Infrastructure

As covid-19 disrupted the world in March, online retail giant Amazon struggled to respond to the sudden shift caused…

Power shutoffs are slated to hit customers in 34 of California’s 58 counties between Wednesday morning and Thursday…

No news this week could possibly compare to the “hot dog salad” abomination created by a certain Gizmodo colleague,…

Not too long ago, we here at Giz Asks contemplated what might happen if the entire internet shut down at once. One…

President Donald Trump is promising a pardon to people who break the law while building his wall along the…

When climate change comes for our coffee and our wine, we’ll moan about it on Twitter, read about it on our favorite…

A world in which the internet suddenly stops: surely the TV show’s already in development. Sprawling cast, gorgeous…

We are not ready for the extreme rainfall coming with climate change. A quick dramatic thunderstorm in New York on…

Nuclear weapons can wipe out an entire city in the blink of an eye, but what about all the good they can do? That…

Saturday is the 42nd anniversary of the July 13-14, 1977 New York City blackout, which took out power to most of the…

Satellite images can make it easier to get around when you’re using apps like Google Maps, but researchers at NASA’s…

Japanese rail company JR Kyushu says that one small slug was responsible for a power outage and subsequent delays…

Almost the entirety of the nations of Argentina and Uruguay, were “completely without power” following a “massive…

Washington Governor Jay Inslee has staked his entire presidential campaign on being the country’s first climate…

Let’s play a game called Good Idea Bad Idea. Good idea: flushing only biodegradable materials down the toilet. Bad…

Embattled Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro—whose administration has been faced with a massive economic crisis,…

Authorities said this weekend that the death toll from an industrial disaster in Brumadinho, Brazil in Minas Gerais…

It was a cool day in Dallas last November, when a small quadcopter lifted itself off the ground of an American…

This week, the Oogie Boogie Man made of deflated basketballs currently residing in the Oval Office, Donald Trump,…

All the glue that has held the Arctic together for millennia is being dissolved by climate change, right down to the…