One of the biggest issues with the American subway, at least in New York, boils down to cold hard cash. Even more than the busking, the rats, and the ooze, last year’s subway fare hike caused many NYC residents to lose their damn minds. But what if—y’know, instead of reducing…
While the God of Mischief is usually fighting with the God of Thunder, he may soon have Lightning to deal with too.
Check out this incredible photo of a streaking fireball, which appeared over England last week.
Scientists have observed a spinning star dragging space-time along with it, according to a new paper.
Ha ha ha. Donald Trump’s impermeable wall ain’t so impermeable, after all. Not even these high walls of racist fury can withstand good ol’ Mother Nature: The Washington Post reported Thursday that the president’s beloved border wall between the U.S. and Mexico would need to leave portions wide open every…
A woman in Italy developed a rare, literally hair-raising medical condition, her doctors say. In a case study, they describe how the woman grew eyelash-like hairs inside of her mouth. What’s worse, the hairs kept returning after their initial removal.
It appears we have missed another close call between two satellites ” but how close did we really come to a catastrophic event in space?
An EU vote to develop a standard smartphone charging cable standard totally did not go Apple’s way this week, putting intense pressure on the smartphone giant to drop its proprietary lightning connector for iPhones and other iOS devices. It may be some time coming, but this could be the beginning…
There’s another service that lets you buy products and pay for them later. Klarna launched on Thursday in Australia in partnership with the Commonwealth Bank ” and it’s not shy in telling retailers why they should adopt it rather than Afterpay.
As bushfires continue to burn around Australia, smoke has continued to blanket major cities and regional areas.
If you’re finding it hard to wrap your head around the numbers involved in the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), this interactive map can give you an idea based on the latest World Health Organisation numbers.
Why would anyone want a Walkman in the streaming age? That’s the question I asked myself when I first fiddled with the small Sony NW-A105. One month later, I’ve learned enough about the music player to answer that question and many more. Sometimes its good to cut out the distractions…
If Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10 Lite doesn’t light your fire, perhaps an even cheaper Motorola stylus-based handset will. Leaks suggest Motorola’s next G series phone will go all-in on the stylus, but also bring multi-cameras and hefty battery support too.
We can all communicate in lots of different ways ” using our hands to gesture or sign, writing letters, typing text messages, drawing pictures or even sending emojis.
Hummer is dead no more. It will be officially reborn as the GMC Hummer EV, GMC’s first all-electric truck, to be built at General Motors’ Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant. And its numbers are unreal.
If anyone reading this has a few million dollars laying around, give Paul Reubens a call. The actor, best known for playing Pee-wee Herman, is reportedly trying to put together an original script he wrote that would put Pee-wee through the wringer unlike anything audiences have ever seen.
The ACT’s new cannabis cultivation and possession laws has now come into effect, making it the first Australian state or territory to give weed the thumbs up. But before you start planning a weekend road trip to get baked at Questacon, we have some news for you. Lighting up in…
U.S. Commerce Department ghoul Wilbur Ross gloated about his belief the ongoing coronavirus outbreak in China is good for JOBS! JOBS! JOBS! in an appearance on Fox Business on Thursday morning, even as the confirmed number of cases and deaths keep rising and experts worry of sustained global spread.
Tech billionaire Jack Ma has donated $US14.5 ($21) million to help develop a vaccine for the new coronavirus that has killed at least 170 people and sickened over 7,700. Ma is China’s wealthiest person with an estimated $US41.8 ($62) billion, which means that his donation is roughly equivalent to the…
Sometimes your computer breaks. It happens. You spill something, or drop something, or you try to boot up and nothing happens. Many of us resolve the issue with a liberal use of Google, and others take the failing device to a person trained to fix computers. And some people thoroughly…
Loki may get an intriguing co-star in his Disney+ series. Harley Quinn is in a tough spot in a new Birds of Prey scene and we’ve got our first clip of older Bill S. Preston Esquire via an early Super Bowl commercial. Plus updates from Legends of Tomorrow, Riverdale, and…
A new study out Thursday highlights a disturbing consequence of the much-hated tradition of Daylight Saving Time. It found evidence that the yearly moving-ahead of clocks in the spring leads to more fatal car crashes throughout the U.S. during the following week.
Our time in the Good Place is surprisingly jacked Chidi is.
Art lovers now have more than 100,000 works of art from Paris museums at their fingertips to download and use as they please, courtesy of a recently announced initiative from the Paris Musées.
The World Economic Forum’s annual Davos gathering gives world leaders and rich people the chance to talk about their worst ideas and beliefs. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin really took the cake this year.
As you can expect, there’s lots of strange bullshit trending on Twitter at the moment: World War Six, for example, the Corona virus, all kinds of miserable bullshit. There’s also another Tweet that’s generating an awful lot of likes—maybe not quite the scale of the global disaster ones, but still—and…
After releasing a bunch of updates and bug fixes for the developer versions of iOS 13.3.1, they have finally landed for regular users. Here’s what you’ll get when you update.
If you’re keenly awaiting a shiny new Tesla Model 3, you may have to wait just a little longer. Tesla says that it’s been ordered by the Chinese government to temporarily shut down its Shanghai plant over Wuhan coronavirus fears.
Any random person on the street can tell you why Starbucks was a failure in Australia — we have taste buds. When we order a coffee, we expect a delicious long black or creamy latte… not a half-litre of flavoured swill. However, if you’ve ever wondered about the nitty-gritty of…
Ookla’s Speedtest Global Index ranking for December is out and Australia has fallen another three places, bringing the country down to 68th on the list.
An international team of scientists has developed a soft robotic hand that literally perspires in response to excess heat. This innovative concept could improve the durability and endurance of robots, while also allowing them to work in extreme environments.
More than 100 new emoji were officially announced on Wednesday, among them more inclusive emoji, a “pinched fingers emoji,” and a dodo bird. But one emoji in particular—the newly introduced placard—confounded Gizmodo staffers, all of whom read radically different wording on the sign.
Android updates are an exciting time. Not for their usual bug fixes and improvements, of course. Brand new emojis are where the real goods are at, and Android 11 is going hard, with the addition of 62 emojis coming in the latest update.
