Furiosa Doesn't Require You Rewatch Mad Max: Fury Road, But...

In case you missed it, we highly recommend you go check out Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga this week. We’ve seen it, we loved it, we’ve been covering the crap out of it, and if you’re as excited as we were for it, we think you’ll be happy. Read more... | Continue reading


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Trump Deletes Video He Posted on Truth Social Mentioning 'Unified Reich' If He Wins Re-Election

Former President Donald Trump shared a video on Truth Social Monday afternoon referencing “the creation of a unified Reich” among possible headlines that would read if he wins re-election in November. Trump deleted the video sometime around 8:30 a.m. ET on Tuesday after receiving … | Continue reading


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Scarlett Johansson Says She Warned OpenAI to Not Use Her Voice

OpenAI asked Scarlett Johansson to provide voice acting that would be used in the company’s new AI voice assistant, but the actress declined, according to a statement obtained by NPR on Monday. And after last week’s demo, Johansson says she was shocked to hear a voice that was id … | Continue reading


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Apple iPad Air (2024) 13-Inch Review: Not Quite the Upgrade We Were Hoping For

The new iPad Pro pretty much stole the show at the May 7 Apple event. An M4 chip and an OLED display are exciting upgrades. It’s powerful (and expensive) enough to almost seriously compete with a Macbook. The iPad Air, on the other hand, leaves a lot to be desired, especially if … | Continue reading


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Microsoft Is Offering Some Interesting Perks for Buying a PC With Copilot+

Microsoft wants to convince you that a chip tuned for AI will all be worth it. Adobe, DaVinci, and CapCut are among the first apps to offer compatibility with the dedicated NPU inside the new Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite processor running on select PCs. Windows also provides built … | Continue reading


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NASA Wants to Build a Maglev Railroad Across the Moon

NASA aims to set up a long-term human presence on the Moon, but maintaining a habitat on the surface will require some innovative infrastructure. To one day transport cargo across the dusty, cratered landscape, NASA is considering a magnetic levitation railway system. Read more.. … | Continue reading


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John Williams Wrote a Special Version of the Star Wars Theme for an Acolyte Star

Not only is Amandla Stenberg about to become one of the newest Force wielders in the Star Wars galaxy, they’re also about to blow your mind as a musician too. Read more... | Continue reading


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Following OnlyFans-Related Mishap, the Portal Is Back

Rejoice New Yorkers. The Portal is back. Read more... | Continue reading


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Microsoft’s All-New ‘Copilot+’ PCs and Surface Pro 2-in-1 Is a Full Court Press Against Apple

Microsoft smells blood in the water, and it seems to be exclusively gunning for Apple’s latest ultra-thin laptops and iPads with devices sporting all-day batteries and ARM-based processors that boast better performance with better energy efficiency. A new Surface Pro 2-in-1 promi … | Continue reading


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Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron Explores the Ghibli Master's Journey on His Latest Film

A new documentary following the six-year process of making Hayao Miyazaki’sOscar-winning animated film The Boy and the Heron was released at the Cannes Film Festival. Read more... | Continue reading


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Longlegs Continues to Look Like Summer's Freakiest Film

Longlegs looks like a supernatural Silence of the Lambs with a hint of Zodiac, and we could not be more excited. Written and directed by Osgood Perkins, it’s the story of a new FBI agent (Maika Monroe) who finds herself on the trail of a cryptic serial killer who calls themselves … | Continue reading


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Scientists Find Microplastics in Human and Dog Testicles

It seems that nobody—and no body part—is safe from microplastics. In a recent study, researchers found traces of plastic in the testicles of both dogs and humans. The potential health impacts of this discovery are not yet clear, but the team suggests it may help explain why men’s … | Continue reading


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Hims & Hers Will Sell Wegovy-Like Weight Loss Drugs for $199

The millennial-skewed telehealth platform Hims & Hers announced Monday that is now offering customers a compounded version of semaglutide, the active ingredient in popular weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Read more... | Continue reading


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New Sandman Season 2 Casting Offers Some Intriguing Plot Hints

While the names of the three actors joining The Sandman’s second season may not be immediately recognizable, the characters they’ll be bringing to the Netflix show will definitely intrigue fans: the final three members of the Endless, the cosmic family that also includes Tom Stur … | Continue reading


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Neuralink Can Implant Second Person With a Brain Chip, FDA Says

Neuralink, the Elon Musk-funded neuroscience startup, has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to implant its next patient with its experimental brain chip. This next operation will seek to fix certain issues that occurred following its first implantation … | Continue reading


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The 10 Best Horror TV Series on Netflix Right Now

Halfway to Halloween is upon us, but if it’s too early to start binging your horror movie collection—why not binge a horror TV show or two instead? Netflix is a prime destination for ghosts, inter-dimensional creeps, morose high-schoolers, sinister neighbors, and other characters … | Continue reading


