that ended the Cretaceous.
Giant Space Mirrors, Engineered Glaciers: Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Shares His Wildest Plans For Fighting Climate Change
Among presidential candidates, Andrew Yang is perhaps the most quixotic. His radical plan universal basic income plan, which offers $1,000 per month to Americans has garnered the most attention. But his platform also includes an equally radical climate plan: Hacking the Earth to save humanity.Read more...
A Disturbing Complaint Against Google Tests Its Promise to Allow Employees to Sue
A former recruiter for Google is suing its parent company, Alphabet, for alleged disability discrimination, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and a failure to provide reasonable accommodations. Among a slew of upsetting allegations, the complaint says that instead of sending her medical devices and other…Read more...
Lyft Was Full of Shit and Now It's Stinking Rich
Two weeks ago, Lyft filed an affidavit in its lawsuit opposing New York City’s regulations aimed at increasing for-hire vehicle driver pay. The new minimum requires drivers to earn $17.22 per hour after expenses, up from $11.90 per hour. In that, Lyft argued it raised prices in order to comply with new pay rules, but…Read more...
NASA's Mars-Bound Helicopter Passes Critical Flight Tests In Extreme Conditions
Six-wheeled rovers on Mars are great, but imagine a helicopter flying through the thin Martian air. Darting from location to location, the craft would give us a bird’s eye view of the Red Planet. To test the feasibility of this idea, NASA will be sending a rotary-wing aircraft to Mars, and as recently concluded flight…Read more...
Oppo May Have Come Up With the Most Bizarre Pop-Up Camera Yet
In the quest to kill the selfie cam, or at least hid it a bit better, we’ve seen companies design phones with motorized pop-up cameras, mechanical sliders (both manual and automatic), and even dual displays. But on the upcoming Reno, it seems Oppo’s goal was to make a pop-up camera that looks like The People’s Eyebrow.
Boston Dynamics' New Robot Is a Giant Segway Bird That Lives to Suck
Boston Dynamics has released a new video demonstrating one of its newest robots—a birdlike creation that gracefully moves boxes around a warehouse floor like only an avian-Segway-hybrid contraption can.Read more...
Following Intense Criticism, Google Finally Removes 'Gay Conversion Therapy' App
Google has removed a so-called “gay conversion” app developed by Living Hope Ministries, a Texas-based Christian organization that tries to convince gay people that they can live as straight people with enough prayer and religious therapy. For months, the company dug in its heels refusing to remove the app which has…Read more...
Friday's Best Deals: Logitech Accessories, Free Nintendo Switch Online, Philips OneBlade, and More
A Kindle Voyage, Apple Watches, MuscleTech Gold Box, and an Anker Capsule II pre-order kick off Friday’s best deals.Read more...
Leaked Facebook Emails Detail Discussions Over Instagram Labeling Alex Jones as a 'Hate Figure'
An email chain between Facebook and Instagram executives discussing an anti-Semitic post on Alex Jones’ Instagram account and obtained by Business Insider and Britain’s Channel 4 News illustrates the kind of extreme lengths that the company goes to in order to avoid passing judgment on what’s right in front of their…Read more...
Updates From Gotham, Morbius, and More
Jared Leto takes flight in new set pictures from Morbius. The casting calls for the future of James Bond are getting weirdly specific. Plus, a teasery new look at Agents of SHIELD’s next season, what’s to come on Doom Patrol, and Gotham’s Dark Knight rises. Spoilers now!
How to Leave No Trace on a Borrowed Computer
Say you need to borrow someone else’s laptop or desktop, but you don’t want to leave a digital trail of breadcrumbs behind you when you’ve gone. Maybe you’re using a public computer, or maybe you’re just borrowing a friend’s and don’t want to mess up all their own settings and preferences too much—how do you make sure…Read more...
How Do I Kick My Ex-Friend out of Our Shared Google Account?
Between all that talk of Family Sharing for Apple’s new “Plus” services, and the fact that I finally set up my house’s shared Netflix account on my TV the other day, I think a lot about how to minimize the financial impact of my technological needs. And that always leads to a conversation with my roommates where I…Read more...
Huawei Says U.S. Government Has a 'Loser's Attitude' Because American Tech Can't Compete
Huawei just reported over $100 billion in annual sales for the first time ever in 2018. And rotating chairman Guo Ping took a victory lap in front of reporters today with some particularly harsh words for the American government.
