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Photo A woman dressed as Harley Quinn at Anime Friends, an anime, gaming and comics event in Buenos Aires. Credit Agustin Marcarian/Associated Press Backed by a meticulously executed marketing campaign, “Suicide Squad” pushed through abysmal reviews to set box office records for Warner Bros. over the weekend. Ticket sales for that violent PG-13 film totaled…
Chad Copley, 39, is charged with murder in connection to the shooting of a black man in Raleigh on Sunday, Aug 8. In his 911 call, he told the dispatcher he was going to confront “hoodlums” outside his home. He said “I am locked and loaded. I’m going outside to secure my neighborhood.” (Monica Akhtar/The…
On Monday, Gawker Media group entered talks with ex-pro wrestler Hulk Hogan to settle a $140 million lawsuit over the publication of the ex-wrestler’s sex tape. Losing control of his media company to a six-time WWF heavyweight champion, Gawker founder and CEO Nick Denton might be asking himself: just how did I get here?…
Black Hat Malicious ads can potentially masquerade as people online and grab their personal information from HTTPS-protected websites, two boffins have shown. The technique is dubbed HEIST – HTTP Encrypted Information can be Stolen through TCP-Windows – and it was devised by Tom Van Goethem and Mathy Vanhoef, both PhD researchers at the University of…
Nearly four decades is a long time to be hearing the same stuff about being a woman in power. The nauseating proof comes in the form of a new video that was put together by National Memo, a news and politics website, and posted to YouTube on Thursday. It tracks almost 40 years of Hillary…
The most wanted feature in Pokémon Go is back, at least for some users. Pokémon Go now has a new update, and it changes the following: The biggest and most interesting change has to be the new Nearby system, which is now named ‘Sightings:” UPDATE 11:56PM: Actually, this image from neoGAFFer Toki767 seems to be…
GIF As reporters and editors, we at Gizmodo like to investigate stuff and ask questions. But there comes a time when you’re beat and have to reach out for help. That’s why we’re coming to you, our readers, with a question we haven’t been able to answer despite weeks of probing. So: Did you have…
Don’t call Josh Topolsky’s just-announced The Outline “a New Yorker for millennials.” Or do. The 38-year-old digital media veteran of Engadget, The Verge, and Bloomberg can see it, and explain it, both ways. I asked the CEO and editor-in-chief of the just-announced site, launching in the fall, what he thought about that shorthand description. “I…
President Obama is so disciplined that his wife has teased that he eats precisely seven lightly salted almonds each night. George W. Bush was an exercise buff, obsessed with staying trim by mountain biking and clearing brush at his ranch in Crawford, Tex. But Donald J. Trump is taking a different approach: A junk food…
Debt is an unwelcome guest at the table in many American households. The average U.S. household with debt carries $15,310 in credit card debt and $132,086 in total debt. It’s easy to say we should simply pay off our balances and free ourselves of the burdens — financial and emotional — that come with…