Anyone planning a trip to Thailand should be advised to keep their opinions to themselves. Wesley Barnes, an American living in Thailand, found out this month that the Thai defamation laws can be extreme after a negative online review of a resort landed him behind bars.
The oceans are facing a host of maladies, from acidification to sea level rise. Turning them into a ginormous liquid layer cake may sound comparatively benign (and delicious). But while Gizmodo is decidedly pro-cake, this is in fact a bad situation.
The XPS 13 is already our favourite ultraportable laptop on the market, but that doesn’t mean it couldn’t use even better performance, so this fall Dell is updating the XPS 13 and the XPS 13 2-in-1 with new CPUs, speedier RAM, and faster data transfer.
BMW just ripped the mask off of the new BMW M3 and M4 performance sedan and coupe. While those come with up to 370kW and the option of a manual transmission, BMW’s performance M division is already cooking up its first-ever all-electric model, and it should be something completely new.
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines ‘day’ as ‘the period of rotation of a planet or a moon on its axis’. On Earth, this is commonly understood to be 24 hours. But bucking the trend — by a rather large margin — is Amazon, who have decided to ignore this and come…
Since 2016, there’s been a big focus on the influence of bots (i.e. computer controlled accounts) on social media. Experts who’ve studied them say they’re influencing Australia’s elections by promoting topics and hashtags to drive debate. And recently, some have alleged that bots might be behind a anti-Dan Andrews hashtag…
Beginning at the Talladega race on Oct. 3, 2020, TikTok will be officially sponsoring a NASCAR Xfinity Series team. Driver Ryan Vargas will pilot the No. 6 machine for the final six races of the year, and even if he doesn’t finish at the front of the field, he does…
Alejandro Agag, founder of both the Formula E and Extreme E championships, has just announced the formation of an all-electric powerboat league called the E1 World Electric Powerboat Series. Once again, the whole goal of the series is to draw attention to the environmental concerns that impact marine life.
It’s Halloween, and a babysitter realises the boogeyman is real! It’s a familiar plot for horror fans, but a new Netflix movie takes that same premise and puts a far more family-friendly spin on the whole thing. However, as the trailer makes clear, A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting is…
Ahead of Google’s Launch Night In event next week, it seems like everything is getting leaked, and following numerous sighting of Google’s upcoming smart speaker and Chromecast dongle, new info has surfaced regarding the Pixel 5.
2020 is so far the year of the novel coronavirus, murder hornets, climate change-induced wildfire hell and now: a brain-eating amoeba. Yes, you read that correctly.
Giant swordpalooza Monster Hunter gets an official description. The Witcher loses a castmember for season two but Batwoman gains a couple. A Creepshow Halloween special is on the way to scare us, plus updates from Supernatural, The Boys and more. TGI-Spoilers!
Even though right-wing elites repeatedly tout claims of conservative bias on Facebook and other online platforms, in reality, the bulk of data shows the opposite to be true. Per a weekend Politico report, as we near the 2020 presidential election, some of the most engaging posts on Facebook come from…
Avatar 2, James Cameron’s long-long-long-in-the-anticipation high-tech sequel to his high-tech opus, is back at it in production. And at the very least, it does look like Avatar.
A yearlong lawsuit against Alphabet’s board of directors over allegations of shielding the sexual harassment has, at long last, come to a close. It’s a decision that, as one attorney on the plaintiff’s side said, will “fundamentally alter” the way Google’s parent company operates — and hopefully the way some…
A once-in-a-century “climate anomaly” exacerbated the awful conditions along the Western Front in Europe during the First World War, according to new research. This unusual weather may have also amplified — and possibly even initiated — the catastrophic 1918-19 flu pandemic, exposing an underappreciated threat posed by climate change.
On The Walking Dead, anything can happen. Well…usually. When the show returns this weekend, we now know two very specific things can’t happen and that’s the deaths of Carol and Daryl.
While social distancing measures have pushed many people into sexless, joyless bubbles, San Francisco birds are getting flirtier and more coy. I’m glad someone’s getting some.
We’re about to learn a whole bunch more about one of the most mysterious men in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Android 11 and iOS 14 are both here, and the software upgrades pack in a slew of improvements and new features for Android phones (er…some of them) and iPhones, respectively. Many of the tweaks and enhancements in Android 11 centre around one particular area, though, and it’s an area where Google’s…
What struck me most about Battery Day was how un-Tesla the whole event was. There weren’t any too-outlandish-to-believe claims and there wasn’t a new prototype that you might never hear about again. It was, in a word, boring, which is how automaker events are supposed to be. This new grown-up…
Hey, General Motors Design? How’s it going, buddy? Man, I still sure love what you did with that Corvair! Good stuff, good stuff. And that new Corvette! Wow, right? I, uh, just happened to be checking out your Instagram page and saw some stuff from your very talented truck designers….
Would you believe more than 1% of computers worldwide are still using Windows XP? Incredibly, there are still millions of people using 19-year-old operating system. And a recent development — if it bears out — is another reason people need to make the switch to something newer. On Thursday, users…
You know what’s a shitty truth about reality? It’s that the old story about that magic monkey’s paw was far more accurate than we’d like to believe. Sure, there’s no bewitched, severed primate hand granting wishes, but the deeper truth, that everything you think is good can have unforeseen consequences,…
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Despite COVID-19 pushing back a lot of release dates, the Google Pixel 5 seems like it will still arrive in the near future. While we’re still a few months away, there’s been plenty of leaks, rumours and analysis to tide us over in in the meantime. Here’s what we know…
Tesla updated its website configurator for the Tesla Model S electric car to include its new Plaid performance trim, which promises a 0 to 97 km/h acceleration time in under two seconds flat. If you get all of the goodies, that means the Model S now costs up to a…
Amazon’s annual product event introduced a host of new hardware and service updates, including a markedly different Echo Show design. But for those of us who prefer background noise while we’re whipping something up in the kitchen, the revamped Echo Show also introduces a new streaming option: Netflix.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign is currently running Facebook ads with “real people” who support the president. And while it’s accurate to say these people are “real” in the sense that they’re human beings and not robots from the TV show Westworld, they’re not just average people off the…
The Justice Department released — and later retracted — a statement on Thursday saying it had opened an inquiry into the discarding of nine military ballots cast for President Trump in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. The notice disappeared from the DOJ’s website hours later only to be replaced by a “revised…
Earlier this month, Netflix announced that Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss would partner with The Terror: Infamy’s Alexander Woo to adapt the beloved, Hugo-winning Chinese sci-fi epic The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin. But now, the company is facing calls from a cadre of Republicans demanding…
Given the advantages the systems already offer in terms of speed and reliability, companies making mesh wireless networking hardware have been slow to jump on the Wi-Fi 6 bandwagon. Now, a year and a half after acquiring Eero, Amazon’s second update to its mesh networking system is finally introducing support…
Dreams do come true — but sometimes, they also get you in deep shit.
