One of the Last Mammoths on Earth Was So Mutated, It Lost the Ability to Smell Flowers

The vast majority of woolly mammoths went extinct at the end of the last ice age, but small, isolated populations... [Gizmodo]( February 8, 2020 [One of the Last Mammoths on Earth Was So Mutated, It Lost the Ability to Smell Flowers]( [The vast majority of woolly mammoths went extinct at the end of the last ice age, but small, isolated populations managed to hold out for a little while longer. New research uncovers the extent to which at least one of these final mammoths suffered due to its many mutations.]( [Games]( [Maybe Microsoft's Xbox Chief Didn't Say the Stupidest Thing About Cloud Gaming This Week]( [In a quote in Politico’s new technology-focused publication, Protocol, Xbox Chief Phil Spencer said something seemingly earth-shattering for any gamer: It isn’t Nintendo or Sony that Microsoft views as primary competitors in the gaming space, but Amazon and Google. That sounds deeply stupid. Google’s Stadia has basically been a flop,...]( [Gadgets]( [Leaked Photos Confirm Samsung's New Foldable Phone is One Big Boy]( [As we count down the last few days before Samsung’s Unpacked event Tuesday, here’s yet another Galaxy Z Flip leak that hopefully will help hold you over in the meantime.]( [Amazon]( [Amazon Warehouse in Texas Was More Dangerous Than Working in a Prison—and It's Gotten Worse, Leaked Documents Show]( [Mandatory injury reports Amazon submitted to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration have thus far painted a broad picture of its operations as unusually dangerous, well above the warehousing industry average. New logs obtained by Gizmodo for one of the company’s oldest warehouses in Texas show a meaningful increase in...]( [r2]( [In a First, Government Exempts Safety Rules That ‘No Longer Make Sense’ for 5,000 Driverless Cars]( [Driverless cars may someday look less like haunted minivans, thanks to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s approval of the zero-occupant food delivery robot R2. It looks like if EVE had a baby with a lunchbox and glides like an electric dream at no more than 25 mph:]( [News]( [Is Billionaire Okay?]( [If you read a lot of tech news, the mind wanders every so often to billionaire SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son. Is he sitting at his desk, the blackened banana peel of a detonated booby cigar still dangling from his lips, since SoftBank’s multi-billion-dollar gamble on WeWork spectacularly blew up in...]( [Privacy and Security]( [Trump: Democrats 'Fried Their Votes on Computer']( [President Trump thinks Democrats fried their votes on computer, he told reporters on Friday.]( [News]( [Facebook's Anti-Vaxxer Problem Under Fire Following 4-Year-Old's Death From Flu]( [Facebook—a company notorious for its bizarre defense of allowing rampant misinformation to spread like wildfire on its platform—has found itself under fire again after a mother whose 4-year-old son reportedly died of the flu this week turned to an anti-vaxxer group on the site for treatment recommendations for her children,...]( YOU MAY ALSO LIKE [Lifehacker]( [Update Android to Fix a Major Bluetooth Bug]( [Anyone with an older Android device running Android 8 or 9 needs to be wary of using Bluetooth. A bug was discovered by cyber-security firm ERNW that allows anyone within range of a Bluetooth-enabled Android device to gain access to the device’s storage.]( [The Root]( [Which One of Y’all Called Heidi Klum a ‘White Woman’?]( [I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. I can tell you that I don’t have money. But what I do have is a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people...]( [Kotaku]( [Dragon Ball Z Abridged Comes To An Abrupt End]( [I’ll never forget the period of time during which a bunch of my friends got super into Dragon Ball Z Abridged, a YouTube series that cuts up episodes of Dragon Ball Z and stitches them back together with loads and loads of jokes. It was a different era of YouTube,...]( [The Root]( [CEO Loses His Cool and Then His Job After Calling an Uber Driver the N-Word]( [I imagine a lot of white people miss the good ol’ days before dashcams, internet, social media, digital activism, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, integrated lunch counters, all-white governments and the God given right of every color redacted American to call a black person “nigger” and go on about...]( [The Inventory]( [Saturday's Best Deals: L.L. Bean Boots, Car Seat Warmers, Backcountry Fleece, and More]( [An L.L. Bean Clearance Sale, an Extra 20% Off Fleece and Insulated Jackets, and a Digital Magazines Gold Box lead off Saturday’s best deals from around the web.]( 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