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Image: SamsungSamsung has already hosted two Unpacked events this year, and now a third event is on the way scheduled for the end of this month. Samsung sent out invites to the media earlier today, and while Samsung did not include any hints about upcoming news or announcements, considering that Samsung’s previous two Unpacked events…

Join the pros on Twitch.Screenshot: TwitchSo you’ve picked up a brand new PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, or Xbox Series S, and now you might be wondering how you can share all your gaming exploits with the wider world. After all, if you play a game and no one else can see it, did it…

Photo: Joanna NeliusDiscord, the gamer-centric chat app that’s become more popular among online fringe communities, has beefed up its restrictions on NSFW adult content. Discord now requires age gates for entire servers rather than limiting them to individual channels. And because of an Apple policy already in place, the app’s iOS users can no longer…

The largest known smalltooth sawfish was discovered last week.Photo: FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (Fair Use)Two sawfish washed ashore dead in the Florida Keys over the past week; one of those fish is the largest of its species to ever be measured, clocking in at 16 feet long and weighing as much as a…

Photo: JOEL SAGET / Contributor (Getty Images)Although the axes of “Hot Girl Summer” and “Fully-Vaccinated Summer” are about to collide in an unholy fashion for a certain young subset of the population, Airbnb is respectfully asking if you would please, please just keep it chill and socially distanced for the foreseeable future.On Monday, the vacation…

Photo: Getty Images (Getty Images)It certainly looks like Israel just cyber attacked Iran again. Authorities with the Islamic Republic are claiming that a blackout at one of the nation’s top nuclear facilities is the result of Israeli sabotage, and an Israeli media outlet has similarly claimed that the attack may have been the work of…

Photo: JEWEL SAMAD / Staff (Getty Images)Google is officially pulling the plug on its Play Movies and TV app on all Roku devices and Samsung, LG, Vizio or Roku smart TVs, the company announced via 9to5Google on Monday. Beginning on June 15, 2021, users with movies or TV shows purchased or rented through those service…

Photo: Tasos Katopodis (Getty Images)The former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under Donald Trump, Dr. Robert Redfield, has landed a sweet gig at…Big Ass Fans.Per Kaiser Health News (KHN), Redfield is now a strategic health and safety adviser for the company, effectively lending his scientific reputation to Big Ass Fans and…

The Ingenuity helicopter standing on the surface of Mars, imaged by Perseverance rover.Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASUUpdate: NASA says its first flight attempt will happen no earlier than Wednesday, April 14. Original article appears below. NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter will attempt to take flight on the Red Planet early Monday morning, and you’ll be able to watch live as…

Photo: Jeenah Moon (Getty Images)Microsoft is in advanced talks to acquire Nuance Communications, an artificial intelligence firm whose speech recognition tech helped develop Apple’s Siri virtual assistant, for as much as $16 billion, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. The deal price being negotiated could value Nuance at around $56 per share, the…

Flappy Bird hasn’t graced the Apple App Store in years, not since its meteoric rise in popularity back in 2014 before its creator just as swiftly took it offline. Now the furiously addictive mobile game has been reincarnated in a form no one expected: an interactive macOS notification. Using the new suite of customization tools added…

Photo: Ethan Miller (Getty Images)If you liked shopping with the Google Shopping app on iOS or Android, you better switch over to the web version. Google is reportedly shutting down its Shopping app in a few weeks. Hints that the axe was coming were spotted by XDA Developers on Thursday via the code in the…

Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images)Google used a secret program called “Project Bernanke” for years to increase its clients’ chances of winning bids for competitive ad space, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing court documents filed in the Texas-led antitrust suit against Google. The state argues that the program gave Google an unfair competitive…

Acer has reportedly been hit with a $50 million ransomware attack, the largest attempted ransom to date.Photo: Sam YEH / AFP (Getty Images)Acer has purportedly become the victim of a massive ransomware attack, in which hackers are asking for $50 million to release the company’s stolen data, Bleeping Computer reported on Friday. Nonetheless, the company…

