Perhaps the only thing more embarrassing than being the Newsmax guy interviewing the MyPillow CEO on election fraud is being the Newsmax guy forced to apologise to the MyPillow CEO about election fraud.
Archaeologists investigating burial shafts near Alexandria, Egypt have discovered over a dozen interred individuals, two of whom still feature golden tongues that were carefully placed inside their mouths.
A bonafide treatment for the common cold has eluded scientists for decades. But recent animal research from a team in Australia suggests that their experimental drug — delivered via nasal spray — could help the immune system fend off all sorts of respiratory infections. The treatment is now set to…
Faecal transplants, already being studied as a treatment for colon infections and type 2 diabetes, may also help the body fight cancer, new U.S. government-funded research suggests. In a small clinical trial, some patients with advanced cancer who received the transplants began responding to treatments that hadn’t worked earlier, which…
When the covid-19 pandemic began shutting the world down in late 2019 and early 2020, there was an early run on household supplies, followed by shortages of gadgets like webcams and laptops. Toilet paper is now readily available, but major hardware companies like Qualcomm, AMD, and Sony warn that chip…
As wearable devices like smartwatches become more sophisticated, with sensors that can do everything from detecting atrial fibrillation to measuring blood oxygen levels, smartphones have been left in the dust. And yet phones are far more ubiquitous, which is why Google has developed two new health-tracking features that use just…
Myanmar’s new government has ordered internet providers in the country to block Facebook in an attempt to quell dissent following a successful military coup earlier this week, according to internet-monitoring service NetBlocks and internet company Telenor Myanmar.
If you’ve been sitting on the fence when it comes to dipping your toe into the smart home pool, Amazon is currently running a deal that makes for a great starter kit. The online retailer is currently offering the third generation Echo Dot and Fire TV Stick Lite for $89, making…
To solve the mysteries of black holes, a human should just venture into one. However, there is a rather complicated catch: A human can do this only if the respective black hole is supermassive and isolated, and if the person entering the black hole does not expect to report the…
Contracts suck. Why would you give two or three years of your life to an NBN provider? A lot can change in that time. Best unlimited NBN plans can flip. Evening speeds could get worse. A better deal might pop up. 5G might become a viable alternative. Thankfully there are…
You know how there’s some remarkable cars that just sort of perpetually bounce around the collective consciousness of gearheads, periodically re-emerging to once again dazzle/delight/disgust a new crop of car-fetishists? Of course you do. One of the most enduring of these comet-like cars has to be the hilarious half-Subaru Brat,…
In one universe, Marvel’s Eternals came out this past November. In another universe, it’s coming out next week. In our universe, it’s currently scheduled for this November. And if you’re annoyed and frustrated by all that, imagine what it’s like to be part of it.
Not that we ever suspected the villains of The Suicide Squad to have an easy time of it — it’s always a bummer when the U.S. government puts bombs in your head, after all — but Warner Bros. has released the official plot synopsis for the movie, and, well, now…
Owners of some older Apple TVs will soon have to rely on AirPlay if they want to watch YouTube content on their devices.
The Texas Department of Public Safety is blaming “a test malfunction” after it sent out an Amber Alert on Jan. 29 urging the public to be on the lookout not for a missing child but Chucky, the killer doll from the Child’s Play series.
As we settle into summer and temperatures rise, snakes are emerging from their winter hideouts to bask in the sun. But don’t be alarmed if you spot one, it’s hard to imagine a more misunderstood group of animals than snakes. Our interactions with snakes are conversation starters, with yarns told…
On Wednesday night an ABC reporter did the Lord’s Work by providing the public with a quintessentially Australian slip of the tongue. During a live cross to Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, she accidentally referred to him as Australian alcohol chain, Dan Murphy’s. And look, we support it. Why was the…
A startup in Iran recently suffered a large data breach in which millions of its user records were exposed to the internet and then subsequently destroyed by a cyberattack involving a bot. The disruption appears to be part of an ongoing trend in which bad actors surf the web looking…
The lengths that Iuli Gerbase’s The Pink Cloud goes to in order to show you parallels between its fictional story about quarantining and the countless tales of real people living through our ongoing covid-19 pandemic may strike you as excessive. It could also be seen as the movie’s attempt to…
Medical staff at Yangon General Hospital in Myanmar posed for a group photo on Wednesday, raising three fingers in a salute of resistance after Aung San Suu Kyi, the civilian leader of the country, was ousted in a military coup on Monday.
Despite what you might have assumed when you heard the title, the first trailer for the upcoming German-made post-apocalyptic sci-fi series Tribes of Europa reveals that it is not set on the moon of Jupiter. Instead, the show takes place in post-apocalyptic Europe and is thus titled because Europa is the…
The first time I heard audio through a Devialet Phantom speaker, I thought the sound waves were going to melt my eyeballs out of their sockets. And then I heard the speaker’s $US2,000 ($2,627) price tag, and instead they melted out of my ears. Devialet is announcing an updated version of…
Stunning new evidence suggests the Arctic Ocean was covered by a thick layer of ice and filled with fresh water on at least two occasions during the past 150,000 years. The observation could finally explain strange and dramatic climate anomalies associated with these glacial periods.
The Golden Globe award nominees were announced this morning, and although it’s been a pretty quiet year for entertainment in general, as an Gizmodo reader, there are still a few choices that should pique your interest — especially since Baby Yoda and Cthulhu are finally getting the Hollywood recognition they’ve…
There’s no discourse more toxic in the tech community than opinions on Apple’s attempts to redesign the TV remote. There are those that love the latest iteration, and there are those that correctly believe it’s bad. It seemed it would be impossible for everyone to find common ground until this…
Road departments deploy plow and salt trucks to keep roads clear and safe this time of year. But that safety comes at a cost, in the form of damage to infrastructure and cars. One possible solution to this problem is a road that can heat and cool itself. It’s a…
In case you forgot, Jeff Bezos is building a 10,000 year clock inside a mountain. And it’s not as super villainy as you would think.
While Tesla seems to get all the credit for it lately, automakers have been leaving easter egg features on cars for forever. Not to be left in the dust by the Jeep Wagoneer with its Detroit map in the glass roof or Tesla fart mode, the new Ford Mustang Mach-E…
There are a bunch of great articles out there that will help you build your fantasy world from the ground up. The true world builder’s toolkit has a lot in common with a terraformer’s to-do list: crops, ocean currents, trade winds, rain shadow, best locations for cities. This is not…
You may recall back in December when SpaceX was doing a short up-and-down test of their colossal new Starship that ended in a crash and a gigantic fireball when the quad-winged-silo-like rocket attempted to make a vertical landing but came in a bit hot and crashed. This time, the rocket…
Every year sees a number of new ransomware gangs emerge and take a swing at becoming the most prolific operators in the digital underworld. Well, 2021 officially has its first new high-profile ransomware operation and they are definitely arseholes.
After a drawn-out battle, the U.S. Department of Labour’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has finally settled with Google, which will now pay out or set aside $US3.8 ($5) million to remedy allegations it discriminated against over 5,000 woman and Asian engineers. Over $US2.5 ($3) million of that will…
