AT&T revealed over the weekend that the data of 73 million customers, including social security numbers, had been compromised in a data breach—a hack some media outlets state was reported back in 2021. Read more... | Continue reading
The air fryer is the hottest kitchen appliance in America right now. Many of us discovered them during the pandemic, as recipes went viral on social media claiming you could fry without the oily mess. This brilliant new device seemingly popped up out of nowhere, or did it? The id … | Continue reading
You’d never peg John Mew as an influencer. He’s a 95-year-old orthodontist who lives in a castle, complete with a moat, in Sussex, England. In the medical community, he’s a pariah, a purveyor of theories so controversial that the British General Dental Council revoked his license … | Continue reading
In the very first Gizmodo Monday Puzzle, I made you a promise: I swore that the puzzles I post here will not be gimmicky, that what they seem to be asking really is what they’re asking. In 35 installments, I think I’ve upheld the promise, but in honor of April Fool’s Day it’s tim … | Continue reading
There are a lot of different parts that make up Windows, and you’d be forgiven if you haven’t explored every single menu and dialog in Microsoft’s sprawling desktop operating system. However, it’s important to know the options you’ve got at your disposal, especially when it comes … | Continue reading
In the last couple of years, it feels like more big name actors have come into the MCU rather than relative unknowns and rising stars. From Harrison Ford to Oscar Isaac and Aubrey Plaza, anyone’s up for grabs these days—unless you’re Kristen Stewart, that is. Read more... | Continue reading
When the Monsterverse versions of Godzilla and King Kong crossed over in 2021's Godzilla vs. Kong, it was inevitable that the two beasts would link up again. Surprisingly, that ended up being the immediate next movie in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (which doesn’t sound how it’ … | Continue reading
We’ve got just over a month before we finally see Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor charm it up in Doctor Who’s new season. And with May so close, BBC hasn’t just released a brand new trailer, it’s also revealed the titles for the season to come. Read more... | Continue reading
Welcome to the final round of Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! After outliving billion-dollar apps with billions of users all month long, Calculator was finally eliminated by Flashlight in yesterday’s tournament. Today’s winner will … | Continue reading
While the new DC movie universe isn’t coming until 2025 with Superman, there’s still a hope for the old films to live on, either in their own pocket universe or in the new breed of movies. Or more specifically, there’s still a hope that Wonder Woman’s story will live on. Read mor … | Continue reading
Earlier this year, The Lego Movie celebrated its 10-year anniversary. While the franchise was all over the 2010s with spinoffs for that movie’s Batman (as voiced by Will Arnett) and its actual Ninjago toyline, it hasn’t been seen since Lego Movie 2 back in 2019. Part of that can … | Continue reading
Two lawsuits filed by an activist organization allege a conspiracy between county governments in Michigan and prison phone companies. This conspiracy has involved a “quid pro quo kickback scheme” that eliminated in-person visits at prisons to boost profits for the companies, the … | Continue reading
The Hollywood Reporter revealed 27-year-old actor Chance Perdomo has died following a motorcycle accident. Read more... | Continue reading
Here we are again, gang: Glasgow Worldcon has unveiled its list of nominees for this year’s Hugo Awards. Once again, Worldcon is changing locations: this time, it’ll be Glasgow, Scotland that’ll host the annual ceremony celebrating the year’s best genre media like sci-fi and fant … | Continue reading
Universal’s been teasing a new modern take on The Wolf Man from Invisible Man and Upgrade’s Leigh Whannell for a while now. Though it seemed like we’d get to see it in theaters in a couple of months, it’s now been pushed back. Read more... | Continue reading
Ever since Monkey Man’s first trailer debuted a few months ago, all eyes have been on Dev Patel’s directorial debut. That it’s coming to theaters at all feels like a stroke of luck, given that it was first meant for Netflix. But as it turns out, its entire existence was a saga in … | Continue reading
It’s day 30 of Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time and we now know the first of our two final players. With more than 71 percent of the vote, the people have selected Google Maps! YouTube was eliminated in yesterday’s tournament. RIP You … | Continue reading
Last year’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse ended on a somewhat down note: Miles Morales was trapped on Earth-42, chained up by that universe’s version of himself, who’s operating as the new Prowler alongside his still-alive Uncle Aaron. Gwen Stacy, meanwhile, had rounded up … | Continue reading
Nearly a decade after It Follows and Under the Silver Lake, director David Robert Mitchell is back with a brand new movie—one filmed in IMAX. Read more... | Continue reading
This week saw a tragic event as the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore came crashing down after a cargo ship crashed into it. The rest of the week’s new wasn’t that better as Apple users were subject to a huge phishing scam to a Facebook plot involving Snapchat being uncovered … | Continue reading
We may be months out from the iPhone 16, but that hasn’t stopped the iPhone 15 gravy train from making a sloppy stop into the early spring “hot Amazon deal” circuit. A new deal on Amazon’s Big Spring Sale Event seems to imply you can nab an iPhone 15 or iPhone 15 Pro or Pro Max f … | Continue reading
The X-Men are so back. They never really went away—they haven’t for generations at this point—but wow, has X-Men ‘97 got the world talking about mutants in a way they haven’t since... well, the ‘90s. But enough X-talk! This week we looked at 3 Body Problem’s problems with more th … | Continue reading
Freaky Friday—the 2003 version that’s become one ofDisney’s standout early-aughts live-action teen movies—is finally getting a sequel. Read more... | Continue reading
