Gadgets & Tech – Spoken Edition

Earlier tonight, the broadcast of The Daily Show was briefly interrupted by a blip of stock war footage, a spinning ballerina, and a web address with a Russian domain name. The internet quickly assumed that the late night comedy show had been hacked. It wasn’t. Simply put this was a dumb publicity stunt designed to play on the fears surrounding the ongoing investigation into Russia’s interference with the 2016 election. The domain name that briefly appeared in the Mr.

Humans (not you, you’ll be dead) are going to have to live somewhere other than Earth eventually. There might be some options for new homes on Mars, the planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, or even one of the planets in the Trappist-1 system.

A company producing ready-to-eat chicken is recalling 933,272 pounds of its ostensiblyschoolhouse cafeteria-bound product. That’s equal to 26.5 million McNuggets, based on prior Gizmodo calculations. That is so much chicken. Oklahoma City-based OK Foods, inc.* is recalling chicken produced from Dec 19, 2016 through Mar 7, 2017.

Have you had a long week? Perhaps you’re wondering how we’re not even 100 days into the Trump administration, and it feels like the entire world has gone dark. Let this newborn pygmy hippo beam some sunshine into your life. It is the cutest thing on the planet. The female calf was born on February 21 at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, but the first footage of her only came out a few days ago.

Y Combinator’s Sam Altman recently called Trump “the Silicon Valley candidate” because of his disruptive nature. But maybe it’s really just because he’s a troll who recognizes the power of a cat meme. A 17-year-old only identified as Lucy tells The Hollywood Reporter that her website, trumpscratch.com, attracted the attention of the White House after receiving only about 1,200 visitors.

Starting this week, anyone flying on Royal Jordanian’s routes to the United States from cities like Amman won’t be allowed to bring any electronic device bigger than a smartphone into the cabin. And Royal Jordanian is expressing its displeasure with some next-level subtweets. The airline just tweeted a list of “12 things to do on a 12-hour flight with no laptop or tablet.” And number twelve seems like a direct shot at President Trump and the nonsensical ban. “1.

It’s hard to know exactly what’s going on inside the White House these days. Is Jared Kushner still pouting the corner? Probably. Is Kellyanne Conway still putting her feet on the furniture? Surely. Is Trump still eating Big Macs on silver platters while he tweets from an old, unsecured Android phone? Actually, maybe not. March 8 was the last time a Donald Trump tweet came from an Android device.

Daniel Boria was not the first person to see Up and think it would be a great idea to fly around in his own balloon chair. But he’ll stand as an eternal example of how thoughtless this kind of stunt can be. A judge in the Canadian city of Calgary did not find Boria’s actions to be a laughing matter when he handed down his sentence on Friday. “There was nothing fantastic, fun or exhilarating about it,” Judge Bruce Frasier said.

While everyone complains about the fact that they don’t have a jetpack or a flying car yet, the military has patiently waited for its killer laser beams. Lockheed Martin says that it will hand off exactly that to the Army in the next few months.

When it comes to pushing oneself towards greatness, some of us vow to read more books or sign up for a 5K run. Others try to learn a new skill, like woodworking. Chris Bertish, however, decided tobecome the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean on a paddleboard because he is a crazy man. This was no ordinary paddleboard.