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Tab Groups Is Chrome’s Best New Feature in Years, and Here’s How to Use It

After making its way through the developer and beta versions of the browser, a significant new feature is arriving in the stable version of Google Chrome that most of us are using: Tab Groups. It might just change the way you browse the web forever. Update: we originally stated Tab Groups had rolled out for…

Gadgets David Nield Apr 22 '20

Trump Admin Gives Coronavirus Tracking Contract to Peter Thiel’s Palantir: Report

Palantir, the surveillance firm founded by conservative billionaire Peter Thiel, has landed a contract with the feds to build a database tracking the spread of the novel coronavirus around the country, according to the Daily Beast. Sources told the publication that Palantir data products will be primary, or even core, to a Health and Human…

Health Tom McKay Apr 22 '20

Missouri Sues China Over Coronavirus Pandemic to Distract From Trump’s Failures

The state of Missouri filed a lawsuit against China in U.S. federal court on Tuesday, claiming the Chinese government caused the global coronavirus pandemic. The lawsuit is unlikely to succeed and is most likely a political stunt by Missouri’s Republican Attorney General to distract from the U.S. federal government’s abysmal response to the global health…

Politics Matt Novak Apr 22 '20

Facebook Agreed to Censor More ‘Anti-State’ Posts in Vietnam After State Telcos Tanked Its Traffic

Facebook caved to Vietnamese government demands for increased censorship of “anti-state” posts after state-owned telecoms suppressed local traffic, two sources at the firm told Reuters on Tuesday. According to Reuters, Vietnamese telecoms launched a sustained attack on Facebook traffic that intermittently knocked out its servers for seven weeks spanning February to early April, with one…

Social Media Tom McKay Apr 22 '20

House Dems Could Clear Voting by Proxy During Pandemic, With Republicans Unable to Block It

The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives plans to break with 200 years of precedent this week by allowing members of Congress to vote by designated proxy during the coronavirus pandemic. The voting by proxy plan would negate cybersecurity risks posed by a true remote voting system and only allows for narrow, limited use of proxies,…

Politics Tom McKay Apr 21 '20

Toei’s Putting Sailor Moon‘s First 3 Classic Series on YouTube for Free in Japan [Updated]

Ahead of the premiere of Sailor Moon Eternal, a cinematic retelling of the Dream arc in which the Senshi face off against the Dead Moon Circus, Toei is inviting everyone to re-experience the episodic adventures that build up to the film’s celestial confrontation. Crunchyroll reports that beginning this week, Toei will begin posting every episode…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore Apr 21 '20

The Greatness of Jurassic Park Comes From Its Many Bad Ideas

Bad ideas are the fuel that makes good stories go. If characters in movies, books, television, etc. made good choices all the time, we wouldn’t enjoy sharing in their trials and tribulations half as much. While thinking about that idea, the first thing that jumped into my mind was a film built off the back…

io9 Germain Lussier Apr 21 '20

NY Attorney General Opens Spectrum Inquiry Amid Report of Coronavirus Deaths, Hundreds of Worker Infections

Following its initial mandate that employees continue showing up to work amid a deadly health crisis, Charter Communications—the ISP giant that operates under the name Spectrum—is under investigation by the New York attorney general’s office over its treatment of employees during the coronavirus pandemic. Despite recommendations by health authorities that non-essential employees switch to remote…

Tech News Catie Keck Apr 21 '20

Anything Trump Does to Prop Up the Oil Industry Will Fail in the End

Oil had itself a day on Monday. Prices went negative as oil producers looked to pay people to take oil off their hands owing to an ongoing overproduction crisis. But folks, Donald Trump is on it. The president tweeted today that he’s putting the secretaries of the Energy Department and Treasury Department on a mission…

Earther Brian Kahn Apr 21 '20

Report: The Mandalorian Season 3 Is Already on the Way at Disney+

This is the way and may continue to be the way for a while longer. According to a new report from Variety, Jon Favreau and others are already hard at work on pre-production of a third season of Disney’s The Mandalorian, months before season two is set to air. One source said Favreau has been…

io9 Beth Elderkin Apr 21 '20

Leave the Healthcare Workers Alone

“I try to not identify that I’m a healthcare provider out in public now,” Chrissy, a registered nurse anesthetist, told me a few weeks ago on a phone call. (Gizmodo verified her identity and agreed to use her first name only so as not to reveal the hospital where she works.) I’d reached out to…

Tech News Whitney Kimball Apr 21 '20

Spectrum Workers Inevitably Got Covid-19 After Being Barred From Working at Home

Employees of Charter Communications, which sells internet service under the name Spectrum, have tested positive for covid-19 in several states, according to emails obtained by Gizmodo. The confirmed cases follow a dispute between labor and management last month over a no-work-from-home policy that was later reversed—at least in part, for some employees. Company emails shared…

Health Dell Cameron & Joanna Nelius Apr 21 '20

Why Is It So Hard to Figure Out If the Coronavirus Is Airborne?

