A UK-based nuclear fusion collaboration just produced a record amount of energy, a refreshing dose of good news in humankind’s quest for cleaner energy sources. The Joint European Torus facility, or JET, produced just over 69 megajoules of heat.Read more... | Continue reading
Stealing is bad—we all know that. However, sometimes a theft is so masterly that it transcends our moral system and becomes impressive. I would argue that this is the case with a theft that took place in Jasper, Alabama, where unknown thieves recently ransacked a local radio stat … | Continue reading
The dawn of the “AI PC” is here, and every major PC maker from Dell, HP, Lenovo, MSI, and more is throwing around laptops, claiming this is a true revolution in how we will use our computers. Should you believe the hype? No, not quite, but does AI make our standard laptop design … | Continue reading
With Dune: Part Two about to hit theaters, it’s easy to forget a time when that wasn’t a certainty. When the first film was released in 2021, it was advertised as just “Dune.” Some fans knew it was only the first half of Frank Herbert’s book, made and released with a hope and a p … | Continue reading
Southwestern Iceland has been a world transformed over the last few months, as initial tremors gave way to a full-throated volcanic eruption. The fishing village of Grindavík was evacuated in November, along with popular tourist destinations like the country’s Blue Lagoon, as res … | Continue reading
Donald Glover has become one of those artists when, if his name is attached, you expect a certain level of quality. From his music to his show Atlanta, to even his new series Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Glover never feels like he’s working for a paycheck. He’s working to be creative and … | Continue reading
After 13 years of slow orbital decay, a legacy satellite will finally be put out of its misery by plunging through Earth’s atmosphere where it will burn up into tiny fragments.Read more... | Continue reading
The Apple Vision Pro is here and, if social media is to be believed, it’s already creating a new race of goggle-fueled cyborgs. You’ve likely seen videos of people staggering around New York City like digitally transported zombies, the Vision Pro affixed to their faces like Scuba … | Continue reading
While fans wait for December’s big-screen release of Sonic the Hedgehog 3, more worldbuilding is coming in Knuckles, a spin-off streaming series set between the second and third Sonic films. Paramount+ has shared the official trailer, showcasing Knuckles (Idris Elba) as he begrud … | Continue reading
Palette will be a thriller about...colors? Some good stills from Quiet Place: Day One and a new poster for Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. It really is spoilerin’ time this time!Read more... | Continue reading
Sony just raised the price of anime and left American otakus with few other options. The company’s anime streamer, Funimation, is officially shutting down on April 2, according to a press release on Wednesday. Crunchyroll, Sony’s other anime service it acquired in 2021, sent an e … | Continue reading
The Federal Trade Commission isn’t happy with the outcome of Microsoft’s $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, telling a court on Wednesday that Microsoft’s recent layoffs contradict promises it made to get the merger approved. Read more... | Continue reading
When Marvel’s mutant-filled film Deadpool 3 hits theaters in July, we’re confident it’ll be great. However, no matter how amazing that massive film ends up being, we’re going to bet director Thomas Cailley’s new film, The Animal Kingdom, ends up being the best mutant movie of the … | Continue reading
Before the year 2000, Super Bowl commercials from tech companies offered millions of viewers their first glimpses of the future. Gizmodo watched dozens of videos from the 1980s and ‘90s to find the most iconic Super Bowl commercials from the early tech industry.Read more... | Continue reading
If you felt an earthquake just now, it might have been Google’s latest announcement. In one of the biggest updates in Google’s history, the company unleashed the full version of its next-generation AI model Gemini. Google is changing its chatbot’s name from Bard to Gemini, releas … | Continue reading
One of the world’s most famous drug classes may have another trick up its sleeve. In a new study, scientists in the UK have found that erectile dysfunction drugs like sildenafil (more widely known as Viagra) are linked to a lowered risk of Alzheimer’s disease, the most common for … | Continue reading
One of Waymo’s driverless cars collided with a cyclist in San Francisco this week because it apparently didn’t see the human until it was too late.Read more... | Continue reading
NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured new images of Jupiter’s moon Io during its latest flyby, coming within an eerily close distance of the most volcanically active world in the solar system for a second time in less than two months. The close encounter also shows what appears to be a … | Continue reading
Las Vegas has long attracted tourists for the obvious reasons, but it’s more recently also become a foodie destinationas well as an immersive experience hub. Right off the Strip, you can be transported to Derry, Maine and have your own horrifying encounter with Pennywise the danc … | Continue reading
Thanks to a render making the rounds, we may have some insight into what the next-generation Google Pixel Fold 2 will look like and what’s inside. A bulbous, protruding camera bump is one striking detail on the unreleased, as-of-yet, unannounced device. Read more... | Continue reading
Surprise sequels don’t get announced every day, but Disney just pulled one out of Sorcerer Mickey’s hat. Moana 2—the follow-up to 2016's Moana,Disney+’s most-streamed film of 2023—is coming, and it’s coming this year. How is that possible? It was announced as several years ago as … | Continue reading
It was forty years ago this week that two NASA astronauts embarked into uncharted orbital waters, becoming the first to perform a spacewalk without the benefit of a tether. These thrilling photos remind us of this extraordinary moment in spaceflight history.Read more... | Continue reading
The Oscars are quickly approaching and the anticipation to see if Ryan Gosling will perform “I’m Just Ken” from the Barbie movie continues to build. Recently Gosling politely declined an invite from Clive Davis to perform it at a Grammys gala, so the film’s music producer Mark Ro … | Continue reading
A man climbed to the top of the Las Vegas Sphere on Wednesday just days before the Super Bowl takes place in the city, according to local news outlet KTNV. The man, Maison DesChamps, was videotaped crawling up the side of the 367-foot Sphere by nervous onlookers. He posted a reel … | Continue reading
