NSYNC Confirms They Were Jedi in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones

In this, our year of 2023, NSYNC has broken the internet with a reunion and confirmation that three members of the group were in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones. My ‘90s nerdy teeny bopper brain can’t process two of my core fandoms almost crossing over: boy bands and S … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 12 hours ago

V/H/S/85 Trailer Promises Grainy Nightmares of the Highest Order

While we can’t really tell what’s happening in the trailer for V/H/S/85, based on the disturbing glimpses it gives—as well as our prior knowledge of the V/H/S series—we can assume it’s a lot of just godawful things, made even more terrifying as they’re rendered in grainy, retro-v … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 13 hours ago

Facebook Now Allows Users to Link Separate Profiles

Facebook users can now create multiple personal profiles with unique feeds and relevant content for each one, Meta announced in a press release on Thursday. Historically, users had to create a completely unattached profile and log in and out to toggle between the two, but that is … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 14 hours ago

FAA Proposes Stricter Rocket Disposal Rules to Tackle Space Junk

As more rockets liftoff into the skies, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is trying to control how long those launch vehicles stay in orbit as floating space junk.Read more... | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 14 hours ago

Unofficial Teardown Shows Off the Repairability of the iPhone 15 Pro

Are you thinking of buying the new iPhone 15 Pro? Take a look inside first. An unofficial teardown of the iPhone 15 Pro by PBKreviews is currently making the rounds. The ten-minute video shows a modular disassembly of components, which vibes with Apple’s promises of easier repair … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 14 hours ago

Kagurabachi Is Big, But Not as Big as the Internet Wants You to Think

This week Shonen Jump launched one of its most anticipated new series of the season: Takeru Hokazono’s contemporary Yakuza/Fantasy swordsman series Kagurabachi. But while it’s already making big waves after just one chapter, the manga has become an altogether stranger hit online. … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 14 hours ago

Telescope Spots a Sample-Laden OSIRIS-REx Returning From Asteroid Bennu

NASA’s $800 million OSIRIS-REx mission launched to space in September 2016 with a simple, albeit ambitious, objective: travel to a distant asteroid and bring back a sample of it. The spacecraft is now nearly home, and scientists spotted the it for the first time last week as it m … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 15 hours ago

Terraforming Mars Creators Will Not Be Using AI in Their Next Project

Enoch Fryxelius, the CEO of FryxGames, took to Facebook today to defend the use of AI in the Terraforming Mars project, and announced that the company’s next board game will not be including AI. Read more... | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 15 hours ago

Snap Is Doing What Twitter Can’t

As Elon Musk threatens to charge all users with a monthly subscription to access Twitter, Snap is seeing a userbase more willing to pay to use the perks of its platform. Snap’s membership service Snapchat+ has reached a whopping 5 million users, which is officially halfway to its … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 15 hours ago

Deepest Virus Ever Detected Unearthed by Scientists in the Mariana Trench

In new research this week, scientists say they’ve unearthed a viral denizen from the depths of the Mariana Trench. The virus is believed to be the deepest of its kind ever discovered and preys on certain bacteria.Read more... | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 15 hours ago

Doom Patrol's Final Trailer Is an Off-Kilter, Butt-Filled Delight

“All good things are doomed,” warns the marketing for the final chunk of Doom Patrol episodes, but you can bet Max’s DC series about a misfit team of oddly powered superheroes isn’t going to say farewell without some high-stakes action—and at least one battle against “an ever-gro … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 16 hours ago

X/Twitter CEO Shares Video Ad That Features Tweets Dunking on Elon Musk

It seems Twitter—the company now calling itself “X” based on one billionaire’s nostalgic whim—can’t escape users’ dissatisfaction with the platform, not even in its own advertising.Read more... | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 16 hours ago

Lower Decks Is Making More Room for Its Underused Characters

Even four seasons in, it’s not a difficult argument to make that for all its aims of being a show with four primary characters, Lower Decks has been most focused, and at its strongest, on two of those characters in particular. But season four is working on a lot of the show’s wea … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 16 hours ago

Ahsoka's New Faces, Including Some Very Familiar Ones, Get Star Wars Posters

Thrawn has finally arrived on Ahsoka and into live-action Star Wars media at large, and—as has become the tradition—Disney+ is marking the character’s debut with a snazzy new poster. All the major new faces in “Far, Far Away” got them, in fact, including some guy named Ezra Bridg … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 17 hours ago

Watch Josh Hutcherson Discover Oddly Specific Time Travel in This 57 Seconds Clip

In his new movie 57 Seconds, Josh Hutcherson discovers the ability to travel through time... sort of. While undoing just under a minute of time and space might not seem like the most useful time travel, it’s still enough to blow someone’s mind wide open when they discover it, as … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 17 hours ago

Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse Spins the Wheel One More Time

Planescape has returned to Dungeons & Dragons. Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse includes three new books: the setting book Sigil and the Outlands; Turn of Fortune’s Wheel, the campaign book; and Morte’s Planar Parade, the bestiary. Read more... | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 18 hours ago

