by Matthew Gault on (#5V7PY)
On the 75th anniversary of the Doomsday Clock, we’re still closer to the destruction of the entire human race than ever before.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5V6VM)
I spent my entire morning playing this game where you sort historical events on a timeline.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5V6VN)
In a letter to the CEO, call centers employees are demanding sick leave if they test positive for COVID. Something they don’t currently have.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5V4VX)
A journey into the dark heart of the early internet and the search for a mysterious woman that yields no results.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5V0WS)
The popular encrypted messaging app is going through changes.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5V0WR)
“Revenge is Definite,” said yet another piece of state-backed media depicting the death of the former president.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5TYE9)
New legislation would delay the enforcement of a popular law by three years, scoring a win for automakers and a loss for consumers.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5TYEA)
We talked to the guy who spends eight hours harvesting methane to power a specially converted motorcycle.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5TWWM)
In Europe, the printing giant showed customers how to circumvent restrictions on printer cartridges.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5TVPZ)
This week’s Cyber is all about Popcorn Time, the Wu-Tang Clan, and a keyboard so good some people think it’s cheating.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5TVQ0)
"The goat is sitting on a SpaceX rocket propelling past Earth and the Moon toward Mars like Elon’s vision. The goat is also surrounded by lightning to symbolize Tesla’s solar electricity and electric cars," said designer Danny Wang.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5TPWH)
We’ve got pictures of ‘Once Upon a Time in Shaolin’ in federal custody, and they’re not pretty.
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by Maxwell Strachan on (#5TPMB)
The Utah-based, Silicon Valley-backed company asked founder David Bateman to resign soon after the comments surfaced.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5TP9H)
There were a lot of incredible optical illusions in 2021, but the official contest winner is a dogshit magician's trick and I hate it.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5TN4W)
Experience the collapse of Soviet-style Communism by playing the video games designed by angry teenagers living under it.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5TFF7)
Amazon’s history of forcing employees to work during natural disasters.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5TFF8)
The comics legend has been minted into an NFT that will be sold in a loot box on what would have been his 99th birthday.
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by Gita Jackson on (#5T1H1)
The leftwing Twitch star has been temporarily banned from Twitch following a discussion where he used a word some believe to be an anti-white slur.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5T1AZ)
Court documents outlined a scheme where a consulting firm paid for early access to non-public files.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5T07X)
A rare bug made a Google smartphone unable to contact emergency services.
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by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai on (#5SY58)
iCloud, Steam, Minecraft, and several others are all vulnerable to a vulnerability that is trivially easy for hackers to exploit.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5SY59)
In the history of obnoxious ear-worm advertisements, nothing is worse than this 30 second jingle for Google cell phone service.
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by Rec Room Staff on (#5RQ1B)
Thoughtful gifts don't have to cost an arm and a leg, whether they're for home cooks, plant dads, streetwear buffs, or bougie babes.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5SWG0)
Facing mounting legislation and pushback from customers and shareholders, an embattled John Deere looks to the SEC to keep it from answering questions.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5STZS)
The only way I can get through the rest of this year is in a deep marijuana-induced coma.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5STZT)
Wikipedia editors agreed that Wales’ post about the auction violated the site's rules about self-promotion.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5SSJ3)
Grimes let us know she appreciates nuclear power in a video with TikTok nuke influencer Isodope.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5SRXQ)
The complicated pieces at the heart of LEGO's new Star Wars set is frustrating some fans.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5SN7B)
AI systems aren’t living up to the promise of science fiction, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t being deployed in dangerous ways.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5SMWQ)
“There’s going to be a lot of stupid stuff and lots of bad stuff,” the Wikipedia co-founder said of NFTs. “But there is something quite interesting in all of it as well."
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by Matthew Gault on (#5SJ7V)
Ulbricht is serving life in prison for his role in running the notorious Silk Road drug market, but that didn't stop Bitcoiners from coming for him.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5SH2A)
NFT apes escape a dying planet on the Musk-1 spaceship in this animated short executive produced by 2 Chainz.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5SGJR)
For just under $4 grand, you can own a bulky gun that will launch a metal rod across the room about as fast as a BB gun.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5SFQ5)
Heidecker puts the emptiness of Rogan on display by embodying him for 12 straight hours.
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by Rimal Farrukh on (#5SFQ6)
Zia Chishti has resigned from his billion-dollar artificial intelligence company Afiniti after the allegations emerged at a congressional hearing.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5SA00)
The new group will coordinate efforts across branches in an effort to figure out what, exactly, is flying around up there.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5S9WW)
If you got all your financial advice from a hamster, your portfolio is in serious trouble because he’s dead.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5S9SS)
Sky Global makes an encrypted messaging app that Washington says is popular among the criminal underground.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5S89X)
‘The Pizzagate Massacre’ is the best movie about the Trump era, and now everyone can finally watch it.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5S7A2)
President Bukele’ scheme is the latest in a long line of plans to offer places where people can park their crypto wealth without paying taxes.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5S3XW)
The biggest names in the fight to let you fix your own stuff come onto Cyber and explain Apple’s change of heart.
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by Becky Ferreira on (#5S3XV)
Space scientists Abel Méndez, Génesis Ferrer, and Arianna Colón Cesaní spoke with Motherboard about the incalculable impact of Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5S2VN)
An artist and programer in Australia has uploaded 15 Terabytes of NFTs to a server. Here’s the torrent for them.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5S180)
In a major shift in policy, Apple says it will sell the parts and tools necessary for DIY iPhone repair.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5RZTS)
When Captain Lou ordered toilet paper from Amazon, he had no idea he’d end up with a Sprinter van, too.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5RYHG)
Inflation, a labor strike, and the lack of repairability on newer models is a perfect storm that’s sent prices surging.
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by Nick Robins-Early on (#5RY0W)
Facebook, it has become increasingly clear, cannot be trusted to govern itself.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5RVK2)
Kingship is the brainchild of UMG executives who want to build a Gorillaz-style band for the metaverse cobbled together from marketing buzzwords and NFTs.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5RV94)
The ultimate in right-click mentality is saving thousands of NFTs and forming them into a collage depicting a hand right-clicking to save.
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by Matthew Gault on (#5RV2S)
Silicon Valley is rushing to build the next big thing, and people should be skeptical of their intent.
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