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Watch Tesla’s Autopilot Brake for a Crash Before It Even Happens

Since Tesla released Version 8.0 of its Autopilot system this summer, CEO Elon Musk has touted its lifesaving potential. Today, dashcam footage from the Netherlands showed just how powerful the new safety feature can be. In the video, the Tesla can be heard warning of a potential collision due an (unseen) braking vehicle one car…

Tech News Hudson Hongo Dec 27 '16

Trump Tower Evacuated Over ‘Suspicious’ Bag of Toys

The holiday season might almost be over, but at Trump Organization headquarters, the War on Christmas rages on. Tuesday evening, police cleared the lobby of Trump Tower in New York over reports of a “suspicious package.” After investigation, authorities confirmed to the Associated Press the object in question was a backpack containing children’s toys. Bystander…

Tech News Hudson Hongo Dec 27 '16

Avril Lavigne: Mark Zuckerberg’s Nickelback Joke Promotes ‘Bullying’

He was a Zuckerberg. She said, see you, Fuckerberg. On Thursday, Avril Lavigne condemned the Facebook CEO for using Nickelback as a punchline in the wack promotional video for his robo-butler Jarvis, calling the jab at her husband Chad Kroeger’s band “in poor taste.” https://gizmodo.com/mark-zuckerberg-played-the-what-would-you-do-if-you-wer-1790332820 “You have a voice like yours, you may want to…

Social Media Hudson Hongo Dec 22 '16

Holiday Flight Canceled After Jabroni Names Wi-Fi Network ‘Galaxy Note 7’

This week, one Virgin America flight was delayed and another was reportedly canceled after crew members discovered a wi-fi hotspot named “Samsung Galaxy Note 7” mid-flight. Ultimately, however, no Note 7 was found on the plane, as the network belonged to another device named to resemble the banned smartphone. According to one passenger, the trouble…

Gadgets Hudson Hongo Dec 22 '16

Ikea to Pay Parents of Kids Crushed by Falling Dressers $50 Million

On Wednesday, lawyers representing the families of three toddlers killed by recalled Ikea dressers said the company has agreed to settle their wrongful death lawsuits, paying the parents a collective $50 million. In addition, Ikea will donate $250,000 to various children’s organizations and increase funding for a campaign highlighting the dangers of tipping furniture, The…

Tech News Hudson Hongo Dec 21 '16

Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cabs From Streets After Losing DMV Slap Fight

Last week, California’s Department of Motor Vehicles told Uber it “must cease” operating its fleet of semi-autonomous cars in San Francisco, threatening unspecified consequences if it failed to do so. Uber continued the pilot program in defiance of the warning, but today the state finally made good on its threat. https://gizmodo.com/california-to-uber-stop-your-self-driving-cabs-right-n-1790122142 Wednesday evening, the DMV…

Tech News Hudson Hongo Dec 21 '16

Man Turns to Internet After Finding Weird ‘Green Stuff’ on Taco

Life is full of mysteries. Some of them are simple, like, “If there’s a god, why is there evil in the world?” Others are far more illusive and can only be answered by the collective wisdom of the world wide web. On Monday, a poster on Reddit’s /r/taco_bell subpage inadvertently posed a question of the…

Tech News Hudson Hongo Dec 20 '16

Obama Blocks Trump With Permanent Ban on Drilling in Arctic Waters

As one of the final acts of his environmentally-minded farewell tour, President Obama indefinitely barred new offshore drilling in vast swaths of the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, taking advantage of a 63-year-old law to prevent Donald Trump from overturning the ban once in office. In a joint statement with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (who…

Tech News Hudson Hongo Dec 20 '16

Families of Orlando Victims Sue Google, Facebook and Twitter for Giving ISIS ‘Material Support’

Six months after a gunman walked into Orlando’s Pulse nightclub and opened fire, families representing three of his victims have sued the world’s biggest social media sites, accusing them of providing ISIS with “material support.” According to the lawsuit, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube (which is owned by Google) all “provided the terrorist group ISIS with…

