- AMD's Launching a New Graphics Card Next Weekby Joanna Nelius on February 24, 2021 at 10:00 pm
The graphics card availability situation may look a pretty bleak right now, but that’s not stopping AMD from forging ahead with its plans. The company announced on Twitter today that it’s launching a new graphics card in its Radeon RX 6000-series line next week.Read more...
- What a Fossilized Hand Says About the Last Common Ancestor Between Humans and Chimpanzeesby Isaac Schultz on February 24, 2021 at 9:50 pm
More than 1 million years before the early hominin known as Lucy was striding across the Afar region of Ethiopia, the lesser-known Ardipithecus ramidus roamed approximately the same area. Now, a team of anthropologists have looked at the 4.4 million-year-old fossilized hand of one specimen (affectionately dubbed…Read more...
- Computer Simulations Suggest Martian Moons Were Separated at Birth More Than a Billion Years Agoby George Dvorsky on February 24, 2021 at 9:15 pm
The Red Planet’s two tiny moons—Phobos and Deimos—could have formed after an ancient collision, according to new research. It’s an intriguing possibility, but not everyone is convinced by the evidence.Read more...
- Facebook Told Us to Suck It, for a Changeby Whitney Kimball on February 24, 2021 at 9:00 pm
Attention, haters: you have officially been put on notice by Facebook’s VP of Global Affairs Nick Clegg. Read more...
- The 10 Best Deals of February 24, 2021by Juliana Clark on Kinja Deals, shared by Gabe Carey to Gizmodo on February 24, 2021 at 9:00 pm
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- OLED King LG Says It Will License webOS to Other TV Makersby Catie Keck on February 24, 2021 at 8:49 pm
LG will make its webOS software available to other companies.Read more...
- Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Nano Takes the Lightest Laptop Crownby John Biggs on February 24, 2021 at 8:30 pm
As we lean into a few more months of WFH life, none of us are looking for the thinnest and lightest laptops out there. The road warriors hunting for something slightly lighter than a cinder block are stuck inside, and couch surfing is now usually done on the phone, not on some wafer-thin slab of plastic and silicon.…Read more...
- What to Know About Johnson & Johnson's One-Shot Covid-19 Vaccineby Ed Cara on February 24, 2021 at 8:10 pm
The Food and Drug Administration is expected to soon grant an emergency use authorization (EUA) to Johnson & Johnson’s covid-19 vaccine, possibly as early as this weekend. That decision would make it the third such vaccine to become available to Americans. So it’s as good a time as any to go through the similarities…Read more...
- Cinefex Closes Down Thanks to the Goddamn Pandemicby Rhett Jones on February 24, 2021 at 8:00 pm
It’s a tough time to run a print magazine. It’s an even tougher time to run a print magazine about the film industry. And after more than 40 years of definitive coverage of the special effects industry, Cinefex has shut down. Read more...
- Before You Pay for Spotify's "HiFi," Test Your Hearingby David Murphy on Lifehacker, shared by Andrew Couts to Gizmodo on February 24, 2021 at 7:30 pm
As one who likes to rock out, I confess, I was excited that my streaming service of choice—Spotify—announced it’s rolling out a new service tier for lossless audio streaming. Sure, it’ll cost more than what I’m paying now, but throwing away an expected $20 a month for perfect audio sounds pretty great, doesn’t it? My…Read more...