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Policing Police Drones, Inheriting Facebook Messages, and Unexplained Sounds: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week
Photo: Getty. Illustrations: Axon, Shutterstock/DESY, Science Communication Lab/Anjelica Alzona (Gizmodo) We here at Gizmodo had a lot of questions this week, and we did our best to give you some answers because you’re probably wondering some of the same things. For instance, if you’ve ever asked yourself who is regulating police drones to keep them…
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Corporations Are Lobbying to Keep Making Robocalls
A headset hangs on a cubical wall after the last telemarketing shift at Spectrum Marketing Services, Inc. September 26, 2003 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Photo: Getty The robocall problem is as bad as it has ever been, but if big corporations have their way, it just might get worse. The Washington Post reported this week that top…
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Increasingly Agitated Elon Musk Labels Diver Who Mocked His ‘Submarine’ a ‘Pedo Guy’
Photo: Charles Sykes (AP) Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk accused one of the British divers involved in the rescue of 12 Thai boys and their soccer coach from the flooded Tham Luang cave complex of being a pedophile on Saturday in retaliation for questioning Musk’s contributions to the rescue effort. Yeah. CNN reported that…
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Guccifer 2.0 and DCLeaks Booted From Twitter Following Mueller Indictments
In this photo illustration, a thumbprint is displayed on a mobile phone as the logo for the Twitter social media network is projected onto a screen on August 09, 2017 in London, England. Photo: Getty On Saturday, Twitter gave the boot to two accounts—Guccifer 2.0 and DCLeaks—that were connected to the 2016 hack of the…
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Jaguar Escapes New Orleans Zoo Enclosure, Kills At Least Seven Other Animals Before Capture
A female jaguar yawns at the Montgomery Zoo in Alabama.Photo: Dave Martin (AP) A three-year-old male jaguar named Valerio escaped its enclosure at New Orleans’ Audubon Zoo on Saturday and was successfully sedated and captured, but not before it managed to maul and kill several alpacas, an emu, and a fox, CNN reported. According to…
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Could gravitational waves reveal how fast our universe is expanding?
Since its inception 13.8 billion years ago, the universe continues to expand, throwing hundreds of billions of galaxies and stars like the raisins in rising dough quickly. The astronomers pointed the telescope at some stars and other cosmic sources, to measure their distance from the Earth and the removal rate — two parameters that are…
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Large hadron Collider helped to create the first color x-ray
New Zealand scientists have made the first ever three-dimensional colour x-ray of a man using a technique that promises to improve the whole area of medical diagnostics, according to the physics laboratory at CERN, which participated in the project with their imaging technology. The new device, which is based on traditional black-and-white x-ray technology involves…
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Between two Japanese volcanoes found connection underground
For the first time in history, scientists have found evidence that a radical change of a volcano in southern Japan were a direct result of the eruption of another volcano 22 kilometers away. Monitoring these two volcanoes, Aira, and Kirishima – showed that they were associated with a single source of subsurface magma before the…
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Elon Musk Is Giving Money to a GOP PAC Because It Helps Elon Musk
CEO of Tesla and Space X Elon Musk attends the 2015 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Graydon Carter at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 22, 2015 in Beverly Hills, California.Photo: Getty Elon Musk—maker of a mini-sub that never got used, hypothetical savior of the Flint, Michigan water crisis, general over-promiser…
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Antarctic Exploration Vessel Which Should Be Named Boaty McBoatface But Tragically Isn’t Launches