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A fossil poop (Image:Poozeum/Wikimedia Commons) Shit’s wild. No, seriously, there’s so much you can learn about animals, their lifestyles, and the world they interacted with based on what shows up in their poo. Especially if the poo is over 200 million years old. Most of the methods used to look at fossilized shit, more commonly…

Photo: AP The Knight First Amendment Institute, a digital rights group out of Columbia University, published an open letter to President Trump on Tuesday asking him to unblock his critics on Twitter or potentially face legal action for violating their constitutional rights. In the four-page letter, the lawyers argue that Twitter “operates as a ‘designated…

Photo: Getty The last time we had a major fight over net neutrality, the “Internet Slowdown Day” protests were credited with helping push the FCC to reclassify the internet as a Title II utility. Now that net neutrality is the closest it’s ever been to dead, activists and tech giants are rallying to mount a…

Photo: Getty A bug in a Twitter product could have allowed attackers to send tweets from any account and delete photos and videos from published tweets, according to a recent blog post by the security researcher who discovered it. It’s the second broad vulnerability in the product, called Studio, that’s come to light recently, raising questions…

Photo: Getty For all I know, Uber’s food delivery service UberEats is a perfectly fine method of ordering food. But the stomach-turning product that a Canadian couple claims showed up at their door instead of pizza ensures that I’ll be thinking twice about placing an order. Anna Kotlikova and her boyfriend, Blake Weinzettl, live in…

Image: Pew Research Center The information produced by these migrants was made available to the Pew researchers via publicly accessible search data from Google Trends, and they show the paths taken by refugees, the times of day they were most likely to make their perilous journeys, and their eventual destination points. The resulting Pew report,…

That gorgeous new iMac Pro. (All images: Alex Cranz/Gizmodo) Forget the HomePod or the latest version of iOS. The big news out of WWDC was related to something that Apple, and most consumers, don’t really care about: Virtual Reality. In between Kaby Lake refreshes and Siri voice demos, Tim Cook announced a wide range of…

An anonymous tipster shared a photo of a Cadillac CT6, outfitted with autonomous driving sensors and scanners, which they spotted parked in Pittsburgh yesterday. Pittsburgh has become a hub of the self-driving tech scene because of its proximity to Carnegie Mellon University and its renowned robotics program, as well as the state’s relatively lax rules…

LONDON – The British prime minister, Theresa May appears to its majority in the British parliament to have been lost. Her Conservative party remains the largest, with 314 seats, but will lack an absolute majority. This is evident from a joint exitpoll of BBC, ITV and Sky. The gamble of the British prime minister, Theresa…

CARACAS – The Venezuelan attorney general Luisa Ortega Díaz has turned against the plan of the government to have elections for a constituent assembly to write. That is, according to her, in violation of the constitution and the supreme court asked for a stop for you to cross. In protests against the plan of the…