James (Harry Shum Jr.) becomes obsessed with his quest in Broadcast Signal Intrusion.Image: Courtesy Queensbury Picturesio9 ReviewsReviews and critical analyses of fan-favorite movies, TV shows, comics, books, and more.In 1999, a Chicago man named James (Harry Shum Jr.), still acutely grieving the loss of his wife three years prior, toils at a job that suits…

Photo: John Moore (Getty Images)For years, Big Oil has cozied up to American public schools—and now they seem to be cashing in their chips. New emails appear to show that some elected officials in charge of public schools may have been helped in attacking the Biden administration’s recent decision to pause oil and gas leasing…

Fontemon is the answer to a question absolutely no one asked: What if Pokémon was a playable font? Oh, and let’s set it in Minnesota too. Because why the hell not. The font-turned-Pokémon-parody was spotted by software engineer Daniel Feldman this week and created by developer Michael Mulet. Playing it is as simple as typing,…

CW’s Legend of Tomorrow Season 6 TeaserImage: The CWTrailer FrenzyA special place to find the newest trailers for movies and TV shows you’re craving.Admit it. You didn’t think CW’s Suicide Squad—I’m sorry CW’s Legends of Tomorrow was going to get past the first season. It’s ok to be wrong, though. Not only is the show…

Graphic: Elizabeth LanierA Samsung 70-inch smart 4K tv and a Grepro jump starter lead Saturday’s best deals.Jump to: Tech | Gaming | Home | Lifestyle | MediaPromoted Deal: Ergonomic Chair | $299 | BranchG/O Media may get a commissionAs torn up as I am that this is my last week at The Inventory, I recently accepted…

Photo: Martin Bureau (Getty Images)As the world descended into lockdown last year, people overwhelming tuned into livestreams to connect with others and stave off boredom while stuck in their homes. And that pandemic-fueled growth shows no signs of slowing down even as the world attempts to return to business as usual, with both Twitch and…

Ms. Nyxly as seen in DC Comics; Peta SergeantPhoto: (Left: DC Comics), Gaye Gerard (Getty Images)The CW is not playing around and is dominating the nerd news cycle this weekend. Supergirl is heading into the final stretch as the upcoming season six will be the show’s last, and actress Peta Sergeant (The Originals) is now…

Photo: Ming Yeung (Getty Images)Regulators in the Brazilian state of São Paulo slapped Apple with a nearly $2 million fine on Friday for failing to include chargers within iPhone 12 boxes, according to 9to5Mac and a Google translation of a report from Brazilian tech news outlet Tilt. The consumer protection agency Procon-SP also accused Apple…

The Apple logo is seen on a window of the company’s store in Bangkok on February 14, 2021. Photo: Mladen Antonov/AFP (Getty Images)Apple is in spring cleaning mode when it comes to its product inventory. In recent weeks, not only has it said, “mmm, bye,” to the iMac Pro and the original HomePod, but now…

Ran, the unscrewed submarine that the scientists used, heading down into the depths under the Thwaites GlacierPhoto: Filip Stedt (Getty Images)Glaciers all over Antarctica are in trouble as ice there rapidly melts. There’s no Antarctic glacier whose fate is more consequential for our future than the Thwaites Glacier, and new research shows that things aren’t looking…

HP’s Omen 25L and a Buy 2 Get 1 Free games sale lead Monday’s best deals.Jump to: Tech | Gaming | Home | Lifestyle | MediaPromoted Deal: Unicorn Jerky CBD Candy | $19 | Sunday Scaries | Promo Code CHILLOUTI’ve been taking Sunday Scaries CBD on the reg for several months now, and I have to…

Remains of the ancient Egyptian city, “The Rise of Aten.”Image: Zahi Hawass/FacebookAn expedition working near Luxor has stumbled upon the remains of a lost ancient Egyptian city, in what is being hailed as the most significant archaeological discovery in the region since the 1920s.Archaeologist Zahi Hawass, the former Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs in…

Wonder what John is looking at?Photo: Marvel StudiosEpisode four of Marvel’s The Falcon and The Winter Soldier was all about contrasting viewpoints, mainly from two people—neither of which were the Falcon or the Winter Soldier—who represent factions on a collision course for possible war. And it might be up to Sam (Anthony Mackie) and Bucky…

