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Investigation Finds Widespread Rule-Breaking in Reporting of U.S. Clinical Trials
Investigation Finds Widespread Rule-Breaking in Reporting of U.S. Clinical Trials
Universities, drug companies, and government agencies are breaking the law and not turning in their science homework, according to a new report out Monday. It shows that many of these entities aren’t reporting the results of their research to the government’s database of clinical trials as legally mandated, while the…Read more...
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The Dream of a Common Charger Is Alive—Despite Apple’s Complaining
The Dream of a Common Charger Is Alive—Despite Apple's Complaining
The European Parliament is fed up with e-waste—in particular, charging cables. To fix the problem, lawmakers are debating a binding measure that would force gadget makers to use a standardized charging port. Read more...
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Morbius’ First Trailer Is Here and Jared Leto Is Out For Blood
Morbius' First Trailer Is Here and Jared Leto Is Out For Blood
Wild as it is to believe, Sony really meant what it said when the studio announced its plans to move forward with a movie about Morbius, Marvel Comics’ most famous vampire who isn’t Blade. While Morbius might not have been the Spider-Man villain one would expect to make it to the big screen so quickly, it’s definitely…Read more...
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Anker’s Super Convenient PowerPort Cube Is Down to Just $19
Anker's Super Convenient PowerPort Cube Is Down to Just $19
Anker PowerPort Cube | $19 | AmazonRead more...
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A Hotter Climate Will Kill Americans in Unexpected Ways, Study Finds
A Hotter Climate Will Kill Americans in Unexpected Ways, Study Finds
The world is gonna get a lot warmer. The unusually warm winter weekend that just ended for those of us in the Northeast is a reminder of what that’ll look like. Sure, it was kinda nice to spend some time outside in a t-shirt in January. But a new study has found that warmer days could be more deadly, even in winter.Read more...
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Coke Energy Made Me Realize Other Energy Drinks Taste Like Ass
Coke Energy Made Me Realize Other Energy Drinks Taste Like Ass
I’ll admit I’m a sucker when it comes to weird and wild junk food flavors. When I’m traveling and stumble into a new flavor of Doritos, KitKats or other trash I can’t get at home, I just have to try it. So a couple of months ago when I was in Japan and saw a can with a familiar logo and the words Coke Energy written…Read more...
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A New Machine Keeps Livers Alive Outside the Human Body for an Entire Week
A New Machine Keeps Livers Alive Outside the Human Body for an Entire Week
A new system is capable of maintaining a human liver outside the body for seven days, during which time the damaged organ can be repaired and prepared for transplantation. Read more...
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White House Tweets ‘First Snow of the Year’ On Same Day It Hits 70 Degrees in Washington D.C.
White House Tweets 'First Snow of the Year' On Same Day It Hits 70 Degrees in Washington D.C.
The White House tweeted out this photo last night, declaring “First snow of the year!” The tweet confused a lot of people to say the least, largely because it didn’t snow at all in Washington, D.C. yesterday. In fact, it reached 70 degrees on Sunday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service.Read more...
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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
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...
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After Saving a Species Through Sheer Horniness, This Tortoise is Heading Home
After Saving a Species Through Sheer Horniness, This Tortoise is Heading Home
One absolute unit of a tortoise is retiring from his rampant sex crusade after practically single-handedly saving his species from extinction.Read more...
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Why Won’t Jeff Bezos Send Dick Picks to Help Save the Koalas?
Why Won't Jeff Bezos Send Dick Picks to Help Save the Koalas?
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has been making headlines lately after giving $690,000 (1 million in Australian dollars) to help Australia recover after devastating bushfires burned 26.4 million acres—and counting.Read more...
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Adam Pally Tells All About the Day He Punched Baby Yoda
Adam Pally Tells All About the Day He Punched Baby Yoda
The Mandalorian’s biggest criminal finally tells his side of the story. Read more...
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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
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...
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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
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...
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Samsung and Microsoft’s Working-Class Smartphone Coming to the U.S. for $499
Samsung and Microsoft's Working-Class Smartphone Coming to the U.S. for $499
Samsung and Microsoft are joining together to bring an ingenious new idea to the workplace. Are you ready to have your mind blown? Get this: walkie talkies.Read more...
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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
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...
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Anker’s Tiny New 18W USB-C Charger Can Charge Your Laptop and Switch For Just $16
Anker’s Tiny New 18W USB-C Charger Can Charge Your Laptop and Switch For Just $16
Anker PowerPort III Nano 18W USB-C Charger | $16 | Amazon | Clip the coupon on the pageRead more...
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Syfy’s Chucky Series Is Officially on the Way
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...
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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
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...
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Sunday’s Best Deals: Apple AirPods, Anker USB-C Charger, Civilization VI, Kindle Sale, and More
Sunday's Best Deals: Apple AirPods, Anker USB-C Charger, Civilization VI, Kindle Sale, and More
A Netgear switch, Washington Post subscription, and a RavPower Qi charger lead off Sunday’s best deals from around the web.Read more...
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The Weirdest and the Worst of CES 2020
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...
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Cartoon Network Has Posted the First Episodes of Thundercats Roar Online
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...
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Pokémon Go Somehow Still Relevant in the Year of Our Lord 2020
Pokémon Go Somehow Still Relevant in the Year of Our Lord 2020
Remember the bygone era of 2016? Oh, to return to that sanguine time, where instead of fretting over deadly vaping illnesses and the possibility of World War III, we all held hands and sang kumbaya united by a serious case of Pokémon Go fever that swept the globe.Read more...
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Add a Smarter, 8-Port Gigabit Switch to Your Home Network for Just $20
Add a Smarter, 8-Port Gigabit Switch to Your Home Network for Just $20
NETGEAR 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet Smart Managed Plus Switch | $20 | AmazonRead more...
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Modder Creates Custom GameCube Controller For Switch
Modder Creates Custom GameCube Controller For Switch
It took a lot of work, planning, and tinkering, but a modder has created a custom GameCube controller that can split apart and connect to a Switch tablet, allowing for handheld play. Read more...
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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
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...
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Batman Actor Burt Ward Claims ABC Gave Him Pills to Shrink His Superheroic Penis
Batman Actor Burt Ward Claims ABC Gave Him Pills to Shrink His Superheroic Penis
Earlier this week, Burt Ward, famous player of Robin in the 1960s Batman TV show, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. During the ceremonies, he revealed some information that has us just bursting at the seams with curiosity. Read more...
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The Very Best Gadgets We Saw at CES 2020
The Very Best Gadgets We Saw at CES 2020
It’s Saturday, CES is finally done, and over 150,000 people have fled Vegas for less light-saturated locales. We walked the show floor and went to every secret hotel meeting we could to find the best gadgets coming out of CES this year.Read more...
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