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Photo: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo) The standalone tablet is all but dead. It’s been supplanted by 2-in-1s like the Surface Pro, which promises the excellent content consumption powers of a tablet, crossed with the actual productivity of a real laptop. Still, Apple has defiantly continued to make a tablet—both the budget iPad that was refreshed in…

The location of the 19-mile-wide (31 kilometers) impact crater in northwestern Greenland.Image: The Natural History Museum of Denmark An unusually large asteroid crater measuring 19 miles wide has been discovered under a continental ice sheet in Greenland. Roughly the size of Paris, it’s now among the 25 biggest asteroid craters on Earth. An iron-rich asteroid…

Image: padrinan (Pixabay) Heart disease has long been the number one killer in the United States. But a new study out this week is the latest to suggest that it’s only a matter of time before the second leading cause of death—cancer—becomes more commonly fatal for the average person. On the bright side, though, that’s…

Photo: Bryan Menegus (Gizmodo) Long Island City—Hundreds gathered this afternoon at Gordon Triangle, smack dab in the middle of a newly proposed campus for Amazon employees. Ringed by local news crews, a coalition of local politicians led by City Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer and State Senator Michael Gianaris stated their intent to stop Bezos’s…

Screenshot: DeepMind (YouTube) DeepMind’s health app Streams is being consumed by its sister company, Google, and some privacy advocates see the move as a violation of patient trust. Streams was originally developed by the Alphabet-owned British AI company DeepMind to send data and alerts to doctors and nurses. But the app drew controversy last year…

Evidence of the Armillaria gallica fungus on a scrap of wood.Image: James B. Anderson It’s nicknamed the “humongous fungus”—an unusually large fungal growth belonging to a single genetic individual. An updated analysis of this gigantic fungal beast shows it’s substantially larger and older than scientists initially thought. This single genetic individual, known as C1, belongs…

Brian Roberts, CEO of Comcast, at the Sun Valley Conference on July 12, 2018 in Sun Valley, IdahoPhoto: Getty Images Comcast will cancel the debts of more than 20,000 customers and pay back $700,000 in Massachusetts as part of a settlement with the state’s Attorney General over deceptive advertising. Back in 2015 and early 2016,…

Proposed location for the Chinese Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) infrastructure. Scientists this week released a conceptual design report for a next-generation particle accelerator in China, which would serve as a “Higgs boson factory,” as its proponents have called it. Back in 2012, the Large Hadron Collider discovered the Higgs boson particle, which netted François…

Mark Zuckerberg, head of a company that was literally complicit in genocidePhoto: Getty Images Facebook has been exposed as utter garbage yet again. The company allegedly hired a political research firm to spread a conspiracy theory about its critics. And yes, the conspiracy theory reportedly involves George Soros. The New York Times has the bombshell…