Astronomers Watch in Real Time as Epic Supernova Potentially Births a Black Hole

A team of astronomers recently captured a series of images of a distant star as it wentsupernova, providing a remarkable play-by-play of stellar death and possibly the birth of a black hole. Read more... | Continue reading


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10 Things AI Chatbots Can Do Besides Yap

ChatGPT has quickly become a household name, but many of us are struggling to figure out what to do with it. We all know that ChatGPT can yap quite a bit, but generative AI chatbots have some practical applications that have nothing to do with text generation. The bots continue t … | Continue reading


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Rebecca Hall on Filming Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

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A Supposedly Safer Hair-Straightening Ingredient Could Be Damaging People's Kidneys

A woman’s hair care routine seems to have given her repeated bouts of kidney damage. In a new case study this month, her doctors describe how the woman’s use of hair-straightening products containing a certain ingredient likely injured her kidneys. The ingredient, called glyoxyli … | Continue reading


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How to Restart an iPad

Just as screenshotting on an iPad works, restarting an iPad works differently on devices with and without a home button. Read more... | Continue reading


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X-Men '97 Just Sped Through One of the Greatest Stories in Comics History

Adaptation is always a challenge—but it’s a particularly daunting one in the case of comic books, where a new medium has to reckon with translating sagas told across years of issues and continuity fluxes. For the most part, X-Men ‘97's latest episode navigates this task the best … | Continue reading


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This Website Plays Every Keanu Reeves 'Whoa' in Movie History

Keanu Reeves has been in a lot of movies and in almost every single one he manages to say “whoa” at least once. Now, a website developer has helpfully created a site where you can listen to every single Reeves whoa that exists. Read more... | Continue reading


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Carrie-Anne Moss's 10 Most Memorable Genre Performances (So Far)

The first association most fans have with Carrie-Anne Moss is the black-clad badass Trinity in The Matrix—and that makes sense. The sci-fi thriller, which was released 25 years ago this weekend, brought Moss widespread acclaim, and the movie became an instant classic. With The Ac … | Continue reading


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'Wi-Fi' Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means

Have you ever thought about where the term Wi-Fi comes from? Most people would logically assume it’s a shortened version of some highly technical description for the tech that allowed computers to access the internet wirelessly. But those people would be wrong. Read more... | Continue reading


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The Walking Dead Lawsuits Are Like Zombies, They Just Don't Die

In The Walking Dead universe, three things never die: zombies, spinoffs, and lawsuits. Just as the show’s sixth spinoff enjoys newfound success, so too has a lawsuit brought against its network, AMC, which at one point almost ended, but has since returned. Read more... | Continue reading


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The Greatest App of All Time Day 27: Duolingo vs. Flashlight

Welcome back to Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! With more than 81 percent of the vote in yesterday’s tournament, YouTube is headed to the Final Four and Venmo has been eliminated. Today, we have another difficult match. Duolingo has … | Continue reading


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NASA Unveils First Astronaut Moon Kit Since Apollo

The Artemis 3 astronauts will be the first to walk on the surface of the Moon in more than 50 years, unlocking a new era of lunar exploration. NASA has chosen just the right tools for the astronauts to use, designed to test the feasibility of a long-term human presence on the Moo … | Continue reading


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Star Trek's Future Includes More Movies, More TV, and More Michelle Yeoh

Star Trek’s streaming revival finds itself at a bit of a crossroads. Discovery, the series that brought the show back to its current heights, is preparing to begin its final season next week—and Picard, arguably one of its biggest successes, came to an end last year. But things e … | Continue reading


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New Image Exposes Intense Magnetic Field of the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole

A new image of our galaxy’s central black hole reveals the magnetic field surrounding the object in polarized light. The image reveals how gas and superheated matter in the immediate vicinity of the black hole move around it. But aside from that, it’s a great way to visualize the … | Continue reading


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How to Screenshot on MacBooks

There is no better machine to screen capture with than Macs and MacBooks, period. Apple has made it incredibly easy to snap a picture of the full or part of the screen. If you’re used to Windows and the annoying Snipper Tool, MacBooks will feel like a screenshotter’s paradise by … | Continue reading


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Miles Morales Tackles Great Power and Great Anxiety In This Spider-Verse Short Film

Being a Spider-Man is not without its downsides—even beyond getting the superheroic snot beaten out of you by the occasional baddie. After a year’s waiting for it to get a public release, Sony’s new short film sees just how Miles Morales faces some of those more personal downside … | Continue reading


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These Digital Kiosks Snatch Your Phone’s Data When You Walk By

Digital kiosks from Soofa seem harmless, giving you bits of information alongside some ads. However, these kiosks popping up throughout the United States take your phone’s information and location data whenever you walk near them, and sell them to local governments and advertiser … | Continue reading


