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All images: Sam Rutherford/Gizmodo Forgive me for passing up the chance to beat the exploding battery joke into the ground. Let’s get straight to the point: Samsung’s once dominant flagship phablet is back after a two year hiatus. Sporting a stunning extra-widescreen 18.5:9 display, the new Galaxy Note 8 is bigger and more engaging than…

The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-5) is being staged at Kennedy Space Center in preparation for its upcoming launch on September 7, 2017 in this September 5th handout photo (Boeing) The US Air Force’s secretive X-37B spaceplane returned to Earth back in May after a mysterious two years in orbit. Nobody knows what it was…

Black ants on shrimp (Image: Ryan F. Mandelbaum) Brooklyn Bugs filled Labor Day weekend with events, from an outdoor market to the haute ten-course tasting menu at the Brooklyn Kitchen. The festival was the brainchild of Chef Joseph Yoon, who normally runs dinner parties and tasting events. Yoon was only introduced to entomophagy, or bug…

The common cuckoo. (Image: Wikimedia) In one of the more notorious dick-moves of the animal kingdom, parasitic cuckoo birds lay their eggs in the nests of other birds, forcing them to raise the cuckoo chicks as if they were their own. New research shows that female cuckoos conduct this bait-and-switch while scaring the crap out…

Image source: Lenovo Users who purchased a Lenovo PC between September 2014 and January 2015 got an extra special surprise in the form of adware that left them wide open to malicious attacks. After two and a half years of legal wrangling, the Federal Trade Commission settled its lawsuit against the company, and it’s hard…

Youtube/ Geofeedia In the BLM members’ lawsuit, their attorney quotes the Strategic Intelligence Unit’s own internal reports as evidence of the illegality and racial bias in its geofencing tactics: The SIU describes the purpose of the Report as follows: Though the use of social media monitoring platform and other Investigatory tactics, the ILLPPC [Intelligence Led…

Screenshots: YouTube/Tyler Bennett Plenty of people have described Hurricane Harvey as a disaster of biblical proportions, and it seems the next plague is upon us. It’s not locusts. Thanks to untold quantities of filthy standing water, millions of mosquitos are starting to hatch. And yes, they do bite. They love to bite. A little bit…

Image: NASA/Voyager 1 The universe is very good at making us feel both extremely insignificant and lucky enough to be part of something huge. No missions have made this clearer than NASA’s Voyager spacecraft, which have been exploring the cosmos for 40 years. Today, Voyager 1 officially turns the big 4-0, which it’s celebrating by…