Brave Blows Up Its Whole Reason for Existing

As a software company in the browser space, Brave’s made a name for itself by putting user privacy first and... [Gizmodo]( June 8, 2020 [Brave Blows Up Its Whole Reason for Existing]( [READ MORE]( [Field Guide]( [How to Speed Up Your Computer]( [Watching your computer gradually slow down seems inevitable. Your local storage space eventually fills with crap (or important files), and your installed applications become bloated and wheezy. However, you don’t have to settle for this slow-motion performance decay—speeding things up can more straightforward than you think.]( [News]( [Anonymous Sleuth Finally Finds $1 Million Treasure Chest Hidden by Antiques Dealer: Report]( [At least five people have died trying to find it, but the hunt appears to be over. Forrest Fenn, an 89-year-old art and antiques dealer in New Mexico, announced that someone finally found the $1 million treasure chest he hid in the Rocky Mountains roughly a decade ago.]( [black lives matter]( [The Austin Police Department Explains Its Bizarre Thank-You Card Tweet]( [America is, you might be aware, expressing a groundswell of disgust against police brutality following the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor—a challenging scenario many local law enforcement departments have responded to with an increased escalation of said brutality. Considering the sheer number of videos circulating on social media...]( [Space]( [Repeating Cosmic Radio Burst Follows Bizarre 157-Day Cycle]( [Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, have transfixed astronomers for over a decade, but their origin remains unclear. A newly concluded survey identifies an unexpected and unusually long 157-day cycle for a known repeating FRB, in a discovery that’s redefining what we know about these mysterious intergalactic pulses.]( [Climate change]( [BP CEO Calls Plan to Lay Off 10,000 Workers the 'Right Thing']( [The coronavirus pandemic has been a wild ride for the oil industry as it struggles to grapple with cratering demand for its main product. The biggest hits have been to small firms and middle-tier oil companies, but Big Oil is feeling the impacts, too.]( [Giz Asks]( [Why Don’t Workers Get Paid in Equity Like CEOs Do?]( [Most workers have no ownership stake in the companies to which they give their labor. This is, if you ask me, not ideal. But I’m not a CEO. If I was a CEO, I’d probably feel this was just as things should be, and would be able to justify this...]( [Health]( [CDC: Americans Are Misting Their Bodies With Disinfectant Spray and Gargling Bleach to Prevent Coronavirus]( [Although President Donald Trump has said that he was only being sarcastic when he suggested people inject disinfectant into the body to cure coronavirus, there are some Americans who do not think that this idea is a joke. In fact, according to a recent survey by the Centers for Disease Control...]( YOU MAY ALSO LIKE [The A.V. Club]( [Donald Trump was shook by last night’s episode of Insecure, apparently]( [No, it’s not as bizarre as the time Ted Cruz liked a porn tweet, but the president liking a tweet about the HBO series Insecure from an account with only a few hundred followers is still a head-scratcher, even if we can agree that Issa and Molly’s blow-out was indeed...]( [The Root]( [A Thoughtful Rumination on Lawmakers' Performative Wearing of Kente Stoles to Unveil the Justice in Policing Act of 2020]( [SMH.]( [The Root]( [Ben Carson Says NFL Players Should Say They Love America; Colin Kaepernick’s Mom Claps Back With Receipts]( [The doctor of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson, is a fucking idiot. Maybe it’s not his fault. Maybe he’s playing a role to keep himself relevant. Maybe he’s lying, like the lies he’s told before. Like the time he claimed that he thwarted a robbery by pointing the robber...]( [The A.V. Club]( [Spotlighting racist police violence, John Oliver speaks with rage, listens in tears]( [“You probably know what, and you probably know why.” That’s how John Oliver introduced the subject of Sunday’s Last Week Tonight story on the heavy-handed, violent, caught-on-many-cameras police response to the still cresting wave of protests against heavy-handed, violent, caught-on-camera police murders of Black people. Oliver is a master of...]( [Jalopnik]( [Buyer At Car Auction Drives Home To Learn Their New Car Is Worth $850,000]( [A very lucky, and ultimately very responsible, individual at a Texas car auction managed to get their new vehicle all the way home before realizing its true value of around $850,000.]( 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