Cleary, Richard Donner’s 1978 Superman: The Movie is one of the best superhero films ever. It’s both epic and intimate, exciting and funny, and way ahead of its time in terms of special effects. Superman is one of those movies that you watch, are in awe of, and automatically assu … | Continue reading
Samsung still needs to officially announce which of its new Galaxy AI offerings in the Galaxy S24 series will make it to older devices. But a model comparison page offered by Samsung UK and a seemingly well-researched Reddit post may have confirmed at least four AI-powered featur … | Continue reading
Humanity’s most distant spacecraft is glitching out—again—and engineers are having quite a diffitcult time solving the problem. Voyager 1, what are we going to do with you?Read more... | Continue reading
Dune: Part Two is finally just a few weeks away from hitting theaters, and a new sneak peek lifts the lid on one of the sequel’s most eagerly awaited scenes: Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) riding a sandworm on Arrakis. Read more... | Continue reading
The new sports streaming service from broadcast behemoths ESPN, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Fox could cost between $45 and $50, according to sources familiar with the matter who spoke withCNBC. Read more... | Continue reading
A harrowing story of orcas trapped in an icy prison off the coast of Japan has come to a happy ending. The dozen or so whales were spotted earlier this week near the island of Hokkaido, appearing to be enclosed by ice with no available way to help them. On Wednesday, however, off … | Continue reading
After months of frustration, NASA finally got the Bennu asteroid sample container open in January, revealing the large amounts of asteroid scooped up by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Now, a top member of the mission says the distant hunk of space rock may be a planetesimal—a planet’ … | Continue reading
A few months back, I was walking around DesignerCon and something impossible caught my eye. It was a Star Wars Black Series figure, but something was off. This looked different. It looked, dare I say, too good. The face looked so much better than usual. The outfit somehow more de … | Continue reading
Hundreds of employees at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) will be affected by budget constraints looming over the space agency for the current year, with Congress still behind on issuing the final budget for 2024 and its final decision regarding Mars Sample Return (MSR).Rea … | Continue reading
Gizmodo chats with Former Astronaut Leland Melvin about politics at NASA in National Geographic's The Space Race documentary. | Continue reading
OpenAI announced it’s adding watermarks to images generated by its AI tools Tuesday, an effort to combat growing fears over the coming deepfake tsunami. Images spun up with DALL-E and other OpenAI services will include a visual watermark and other details about its origin in the … | Continue reading
Remember those patents Apple filed last year that hinted at a foldable iPhone? Apparently, CEO Tim Cook’s company hasn’t given up on trying to make a true foldable. A new report claims two foldable iPhone prototypes are in the works, suggesting Apple is trying to catch up with th … | Continue reading
Hooooooo that’s a lot of set photos from the Daredevil: Born Again! Maybe save something for the show? Henry Cavill is ready to dig deeper into Highlander lore, and Interview With the Vampire gets a return date. It’s spoilerin’ time!Read more... | Continue reading
The United States military is one of many organizations embracing AI in our modern age, but it may want to pump the brakes a bit. A new study using AI in foreign policy decision-making found how quickly the tech would call for war instead of finding peaceful resolutions. Some AI … | Continue reading
YouTube TV seems to be introducing better picture quality for all subscribers, even though the company itself isn’t making it known far and wide for some inexplicable reason, especially as it calls the new option its “highest video quality” while ignoring how you still need to pa … | Continue reading
When 2018's A Quiet Place begins, the occupation of Earth by noise-sensitive and very hostile alien creatures is already well underway; the characters we meet, including the family headed up by Emily Blunt and the film’s writer-director John Krasinski, are already living as peril … | Continue reading
In another life, the E-Wing was meant to replace the iconic X-Wing as the go-to starfighter of Star Wars’ post-Return of the Jedi fiction. But even if—in neither the original Expanded Universe it debuted in, nor rebooted canon after appearing in Ahsoka—the E-Wing never really got … | Continue reading
Would you want the pilot flying the plane you’re on to stick a gadget on their head that literally obstructs their field of vision? It sounds like a dumb question, but since the Apple Vision Pro headset came out last week, we’ve learned there is no limit to the things people will … | Continue reading
Every website on the internet is currently trying to stick an AI-powered chatbot on its homepage, a trend that extends even to 8kun—the far-right image board website that is known for being a toxic cess pool of depraved and immoral content.Read more... | Continue reading
Ready to see your favorite team’s field goal fail fromup close? This year’s Super Bowl LVIII is adding a swathe of new tech to the proceedings, but first up on the list is a set of all-new “doink” cams centered on the uprights of Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium. CBS, which is in cha … | Continue reading
A previously unknown satellite may be shaping the rings of Chariklo, a petite body that orbits the Sun between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus, according to a team of astronomers that recently simulated the rings’ dynamics.Read more... | Continue reading
TikTok is allegedly being used by Chinese migrants to cross the United States’ southern border, first reported by 60 Minutes on Sunday. In interviews at the border of the U.S. and Mexico, Chinese migrants said they were able to discover weak points in America’s border wall throug … | Continue reading
NASA’s iconic Martian duo have officially parted ways, with the Perseverance rover capturing a lonely view of its helicopter friend, which recently suffered a fatal blow that left it unable to fly.Read more... | Continue reading
Teen romance isn’t dead anymore in Zelda Williams’ Lisa Frankenstein, the first-time feature filmmaker’s dark horror comedy. Written by Diablo Cody, it stars Kathryn Newton (Freaky) as a high schooler who spends her time hanging with the dead in a local cemetery. When lightning s … | Continue reading