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Cats are always sticking their heads where they don't belong, and you'll have a chance to do it yourself in Stray. Indeed, earning the Curiosity Killed the Cat trophy requires you to find and stick your head in a paper bag, which results in you stumbling about with inverted controls momentarily until you automatically manage to shake it off. You can obtain the Curiosity Killed the Cat trophy as early as your first visit to the Slums, and that location serves as one of the easiest places to find paper bags. If…

The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened another probe into the Elon Musk-run Tesla crash that killed a motorcyclist in California earlier this month.The latest probe aims to find whether the Autopilot advanced driver assistance system in a 2021 Tesla Model Y was in use at the time of the fatal crash, TechCrunch reported late on Monday.Earlier this month, the US agency opened a probe into one such fatal crash in which a pedestrian was killed and involved a 2018 Tesla Model 3 in…

A new report finds that North American streets are getting deadlier for pedestrians. Research by Smart Growth America and the National Complete Streets Coalition reveals that, in 2020, over 6,500 people were struck and killed by cars while walking.  That averages out to 18 people a day — and a deadly 4.5% increase from 2019. To make matters worse, the burden is not shared equally among pedestrians.  Black and Native-American pedestrians are most likely to be killed by cars. Image credit: Smart…

via 20th Century Fox Star Wars fans are getting spiritual by wondering if Anakin Skywalker became a born again Jedi when he killed Palpatine at the end of Return of the Jedi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMzg2X18rm0 This discussion was initiated by Redditor SenseisSecrets, who asked, “Was Anakin a Jedi when he killed Palpatine?” They then clarified that this is a matter of opinion rather than chronology: “Not asking for a timeline problem, just your opinions.” Although the discussion is lively and…

A Tesla logo is seen in Salt Lake City. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration confirmed Friday, July 8, 2022, that it sent a Special Crash Investigations team to probe the crash of a Tesla into the back of a semitrailer at a rest area near Gainesville, Fla., earlier in the week. Credit: AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File The U.S. government's auto safety watchdog is sending investigators to another Tesla crash, this time…

TikTok is facing multiple lawsuits from parents who say their children died of strangulation attempting the “blackout challenge,” after the app showed them videos of other people trying it. One suit filed against the company in June alleges that at least seven specific children died last year while attempting the challenge, which the complaint says “encourages users to choke themselves with belts, purse strings, or anything similar until passing out.” All the children who reportedly died were under 15 years old. We’re…

Two people involved in testing for the electric car brand NIO died when one of its vehicles fell three stories from a Shanghai parking structure, the company said Friday. The crash Thursday was under investigation but appeared to be an accident and "not caused by the vehicle," the company said in a statement. It said the employees who died were "digital cabin testers," one from NIO…

Samsung Pay is soon to become Samsung Wallet. Photo: Florence Ion / GizmodoGoogle said goodbye to Google Pay a few months ago when it introduced the revamped Google Wallet, and now it appears that Samsung is doing the same for its own ecosystem. The company today announced Samsung Wallet, which will combine Samsung Pay and Samsung Pass into one all-inclusive app.Samsung Wallet will hold your virtual cards, with which you can tap to pay at NFC-enabled payment terminals. It’ll also let you present your boarding passes and…

University of Michigan paleontologist Daniel Fisher with a mounted skeleton of the Buesching mastodon, based on casts of individual bones produced in fiberglass, on public display at the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History in Ann Arbor. Credit: Eric Bronson, Michigan PhotographyMastodons are relatives of elephants belonging to the genus Mammut that inhabited North and Central America before they went extinct about 10,000 to 11,000 years ago. Typical adults stood between 8 and 10 feet (2.5-3 m) tall at the…

Former Los Angeles Dodgers player Steve Sax has issued a statement saying that his 33-year-old son who had always dreamed of being a pilot was among five U.S. Marines killed during a training flight crash earlier this week in the California desert. Capt. John J. Sax was among the aircrew of an Osprey tiltrotor aircraft that went down during training in a remote area in Imperial County, about 115 miles (185 kilometers) east of San Diego and about 50 miles (80 kilometers) from Yuma, Arizona. “It is with…