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  • An Earthquake Damaged a Pyramid in Mexico—and Exposed an Aztec Temple Hidden Below

    The Teopanzolco pyramid.Image: INAH On September 19, 2017, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck central Mexico, killing nearly 370 people. But something good has come from this tragic event: The quake damaged an ancient pyramid, revealing a previously unknown Aztec temple underneath. While checking for structural damage inflicted by the 2017 earthquake, archaeologists with Mexico’s National…

  • People Are Getting Sick With a Parasite After Eating McDonald’s Salads

  • Should Your Family Be Able to Inherit Your Facebook Messages?

    Illustration: Anjelica Alzona (Gizmodo) This week, a German federal court ruled that Facebook must give the mother of a dead 15-year-old access to her entire account. They’re not just talking about access to a memorial page, either. The mother gets access to everything, including private messages. In Germany, the judges decided, heirs should be able…

  • Porn Finds a Way

    Photo: Getty Porn is not, let’s say, difficult to find online. This prevalence and accessibility of sexual imagery on the web has prompted many parents and political figures to try and sieve the smut from screens of the youth. But a new study indicates that these efforts are largely a waste of time and money.…

  • Doctors Find Tapeworm Larvae in Spine of Woman Hobbled by ‘Electric Shocks’ in Legs

    Above, the tapeworm cyst-caused lesion that caused a 35-year-old French woman to lose sensation and feel painful shocks in both her legs. Image: M, Jacquier, L Piroth (New England Journal of Medicine) A tapeworm that normally infects barn animals and dogs came as a literal shock for one 35-year-old French woman, according to a case…

  • Microsoft Asks Congress to Regulate Face Recognition

    Photo: AP Microsoft’s president and chief legal officer, Brad Smith, called for federal regulation of face recognition in a new blog post on Friday. Half of all adults already have their face in a federal database, and vendors are supplying face recognition technology to schools, airports, and baseball stadiums. Federal regulation could help meet numerous…

  • Uber Now Runs Real-Time Background Checks on Drivers

    Photo: Getty Uber has begun running constant background checks on its drivers so that the company can know immediately if a driver is charged with a crime. Since Uber started testing the system earlier this month, it has barred 25 people from operating as Uber drivers, according to Axios, which first reported the new initiative.…

  • Can We Measure Our Own Galaxy Speeding Through Space?

    Distant galaxies as imaged by the Hubble Space TelescopeImage: NASA (Wikimedia Commons) You’re probably sitting still, right? Wrong, absolutely wrong. Not only are you on a spinning orb, but you’re also traveling around 70,000 miles per hour around a star, in a galaxy that, observations imply, is sailing through space at over a million miles…

  • PC Sales Are Up, But Only a Little, So Play It Cool

    Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo) After more than five years of declining sales, nerds and APM enthusiasts everywhere can gently rejoice: The PC has made a comeback so far this year, thanks in part to businesses switching operating systems and the insatiable appetites of gamers. The second quarter of 2018 “showed shipments of traditional PCs (desktop,…

  • Powerful Xiaomi smartphone Beryllium is shown in the video

    In the Internet appeared the video, which shows a Xiaomi flagship smartphone codenamed Beryllium, is not yet officially presented by the manufacturer. The video was published the resource profile SlashLeaks that specializes in the collection of a variety of leaks. Xiaomi Beryllium may be the first smartphone under the brand name Pocophone. Presumably, he will…