Gizmodo

Good news: A legislative push to save AM radio is almost certain to succeed, which means that America's weirdest auditory wavelength will continue to survive for the foreseeable future.Read more...

Things are about to get powered up: today, Universal Orlando Resort revealed more details about theSuper Nintendo World coming to its new Epic Universe theme park, hot on the heels of revealing more about one of the other portals,How to Train Your Dragon's Isle of Berk. And yes, it's better than the one at Universal...Read more...

I've spent a day with the Rabbit R1, and to say that I was underwhelmed would be an understatement. In fact, I was surprised at how little it offers at the moment, and even from what it offers, what a poor job it does at that. According to the CEO Jesse Lyu, the R1 is the worst this technology will ever be," which...Read more...

The fossil shark Ptychodus was first identified 190 years ago, but in the intervening centuries of paleontological inquiry, a comprehensive look at the ancient fish has been hard to come by. Until now. In a paper published last week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, a team of researchers describe an...Read more...

Read more...

Mad Max franchise auteur George Miller knew even before Fury Road, that by creating an extensive outline for the 2015 hit, he might have more stories to tell. But that wasn't always the case for Miller, who co-created the concept with Byron Kennedy in Mad Max (1979), Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981), Mad Max Beyond...Read more...

The Department of Transportation announced a new final rule last week that would require airlines to automatically refund passengers whose flights are canceled or significantly delayed. There are some exceptions, but in general, it's a huge win for passengers who are tired of airlines giving them the runaround. As...Read more...

It was inevitable, really: as soon as beloved childhood characters became fair game under public domain, they'd be seized upon by horror filmmakers... and eventually, the biggest headliners would square off. The world may not be ready for Mickey vs. Winnie, but it's coming, and its creators promise gore galore.Read more...

Just in case you'd like to know: Alpaca sex is weird, biologically speaking. In a recent paper, scientists have presented evidence that male alpacas impregnate their partners by thrusting their penises all the way up inside the female's uterus-a tactic not documented with any other mammal species to date.Read more...

While fans of Futurama-who've learned to be very patient and eternally hopeful-await the show's next season, premiering July 29 on Hulu, here's a fun nugget to chew on: The Art of Futurama, an art book timed to the show's 25th anniversary, is on the way. The book's not arriving until October, but a first look did drop...Read more...

Nearly a week after launching to space, a microwave-sized cubesat phoned home for the first time as it prepares to embark on its mission of sailing through low Earth orbit.Read more...

The moment mutantkind has been dreading has come-and after the ashes of Genosha taught our heroes to expect the worst, not even the little preparation they have is going to be enough to stem the tide. But as X-Men 97 sets the stage for its grand finale, whether or not the X-Men will survive the experience isn't the...Read more...

Aircraft safety is a hot topic these days, with Federal Aviation Administration investigators looking into door seals at Boeing, aircraft slides flying off mid air and engine failures plaguing several planes in recent months. But what happens if the power in your plane actually does go out? That's an issue that nobody...Read more...

Early crypto investor Roger Ver, a.k.a. Bitcoin Jesus,' has been charged with a tax fraud, with the Department of Justice saying he evaded nearly $50 million in taxes.Read more...

New themed stays are coming to Airbnb with Icons, a new category of lodging featuring unique experiences inspired by major icons in music, film, television, art, sports, and more.

T-Mobile officially finalized the $1.35 billion deal to acquire Mint Mobile, according to a press release from the telecom company. The deal was first announced in March 2023 but had to clear regulatory approval.

Samsung teased the Galaxy Ring earlier this year when it introduced the Galaxy S24 series of smartphones. Naturally, this sparked a flurry of rumors about what's to come and what the wearable could be like. But Samsung is still making smartwatches, too. Based on the hearsay, 2024 may be the year the company pulls out...Read more...

May is always a huge month for Lego-thanks to its annual celebration of all things Star Wars on May 4. This year's even more special, with the 25th anniversary of both The Phantom Menace and Lego's Star Wars line, but while the galaxy far, far away is a big part of this month's releases, galaxies closer to home have...Read more...