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Steven Moffat Talks Returning to Doctor Who

The Bad Guys will return next year. The First Omen goes retro in its new TV spot. Get a look at Roku’s take on The Spiderwick Chronicles. Plus, the X-Men go to hell in a look at today’s episode of X-Men ‘97, and what’s to come on Resident Alien. To me, my spoilers! Read more... | Continue reading


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Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s New Photo-Sharing App Has a Design From the Stone Age

When former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer unveiled the promotional images for her new photo-sharing app, Shine, on Tuesday, I thought I was looking at one of the Facebook posts my elderly aunt has a habit of creating. But alas, the person posting was not my aunt, it was Mayer. Read mor … | Continue reading


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The 7 Dumbest Conspiracy Theories About the Baltimore Bridge Collapse

When the Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed in the early morning hours of Tuesday, there was almost immediately chatter on social media about potential conspiracy theories. In reality, the bridge collapsed because a container ship lost power and crashed into a column, causing it t … | Continue reading


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First Look: Samsung’s 4K, 8K QLED and OLED TVs Are Some of the Best TVs for Gamers

The big TV releases for 2024 are finally coming down the pike, and if it wasn’t already clear, this year’s theme is split between AI and displaying the most film-accurate picture for your home display. Samsung’s latest QLED and OLED TVs all emphasize their AI scaling tech, but no … | Continue reading


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Facebook's Streaming Service 'Watch' Was Allegedly Killed to Sell Netflix Ads

Do you remember Facebook Watch? Me neither. Mark Zuckerberg’s short-lived streaming service never really got off the ground, but court filings unsealed in Meta’s antitrust lawsuit claim “Watch” was kneecapped starting in 2018 to protect Zuckerberg’s advertising relationship with … | Continue reading


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This ChatGPT Crypto Scam Is Flooding YouTube With Actors Who Don't Know What They're Reading

Have you seen YouTube ads recently for a “slippage bot” that uses ChatGPT and promises to help you earn passive income with crypto? It’s a scam. And it’s ripping off a lot of people, all while using unsuspecting actors hired on Fiverr who don’t understand what they’ve been hired … | Continue reading


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We Love This Deadpool and Wolverine Art, But It’s Not Deadpool & Wolverine Art

Are you excited for Deadpool & Wolverine? Us too. The highly anticipated third Deadpool movie starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman is coming this summer and could potentially blow the roof off the Marvel Cinematic Universe with its hard R-rating and multiversal connections. Re … | Continue reading


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Who the Hell Is Nelson Peltz, the Billionaire Investor Disney Is Freaking Out About?

So-called activist investor Nelson Peltz, who’s aiming to win two Disney board seats, has stirred up some controversy by calling out Disney’s recent era of “woke” strategy through diversifying its slate of films at Marvel Studios. Read more... | Continue reading


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Police to Stop Sticking Lego Heads Onto Suspect’s Faces After Lego Reportedly Said Please Stop

A police department in California that started obscuring its suspects’ faces with Lego heads will cease the practice after the toy company reportedly reached out and told it to please stop. Read more... | Continue reading


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Cargo Ship That Collided With Baltimore Bridge Was Involved in a Previous Collision

The massive cargo ship responsible for the bridge collapse in Baltimore on Tuesday, had a previous, similar incident on its record, reports USA Today. Read more... | Continue reading


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Why Pedro Pascal's The Last of Us Schedule Became a Major Story

Ninety-nine percent of the time, this sentencewould seem free of any hidden meaning: “Pedro Pascal has finished filming The Last of Us season two.” Every day actors start filming projects and then they finish filming projects. When it happens it’s rarely, if ever, significant. In … | Continue reading


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“He’s a megalomaniac”: Some VCs Are Reportedly Fed Up with OpenAI's Sam Altman

There was once a time when Sam Altman, CEO of titanic tech company OpenAI, was the apple of Silicon Valley’s eye. The days when the executive’s reputation was unimpeachable may be waning, however. A new report from Insider suggests that some in the tech and finance communities ar … | Continue reading


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New PS5 Feature Will Record How Awesome You Are in Order to Help Other Players

For anyone who got stuck in a game and had to run to YouTube to figure out how to proceed, Sony will add a new feature to the PlayStation 5 to help with that. Players will be able to see video clips from others to find out exactly what to do when they can’t get past a part. Read … | Continue reading


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This Insane Star Wars Action Figure Set Is Dedicated to the Letter 'U'

Timothy Zahn’s Heir to the Empire trilogy is, even now, still the definitive Star Wars text to many people beyond the films—one that we still see the reach and influence of to this very day, considering Disney and Lucasfilm are setting the stage to adapt its events once again. Bu … | Continue reading


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How to Silence Notifications on the iPhone

