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Hackers Are Likely Responsible For The Last Of Us Part II Leak

Posted: 03 May 2020 05:27 PM PDT

Last weekend's shocking leak of footage from The Last Of Us Part II was likely committed by hackers who exploited a security vulnerability in prior Naughty Dog games, according to a person who said they were familiar with the hack. Kotaku has confirmed some of the details with a second source who is familiar with how…

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Why Does Spending Money Feel So Good?

Posted: 04 May 2020 05:30 AM PDT

Assuming that you don't have an infinite supply of money—assuming your supply of money is, like most personal money-supplies, limited, and closely-hoarded, and essential to your survival—then diminishing what you have in any way should be a painful undertaking. And yet blowing tons of cash on stuff you don't need…

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Logitech's G305 Lightspeed Wireless Gaming Mouse is Super Responsive and Falls to $35

Posted: 04 May 2020 04:40 AM PDT

Logitech G305 Lightspeed | $35 | Logitech | Use code LOGITECHGSAVE10

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The Galaxy Book Flex Is the Best Laptop Samsung Has Made in Years

Posted: 04 May 2020 05:00 AM PDT

Over the last couple years, it felt like Samsung's laptop division has been coasting. That's because none of its laptops were outright bad, but, aside from a couple Chromebooks, nothing really stood out either. A big part of Samsung's laptop woes has been a lack of identity. But in 2020, one of Samsung's goals was to…

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Westworld’s Vincent Cassel on That Final Serac Twist and What’s Next

Posted: 03 May 2020 07:44 PM PDT

The latest season of Westworld has revolved around Serac, an enigmatic figure who came out of nowhere to serve as the puppet master of their world. Every episode has brought us one step closer to understanding the man behind the tech—and it turns out the answer was the very thing that surprised the actor playing him…

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Giant Sloths, Medieval Dancing, and Too Many Cords: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Posted: 03 May 2020 06:36 PM PDT

Congratulations on making it through another week—especially now that each week feels about 2 billion years long. 2019 might as well be a myth at this point. Oh, speaking of losing all sense of time, next Sunday is Mother's Day just FYI. So consider this your official warning siren for any gift-getting that you might…

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Uber Will Require Drivers and Riders to Wear Face Masks As Countries Reopen

Posted: 03 May 2020 05:49 PM PDT

Uber will require that drivers and riders wear face masks or face coverings when using the platform in certain countries, including the U.S. The requirement is part of a new policy that Uber is preparing in order to restart its ride-hailing service during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Cuomo Announces 7-State Consortium for Securing Medical Supplies

Posted: 03 May 2020 05:36 PM PDT

Seven northeastern states are joining forces to fight the coronavirus outbreak and pooling their resources to purchase essential medical equipment and testing supplies, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Sunday. Prices for ventilators have skyrocketed amid widespread need for the potentially life-saving devices,…

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Titus Welliver, the Man in Black, Worked Hard Not to Leak Spoilers on Lost

Posted: 03 May 2020 03:00 PM PDT

Lost was, in a lot of ways, the birthplace of modern spoiler culture. Its show was so reliant on the twists of a complex, intriguing plot that the world of online viewership contorted around it, building communities dedicated to dissecting, predicting, and complaining about it. Titus Welliver, who played the Man in…

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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson Reveals That Doctors Were Prepared to Announce His Death From Covid-19

Posted: 03 May 2020 02:50 PM PDT

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday said that the doctors who treated him were prepared to announce his death as he battled covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, according to a report in the Sun. Johnson said there was a strategy to deal with a "'death of Stalin'-type scenario."

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At Least Somebody Has Some Common Sense in This Administration

Posted: 03 May 2020 02:43 PM PDT

White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx described the recent string of protests against social distancing and other coronavirus-related restrictions as "devastatingly worrisome" in an interview on "Fox News Sunday". It's some welcome common sense and a far cry from how the president, who in a

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Have Some Laughs With the $25 Cornetto Trilogy Blu-Ray Collection

Posted: 03 May 2020 04:56 AM PDT

Paramount and Hasbro Are Already Working on the Next G.I. Joe Movie

Posted: 03 May 2020 12:30 PM PDT

I do not know what the future will hold. But I know Snake Eyes will be in it.

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Star Trek: Picard's Prop Master Talks the Process Behind Getting Picard's Future Just Right

Posted: 03 May 2020 11:45 AM PDT

Star Trek: Picard's first season had a special opportunity. It was the first, clearest picture of the post-Nemesis future of the Star Trek universe, and as such it had the opportunity to define that world, from both a thematic perspective and an aesthetic one. The aesthetics, in particular, are tricky things: how to…

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Sunday's Best Deals: Google Smart Home, Bosch Drills, Comfy Shorts, and More

Posted: 03 May 2020 06:56 AM PDT

Florida Man Arrested After Trying to Quarantine on Disney's Discovery Island [Updated]

Posted: 03 May 2020 10:30 AM PDT

I mean, no one else was using it.

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James Wan and One of John Wick's Writers Are Making a Time-Travelling Cop Movie

Posted: 03 May 2020 08:15 AM PDT

Only, the cop is being hunted by a bevy of assassins. So, it's a good fit.

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I'm Being Attacked by These AI-Generated Song Lyrics

Posted: 02 May 2020 02:00 PM PDT

If the current season of Westworld has taught us anything, it's that artificial intelligence is not all it's cracked up to be, both in inception and in execution. Personally, I was done with AI after I watched exactly half of 2004's I, Robot, and then decided that the entire business of computers acting of their own…

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