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Silicon Valley’s Push Into Transportation Has Been a Miserable Failure
Gizmodo is 20 years old! To celebrate the anniversary, we’re looking back at some of the most significant ways our lives have been thrown for a loop by our digital tools.
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Why Emerging Tech’s Partly to Blame for a Record $3 Trillion Military Spending Last Year
When it comes to spending (or losing) obscene amounts of money, it’s never a good idea to bet against the military. While normal people struggled to make ends meet and adapt to stressful economic uncertainties presented by the pandemic’s lockdowns and restrictions worldwide, global militaries were making a killing.
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Police Group Says Biden’s FCC Nominee Is Too Dangerous Because, Uh, Encryption
The National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), an organisation that represents hundreds of thousands of cops across the country, is hopping mad about President Joe Biden’s nominee to the governing board of the Federal Communications Commission. And no, their stated reasons don’t make a lot of sense.
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Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico After Ida Linked to Abandoned Pipeline
More than a week after Ida hit the Gulf of Mexico, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the hurricane made a huge mess of the oil and gas activities there. The government is investigating hundreds of reports of oil spills in the Gulf following the storm — and some of these spills may have come from…