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The former co-founder of Hyperloop One has made his grand return to the world of firing people across the country in vacuum tubes. Brogan BamBrogan has announced the launch of Arrivo, a new company that'll develop techno...

Ecuador is extremely ready for its adult son and growing annoyance, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, to move of out of the country's London embassy--like as soon as possible.

Algae can survive exposure in space for a long duration of time, according to the results of a relatively recent experiment aboard (sort of) the International Space Station. The results have been described as 'astonishin...

2017 is shaping up to be a year where we will see more new things out of wireless networks than we have in some time. Some of this will be in the form of select …

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared a series of photos from Oculus this afternoon, showing off a next-generation innovations well before release. This place goes by the name of Oculus Research and can be found in Redmond...

Facebook reported on multiple occasions late last year that it had been misreporting both ad video views and Instant Article stats. To help smooth things over with marketers, the social network explained today how it pla...

Sailfish, those speedy giant fish you usually see pinned to the wall at your favorite seafood shack, are the most badass fish in the ocean. Not only are they the fastest fish, but they've also evolved to be such unpredic...

Microsoft's court battle against the government's gag orders is likely far from over, and that's a good thing in this case. The Department of Justice asked the court to shut the lawsuit down, but Seattle District Judge J...

There's some bad news coming from Ubisoft, South Park fans. The company has revealed that the show's second upcoming video game, which was first scheduled for release last year and then bumped to March of this year, has ...

Grand Theft Auto V recently shipped 75 million copies, but if you wanted to play what came before it on Xbox One you were out of luck. Until now. Starting today, Grand Theft Auto IV and its $50 million expansion packs wi...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has once again made a massive batch of images public domain, marking its latest release since the 400,000 images it made available back in 2014. This time around, the Met has made more than...

Most robot arms we've seen in the past few years have been either attached to our favorite rolling dog/mech robots or been innovative prosthetics on our favorite humans. But why not a little worker bee robolimb plopped o...

The fast food franchise Arby's has confirmed that it was hit with a data security breach, one involving 'malicious software' on its payment card systems. The company went on to state that it notified law enforcement afte...

The latest adventure of the Coon and Friends has suffered another setback. South Park: The Fractured But Whole will now hit store shelves sometime between April 2017 and March 2018, publisher Ubisoft announced today duri...

Sonos has given its first public demonstration of Amazon Alexa integration, though the streaming speaker company says the actual roll-out of voice control is still some way off. The two companies announced a partnership ...

Think back to your iPod circa the mid-2000s, what music was on it? If you're like the Gizmodo staff, you probably had a healthy mix of hip-hop, rock, and pop. 50 Cent? Yes. Franz Ferdinand? Absolutely! Evanescence? Don't...

Having to touch a device to use voice commands kind of defeats the purpose of having voice commands at all. For example, my use of "Okay, Google" went down dramatically once I switched from Android to iOS. Amazon realize...

As rumored a couple of months ago, Facebook is getting serious about making its own original content. The company has now hired a former MTV executive, Mina Lefevre, to be its Head of Development. According to Deadline, ...

Before you go out and flush $30 down the drain on a Yeti Rambler, check out this RTIC alternative for just $9 on Amazon today, the best price Amazon's ever listed. It uses the same vacuum-insulated stainless steel constr...

Facebook-owned Instagram recently got done shamelessly copying Snapchat's most popular features--kneecapping the company before its IPO in the process--and Miranda Kerr, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel's supermodel fiancée, is fu...

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Some types of electrical discharge phenomena like blue jets and red sprites occur way above the altitudes where normal lightning occurs. That makes it tough to see them or even to confirm that they actually take place. T...