How does that joke about millennials go? We don’t use ringtones anymore because our devices stay muted. Well, that’s certainly true for me. I don’t want to be bothered ever unless I’m the one reaching out and initiating the bothering. Read more... | Continue reading


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X-Men '97 Is Now One of Disney+'s Biggest Animated Series

The X-Men have landed on Disney+ with all the force of a particularly well-crafted optic blast. Disney has revealed that X-Men ‘97's premiere on the streamer last week has smashed records for the platform—and it’s not just helping out the new show, either. Read more... | Continue reading


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Seeing Too Much Light at Night May Raise Your Stroke Risk

Too much light at night may be bad for our brains, research out this week suggests. In a population of city residents in China, researchers found a link between increased exposure to artificial outdoor light at night and a greater risk of stroke. Unsurprisingly, they also found t … | Continue reading


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10 Nun Horror Movies That Paved the Way for Scream Queen Sydney Sweeney

It’s not quite a full-on Nunsploitation revival, but between Immaculate and The First Omen, horror nuns are having a bit of a moment. Continue the religious experience with these 10 earlier films featuring nuns (supernaturally pregnant, demonic, and otherwise) and invariably cree … | Continue reading


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Apple's Most Important WWDC in Years Is Happening on June 10

Apple’s annual event, the Worldwide Developers Conference, has an official start date of June 10, the company revealed Tuesday. The show will have the traditional looks at upcoming software updates for Apple’s line of devices, but this year could see something even bigger from th … | Continue reading


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How to Screenshot on iPad

Screenshotting on an iPad could be a little confusing since there’s a different way to do it, depending on whether your model has a home button. Each method is incredibly easy, though. Here’s how to take a screenshot on an iPad regardless of what model it is. Read more... | Continue reading


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Lisan al Gaib to Rule Both Arrakis and Warner Bros.

As it was written, the Lisan al Gaib has gone from ruling Arrakis, to the galaxy, to Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California. That’s where a young, powerful ruler by the true name of Timothée Chalamet has inked a new deal with the studio that’ll allow him to star in and produ … | Continue reading


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Who Is Jeff Yass, The Trump Money Man Reshaping American Social Media?

It’s springtime in the United States, and the country’s social media landscape is budding with change. Lawmakers in the Senate are considering a bill that could ban TikTok, or force a divestment from its Chinese parent company ByteDance. Meanwhile, Donald Trump’s Truth Social is … | Continue reading


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How 3 Body Problem Pulled Off That Jaw-Dropping Panama Canal Scene

Netflix’s 3 Body Problem has been out since last week, and the streamer is starting to share spoiler-filled behind-the-scenes videos. Today’s drop goes into great detail about episode five, “Judgment Day,” a title that refers to both the giant ship at its center... and the memora … | Continue reading


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Ancient Humans Left Drawings Next to Dinosaur Footprints in Brazil

Ancient South Americans were apparently inspired by fossilized dinosaur tracks in what is now eastern Brazil, where they cut figures into the rock, imprinted tens of millions of years earlier by the movements of giants. Read more... | Continue reading


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Bird Flu Found in Cow Milk in Texas and Kansas

Bird flu has reached the cows. Health and agriculture officials announced this week that cattle in two states have tested positive for a strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), likely caught from wild birds. Though the virus seems to have sickened the cattle, it is no … | Continue reading


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The Greatest App of All Time Day 26: YouTube vs. Venmo

Welcome back to Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! Following yesterday’s contest, WhatsApp has been eliminated and Google Maps heads to the Final Four. Now, we have to decide between the world’s biggest video app and the premiere metho … | Continue reading


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How to Connect Your Apple Pencil to an iPad

We have three Apple Pencils now, and all three pair with your iPad differently. This would have been confusing enough on its own. However, to add to the confusion, in some cases, the same Pencil pairs differently with different generations of the iPad. If none of this makes sense … | Continue reading


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They Wanted Ernie Hudson to be Sexier for Star Trek?

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Meet the Newest Meme Stock: Trump Media

Donald Trump’s social media enterprise officially became a publicly traded company on Tuesday, with its stock price jumping as much as 59% to over $70 a share. We’d like to take this moment to welcome Trump Media, trading under DJT, to the world of meme stocks. Read more... | Continue reading


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Engineers Heat Up Dark Universe Telescope, Restoring Euclid's Sight

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid telescope is back in action after an experimental procedure restored its ability to see the light in the cold, dark depths of space. Read more... | Continue reading


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Godzilla x Kong's First Reactions Offer Titanic Action and Little Else

We’re on enough of a regular cadence with Legendary’s Godzilla franchise—now expanded in the recent entries to give top-billing to an extra co-star in King Kong—that we should probably expect at this point when people say the new one is full of good dumb action and not much else. … | Continue reading


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