As if Elon Musk needed yet another reason to hate OpenAI. Figure, a startup that’s partnered with OpenAI to develop a humanoid robot, released a new video on Wednesday. And it’s truly heads above anything Tesla has demonstrated to date with the Optimus robot.Read more... | Continue reading
The U.S. passed a bipartisan bill on Wednesday to force ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, to divest from the social media platform or face a complete ban in the country. The bill passed 352 to 65 and needs to be taken up by the Senate and signed by President Joe Biden to become law … | Continue reading
Star Wars products love a theme moment—Force Friday, Triple Force Friday, whatever the Force Friday equivalent for Rogue One was called. Maybe they just love Fridays, but now Lucasfilm and its merch partners are capitalizing on a whole month to sell you things, with a specific vi … | Continue reading
Spider-Man is one of the most popular superheroes ever, and for many, he’s at his most exciting when he’s hanging around with other Spider-heroes. The success of the Spider-Verse movies and Spider-Man: No Way Home proves this more than most, but that wave has yet to really hit ga … | Continue reading
Ben Shapiro says a lot of dumb things. One dumb thing he said recently was that he disagrees with the concept of retirement and doesn’t think Americans should do it. This was definitely a “mask off” moment for Shapiro, who spends a lot of time trying to convince everyday people t … | Continue reading
The time has come for Starship to embark on its third test flight, during which the megarocket will once again be pushed to its limits and demonstrate advances made since the previous flight last November. Read more... | Continue reading
Two years ago, Neil Young pulled his music from Spotify in response to Joe Rogan’s spreading anti-vaccine misinformation on his podcast, which was prominently featured on the platform. Young is back on Spotify although he’s not too thrilled about it. Read more... | Continue reading
Star Trek has rarely been a series suited to action figures. Its heroes do occasionally phaser things, but they’re scientists and explorers, people who’s action involves sitting around tables and talking and investigating, or sitting at starship controls and getting them to phase … | Continue reading
The city of Fukuyama, Japan is on high alert after a cat fell into a vat of toxic chemicals and escaped into the night. Officials warned the animal is covered in hexavalent chromium, and residents should be careful not to touch any “cat that seems abnormal.”Read more... | Continue reading
Former President Donald Trump has been quick to take advantage of an unexpected and nefarious benefit offered to politicians in the age of AI. Instead of saying that their quotes were taken out of context when facing unfavorable media coverage, they can now simply claim that the … | Continue reading
Horror fans everywhere were majorly conflicted this week when news broke that Scream 7 was back on, with star Neve Campbell returning along with series co-creator Kevin Williamson as director. The idea of Campbell coming back after appearing in Scream VI was hugely exciting, and … | Continue reading
Silicon Valley’s richest nerds seem dead certain that AI will make our world a better place. Not everyone is so convinced, however. At SXSW this week, a sizzle reel that featured conference panelists talking effusively about the new technology was roundly booed by disgusted audie … | Continue reading
Last week, I took off work to sit on a sidewalk for three days. Why would I do such a thing? Because it was the only way to have my first choice of new artwork from Scott Campbell. Campbell, who goes by Scott C., is a frequent presence on io9, having debuted his incredible painti … | Continue reading
A newly published project called “Shifting the Focus” aims to highlight the voices of people living with a pet while experiencing homelessness. The effort not only features interviews with these individuals but includes photographs of pets taken by the participants themselves.Rea … | Continue reading
Paul Alexander, a Dallas man who’s lived in an iron lung since contracting polio at the age of six, has died at 78, according to a GoFundMe page set up by a friend. An official cause of death was not announced, but Alexander’s TikTok page noted in late February that he’d been hos … | Continue reading
Elon Musk canceled Don Lemon’s new exclusive TV show on X before it even started, according to a statement from Lemon on Wednesday. The former CNN host says Elon Musk didn’t like his interview with Lemon, so Musk canceled their partnership just hours after the conversation conclu … | Continue reading
A collision of two extraordinarily dense, collapsed stars in the distant universe is providing potential clues to the axion, a dark matter candidate first proposed half a century ago.Read more... | Continue reading
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire flexes its battle budget in its latest trailer, touting round two of Warner Bros. and Legendary’s cinematic crossover event. The monster mashopens in theaters March 29.Read more... | Continue reading
Monitor shopping can sometimes feel like committing to a go-kart race through a minefield while wearing a blindfold. For those not used to reading esoteric monitor model numbers, the decision process on any new monitor feels like scrolling through an acronym-obsessed engineer’s p … | Continue reading
Welcome back to Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! With a whopping 73 percent of the vote, Spotify triumphed over Evernote in yesterday’s head-to-head. Today we have another music app taking on the whole world.Read more... | Continue reading
Outer Range’s first season felt initially like a Yellowstone riff. But as the Prime Video series progressed, it became extremely clear that this Western—starring Josh Brolin, Lili Taylor, Imogen Poots, and an ominous giant hole—was heading in a much freakier direction. It sounds … | Continue reading
Hollywood has long prowled bookshelves for sci-fi, fantasy, and horror material, going back even earlier than The Wizard of Oz, to name one high-profile (and surprisingly current) example. It shows no sign of stopping, with Dune ruling the box office and enough in-the-works proje … | Continue reading
The House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday that would force TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell the app or face a ban from the US. It faces an uncertain path in the Senate, and TikTok has a legal case to challenge the bill if it passes. Still, after fiv … | Continue reading
