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Faux-Pork, Feral Camels, Police Dogs, and Sex Tech: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Faux-Pork, Feral Camels, Police Dogs, and Sex Tech: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

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Faux-Pork, Feral Camels, Police Dogs, and Sex Tech: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week This week saw the comings and goings of another Consumer Electronics Show along with every oddity and wonder we’ve grown to expect therein. Amid checking out the event’s scores of other gadgets, Gizmodo’s folks on the floor got to build a vibrator, munch on some I-Can’t-Believe-It’s-Not-Pork, and scratch their heads…Read more... Go to Source
Be Careful What You Click On: This Texas School District Lost $2.3 Million in a Phishing Scam

Be Careful What You Click On: This Texas School District Lost $2.3 Million in a Phishing Scam

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Be Careful What You Click On: This Texas School District Lost $2.3 Million in a Phishing Scam Given that it’s the beginning of a new year, it’s important to remember to be careful what you click on. A school district in Texas learned this the hard way when it lost approximately $2.3 million due to a phishing email scam. Read more... Go to Source
U.S. Sanctions Are the Reason You’re Not Seeing Pro-Soleimani Posts on Instagram

U.S. Sanctions Are the Reason You’re Not Seeing Pro-Soleimani Posts on Instagram

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U.S. Sanctions Are the Reason You’re Not Seeing Pro-Soleimani Posts on Instagram Instagram is removing posts on its platform that support the slain Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani because of U.S. sanctions on the country. In the days after Soleimani was killed, Instagram and Twitter had been flooded with posts supporting him, which some considered a coordinated propaganda campaign, and calling for…Read more... Go to Source
This Featurette Explains Why Gretel & Hansel Is Returning to the Classic Fairy Tale

This Featurette Explains Why Gretel & Hansel Is Returning to the Classic Fairy Tale

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This Featurette Explains Why Gretel & Hansel Is Returning to the Classic Fairy Tale Gretel & Hansel is a stylish upcoming horror movie that bases its premise on a fairy tale we all know and have heard so often that there’s nothing left in it even remotely frightening. So why go back to that well? There are a lot of creepy houses in the woods—why pick that one?Read more... Go to Source
Syfy’s Chucky Series Is Officially on the Way

Syfy’s Chucky Series Is Officially on the Way

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Syfy's Chucky Series Is Officially on the Way Last year, we got news that, aside from the Child’s Play reboot, another updated take on the Chucky mythos might be on the way. And this weekend, at the Television Critics’ Association winter press tour, it was confirmed. Make room in your heart for more haunted puppet shenanigans, ‘cause Chucky’s back. Read more... Go to Source
SpaceX’s First Private Billionaire Passenger Launches Search for Girlfriend to Take on Trip Around the Moon

SpaceX’s First Private Billionaire Passenger Launches Search for Girlfriend to Take on Trip Around the Moon

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SpaceX’s First Private Billionaire Passenger Launches Search for Girlfriend to Take on Trip Around the Moon When SpaceX revealed the name of its first private passenger to fly around the moon, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, it wasn’t that much of a surprise. Being a billionaire helps when paying for the ticket, after all. However, Maezawa appears determined to control the narrative of his trip, and he wants one thing…Read more... Go to Source
The Weirdest and the Worst of CES 2020

The Weirdest and the Worst of CES 2020

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The Weirdest and the Worst of CES 2020 The tiniest tech companies and the largest tech companies, and plenty of in between sized tech companies descend on Las Vegas the first full week in January every single year. Their goal is to excite us with new products or advertise plenty of existing ones. In some cases their goal is just go get us to murmur the…Read more... Go to Source
Cartoon Network Has Posted the First Episodes of Thundercats Roar Online

Cartoon Network Has Posted the First Episodes of Thundercats Roar Online

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Cartoon Network Has Posted the First Episodes of Thundercats Roar Online Did you remember that the Thundercats were getting another reboot? I sure didn’t! Announced in 2018, Thundercats Roar is a new take on the tale of super space cats from Warner Bros. Set initially to air last year on Cartoon Network, the show has slightly slipped that release date but now rears its meowing head in the…Read more... Go to Source
Walmart Wants to Build 20,000-Square-Foot Automated Warehouses With Fleets of Robot Grocery Pickers

