Early Data on Omicron: There's Good News and Bad News

Preliminary studies are finding that vaccines may not provide as much protection from Omicron, but hybrid or boosted immunity may remain robust. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Controversial Assisted Suicide Pod Cleared for Use in Switzerland

The unit helps a patient painlessly end their life by flooding the chamber with nitrogen. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Spotify pulls content of comedians fighting to get royalties for their work

Comedians John Mulaney, Jim Gaffigan, and Kevin Hart are part of a group of comedy writers seeking to be paid for the copyright on their jokes. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

What We Will Never Know

Science and technology have evolved, but some things may always be beyond human knowledge. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

1 in 44 US children are diagnosed with Autism

Greater awareness of the developmental condition is leading to more children being diagnosed and at an earlier age, but some gaps remain. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Inventors Killed by Their Own Inventions [slides]

Inventing can be kind of a dangerous business—as these pioneers show. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Hundreds of Malicious Servers on the Tor Network Might Be De-Anonymizing Users

New research shows a threat actor has taken over a substantial portion of the privacy-protecting service. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

How to Spot Leonard, the Brightest Comet of the Year

Views of Leonard with the unaided eye are a distinct possibility, as the “ultrafast” comet makes a brief trip through the inner solar system. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Fascists Are Weaponizing Twitter's New 'Private Media' Rule

A new Twitter rule against sharing "personal media" without consent is predictably being gamed by the far right. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Google Can Now Help You Navigate the Mess That Is American Healthcare

You can quickly find out if your doctor takes your insurance and whether they speak your language. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

United Flies First Plane with 100% ‘Sustainable Aviation Fuel’

It's a notable milestone, yes. But decarbonizing air travel has a loooooong way to go, and sustainable fuel isn't all it's cracked up to be just yet. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Trying to Clean Up All the Ocean Plastic Is Pointless

A pollution expert on why any attempt to rid the ocean of plastic completely is doomed to fail—and what we actually need to be focusing on. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Zoom's New Attendance Tool Will Snitch on Attendees Who Are Late to a Meeting

Meeting participants who have been invited but who have not joined will be siloed into a “Not Joined” section. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Analysis of 5.9M PredPol crime predictions left on public server

Millions of crime predictions left on an unsecured server show PredPol mostly avoided Whiter neighborhoods, targeted Blacks and Latino neighborhoods. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Elon Musk Frantically Warns Employees of Potential SpaceX Bankruptcy

Musk advised employees to work over the weekend after reading Raptor engine production issues were far worse than previously thought. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Rushing and spending loads of money did not help deliver more cars

The Tesla CEO said rushing and spending loads of money did not help the company deliver more cars in the long run. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Owlet Stops Selling Its Baby Monitoring Smart Socks After FDA Warning Letter

The FDA said the company's products are medical devices, but that Owlet had not obtained proper approvals for them. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Clothes from 8k Years Ago Were Made from Trees, New Research Suggests

Woven textiles from an archaeological site in Turkey weren’t made from wool or linen as suspected, but from something else entirely. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Ending Has Forever Puzzled and Fascinated Me

Harrison Ford, Sean Connery and Steven Spielberg's 1989 adventure has such a curious ending | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Conservative MP Nick Fletcher Blames Crime on Female Doctor Who

Conservative MP Nick Fletcher was leading a Parliamentary debate for International Men's Day. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Webb Telescope Not Damaged Following Recent Incident, NASA Says

The $10 billion space telescope is now scheduled to launch on December 22. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

The UK Just Banned Default Passwords for IoT Devices

The new bill would require unique passwords for IoT devices and would prevent those passwords from being reset to universal factory default. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

John Deere Reports $6B Profit After Fighting Workers over Meager Wages

Would have been relevant information for 10,000 workers who struck for five weeks to get a living wage. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

The TikTok-Ification of Spotify Has Begun

Another day, another app taking TikTok's signature vertical video feed for a spin. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Southern California May Spend Thanksgiving on Fire, in the Dark

