The Duffer Brothers Were Worried ‘Stranger Things’ Fans Had ‘Demogorgon Fatigue’ Before the Finale

Turns out the opposite was true—and those flower-headed monsters being absent from the Abyss actually became a point of contention. | Continue reading


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Amazon’s Relentless Growth Brings Cybernetically Enhanced War in This Poignant Sci-Fi Story

Read 'Mother's Hip' by Corey Jae White and Maddison Stoff right here on io9. | Continue reading


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Here’s When Elon Musk Will Finally Have to Reckon With His Nonconsensual Porn Generator

It would be deeply embarrassing if the law has to go into effect before X acts. | Continue reading


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Don’t Sleep on ‘MAD,’ One of the Wildest Sci-Fi Manga Out Now

'MAD' is basically what would happen if 'Alien: Earth' was a manga and its battles were on par with 'Chainsaw Man' and 'Jujutsu Kaisen.' | Continue reading


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Disney+ Adding TikTok-Style Vertical Videos to Attract the Kids

Those movies and stuff are too wide and long to be real content. | Continue reading


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Privacy Coin Zcash Drops 20% as Core Dev Team Departs Electric Coin Company

The fears of centralizing forces in crypto are creating a lot of skittishness. | Continue reading


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The Emmys Create a New ‘Legacy Award’ to Honor Old Favorites

The nostalgia-fueled prize is designed to honor shows that have made 'a profound and lasting impact' on culture. | Continue reading


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NASA to Demolish Iconic Towers Used to Test Saturn V, Space Shuttle

One of the test stands was last used as a drop tower for microgravity testing. | Continue reading


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The US Will Stand Alone Outside the World’s Climate Treaty

On Wednesday, President Trump announced he was withdrawing the U.S. from the principal treaty for international cooperation on climate change. | Continue reading


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The New ‘Jujustu Kaisen’ Opening Is an Art History Fever Dream

Sukuna pinkies up, everyone. We're looking at all the art references sprinkled in season 3's opening sequence. | Continue reading


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Microsoft Forced Copilot Into Your Life. Now It Can Accidentally Drain Your Bank Account

The agent has your wallet. | Continue reading


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Stop Using AI to Unmask the ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good

One X user had Grok put a bikini on an image of her dead body. | Continue reading


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Some Dogs Can Learn New Words by Snooping in Our Conversations, Study Finds

Gifted word learner dogs seem capable of eavesdropping about as well as 18-month-old toddlers, the study researchers say. | Continue reading


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The Year Ahead in Superheroes

The superpowered (and those who love and/or hate them) are poised to have a blockbuster 2026. | Continue reading


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Website Plays the Lottery Every Second, Puts the Pitiless Nature of Probability on Full Display

But you will definitely get lucky. | Continue reading


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‘Freddy’s Dead’ Originally Ended With a New Freddy Krueger Emerging

Rachel Talalay, director of the sixth 'Nightmare on Elm Street' movie, filmed but cut the original ending. | Continue reading


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Antarctica’s Oldest, Largest Iceberg Is Turning an Ominous Blue Color

The iceberg could completely disintegrate within days or weeks, scientists say. | Continue reading


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2026 Movie Anniversaries: All the Biggest Genre Movies Celebrating Milestones This Year

'Frankenstein,' 'Carrie,' 'Raiders of the Lost Ark,' 'Independence Day,' and more sci-fi, fantasy, and horror movies with big anniversaries coming up. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 5 days ago

Google Just Stuffed a Bunch of New AI Into Your Gmail

Heard you like inboxes. Well, you're getting an "AI Inbox" in your inbox. | Continue reading


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Tom Cruise Helped Shoot a Lightsaber Duel for ‘Star Wars: Starfighter’

An unlikely source gives us an intriguing new detail about Shawn Levy's new 'Star Wars' movie. | Continue reading


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Ozempic Quitters Pay a Heavy Price, Research Shows

People taking an obesity drug typically regain weight, a new review finds, often even quicker than people who lose weight through lifestyle changes alone. | Continue reading


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The New ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’ Trailer Teases a Wacky Tech Apocalypse

Sam Rockwell plays a laid back timetraveler who enlists a bunch of randos to save the world from our codependency of computers. | Continue reading


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Astronomers Discover Unusual Asteroid Spinning Faster Than Anything Its Size

Way out there in the asteroid belt is an object that's spinning so fast, scientists are surprised it hasn't flown apart. | Continue reading


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NASA Postpones ISS Spacewalk Over Medical Issue, Considers Early Crew Return