Walmart Wants to Build 20,000-Square-Foot Automated Warehouses With Fleets of Robot Grocery Pickers

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Walmart Wants to Build 20,000-Square-Foot Automated Warehouses With Fleets of Robot Grocery Pickers Walmart has unveiled a new initiative that aims to make in-store fulfillment, one of the biggest challenges for its online grocery business, more efficient. Say hello to Alphabot, a robotic fulfillment system that uses human labor and robot speed to pick more than 800 products per hour. Read more... Go to Source
One Of Climate Change’s Biggest Contributors Is In Your Car, But It’s Not Coming From The Tailpipe

One Of Climate Change’s Biggest Contributors Is In Your Car, But It’s Not Coming From The Tailpipe

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One Of Climate Change's Biggest Contributors Is In Your Car, But It’s Not Coming From The Tailpipe As you drive your internal combustion car, the engine is drinking gas, gobbling up air, and farting out a continuous stream of carbon dioxide, among other things. This is bad, because CO2 traps heat in the earth’s atmosphere, resulting in a runaway greenhouse effect that will leave earth a barren hellscape. But, there…Read more... Go to Source
This $5 Donut Dog Toy Is One of the Only Toys To Survive My Super Chewer

This $5 Donut Dog Toy Is One of the Only Toys To Survive My Super Chewer

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This $5 Donut Dog Toy Is One of the Only Toys To Survive My Super Chewer Hi guys, it’s Tyrone’s mom again! Have you missed my weekly musings about how wonderful Tyrone is? Me too. Well, I’m back to share one of Tyrone’s favorite toys. Just like his mama, Tyrone loves donuts. Except, his are sugar and carb-free and they squeak.Read more... Go to Source
Hummer Is Coming Back As An Electric Off-Road Pickup By GMC: Wall Street Journal

Hummer Is Coming Back As An Electric Off-Road Pickup By GMC: Wall Street Journal

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Hummer Is Coming Back As An Electric Off-Road Pickup By GMC: Wall Street Journal In the latest and juiciest of Hummer-related rumors, the Wall Street Journal claims that “people familiar with the matter” say GM is bringing back Hummer as an off-road electric pickup model under the GMC brand. Set to debut in early 2022, the truck will be shown off by basketball genius LeBron James during this…Read more... Go to Source
MIT Report Finds That Jeffrey Epstein Donated $850,000 to MIT Media Lab, Professor Seth Lloyd

MIT Report Finds That Jeffrey Epstein Donated $850,000 to MIT Media Lab, Professor Seth Lloyd

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MIT Report Finds That Jeffrey Epstein Donated $850,000 to MIT Media Lab, Professor Seth Lloyd Disgraced financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein donated $850,000 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, per a university investigation that has found ex-MIT Media Lab director Joichi Ito and mechanical engineering professor Seth Lloyd solicited the contributions.Read more... Go to Source
Can The Good Place Change, Well, Everything?

Can The Good Place Change, Well, Everything?

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Can The Good Place Change, Well, Everything? It’s all come to this. Everything they’ve been through has all happened so they could be here, together, as the very best version of themselves to solve the ultimate problem in the nick of time. “You’ve Changed, Man” may be the most important episode in the history of The Good Place. Read more... Go to Source
Samsung Saved Its Best New TV Tech for the Wrong Damn TVs

Samsung Saved Its Best New TV Tech for the Wrong Damn TVs

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Samsung Saved Its Best New TV Tech for the Wrong Damn TVs Samsungs’s new line of 8K televisions for 2020 takes a pretty incredible new approach to sounds. With additional speakers built into the TV set, including two that face up towards the ceiling, Samsung is able to get incredible, almost surround-sound-like sound stage, in a TV about as thick as your thumb. The problem…Read more... Go to Source