Photo: Postmodern Studio (Shutterstock)When the internet was mourning the impending shutdown of Yahoo Answers, announced earlier this week, there was a sentiment that you saw over and over again: that shutting the site down was akin to the library of Alexandria burning down.Honestly, that’s not too much of an exaggeration. When the service rolled out…

Image: Turner “Tfue” Tenney / Medium RareAs of last month, the age of NFTs was officially upon us. As of this month, it might be on its way out. Average prices have declined by as much as 70% since a peak in February, according to Bloomberg. That, however, has not stopped big-name streaming and esports…

Sequel time!Image: New Line CinemaWe sincerely apologize for doing this but you’re about to feel old. Today, March 22, is the 30th anniversary of the release of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret of the Ooze. That means the film you probably loved as a kid is officially starting to find grey hairs, gain…

Picture a long, white rod. The rod has a smooth, curved head. Is your heart rate speeding up?The rod is undulating at a quick but steady pace. It’s moving back and forth. Are you sweating?Now imagine the rod is big. Like, really big.Like, 10 feet (3 meters) long.And now imagine it’s generating carbon-free electricity. That’s…

An orca chases herrings on Jan. 14, 2019 near the Norwegian northern city of Tromso.Photo: Olivier Morin (Getty Images)Between offshore oil and gas drilling, shipping, wind turbines, and even jet skis, the ocean is a pretty loud place. But amid covid-19, a lot of that activity came to a halt. That’s given scientists a rare…

Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images)People’s love of processed meat might come back to bite them in the long run, new research from the UK suggests. The study found a link between greater consumption of processed meat and higher rates of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. At the same time, it also found a…

Perseverance and Ingenuity together on the surface of Mars.Gif: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSSWe’re used to seeing stark images of rovers all alone on the Red Planet, but Perseverance brought a friend. NASA has just released a stunning photo showing two vehicles—the Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity helicopter—in a single shot. Captured by the WATSON camera located on the…

Jump to: Tech | Gaming | Home | Lifestyle | MediaPromoted Deal: Ergonomic Chair | $299 | BranchAs torn up as I am that this is my last week at The Inventory, I recently accepted a new job that’ll have me working from home indefinitely … unless I move to LA, which I won’t. So if…

Image: LenovoWhile I can’t confirm it, I suspect someone in Lenovo’s phone department is a big fan of Vin Diesel movies. Why? Well, it seems like Lenovo has just released a gaming phone inspired by 2 Fast 2 Furious. Lenovo is doubling down on its follow-up to last year’s Legion Gaming Phone with a ton…

Flaring during oil and gas production is a big source of methane.Photo: Matthew Brown (AP)There’s more methane in the atmosphere than any other time since record keeping began—and levels really spiked last year, despite the fact that we were all inside for most of the time. On Wednesday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency said that…

Image: OnePlusThe OnePlus Watch was not a well-kept secret by any means. Renders of it leaked last week, and we’ve heard rumors about the platform the watch is based on for some time now. Now that it’s officially here though, the coolest thing about the OnePlus Watch is the fact that you can get a…

Image: Samsung via Evan Blass (Other)Just last week a leaked product roadmap revealed a number of Samsung’s upcoming gadget launches for the year, including the arrival of new mainstream laptops. Now some photos of the devices have also surfaced, giving us a peek at Samsung’s new Galaxy Book Pros a few weeks early. In the…

Photo: Carl Court (Getty Images)With unemployment at formidable levels and the economy doing weird, covid-related reversals, I think we can all agree that the job hunt is a pretty hard slog right now. Amidst all that, you know what workers really don’t need? A LinkedIn inbox full of malware. Yeah, they don’t need that at…

Photo: Joanna Nelius/GizmodoAs part of its ongoing mission to improve how iPad and iPhone apps run on M1 Macs, Apple has added game controller emulation to macOS Big Sur’s current 11.3 beta. Basically, Apple’s trying to make its M1 Macs more like gaming PCs.According to MacRumors, running an iPad or iPhone app on an M1…

