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At the first-ever Presidential Forum on Environmental Justice Friday night, Senator Elizabeth Warren didn’t shy away from how the environment is directly related to other issues that people of color in the U.S. face—like housing. During her time on stage, she called out the legacy of segregation and slavery in the…Read more...

Are you a sad enough dude to debase yourself for the president? Here’s yet another reminder that for many of your fellow citizens, the answer is absolutely “and how!”

This week, Elon Musk-backed OpenAI released to the public the latest version of their GPT-2 predictive text generator, which is capable of taking a writing prompt and continuing based on 40 gigabytes of data pulled from around eight million websites. This is impressive, next-generation technology, and I absolutely…Read more...

The increasingly popular ritual that celebrates the misguided notion of the concept of gender continues to get dumber as expecting parents find new ways to risk lives and destroy property while telling their loved ones the gender they intend to assign their children upon birth.

As the United States grapples with the ongoing crisis of rising use of vape products among teens and youth, President Donald Trump said that new restrictions will bump the age limit for e-cigarettes from 18 to 21. Or so!

On Friday, federal health officials announced a breakthrough in solving the mystery of why people are getting seriously sick from vaping. They detected vitamin E acetate—an oily, synthetic form of the vitamin commonly added to black-market THC vape products—in lung fluid samples taken from all of the patients they’ve…Read more...

Remember when opening up social networking apps was exciting? Now, all your friends seem to post about is politics / their baby / their side business / what they’re eating. The good news is that the best social apps go way beyond your friends and family—there’s interesting content out there if you know where to find…Read more...

If you happen to be somewhere in the intersection of Roku and Apple Watch owners, good news. Today, Roku launched a free app for your wrist that features voice controls, and the ability to find your remote.

For years, fans have loved the bond between Carol and Daryl on The Walking Dead—at this point, they’re some of the few remaining strands left to the show’s earliest, zombie-laden years. The new season may be more about people wearing zombie skin than it is the zombies, but as this exclusive clip from the next episode…Read more...

AT&T has seemingly managed to dream up a whole new way to fuck with its customers, namely by giving them data that they didn’t ask for and charging them a fee for it.Read more...

Someone going by the handle “antifa-data” uploaded what appears to be the entire SQL database of Iron March—a defunct fascist web forum where the Atomwaffen Division (AWD) terrorist organization reportedly first organized—to the Internet Archive on Wednesday.

It’s not every day that you turn into a medical curiosity. But that’s exactly what happened to Dianne Travers-Gustafson, a retired medical anthropologist and public health researcher from Nebraska. In February 2018, her eyes had the misfortune of becoming infected by a particular kind of parasitic roundworm spread by…Read more...

Archaeologists working at a site near Mexico City have unearthed a 15,000-year-old trap built by humans to capture mammoths, in what’s the first discovery of its kind.Read more...

As the drunken mist clears in the wake of Adam Neumann’s long con that was WeWork, employees are calling for a modicum of sanity. In preparation for thousands of layoffs, which the company has reportedly delayed because it can’t afford severance, the non-unionized group who call themselves the WeWorkers Coalition…Read more...

An Australian man pled guilty this week in the Magistrates Court to stalking his ex-girlfriend, largely through the use of an app that tracked and controlled her car.Read more...

Daddy long-legs—spider-like arachnids technically known as “harvestmen”—are already plenty unnerving, with their too-long-to-be-real limbs, jerky movements, and habit of clustering into a horrible, hairy mass. But researchers have recently unveiled a variety of harvestman totally new to science, and it cranks the…Read more...

If patents are to be believed, Apple is potentially mulling moving wireless antennas into the bands of future Apple Watches. The idea is, doing so would free up space in the watch case for other components. This sounds great on paper, and while of course I’d love to see a bigger battery in the Apple Watch, I’m begging…Read more...

Now that all the big 2019 phones have been released, it’s time to look forward to next year’s handsets, and if these early leaks are any indication, the Galaxy S11 could be in line for a huge upgrade in the battery department.Read more...

Video games can be a fantastic escape from the stresses of every day life, but not when you’re chasing high scores, or screaming at the screen because you just got sniped. A new game called Airplane Mode might provide the most relaxed gaming experience imaginable, as players are only tasked with enjoying the ride as a…Read more...

SpectreVision wants to make its own Lovecraft universe. Some more familiar faces will be returning for Jurassic World 3. Get a first look at the next Scooby-Doo animated movie. Plus, what’s to come on Supernatural and Arrow, new set pictures from The Eternals, and a Game of Thrones star joins Wheel of Time. Spoilers,…Read more...

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I’ll admit it, there’s something about RGB lighting that just makes everything better, whether its glowing gaming peripherals that pulse with the action, or just thoughtfully placed smart lights to enhance the mood. However, up until recently, the only way to get Philips Hue’s Sync system to work in your living room…Read more...

Instead of using third-party platforms like Youtube and Twitch, artists will soon be able to livestream their process directly through whatever Adobe Creative Cloud app they’re working in according to a Verge report.

Elon Musk-backed non-profit OpenAI, which claimed to have developed a machine learning-powered text generation software so powerful that it couldn’t be ethically released to the public, has... done just that.