No, Travis Bickle Is Not the New Face of Uber

As Uber continues to tout driver and rider safety as a number one priority, reports that its new spokesperson will be Robert De Niro playing Travis Bickle from 1976's Taxi Driver definitely caused some head-scratching. Lucky for us, while Robert De Niro will be involved in a new … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 18 hours ago

NASA Calls on Commercial Partners to Design a Spacecraft to Deorbit the ISS

The International Space Station (ISS) has been orbiting Earth for 24 years, hosting crews of astronauts and running experiments in the microgravity environment. By 2030, however, the space station’s reign in low Earth orbit must come to an end and NASA is figuring out exactly how … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 18 hours ago

Michael Bloomberg Is Throwing $500 Million at Efforts to Shut Down All U.S. Coal Plants

Billionaire, philanthropist, and former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced this week that he will invest $500 million into his campaign to shut down coal plants and halve gas use by 2030.Read more... | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 18 hours ago

Eli Lilly Is on the Warpath, Now Suing Pharmacies and Spas for Selling Compounded Mounjaro

The arms race over the next generation of obesity drugs is continuing to heat up. This week, pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly announced it was suing several pharmacies, spas, and wellness centers in the U.S. for allegedly selling unauthorized copycats of its blockbuster drug tirz … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 18 hours ago

Fox News Founder Rupert Murdoch Is Retiring

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch announced he is stepping down as chairman of News Corp. and Fox in a memo to staff on Thursday. He will officially retire in November and will pass the torch to his son, Lachlan Murdoch, who will also remain as CEO and executive chairman of Fox Corporat … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 19 hours ago

YouTube Announces New Tools to Flood Its Platform With AI-Generated Slop

How many times have you watched a TikTok or YouTube short and thought “This is fun, but what if there were some strange pandas desperately trying to shove coffee from a morphing teacup into their nose or maw?” Great news. Read more... | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 19 hours ago

Vizio’s New Quantum Smart TVs Want to Stress Quality Color for Cheap

Vizio’s has built up television brand on trying to offer relatively strong picture display quality on a budget, and the company isn’t breaking away from that mold with its latest displays. Vizio announced its new Quantum and Quantum Pro Smart TVs on Thursday, promising relatively … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 19 hours ago

Behold, Our Galaxy Visualized in Gravitational Waves

No space-based gravitational wave observatory exists…yet. But that hasn’t stopped a team of astronomers from demonstrating how the gravitational universe might look, using simulated data to create a “synthetic gravitational sky.”Read more... | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 19 hours ago

Final Fantasy XIV Gets Physical With a New Tabletop RPG

Based on the massively successful MMORPG, Square Enix has announced the publication of the Final Fantasy XIV TTRPG. The Starter Set is available for preorder, and it includes a Player Book, Gamemaster Book, Premade Character Sheets, a Rules Summary & Strategy Guide, and 16 custom … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 19 hours ago

Microsoft’s Surface and AI Event: Everything Announced From Copilot to Surface Laptop Studio 2

Keeping the Fall new product pipeline going, Microsoft is following Apple, Amazon, and others in announcing a series of new Surface hardware products and new software/AI initiatives.Read more... | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 20 hours ago

A Guillermo del Toro Directed a Star Wars Movie Was Once In the Works

Few directors seem better suited to a galaxy far, far, away than Guillermo del Toro. The Oscar-winning director of The Shape of Water, Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy, Pacific Rim, and so many others, thrives on practical creatures, sweeping romance, and large-scale adventure. He’d be p … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 20 hours ago

Updates From The Toxic Avenger, The Marvels, and More

Ballerina director Len Wiseman teases Ana de Armas’ turn in the John Wick spinoff. The cast and crew of Saw X talk about bringing back a horror legend. Netflix teams up with Takeshi Miike for a new Onimusha anime. Plus, what’s coming on the last episodes of Fear the Walking Dead. … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 20 hours ago

MGM Resorts Operations Resume 10 Days After Cyberattack

MGM Resorts says it resumed full operations on Wednesday, a full 10 days after hackers took over its system. The cyberattack caused mayhem at several of its locations across the country, affecting hotel reservations, and credit card processing, while guests complained they lost a … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 21 hours ago

Three Amazon Execs Added to Lawsuit, FTC Say Top Brass 'Okay' With Dark Pattern Trickery

Amazon is under fire in a lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission over the company’s alleged workflow to trick customers into signing up for a Prime membership. Now, the FTC is amending that June lawsuit with additional information that three company executives were aware o … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 21 hours ago

Studio Ghibli Sold to Nippon TV

Studio Ghibli, the animation studio co-founded by famed director Hayao Miyazaki, has been sold. According to AP, the studio will become a subsidiary of Nippon Television Network Corp. This deal was reportedly discussed last year when producer Toshio Suzuki approached a Nippon TV … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 21 hours ago

Annoyingly Oversized Satellite Facilitates First 5G Call to a Regular Cellphone

As part of its efforts to create a space-based cellular broadband network, AST SpaceMobile made the first ever 5G phone call between its prototype satellite and a Samsung Galaxy S22.Read more... | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 22 hours ago