A visitor enters the the offices of Google in London.Photo: Ben Stansall/AFP (Getty Images)The UK government launched a new watchdog agency on Wednesday that will be tasked with keeping an eye on Big Tech companies like Google and Facebook, according to an announcement published online. The stated goal of the new watchdog is to police…

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (L) and his girlfriend Lauren Sanchez pose for a picture during their visit at the Taj Mahal in Agra on January 21, 2020.Photo: Pawan Sharma/AFP (Getty Images)Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, released a statement late Tuesday saying that he generally supports President Joe Biden’s desire to invest in…

Image: DellAt this point, laptop makers that don’t support some kind of AMD-based config are kind of trolling, and now Alienware is finally back on board with its first AMD-powered gaming laptop in more than a decade. With the new m15 Ryzen Edition R5, Alienware is releasing its first AMD-based laptop since the Aurora mALX from…

Photo: David Zalubowski (AP)As the Biden administration puts the federal government’s muscle behind widespread electrification, one fact has becoming increasingly clear: The electric vehicle revolution is coming. But states have a lot of catching up to do if they want to make sure everyone is included, a new report shows.The report, released Wednesday by the…

Photo: Joe Raedle / Staff (Getty Images)Radio Shack, the once-popular electronics chain, went bankrupt in 2015 and again in 2017. The physical stores, once a nerd’s paradise full of electronic components and computer gear, closed one by one, and a company called Retail Ecommerce Ventures (REV) bought the brand and most of the company’s assets.Fast…

A Consol Energy Horizontal Gas Drilling Rig explores the Marcellus Shale outside the town of Waynesburg, Pennsylvania.Photo: Mladen Antonov (Getty Images)It’s clear that we need to stop natural gas production to avoid the worst effects of the climate crisis. But a new report from the Stockholm Environment Institute’s U.S. Center and the Ohio River Valley…

Image: Project SoapbottleI’m always trying to reduce the amount of plastic I throw away, and this new Kickstarter project’s clever solution, which uses soap to create a multi-purpose, zero-waste container, has me intrigued. Project Soapbottle, which was initially conceived by Jonna Breitenhuber as part of a student design contest, is a new line of packaging that uses…

Photo: Catie Keck/GizmodoThe parent company behind Paramount+ has announced it’s looking to raise $3 billion to help fund operations, including for its new streaming service—that some consumers evidently have no idea exists.ViacomCBS said Monday it will offer $2 billion in Class B common stock and $1 billion in Series A Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock. J.P.…

Photo: Ethan Miller (Getty Images)Yahoo announced on Monday that it will soon send its Answers service to that great trash bin in the sky, bringing about 15 years’ worth of absurd, typo-ridden questioning and equally irreverent answering to an end. Yahoo Answers will be read-only as of April 20, and fully defunct by May 4,…

Amazon workers begin to gather in front of the Spheres, participating in the climate strike Friday, Sept. 20, 2019, in Seattle.Photo: Elaine Thompson (AP)The laundry list of fired organizers at Amazon has grown suspiciously lengthy, and the National Labor Relations Board has noticed.A regional director for the NLRB has found merit for two activists’ claims…

File photo of a woman passing a quotation board displaying share price closing numbers of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo.Photo: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP (Getty Images)Japan’s central bank has started trials of a new digital currency in an effort to experiment with how it might be used, the Bank of Japan announced on Monday. The announcement…

Photo: ODD ANDERSEN / Contributor (Getty Images)The invite-only audio chat app Clubhouse is sweetening the deal for creators by offering a direct payment option that would allow them to reap 100% of the rewards.In a Monday blog post, Clubhouse announced that it would partner with the payment processing startup Stripe to offer direct payments on…

Saturn’s moon Enceladus.Image: NASA/JPL/Space Science InstituteA planetary scientist says subterranean water worlds are likely common in the galaxy and probably even better for life than Earth-like environments. Should an intelligent species arise beneath the frozen crust, however, they’d find themselves in perpetual isolation, in what is a possible solution to the Fermi Paradox.Several moons in…

