When news broke earlier this year that Apple had snapped up Dark Sky, the weather app said at the time that while the app would continue working for iOS users, it would be shut down for Android and Wear OS users and subscribers beginning July 1.
New research this week describes some of the harrowing and possibly long-term neurological complications that can happen in children who develop a mysterious condition linked to covid-19. They can suffer everything from headaches to muscle weakness, along with visible signs of damage to the brain.
The world keeps producing more headphones, microwaves, laptops, air conditioners, and other pieces of electronics even as a record amount ends up as e-waste. A new report concluded that in 2019, humanity generated its highest ever total of e-waste globally, underscoring a rapidly growing problem.
Earlier this week, MIT permanently pulled its 80 Million Tiny Images dataset — a popular image database used to train machine learning systems to identify people and objects in an environment. The reason? It used racist, misogynistic, and other offensive terms to label photos.
Jason Momoa is the reason for the season in Warner Bros.’ new… Frosty the Snowman movie? sets a start date. Spoilers, go!
For most of the human history of Australia, sea levels were much lower than they are today, and there was extra dry land where people lived. Archaeologists could only speculate about how people used those now-submerged lands, and whether any traces remain today. But in a study published today in…
Cadillac, a once well-respected luxury brand, has had difficulty getting and retaining customers in a highly competitive segment where foreign brands dominate. Cadillac hopes that an all-new sports sedan, the CT4, will start to change that. I have my doubts.
COVID-19 is changing the way we live. Panic buying, goods shortages, lockdown – these are new experiences for most of us. But it’s standard fare for the protagonists of young adult (YA) post-disaster novels. Like most post-disaster novels, the book is more concerned with how we survive rather than understanding…
The tenth-generation of the Lincoln Continental — reintroduced in 2016 after 14 years gone — will die again, Ford said today. Production will be halted by the end of the year in the U.S., and eventually in China as well. It’s the newest victim of the obsessions with SUVs.
We’re expecting a 5G version of Samsung’s adorable clamshell phone, the Galaxy Z Flip, any time now – and it looks like the design has leaked. The device recently cleared TENAA certification and thanks to the beady-eyed folks at MySmartPrice, we now have images that reveal… that it looks pretty much…
Holy moly, there sure are sci-fi, fantasy, and horror fans, this month is a bountiful feast. Read on!
We are, at long last, living in the early days of what is a long-overdue Ahmed Best renaissance. After years of horrifying torment the actor received for having the audacity to bring Jar Jar Binks to life, Star Wars (both its fandom and its institution) has accepted Best into its…
If off-panel, in the narrative void. Even though the show has prided itself by leaning heavily into tropes that defined comics as a medium, the second season opens by immediately making clear that it has every intention of picking up right where things left off.
Lizmarie Oropeza imagined that when her 17-month old foster son, Caden, hit his milestones — pointing, learning to walk, speaking his first words — his biological family would be able to celebrate alongside her. Then coronavirus hit. In Oropeza’s home-state of Connecticut, visitation between families and children in the child…
Surprise, Star Trek fans: you’re much closer to animated, goofier take on life aboard a Federation vessel is landing in just over a month.
critical disappointment. But in recent days, Ray Fisher has made those discussions even franker.
We’re halfway through 2020, and I think we can all safely say it’s been a pretty terrible year. There’s been so much terrible stuff in the past two months alone, I can’t even remember the bad stuff that happened in January. But I’m sure it sucked.
In a blog post on its website yesterday, Niantic, the company behind the still-popular Pokémon Go augmented reality smartphone game, revealed it was working on at least 10 new AR games including one that turns your neighbourhood and city into one of the most popular board games since Monopoly: Settlers…
We’ve got more emojis at our fingertips than ever before, but are your friends, relatives, colleagues, and favourite chatbots seeing the colourful cartoon symbols you think they’re seeing? There are several different reasons why emojis can get lost in translation between apps, devices, and platforms, and here we’ll explain how…
Ford has opened the order books for the 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E all-electric crossover. If you were waiting for another handout before pulling the trigger, the Mach-E now makes up to 14 more horsepower than originally promised.
Australia has ruled out abandoning the government’s COVIDSafe contact tracing app in favour of the rival “Gapple” model developed by Google and Apple, which is gaining widespread support around the world. Deputy Chief Medical Officer Nick Coatsworth told The Project the COVIDSafe app was “a great platform”. In the two…
Victoria’s health department will not release information on how many times COVIDSafe has been accessed, despite a recent rise of COVID-19 cases in Melbourne. A new outbreak of coronavirus cases have been recorded in Victoria over the past two weeks with hundreds of active cases now known. While this isn’t…
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) website and MyGov are experiencing instability and crashes as a flood of people attempt to access their superannuation early and file tax returns. ATO Site Crash July 1 marks the start of the new financial year, which makes it a busy time for the ATO…
Since the mid-1980s, the Unsolved Mysteries television program has investigated thousands of weird and wonderful tales. The popularity of the series over almost 35 years, more than 600 episodes, and five reboots, is testament to the high level of interest in narratives that don’t have a neat resolution. The latest…
A month after Amazon released its flagship third-person shooter/MOBA/battle royal/what the heck even is this game, Crucible, the company has unreleased it due to copious amounts of negative feedback. “Starting tomorrow, Crucible is moving to closed beta,” said the Crucible team in a blog this morning. All current players will…
Sharks have been terrorising movie shark means you’re a smarter predator. Other times, it leads you to make very bad shark choices.
The Tosche station deleted scene from Star Wars: A New Hope paints a fascinating picture of early plans to flesh out the for the best that it remained on the cutting room floor. But as Mark Hamill recently reflected, one sad reason it remains mostly hidden is the insight it…
For better or worse, there’s a good chance your current love life owes something to automation. Even if you’re just hooking up with the occasional Tinder fling (which if you are, no judgment), you’re still turning to Tinder’s black-box algorithms to pick out that fling for you before turning to…
A right-wing social media app that’s billed itself as a “free speech” alternative to Twitter is quickly proving itself to be even more restrictive than the alternative apps its users routinely accuse of censorship.
This is it! The final instalment of Gizmodo’s special presentation of Molly Tanzer’s new novel, Creatures of Charm and Hunger. You’ll now be able to read it in full until July 7, so don’t miss out!
As long as fans have breath in their lungs, they’ll Did it not? Last month marked 10 years since the series finale, and bringing it up at a party (remember those?) is still sure to spark debate. In a new interview, Lost co-creator and executive producer Damon Lindelof pulls back the…
After months of rumblings from the Trump administration claiming the use of Chinese networking equipment posed a risk to the U.S., today the Federal Communications Commission officially designated both Huawei and ZTE as threats to national U.S. security.
Marine biologists from Japan say whale sharks have eyeballs coated in tiny teeth, in a discovery unique to this hulking but gentle aquatic species.
