The Congressional Nuclear Bunker Is for Sale Because of a Defaulted Loan

West Virginia Governor Jim Justicedefaulted on the loan. Justice bought the Greenbrier in 2009 after the hotel went bankrupt and its been a headache ever since. JPMorgan Chase lent Justice $142 million for the property in 2014. WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, WV – JULY 14: A resort employee passes by the Hotel Blast Door, which weighs 18 tons and serves as an entrance to a former government relocation facility, also known as “the bunker,” at Greenbrier Resort July 14, 2006 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia....

August 2, 2024 · 1 min · 205 words · William Benson

Trump Launches Truth+ Streaming Service for Your Least Favorite Uncle

iOS users will need to update their Truth Social app to access streaming. No updates or downloads will be required for Android or Web users. Or are they thinking teenage hosts rattling off the ways homework is a Communist plot to destroy America? Convicted felon Donald Trump walks on stage during a campaign event at the New Holland Arena in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on July 31, 2024Photo by Tom Brenner for The Washington Post via Getty Images...

August 2, 2024 · 1 min · 176 words · Joseph Sutton

U.S. Government Sues TikTok for Illegal Data Collection on Children

The tussle over TikTok continues. Thenew lawsuitis related to a previous legal settlement that the company made with the government in 2019. On Friday, the Justice Department and the FTC released joint statements regarding the new litigation. Gizmodo reached out to TikToks parent company, ByteDance, for comment. The deadline for ByteDance to divest its interest in the platform is in January of next year. For now, TikTok maintains a huge presence in American popular culture....

August 2, 2024 · 1 min · 107 words · Preston Hicks

VoltronIs Trying to Become a Movie Again

Megan Fox joins the robot revolution inSubservience. A newAlien: Romulustrailer drops even more creepy footage.Riverdales Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is bringing the Bat Boy to TV. Plus, whats coming onTime Bandits. © Netflix It will follow a fifteen year-old girl who unravels the dark secrets in her family. Casting has yet to be revealed. Riley has changed more [than anybody else.] If you just look at the two points that are established for him in the first and second movies....

August 2, 2024 · 2 min · 235 words · Todd Wright

Want a Ticket to the Super Bowl? Buy TCL’s $20,000 115-inch TV

Ive seenTCLs 115-inch TV in personand felt absolutely dwarfed by its mammoth bulk. This past Februarys Super Bowl tickets were the most expensive of all time. CBSreportedthe cheapest was $2,000, and those were sold via lottery. Yes, it’s big.Photo: Kyle Barr / Gizmodo The rest ranged from $7,000 to over $8,000, though resale went as high as $37,000. Unfortunately, youll have to pay your own way to NOLA come February 2025....

August 2, 2024 · 1 min · 134 words · Jose Nguyen

‘Blaze Star’ Set to Ignite the Night Sky Any Day Now

But whats just as cool is that the nova is expected to be exceptionally bright. Like millions of others, I spotted prominences,appearing as bright red dots, during totality. The current window opened this past February and will continue into the late summer. Artist’s depiction of the expected nova.Gif: NASA Visualization Studio We simply dont know. The system experienced its pre-eruption dip last year, alerting astronomers to the imminent explosion. This process forms an accretion disk around the white dwarfa swirling vortex of stellar material....

August 2, 2024 · 2 min · 218 words · Stephanie Wells

A Decade Later, the Guardians of the Galaxy Still Rock

Which one, if any, would break the studiossolid streak? Out of that early run,Guardians of the Galaxywas one of its biggest question marks. It wouldnt be entirely right to call the firstGuardiansmovie an underdog when it released August 1, 2014. The 2014 film remains pretty good and left a big impact on the superhero movie scene.© Marvel Studios But confidence andgood vibesgo a long way, and the Guardians endeared themselves pretty quickly....

August 1, 2024 · 1 min · 143 words · Wendy Ryan

America’s Cyber Security Agency Picks Its First Head of AI

CISA appointed Lisa Einstein as its first AI head on Thursday in an announcementit sharedwith Axios. The goal of the game was to work through AI security incidents as a team. AI and the threats it poses are on everyones mind in DC. Lisa Einstein speaking about AI at the Clousd Security Alliance in May.© YouTube screengrab President Biden got serious about the threatafter watchingMission Impossible: Dead Reckoning. Jen Easterly, the director of CISA, has publicly compared AI to nuclear weapons....

August 1, 2024 · 1 min · 162 words · Jeffery Randall

Bill and Ted’s Next Excellent Adventure Is… Broadway?

Theyve gone back in time, theyve gone to hell,and theyve saved the universe. Lloyd,who recently madeRomeo & Julietwith Tom Holland, will direct the production. Winter has, but its been decades. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are coming to Broadway.Jamie Lloyd Co. In the meantime, they discuss many things and explore the ups and downs of their relationship and friendship. Before the show opens next year, well be seeing and hearing a lot from Reeves....

August 1, 2024 · 1 min · 120 words · William Mullins

Boeing Reports Additional $125 Million Loss on Troubled Starliner

Boeing lost another $125 million on its Starliner spacecraft, according to a recent SEC filing. Thats on top of the over $1.1 billion inpreviously reported losses. The Starliner CST-100 remains docked at the International Space Station, where its been since June 6. Boeing’s Starliner cost the company another $125 million in the last quarter and the company said further losses are possible.© NASA On July 20, NASA and Boeing engineerscompleted a hot fire testof Starships thrusters and reported encouraging results....

August 1, 2024 · 1 min · 169 words · Emily Haley

Don Lemon Sues Elon Musk Over His Cancelled X Show

Back in January, Muskannouncedthat Lemon would be hosting a show on X. The suit notes the drasticdownturn in advertising revenuethat X suffered just prior to the deal. Given Musks mercurial disposition, it isnt exactly surprising that the interview went poorly. © Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images Only a day later, Lemons show was cancelled. The suit now seeks economic damages, punitive damages, and compensation for attorneys fees, among other things. Gizmodo reached out to Musk via X and will update this story if he responds....

August 1, 2024 · 1 min · 91 words · Patricia Dickson

Elon Musk’s Private School in Texas Starts Accepting Applications

Musks private school in Texas started accepting applications onWednesday, according to a tweet from the Ad Astra School. Opening in the fall, applications are open to all kids aged 3-9, according to the schools website. Musks approach to learning has been unconventional, to say the least. Elon Musk attends ‘Exploring the New Frontiers of Innovation: Mark Read in Conversation with Elon Musk’ session during the Cannes Lions International Festival Of Creativity 2024 - Day Three on June 19, 2024 in Cannes, France....

August 1, 2024 · 1 min · 143 words · Javier Holden

Get a First Peek atFuturama‘sSquid Game-Inspired Next Episode

If that episode titlesounds familiar, well… thats no coincidence. We have someSquid Gamefans in the writers room, including myself, obviously, Cohen said. [But] we like to take everything and make it one step removed. Fry re-lives a childhood birthday in the next episode of Futurama.© Hulu So were not going to say this is a memory ofSquid Gameor something. So it requires no background knowledge inSquid Game. But thats the inspiration obviously, to take some innocent childhood thing and do it to the death....

August 1, 2024 · 1 min · 140 words · Dustin Hobbs