The upcoming total solar eclipse promises to be a once-in-a-lifetime experience, but viewing the celestial spectacle without proper eye protection can cause irreversible damage. Here’s what experts say about the risks and how to watch safely.Read more... | Continue reading
Journalist Kara Swisher chats with Gizmodo about the tech industry. Burn Book is out now in stores and online. | Continue reading
A bill forcing the China-based ByteDance to sell TikTok, or face an outright ban, passed the United States House of Representatives on Wednesday in a vote of 352 to 62. The bill will now head to the Senate, where it is expected to face tough opposition before it can reach Preside … | Continue reading
The inaugural launch of Space One’s Kairos rocket ended in failure, with the launch vehicle exploding mere seconds after clearing the tower in Wakayama prefecture. It’s a setback for Japan’s space sector, which is striving for competitiveness in the burgeoning aerospace industry, … | Continue reading
Jared leto paces in new Tron: Ares set footage. At least one of the men behind Din Djarin isn’t sure of The Mandalorian’s future after the movie. Chucky teases its creepily aging doll in new season 3 pictures. Plus, what’s coming when Invincible returns for round two. Spoilers no … | Continue reading
The first teaser for Netflix’s Atlas is giving major Titanfall vibes... except starring Jennifer Lopez. Directed by Brad Peyton, the sci-fi action film brings us Lopez in bombastic badass mode—clad in a mech suit as she jumps right into battle against the futuristic, war-torn bac … | Continue reading
Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, managed to turn the world on its head in recent days by posting a badly Photoshopped photo of her and her kids. The picture fueled conspiracy theories about her whereabouts after a nearly two-month-long public absence—had she been replaced b … | Continue reading
We’ve all been there before. You forget to cancel a subscription and it auto-renews, charging you for something you don’t even use anymore. But what happens when you know you canceled the subscription and still get charged? That’s what some 23andMe customers allege. And many say … | Continue reading
An 80-year-old man in Montana pleaded guilty Tuesday to two felony wildlife crimes involving his plan to let paying customers hunt sheep on private ranches. But these weren’t just any old sheep. They were “massive hybrid sheep” created by illegally importing animal parts from cen … | Continue reading
When you think of the most important people in Star Trek history, in terms of actors at least you might look to the legacies of people like William Shatner or Patrick Stewart. But the real answer to that question is probably Jonathan Frakes, who has been a part of pretty much all … | Continue reading
A medical team at Cromwell Hospital in London strapped on the $3,500 Apple Vision Pro during two spinal surgeries. Doctor’s are calling the device a “game-changing” tool, beefing up Apple’s claims that the headset has a future as a medical device.Read more... | Continue reading
Netflix’s 3 Body Problem—an adaptation of the first book in Liu Cixin’s highly acclaimed sci-fi trilogy—asks a lot of big questions and puts its characters through some agonizing decisions. But at its core, the show grapples with one big dilemma: whether or not humanity is worth … | Continue reading
Cave-dwelling creatures often bear the characteristics of animals unaccustomed to light. Their skin, or scales, are blanched, and their eyes range from “of little use” to purely ornamental. But that doesn’t stop the serpentine cave salamanders of southeastern Europe from sneaking … | Continue reading
The lawyers for a Boeing whistleblower who was recently found dead say they need “more information” about what happened to him. Read more... | Continue reading
While fans of Tim Burton’s 1989 supernatural comedy classic Beetlejuice wait for the long-anticipated sequel—Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, arriving September 6—at least one of the stars is feeling awfully confident about the Ghost With the Most’s return. Of course Michael Keaton is go … | Continue reading
Andrew Tate, the social media influencer with a huge following of teenage boys, has found himself in legal trouble again, and it’s for the dumbest reason. Read more... | Continue reading
Former NASA Astronaut Cady Coleman talks to Gizmodo on the psychological aspect of space travel. Space: The Longest Goodbye is streaming now. | Continue reading
Several years back, Kickstarter tried to revive its ailing brand by pivoting to the blockchain. At the time, “web3" was still a relatively new and exciting concept, and company leaders seemed to hope that a new direction might rejuvenate its business. In December of 2021, the com … | Continue reading
Marvel is having its fair share of behind-the-scenes drama as of late, and one of its most anticipated new releases is no exception. Just over a week before X-Men ‘97, the continuation of X-Men: The Animated Series, hits Disney+, Marvel Studios has abruptly fired its creator, Bea … | Continue reading
The world got an uncomfortable reminder about the need to scrutinize air travel last January when a door plug blew off an Alaska Airlines flight 16,000 feet over Portland, OR. The culprit was a Boeing 737, and in the days that followed, it was soon clear that catastrophic failure … | Continue reading
Foldable phones have managed to create their own niche in the smartphone market. They’re some of the most expensive mobile devices you can buy, but at the very least, they’ve put on their big boy swim trunks and now, at least, can doggy paddle around with the rest of the mature s … | Continue reading
Republican politicians in Alabama expressed outrage about an employee of the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville on Monday. What did the employee do wrong? Nothing, as far as anyone can tell. They’re just angry the employee is trans.Read more... | Continue reading
Hello, Sidney! While Scream fans have had a bumpy ride as of late, with reboot star Melissa Barrera’s abrupt departure from the series, followed by newly hired Scream 7 director Christopher Landon, there’s finally some good news to sink a butcher knife into. Neve Campbell, who pa … | Continue reading
We’ll be seeing Superman again before Batman. Warner Bros. just announced that The Batman Part II, Matt Reeves’ sequel to his 2022 film The Batman, has been delayed a full year, from October 2025 to October 2026.Read more... | Continue reading
Elon Musk spoke out against the United States’ potential ban on TikTok, owned by China-based ByteDance, in a tweet on Tuesday, saying the law is all about “censorship and government control.” Musk has previously expressed discomfort with TikTok’s addictive algorithm, but this sta … | Continue reading