Tesla Halts Rollout of FSD Beta to Drivers with ‘Perfect’ Safety Scores

Tesla planned to release beta version 10.2 to roughly 1,000 drivers on Friday, but it didn't happen. Musk cited "last-minute concerns about the build." | Continue reading


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Chrome's New RSS Feature Rolling Out to Android Users Now

It makes it so much easier to follow what your favorite sites are posting. | Continue reading


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Mining Bitcoin Using Nuclear Power May Be Fine

It's not the world-changing solution some technofuturists think it is—but there are some interesting possibilities. | Continue reading


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The Expanse Season 6 First Teaser and Premiere Date: NYCC 2021

At New York Comic Con 2021, the Amazon sci-fi series announced a December return for its sixth and final season. | Continue reading


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WhatsApp Swallowed Half the World

When the app suffered a six hour outage this week, millions of people's lives were thrown into turmoil. Why were they there at all? | Continue reading


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Earth Is Getting Dimmer; Decades of earthshine data show planet is less bright

Decades of earthshine data show the planet is less bright than it used to be. | Continue reading


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Ozy Media's Lies Made It Go Up in Flames

The media company announced it was closing on Friday after a week of dramatic revelations. | Continue reading


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Russia Threatens Retaliation After YouTube Deletes RT Germany Account

RT Germany's YouTube account was deleted for spreading misinformation about covid-19. | Continue reading


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So Much Ice Has Melted, That the Earth’s Crust Is Shifting in Weird, New Ways

Nowhere can escape climate change. Even the Earth's crust is feeling the impact of rising temperatures and melting ice. | Continue reading


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Leaked Facebook Docs Depict Kids as 'Untapped' Wealth

Kids between 10 and 12 are a 'valuable but untapped audience,' company research says. | Continue reading


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Babylon 5 Reboot in the Works on the CW

J. Michael Straczynski returns to his beloved sci-fi series for a new reboot on the CW. | Continue reading


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One Doctor Who Fan Brought Color to the Show's Classic Era

Doctor Who fan and professional colorizer Rich Tipple tells io9 how he restored some of the show's earliest stories in technicolor glory in his spare time. | Continue reading


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Amazon Wants to Put a Giant Echo on Your Wall

The company has a slew of Echo gadgets in the works, some of which we may see next week. | Continue reading


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200k-Year-Old Hand Art Found Near a Tibetan Hot Spring

The carefully arranged impressions may have been made by children. | Continue reading


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The Endangered Internet Archive Is Full of Treasures

The Internet Archive set out in the 1990s with an improbable mission to become the “Library of Alexandria Two”; by 2020, they’ve arguably surpassed that goal, plus delivered their collection straight to the masses. It’s the only repository where a NASA recap of the Space Shuttle … | Continue reading


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Archaeologists See Ancient Teotihuacán with Aerial Mapping Tech

Lidar scans of the Teotihuacán Valley reveal how the landscape was engineered centuries ago. | Continue reading


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FBI Had Ransomware Decryption Key for Weeks Before Giving It to Victims

After the Kaseya attack, the feds somehow came into possession of a decryption key but waited nearly a month before delivering it into the hands of businesses. | Continue reading


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Why eugenics will always fail

I don’t think I’m taking a bold stance by saying that any real attempt at eugenics is indefensible. Practically speaking, though, eugenics is just as much of a bust as it is morally. We can’t positively select for “better people,” and we may face dire consequences if we try to we … | Continue reading


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App Annie Fined $10M in Case That Is the Future of Insider Trading

The scheme involves people's private data, some secret algorithms, and a lot of apps. | Continue reading


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Mysterious QUX kickstarter device by MAGA supporters

Is it a streaming box? An end-to-end encrypted content-sharing network? Or a store? What? | Continue reading


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Inventor of 'Game of Life' and Prop Designer for Star Trek Dies

The Milton Bradley game was invented in 1960 and has sold an estimated 70 million copies worldwide. | Continue reading


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Lawmakers Ask Zuck to Drop 'Instagram for Kids' Since App Made Kids Suicidal

A separate group of Senators is also launching an investigation into Instagram claiming it's working with a whistleblower. | Continue reading


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A Vanished Supernova Will Reappear in 16 Years

Three dots of light reached Earth in 2016, then disappeared. A fourth is still on its way. | Continue reading


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FEC Finds Twitter Blocking Hunter Biden Story Wasn't Illegal Campaign Donation

