Rare, Nearly Extinct Parasite May Have Resurfaced in Vietnam, Doctors Say

Doctors in Vietnam this week say that they’ve made a mysterious and—if accurate—alarming discovery: A local resident who was infested... [Gizmodo]( June 13, 2020 [Rare, Nearly Extinct Parasite May Have Resurfaced in Vietnam, Doctors Say]( [READ MORE]( [Amazon]( [Amazon's Reportedly Fielding Probes From California, Washington State Over Trade Practices]( [Officials in California and Washington State are investigating Amazon’s business practices with a focus on whether the tech giant abuses its power over third-party sellers on its online marketplace, according to reports from the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.]( [Archaeology]( [Archery Could Date Back 48,000 Years in South Asia]( [Ancient bow-and-arrow technology dating back some 48,000 years has been discovered in a Sri Lankan cave, making it the oldest evidence of archery to be found in this part of the world.]( [Laptops & Tablets]( [The Dell XPS 15 Might Be the Best All-Around Laptop You Can Buy]( [When the new XPS 15 review arrived at my home, I thought there was a mistake. The box just didn’t seem big enough to hold a 15-inch laptop, or at least not one the size of last year’s model. And while I wasn’t quite right about getting the wrong device,...]( [News]( [HBO Will Kill HBO Go, Rename HBO Now to HBO, HBO HBO HBO]( [HBO is changing the name of at least one of its HBO-branded services because no one gets the difference between them, The Hollywood Reporter’s Natalie Jarvey reported. HBO Go is going away completely, and HBO Now will simply be known as HBO.]( [Google Assistant]( [Google Assistant Is About to Get More Useful On Every Smart Device]( [Google Assistant is incredibly useful, but depending on which devices you own, you might not have access to all of its commands and features. Google plans to change that. In an update announced today, the company pledged to make more of its Assistant’s abilities available on as many devices as...]( [News]( [Airbnb Agrees to Rat Out Its Hosts Like NYC Wants It To]( [Airbnb has finally decided to settle it long-running lawsuit with regulators in New York City. The short-stay rental platform has agreed to hand over personal data about its hosts—like their phone numbers and email addresses, along with a full list of every home they’re putting on the platform—in order to...]( [Health]( [Prepare for the Never-Ending Coronavirus Plateau]( [Earlier this week, the U.S. reached another sad milestone in the covid-19 pandemic, with the country now reporting over 2 million confirmed cases of the viral disease, along with at least 115,000 deaths.]( YOU MAY ALSO LIKE [Kotaku]( [Let's Rank The Assassin's Creed Games, Worst To Best]( [Nothing is true; everything is permitted... but you can trust this list ranking Assassin’s Creed games from worst to best.]( [The Root]( [Another Day, Another Karen: Apartment Complex Employee Suspended for Blocking Black Residents From Swimming Pool]( [You can tell a lot of Karens don’t be on the internet like that because, if they were, they’d know that black people with camera phones are cracking down on Karen behavior like never before.]( [Kotaku]( [Some Of The People During Yesterday’s PS5 Event Were CGI And You Can’t Convince Me Otherwise]( [While Sony’s PS5 reveal event yesterday was pre-recorded rather than live, it still showed plenty of faces talking about video games. Some people would tell you that all of these faces—which all had the same silky sheen and washed out glow despite recording from seperate rooms—belonged to real people standing...]( [Lifehacker]( [Disable UPnP on Your Wireless Router Already]( [Forwarding ports on your router so devices can talk to the outside world is a pain in the butt, so it makes sense why a technology like UPnP sounds so convenient. This automatic process assumes that it’s safe to expose your network to the internet when internal programs request access—which...]( [Jalopnik]( [Watch This Truck Gracefully Maneuver A 152-Ton Trailer On A Two Lane Turn Pike]( [Truckers need to handle incredibly unwieldy loads sometimes, and watching the logistics of maneuvering something huge with a delicate touch is a sight to behold. A recent video from earlier this month reminded me of how complicated our trucking can get.]( 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