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  • NASA’s Curiosity Rover Captures Haunting Images of Clouds on Mars 

    Maybe We Don't Have to Nuke Mars (So Much) After All Terraforming Mars could be our only option once we screw this planet up beyond repair, but how… Read more But those days are long past, and Mars is now a frigid desert. But at least we have Curiosity on the scene to remind us…

  • What the Hell Is a ‘Covert Sonic Device’ and Why Is It Deafening Diplomats in Cuba?

    People pose for photographs at reopening of Cuban embassy. Photo: Getty Russia is a boogeyman once again, and the threat of nuclear war looms in the background of our daily lives, but it wouldn’t be a real reboot of the Cold War unless the US was having problems with Cuba. On Wednesday, officials confirmed that…

  • The LG Gram Is One Beautifully Light and Simple Laptop

    All image: Sam Rutherford/Gizmodo There’s a never-ending list of things you can do on a laptop, but at their core, they are pretty simple devices. More often than not, it’s feature bloat and things you never even wanted to use that cause a system to go haywire. Instead of gussying up systems with magical touchbars…

  • Hey, Let’s Actually Read That Study About Vitamin B Preventing Birth Defects

  • Amazon Is Being Sued for Alleged Cruel Discrimination Against Transgender Employee 

    Source: TLDEF According to a recently filed lawsuit, a married couple faced persistent, cruel, and grotesque abuse at an Amazon shipping facility, and human resources did nothing to help. The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) has filed a lawsuit on behalf of two former employees who allege that they faced sexual harassment and…

  • Man wins miljoenenprijs for the second time

    Quebec – A miljoenenprijs win in a lottery but few, and that’s two time in nine years time is so far known only reserved for the 69-year-old Canadian Jules Parent. The lucky man won last week, 1.2 million Canadian dollars on a bet of a little more than 3 dollars, a price which he had…

  • Raids in Sydney against terrorism

    SYDNEY – The Australian anti-terreurpolitie Saturday launched raids in several suburbs of Sydney to plan for “terrorist attacks” to disrupt. According to the police, the raids in four suburbs of the city, part of “an ongoing investigation.” “These operations are intended to be plans for terrorist attacks in Australia to disrupt and prevent,” said prime…

  • The spacecraft “Soyuz MS-05” delivered on MKS new crew

    The spacecraft “Soyuz MS-05” 00.55 Moscow time, successfully docked to a small research module “Dawn”, referring to the Russian segment of the ISS. The spacecraft delivered into orbit the participants of the long expedition MKS-52/53: of Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy, NASA astronaut Randolph Bresnik and the ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli. “Soyuz MS-05” was launched from…

  • A Microsoft Font Really Did Take Pakistan’s Prime Minister Down

    The Microsoft Font That Has Scandalized Pakistan's First Family Back in April, the family of Pakistan’s scandal-plagued prime minister landed in the crosshairs of… Read more The five-member Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Friday that Sharif was disqualified from holding a public position on the grounds that he’d been “dishonest to Parliament and to the…

  • I Tested Two Retro Consoles―One Good, One Hot Garbage

    All images: Alex Cranz/Gizmodo For all of the hullabaloo its generated with its tiny consoles, Nintendo didn’t invent retro gaming consoles. Not by a mile. When it released the NES Classic late last year, Nintendo wasn’t creating a new field of consoles fueled by nostalgia and the fat wallets of aging Gen Xers. Rather, Nintendo…