Screenshot: MIT CSAILWhile smart clothes seem like a cool idea in theory, in reality we’ve mostly been stuck with useless overpriced smart pajamas from Tom Brady, smart running shoes, and other dubious fitness recovery paraphernalia. The reason? Incorporating electronics into clothing in a natural way is a tall order. Researchers from MIT CSAIL, however, say…

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Photo: Samuel Corum (Getty Images)Federal investigators began looking into Florida U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz following a mysterious after-hours visit to a Florida tax agency where a former local official was allegedly churning out fake IDs, the Daily Beast reports. Little did they know that was just the tip of the iceberg. Gaetz now faces a…

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter is one step closer to taking its first flight on Mars. On Saturday, the space agency announced that the helicopter had been successfully dropped off on the surface of the planet by the Perseverance rover, which has essentially served as the Ingenuity’s space taxi, charging station, and heater until now.Since arriving to…

Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)After reportedly calling the requirements of a new Russian law a security threat and threatening to pull out of the country, Apple caved and decided to let Russia have its way, saying it would allow users to install government-approved Russian apps during iPhone setup. In recent days, we’ve gotten a first…

Photo: Sam RutherfordMore than four years after its launch, the Nintendo Switch remains a unicorn among video game consoles. But that hasn’t stopped a lot of companies from dreaming about trying to capture some of that Switch magic for themselves, and now it seems Qualcomm may attempt to clone Nintendo’s hybrid device.According to a new…

Photo: Rick Bowmer (AP)Utah governor Spencer Cox has signed the infamous porn filter bill. If enacted, smartphones and tablets purchased in Utah will automatically block a potentially sweeping range of content based on fluctuating value judgments. There’s plenty of time, for now, in the sense that it’s the legislative equivalent of an active volcano.Under HB…

Photo: Lionel Bonaventure (Getty Images)The online pinboard site Pinterest is reportedly in talks to scoop up VSCO, a photo-editing and sharing app that you may remember for inspiring a teen subculture back in 2019. Negotiations remain ongoing, two sources with knowledge of the matter told the New York Times, and there’s still no word on…

Photo: JIM WATSON/AFP (Getty Images)Watch out, firearm lovers. The subtly-named guns.com, a place where Americans can go to pick out whatever stylish boomstick they like and have it shipped straight to their neck of the woods, seems to have a pretty awful data breach on its hands.Back in January, a hacker temporarily disabled the company’s…

An aerial view of a contaminated area with garbage, plastic recipients, bottles and toxic waste generated by mining companies which have polluted the Tagarete River which flows into Uru Uru Lake on March 27, 2021, near Oruro, Bolivia.Photo: Gaston Brito Miserocchi (Getty Images)At first glance, the photo above may look like a painting collaboration between…

Best Tech DealsBest Tech DealsThe best tech deals from around the web, updated daily.JVC AE Wireless Earbuds with Live Coaching | $18 | SideDealDid you give up on your new year’s resolution to run more, or faster, or harder? Or maybe you just want to up your running game anyway? You should check out these…

Photo: Josh Edelson / AFP (Getty Images)If you have a Facebook account, you should probably be keeping your guard up in the near future. A new report states that a hacker has posted the private information, including phone numbers, birthdays, and locations, of more than 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries online for free.…

A courier unloads Amazon packages during a delivery on June 18, 2020 in Berlin, Germany.Photo: Sean Gallup (Getty Images)After lying about the fact that some of its workers are under so much pressure that they are forced to relieve themselves in bottles in order to meet their quotas, Amazon has quietly said it’s sorry in…

Top Pick: NordicTrack T Series | $685 | AmazonIf you live in close quarters, you might find that a treadmill can be disruptive to your neighbors or housemates. Fortunately, some models are quieter than others, and a few of them can even fold up or slide under your desk, so they’re out of everyone’s way.…

