Nearly six years ago, Mark Hamill made the most shocking and scandalous of Star Wars revelations he could possibly ever make, sending the already perpetually tumultuous fandom’s heads spinning: he had never met Natalie Portman, aka his own goddamn space mother. At long last, this … | Continue reading
In recent years, “drop tests” have become a popular way to test the durability of new iPhones and their cases. As you might expect, these “tests” typically involve dropping the item from a pre-established height—whether that’s a bridge, a helicopter, or the roof of the world’s ta … | Continue reading
It was inevitable that once Mickey Mouse entered the public domain via early Disney short Steamboat Willie, projects exploiting the icon’s newly accessible status would follow. News of horror flick Mickey’s Mouse Trap broke last week, complete with instantly viral trailer—and now … | Continue reading
Google has been the dominant search engine since the early 2000s, but Jeff Bezos is betting that AI will change the way people find information on the internet. Bezos invested millions in Perplexity AI last week, a startup that hopes to revolutionize search with AI-generated answ … | Continue reading
LG announced a new transparent TV at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. Gizmodo’s staff got to check it out in person, and it’s gorgeous. LG claims this is the world’s first wireless transparent OLED TV and is calling it the Signature OLED T (T for transparent) … | Continue reading
A silky shark with a chunk taken out of its dorsal fin regrew much of its lost appendage, according to photographs taken of the fish nearly a year apart. Research describing the elasmobranch’s recovery is published in the Journal of Marine Sciences.Read more... | Continue reading
Miles Morales has more than a few problems to work out by the end of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. First and foremost, he’s gotta figure out how to get off Earth-42, where he’s been captured by an alternate version of himself as the Prowler. Then, he’s gotta deal with the … | Continue reading
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Three weeks ago, Wizards of the Coast made the bold declaration that use of generative AI tools at any stage of the creative process for Magic: The Gathering products was forbidden. Little did it know that declaration would soon be smashing a proverbial rake in its face.Read more … | Continue reading
If you have several thousand dollars burning an Apple-shaped hole in your pocket, then get your eyes ready and shave your head for good measure because Apple’s long-time coming “spatial computer,” the Vision Pro, will finally make its way into Apple fans’ hands Feb 2. The Cuperti … | Continue reading
Elon Musk smoked weed on camera with Joe Rogan. There are numerous stories about the billionaire taking drugs including cocaine, LSD, psychedelic mushrooms at parties all over the globe. He’s discussed using ketamine with a prescription, but there are anecdotes that Musk took the … | Continue reading
Astrobotic’s 6-foot-tall shiny probe ran into early trouble on its way to the Moon, and is currently unable to point its solar panels towards the Sun for power.Read more... | Continue reading
It seems like not as many people took the chance to see The Marvels in theaters as Disney and Marvel may have liked, given how the studio quietly stopped publicly updating its box office and then very publicly decided on who it could blame for that. But now, people will get a cha … | Continue reading
Over the weekend, Apple users finally began receiving their piece of the ‘batterygate’ settlement in the form of $92 payments, as first reported by MacRumors. Apple admitted to slowing down old iPhones back in 2017 without notifying users, saying it was part of delivering “the be … | Continue reading
Emma Stone offers a vague Cruella 2 update. Get a look at Ghosts’ return. Echo prepares for a showdown with the Kingpin. Plus, what’s coming on For All Mankind, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, and more. Spoilers get!Read more... | Continue reading
“JFK was an interesting man.” At least, that’s the first thing you read if you follow the top Search result for variations of “Did JFK support the death penalty?” Google turns up 7.5 million results, but for some reason, it starts you off with a Google Doc that appears to be a mi … | Continue reading
I don’t usually opt for white tech, mostly because I have the nasty tendency to stick my expensive stuff where it’s dustiest. But HP’s new Omen Transcend 14 and 16 gaming laptop might push me over the edge. Its bright-as-hell rainbow LED keyboard does something for me against tha … | Continue reading
This week in trends, Big Tech bros could not stop talking about the woke mind virus. Many Silicon Valley leaders crowed that the ousting of Harvard’s President was the beginning of the end for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts, which they described as “immoral” and “illega … | Continue reading
‘Tis the season for New Year’s resolutions. As we all sign up for gym memberships or invest in a Peloton that will just gather dust by March, I resolve to work out your brain this year. January 1, 2024 is a Monday. So what day was January 1 last year? Because of the regularities … | Continue reading
The winter nights may be long, but they don’t have to be dull, even for folks with small apartments who don’t have room for an extra big telescope. Unistellar’s latest telescope, the Odyssey, is half the size and less than half the weight of the company’s last big release from 20 … | Continue reading
Since Everything Everywhere All at Once came out and cleaned up during awards season, Ke Huy Quan’s been gradually rebuilding his career after taking a 20-year acting break. Having already done supporting roles in Disney+’s Loki and American Born Chinese last year, Quan’s next pr … | Continue reading
Every other year or so, Todd McFarlane has promised that no, really, the new Spawn movie’s totally going to happen! And each time, it’s started to feel less and less like a sure thing, even as Hollywood’s been more than willing get adaptations for literally anything else to the b … | Continue reading
Last night saw the Creative Arts Emmy Awards show, during which The Last of Us came away the breadwinner with eight wins under its belt. Read more... | Continue reading
The path to Universal and Blumhouse’s Wolfman reboot—known here as Wolf Man—has been slow going. But on Friday, the movie added a new star to its cast in Ozark’s Julia Garner. Read more... | Continue reading
An upcoming launch will usher in a new era of commercial payloads being dropped off to deep space destinations like the Moon. As we gain greater access to space, things are going to start getting weird.Read more... | Continue reading