Scientists are debating a key aspect of the coronavirus that causes covid-19: whether the virus lingers in the air for long enough and in a great enough quantity for airborne transmission to be a common source of infection. It seems like a simple enough question, but it’s actually posing quite a challenge to researchers. The…

Health Ed Cara Apr 21 '20

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The Divine Chris Pine May Be Joining The Saint Reboot

He’s played Captain Kirk and Steve Trevor, and now Chris Pine is eyeing another iconic character: Simon Templar, also known as The Saint. The Robin Hood-esque spy guy, famed for using his unique set of skills to work outside the system to take down villains of all stripes, was created in 1928 by author Leslie…

Movies Cheryl Eddy Apr 21 '20

The Revamped Razer Blade Stealth Fixes One of Its Biggest Issues

The Razer Blade Stealth was already one of the best small-but-mighty laptops on the market, and now it’s getting more powerful. Razer’s refresh adds faster CPU and GPU options along with a fix for one of the Blade Stealth’s biggest flaws. While its starting price of $1,800 is a bit steep, even a base-model Blade…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford Apr 21 '20

We’re Living in the Golden Age of Crossword Puzzles

During a time when we’re stuck inside and looking for things to occupy ourselves with, may I humbly suggest the crossword puzzle? As something of a crossword enthusiast—in more normal times, I typically do one each day on my train commute into work—I can say with certainty that we are living in the Golden Age…

Tech News Catie Keck Apr 21 '20

We Have Truly Entered the Age of Embracing Our Nerd Bullshit

Guilty pleasures. Secret shames. Quiet indulgences. Even as nerd culture has come to dominate pop culture at large—where babies Yoda can captivate people who might not have realized they’re still making Star Wars movies, or how Avengers assembled can make people who’ve never touched a comic book weep—we still have our own little special corners…

io9 James Whitbrook Apr 21 '20

Calm Yourself With Endless Super Mario Clouds

Gizmodo is looking at a lot of net art these days, but you’ll have to scan further than Google Arts and Culture to find it, so we asked net artists for help. Today, critic Paddy Johnson tells us about how a chance meeting with Cory Arcangel changed her life. “Things we take for granted now…

Tech News Whitney Kimball Apr 21 '20

Legends of Tomorrow‘s Wild New Trailer Promises a Star Trek Parody for the Ages

These. Are. The Voyages. Of. The Starship Waverider. DC’s Legends of Tomorrow has released a new trailer for the remainder of season five, which has our Legends hopping through time, space, and genres in search of the Loom of Fate that holds the key to changing everything. The series, like many, has been on a…

Trailers Beth Elderkin Apr 21 '20

Spotify’s New Podcast Playlists Will Feed Your True Crime Addiction

After originally trying to sneak podcast suggestions in with your song recommendations, Spotify has come up with a better way to suggest shows tailored to your tastes: curated podcast playlists. Spotify rolled out its new playlists today, including one geared toward true crime fans. The first three curated lists are Crime Scene, Brain Snacks, and Best…

Tech News Joanna Nelius Apr 21 '20

Tab Groups Is Chrome’s Best New Feature in Years, and Here’s How to Use It

Trump Admin Gives Coronavirus Tracking Contract to Peter Thiel’s Palantir: Report

Missouri Sues China Over Coronavirus Pandemic to Distract From Trump’s Failures

Facebook Agreed to Censor More ‘Anti-State’ Posts in Vietnam After State Telcos Tanked Its Traffic

House Dems Could Clear Voting by Proxy During Pandemic, With Republicans Unable to Block It

Toei’s Putting Sailor Moon‘s First 3 Classic Series on YouTube for Free in Japan [Updated]

The Greatness of Jurassic Park Comes From Its Many Bad Ideas

NY Attorney General Opens Spectrum Inquiry Amid Report of Coronavirus Deaths, Hundreds of Worker Infections

Anything Trump Does to Prop Up the Oil Industry Will Fail in the End

Report: The Mandalorian Season 3 Is Already on the Way at Disney+

Leave the Healthcare Workers Alone

Spectrum Workers Inevitably Got Covid-19 After Being Barred From Working at Home

Why Is It So Hard to Figure Out If the Coronavirus Is Airborne?

The Divine Chris Pine May Be Joining The Saint Reboot

The Revamped Razer Blade Stealth Fixes One of Its Biggest Issues

We’re Living in the Golden Age of Crossword Puzzles

We Have Truly Entered the Age of Embracing Our Nerd Bullshit

Calm Yourself With Endless Super Mario Clouds

Legends of Tomorrow‘s Wild New Trailer Promises a Star Trek Parody for the Ages

Spotify’s New Podcast Playlists Will Feed Your True Crime Addiction

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