This $30 Fountain Pen Got Me Writing by Hand Again
This $30 Fountain Pen Got Me Writing by Hand Again
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White House Says It Won’t Help Global Vaccine Effort to Spite China, World Health Organization
White House Says It Won't Help Global Vaccine Effort to Spite China, World Health Organization
The U.S. won’t contribute to an international effort to develop a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes covid-19, the White House said on Tuesday, because it involves the “corrupt World Health Organization” and China.Read more...
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The CDC (Trump) Says It’s Halting Evictions
The CDC (Trump) Says It's Halting Evictions
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may or may not have the authority to halt evictions, but it plans to swing for the fences regardless. Effective immediately, it—or more accurately, Trump—plans to enact the sort of eviction moratoria tried in many states nationwide. Read more...
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Zuckerberg Drops $300 Million to Support U.S. Elections
Zuckerberg Drops $300 Million to Support U.S. Elections
Citing the unprecedented strain the coronavirus has wrought on the U.S. election system, Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday announced that he and wife Priscilla Chan are donating $300 million to increase voter turnout and bolster state and local election security efforts.Read more...
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Gear Up and Get Your Game On in Today’s Best Xbox Deals
Gear Up and Get Your Game On in Today’s Best Xbox Deals
Featured Deal: Xbox Game Pass Ultimate (3 Months) | $29 | CDKeysRead more...
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The One Good Scene in: The Last Airbender
The One Good Scene in: The Last Airbender
M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender is not a good movie. By all standards—but especially when compared to the animated series—it’s a waste of time. But even the worst cinematic experiences will usually have something about them that works.Read more...
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Aukey’s 12-in-1 USB-C Hub Lets You Connect Up to Three Monitors to Your Laptop, Now Just $56
Aukey's 12-in-1 USB-C Hub Lets You Connect Up to Three Monitors to Your Laptop, Now Just $56
Aukey 12-in-1 USB-C Hub | $50 | Amazon | Use code VHCUZN84 Read more...
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This Is a Story About Abortion, No One Will Read It
This Is a Story About Abortion, No One Will Read It
This story was supposed to be about abortion pills. I intended to write about how a federal judge temporarily suspended the Food and Drug Administration rule that forced patients to pick up the pills in person, from either a hospital or clinic—a significant barrier to early abortion. But when I pitched the editor of…Read more...
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Nvidia Announces the Next Generation of GPUs That Really Matter—And They’re Beasts
Nvidia Announces the Next Generation of GPUs That Really Matter—And They're Beasts
Nvidia has consistently maintained its status as the lead creator of graphics cards, pioneering the transition to fancy lighting effects like ray tracing in games. Now that Nvidia’s officially announced its next-gen GPUs and the rumor mill is put to rest, we know just how much fancier its GPUs are going to get from…Read more...
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How Face Shields and Valve Masks Fail to Stop Infectious Droplets, as Shown by Lasers
How Face Shields and Valve Masks Fail to Stop Infectious Droplets, as Shown by Lasers
A new study using lasers suggests that face shields and masks outfitted with an exhaust valve aren’t particularly great at protecting others from tiny respiratory droplets containing contagious germs like the coronavirus that causes covid-19. These aerosols can spill through and around these types of face equipment,…Read more...
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Facebook Threatens to Ban Australian Users From Posting Any News Content
Facebook Threatens to Ban Australian Users From Posting Any News Content
Facebook has threatened to ban all news content for users in Australia if a law proposed by the Australian government moves forward, according to a press release published by the social media company late Monday. Facebook’s ban on news would apply to both news organizations and individual users in Australia and is…Read more...
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Waze Drivers, Welcome to the Batmobile
Waze Drivers, Welcome to the Batmobile
Waze, Google’s driving and traffic app, is letting users drive with Kevin Conroy, the best Batman voice, as their personal navigator beginning today. Read more...
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Duh: FBI Warned Doorbell Cams Can Also Tip Suspects Off to Approaching Cops
Duh: FBI Warned Doorbell Cams Can Also Tip Suspects Off to Approaching Cops
The FBI warned in a November 2019 bulletin that smart video doorbells, such as Amazon’s Ring or Google’s Nest Hello cameras, could tip off suspects that police are coming for them, according to a Monday report in the Intercept.Read more...
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The Best Mattresses, According to Our Readers
The Best Mattresses, According to Our Readers
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How to Prepare for the Next Time the Cloud Goes Down
How to Prepare for the Next Time the Cloud Goes Down
Internet access is pretty essential to get anything done these days, whether it’s chatting with working-from-home colleagues in Slack, binge-watching the latest hit Netflix show, or writing up reports in Google Docs. Most of the apps we rely on run from the cloud, and it’s all too easy to just assume the cloud will…Read more...
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Predicting Big Tech’s Antitrust Outcome With Oregon Trail Ended Miserably—But No One Died
Predicting Big Tech's Antitrust Outcome With Oregon Trail Ended Miserably—But No One Died
I downloaded a Mac OS 8 emulator a few weeks ago—not just because it looked cool, but because I had a serious hankering for some classic Oregon Trail. The app itself is pretty neat. It’s made by the same Slack developer, Felix Rieseberg, who also made a Windows 95 emulator. It’s not a fully functioning Mac OS 8…Read more...