CES 2024 kicks off next week, and tech companies worldwide will showcase all upcoming tech products for this year and beyond. There is already a ton of coming out of news coming out of the event, and the show floor doors haven’t even opened yet. But don’t worry; we are here to ke … | Continue reading
Every year I attend CES, I often regret leaving something behind. The thing is, I’m not a heavy packer; I’ve been at this work travel game long enough that I figured out how to fit a week’s worth of clothing, amenities, and comforts in a suitcase that fits in the overhead bin. Bu … | Continue reading
Nearly five years ago, acclaimed filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola talked about his plans to finally create a movie he’s had cooking in his head since the ‘80s. He even tried to make it during the early 2000s, but 9/11 made that impossible, since he felt it would be in bad taste. Bu … | Continue reading
Firaxis and 2K’s Marvel’s Midnight Suns was one of my favorite games of 2022, but it ended up falling by the wayside in 2023. Amid a deluge of great games and an busy year, it was hard to carve time out for the tactical RPG. But as 2023 wound down and with 2024 just days into bei … | Continue reading
Dreamworks’ live-action remake of How to Train Your Train Dragon has added an old new face to its cast. Gerard Butler, who voiced the viking chief Stoick the Brave across the animated films, will reprise his role as the remake’s flesh-and-blood version.Read more... | Continue reading
NASA’s supersonic experimental plane—the linchpin of the agency’s Quesst mission—is set to roll out of its warehouse in the California desert next week. We’re gassed for the big moment: the X-59 has been in development for six years, and, if successful, it will demonstrate supers … | Continue reading
During the first season of Netflix’s Arcane, audiences were gradually introduced to a number of League of Legends characters like Jinx, Vi, Cait, and Ekko. But while those characters were the show’s primary cast, there were nudges that other members of the popular MOBA’s roster c … | Continue reading
The first week of 2024 is over, and we celebrated by looking ahead—with what to read, what to watch, and what Lego to buy, of course, as well as a celebrating just how weird 2024 is in Star Trek’s timeline. There’s all that, Doctor Who continuing to ride its current high, and wha … | Continue reading
As the Consumer Tech team prepares to head to Las Vegas for CES 2024 next week, we cannot stop thinking about LG’s adorable 4K projector while also wondering what an Xbox-inspired BLT would taste like. Oh, and we also rounded up the top product stories of the week. Read more... | Continue reading
The year 2024 is shaping up to be solid for Star Trek in our own reality—we’ve got the final season of Discovery, work is underway on Michelle Yeoh’s Section 31 film, and we’ve got the future of Strange New Worlds, Prodigy, and Lower Decks to look towards (and maybe even more?). … | Continue reading
Today marks the first of many upcoming moments of silence in Google’s years-long plan to kill cookies. As of this morning, the Chrome web browser disabled cookies for 1% of its users, about 30 million people. By the end of the year, cookies will be gone in Chrome forever—sort of. … | Continue reading
As 2024 begins, there has been plenty of speculation about what lies ahead for artificial intelligence. AI was the hottest industry in the world last year and it will likely continue to be so throughout 2024—and maybe the rest of your godforsaken life. That said, many of the conc … | Continue reading
On Monday, January 8, United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur is scheduled for its inaugural flight, a mission that will send a wide range of payloads to the Moon. Although not as advanced as SpaceX’s rockets, this expendable rocket boasts features that could make it a cornerston … | Continue reading
After around 30 years of existence, WordPad is finally saying goodbye. In the Windows 11 Build 26020 Insider Preview’s Canary Channel, Microsoft announced that WordPad will not be auto-installed after installing the new OS build and will officially be removed in the future update … | Continue reading
Well, it’s a new year, but the game in Silicon Valley remains very much the same. That game, in essence, involves doing anything and everything to convince you—the global consumer—that whatever hair-brained product Bay Area billionaires have cooked up is a must-have. Unfortunatel … | Continue reading
News of Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail developing a new version of Battlestar Galactica broke almost five years ago. In that time, there haven’t been many updates, but now, finally, there’s a huge one and we’re hoping this is the news that pushes the project into reality.Read more. … | Continue reading
io9 chats with Marvel's Echo executive producer Richie Palmer about the main character's abilities. | Continue reading
Astrobotic’s Peregrine is gearing up for a chance to land on the Moon, hoping to become the first commercial lunar lander to touchdown on the dusty surface of the celestial body and pave the way for other private ventures to follow.Read more... | Continue reading
Margot Robbie was already a massive star when she first took on the role of Harley Quinn. Now, almost 10 years later, she’s only become more famous and popular, especially after starring in and producing the biggest movie of 2023, Barbie. She certainly doesn’t need to come back t … | Continue reading
Regular exercise is linked to a lower risk of developing certain cancers, such as those of the head, neck and the lungs, according to a new study. The researchers also found that people who were diagnosed with cancer but exercised still tended to live longer than those who didn’t … | Continue reading
The city of Lexington, Kentucky, appears so tired of being overlooked by humankind that it has sent a formal invitation to the next-best thing: alien life that may or may not exist in a nearby star system.Read more... | Continue reading
James Whitbrook is the Deputy Editor of io9, with an expertise in covering Stars of the Wars and Trek varieties, as well as anime, games, and collectibles. You can follow his coverage here, and email tips to james.whitbrook@gizmodo.com.Read more... | Continue reading
Ever since Star Trek: Picard came to a final end with its third season, Patrick Stewart has been seemingly unwilling to say goodbye to a character that he’s spent the past few years saying goodbye to. And now, he might not have to: according to the good admiral himself, a Picard- … | Continue reading