A Bunch of Your Favorite Logitech Accessories Are On Sale, Today Only
Today’s Gold Box is discounting a number of Logitech peripherals for work and play. Inside, you’ll find a lot of mechanical keyboards, headphones, a webcam and mice.
Office Depot Agrees to Pay $25 Million to FTC Over Scam Involving Computer Repair Service
The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday said Office Depot and a tech support firm will cough up a collective $35 million to settle with the agency over claims that both were complicit in a computer repair service scheme involving a fake malware scan.Read more...
GoFundMe Joins the Baffling San Francisco Homeless Shelter War of 2019
There’s a fight unfolding in one of the richest neighborhoods in San Francisco, that northern-most outpost of Silicon Valley and the most expensive city in America.
Pop Culture Icons Like Thanos, Godzilla and The Matrix Leap Out of This Artist's Imagination and Into Old Paintings
Artist Dave Pollot does something we all want to do, but only someone like Banksy actually does. He finds kind of lame paintings and then enhances them with his own pop culture spin. The results are hilarious, often-subversive but always beautiful hybrids you won’t be able to talk your eyes off of.Read more...
At Last! Mystery of Garfield Phone Beach Solved After 35 Years
For 35 years, a French coastal community has been haunted by the ghost of the world’s most iconic novelty telephone.
Wildly Spinning Asteroid Caught In the Throes of Self-Destruction
With its long, bright tail, this object bears an uncanny resemblance to a comet, but it’s actually an active asteroid. New observations suggest the asteroid is spinning so quickly that it’s starting to break down and crumble, in what is a relatively rare cosmological phenomenon.
FCC Reportedly Collected Only 0.003% of Robocall Fines Since 2015
As late as last month, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai was on the Fox News Channel boasting about having imposed on robocalls some of the “biggest fines in the FCC’s history.” Documents obtained this week by reporters at the Wall Street Journal, however, put the agency’s milquetoast enforcement in a more authentic light.
36 Undiscovered Flaws in 4G LTE Revealed by a New Security Tool
While carriers continue working on building out 5G infrastructure before networks officially go live later this year, a team of researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have been looking for flaws in existing 4G LTE wireless networks. And by using a tool dubbed the “LTEFuzz,” the team…Read more...
The 10 Best Deals of March 28, 2019
We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.Read more...
Got Amazon Prime? You Can Get aFree Year of Nintendo Switch Online.
Right now, Twitch Prime subscribers can get up to a year of Nintendo Switch Online benefits, including online play, access to classic NES games, and other benefits thanks to Twitch Prime.Read more...
On the Early Web, People With Disabilities Found Community and Autonomy
Growing up in rural Oregon, Erin Lauridsen didn’t have a lot of contact with blind people like herself. She recalls there being one other blind person in her town, but they were much older and, unlike Lauridsen, had lost their vision later in life. So when her family got dial-up internet during her high school years…Read more...
Mother Leaves Hospital With Newborn, Not Knowing She's Also Pregnant With Twins
A new mother in Bangladesh got quite a surprise last week: Less than a month after she had delivered a healthy baby boy, she returned to the hospital and delivered a set of fraternal twins, who, unbeknownst to her, had been growing inside a second uterus. Thankfully, all three children were delivered without…Read more...
America’s Most Expensive City Can’t Build A Homeless Shelter Without Rich People Fighting Back
Right on the waterfront in the most expensive city in America, a group of wealthy residents have quickly raised nearly $50,000 and rising to oppose San Francisco Mayor London Breed’s plan to use some of the city’s budget surplus to turn what is now a parking lot into a 225-bed homeless shelter in their rather ritzy…Read more...
Here Is an Important Scientific Study About How Animals Relax
Scientists have determined that the way an animal rests—reclining on its back, sprawling on its belly, standing up, or sitting, is determined by primarily by its size. But more importantly, the study authors have provided a large selection of images of animals luxuriating in various ways, and they are delightful.
What's Gimlet's Problem?
Two weeks ago, members of the Gimlet Media staff announced its intentions to unionize. The company, which is known for podcasts like Start Up and Reply All, as well as its recent acquisition by Sweden-based streaming giant Spotify for over $200 million, has been less than welcoming of the staff’s attempts to formally…Read more...
Why Is Georgia Buying Insecure Voting Machines? It Doesn't Matter, They Are
The most basic rule of deduction is that a simple explanation is far better than a complex one. The fewer assumptions one has to make, the fewer leaps of logic, the more likely it is that a conclusion is correct. So when we ask why the Georgia Republican Party is so dead set on spending $150 million to purchase voting…Read more...
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