Looks like folks with Fire TV devices will be able to watch Disney+ after all.

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Early Thursday morning, people all over the U.S. and Canada began receiving strange text messages that didn’t make a whole lot of sense. The texts were from people they knew but they lacked context and appeared to have been sent months ago. And it really freaked some folks out! Mercifully, there is an explanation for…Read more...

We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.Read more...

Juul is a bad company run by bad people. But, as a former smoker who used one of the company’s addictive mouth robots to get away from Marlboros, I feel compelled to pour one out for the only good thing Juul has ever done: cool mint.Read more...

In the face of undiminishing backlash over a decision to accept money from politicians in exchange for propagating their campaign lies, Facebook has been doubling down, launching its own duplicitous campaign. The aim apparently is to convince the world that Facebook is serving some higher calling, defending the rights…Read more...

Federal authorities, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the FBI, are in the middle of a sweeping crackdown on what they believe is widespread Chinese scientific espionage in the biomedical field, the New York Times reported on Thursday, with nearly 200 such inquiries ongoing. Meanwhile, others have…Read more...

Bitdefender–the tireless actuary of the Internet of Things–were able to crack into homeowner’s personal WiFi networks via Amazon’s Ring doorbells, the video-enabled auto-locks that allow homeowners to remotely open the door. And as Bitdefender’s Chief Security Researcher Jay Balan told Gizmodo over the phone, once a…Read more...

Something foul blew into Kansas City, Missouri on Wednesday night. The air smelled dank as hell (and not in a good way), which some residents described as nasty feet or literal shit, according to local KSHB news.Read more...

The past decade has demonstrated that no matter how much the general public gripes about Hollywood being a wasteland for new ideas—an accusation that’s popular despite the fact that it isn’t exactly true—reboots are here to stay whether we like them or not. Studios have little to no reason to ever stop rebooting…Read more...

Adobe Max 2019 wrapped up yesterday, and over the past week the company (and host John Mulaney) revealed a bunch of new automated capabilities, it’s currently developing for its various applications—both on desktop and mobile. These demos are always crowd-pleasers and tantalizing teases of how users might soon be able…Read more...

The human brain is even more incredible than we thought, a new study out of Israel suggests. Doctors there say they’ve found people who can smell just as well as anyone else, despite missing the key area of the brain responsible for olfaction.Read more...

While the T-Mobile and Sprint merger hasn’t been officially completed just yet, with the FCC having recently given the deal its final approval, T-Mobile is already talking about what it will do with its newfound resources and the plan includes an announcement of the company’s cheapest phone plan ever.Read more...

Boeing has submitted its proposal to NASA for a lunar lander concept that the company claims will return Americans to the Moon in 2024 with the “fewest steps” possible.

August’s third generation Smart Lock lets you lock and unlock your door from using your phone, and you can get the silver model for just $97 today, the best price Amazon’s listed outside of a very short-lived $77 sale.

There are two camps when it comes to smartwatch battery life: Those who don’t care at all (Apple Watch stans) and those who care a whole friggin’ lot. For the latter, Matrix Industries’ PowerWatch Series 2 seems like a dream. Powered by both body heat and solar energy, it’s the fitness smartwatch that never runs out…Read more...

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings defended the streamer’s decision earlier this year to censor an episode of “Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj,” during an interview at the New York Times DealBook Conference on Wednesday. The episode, which criticized Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Saudi investment in Silicon Valley, was…Read more...

The next Ghostbusters movie adds another mystery role to its cast. Disney previews the one scene you really wanna see from the Lady and the Tramp remake. The CW is trying a new take on Zorro. Plus, what’s to come on American Horror Story 1984's finale, and Werner Herzog continues to Werner Herzog for The Mandalorian.…Read more...

Who has the time to watch and listen to everything out there, right? Netflix has riled up movie makers by testing out variable speed settings in its Android app so you can speed up the movie to get through it faster. For the time being, it’s only a limited test, but you’ve got a host of other ways to get through your…Read more...

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Bill Gates, a man who’s worth an estimated $107 billion, suggested on Wednesday he’d be open to voting for President Donald Trump in 2020 if the Democrats try to make him pay his fair share in taxes. The bizarre suggestion is just the latest sign that American oligarchs are prepared to support an authoritarian if…Read more...

It’s Peter Pan, but not as you know it.

SoftBank chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son admitted during a Q2 earnings presentation on Wednesday that he really screwed the pooch with respect to that whole WeWork clusterfuck, according to reports.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday announced charges against two former Twitter employees, accusing them of spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia, the Washington Post reports.

It often feels like logging on immediately reveals a dump truck’s worth of bad news and bullshit, particularly on social media. But beyond the rampant misinformation and general vitriol that festers in threads on newsfeeds, social media present serious global threat to internet freedom that an annual report says is…Read more...

Earlier this year, Donald Trump’s administration appeared to be ready to eviscerate the entire vaping industry with a nationwide ban on flavored e-cigarette products—with the possible exception of menthol. Now it looks like the vapocalypse has been offset somewhat, with Bloomberg reporting that the administration may…Read more...