Science, Tech and Gadgets

Oh, So That’s What M. Night Shyamalan’s Servant Is Really About So we knew that the creepy baby in M. Night Shyamalan’s new Apple TV+ show was gonna be, well, creepy. Somehow—somehow—we were not adequately prepared for just how goddamn creepy it is.Read more... Go to Source

Mozilla Will Automatically Zap Annoying Notification Prompts Notification permission prompts are, to put it lightly, annoying as fuck. Just because you regularly visit a website, doesn’t mean you want them to bombard you with pop-up notifications. To combat the issue, Mozilla has decided Firefox 72 will automatically block such notifications, shunting them to a small icon in…Read more... Go to Source

Fossil Dips Back Into Hybrids With a Feature Filled Watch I Might Wear In the world of smartwatches, Fossil is best known for being Google’s main partner for Wear OS watches. Today, it’s taking a step out from Google’s shadow with a new hybrid analog watch, the Hybrid HR. And, as the name suggests, the Hybrid HR adds integrated heart rate monitoring, plus a hybrid display that smartwatch…Read more... Go to Source

Suspect on ATV Leads Philly Police on Winding Chase After Double Shooting A man riding an ATV and suspected by authorities of involvement in a fatal shooting led police on a chase through the streets of Philadelphia on Tuesday night, NBC Philadelphia reported.Read more... Go to Source

Democrat Appears to Win Kentucky Governor Race After Republican Incumbent Doubles Down on Abortion Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear appears to have won the Kentucky gubernatorial election, besting Republican incumbent Matt Bevin. Bevin, who’d initially hinged his campaign on fighting the Affordable Care Act, pivoted to attacking Beshear’s support of abortion rights shortly before the election, with the…Read more... Go to Source

NTSB Finds Uber Self-Driving Car in Fatal Crash Saw Victim, But Wasn't Programmed to Handle Jaywalkers Federal investigators have determined an Uber self-driving car that killed 49-year-old pedestrian Elaine Herzberg in Tempe, Arizona in March 2018 lacked programming to either recognize or respond to the presence of jaywalkers on the road, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.Read more... Go to Source

Report: Andy Serkis and Colin Farrell Could Be Batman's New Alfred and Penguin The Bat has his cat. He has his commissioner. He has an enigma. And now, he has someone to serve droll wit and excellent tea, and a fishy foe.Read more... Go to Source

This Miroco Lamp Made Me Actually Believe In Light Therapy Lamps People used to worship the sun.Read more... Go to Source

Dinner at Zuckerberg's Leaves Civil Rights Organizers 'Cautiously Hopeful' After seven years of lobbying Facebook to address the rampant hatred that continues to choke the most powerful social media platform in the world, top officials at several prominent civil rights organizations on Monday finally got a meeting with the boss.Read more... Go to Source

Henry Kissinger Warns That AI Will Fundamentally Alter Human Consciousness Speaking in Washington, D.C. earlier today, former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger said he’s convinced of AI’s potential to fundamentally alter human consciousness—including changes in our self-perception and to our strategic decision-making. He also slammed AI developers for insufficiently thinking through…Read more... Go to Source

AT&T to Pay $60 Million Settlement Over Accusations of Data Throttling AT&T is set to pay a pretty large chunk of change to settle with the Federal Trade Commission over allegations that the company sold unlimited data plans that were not, in fact, unlimited—far from it, in fact.Read more... Go to Source

Breaking: Earth Hot October is a time for pumpkin spice lattes, scarves—and record-breaking heat. Yup, October 2019 was the hottest October ever documented, but c’mon, does that surprise anyone anymore?Read more... Go to Source

Microsoft Tried Out a 4-Day Workweek and Hot Damn, It Worked Microsoft’s Japan offices recently experimented with shorter work weeks, and the results provide a glimmer of hope that large companies can alter the workweek and save us from collectively burning out. Read more... Go to Source

The Disney+ 'Ad Free' Experience Will Have Some Ads After All, Thanks to Star Wars At what cost, Kylo Ren? Well, the answer’s a few banners for Starz, apparently.Read more... Go to Source

Tuesday's Best Deals: Anker Gold Box, Dyson Stick Vacuums, Hanes Underwear, and More An Anker one-day sale, discounted Dyson stick vacuums, and a blow-out sale on Wellen Organic Jeans lead off Tuesday’s best deals.Read more... Go to Source

Bland Content Isn't Apple TV+'s Biggest Problem Apple has had a long slow crawl from hardware maker to entertainment service provider. First, there was iTunes and selling music online, then movies and TV shows. Later came Apple Music, a streaming service provided for a monthly fee, and earlier this year there was News+, a news service... provided for a monthly fee.…Read more... Go to Source