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Lenovo Joins Microsoft and Qualcomm's AI Fever Dream on PC

Lenovo has announced it’s joining Microsoft and Qualcomm’s foray into AI-based computing with a new lineup of laptops specifically tuned for the Snapdragon X Elite architecture. For the same price as Lenovo’s other laptops, you get to be the first to foray into the world with an … | Continue reading


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Fluoride Exposure in the Womb Could Lead to Later Problems in Kids

New research could point to a hidden risk of fluoride in early development. The study found a link between higher fluoride exposure in pregnant women and a greater risk of their children later being diagnosed with neurobehavioral problems by age 3. The findings do not confirm a c … | Continue reading


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Deadpool & Wolverine's R Rating Means 'Anything and Everything' Is Possible

Tickets are now on sale for the summer’s most anticipated movie and its stars aren’t saying anything about it. Deadpool & Wolverine is out July 26 and, to promote the fact tickets are available, stars Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds did a new interview and released some new footag … | Continue reading


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Kids Cry as Bluey Event at Vegas Bar Turns Out to Be Another Willy Wonka Experience

This is a free country, or so I’m told. While that doesn’t mean you’re entitled to lifesaving healthcare without going bankrupt, it does mean that if you own a hot dog bar in Las Vegas, Nevada, you can host an unofficial meet-and-greet with world famous cartoon pup Bluey and piss … | Continue reading


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OpenAI Will Ditch ChatGPT's Scarlett Johansson-Like Voice: Report

OpenAI is reportedly taking away ChatGPT-4o’s Scarlett Johansson-like voice that it says is not meant to be an imitation of the actress. Read more... | Continue reading


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A Parisian Vampire Meet-Cute Transpires in This Week's Interview With The Vampire

Louis (Jacob Anderson) and Claudia’s (Delainey Hayles) arrival in Paris incites curiosity among the city’s local vampire coven, which is run by Armand (Assad Zaman). The pair try to fit in despite still running away from their past to start fresh with a new story in this week’s I … | Continue reading


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Julian Assange Granted Right to Appeal Extradition to U.S. Over First Amendment Questions

Julian Assange can file an appeal by Friday to fight his extradition to the United States, according to a new ruling from a British court on Monday. The decision, first reported by the New York Times, comes as Assange sits in a London prison over computer hacking and espionage ch … | Continue reading


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Apple Reportedly Joining Forces With OpenAI to Shove a Chatbot into iOS 18

According to the latest reports, Apple is preparing tounleash an AI avalanche on iPhones at its upcoming WWDC 2024. This will include some cloud-based as well as on-device AI models, but it will be through the lens of easily the most well-known and widest-reaching AI developers a … | Continue reading


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How The Phantom Menace Made Me Who I Am Today

Everyone’s parents tell stories of how their world was different from ours. When it came to media, my parents told me how they only had a handful of TV channels. Their parents told them they didn’t even have TV. For me, I’ll tell kids that I truly discovered not just the internet … | Continue reading


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Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth on Collaborating with Mad Max Director George Miller

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Doctor Who's New Era Just Got Its First Banger

There are a certain amount of expectations when you say the words “a Steven Moffat episode of Doctor Who.” Over his tenure as a regular writer and then as the series’ showrunner for the best part of seven years, Moffat developed a house style—to his detractors, a preponderance fo … | Continue reading


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Everything to Know About Bitcoin Pizza Day

On May 22, 2010, a man in Florida paid 10,000 Bitcoin for pizza. Read more... | Continue reading


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Liam Hemsworth’s Geralt of Rivera Finally Revealed

Jerry Bruckheimer teases a new course for the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. The Insidious franchise creeps forward with a sixth sequel. Plus, find out which live-action Spider-Man project is canceled at Amazon. The spoilers must flow! Read more... | Continue reading


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Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: The World’s Simplest Game With a Massive Twist

Although most view tic-tac-toe as a kid’s game, puzzle designers see it as a canvas. I think the game’s simplicity almost taunts people—is a 3x3 grid with only two possible symbols really going to stump you? Yet members of the puzzle community continue to devise ingenious little … | Continue reading


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Supercharge Google Chrome With These Keyboard Shortcuts

Many of us will spend a lot of hours working in a browser window when sitting in front of a computer—and for two-thirds of people, that browser will be Google Chrome. To put it another way, Google Chrome keyboard shortcuts have the potential to save a lot of users a lot of time, … | Continue reading


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Peter Pan & Pinocchio Join Winnie-the-Pooh in Becoming Slasher Baddies

Last year, a new horror franchise took flight with Pooh: Blood & Honey. With the iconic bear now in the public domain, the film turned Winnie and Piglet into a pair of grim slasher villains carving up a post-grad Christopher Robin and several university students. It went over abo … | Continue reading


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To Me, My New X-Men Comics!

