It’s the end of another week and the beginning of September, and you know what that means: goodbye summer, hello fall! And no, I don’t care that it’s still 85 degrees outside; it’s fall goddammit, and I will sweat through my chunky knit scarves and cute boots if I have to.
Our team broke some more alarming news about Ring this week. Apparently, Amazon’s home security company not only works with the cops, it also leaks your data to them too. Joy. Scientists found evidence that puts that whole “gay gene” crap to bed, we got our hands on Nintendo’s new baby Switch, and io9’s co-founders, Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz, taught readers how to tell if they’re in an alternate timeline.
And one of our reporters was there to witness the one, the only, the so-much-cooler-than-me-when-I-was-16 climate activist Greta Thunberg as she docked in Coney Island, completing her two-week (and zero-carbon) journey across the Atlantic.
Check out these stories and more in our weekly round-up below:
https://gizmodo.com/ring-gave-police-stats-about-users-who-said-no-to-law-e-1837713840
https://gizmodo.com/what-would-life-on-an-ocean-moon-look-like-1837712183
https://gizmodo.com/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-gay-gene-large-genome-study-1837675136
https://gizmodo.com/if-pluto-is-a-planet-so-am-i-1837655876
https://gizmodo.com/new-evidence-bolsters-theory-that-first-americans-arriv-1837706124
https://gizmodo.com/greta-is-here-1837675950
https://gizmodo.com/newark-needs-a-massive-lead-pipe-replacement-and-advoc-1837667017
https://gizmodo.com/a-hurricane-obliterated-hawaiis-most-spectacular-reef-1837531241
https://gizmodo.com/andrew-yang-still-dangerous-1837586231
https://gizmodo.com/annalee-newitz-and-charlie-jane-anders-on-the-intersect-1837631377
https://gizmodo.com/charlie-jane-anders-and-annalee-newitz-on-creating-worl-1837631209
https://gizmodo.com/fear-tears-and-summer-camp-one-11-year-old-s-quest-t-1837618227
https://gizmodo.com/hey-remember-when-star-trek-did-galaxys-edge-20-years-1837594237
https://gizmodo.com/the-switch-lite-is-sneaky-good-1837587366
https://gizmodo.com/the-plan-to-use-fitbit-data-to-stop-mass-shootings-is-o-1837710691
https://gizmodo.com/the-coolest-futuristic-deaths-1837669411
https://gizmodo.com/which-animal-will-develop-human-level-intelligence-in-t-1837573694
https://gizmodo.com/i-miss-simple-video-games-that-didnt-try-too-hard-1837481571
