Deadly Mystery Virus Spreads Outside China to New Countries

Health officials in Thailand and Japan have announced that a strange new virus, which has killed two people and sickened... [Gizmodo]( January 17, 2020 [Deadly Mystery Virus Spreads Outside China to New Countries]( [Health officials in Thailand and Japan have announced that a strange new virus, which has killed two people and sickened dozens of others in China, has appeared inside their borders this week. The virus, known as 2019-nCoV, was first identified in Wuhan, China in late December and questions remain about how it spreads, according to the World Health Organization.]( [Animals]( [Scientists Built a Robot From 40 Pigeon Feathers and It Flies Beautifully]( [Scientists seeking to understand the mechanics of bird flight have constructed PigeonBot, a robot made from 40 pigeon feathers (and a few other components).]( [Privacy and Security]( [70,000 Tinder Photos of Women Just Got Dumped on a Cyber-Crime Forum]( [More than 70,000 photos of Tinder users are being shared by members of an online cyber-crime forum, Gizmodo has learned, raising concerns about the potential for abusive use of the photos. Ominously, only women appear to have been targeted.]( [News]( [Say Goodbye to Every Bose Store in the U.S.]( [If you’ve been planning to buy or return something to a nearby Bose store, you might want to do it soon because the well-known audio equipment maker is about to close 119 stores, including every retail location in the U.S.]( [Design]( [Redesigned Thermal Paste Syringes Are Supposed To Look Less Like Drug Paraphernalia]( [We’ve all been there as a teenager. What starts as a nerdy afternoon building a fancy new gaming PC ends up with a stint in rehab after your parents assume those tiny syringes full of thermal paste mean you’re doing the drugs. Cooler Master is apparently tired of all the confusion,...]( [Microsoft]( [Microsoft's Xbox Console Streaming Preview Is Now Available Worldwide]( [Following a pretty successful trial run in the U.S. and U.K., Microsoft is now opening up its Xbox One Console Streaming Preview to the world, or at the very least, every country where Microsoft supports Xbox Live.]( [augmented reality]( [Maybe We Shouldn't Go Bananas Over Smart Contacts Just Yet]( [Imagine plopping a contact lens in your eye, and instead of just seeing better, you could see an enhanced view of your environment. That’s what Mojo Vision is saying their new prototype smart contact lens could do. Eventually. It sounds like a concept straight out of a sci-fi movie. But...]( [Climate change]( [HBO Max Is Turning The Uninhabitable Earth Into a Fictional Series]( [The climate apocalypse is coming to your television. HBO announced Wednesday that the David Wallace-Wells’ book The Uninhabitable Earth will influence a fictional anthology series that examines what our future may look like as climate change progresses.]( YOU MAY ALSO LIKE [Kotaku]( [Man "Hijacks" Airport Monitor To Play PS4 Game]( [A “young man” waiting at Portland International earlier today, perhaps bored as we all are by the drudgery of airports, figured he could just unpack his PS4 console, plug it into an airport information monitor and start playing some Apex Legends right there on the spot.]( [Jalopnik]( [These Are The Greatest Engines Of The Last Decade]( [Time is but a social construct, but as we’ve all decided the 2010s are over, I guess a roundup of the best engines of the decade is in order. We’ve got V10s (duh, because it’s me writing this list), V12s, V8s and four-bangers galore.]( [Kotaku]( [5 Hours In, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot Is Not The RPG I Was Hoping For]( [I’ve played Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot for five hours so far, and it appears to be part fighting game and part fetch-quest generator. Mostly it’s a rehash of the source material that almost anyone who will be interested in the game will have seen performed half a dozen different ways.]( [Jalopnik]( [Here's A New Rumor About The Supposed Next-Generation Nissan Z]( [Roughly 160 million years ago, dinosaurs and the Nissan 370Z roamed the Earth together, in harmony. The dinosaurs have since died out, but the 370Z persevered. But its time might soon also be drawing to a close. New rumors have emerged about its successor, which I’m still personally doubtful will...]( [The Takeout]( [I ate 35 Hot Pockets in 4 days to bring you these authoritative Hot Pocket rankings]( [There is nothing good about Hot Pockets, and I am saying this as a person who, for some reason, enjoys a Hot Pocket every now and again. Have I ever been under the impression they were good? No. I have always known what I was getting into and have always...]( You made it to the end. Thanks for reading our newsletter! [Visit Gizmodo]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [YouTube]( [Terms of Use]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Unsubscribe]( [Profile Center]( © 2020 Gizmodo Media Group 1540 Broadway, 27th Floor New York, NY 10036