Ryan F. Mandelbaum
The French Ministry of Economy and Finance has warned tech companies that it expects them to pay the nation’s new 3% digital service tax starting in December, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
2020 has been the year of the succubus. This unseen demonic beast is insatiable, gobbling up our physical and mental health, our joy and for many, financial stability. Spending less became key for many, and amongst that fiscal pivot, Apple began releasing a slew of surprisingly cheaper products. From the…
Personally speaking, mustering the will to do pushups requires a lot of psyching myself up. A lot of walking around in circles, fiddling with my music, and wondering if maybe doing an extra few sets of overhead tricep extensions or holding a plank for two minutes would be a sufficient…
Thanks to phones like the Galaxy S20 Ultra, a new segment of devices with flexible screens, and lite versions of the Note 10 and Note 20, Samsung’s flagship phone portfolio has sort of ballooned out of control over the last couple of years. So in an effort to streamline its…
Was it aliens or artists? Yesterday, the internet was enthralled by the discovery of an unexplained metallic monolith in the middle of nowhere by officers for Utah’s Department of Public Safety. Roughly 24 hours later, we have a lot more answers, all thanks to amateur sleuths online. And given the…
The recently released Spider-Man: Miles Morales video game follows the core message from the feature film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: “Anyone can wear the mask.” But there’s one video game out right now where that’s also true: anyone can wear the mask in Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs: Legion but that doesn’t…
In the latest example of Amazon buddying up with federal forces, the ecommerce giant announced a new partnership with the U.S. Department of Homeland and security and DHL dubbed “Operation Fulfilled Action,” aimed at cracking down on counterfeit products.
Researchers have uncovered what they’re calling a “bonanza” of ancient arrows and other hunting equipment, as well as signs of prey, on a remote Norwegian ice patch. The cache is a striking example of the burgeoning field of ice patch archaeology, which is unfortunately growing as the planet melts down….
The economic fallout of the covid-19 pandemic has hit the oil industry hard, and Exxon in particular is feeling it. Internal documents show the company’s not expecting to make a grand recovery any time soon despite putting on a good face for shareholders.
Do you remember the first electronic game you ever played? Maybe it was Super Mario Bros. on the NES? Pitfall on the Atari 2600? Pac-Man at the arcade? For me it was Tic-Tac-Toe played on what looked like a cordless phone called Merlin The Electronic Wizard featuring a ‘screen’ made…
The Walking Dead teases the arrival of Lucille. Mads Mikkelsen is still holding out hope that Hannibal could come back. Dead things don’t stay buried in the latest teaser for…whatever wild thing Riverdale will get up to this season. Plus, what’s to come on His Dark Materials. Spoilers away!
In recent months, three humpback whales were spotted in the East Alligator River in the Northern Territory’s Kakadu National Park. Contrary to its name, the river is full of not alligators but crocodiles. And its shallow waters are no place for a whale the size of a bus. It was…
Some days, starting my 1997 BMW 318ti is less “sheer driving pleasure” and more “dammit, now what?” I used to get frustrated about running into one (or more) of the failings in my hatch, but I’ve made peace with the fact that things are bound to break in my beater…
SpaceX fired the engines on its Starship SN8 prototype on Tuesday evening, with billionaire CEO Elon Musk tweeting that the resultant “good static fire” produced during the final test had likely paved the way for the vehicle to take its first test flight sometime next week.
In an effort to establish better contact tracing the NSW government has made QR code check-ins mandatory in all venues across the state from November 23.
A fire broke out on the United States Coast Guard’s largest ship last summer, destroying one of the vessel’s enormous electric motors. Now the Coast Guard, one of the five service branches of the U.S. military, is replacing that motor and documenting the entire process, which involves cutting a giant…
If you’ve decided it’s a good time to start working out, you might have noticed a strange phenomenon: You’ll leave the gym feeling fine, and then two days later wake up sore. This weird time-lag appears unique to exercise, and is, when you think about it, kind of inexplicable —…
Last Friday, Disney+ dropped Marvel’s 616, a new documentary series examining the ins and outs of many Marvel aspects, from how toys are made at Hasbro to how comics writer Dan Slott is really, really bad at hitting deadlines. But its debut episode gave a look inside the making of…
Welcome back to Gaming Shelf, Gizmodo’s column all about board games and tabletop roleplaying games. This time around, we’ve got some interesting news about the future of Star Wars miniature games, as well as a first look at Modiphius’ official Dune roleplaying game. Plus, a few Black Friday and Cyber…
While there are plenty of places where you can pay to put on a Mario cap and tool around in a go-kart making like it’s the Rainbow Road, real-life Mario Kart lacks the fun power-ups and gentle mayhem of the video game. I assumed Nintendo’s Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit,…
If you’re one of the troves of people who — for some bizarre reason — wants to be among the blue-checked elite on Twitter, then good news: everyone’s favourite app for posting bad takes will be bringing back its verification process early next year.
Finally, we are getting some FACTS out of the White House. Noted environmentalist and nepotistic grifter Ivanka Trump dropped some KNOWLEDGE on Twitter on Tuesday.
The Rocinante is getting ready to make its final voyage. Amazon Studios has renewed The Expanse for a sixth and final season — although one cast member will not be returning for the last journey into the stars.
The door to the Netflix Holiday Movie Universe (or NHMU) has been blown wide open! For realsies this time.
As the world inches closer to the rollout of a COVID-19 vaccine, Facebook has yet again been caught taking money from anti-vaxx campaigners and conspiracy theorists to promote their harmful content to more of the tech giant’s users. After years of warnings that anti-vaccine campaigners were using the platform to…
Surprise, there’s a new way to hack and steal a Tesla in mere minute by using Bluetooth. How the new Tesla hack works Lennert Wouters security researcher from KU Leuven in Belgium, has demonstrated a vulnerability in keyless entry functionality of the Tesla Model X. He said that it’s possible…
KFC has begun rolling out self-driving food trucks in China and now I want some god damn wicked wings. KFC Self-Driving Vehicles This new initiative seems to be part of a push to further enhance contactless delivery options due to COVID-19. In this case, Yum Brands (which owns KFC) and…
Last summer, many Australians were shocked to see fires sweep through the wet tropical rainforests of Queensland, where large and severe fires are almost unheard of. This is just one example of how human activities are changing fire patterns around the world, with huge consequences for wildlife. In a major…
Victoria Police has blamed an ‘IT error’ for making transcripts of confidential conversations between lawyers and clients accessible to their investigators. Last week, Victoria Police’s head of covert services division Detective Acting Superintendent Damian Jackson admitted to the privacy breach in a statement given to the Victoria Bar Association, as…
In another universe, this year in tech might have been defined by TikTok’s survival of numerous assassination attempts. Just as the (first) TikTok ban came down, Instagram swooped in with Reels; today, Snapchat announced that it’s launching a TikTok copycat feature called Spotlight. It’s not the first TikTok ripoff and…
Next year, Comcast will start charging Xfinity customers in northeastern US states overage fees for exceeding their monthly data cap. As The Verge reports, customers not on an unlimited plan who exceed 1.2 TB of data in a month will have to pay $US10 ($14) for every 50 GB of…
The creator of the Public Radio Alliance — the fictional podcast network responsible for shows like Tanis, The Last Movie, and Faerie — is bringing one of his conspiratorial stories to print. Terry Miles’ Rabbits podcast saga has been adapted into a novel, continuing the story of an alternate reality…
Since Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge only exists in two places on our planet, one might expect a VR experience based on it would just copy them, and give fans who can’t get to Disneyland or Walt Disney World a chance to visit Batuu right from the comfort of home. Star…
