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  • India’s BJP Is Reportedly Using Data From a State-Funded Free Phone Program to Hit Up Voters

  • Tumblr App Has Inexplicably Disappeared From Apple’s App Store

    Image: Mark Lennihan (AP) Tumblr has mysteriously vanished from Apple’s App Store, and it’s not clear why. The issue was first reported Friday by tech blog PiunikaWeb, which pointed to user reports that the app wasn’t working and noted that some users were “not able to turn off Safe Mode.” As of Sunday, the app…

  • Wildfires, Invasive Snakes, and Saying Goodbye to a Legend: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

    Photo: Clockwise from top left: Photo: Bjorn Lardner / Photo: HSVC / Photo: AP / Photo: Getty Images It might be the second half of November, but the wildfire season in California is now functionally approaching a 365-days-a-year crisis, with two massive blazes burning down huge swathes of the state. The Woolsey Fire and the Camp…

  • Is This Your Bedazzled Pigeon?

    Image: Jody Kieran (Gizmodo) The Hot Duck has arrested our attention for weeks now, but there’s a new bird captivating the internet this week: the Bedazzled Pigeon. And this bird with flair is already in high demand. Jody Kieran, the owner of the Arizona-based bird rescue and rehabilitation center Fallen Feathers, tells Gizmodo that the…

  • You Can Now Watch Ad-Supported Movies for Free on YouTube

    Image: dbreen (Pixabay) You can now add YouTube to your list of sites to scour for free movie streaming, as the video-sharing giant has now added no-cost, ad-supported films to YouTube Movies. A spokesperson for Google, YouTube’s parent company, told Gizmodo that it introduced the “free to watch” section to its site in October, though…

  • We Finally Know How Wombats Produce Their Distinctly Cube-Shaped Poop

    Image: AP A bold team of scientists has delved into the mystery of cube-shaped wombat poop, uncovering the physiological processes involved in this unique digestive trick. Wombats are kind of obsessed with their own poop. These Australian marsupials can drop anywhere from four to eight pieces of dung, each measuring about 2 centimeters across, during…

  • Sorry Cortana, Microsoft Is Now Selling Alexa Devices

    Photo: Mike Stewart (AP) Microsoft’s Cortana assistant is reportedly becoming more of an assistance aide than a standalone service, being moved from Microsoft’s AI + Research department to its Experiences & Devices Team and working with Amazon to pair it with the latter company’s Alexa technology. Now, per Engadget, Microsoft seems to be encouraging customers…

  • The day when Nintendo created the best competitor to PlayStation and Xbox

    Nov 18, 2001 Nintendo released the GameCube console, which competed with Sony’s PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Xbox first generation. This platform belonged already to 128 bit, and used the CPU Gekko production IBM PowerPC architecture as well as graphic accelerator ATI Flipper. In addition, the GameCube was a separate 16-bit sound processor Macronix DSP. Nintendo…

  • The world’s first moonwalker

    17 November 1970 on the moon slid the world’s first moonwalker. Interplanetary station Luna-17 on Board was launched on 10 November and 15 November on the orbit of an artificial satellite of the moon. Lunokhod-1 was designed to study the characteristics of the lunar surface, radioactive and x-ray cosmic radiation, the chemical composition and properties…

  • NASA Image of Merging Galaxy Clusters Looks Suspiciously Like the USS Enterprise

    Image: NASA/CXC/Leiden Univ./F. de Gasperin et al; Optical: SDSS; Radio: LOFAR/ASTRON, NCRA/TIFR/GMRT (NASA) Humanity’s current understanding of physics may suggest faster-than-light travel is impossible, but researchers here on Earth can still observe happening in places much too far away to ever actually visit (and generally only what they looked like in the distant past). One of…