TikTok Fixes Missing ‘Filter Video Keywords' Safety Setting

In July 2022, TikTok introduced a tool called Filter Video Keywords to let users block videos with words or hashtags they did not want to see. Cormac Keenan, Head of Trust and Safety at TikTok, described it as an important safety feature to “help viewers customize their viewing p … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 day ago

Cast a Spell With These Hocus Pocus RSVLTS Disney Fits

The latest RSVLTS spooky season drop celebrates the Sanderson sisters in a big, boo-tiful way.Read more... | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 day ago

It Lives Inside's Bishal Dutta on Blending Folklore and Coming of Age Horror

A soul-eating demon haunts a pair of first generation Indian American girls in a suburban town they already don’t quite fit into in Bishal Dutta’s horror debut It Lives Inside.Read more... | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 day ago

The Latest Star Trek Short Is... Certainly Something

When Paramount launched very Short Treks a few weeks ago, it did so with a short that trod a very fine line between being crass and flexing some knowingly Trek humor. But as it’s progressed, things have only gotten a closer to the former.Read more... | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 day ago

Twitter Ranked Dead Last on Climate Misinformation Scorecard

In a new assessment of several major social media platforms, X, formerly known as Twitter, came in dead last in managing climate misinformation.Read more... | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 day ago

Mortal Kombat 1's New Universe Is Worth Fighting For

Even before it turned 30, NetherRealm’s Mortal Kombat franchise had one eye on its past. After 2011's reboot retold the original three games, Mortal Kombat 11 used time travel to have older characters interact with their younger selves, while those who died in the reboot or Morta … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 day ago

Google Sued After Maps Allegedly Directed a Man to Drive Off a Collapsed Bridge

A North Carolina man’s family filed a lawsuit against Google on Tuesday, claiming the company was grossly negligent in allowing its Maps application to direct the man to drive off a collapsed bridge where he plunged to his death. Philip Paxson, a 47-year-old father of two was dri … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 day ago

Spotted Lanternflies Innocent???

Everyone’s favorite squishable pest—the spotted lanternfly—might be less of a nuisance than we thought, new research suggests. The four-year-long study found that the insects caused little to no long-term damage to a variety of different tree species. The authors say the invasive … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 day ago

The Ancient History of Star Wars' Original Dathomirans

“Far, Far Away,” the sixth episode of Ahsoka, took the series, and us, to a whole new galaxy full of potential and new mysteries. But in doing so, it touched on a fascinating piece of old Star Wars history in the Nightsisters of Dathomir—one that ties several of Star Wars’ prior … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 day ago

Amazon Doubles Down on the Smart Home With New Echo Hub, Echo Show 8, and Eero Max 7

Despite the repeated reports of doom, gloom, and reorganization inside Amazon’s hardware division, that hasn’t stopped the company from moving forward with its vision for the “ambient home.” At its streamed live event in Virginia today, Amazon announced a bevy of new connected pr … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 day ago

Holy Mega Animation Cross-Over for WB 100 on Teen Titans Go!

When Robin leads the Teen Titans and a bunch of classic animation characters from The Looney Tunes to Cartoon Network to more DC animated faves on a tour around the Warner Bros. Studios lot, it’s just as unhinged as you’d imagine it to be.Read more... | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 day ago

OpenAI Shoehorns ChatGPT into New DALL-E 3 Because Why Not?

As Big Tech continues to jam every half-baked piece of artificial intelligence into every other over-baked piece of software, OpenAI has come full circle. The AI company behind ChatGPT is placing the wildly popular chatbot into the next version of its image generation tool.Read m … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 day ago

Amazon’s Big Bet on New Devices and AI

At Amazon’s Fall Devices Event, the pressure was on to come up with a hit product that would stun the world the way Alexa and the Echo speaker did a decade ago. The event, held at Amazon’s HQ2 in Arlington, VA was Amazon’s first in-person event since before Covid and the first ch … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 day ago

Orbiting Lunar Cameras Join Forces to Weave Beautiful Mosaic of Shadowed Moon Crater

NASA released a new mosaic of an impact crater that perpetually lies in the shadows of the lunar south pole. By combining the light sensitivity of NASA’s ShadowCam with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s ability to view shadowed regions, scientists put together a rare image of th … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 day ago

No One Will Save You's Director on Crafting Surprises, Minimal Dialogue, and Alien Invasions

We can tell you just how fun and surprising the new Hulu alien film No One Will Save You is, but leave it to the film’s writer and director, Brian Duffield, to really sell it. “By the time we get to the end of our first act, hopefully people will just have no idea where this movi … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 day ago

Disney Loves a Reboot, but the Daredevil Crew Isn't Keeping the Mask On

Did you know that if you just slightly rename a show, it’s still considered a totally new show, and the production company gets to renegotiate contracts? Usually crew members who are with IATSE get full benefits, including vacation, after a show hits its third season. Disney is p … | Continue reading


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