Skulls of the newly described extinct kangaroo.Image: N. Warburton, Murdoch UniversityA new study describes a “semiarboreal kangaroo” that lived 40,000 years ago in Australia. Apparently, even hopping can get boring.According to the study, published this week in Royal Society Open Science, the discovery came from fossils excavated decades ago from Western Australia’s Mammoth Cave and…

Photo: Charles Krupa (AP)A few people have asked me when we’re going to hear the results of the Bessemer, Alabama union election. The short answer is maybe next week. The long answer, factoring in appeals and litigation, is maybe months.In a more soapbox-y sense, the effects could unfold over years. This is a landmark moment,…

Anti-vax conspiracist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Berlin in August 2020.Photo: Sean Gallup (Getty Images)After a report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) and Anti-Vax Watch found that a huge percentage of misinformation and conspiracy theories about vaccines can be traced back to just a dozen people, the CEOs of Facebook, Google, and…

Plague in an Ancient City, circa 1652, by Michiel Sweerts, which is believed to reference the mysterious epidemic in Athens.Image: Public Domain, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Fair Use)As the past year has painfully made clear, infectious diseases remain one of humanity’s greatest perils. It only took weeks for scientists to identify the cause…

Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP (Getty Images)Folks, we told you it’s going to happen under Creepy Joe, the Democrat Party, they don’t want you to be able to go and turn on your water heater anymore. They’re gonna have you standing there just hitting that lever, that tiny little lever, over and over and it doesn’t get…

Photo: Caitlin McGarry/GizmodoRumors about the next model of Apple’s fan-favorite compact smartphone are already in full effect, though it could be well over a year before we see one.Analyst Ross Young posted to Twitter on April 1—grain of salt, etc.—that the next iPhone SE will arrive in 2022 with the same 4.7-inch form factor as…

Photo: Martin Bureau/AFP (Getty Images)Spotify’s long-rumored Car Thing device has emerged once again—this time in some iOS code.Spotify first announced that it was testing a “voice-controlled music and podcast device” called Car Thing back in 2019. Spotify was pretty specific at the time that its “focus remains on becoming the world’s number one audio platform—not…

Lightning storms over the Southeast on Thursday.Gif: NOAA/CIRAAuthorities reported several injuries and fatalities in Alabama as tornadoes tore through the Birmingham metro area on Thursday. The storms, which come on the heels of roughly 50 tornadoes that hit the region last week, left flattened homes and extensive property damage in their wake.The National Weather Service…

Photo: Eric Kayne (SumOfUS) (AP)Midway through a congressional hearing Thursday in which U.S. lawmakers spent hours interrogating the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook, and Google for their role in America’s disinformation crisis, Jack Dorsey seemed fed up.The hearing, which was held via video conference and led by Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, saw…

Photo: Alex Cranz/GizmodoImagine this: You’re over at your best friend’s house going through their Xbox library. They’ve been wanting to try out one of the latest, hyped-up first-person shooters, but they don’t own it. You do, but it’s through a cloud gaming service. It doesn’t look great on your phone, and your friend doesn’t have…

Mike Lindell, CEO and founder of MyPillow, and a possibly entirely fictional social media site named Frank.Photo: Stephen Maturen (Getty Images)HellfeedHellfeedHellfeed is your bimonthly resource for news on the current heading of the social media garbage barge.We’re jumping the gun on Hellfeed’s normally bi-weekly schedule—because dear lord, the last five days were something else. This…

A woman wearing a face mask to protect against the coronavirus disease uses her smartphone walking on a street in Moscow on March 19, 2021. Photo: Yuri Kadobnov (Getty Images)Rather than dole out what is, essentially—at least to one of the richest companies on the planet—a handful of spare change, Facebook set out to purposely…

Screenshot: Kasper Andersen (Other)April Fool’s is the worst holiday, but this is one stunt we can get behind. Someone built an obviously fake Nvidia RTX 4090 and 4090 Ti to get into the spirit—and to poke fun at the current graphics cards situation—and it’s so ridiculous it has to be seen to be believed. Spotted…

