Gadget News
Boeing tests a squadron of five autonomous mini-jets
Slash Gear - 9 Dec 2020 15:49
Boeing has announced that it has successfully carried out flight tests using five high-performance pilotless jet aircraft. The aircraft operated as a team without any intervention required from humans. Testing was conduc...
The Muppet Christmas Carol's 'Lost' Song Will Be Recovered for Its 4K Remaster
Gizmodo - 9 Dec 2020 23:00
Perhaps the true meaning of the season is getting to watch the best Christmas movie as it was always intended to be.
Halo Infinite finally gets a launch date, but it's bittersweet news
Slash Gear - 9 Dec 2020 03:00
We finally know when Halo Infinite will be hitting shelves, but it’s bittersweet news. The title, which was originally set to launch at the same time as the latest Xbox consoles, won’t be arriving until next fall, me...
Google will investigate the controversial exit of a top AI ethicist
Engadget - 9 Dec 2020 22:41
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has pledged to investigate the departure of a top AI ethics researcher, according to a company-wide memo Axios obtained. Pichai also apologized for how Google handled Dr. Timnit Gebru's exit. "I'...
Watch Live: SpaceX Tries Again to Launch a Starship Prototype to High Altitude [Update: It Exploded]
Gizmodo - 9 Dec 2020 22:41
Update 6:15 p.m. ET: The Starship prototype launched and ascended to high altitude, but it crashed while attempting the landing, creating a massive fireball. The vehicle was absolutely obliterated in the explosion. The l...
FTC and 48 Attorneys General Sue to Break Up Facebook
Gizmodo - 9 Dec 2020 22:27
Dozens of attorney generals, as well as the Federal Trade Commission, filed two separate lawsuits against Facebook on Wednesday which attempt to break the social media giant into its component parts: specifically, the di...
Canada Is Latest to Approve Covid-19 Vaccine--and U.S. Is Likely Next
Gizmodo - 9 Dec 2020 22:01
On Wednesday, Canada became the third country in the world to grant approval for Pfizer and BioNTech's covid-19 vaccine. The decision comes just as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to make its own call t...
SpaceX Starship high-altitude flight test aborted at T-1 second
Slash Gear - 9 Dec 2020 13:01
SpaceX wasn’t to conduct its Starship high-altitude test yesterday. The test was meant to put Starship SN8 much higher into the atmosphere than any Starship vehicle had gone before. However, the launch was auto-aborted...
Pornhub's Finally Verifying Uploaders
Gizmodo - 9 Dec 2020 03:30
Pornhub is scrambling to clean up its act, it says, in the aftermath following New York Times opinion columnist Nicholas Kristof's piece "The Children of Pornhub," which is what it sounds like. In the days after publicat...
Apple leak claims AI boss now leading Titan self-driving car project
Slash Gear - 9 Dec 2020 01:16
Apple’s Project Titan, the codename for the autonomous driving division we’ve been hearing about for years, recently underwent a big change in leadership, according to a new report. The change was, at least according...
This Impossibly Black Lancer Evolution Uses Special Paint To Break Your Brain
Gizmodo - 9 Dec 2020 16:40
Personally, I've never been interested in cars that were "blacked out," nor have I ever wanted to blackout anything I've driven. The culture is pretty much lost on me. But, as I've just discovered, there's an ongoing sea...
Google Fuchsia OS gets serious, development opened to the public
Slash Gear - 9 Dec 2020 03:21
Google has quite a few platforms under its care like Android, Chrome OS, and customized variants of those. For the longest time, pundits have been waiting for Google to finally come with its own operating system, whether...
Facebook Is About To Be Sued For Allegedly Violating Antitrust Law
Gizmodo - 9 Dec 2020 02:56
More than 40 attorneys general and the U.S. government are gearing up to throw the book at the Book... Facebook... with an antitrust lawsuit that's set to be filed on Wednesday.
Cloudflare And Apple's New 'Oblivious' Protocol Could Mean an End to Snooping Telecos
Gizmodo - 9 Dec 2020 00:30
Today, the security company and network Cloudfare announced a plan to stop your internet service provider from creeping on your web activity. Co-developed by engineers at Apple and Fastly, the Oblivious DNS-over-S (ODoH)...
Play Cyberpunk 2077 early with a simple Xbox switch
Slash Gear - 9 Dec 2020 23:41
If you’re so extremely excited to play Cyberpunk 2077 that you absolutely cannot wait for midnight, you might be in luck. Supposing you’re using an Xbox One, Xbox One X, Xbox One S, Xbox Series X, or Xbox Series S, y...
JAXA's Hayabusa2 successfully delivers Ryugu asteroid dust to Earth
Slash Gear - 9 Dec 2020 23:19
Over the weekend, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) successfully delivered asteroid dust to Earth, a milestone mission that will help scientists explore the origins of the ‘ancient grains,’ according to N...
Sharp's New Alexa-Powered Microwave Is Even More Confusing Than Amazon's
Gizmodo - 9 Dec 2020 23:00
When Amazon released a cheap microwave with built-in Alexa integration, most of us scratched our heads for a second and then quickly moved on. But now Sharp has created its own microwave powered by Amazon's digital assis...
Pantone Color of the Year is Illuminating Yellow, definitely not for Cyberpunk 2077
Slash Gear - 9 Dec 2020 22:33
When I saw the two colors Pantone chose for their annual “Pantone Color of the Year”, I was shocked. One is “Ultimate Gray,” an eponymous representation of the color half way between white and black. The other is...
Facebook Continues To Call The Kettle Black
Gizmodo - 9 Dec 2020 22:30
On the same Wednesday that Facebook is reportedly facing a major state-led suit over its anticompetitive practices, the company seems to be falling back on the tried-and-true tactic of pointing at Apple instead.
UN urges a push toward low-carbon tech to avoid a climate catastrophe
Engadget - 9 Dec 2020 22:28
The world is on a collision course towards a catastrophic 3 degree Celsius increase in global temperatures. That's the primary finding of the United Nations' 2020 Emissions Gap Report, which its Environment Program publi...
Study finds a good reason to cook beef using sous vide method
Slash Gear - 9 Dec 2020 22:21
Sous vide doesn’t just result in a flavorful, tender steak — it also makes the beef easier to digest, at least according to a new study published by the American Chemical Society. The French cooking method presents a...
Gee, Thanks A Lot YouTube
Gizmodo - 9 Dec 2020 22:00
YouTube has announced that it'll finally start removing baseless election fraud claims, over a month after virtually every major news outlet called the election for Joe Biden and the Trump camp lost or withdrew from over...