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The Feds Don’t Know How Often They’re Using Facial Recognition
A group of House lawmakers charged with investigating the implications of biometric surveillance empaneled three experts Wednesday to testify about the future of facial recognition…
Instagram Is Testing Making Every Video You Post a Reel
Meta is testing out a version of Instagram where all video content is posted as a Reel, the company confirmed to Gizmodo on Thursday in…
General Motors Is Training First Responders on Electric Car Crashes
More firefighters and EMTs will soon be able to pry you out of your burning Prius and maybe even save the car. General Motors announced…
U.S. Orders Omicron-Specific Covid-19 Vaccine Shipment for Big Fall Push
The U.S. federal government has reached a deal to pay pharmaceutical company Pfizer and its German-based partner BioNTech a t0tal of $3.2 billion for 105…
Cops Nationwide Become Violent Against People Protesting for Abortion Rights
Americans took to the streets over the weekend to demonstrate against the Supreme Court’s decision on Friday to repeal Roe v. Wade, the historic 1973…
Jon Snow Knew Something, Specifically the Idea for His TV Spin-Off
When Game of Thrones aired, much hay was made about the showmakers’ refusal to allow star Kit Harington to cut his long hair because of…
Biden Admin Re-Revises Trump’s Definition of ‘Habitat’
A little bit of legalese goes a long way. The Joe Biden administration striking a single sentence from the Trump-era definition of “habitat” allows the…
Google Maps Now Has a Label for LGBTQ+ Owned Businesses
Google has introduced a new label in Maps and Search that allows businesses to self-identify as LGBTQ+ owned, adding to a series of labels already…
These Wild Bats Remembered a Specific Phone Ringtone 4 Years Later
Bats could be up there with elephants as animals that never forget. A new study found that wild bats were able to remember a specific…
President Biden to Propose 3-Month Suspension of Federal Gas Tax
President Joe Biden will ask Congress to suspend the federal gasoline tax for three months in a speech on Wednesday afternoon, according to a new…
Heat Kills Thousands of Cows in Kansas
High temperatures in Kansas last weekend killed thousands of cattle, authorities confirmed this week, after footage of rows of cattle corpses was widely shared online….
This Road Wirelessly Charges Electric Cars as They Drive
As prices drop and availability increases, some of the last road blocks to mass adoption of electric vehicles is range anxiety and charging times. But…
That Didn’t Last Long: Shanghai Locks Down Millions for Covid, Again
Little more than a week after Shanghai, China crawled out of one of the most severe and taxing covid lockdowns anywhere in the world, the…
The One Video You Need to Watch From Last Night’s Capitol Riot Hearing
Last night, almost every major TV network devoted three hours to a congressional hearing by the January 6th Committee, which is investigating the attempted coup…
How the Facebook Papers Exposed Meta’s Moderation Disaster
In Gizmodo’s third release of documents from the Facebook Papers, we learned how decisions at Facebook over whether to improve a product can depend on how…
New Crew Arrives at China’s Space Station for ‘Most Complicated’ Mission Yet
Three astronauts just boarded China’s Tiangong space station, where they will spend the next six months conducting science experiments, as well as attempting to expand…
The Smithsonian’s Work Helped Tomy Create One of the Most Accurate Replicas of Star Trek’s USS Enterprise
One of the highlights of visiting the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum for Star Trek fans is seeing the original on-screen model of the USS…
The U.S. Drought Situation Is Getting Increasingly Desperate
The ramifications of the historic megadrought happening in the U.S. right now are getting increasingly serious. Hydropower is faltering, farmland is too parched to produce,…
Locke & Key’s First Third-Season Tease Shows the Power of a Dark Past
“The past is always with us. You can try to run away, but it’s always there.” That’s something Netflix’s Locke & Key has emphasized from…
Asteroid Samples Brought to Earth Contain Key Molecules for Life
Japan’s education ministry says that more than 20 types of amino acids were detected in samples of an asteroid that were brought to Earth in…
California Greenlights Nation’s First Driverless Taxi Fleet
General Motors’ fleet of self driving vehicles isn’t the best at handling run-ins with California police, but that didn’t stop the state’s regulators from approving…
Experimental Gene Treatment May Have Helped Shrink a Woman’s Advanced Pancreatic Cancer
In new research this week, an experimental treatment seems to have helped beat back a woman’s advanced pancreatic cancer. The woman’s tumors have since substantially…
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