Moderation decisions aren't an "illegal in-kind contribution," the FEC told the National Republican Committee. | Continue reading


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Seriously Scary Radioactive Products from the 20th Century (2013)

Before we understood that radiation exposure can be deadly, people thought it was just a fun ingredient to make things glow. Here are some of the amazing, disturbing products from those simpler times. None of these would be deemed even remotely safe today. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Steve Wozniak Appears to Be Launching a Space Garbage Company

Space needs a burdensome and expensive deep clean, and Woz's Privateer apparently wants to take care of the mess. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

NLOS Keyhole Imaging Can See Inside a Closed Room

If you're worried about privacy, it might be time to cover up your front door's peephole. | Continue reading


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The World’s Biggest Plant to Suck Carbon Dioxide from the Sky Is Up and Running

The new plant can suck carbon dioxide from the air and turn it to stone underground, sequestering 4,000 tons of pollution a year. | Continue reading


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Stern’s Pinball Machines Are Getting Gaming Console Features

Stern is borrowing features from video game consoles to entice pinball players. | Continue reading


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WhatsApp Moderators Can Read Your Messages

WhatsApp isn't the impenetrable private messaging service Facebook likes to claim, ProPublica finds. | Continue reading


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Amazon Is Reportedly Making Its Own TVs Because of Course It Is

The Alexa microwaves weren't enough, so Amazon-branded TVs are rumored to launch as early as October. | Continue reading


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GoDaddy Boots Texas Right to Life Abortion 'Whistleblower' Site

GoDaddy said it had given the pro-life tip line 24 hours to find a new hosting provider. | Continue reading


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Why the New York Subway Keeps Flooding–and What to Do About It

Rains once again inundated the New York subway system, showing how vulnerable it remains to water nearly a decade after Sandy. | Continue reading


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Larry Ellison's Oracle Started as a CIA Project (2014)

Yesterday, Vox somehow managed to write an entire article about the history of Oracle and its founder Larry Ellison without mentioning the CIA even once. Which is pretty astounding, given the fact that Oracle takes its name from a 1977 CIA project codename. And that the CIA was O … | Continue reading


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How to Turn Your Car into a Tiny Camper

Whether you plan to hit the road for weeks at a time or just take the kids on a road trip, you need some gear for your car. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

The World Is Officially Free of Leaded Gasoline

The announcement marks the end of a decades-long fight against a deadly decision made by the automobile industry 100 years ago. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Hurricane Ida Reversed the Mississippi River

The storm packed such a punch that it changed the course of the powerful river. | Continue reading


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Apple Announces Free Repair Program for iPhone 12 Models with Receiver Issues

The company said that “a very small percentage” of the devices may experience sound issues due to a faulty component on the receiver module. | Continue reading


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Online Trolls Just Assholes All the Time, Study Finds

New research indicates the internet doesn't make people act like jerks, but it sure gives the jerks a big megaphone. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

A determined hacker has brought Google Maps to the NES

Plan your next road trip using 8-bit pixels and sprites. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

New Study Confirms It's Much Safer to Get Vaccinated Than to Catch Covid-19

In real-world data from Israel, adverse events like heart inflammation were much more common in infected people than those vaccinated with the Pfizer shot. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Behold, Carbon-Free Steel Now Exists

HYBRIT, a partnership between a mining firm, an electric utility, and a steel company, made the world's first delivery of clean steel to Volvo. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Researchers Set Distance Record for 6G Transmission

Don't ditch your 5G smartphone just yet, it's going to be almost a decade before 6G arrives. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Windows 11 Is Making It Absurdly Difficult to Change Browsers

In a page ripped right out of the '90s, Microsoft reminds us that it's still engaging in the browser wars. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Apple Is Fixing One of the Worst Parts of iOS 15

In an un-Apple-like move, it will give users the ability to opt-out of Safari's controversial redesign. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Secret FBI Watchlist Leaks Online

The watchlist, which included 1.9 million records, was left exposed online for three weeks, according to the researcher who found it. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Sidney Powell’s 'Intelligence Contractor' Witness Sues Dominion for $3.4B

Dominion supposedly failed to disprove the Pro-Trump podcaster's widely rejected theories. She's pumping out fresh material daily. | Continue reading


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Saturn Has a 'Fuzzy' Core, Ring Ripples Reveal

Saturn may have a "fuzzy" core, according to new research. | Continue reading


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