What Technology Has Accidentally Killed the Most People? Show me a museum of important historical inventors and I will show you a gallery of deluded mass murderers. I’m not talking about machine gun manufacturers or nuclear scientists—those people, at least, have some sense of what they’re up to. I’m talking about the folks behind the printing press, the automobile, various…Read more... Go to Source
Mining Company Not Sorry for Destroying 46,000-Year-Old Aboriginal Site: Report Executives at Rio Tinto are not sorry for destroying a 46,000-year-old Aboriginal heritage site in the state of Western Australia, according to a secret recording obtained by the Australian Financial Review. The mining company had previously expressed regret for the distress caused to some people, but didn’t actually…Read more... Go to Source
This Is the Only Good Reason for a Pipeline to Go Viral As we’ve said before, if we want to ensure we have a habitable climate on our planet in the future, we have to do something about fossil fuel infrastructure. This includes pipelines, which pose a risk to a risk to water, land, and human health. They also worsen climate change. Nonetheless, there is one good reason for…Read more... Go to Source
This Digital Art Gallery Used to Be a Nazi Submarine Base When it was built nearly eight decades ago, the Nazi submarine base in Bordeaux, France was meant to house 43 U-Boats, German submarines that wreaked havoc at sea during World War II. But there are no signs of submarines or war at the base today. Now, it is called Bassins de Lumières, and it is the world’s largest…Read more... Go to Source
Japanese Flip Phones, a Hidden Ancient Roman City, and Overrated Pastries: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week I hope everyone had a good week, except for my coworker Catie Keck who recently committed slander by calling macarons and oatmeal raisin cookies overrated. Fact: Those are fire and anyone who says otherwise is a cop. Read more... Go to Source
Germany's Coronavirus-Tracking App Set to Release This Week as Nation Reopens Germany will soon roll out its coronavirus-tracking smartphone app, the country’s health minister, Jens Spahn, announced Sunday.Read more... Go to Source
Looks like the Pixel 4a May Not Launch Until October Given everything that’s been going on, it may be a while yet before we get our hands on Google’s next mid-range phone.Read more... Go to Source
Catch up on the Resident Evil Series on the Go With a Sale on the Switch Collections Resident Evil Origins Collection | $31 | AmazonResident Evil Triple Pack | $44 | AmazonRead more... Go to Source
The Newest Crossing Swords Trailer Introduces a Messy, Vulgar Fantasy World Crossing Swords is a new comedy available on Hulu, and if you’re still on the fence about whether or not to check it out, this full trailer might provide some more insight. Read more... Go to Source
Everything Announced At The PC Gaming Show 2020 Even though we aren’t getting a proper E3 this year, we still got the annual PC Gaming show. The show didn’t have a ton of huge new announcements, but we did get some new trailers for games like Outlast Trials, Twin Mirror, and Weird West. And some new info about Mafia Definitive Edition and Total War Saga: Troy.Read more... Go to Source
Control Your Devices Easily With This $14 Compact Keyboard and Touchpad Mini Wireless Touchpad with Keyboard | $14 | Amazon | Use code CNPKEKMDRead more... Go to Source
Fox News Tries to Make Seattle Protests Seem Scarier With Crappy Photoshopping After failing to find photos sufficiently terrifying enough to support its fearmongering narrative about ongoing protests, Fox News apparently made its own.Read more... Go to Source
Rebecca Root Talks Being the First Transgender Companion in Doctor Who It’s a pretty harrowing being a trans person in the world right now, what with American policymakers taking away our rights and influential people using their platforms to decry our existence in so many terms. So any move to represent our experiences and just our sheer normalcy right now feels important. Meet Rebecca…Read more... Go to Source
Trump Administration Eliminates Transgender Health Care Protections During Pandemic In an utterly heartless move, the Trump administration on Friday eliminated health care protections for transgender people during an ongoing global pandemic that has claimed more lives in the U.S. than in any other country. Read more... Go to Source
Facebook Fires Employee Who Criticized Coworker's BLM Response, Protested Inaction on Trump Post Apparently taking a page from Amazon’s book on How to Snub Employees Who Voice Inconvenient Truths, this week Facebook canned an engineer who openly criticized the social media giant’s milquetoast response to ongoing Black Lives Matter protests and President Donald Trump’s incendiary online rhetoric.Read more... Go to Source
Everything We Know About The PlayStation 5 Yesterday, in an 85-minute event called “The Future of Gaming,” Sony finally revealed the PlayStation 5. Between the presenters who may not have been human, we got a thorough look at plenty of video games (and some technical stuff, too). The info feed surrounding the PS5 has been a slow drip, but, several months ahead…Read more... Go to Source
To Stop Deforestation, Give People Money Solutions to inequality are often portrayed as being at odds with environmental protection. It doesn’t have to be an either-or choice, though. A new study argues that an Indonesian program to help people out of poverty also saved trees. It shows that sometimes you just need to give people money.Read more... Go to Source
How to Delete Your Old Tweets Everything on the internet is forever, but that doesn’t mean your tweets need to be. There’s almost no reason to keep your old tweets public, so in the video above, I share a few ways to clean up your Twitter timeline.Read more... Go to Source
Amazon's Reportedly Fielding Probes From California, Washington State Over Trade Practices Officials in California and Washington State are investigating Amazon’s business practices with a focus on whether the tech giant abuses its power over third-party sellers on its online marketplace, according to reports from the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.Read more... Go to Source
Airbnb Agrees to Rat Out Its Hosts Like NYC Wants It To Airbnb has finally decided to settle it long-running lawsuit with regulators in New York City. The short-stay rental platform has agreed to hand over personal data about its hosts—like their phone numbers and email addresses, along with a full list of every home they’re putting on the platform—in order to help city…Read more... Go to Source
Researchers Have Found a Way to Listen In On Your Conversations Using Light Bulb Vibrations As if we didn’t have enough to be stressed about in 2020, researchers from the Cyber Security Labs at Ben Gurion University and the Weizmann Institute of Science have come up with a way to listen in on a room, even at long distances, using less than $1,000 worth of equipment that’s able to measure subtle light changes…Read more... Go to Source
How The Wing's Empire Was Built On Trauma, Racism, and Neglect On June 1, the women-only social club and coworking space The Wing shared an Instagram post that read “Black Lives Matter” in bold, yellow lettering. The graphic was a far cry from the millennial pink and muted tones that have defined The Wing’s aesthetic since it first opened in 2016, but the message, sent in…Read more... Go to Source
Facebook Pitched a Union-Busting Tool It Swears Was Really Just for Bullying As Mark Zuckerberg continues to cement himself as CEO of one of Silicon Valley’s most amoral tech titans—namely by profiting of the slow erosion of democracy—his company has managed to sink to a new level of abhorrent by pitching a tool that could be used to blacklist hashtags related to organized labor.Read more... Go to Source
Tesla Claiming It’s Sustainable Is Bullshit Tesla released its 2019 Impact Report touting its sustainability this week. In it, the electric car and renewable energy firm touted a bevy of accomplishments.Read more... Go to Source
Amazon has 12 Months of PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now for $42 Each PlayStation Plus 12-Month Subscription (Digital Code) | $42 | AmazonPlayStation Now 12-Month Subscription (Digital Code) | $42 | AmazonRead more... Go to Source
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