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(Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) Have you ever wondered what it would have looked like if President Nixon had a Twitter account during the Watergate scandal? Wonder no longer. In an effort to get ahead of a New York Times story that shows he sought incriminating information on Hillary Clinton from a Russian government-affiliated lawyer,…

Photo: Amazon/Bethesda Softworks/Gizmodo Amazon would like you to believe its annual “Prime Day” extravaganza is all about the deals, but a true keyboard warrior knows that every day begins and ends with the same goal: total combat readiness. With that in mind, we’ve collected some of the baddest, brutal-est, and straight-up most lethal-looking Prime Day…

Image: Pete/Flickr Creative Commons If the eyes are windows to the soul, they’re open windows, potentially letting in all kinds of unwelcome bugs. To ensure that doesn’t happen, our tears are loaded with microbe-killing compounds and immune cells. In fact, our eyes are so inhospitable that it was long thought they were the only part…

Photo: Getty Suing people isn’t easy. Suing the President of the United States of America, however, is huge pain in the ass. But that hasn’t stopped a group of Twitter users from filing suit against Donald Trump. These free speech advocates were all blocked by Trump after tweeting things he didn’t like. Now they’re claiming…

Photo Source: Pixabay Over the weekend, a banjo jauntily strummed on the airwaves of Mansfield 103.2, a local radio station in England. As the singer of the tune broke out into a chorus about his love of masturbation, the calls flooded in. It was the eighth time the station’s airwaves had been hijacked by someone…

Photo: Getty In a remarkable display of bullshit, AT&T announced today that it’s joining tomorrow’s net neutrality protest—a “Day of Action” when a collection of tech companies will throw their weight behind an effort to block Trump’s FCC from rewriting the 2015 rules that protect net neutrality and the future of the open internet. Major…

Image: AP/Gizmodo A nationally-representative study on online harassment released by Pew Research today confirms what most of us already know: the internet is absolutely chock full of abusive shitheads. The study leads with an alarming figure: 40 percent of internet users have been the target of abusive behavior online. That number climbs to 67 percent…

Image: Timm Weitkamp/Wikimedia Commons Humanity is advancing rapidly towards a place where the news sounds an awful lot like science fiction. In fact, yesterday, Chinese scientists reported that they “teleported” a photon over hundreds of miles using a “quantum satellite.” But this isn’t Star Trek. It’s the real world. Which happens to mean it’s a…

DOHA The United States and Qatar have agreed to the cash flows of terreurorganisaties to address. The American minister Rex Tillerson (Foreign Affairs) signed the agreement Tuesday in the Qatari capital Doha, where he is available to mediate in the conflict between the Golfstaat and other Arab countries. Tillerson said at a joint press conference…

LISBON All eighteen police officers from a police station in Portugal have been indicted for torture, abduction, falsification of reports, and other allegedly racially motivated crimes. The case relates to the arrest of six black young people in 2015, said prosecutors Tuesday. The police officers worked in a patrol unit in Alfragide, a village near…