The U.S. reached 3 million covid-19 cases on Wednesday and broke its own record for the most new cases in a single day on Tuesday, chalking up 60,209 infections in a 24-hour period, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University and AFP. The record was smashed on the same…
Long-awaited support for individual user profiles has finally arrived on Amazon’s streaming TV service, Prime Video. This means the niche streaming interests of your partner or family members can be saved to their own profiles — meanwhile, you, reader, can continue to binge the original Unsolved Mysteries at your own…
Twitter may be finally working on a way for you to monetise your shitty tweets without starting a podcast or putting a Cash.me link in your bio — that, or it’s launching a new tier of premium or ad-free accounts. As reported by VentureBeat on Wednesday, the revenue-hungry social network…
In the pantheon of Nintendo consoles, I’ll readily admit the Game Boy Advance SP wasn’t the most exciting. It didn’t have dual screens and a stylus like the DS. It wasn’t absurdly tiny like the Micro, or introduce colour to the platform like the Game Boy Colour. It’s nowhere near…
The Jim Henson puppets.
The end of fossil fuels is nigh. This week alone, we’ve seen three major pipelines get smacked TF up. First, a judge ordered the Dakota Access Pipeline to be shut down and emptied of all crude oil in 30 days. Then, the Atlantic Coast Pipeline was cancelled due to its…
Harvard and MIT have swiftly filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, following ICE’s surprise Monday announcement that the agency may deport international students if they don’t attend class in person. It’s a spectacularly on-brand counter-offensive via disaster opportunism with a mixture…
If you have an iPhone and recently noticed that your battery isn’t lasting as long as it used to, you may not be alone: Many iPhone owners are claiming that they’ve noticed Apple Music is responsible for excessive battery drain.
Shiver our timbers. Disney is continuing to ride the live-action remake ship with Peter Pan, and Jude Law may be coming aboard to play the boy hero’s arch-nemesis.
Even after narrowly averting the apocalypse caused by their latest familial drama, Umbrella Academy’s Hargreeves siblings found themselves faced with a devastating fate their years of superhero training could only barely prepare them for. The new season two trailer finds the heroes trying to blend in to a new environment…
Janelle Monáe has set her sights on joining the X-Men. Milla Jovovich has two, slightly smaller swords in our latest look at Monster Hunter. A bumped up season two budget for The Boys means a new short film is on the way. Plus, the next Brainwave debuts on Stargirl, The…
One of the more interesting recent Tesla Model 3 competitors is the Polestar 2, made in China by Geely as Volvo’s electric sibling marque. We’ve already gotten a look at the handsome beefy-sedan design of the Polestar 2 and generally know its specs, but now, finally, we’ve been shown that…
I bet we all kind of remember that kid from high school who was a painful, socially inept dork who nevertheless craved the approval and attention of the popular kids with an often terrifying ravenousness. That was the same kid who discovered drinking and weed by the end of senior…
The 2021 Ford Bronco is debuting in just a couple of days, but spy photos have been all over the internet for months. We haven’t seen any detailed ones showing the interior, though. Until now.
SUV startup Ineos has been in the news for about five seconds and it has already managed to piss of 1,000 potential workers who would be building its not-a-Land-Rover-Defender. It’s publicly considering ditching its plans to make its vehicles in Wales and Portugal and make them in France instead. I…
One of the big pain points of OnePlus devices has traditionally been the camera. While the phones usually offer impressive specs with early-adopter features that haven’t gone mainstream yet, the camera modules often leave the phones short of the full package. Well, OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei wants us to know…
Kia’s initial production plans for its new Kia Telluride three-row SUV were 60,000 units built per year. With actual production capacity now peaking at 100,000 units and still not enough cars to meet demand, Telluride buyers are going to have to wait.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook — the social media company you may recognise from United Nations accusations of complicity in genocide and its role in recklessly flooding the web with conspiracy theories and extremism — predictably failed to placate a coalition of civil rights groups leading…
We’ve recently seen a deluge of Google Pixel 4a leaks and rumours flying around. But that’s not the only exciting phone Google is releasing this year. The first alleged leak of the Pixel 5 has dropped and boy are there some changes. Last year’s Google Pixel 4 did not live…
Just last week, renders allegedly showing the unreleased Galaxy Note 20 appeared on Samsung’s official Russian website. But now, it appears the Galaxy Note 20 has been photographed in the wild for the first time, confirming details we’ve gleaned from previous reports.
Much as pocketable monster friends are well taken care of, each and every single Pikachu-centric short has made it abundantly clear that Pokémon thrive and are at their best when the humans are just gone. Left to their own devices, the Pokémon get to be their whole-arse selves, which is…
An independent NASA-Boeing review team has completed its investigation into serious issues that arose during a test of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft late last year. Boeing has now been given no less than 80 recommendations to put into practice, in what is an alarming display of the problems at the aerospace…
German authorities have reportedly confiscated a server used by the group DDOSecrets to share leaked confidential records belonging to more than 200 state, local, and federal American law enforcement agencies.
It’s not always convenient or possible to glance at your smartphone’s screen as you normally would, but with a few tweaks to your phone’s settings, you can get the most important information without having to look down at the display. Here’s how to get your phone to read the info…
Climate justice activists have had an ecstatic start to the week. In a 24-hour period, three major planned fossil fuel pipelines were delayed or possibly cancelled altogether: Developers cancelled the Atlantic Coast Pipeline on Sunday, a court ordered the Dakota Access Pipeline be cancelled on Monday, and just hours later,…
Florida is nearing a breaking point. The novel coronavirus pandemic has surged across the state, passing 200,000 cases over the July 4 weekend. However, that hasn’t stopped Florida leaders from defending Disney’s decision to reopen Disney World Resorts, calling it a “safe environment” for park guests — even though Florida…
Eiko Kadono’s 1985 fantasy story is out today, and Gizmodo has an exclusive first peek!
The Trump regime is considering a U.S. ban on the popular music and dance app TikTok, as well as other apps owned by Chinese companies, according to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. TikTok is one of the most popular apps in the world, with roughly 800 million users globally,…
Lithium is used in everything from medication to mobile phone batteries, but where does it come from? We know it is mined here on Earth, but where it is created in the universe is less well understood. We studied hundreds of thousands of stars like our own Sun and found…
Today I’d like to celebrate an under-appreciated American hero, that least-American-seeming of American cars: the Chevrolet Corvair. Specifically, I want to remind the world how incredibly influential the design of the Corvair was.
Update your speakers, build out your smart home or save on SSDs with this range of Amazon Australia deals. 2 Sonos Ones: $484 You can use them as standalone smart speakers with Alexa or Google Assistant, or as the rear speakers with the fancy (and very nice) new Sonos Arc…
Three months ago I received a hydroponic herb garden for review. As an avid cook and apartment-dweller who missed having a proper veggie garden, I wanted to give it a go. Little did I know how important it would be for my mental health during COVID-19. What’s good about a…
After months of searching, I sent $215 to a guy I had never met, for a bike I had never seen with my own two eyes, 4,828 km from my apartment. A good question would be: why?