Photo: Catie Keck/GizmodoThe battle between streaming services for your binge-watching hours continues.Citing sources familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reported Wednesday that Peacock parent NBCUniversal has been mulling pulling its movies from services like Netflix and HBO Max to boost its own content offering. The outlet additionally reported that contracts that HBO Max and Netflix have…

Photo: HECTOR RETAMAL / AFP (Getty Images)Police in the U.S., including officials with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE), have been accessing vehicle location data provided by car parts manufacturers, a new report from Forbes reveals. Documents reviewed by the news outlet show police using this data to track suspects involved in criminal investigations.…

Photo: Damien Meyer/AFP (Getty Images)A sophisticated hacking campaign that was previously witnessed targeting security flaws in Android, Windows and iOS devices is actually the work of “Western government operatives” conducting a “counterterrorism operation,” according to a new report from MIT Technology Review.The campaign in question, which has garnered more and more attention from media outlets…

Photo: Ethan Miller (Getty Images)Peacock is currently in the process of vetting racist content from its massive WWE content catalog.Peacock announced it would become the exclusive home for WWE Network content back in January, with 17,000 hours of new and original WWE Network programming as well as pay-per-view events like WrestleMania and SummerSlam. But citing…

Spectrum by Julie E. CzernedaImage: DAWThis month we’ve got teenage telekinetics, magical twins, shapeshifters, supernatural detectives, space adventures, palace intrigue, fantasy epics, monsters, and more—plus the first-ever YA fantasy novel by io9 co-founder Charlie Jane Anders. Read on!Image: Interstellar Flight PressLocal Star by Aimee OgdenThis “polyamorous space opera” encompasses adventure and romance, as main character…

Photo: Olivier Douliery (Getty Images)Parler, the online safe haven for bigots and far-right extremists, claims it repeatedly alerted the Federal Bureau of Investigation about “specific threats of violence being planned at the Capitol” ahead of the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection, the company’s lawyers said in a letter to lawmakers dated Thursday. After seeing record growth…

Artist’s interpretation of the hot jet of molten particles and hot gas, striking the ancient Antarctic surface. Image: Mark A. GarlickAsteroids that smash directly into Earth’s surface can cause extensive damage, but, as new evidence uncovered in east Antarctica suggests, asteroids that explode on entry can be equally devastating.Super tiny black balls made from igneous…

EPA Administrator Michael Regan is straightening up the agency’s advisory boards.Photo: Joshua Roberts (Getty Images)When he wasn’t busy searching for Ritz Carlton lotion, former Environmental Protection Administrator Scott Pruitt also gutted the agency’s science advisory boards. But after forcing out impartial scientists and installing people who literally denied air pollution’s adverse impacts on public health,…

Makoto Fujiwara with CERN’s ALPHA Experiment apparatus.Photo: Maximilien BriceFor a little more than a week in July 2018, a team of physicists at CERN tried a new technique to slow down antimatter particles zipping around at breakneck speeds. Those 10 days of observation were the culmination of 10 years of development in an international collaboration…

Photo: Joanna Nelius/GizmodoXbox announced this morning that 16 original Xbox and Xbox 360 games are now available on its cloud gaming service. Anyone with an active Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription can play well-loved classics like Banjo-Kazooie, Fable 2, and Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind as of today.“We’ve listened to the feedback, going all the way…

Spring is here, and I’ve been thinking a lot more about my wardrobe—and how sick I am of it. Even though I cleaned out my closet fairly recently, I still counted at least 25 clothing items that I don’t wear regularly anymore. But what should I do with all my tired sweaters and dresses?I know…

“Link in bio.” If you, like me, are constantly doomscrolling online, you’ve probably come across the phrase before. Between the endless conveyer belt of new social media platforms and the fact that most limit users to just one URL in their bio, it’s led to a growing demand for landing pages to house all those…

Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images)Today in why, Florida: why is this unmasked six-piece cover band doing “With a Little Help from My Friends” at a signing ceremony at the Florida state Capitol? Fine, okay, whatever: ladies and gentleman, Governor Ron DeSantis!Yesterday, Trump’s living legacy used the musical stunt to lead into the news that Florida…