How do you say Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire? Godzilla “ex” Kong, like “deus ex machina”—the Godzilla from the machine? Godzilla/Kong? Godzilla cross Kong? Godzilla and Kong? Does anyone ever actually even bother saying The New Empire at all? It turns out all of these questions … | Continue reading
Every month, all the big streaming services proudly share their newly arriving titles. But what about those movies you’ve been meaning to watch, but just haven’t gotten around to yet? Here are 10 horror and sci-fi movies leaving Netflix very soon; add them to your queue now or ri … | Continue reading
I’ve seen Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace more times than I’m comfortable admitting, and I’m pretty sure Anakin doesn’t run around with a yellow lightsaber in it. And yet, in Marvel’s new comic, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace 25th Anniversary Special #1 coming out May 1, … | Continue reading
Innovations in theme park attractions have come a long way. Trackless rides are the way of the future at Disney Parks, Universal Studios Resorts, and other global amusement experiences. Read more... | Continue reading
Rich communication services (RCS) is already a big deal on Android phones with more than a billion users. Those numbers might be going up by the fall, as Google claims Apple will be joining the RCS party. Read more... | Continue reading
Read more... | Continue reading
Earlier this month, a British hospital made headlines with the first surgery ever carried out with the assistance of an Apple Vision Pro, a $3,500 mixed reality headset. The nurses wearing Apple’s fancy goggles in the operating room were running software built by a company called … | Continue reading
Samsung has developed a naughty habit of serving advertising to even its most loyal users. I noticed over the past few years of reviewing devices like the Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Galaxy S24 Ultra that the company has a habit of popping in with a reminder of new stuff it has coming ou … | Continue reading
Citing a supposed spike in crime, New York State and New York City officials have launched a heavy-handed, police-state-flavored push to increase safety in the city’s subway systems. This has included the controversial deployment of National Guard and State Police units into the … | Continue reading
Microsoft is drawing up plans to build a $100 billion supercomputer, allegedly named “Stargate,” to power OpenAI’s next generation of artificial intelligence systems, according to a report from The Information Friday. Read more... | Continue reading
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, a nonprofit news organization. Read more... | Continue reading
Well, Sam Bankman-Fried is headed up the river. Once a powerful crypto power broker, SBF’s glittering Web3 kingdom came crashing down on his head after a multi-billion dollar scandal. It’s a good reminder that not only does Silicon Valley produce a lot of software products, but i … | Continue reading
As we learned earlier this week, adapting comic books can be a daunting task even for an accomplished work. Invincible has already taken more than a few creative liberties in how it has handled adapting the original comic, but its latest episode proved that it can still take a fa … | Continue reading
OpenAI announced a new AI-based audio cloning tool called Voice Engine on Friday. While the company is obviously proud of the potential of this technology—touting how it could be used to provide reading assistance for kids and give a voice to those who’ve lost theirs—OpenAI is cl … | Continue reading
As confirmed by a splashy Variety story this week digging into the future of Star Trek, fans have a lot to look forward too, including more series (Discovery’s final season starts next week), Michelle Yeoh’s Section 31 streaming movie, and a big-screen return. But one pocket of t … | Continue reading
Whatever the seventh Scream film was going to be or is now, there was always at least one likely scenario: Courteney Cox had to come back. Cox is the lone original cast member to appear in each of the latest films and, since she narrowly survived the last one, we all expected she … | Continue reading
Shelters of our ancestors, galleries for our artwork, hiding places for our treasures, portals to the underworld. Caves have meant many things for human culture through the ages, and still capture the imagination with their inextricable passageways and impossibly large caverns. R … | Continue reading
Of all the highs Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ sophomore season pulled off—intense action, Vulcan drama, familiar faces, and plenty more—perhaps one of the most delightful of all was “Subspace Rhapsody,” its earnestly cheesy all-singing, all-dancing musical showstopper. And if y … | Continue reading
Welcome back to Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! Yesterday’s contest ended in a stunning upset with Google Earth being eliminated by the ferocious Calculator app. We’ve now entered the Final Four and the remaining matchups bring some … | Continue reading
Being a top 10 podcast has always been a tough game, but some podcasters are quite literally gaming the system. Nine of America’s top 50 podcasts, including Call Her Daddy, gave mobile game users points for interacting with their content, according to a Bloomberg report Friday. R … | Continue reading
For as vital and enduring a character across almost every iteration of the X-Men there’s been, there’s perhaps few mutants that are commonly misunderstood as Scott Summers, the legendary Cyclops. This is, in part, due to mainstream perception in adapted media, but it’s also just … | Continue reading
A Texas age verification law went into effect earlier this month leading to Pornhub pulling its service from the state. This week, the porn industry wants to take this law to the U.S. Supreme Court. Read more... | Continue reading
It’s the ultimate marketing issue for a movie studio. You want people to see your new movie—so you tease something guaranteed to make them want to go. The problem is the filmmaker intended it to be a surprise. So, do you ruin the surprise in the trailers to ensure people go see t … | Continue reading
A new “social networking app” named Palmsy wants you to know that you don’t need to have thousands of followers or be a celebrity to get a lot of likes on social media. In fact, it’ll send you all the likes you want. There’s just one catch: They’re fake. Read more... | Continue reading