The Santa Ana winds kicking up and combining with unusually low humidity could create a dangerous Thanksgiving. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Tesla Self-Driving Beta Drivers to Be Recorded When They Crash

Tesla's new requirement speaks to a larger issue around privacy trade-offs with certain types of in-car driver monitoring systems. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Privacy-Protective Internet Browser Tor Is Low on Servers

The Tor Project has launched a campaign to encourage volunteers to run private bridge servers. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

CDC Finds No Smallpox in Frozen Vials Suspiciously Labeled ‘Smallpox’

The vials contained vaccinia virus, which is used as the base of past and present smallpox vaccines. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

DuckDuckGo Privacy Tool: App Tracking Protection for Android

The company's newest feature takes aim at the pesky trackers lurking in your mobile phone. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

The Search for Life Around Alpha Centauri Just Took a Major Leap Forward

A telescope dedicated to looking for potentially habitable planets around the nearest stars could be operational by 2023. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Surreal Deep-Sea Photos Show Glitter Worms and Upside-Down Lakes [slides]

Images from a recent deep-sea expedition off the coast of Mexico sheds light on the little-understood life in the deepest oceans. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Instagram Has Announced a New Feature Called 'Rage Shake'

Instagram head Adam Mosseri encouraged users to let out their rage when the app doesn't work and shake their phones to report the problem. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Bill Gates-Backed TerraPower Picks Wyoming for First Advanced Nuclear Reactor

The plant would be built near a retiring coal plant and would mark one of the first large-scale demonstrations of a sodium-cooled reactor. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Star Trek Discovery Is Lost to Most of the World, Days Before Its S4 Premiere

In a shocking move, the hundreds of countries who watch Discovery on Netflix will now have no legal way to stream the show, or its new season. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

A 1980s Space Telescope May Have Seen Planet Nine

Observations by the first infrared space telescope saw something weird beyond Uranus. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Sound Waves Propel This Indoor Camera Drone for a Safer, Quieter Experience

Crashes would be no more catastrophic than a ball bouncing on the floor. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Miami Plans to Give Out Bitcoin in Its Quest for Crypto Utopia

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez has announced that residents are getting crypto disbursements. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Rolls-Royce Is Getting into the Small Nuclear Reactor Business

The company has reaped a combination of overseas investment and UK government money to kickstart a division to make small modular reactors. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Company Wants to Launch Satellites into Orbit Using a Giant Spinning Slingshot

It's cheaper and safer than burning rocket fuel, but satellites have to be built Tonka-tough. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Microsoft new laptops for schools to be repairable

With a $250 student laptop running a lightweight version of Windows 11, it sure seems like Microsoft is trying to take Google's lunch money. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Robinhood hack compromises millions of customer email addresses and names

The trading platform said Monday that a social engineering scheme had compromised millions of users' names and email addresses. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

You.com Launches in Beta as a Privacy-Focused Search Alternative to Google

The new search engine is billed as an ad-free experience designed to "summarize the best parts of the internet." | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Space Force Detects Mystery Object in Orbit Alongside Chinese Satellite

They’re calling it an “apogee kick motor,” but the object’s true identity and purpose remain unknown. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Google Says the Pixel 6's Slower Fingerprint Sensor Is Due to Enhanced Security

It seems Google is erring on the side of caution when it comes to the speed of the Pixel 6's in-screen fingerprint sensor. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Elon Musk Is Officially in the Texas Electricity Business

The SpaceX and Tesla billionaire has his sights set on a new venture: selling electricity in the Lone Star State. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Apple Fixes macOS Monterey Bug That Left Macs Unable to Turn on After Update

The bug was related to an issue with the firmware on the Apple T2 security chip, which is used on 16 Mac models released from 2018 to 2020. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Mattel Wanted Remote Workers to Be OK with Regular Surprise Visits from the Boss

"Seasonal Customer Service Home Agents" are also required to work in a closed-door area with no distractions and be free from taking care of others. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago

Science Publisher Retracts 44 Papers for Being Utter Nonsense

Unadulterated gibberish snuck into Springer Nature’s Arabian Journal of Geosciences, and not for the first time. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 3 years ago