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Sea Monsters, Voice-Controlled Faucets, And an Ode to Flypaper: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Sea Monsters, Voice-Controlled Faucets, And an Ode to Flypaper: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

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Sea Monsters, Voice-Controlled Faucets, And an Ode to Flypaper: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week Because I am, at my core, a basic bitch, I have a sign in my office that says “Today is a good day for a good day” (in garish sparkly gold and white letters naturally). It’s a sentiment that’s been harder to believe in these days, what with the universe apparently going through its rolodex of cataclysmic events, but I…Read more... Go to Source
FDA Grants Emergency Authorization for Covid-19 Plasma Treatments Because Science Schmience

FDA Grants Emergency Authorization for Covid-19 Plasma Treatments Because Science Schmience

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FDA Grants Emergency Authorization for Covid-19 Plasma Treatments Because Science Schmience The Food and Drug and Administration has issued an emergency use authorization for convalescent blood plasma as an experimental treatment for covid-19 patients. And President Donald Trump, per his usual M.O., found a way to put himself at the center of the announcement—no doubt in a bid to drum up some good press on…Read more... Go to Source

Lousiana Braces for Unprecedented Back-to-Back Hurricane Strikes

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Lousiana Braces for Unprecedented Back-to-Back Hurricane Strikes Two hurricanes are forecasted to slam the Gulf Coast this week, and Lousiana could see back-to-back landfalls in an unprecedented succession. Marco strengthened from a tropical storm to a Category 1 hurricane over the weekend, and the latest National Hurricane Center forecast has it hitting the southeastern coast of…Read more... Go to Source
This Video Will Train You to Hold Your Breath for an Incredibly Long Time

This Video Will Train You to Hold Your Breath for an Incredibly Long Time

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This Video Will Train You to Hold Your Breath for an Incredibly Long Time As a lifelong asthmatic, I am the least-likely person to win a breath-holding contest (which is fine because it means I am also the most likely to win the “coolest person you know” contest, because there is nothing more badass than getting winded after a light jog on a cold day). But thanks to a method of breathing…Read more... Go to Source
A Meta-Theory of Physics Could Explain Life, the Universe, Computation, and More

A Meta-Theory of Physics Could Explain Life, the Universe, Computation, and More

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A Meta-Theory of Physics Could Explain Life, the Universe, Computation, and More You may think of physics as a way to explain the behaviors of things like black holes, colliding particles, falling apples, and quantum computers. But a small group physicists today is working on a theory that doesn’t just study individual phenomena; it’s an entirely new way to describe the universe itself. This…Read more... Go to Source
The Batman Has Landed With a Brutal, Excellent First Trailer

The Batman Has Landed With a Brutal, Excellent First Trailer

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The Batman Has Landed With a Brutal, Excellent First Trailer It’s raining Batman these days but Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Jeffrey Wright, Colin Farrell, John Turturro, Peter Sarsgaard, Andy Serkis, Paul Dano, and Jayme Lawson star in Matt Reeves’ The Batman. And DC Fandome gave us our first legitimate look at the upcoming superhero film in the form of a two-minute teaser…Read more... Go to Source
Zack Snyder’s Justice League Is Four Hours Long and Here’s the Epic Trailer

Zack Snyder’s Justice League Is Four Hours Long and Here’s the Epic Trailer

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Zack Snyder's Justice League Is Four Hours Long and Here's the Epic Trailer We’ve had glimpses. We’ve had black suits. We’ve had to wait for it, after years of anger and hearsay, for it to actually be given life. Now, we can behold it in action: because finally, our first proper look at the fabled Snyder Cut of Justice League is here.Read more... Go to Source
How to Deal With This TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube Data Breach

How to Deal With This TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube Data Breach

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How to Deal With This TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube Data Breach An improperly-secured cloud database has exposed personal information for over 235 million TikTok, Instagram and YouTube accounts. The Hong Kong-based company Social Data was unknowingly storing the data in a database without proper password protection, meaning anyone could pop in and see it. Ugh.Read more... Go to Source
Duncan Is An Unflinching Portrait of a Pizzagater

Duncan Is An Unflinching Portrait of a Pizzagater

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Duncan Is An Unflinching Portrait of a Pizzagater In 2016, a heavily armed North Carolina man barged into a Washington, DC-area pizza joint, intending to investigate a baseless conspiracy theory that it was secretly torturing children in a basement it didn’t actually have. Shots were fired and panic ensued, but no one was physically harmed. Improbably, those…Read more... Go to Source

Some Incredible Jurassic Park Movie-Making Memorabilia Is Going Up for Auction Next Week

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Some Incredible Jurassic Park Movie-Making Memorabilia Is Going Up for Auction Next Week Jurassic Park ushered in a new era of digital visual effects in Hollywood, but did you know the filmmakers originally planned to bring the movie’s dinosaurs to life using stop-motion animation? Twenty-seven years after the film’s release, some of the incredibly rare puppets used to create Jurassic Park’s earliest dino…Read more... Go to Source
Mods? MODS!?: Facebook’s QAnon Ban Is Too Little Too Late

Mods? MODS!?: Facebook’s QAnon Ban Is Too Little Too Late

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Mods? MODS!?: Facebook's QAnon Ban Is Too Little Too Late Content and moderation decisions by tech companies are increasingly the focus of unending kicking and screaming—to the point where it’s now essentially a campaign plank for at least one of the U.S.’s major political parties. The likes of Facebook, Twitter, and Google are also trying to convince the public how well…Read more... Go to Source
Fun Game Ruined by Reality

Fun Game Ruined by Reality

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Fun Game Ruined by Reality I love video games. The popular battle royale game Fortnite, however, is not one of them. That’s probably a good thing for the planet because new data shows that the game is really carbon-intensive. Sorry to my 11-year-old nephew and millions of others, though, who play.Read more... Go to Source
Apple Strikes Back By Making Epic Games Look Like Jackasses, But It Seems to Have Backfired

Apple Strikes Back By Making Epic Games Look Like Jackasses, But It Seems to Have Backfired

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Apple Strikes Back By Making Epic Games Look Like Jackasses, But It Seems to Have Backfired Apple is claiming that Epic Games asked for a “special deal” to bypass its in-app purchase policies in a filing it released today. According to CNBC, former Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller, now a Fellow with the company, said Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney asked “for a ‘side letter’ from Apple that would create…Read more... Go to Source
Add the Prospect of ‘Gigafires’ to Your List of 2020 Horrors

Add the Prospect of ‘Gigafires’ to Your List of 2020 Horrors

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Add the Prospect of ‘Gigafires’ to Your List of 2020 Horrors On top of the global pandemic and increasingly nightmarish election race, good chunks of the country are spending the last bits of their summer dealing with one of the most brutal wildfire seasons to date. So brutal, in fact, experts turning to new words to describe just how unprecedented this year’s California…Read more... Go to Source
What to Know About Covid-19 and Frozen Foods

What to Know About Covid-19 and Frozen Foods

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What to Know About Covid-19 and Frozen Foods Scientists are seriously investigating the possibility that refrigerated and frozen meat could be contaminated with the coronavirus that causes covid-19. Officials in New Zealand and China have even speculated that imported frozen foods could be behind recent local cases, but, for now, there’s no good evidence that…Read more... Go to Source