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All images: Alex Cranz/Gizmodo With its big rolypoly ball and huge hand rest, the venerable trackball mouse looks like a holdover from 1996. Or maybe 1946—that’s the first time a trackball was used as an input device in a computer. Its popularity has waned since the introduction of the mouse and then the trackpad. And…

Screenshot from a video created by AJ Plus about white supremacist Baked Alaska (left) and the same image tweeted by Baked Alaska a month earlier (right) One of America’s most famous internet-grown white supremacists, Baked Alaska, has threatened to sue news outlet AJ Plus over a photo of him holding a gun. He says the…

MIAMI – Approximately 100,000 residents of Miami and surrounding area have been instructed to leave with the eye on the arrival of the hurricane Irma. Governor Rick Scott of Florida, traveled on Wednesday by the coastal area of southern Florida to warn of the devastation that Irma could do. Among the people temporarily to leave…

WASHINGTON – Washington will take punitive measures against trading partners of North Korea if the United Nations are not additional sanctions against the regime in Pyongyang announced. The Minister of Finance, Steve Mnuchin said that a presidential decree ready to be signed by president Donald Trump. The United States want the UN North Korea sanctions…

WASHINGTON – Fifteen states in the US are to the right stepped to the expulsion of immigrants who as a child illegally in the country are entered. In the indictment inform the states that the decision of president Donald Trump to expulsion as a consequence of his earlier commitment “to people with Mexican roots, to…

NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite captured this image of Irma approaching Puerto Rico. Image: NOAA Meteorologists were at a loss for words yesterday as Hurricane Irma intensified into a enormous, record-smashing Category 5. Packing “catastrophic” and “life-threatening” winds of 185 miles per hour (300 km/h), the storm now bearing down on Puerto Rico and the US Virgin…

Image: Getty Tech and auto companies developing self-driving cars will have their eyes on Washington this month, as the White House and Congress are working on action that could steer the industry for years. Today, the House of Representatives passed the “Self Drive Act,” which prevents states from creating any laws that regulate the development…

Photo: AP Citing census data, an equity research analyst claims Facebook is once again inflating one of its key metrics, this time grossly over-reporting its ability to sell ads and effectively inventing millions more young Americans than actually exist. Facebook Admits to More False Metrics Facebook has inaccurately reported some of its engagement metrics to…

Image: NASA/JPL-CALTECH Everyone from David Bowie to astrobiologists to tinfoil hat believers has pondered the question: is there life on Mars? While we’ve found direct evidence of liquid water on the Red Planet, we have yet to find any microbes there. But not all hope is lost—new discoveries from NASA’s Curiosity rover have brought forth…

Photo: Getty Facebook announced today that it sold $100,000 worth of ads to a sketchy network of fake Russian accounts between June 2015 to May 2017, a period spanning the 2016 election cycle. The ads often mentioned particular political issues, like LGBT rights or gun control, but rarely mentioned a specific political candidate or the…