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Everything You Can Do in the Windows 10 April 2018 Update That You Couldn’t Before

There’s a new Windows update available, and it’s got quite a few goodies inside for you to explore: It’s one of those rollouts that in days gone by would’ve been marked by a decimal point increase in the version number. Here’s everything you’re getting in the April 2018 update for Windows 10. Go back in … Continued

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North Korea Plans to Adjust Time Zone After Spending Two Years 30 Minutes Behind South Korea

North Korea has been 30 minutes behind South Korea ever since Kim Jong Un created “Pyongyang Time” in 2015. But starting May 5th, North Korea will adjust its clocks to sync with South Korea in yet another step toward normalized relations, according to state news agency KCNA and Reuters. North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un … Continued

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Russia’s Floating Nuclear Power Plant Has Hit the Sea

Russia launched the world’s first floating nuclear power plant on Saturday. The 70-megawatt vessel, christened the Akademik Lomonosov, was towed away from St. Petersburg by two boats. It is currently coasting through the Baltic Sea to the town of Murmansk for fuel, and is then supposed to embark for the Arctic town of Pevek in … Continued

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500 Students Evacuated Over ‘Extremely Pungent’ Rotten Fruit at Australian University

A misplaced fruit prompted the evacuation of around 500 students from a Melbourne university this weekend, BBC News reports. On Saturday, Melbourne’s Metropolitan Fire Brigade was called to RMIT University after a gas smell was reported in the library. As the library houses potentially dangerous chemicals, there were concerns of a gas leak. It was … Continued

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Why Snoozing Emails Is a Terrible Idea and What You Should Do Instead

Did you get the new Gmail update yet? (If not, see if there’s a Try the new Gmail option on the web settings menu.) One of its major new features is the ability to snooze emails, something we’ve seen in various apps (like Inbox) before. We’re here to tell you why snoozing is bad, why … Continued

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What Shapes Are Things in Outer Space?

It’s an orgy of geometry, here on Earth. You got all kinds of shapes: Squares, trapezoids, even the occasional rhombus. Apples, desk-chairs, and dandelions—just an abundance of shape-having stuff. Outer space, in contrast, is minimally decorated: asteroids, stars, planets, galaxies. Big-picture stuff. We know the Earth is round—or, at least, most of us do—but what … Continued

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Watch a Parachuting Skier Take Flight Moments Before an Avalanche Buries Him Alive

Downhill skiers hit tremendous speeds as they race down a mountain, but it’s still not fast enough to outrun an avalanche. Fortunately for Maxence Cavalade, the parachute he was using to speedride down Mont Charvet in France carried him to safety and probably saved his life. It’s worth pointing out that the avalanche was undoubtedly … Continued

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Trump and Macron’s Disappearing Tree is Just in Quarantine to be Monitored For Pests

US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron planted a tree at the White House on April 23rd in a friendship ceremony. But the tree quickly went missing, and some people started to wonder if a conspiracy was afoot. But there’s no grand conspiracy. The tree, which was brought from France, is simply in … Continued

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Avengers: Infinity War, AMD vs. Intel, and Killer Animals: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

With winter fading into the distance, Avengers: Infinity War now in theaters, and the truth about Amazon’s logo finally out in the open, we can take a big breath of fresh air and remember what makes us excited about life in the first place. But we’ll probably just endlessly scroll through Twitter until we feel … Continued

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Dutch Authorities Seize Revenge Porn Site Anon-IB, Arrest Three Men

Dutch police force Politie has seized the anonymous message board Anon-IB, a major hub of revenge porn and harassment campaigns with servers based in the Netherlands, and charged three men with “computer intrusion and spreading nude photos,” according to CNET. According to a Dutch police statement, the site has been taken offline after young woman … Continued

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Ask Siri to Define ‘Mother’ and You’ll Get a Surprisingly Explicit Response

Siri has been known to produce some absolutely bizarre answers to requests from time to time, but iPhone users recently discovered perhaps the strangest—and definitely the most explicit—response yet. Here’s the deal: Summon Siri on your iPhone or Mac and ask it to “define the word mother.” Siri will read off the first definition plain … Continued

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Sprint and T-Mobile Are Officially Merging, and It’s Terrible

After years of on-and-off flirting, including a broken engagement in 2017, Sprint and T-Mobile have finally agreed to a $26.5 billion merger that will further consolidate a mobile carrier market already mostly devoid of competition. According to the Wall Street Journal, T-Mobile will exchange 9.75 Sprint shares for each T-Mobile share. Bloomberg reports the deal … Continued

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Kim Jong Un Says He’ll Shut Down North Korea’s Infamous Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site

The president of South Korea’s office says that North Korea has agreed to close down its infamous Punggye-ri nuclear weapons testing site in Kilju County by May, CNN reported on Saturday, and says it may invite international experts to verify the location has been closed. Kim also spoke cautiously of abandoning the country’s nuclear arsenal … Continued

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Man Gets Jail Time for Trying to Hack a Prison and Release His Friend

A Michigan man will spend the next seven years and three months behind bars as punishment for attempting to hack a county jail’s computer system and altering prison records to get his friend released early. In addition to 87 months in jail, Konrads Voits—a 27-year-old from Ypsilanti, Michigan—was also hit with a fine of $235,488 … Continued

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I Spent a Weekend With Cyborgs, and Now I Have an RFID Implant I Have No Idea What to Do With

Jeffrey Tibbetts prepped for implantation and scrubbed in, methodically sudsing up to his elbows, scraping the dirt from under his fingernails and scouring his hands with a rough brush to render his body sterile before donning a pair of beige latex surgical gloves. Behind him, a twentysomething tea barista in a black baseball cap waited … Continued

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The World’s Largest Active Geyser in Yellowstone Keeps Going Off, But It Isn’t a Sign of Imminent Doom

Yellowstone National Park is probably not about to erupt in an explosion that could wreck the immediate area and flood the state of Wyoming with ash, despite several “unusual” eruptions at the world’s largest active geyser over the course of the past few weeks. Per Reuters, scientists say that there is no sign the increased … Continued

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Class Action Lawsuit Alleges Price-Fixing Scheme Carried Out by DRAM Manufacturers

A class action lawsuit filed Friday alleges that Samsung, Hynix, and Micron—three of the largest DRAM manufacturers in the world—colluded to limit supplies of the memory type and drive up the prices of their products, according to 9to5Mac. The suit, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California by the Hagens … Continued

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Facebook Is Shrinking Fake News Stories Because Nothing Else Has Worked

For what feels like the umpteenth time, Facebook is introducing another new plan to fight against the scourge of fake news that populates the platform, this time by making shrinking the size of links to bogus claims and hoaxes. It probably won’t work because people are just the worst. Facebook unveiled its latest plan Friday … Continued

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The Dreaded Sprint and T-Mobile Merger Is Reportedly Back

That is not dead which can eternal lie, though it’s only taken a few months for T-Mobile and Sprint to dust themselves off and renew their plans for a major merger, per a Friday report in CNBC. The two companies called off prior plans for a merger in November 2017 amid an inability to reach … Continued

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Foxconn Will Drain 7 Million Gallons of Water Per Day From Lake Michigan to Make LCD Screens

This week, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources gave the go-ahead to Taiwanese tech manufacturer Foxconn to siphon off seven million gallons of water per day from Lake Michigan, despite protests from conservation groups. The massive diversion of water from the lake will be used to produce LCD screens at the company’s planned $10 billion, … Continued