Tech News Hudson Hongo Dec 19 '16

Tim Cook on Why He Went to That Awkward Trump Meeting

Under normal circumstances, business leaders meeting with America’s future President would just be business as usual. When those leaders represent the liberal stronghold of Silicon Valley and that future President is Donald Trump, however, it’s anything but. https://gizmodo.com/tech-god-arrives-to-kneel-at-trump-s-throne-updating-1790091201 So after Tim Cook and other top tech executives met with the President-elect last week, the Apple…

Tech News Hudson Hongo Dec 19 '16

New Twin Peaks Teaser Is Just David Lynch Eating a Donut and That’s Okay

On Sunday, Showtime released a new teaser trailer for the revival of ‘90s art kid favorite Twin Peaks. In it, creator David Lynch can be seen eating a (glazed?) donut as FBI administrator Gordon Cole and, well, that’s about it. That’s the whole thing. Those hoping for a bigger peak at the upcoming season might…

Television Hudson Hongo Dec 18 '16

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Perhaps Thine ‘Football’ Killed the Flying Car

Having long since abandoned his mission of making science fun in favor of sucking the same out of everything else, perpetual opinion machine Neil deGrasse Tyson delivered another thermally radiant take this weekend, suggesting, mayhap, t’was Sports Ball killed the skycar. “Sometimes I wonder if we’d have flying cars by now had civilization spent a…

Tech News Hudson Hongo Dec 18 '16

‘Governor Moonbeam’ Vows to Launch ‘Own Damn Satellite’ If Donald Trump Ignores Climate Change

With his latest cabinet picks, Donald Trump has strongly signaled that his administration will do little to combat climate change, which he once called a hoax invented by the Chinese. If the President-elect tries to stop climate research, however, California’s Governor has promised to fight him at every turn. In a barnburner speech on Wednesday, Governor Jerry…

Climate Change Hudson Hongo Dec 14 '16

California to Uber: Stop Your Self-Driving Cabs Right Now or Else

Just hours after Uber launched a fleet of semi-autonomous cars in San Francisco, state regulators sent the company a letter saying it “must cease” the pilot program on Wednesday, threatening unspecified legal action if they do not, the Associated Press reports. https://gizmodo.com/were-pretty-sure-this-is-a-self-driving-uber-blowing-a-1790117361 The California Department of Motor Vehicles has insisted that Uber needs an autonomous…

Tech News Hudson Hongo Dec 14 '16

Yahoo Says Personal Info of Over One Billion Users Stolen in Latest Fuck Up

Yahoo’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year just got even worse. Just two months after Verizon announced plans to acquire the company, Yahoo announced in September that state-sponsored hackers had stolen the data of some 500 million users. The discovery was made years after the attack, the result of an internal inquiry spurred by…

Tech News Hudson Hongo Dec 14 '16

FBI’s New Anti-Hacking Campaign Asks Teens To Be Cyber Heroes, Not Cyber Zeroes

This week, the FBI teamed up with Europol to launch a public prevention campaign designed to “raise awareness of the risk of young adults getting involved in cybercrime.” In service of that mission, the law enforcement agencies representing some of the world’s most powerful nations somehow came up with this: If the FBI’s very official-looking…

Tech News Hudson Hongo Dec 14 '16

‘ASMR Entire Bee Movie‘ Is the Definitive Reading of Jerry Seinfeld’s Masterpiece

In the years since its 2007 release, almost every facet of Bee Movie has been embraced the internet’s meme community. In recent months, we’ve seen Jerry Seinfeld’s interspecies rom-com reordered alphabetically and sped up to incomprehension—even recut to exclude bees entirely. https://gizmodo.com/what-hath-bee-movie-wrought-1789645480 But while the script of Bee Movie has found its way onto a…

Tech News Hudson Hongo Dec 13 '16

Cuisianart Recalls Millions of Food Processors After Customers Find Metal Blades in Food

On Tuesday, Cuisianart issued a voluntary recall of approximately 8 million food processors after 69 customers reported finding shards of metal blades in their food, including 30 cases that resulted in “mouth lacerations or tooth injuries.” The recall covers over a dozen models, all of which feature dicing blades secured by four metal rivets. According…

Tech News Hudson Hongo Dec 13 '16

PSA: One Mustn’t Vape on the Pizza

As an art form, vaping is still in its infancy, leaving vapers with more questions than answers when it comes to e-cig etiquette. Nevertheless, one rule is already as clear as freshly bottled e-juice: You may not, under any circumstances, vape on the pizza. A recent video by Twitter user Rhett Galvin accurately demonstrates the…