Photo: Catie Keck/GizmodoTo say the Apple TV remote is polarizing is an understatement. On the one side, you have the stans who claim this is the best streaming remote ever made. On the other, the haters cite the remote’s touchpad and overall UI as an unforgivable affront to gadget design. But, per 9to5 Mac, Apple…

Photo: Ted ALJIBE (Getty Images)Researchers have demonstrated just how easy it is to trick the mind into remembering something that didn’t happen. They also used two very simple techniques to reverse those false memories, in a feat that paves the way for a deeper understanding of how memory works.Our brains are far from perfectly functioning…

Photo: NY Governor’s Office (Other)On Friday, New York became the first state to formally roll out a digital vaccination “passport” that residents can flash as proof that they’ve either gotten jabbed or tested negative for covid-19. Per a statement from Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office, the state developed the tech, dubbed Excelsior Pass, alongside IBM as…

Bumblebee won’t be the last Transformers movie. Photo: ParamountAfter what felt like a non-stop barrage of Transformers movies, the past few years have been quiet on Cybertron (at least in live-action). That’s largely in part to the most recent film, Bumblebee, doing so poorly in comparison to its predecessors, despite many thinking it was the…

Kucate Rowing Machine | $80 | AmazonSunny Health & Fitness SF-RW1205 Rowing Machine | $89 | AmazonPricey gym memberships should be a thing of the past. I mean, right now, it’s not safe to be in enclosed spaces with heavy-breathing strangers anyway. And 2021? We’re all about doing what we can from home to help…

Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images)Nearly two years after WeWork imploded ahead of its planned initial public offering, the office-sharing startup is finally going public. On Friday, WeWork announced a merger with special-purpose acquisition company BowX Acquisition Corp. The deal values WeWork at $9 billion, a far cry from the ridiculously inflated $47 billion it was…

Rhodey and Sam having a talk one-on-one.Image: Disney+/MarvelBeyond simply continuing Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes’ respective superhero stories in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, Disney+’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier has been billed as the studio’s latest foray into social commentary using its larger-than-life characters to reflect some of the real-world challenges actual people face. While…

This photo shows the Amazon logo at the 855,000-square-foot Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island, one of the five boroughs of New York City, on February 5, 2019.Photo: Johannes Eisele / AFP (Getty Images)It’s well documented that some Amazon employees work in grueling, physically taxing, and unsafe conditions. In fact, a former Amazon warehouse employee…

Uber signage is seen as an employee sits in the entrance of the ride-hailing giant’s office in Hong Kong on March 10, 2017.Photo: Anthony Wallace/AFP (Getty Images)Although the covid-19 pandemic is still raging worldwide, big tech companies appear to be heartened by the recent developments over the last few months and are taking the first…

Photo: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP (Getty Images)Have you noticed a strange army of Amazon employees on Twitter recently, claiming that Amazon doesn’t engage in union-busting and disputing stories that workers sometimes have to piss in bottles? Many Twitter users are wondering whether the people are even real. And while there’s some evidence these people could be…

For all who have been captivated by the Ever Given, the ginormous shipping container boat that has been stuck in the Suez Canal for days, we have some good news. Before you get excited, no, the boat’s still stuck. But you can now stick the Ever Given anywhere you please thanks to the clever people…

Photo: Victoria Song/GizmodoI’m pro-open ear headphones for outdoor exercise. Bikers, cars, unsupervised children on scooters—they’ve all been hazardous to my health while running. So even though I had reservations about the Bose Sport Open Earbuds, I was eager to give them a go.Open-ear audio has been around for awhile in the form of bone conduction…

Image: MicrosoftThe odds are good that you’re reading this right now in Google’s web browser, Chrome, which has become hugely popular since it made its debut in 2008. But Chrome has some issues, and now that Microsoft is back with a rebooted version of its Edge browser—based on the same Chromium code as Chrome—it might…

(Source: LGD Gaming) China’s esports industry has seen several significant partnerships and sponsorships in the last week. The Chinese Honor

Trading of Baidu shares will begin on the Hong Kong market on March 23. (Source: Baidu) Baidu, Chinese search engine