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Tesla opens its 10,000th Supercharger station
Engadget - 11 Jun 2018 03:40
Tesla's Supercharger network has come a long, long way since it was available in a handful of California towns in late 2012. The automaker has opened its 10,000th Supercharger station in Belleville, Ontario, Canada as pa...
NASA's Mars rover weathers North America-sized dust storm
Slash Gear - 11 Jun 2018 01:32
NASA’s Opportunity rover may not have to worry about running into traffic congestion on Mars, but vast dust storms are definitely an occupational hazard. The science robot has been forced to go into emergency lock-down...
Swiss Voters Overwhelmingly Choose to Legalize Online Gambling, But Block All Foreign Sites
Gizmodo - 11 Jun 2018 00:40
Switzerland has elected to allow online casinos, though a newly approved law intends to keep foreign operations from sharing in the take.
Net Neutrality Is Dead Again, But It's Not Buried
Gizmodo - 11 Jun 2018 16:55
Ever since the FCC voted to repeal net neutrality last December, we've seen the protections for a free and open internet declared dead more than once. On Monday, the rules "officially" come off the books. The reality is ...
MIT experts pioneer a way to recover drinking water from power plants
Engadget - 11 Jun 2018 16:28
Water accounts for around 70 percent of the Earth's surface, but it's still not reaching those who need it most: three billion people live in water-stressed areas or lack access to drinking water. Things are starting to ...
Fallout 76 confirmed as an online game, out later this year
Slash Gear - 11 Jun 2018 05:19
We knew that Fallout 76 was going to be the main attraction at Bethesda’s E3 press conference, and the company certainly didn’t disappoint in that regard. Bethesda’s Todd Howard took the stage to talk at length abo...
'Starfield' could be 'Skyrim' in space
Engadget - 11 Jun 2018 05:00
So it's not all sequels and ports. Bethesda revealed its next big single player project, Starfield. It centers around, er, outer space, has an aesthetically pleasing logo and the company wants us to get really hyped abou...
OnePlus 6 can boot any image even with locked bootloader
Slash Gear - 11 Jun 2018 03:36
What use is having a lock when you leave the door wide open anyway. That's the puzzle that OnePlus 6 owners are now facing after it was discovered how the phone may be fundamentally insecure right at the very gates. Acco...
The FCC Lied to You, Facebook Nudes, and WWDC 2018: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week
Gizmodo - 11 Jun 2018 01:44
Congratulations! If you believed Federal Communications Commission chair Ajit Pai's evidence-free assertion that someone launched a cyber attack on the agency's website in 2017, rather than crashed after comedian John Ol...
You can't buy bitcoin with Wells Fargo credit cards anymore
Engadget - 11 Jun 2018 23:51
Wells Fargo is pumping the brakes on customers using their credit cards to buy bitcoin -- the bank has banned credit card cryptocurrency purchases. However, this isn't a permanent measure, as Wells Fargo will monitor the...
Star Fox is coming to Ubisoft's Starlink: Battle for Atlas
Slash Gear - 11 Jun 2018 23:45
With games like Skull and Bones and Assassin’s Creed Odyssey on the horizon for Ubisoft, you’d be forgiven if you forgot about its upcoming toys-to-life game, Starlink: Battle for Atlas. Starlink was first revealed b...
Jurassic Park Was My Nerd Haven
Gizmodo - 11 Jun 2018 23:45
Today is the 25th anniversary of Jurassic Park. I was 11 years old when it came out. Here's what I remember.
CDC warns free workplace food is driving unhealthy eating
Slash Gear - 11 Jun 2018 23:33
Researchers with the CDC recently conducted a study that found free workplace food may be a major contributor to unhealthy diets. The researchers looked at 5,222 volunteers who work in various places across the United St...
Be 'Star Fox' in the Switch version of Ubisoft's 'Starlink'
Engadget - 11 Jun 2018 23:22
Ubisoft debuted Starlink debuted at least year's E3 as a next generation toys-to-life game -- a Skylanders in space, if you will, and heir to Disney Infinity. The modular spacecraft models looked pretty cool when we got ...
Mars Opportunity rover is in danger of dying from a dust storm
Engadget - 11 Jun 2018 23:13
The Mars Opportunity rover is caught in a dust storm, and the craft is hunkered down doing its best to survive the intensifying weather. The storm was first detected on Friday June 1st by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter,...
'Just Dance 2019' is heading to the Wii like it's 2009
Engadget - 11 Jun 2018 23:12
Ubisoft's E3 press conference kicked off with a marching band, crazy costumes and a dancing panda and yet somehow that wasn't even the most bizarre thing about the company's announcement of Just Dance 2019. While the lat...
Beyond Good and Evil 2 gets a fantastic new trailer, but no release date
Slash Gear - 11 Jun 2018 23:07
Ubisoft’s E3 2018 press conference is currently underway, and the company wasted little time in getting to one of its most anticipated games: Beyond Good and Evil 2. Ubisoft wowed fans when it debuted Beyond Good and E...
'The Division 2' will have the raids 'Destiny 2' doesn't
Engadget - 11 Jun 2018 23:03
One of the biggest criticisms levied against Destiny 2 right now is its lack of raids. Ubisoft knows this, which is why it proudly announced today that The Division 2 will have eight-player raids next year. What's more, ...
No One Wants an Arachnophobia Remake, But James Wan Is Giving Us One Anyway
Gizmodo - 11 Jun 2018 23:00
Arachnophobia is one of those movies that gets scarier the less you remember it. Because you want to forget. Because it's giant spiders. Sadly, Amblin Entertainment won't let us forget, as it has teamed up with Aquaman d...
'Rainbow Six: Siege' is a juggernaut with 35 million players
Engadget - 11 Jun 2018 22:58
Rainbow Six: Siege has come a long, long way from the early days when it was a risky break from the series' familiar formula. Ubisoft has revealed that the team-based tactical shooter now has over 35 million players. It'...
Donkey Kong DLC for 'Mario + Rabbids' arrives June 26th
Engadget - 11 Jun 2018 22:58
Truly, we are living in the Golden Age of crossover content. At its E3 press conference on Monday, Ubisoft revealed more details about its upcoming Donkey Kong expansion for "Mario + Rabbids" which is slated for release ...
'Beyond Good & Evil 2' is more real than ever before
Engadget - 11 Jun 2018 22:51
Today at the Ubisoft E3 press event in Los Angeles, we got a deeper look than before at the space opera prequel, Beyond Good and Evil 2. After a nice long trailer showing the crew of a mothership headed out into the vast...