The age of Krakoa is over in the X-Men comics—or rather, it will be in another month. Come July, the mutants are off the island and back on Earth fighting the old fight of being hated and feared. Over the last few weeks, Marvel’s gradually pulled back the curtain on what’s to com … | Continue reading


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Doctor Who Just Threw Everyone a Heck of a Curveball

The new season of Doctor Who is in full swing, and it’s already making some big moves early into its run. This week’s episode, “Boom,” puts the Doctor and Ruby on the planet of Kastarion 3, which is currently in the midst of a war the pair are unable to escape from after the Doct … | Continue reading


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Disneyland's Characters and Parade Performers Successfully Unionize

Unionization was in full force throughout the entertainment industry in 2023, particularly over at Disney. VFX artists across several in-house teams—including those for the MCU and the Avatar franchise—successfully unionized, a trend that’s now continuing in the corporation’s the … | Continue reading


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Machine Learning vs. Deep Learning: What's the Difference?

Artificial intelligence is everywhere these days, but the fundamentals of how this influential new technology works can be confusing. Two of the most important fields in AI development are “machine learning” and its sub-field, “deep learning.” Here’s a quick explanation of what t … | Continue reading


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This Year's Google I/O Was the Most Boring Ever. | Continue reading


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Mortal Kombat 1 Fan Creates a Kendrick Vs. Drake Battle

The dust seems to have mostly settled on the Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar rap beef (for now), but the musical back and forth between the two hip-hop titans has imprinted itself on pop culture. That imprint includes video game mods, as a Mortal Kombat 1 fan has recently recreated both … | Continue reading


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Tim Blake Nelson Teases a Practical, Real Leader in Captain America 4

While Marvel’s had no trouble incorporating unresolved material from previous movies into its recent fare, the studio took its sweet time bringing back threads from 2008's The Incredible Hulk. Abomination showed up in She-Hulk after a brief punch of a cameo in Shang-Chi, and next … | Continue reading


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Boeing Employees to Get Whistleblower Training From Their Union

Reuters reports that the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace locals that cover workers at Boeing and fuselage supplier Spirit AeroSystems will be holding trainings Friday to better equip their members on rules and regulations regarding whistleblowing. Read … | Continue reading


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Ghost of Tsushima Gave Sucker Punch the Spotlight It Always Deserved

Ask anyone who plays video games extensively, and they more than likely have at least two studios they go to bat for. We all have developers who, in our eyes, can’t really do any wrong (even though they can and sometimes do); maybe it’s because they were responsible for a life-ch … | Continue reading


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The Acolyte's New Promo Whips Up a Sick New Weapon

In more than ways than one, The Acolyte is being poisitioned as a different Star Wars show than the other live-action offerings. Not only is it winding back the clock to the High Republic era, it’s also doing something different on the action front with some Force-powered martial … | Continue reading


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Neon Picks Up Osgood Perkins & James Wan's The Monkey

It’s Cannes season, and along with advanced screenings of upcoming movies, studios are looking at what films to buy for domestic or international distribution. One of the films on the market during the festival is The Monkey, which found a US distributor in Neon. Read more... | Continue reading


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The Dead Cells Show's First Trailer is Dying to Show Its Potential

Since its Early Access release back in 2017, Motion Twin and Evil Empire’s Dead Cells has become one of the most popular roguelikes of the current gaming generation. The two studios may have recently ended development on the game, but it’ll still live on the form of the animated … | Continue reading


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If Only We Could Unsee If

Summer movie season is kicking off in full swing this week, between glitzy debuts at Cannes, and our first thoughts on incoming blockbusters like Furiosa. But it seems neither you or we could escape the absolute nightmare of John Krasinski’s bizarre new fantasy film, If. Click th … | Continue reading


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Palmer Luckey Says It's a 'Certainty' That Future AI Will Kill Innocent People

Palmer Luckey says it’s a “certainty” that artificial intelligence systems will kill innocent bystanders in wars of the future, according to a recent interview the tech mogul did with Bloomberg News. This is why Luckey stresses it’s absolutely crucial to keep human beings in the … | Continue reading


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Everything You (Probably) Didn’t Know You Could Do With Your iPad

The latest iPad Airs and iPad Pros breathed fresh life into Apple’s tablets just as they seemed to be getting stale. Love them or hate them, the new Pros and Airs are pretty damn powerful, with the M4-powered tablet being practically just as capable as the most recent baseline Ma … | Continue reading


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Raw Milk Sales Soar as Misguided Notions of Bird Flu Immunity Spread

This week, the Gizmodo science team explored the disturbing trend towards raw milk amid a bird flu outbreak among cattle, and the technological disruptions stemming from the historic geomagnetic storm that triggered stunning auroras across much of the globe. Reporter Ed Cara brok … | Continue reading


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