Great, Now Invasive 'Murder Hornets' Are a Thing to Worry About

Hey 2020, can you chill for, like, five minutes? [Gizmodo]( May 4, 2020 [Great, Now Invasive 'Murder Hornets' Are a Thing to Worry About]( [Hey 2020, can you chill for, like, five minutes?]( [News]( [At Least Somebody Has Some Common Sense in This Administration]( [White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx described the recent string of protests against social distancing and other coronavirus-related restrictions as “devastatingly worrisome” in an interview on “Fox News Sunday”. It’s some welcome common sense and a far cry from how the president, who in a recent tweet openly...]( [Environmental Justice]( [New York City Plan to Close Streets Is Weak As Hell]( [New York City is finally rolling out its open streets initiative with a vision of eventually closing off 100 miles to vehicles to help promote health and access to the outdoors amid the coronavirus pandemic. Its first phase kicks off Monday, but few of the streets being closed are actually,...]( [News]( [UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson Reveals That Doctors Were Prepared to Announce His Death From Covid-19]( [UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday said that the doctors who treated him were prepared to announce his death as he battled covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, according to a report in the Sun. Johnson said there was a strategy to deal with a “‘death of...]( [Best Of The Week]( [Giant Sloths, Medieval Dancing, and Too Many Cords: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week]( [Congratulations on making it through another week—especially now that each week feels about 2 billion years long. 2019 might as well be a myth at this point. Oh, speaking of losing all sense of time, next Sunday is Mother’s Day just FYI. So consider this your official warning siren for...]( [News]( [White House Offers Members of Congress 5-Minute Coronavirus Tests, But Pelosi and McConnell Say ‘No, Thanks’]( [House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, came together to issue a strange bipartisan message to the Trump administration: No, thank you.]( [Extreme Weather]( [Siberian Wildfires Have Burned an Area More Than Three Times the Size of Delaware]( [It’s spring in an era of rapid climate change so that means Russia is being lit up by monster fires. But in an era of coronavirus, a confluence of factors has made the wildfires even worse.]( [coronavirus]( [Cuomo Announces 7-State Consortium for Securing Medical Supplies]( [Seven northeastern states are joining forces to fight the coronavirus outbreak and pooling their resources to purchase essential medical equipment and testing supplies, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Sunday. Prices for ventilators have skyrocketed amid widespread need for the potentially life-saving devices, which Cuomo has attributed to a bidding...]( YOU MAY ALSO LIKE [Kotaku]( [Fans Are Using Forced Perspective In Animal Crossing To Create Some Amazing Things]( [Animal Crossing: New Horizons has a large community of fans who all seem to have endless creative ideas. One new creative trick that’s become popular is using forced perspective to create impressive landscapes and scenes.]( [The A.V. Club]( [Westworld offers a shallow hope for the future]( [Every season of Westworld, the show gets worse, and every season, I fall for the nonsense in the first half like it won’t happen again. In my defense, there have only been three seasons so far; but it’s not much of a defense, really. I fell for the same line...]( [The A.V. Club]( [This season of Drag Race is missing more than Sherry Pie]( [Every new episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 12 begins with a reminder. Sherry Pie isn’t in the competition anymore. No matter how well Sherry Pie does, she’s not a contender for the crown. The note stays on the screen for 15 seconds. The producers want to make sure you...]( [Lifehacker]( [It's Time to Live on a Budget, Even if You're Financially Secure]( [There are two big unknowns in all of our lives right now: What’s going to happen with the COVID-19 pandemic, and what it will mean for the economy. If we enter a post-pandemic recession (or are already in a mid-pandemic recession), what will that mean for our jobs and...]( [Kotaku]( [Chinese Exoskeleton Is Basically Death Stranding Cosplay]( [A Chinese food delivery company has been testing an exoskeleton its couriers could wear which would allow them to carry a lot more stuff. And while they’re at it look like the world’s most expensive Death Stranding cosplayers.]( 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