Gonna have a Netflix watch party, we don’t need nobody. Social distancing has forced us to change the way we get together with our friends, and that can include remote watch parties. We’ve pulled out our picks of some wonderful (and wonderfully bad) movies to have a movie-fest with. If…
Respirators and face masks are staple pieces of personal protective equipment for hospital workers and others in public health, as the COVID-19 pandemic has reminded us.
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Infinity Train is a beautiful show that surprised us every episode with its barrage of unique train cars. But it’s not always about how a show looks”what’s also important is how it sounds. We’ve got an exclusive peek behind the scenes at the sound design of Infinity Train, and we…
Selling a Kia in ‘90s America wasn’t going to be easy, even if you’re one of the Big Three. Sure, Ford had shown that it more than capable of getting its own mediocre cars off the lot back then, but what about a captive import Kia? That took some emotion.
to serve up a tidy resolution to its spectacular exploration of what it means to exist”you’ll have to arrive there all on your own.
Are you a quarantined Star Wars collector craving social interaction as well as new merch? Do what I’ve been doing: In recent weeks, I’ve once again found myself enamoured with Star Wars Card Trader.
Since the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945, Soviet and later Russian troops have massed for massive parades at the major anniversaries of the end of World War II. This year, as Russia and the rest of the world celebrate seventy-five years since the defeat of Nazism, the parade will…
We’ve see apes based on a novel, and the Folio Society’s new edition of that novel is filled with beautiful illustrations, which portray the planet of the apes in a whole new way.
Several preeminent states in the European Union are backing Bluetooth-based, contact-tracing technology to help map the spread of the novel coronavirus outbreak via smartphone apps, Reuters reported this week. This news comes courtesy of German tech entrepreneur Chris Boos, a major coordinator behind the project dubbed the Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity…
Next month, NASA will launch its first astronaut mission from U.S. soil in almost a decade. This mission marks the final test for SpaceX before NASA begins regularly ferrying astronauts into orbit using the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft.
When Apple and Google publicly announced that they’d be partnering to roll out contact-tracing tech meant to help stem the coronavirus’s spread, the duo did everything they could to promise the program would put user privacy front and centre. It’s a claim that’s left more than a few researchers and…
I mean, yes, he’s a villain in the context of the short. And it’s Star Wars, so it’s with a lightsaber and therefore nice and bloodless thanks to convenient cauterization. But still! Lotta impaling going on in this cartoon.
This past week, assistant zoology professor Daniel Baldassarre at SUNY Oswego published a paper in a supposedly scientific journal with the following abstract:
“It’s inspiring to watch Whitney self-actualize into an absolute mutant,” my colleague Bryan Menegus remarked this morning, in the Gizmodo Slack channel devoted to dropping morning news tips for our daily assignments. Whilst my fellow reporters have been hard at work pursuing tech-related leads, holding the CDC to account, and…
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has delayed a decision on whether to allow the sale of the organisation that controls .org registrations to a band of private equity ghouls after the California attorney general’s office issued a warning
“Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull.” That’s Winston, from 1984, explaining that there’s no hiding from the Thought Police. Reading the line on my Kindle recently, I got a similar sense that I wasn’t alone. On Amazon’s e-reader, the sentence bears a faint underline…
One of the sweetest elements in Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the ability to collect, donate, and display art and artifacts on your island and in your home. Now, players can access the Getty Museum’s open-access collection to add famous works of art to their virtual collections via NookLink.
Sony’s most famous robot is probably Aibo, but a newly released patent hints that the company is also working on a fuzzy ‘lil guy to keep gamers company on the couch.
Jason Momoa discusses his Dune role. Rosario Dawson wants in on Star Trek in a very specific role. The Disney+ Moon Knight show is set to enter production later this year. Plus, another new look at Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, behind the scenes on Agents of SHIELD’s final Agent…
From the get-go, there’s something different about “Old Friends, Not Forgotten.” Absent is Kevin Kiner’s triumphant, truncated fanfare that has opened practically every episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Gone are the words of wisdom that typically join them, as is the searing-yellow title placard that zooms into view….
Whether you use Zoom, Skype or Microsoft Teams, the webcam on your home PC or laptop device has probably never been as active as it is during this pandemic.
This week Netflix added added some new phones to its list of supported devices for HD and HDR10. This included phones from Sony, Xiaomi and Oppo. This has just added to the ever-growing list of handsets that can stream Netflix at this quality. If you’re not sure if your phone…
In a dim sign that social distancing is quickly becoming a full-fledged culture war issue, protesters demanding that state governors lift measures imposed to hinder the spread of the coronavirus pandemic have gathered at statehouses in multiple states this week, fuelled in part by disinformation and egged on by conservative…
Cars today are on sale, virtually unchanged, for years on end. At best they’ll get a light refresh midway though their production cycle. (You can think of zenki and kouki Nissan S14s, if that helps. It probably doesn’t.) But this wasn’t how it always was.
The Brazilian Volkswagen Fastback Was Even Weirder Than You Realise And Brings Up Some Big Questions
I’m well aware that if you even realise the Brazilian Volkswagen Fastback was weird at all, you’re already in kind of a minority, human-being-wise. But that’s ok—I’m here to walk you through this, and through it we will get, together. We’re going to start with this premise: though the Brazilian…
Justice League Dark is finally happening, though not in the way we’d expected. J.J. Abrams has set his first three shows at U.S. streaming service HBO Max, which include a show set in DC’s Justice League Dark universe and an unusual take on The Shining.
The FIA’s all-electric open wheel racing series is on the ropes for the 2019-20 season. Having started in November, the racers have already completed 5 rounds of the championship, but with Thursday’s announcement that all races in May and June have been indefinitely suspended, there are only two race weekends…
Mark Ruffalo is up in the air over whether Bruce Banner will appear in , and Archie and Betty get close in Riverdale. Spoilers now!
The company behind PCMark’s benchmarking rankings has delisted roughly 50 devices from its system after reports surfaced that their RealTek processors were boosting performance during testing. This includes phones from major manufacturers such as Oppo, Realme, Xiaomi and Sony.
Just a couple days ago, news about a possible Surface Go 2 appeared in filings on the FCC’s website. But now, it looks like we’ve just gotten some info about a different laptop from Microsoft, thanks to leaked product listings from gadget retailers in Europe.
A team of astronomers shocked the world back in 2016 when they revealed evidence of an Earth-sized exoplanet in the habitable zone of our nearest stellar neighbour, a star called Proxima Centauri. Scientists are hunting for a second planet in this system—and maybe, maybe, they’ve found something.
Nearly 1,000 years ago, a megadrought ravaged the southwestern U.S., swiftly wiping out a thriving indigenous culture and rendering once-arid land unusable. Scientists have long warned that the climate crisis may trigger another megadrought. And according to a new study, that megadrought isn’t just on its way”it’s likely already under…
The U.S. is already new study. That means floods that used to happen once in a person’s lifetime occur every year or even every day.