Two NASA astronauts were planning to conduct a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Thursday, but now, it appears they may be coming home early. | Continue reading


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Jessica Jones’ Return Could Lead to Her Own TV Show Again

Plus, two more long-in-limbo Marvel TV shows could get back on track after 'Secret Wars'. | Continue reading


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On Friday the 13th This Year, Even Your Podcasts Can Kill You

That's the plot of 'undertone,' a new film from A24, which opens on Friday, March 13. | Continue reading


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‘Starfleet Academy’ Is a Solid Successor to the ‘Star Trek’ Legacy

'Starfleet Academy' follows on in the style of 'Discovery,' for better and occasionally worse—but builds something interesting of its own out of inheriting the legacy of 'Star Trek.' | Continue reading


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Gizmodo’s Best of CES 2026 Awards: See the Winners

Here's all the tech that most impressed us at the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. | Continue reading


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Some Robots at CES Are Actually Impressive… In a Very Slow Kind of Way

They might not move quickly, but autonomous movement matters. | Continue reading


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Apple Just Became Less Valuable Than Alphabet/Google and the Timing Is Unsettling

Apple is in a boring stretch. Google is in a risky stretch. The reaction from Wall Street is unsurprising. | Continue reading


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GameSir Stuck a Steering Wheel Inside a Controller, and It’s Actually Brilliant

It provides the feel of being behind the wheel without the massive haul of simulationist gear. | Continue reading


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CES 2026 Really Wants You to Own a Holographic Anime Girlfriend

Mark this convention down as the Year of the Waifu. | Continue reading


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Exercise Treats Depression as Well as Therapy or Meds, Review Finds

More research is needed to understand the long-term benefits of exercise on depression, however. | Continue reading


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Meet Your New Favorite ‘Game of Thrones’ Character in This ‘Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Featurette

Peter Claffey's very endearing hedge knight, Ser Duncan the Tall, is coming to HBO on January 18. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 5 days ago

OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health, Wants Access to Your Medical Records

OpenAI's biggest play into the burgeoning health AI market is here. | Continue reading


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Disney’s Live-Action ‘Tangled’ Has Found Its Leads

Relative newcomers Teagan Croft and Milo Manheim will play Rapunzel and Flynn Rider. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 5 days ago

Only 7% of Americans Want Their Next Car to Be Electric, Survey Finds

A new Deloitte survey finds price, driving range, and charging concerns are slowing EV adoption. | Continue reading


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Stunning 25-Year Timelapse Shows a Supernova Tearing Through Deep Space

Decades in the making, NASA's X-ray timelapse shows a stellar explosion expanding into space at up to 2% the speed of light. | Continue reading


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Will 2026 Be the Year That the AI Industry Stops Crowing About ‘AGI’?

Surely it's not because AGI is simply unachievable with the current technology. | Continue reading


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‘Frankenstein’ and ‘Sinners’ Get Screen Actors Guild Awards Love—’Andor,’ Not So Much

The Actor Awards (formerly known as the SAG Awards) will be presented March 1, with a ceremony streaming on Netflix. | Continue reading


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Watch Live as NASA Astronauts Conduct Spacewalk to Prep the ISS for its Demise

On Thursday, a pair of astronauts will venture outside the space station to prepare for the future installation of roll-out solar arrays that will help power its deorbit in 2030. | Continue reading


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MTV Is Officially Dead. It’s Time for Zombie MTV to Live in Your Browser

MTV Rewind is the closest thing you can get to glory days of the boob tube. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 5 days ago

The Vision of 2026 in ‘Metropolis’ Is Spot On

The 1927 silent classic got a few technology predictions wrong but was scarily on the mark about workers' rights and out-of-touch industry oligarchs. | Continue reading


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NASA Rockets Toward Artemis 2 Launch With Possible SLS Rollout Next Week

If the rollout happens on NASA’s current schedule, astronauts could be headed back to the Moon next month. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 5 days ago

NWS AI-Generated Weather Predictions Are Making Up New Towns

Expect rain in Whata Bod. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 5 days ago

Smart Glasses With ‘Pet Translation’ Smell Like Total BS

There's vaporware, and then there's this. | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 5 days ago

Poison-Laced Arrows Date Back Tens of Thousands of Years Earlier Than Expected

The use of poisoned weapons 60,000 years ago would have required big brain power. | Continue reading


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Our Latest Look at ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ Sure Is a Picture of the Mandalorian and Grogu

As we wait for a second trailer for the upcoming 'Star Wars' movie, a new photo has arrived. | Continue reading


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