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How to Use Your Oversized Phone with One Hand
Photo: David Nield (Gizmodo) Bad news for those of you with small hands or small pockets (or both): It looks like phones are staying big for the foreseeable future. But owning a handset with a big screen doesn’t mean you can’t operate it with just one hand if you need to—these are the software tricks…
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Google Assistant Can Do Some New Stuff, I Guess
Photo: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo) ‘Tis the season and Google is feeling generous. Today it rolled out a bunch of new Google Assistant features, including improvements nifty to-do list functionality and a new feature that encourages you to be polite to your inanimate, question-answering bot. Though the features are packaged as a “surviving the holidays” toolkit,…
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This $20 Thermometer Doesn’t Even Need to Touch You to Take Your Temperature
Other Gadgets iHealth Infrared No-Touch Thermometer Other Gadgets iHealth Infrared No-Touch Thermometer iHealth Infrared No-Touch Thermometer WHAT IS IT? An infrared thermometer that can be used without waking someone up. PRICE $20 LIKE The price. DISLIKE Doesn't provide an assessment of a measurement. Digital thermometers are far from a new idea; at this point, it’s…
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Nine Charged in Plot to Steal Samsung’s Most-Hyped Phone Technology
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Toothless, 33-Million-Year-Old Whale Could Be an Evolutionary ‘Missing Link’
Top and bottom views of the remarkably well-preserved Maiabalaena nesbittae skull, an ancient species of toothless whale. Image: C. M. Peredo et al., 2018/Current Biology A closer examination of a fossil found more than four decades ago has led to the identification of a new species of whale—a 33-million-year-old cetacean featuring neither teeth nor baleen.…
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Figure of the day: How many devices were infected through games from Google Play?
Online application store Google Play has experienced one of the largest attacks in history. Security experts found the shop 13 fake games that bring when installed on a mobile device malicious code. The total number of installations of these games exceeded 560 thousand.
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Ran had supported a project to build a lunar base, and discussed some of the details
Russia is going to build a manned lunar base. As reported by TASS, citing its sources, the Council of RAS on space supported the project. On Wednesday held a meeting with participation of the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin and President of RAS Alexander Sergeev, which also dealt with the General concept of the development…
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Big Mouth Billy Bass Will Now Annoy the Shit Out of You With Alexa Support Built In
You heard that right, we’re still a little over three weeks away from Christmas, but you can already scratch every aunt, uncle, and cottage-owner off of your holiday shopping list as Billy once again goes on sale starting on December 1 for about $40. At first glance, the new version looks identical to the original,…
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company Cancels Los Angeles Tunnel Following Lawsuit
Map of planned underground systemGraphic: The Boring Company The Westside group did not get a ruling on its lawsuit; instead, it seems the two parties settled. The Boring Company did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Gizmodo, but it sent a statement to NBC News that reads: The parties (The Boring Company,…
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Microsoft Wins $479 Million Army Contract for Augmented Reality Systems
Image: Altaf Qadri (AP) Microsoft has secured a $479 million-plus contract with the U.S. Army for Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) prototypes, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, expanding its relationship with the military and beating out a slew of other companies competing for the contract. According to the government proposal, the program is intended to “accelerate lethal…