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Snag a Laptop, Desktop, or Printer on the Cheap in HP’s Labor Day Sale
Snag a Laptop, Desktop, or Printer on the Cheap in HP’s Labor Day Sale
The back-to-school sale season is coming to a close, but fear not: That just means it’s time for Labor Day sales to begin. Luckily, HP has another banger batch of bargains to peruse with its own Labor Day Sale. Right now, you can snag a new Windows laptop for desktop for as low as $400 direct from HP, with larger…Read more...
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Behold Scott Pruitt’s Soundproof Panic Room, As Seen From His Other Panic Room
Behold Scott Pruitt's Soundproof Panic Room, As Seen From His Other Panic Room
Scandal boy Scott Pruitt’s tenure as Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator may now be long over, but the $43,000 paranoia chamber he had illegally installed in his office hasn’t seen the light of day until now.Read more...
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Finally Some Good News: September Is Overflowing With New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books
Finally Some Good News: September Is Overflowing With New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books
Movies are slowly trickling back into theaters, but a far safer option is to pick up one of September’s new books instead. And it’s a ridiculously bountiful month, with witches, warriors, time travelers, ghosts, robots, aliens, monsters, and space pirates to fire up your imagination without needing to leave the house.Read more...
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Rumor Claims We Could See a 12-Inch MacBook With Apple Silicon This Year, iMac in Late 2021
Rumor Claims We Could See a 12-Inch MacBook With Apple Silicon This Year, iMac in Late 2021
We know Apple’s going to launch products powered by its custom silicon soon. How soon and which products, however, are currently up for debate. However, a report from the China Times hints that the first Apple Silicon computer might arrive later this year—and it’d be an extremely lightweight 12-inch MacBook that…Read more...
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Lenovo Is Making a Gaming Laptop That Weighs Less Than 4 Pounds
Lenovo Is Making a Gaming Laptop That Weighs Less Than 4 Pounds
Lenovo is shrinking the chassis of the Legion 7i from 0.79 in. to 0.7 in., and the weight from 4.6 lbs to 3.9 lbs., making the up-coming Legion Slim 7i the lightest and slimmest gaming laptop it’s ever made. The company is attempting to tackle the holy-grail of laptop design: a laptop that is light, thin, and…Read more...
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Theaters Are Dead, but With This $54 Projector, Movie Night With the Fam Doesn’t Have to Be
Theaters Are Dead, but With This $54 Projector, Movie Night With the Fam Doesn't Have to Be
AuKing Mini Projector | $54 | Amazon | Promo Code 93VXYFN2Read more...
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The Demon Bear Brings The New Mutants Cast Pure Joy
The Demon Bear Brings The New Mutants Cast Pure Joy
It was a simple request: I’d say the words “Demon Bear,” and the cast of The New Mutants would tell me what pops into their heads. The results, as you can see above, were amazing.Read more...
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Man Who Famously Died From Covid Says Covid Isn’t Very Deadly
Man Who Famously Died From Covid Says Covid Isn't Very Deadly
Former presidential hopeful Herman Cain died of covid-19 on July 30, but that hasn’t stopped the man from tweeting. In fact, Cain (or whoever is running his account, if you don’t believe in ghosts) has been tweeting about a subject near and dear to his lifeless heart: How the coronavirus pandemic is overblown and not…Read more...
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Bounce Music and Why Social Distancing Is Complicated: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week
Bounce Music and Why Social Distancing Is Complicated: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week
It might not seem like
it since time is all out of whack during the pandemic, but in a few short
weeks, it will be fall. Anyone else have trouble knowing what month, or day, it
is? Read more...
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Stingy Slack Paid Researcher $1,750 for Finding ‘Critical’ Bug
Stingy Slack Paid Researcher $1,750 for Finding ‘Critical’ Bug
At times, we’ve come to you with stories about security researchers being paid thousands—and in some cases hundreds of thousands—of dollars by companies for finding critical bugs in well-known software or hardware. However, this time, the story is different. It’s about a company that was stingy, and that’s not cool.Read more...
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Eleven Elephants Were Found Dead in Zimbabwe And No One Knows Why
Eleven Elephants Were Found Dead in Zimbabwe And No One Knows Why
Park authorities in Zimbabwe are investigating the mysterious death of 11 elephants in the western region of the country after ruling out cyanide poisoning and poaching, according to a Sunday Associated Press report.Read more...
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New Mutants Made $7 Million at the Box Office, Which Is a Lot, Considering
New Mutants Made $7 Million at the Box Office, Which Is a Lot, Considering
Considering, y’know, the coronavirus. Read more...
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This Video Shows You How to Make Brilliant Fluorescent Lightsabers for Your Star Wars Action Figures
This Video Shows You How to Make Brilliant Fluorescent Lightsabers for Your Star Wars Action Figures
2020 seems like a good year to take up new hobbies. Let’s take that nice, collectible action figure collection you might have. Why not make it a bit more impressive?Read more...
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Chinese Government Decides to Throw Wrench Into Potential TikTok U.S. Deal
Chinese Government Decides to Throw Wrench Into Potential TikTok U.S. Deal
China has something to say about the potential deal to sell TikTok’s U.S. operations: not so fast. Read more...
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