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Report: Saudi Arabia May Be Planning a Major Bid for Tesla’s Leveraged Buyout
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Facebook Got Mad at Us, Samsung Note 9, and Ajit Pai: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week
Graphic: Various (Shutterstock/FBI/National Archives/Gizmodo Staff) First, the bad news: Sunday is the anniversary of the disastrous white supremacist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that culminated in a neo-Nazi car attack that killed local woman Heather Heyer and wounded scores of others, as well as resulted in the deaths of two police officers. The…
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The new approach keeps the liquid from freezing at very low temperatures
Scientists from the Massachusetts center for the application of technology in medicine (MGH-CEM) has developed a simple method of maintaining of water and solutions on the basis of water in the liquid state at temperatures much smaller the usual “freezing point” for a very long periods of time. While they managed to do it with…
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Probe Parker went to explore space
NASA successfully sent on the ULA rocket probe “Parker” (Parker Solar Probe) to explore the cosmos. The Delta IV Heavy rocket was launched at 3:31 local time (EDT) from space launch complex 37 at a U.S. air force base at Cape Canaveral in Florida. After four minutes of flight there was a quick series of…
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Hey, Look Who’s Still Schmoozing With the President
The good-time-haver has logged on.Screenshot: Twitter Just a humble suggestion: If you’re gonna sign a Faustian bargain with the guy who stands against everything you claim to stand for in theory except the massive, trillion-dollar corporation you stand for in practice, perhaps you should commit to looking a bit more cheerful. Otherwise the big guy…
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How and when to watch for meteor Perseids from August 11 to 13
The effect of a meteor shower, causing particles of the tail of the comet swift — Tuttle. Moving on a highly eccentric orbit, it completes one revolution around the Sun for 133 years. When approaching with a star the comet nucleus partly evaporates, and the gases carry dust and small stones behind her, forming a…
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Google expanded the capabilities of Assistant
Google has added a new Assistant functionality, which is designed not only for smartphones but also for other devices with this intelligent assistant. Even at Google I/O Google released a new software solution Google News in order to help users get acquainted with the news in a more convenient way. So the news was always…
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Airline Employee Steals Plane From Sea-Tac Airport, Crashes After Being Tailed by Fighters
Plane wreckage from the stolen Q400 burns on Ketron Island, Washington.Photo: Ted S. Warren (AP) A 29-year-old airline employee “thought to be suicidal” stole a 76-seat Q400 turboprop plane from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac) on Friday night, eventually crashing some 30 miles away with fighter jets on his tail, the New York Times reported. Local…
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Florida Police Make Arrest in Alleged Multi-State SIM Card Hijacking Ring
A file photo of a SIM card in Bangladesh.Photo: A.M. Ahad (AP) Florida police made an arrest last month in an alleged “SIM-jacking” ring, with court documents claiming the scammers involved stole SIM cards belonging to other individuals and used them to amass a small fortune. Fraudulently obtaining a victim-specific SIM card, a small smart…
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Twitter Admits Alex Jones Broke Its Rules, Still Standing by Their Man for Some Dumb Reason
Alex Jones at the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio.Photo: John Minchillo (AP) Twitter, one of the few tech platforms that has refused to ban conspiracy shitposter and Infowars grifter kingpin Alex Jones, admitted on Friday that he had a history of posts that were in clear violation of the site’s terms of service…