Timex Flips Off the Smartwatch Trend and Revives a Classic '80s Digital Watch Instead As watchmakers scramble to jump on the smartwatch bandwagon and attempt to steal a sliver of market share away from Apple, Timex has decided to take the opposite approach. The company has dug into its archives and revived the T80, an iconic digital watch from the ‘80s whose only smart feature is retro styling.Read more... Go to Source

Bernie Sanders Smacks Apple For 'Throwing Pennies' at California's Housing Crisis Every so often, Big Tech likes to announce splashy social initiatives where it throws money at a problem. Big Tech looks good for ‘caring’ and, more importantly, it distracts from the not-so-great things happening on the sidelines. Yesterday, Apple announced a $2.5 billion plan to address the housing crisis in…Read more... Go to Source

Microsoft's Surface Pro X Goes Full Batman From the moment I opened up the Surface Pro X, I got the sense that Microsoft had entered a new chapter for its homegrown hardware. Gone are the huge bezels and hard edges found on the company’s previous detachables, and in their place you something that’s sleek and sophisticated, unlike anything Microsoft has made…Read more... Go to Source

His Dark Materials Is Off to a Great Start His Dark Materials is not an easy story to adapt. The trilogy from Philip Pullman is full of breathtaking sights, sounds, and emotions that only work on the page. In some ways, the HBO and BBC adaptation was never going to measure up. But the debut episode is trying its hardest, and the result is something to…Read more... Go to Source

Surprising No One, Uber Continues to Hemorrhage Cash Beleaguered ride-sharing giant Uber continued to torch cash like an outdated Joker reference in Q3 2019, but it claims that the news is positive because parts of its business would technically be profitable if one looked past all the ways it’s losing money.Read more... Go to Source

Did We Need to See That Much of the Childhood of Batwoman's Villain? Batwoman continues to be Arrow’s rightful successor—a grim exploration of superheroics with a lead that’s all charm, but hampered by their character’s sullenness. Only, where Arrow leaned into realism to the point of ridiculousness, Batwoman at least has the sense to embrace the comic book nature of its titular…Read more... Go to Source

FACEBOOK IS DOING JUST FINE, OK? Keeping a brisk pace in its eternal quest to be as headache-inducing as possible, Facebook announced on Monday that it has rebranded as FACEBOOK.Read more... Go to Source

The 10 Best Deals of November 4, 2019 We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.Read more... Go to Source

Bye Bye, Paris Agreement The White House began its formal process to pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement on Monday. Read more... Go to Source

Dark Fate's Tim Miller Helps Us Answer All Your Burning Terminator Questions “If you have a story that lends itself to a continuation, that should kind of be there in it,” director Tim Miller told io9. “It was in T2, even if you didn’t recognize it. I don’t think it was [James Cameron’s] intention to put it there but he really did leave an open-ended story because Sarah says, ‘I don’t know…Read more... Go to Source

I Just Bought A 12.9” iPad Pro Refurbished, And Now It’s the Same Price New Just last week, I bought a refurbished 256GB iPad Pro 12.9” from Apple for $950, so it stands to reason that Just Bought A 12.9” iPad Pro Refurbished, And Now It’s the Same Price New', 'B07K33G5LS');window.ga('unique.send', 'event', 'Commerce', 'gizmodo - I Just Bought A 12.9” iPad Pro Refurbished, And Now It’s the Same Price New', 'B07K33G5LS');" data-amazontag="gizmodoamzn-20" href="https://www.amazon.com/Apple-iPad-12-9-inch-Wi-Fi-64GB/dp/B07K33G5LS?tag=gizmodoamzn-20&ascsubtag=fdb2db22947124817a80d31439d20c5028ebb9e7">Amazon would match that price today for a brand new version of the same tablet. That’s $200 off list, and an all-time low price. I want to die a little. Read more... Go to Source...

The Case for Storing Humanity's Most Important Data on Glass Drink Coasters It sounds a bit ridiculous at first. Dozens of gigabytes of data can now be encoded on a virtually indestructible glass hard drive that’s the size and shape of a drink coaster. Microsoft just revealed a proof of concept. It’s a thin square of glass that’s been laser-etched with microscopic geometric shapes called…Read more... Go to Source

Dell's Latest Pro-Grade Monitor Has a Built-in Colorimeter and Thunderbolt 3 For high-end content creators, making sure your work’s colors are on point is a never-ending battle. So to make things a bit easier, Dell has created what it says is the world’s first 27-inch 4K monitor with a built-in colorimeter and Thunderbolt 3. Read more... Go to Source