Twitter Office Auction—35 Oddest Bird-Themed Pieces of Junk

[ad_1] Screenshot: Heritage Global Partners Anyone yearning to model their home living room after the business casual aesthetic of a now-flailing mid-2000s tech startup may finally get their chance. X, the company formerly called Twitter, is clearing house and auctioning off hundreds of: furniture, espresso machines, and plenty of bird-related paraphernalia from its San Francisco … Read more

PaknSave AI Bot Spits Out Recipe for Chlorine Gas

[ad_1] Betty Crocker never had the chance to release her down-home recipe for mustard gas, but modern generative AI is making up for lost time, helping to put the “die” in “diet.” Gizmodo Back to School 2023 Tech Guide The New Zealand-based supermarket chain Pak‘nSave has offered shoppers the ability to create recipes from their … Read more

Great, Climate Change Will Even Make Food Poisoning Worse

[ad_1] Climate change will make stomach bugs an even bigger problem, a new report has found. The study concludes that expected changes in temperature, precipitation, and humidity will make foodborne infections and toxins all the more common—at least in Germany. That said, other research has indicated that these increased risks will be seen globally as … Read more

Texas Sets Ninth Power Use Records as Summer Heat Rages

[ad_1] The temperatures have been too damn high in Texas this summer, prompting households and businesses to crank up their air conditioning and break energy usage records again and again. The state has broken its own record for highest-ever electricity usage nine times in summer 2023. Gizmodo Back to School 2023 Tech Guide Power demand … Read more

X, formerly Twitter, lowers requirements for its ad revenue sharing program

[ad_1] Elon Musk-owned social network X, formerly Twitter, said late Thursday that it is lowering requirements for its creator payout program. The company said that the creators who have garnered 5 million impressions in the last three months will be eligible for ad revenue sharing — a third of the previous 15 million impression requirement. Creators … Read more

Virgin Galactic Launches Its First Crew of Space Tourists

[ad_1] A crew of three private citizens reached suborbital heights on board Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity spacecraft, marking the company’s second commercial flight and its first carrying space tourists. Gizmodo Back to School 2023 Tech Guide The Galactic 02 mission launched on Thursday at 10:30 a.m. ET from Spaceport America in New Mexico. Virgin Galactic’s … Read more