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The upstart virtual currency associated with Infowars guest Roger Ver now has an anthem, and it seems we have Canada to thank for it. After Japan’s foray into blockchain-inspired music with a cryptocurrency-themed pop idol group, it was only a matter of time “Bitcoin Ca$h” comes to us by way of Lil Windex, an inscrutable…
New York Times columnist Bari Weiss, a seemingly inexhaustible source of uninformed opinions, titled her most recent tirade “We’re All Fascists Now,” a sarcastic dig against political correctness, campus politics, and The Intolerant Left. Unwittingly, it begins by defending a public figure who has appeared on an explicitly ethnocentric radio show. Christina Hoff Sommers—whose name…
The Russian Embassy in the UK is known for being a troll online. So it’s no surprise that it’s being pretty flippant about the recent news that a Russian spy was poisoned with a nerve agent in Salisbury. Make that a British spy who was poisoned with a nerve agent in Salisbury. Because being pedantic…
The guy behind $118.5 million company Juicero, which catastrophically shut down after it was revealed that their eponymous line of $399 cold-pressed raw juice machines were actually just glorified bag-squeezers, is on to new things! Per Vice News Tonight (HBO link; also available on YouTube), Juicero founder Doug Evans is continuing to get really into…
Uber founder Travis Kalanick, who was forced out of his CEO role last year amid widening scandals about its toxic work culture, legal troubles, and a video of him screaming at a bankrupt driver, seems an awful lot like he’s finally admitting defeat in the unending slew of backroom drama that plagued the company in…
Former White House communications director Hope Hicks—the longtime Donald Trump aide who finally decided to leave the administration after a domestic abuse scandal involving now-former fellow aide and rumored boyfriend Rob Porter—says she can’t log into two of her email accounts anymore because she was “hacked.” According to NBC News, people present during her closed-door…
Benjamin Thomas Wolf’s congressional campaign is imploding. The Democrat candidate in Illinois’ 5th Congressional District—held by incumbent Rep. Mike Quigley—gained national attention after running a campaign ad in which he’s apparently smoking a joint. He got another boost this week after the Observer ran an article declaring him the “first politician ever to advertise on…
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Your skin cells are constantly regenerating, so how is it that a tattoo can last for decades? Fascinating new research from France sheds new light on how this works: Your skin cells soak up the pigment, then release it when they die for other cells to pick up. This cycle continues ad infinitum—the circle of…
For years, Samsung has been trying to make TVs look pretty even when you’re not watching TV. The company just announced the latest lineup of its flagship QLED TVs with an all-new feature called Ambient Mode. Basically, thanks to some hardware trickery, Ambient Mode can replicate the texture on the wall behind your TV and…
There’s a viral video making the rounds showing the site of an apparent crashed UFO on the remote island of South Georgia. On closer inspection, however, the object’s true identify is something considerably more banal: It’s just a stupid rock that fell from a nearby mountain. The video was produced by Secureteam10, and it’s amassed…
The insidious nature of technology is often marked by silent consequences like addiction, surveillance, and online harassment. But one ghost in the machine has become chillingly audible: Alexa is laughing at you. People are reporting that Amazon’s Echo devices have mysteriously started cackling at random, and the company has confirmed it’s working on the problem.…
Text-altering browser extensions are all fun and games until you forget to turn them off in the most awkward situations possible. Like, say, a situation in which you’re editing a column for the New York Times that fact checks the President’s claims on trade and you accidentally publish a bit of complete nonsense. You might…
Last month, Gizmodo warned users against downloading Facebook’s new VPN service, known as Onavo Protect. In addition to Facebook itself being a data vampire, the company has reportedly used the service to collecting users’ VPN usage logs. That means that once you install Onavo and turn the VPN on, Facebook can see every website you’re…
When former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter became severely ill in London over the weekend, no one knew for sure what caused their sickness. Now British police say that Skripal was deliberately poisoned with a nerve agent. The question that the police still haven’t answered: Who did it? Both Sergei and his daughter…
After Gizmodo’s investigation into the data smart homes expose about our lives, many of you asked how you could monitor the digital emissions from your own homes. Well, you’re in luck. Here, I’ll explain the methodology involved in that story, for which Kashmir Hill set up her home with a slew of internet connected gadgets,…
Matt Furie, the creator of Pepe the Frog, is continuing his copyright war against the alt-right by targeting Alex Jones’ Infowars in his latest lawsuit. The purveyors of conspiracy theories have been selling a poster that incorporates the cartoon frog into a collage of with notable cartoon figures from the Infowars cast of characters. Furie…
Judge Jack B. Weinstein, who has served in New York’s Eastern District since 1967, filed a 79-page preliminary injunction against a cryptocurrency trading advice firm that stands accused of fraud. The company in question was hardly a major player, but the ramifications of the order have the potential to impact the entire virtual currency market.…
About a year ago last march, a robot called the Sub1 solved a Rubik’s Cube in 0.637-seconds, earning it the Guinness World Record for being the fastest cube-solving bot. That honor now appears to be in jeopardy, however, as a pair of engineers have demonstrated a new robot that can solve a Rubik’s Cube in…
The shining star that was cosmologist and theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss’ long-spanning career continues to dim in the wake of allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior, first reported by BuzzFeed News last month. (Disclosure: As part of its investigation, BuzzFeed interviewed me about a blog post I published in 2013 that detailed a 2011 allegation against…