Tech News Hudson Hongo Dec 13 '16

Report: Rick Perry Picked to Lead Energy Agency He Couldn’t Remember the Name Of

While seeking the 2012 Republican nomination, Governor Rick Perry famously proposed abolishing the Department of Energy before forgetting what it was called on live TV, naming it as “Oops” during the GOP debates. As luck would have it, however, Perry will be nominated as Secretary of Oops under President Donald Trump, CBS News reports. Having…

Tech News Hudson Hongo Dec 13 '16

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Watch Tesla’s Autopilot Brake for a Crash Before It Even Happens

Trump Tower Evacuated Over ‘Suspicious’ Bag of Toys

Avril Lavigne: Mark Zuckerberg’s Nickelback Joke Promotes ‘Bullying’

Holiday Flight Canceled After Jabroni Names Wi-Fi Network ‘Galaxy Note 7’

Ikea to Pay Parents of Kids Crushed by Falling Dressers $50 Million

Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cabs From Streets After Losing DMV Slap Fight

Man Turns to Internet After Finding Weird ‘Green Stuff’ on Taco

Obama Blocks Trump With Permanent Ban on Drilling in Arctic Waters

Families of Orlando Victims Sue Google, Facebook and Twitter for Giving ISIS ‘Material Support’

Tim Cook on Why He Went to That Awkward Trump Meeting

New Twin Peaks Teaser Is Just David Lynch Eating a Donut and That’s Okay

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Perhaps Thine ‘Football’ Killed the Flying Car

‘Governor Moonbeam’ Vows to Launch ‘Own Damn Satellite’ If Donald Trump Ignores Climate Change

California to Uber: Stop Your Self-Driving Cabs Right Now or Else

Yahoo Says Personal Info of Over One Billion Users Stolen in Latest Fuck Up

FBI’s New Anti-Hacking Campaign Asks Teens To Be Cyber Heroes, Not Cyber Zeroes

‘ASMR Entire Bee Movie‘ Is the Definitive Reading of Jerry Seinfeld’s Masterpiece

Cuisianart Recalls Millions of Food Processors After Customers Find Metal Blades in Food

PSA: One Mustn’t Vape on the Pizza

Report: Rick Perry Picked to Lead Energy Agency He Couldn’t Remember the Name Of

Brendan Fraser’s Return to ‘The Mummy’ Is Arriving Earlier Than Expected

Hyundai’s New IONIQ V Looks Kind of Like a Cybertruck for Normal People

Astrobotic’s Detonation Engine Fires 4,000 Pounds of Thrust in Wild Test

‘Final Fantasy XIV’ Wants You to Chill

Tether and Arbitrum Freeze Assets as Crypto Faces Crisis of Purpose

‘The Legend of Korra’ Didn’t Ruin the Legacy of ‘Avatar’—It Enhanced It

Yet Another ’30 Under 30′ Nominee Could Be Headed to Prison

Utah Startup Claims Its Lab-Grown Sperm Can Produce Embryos, in Potential Fertility Breakthrough

The Guy Who Started the ‘Scientology Run’ TikTok Trend Says It’s Time to Stop

Noah Hawley Hopes ‘Alien: Earth’ Runs for ‘a Very Long Time’

Anker’s UV Printer Can Handle Almost Anything… If You Know What You’re Doing

HP’s EliteBoard Keyboard-Computer Proves We Can Stick a PC in Anything

Sleep-Tracking Earbuds Didn’t Fix Me, but They Did Open My Eyes

I’ve Tested a Lot of Bad Smart Glasses and These Are the Worst Yet

Roborock’s Qrevo Curv 2 Flow Is the Ultimate Robot Mop—If You Don’t Have Corners or Walls

Alienware’s $350 QD-OLED Gaming Monitor Nixes Everything for a Pretty Screen

Sony Inzone H6 Air Review: A Perfect Case for Open-Back Gaming Headsets

Anker’s EufyMake E1 Finally Brings Printers Out of the Dark Ages

The Soundboks Mix Is Going to Make You the Most Popular Guy at the Park

Asus Zenbook A16 Review: Start Considering Snapdragon on PC, for Real