The California Forever project is one step closer to becoming a reality. This week, the ambitious project's backers announced that they had received enough local support to trigger a ballot initiative. Local voters will now decide the fate of the project during the November election.Read more...

Ashley Madison promotes itself as a dating site that helps people cheat on their partners. But newly released consumer complaints filed with the FTC, obtained exclusively by Gizmodo, should probably give any potential cheaters pause. The site is lousy with extortion attempts, to put it mildly.Read more...

There's tackling a beloved franchise... and then there's tackling The Legend of Zelda. Wes Ball has done the former a few times, most recently with his foray into the world of Planet of the Apes with Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Soon though, he'll take that to a whole new level as the first director to make a...Read more...

Just when we thought we'd already seen all of what 2024's mini-LED TVs had to offer, Hisense finally gave us the chance to look at the new pinnacle of its ULED displays, the U9N. It's a TV that's desperately trying to thread that fine needle between ultra-premium and upper mid-tier, but all wrapped up with a bow...Read more...

After more than a decade of delays and failures, Boeing is finally ready to launch its first crew of NASA astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). Liftoff of the Starliner CST-100 spacecraft is scheduled for May 6-and it's going to be a true nail-biter.Read more...

May I interest you in some new streaming movies? Welcome to io9's latest edition of the Nerd's Watch, where we pare down the enormous lists of new films and television shows arriving on all your favorite streaming services into the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror titles we think you'll like most. (And sometimes, just the...Read more...

A woman's blindness in her right eye turned out to have an unexpected and frightening cause: metastatic lung cancer. Doctors in India reported the strange occurrence last month-seemingly the first of its kind ever documented.Read more...

Across three seasons, The Bad Batch laid out a vast swath of plot threads around the rise of the Empire era beyond its titular squad of renegade clones. From Rex's resistance to the rise of the stormtrooper, from the dark arts of cloning to Project Necromancer, a lot remained on the table coming into its final...Read more...

Anthropic takes the fight to OpenAI on Wednesday with a new iOS app for itspowerful Claude AI. The app will put Claude into more hands and try to take some space in the AI marketplace that ChatGPT already dominates.Read more...

The Rabbit R1 doesn't have a lot of capabilities that your phone already has. It doesn't send emails for you. It can't set calendar reminders or alarms. It can't connect to any apps outside a select four thatincludes Spotify, Uber, DoorDash, and Midjourney. All those features may be coming in the future, but if...Read more...

May has a little bit of everything for genre fans spread across its dozens of new sci-fi, fantasy, and horror book releases: space operas, doomsday cults, apocalyptic mysteries, fantastical romances, haunted mansions, dimensionally displaced vampires, badass wasteland motorcycle couriers, and more!Read more...

Tesla announced Tuesday that it will lay off everyone who works on both the new vehicle and Supercharger teams. At this point, no one has any idea what CEO Elon Musk was thinking or what's going to happen going forward. Including other automakers that recently switched to NACS. Maybe Musk is just looking to get out of...Read more...

An experimental satellite that launched in 1974 disappeared from ground-based sensors in the 1990s, only to be found again this week. Some defunct satellites or debris can often go missing for years, presenting hazards within an increasingly crowded Earth orbit. But, how exactly do objects disappear in space?

Even more Captain America: Brave New World marketing gives us a glimpse at its new super-suits. Bitsie Tulloch bids farewell to Superman & Lois. Jurassic World's Camp Cretaceous follow-up teases a wild murder mystery. Plus, what's coming on Chucky. To me, my spoilers!

Challengers, a movie where Zendaya plays a tennis star who has a threesome, came out last week and, while I haven't seen it yet, I sure do plan to. Director Luca Guadagnino's new romantic tennis thriller/drama is getting pretty good reviews, has a fun premise, and would seem to harken back to the days when fun, pulpy...Read more...

Keeping track of medications is vital in most cases, but it can be hard to do without alarms and an extra nudge to make it a habit. I've personally had difficulty staying on schedule since I started taking daily medications decades ago. But these last few years, as more smartphones began to have the ability built-in,...Read more...

Star Wars loves nothing more than understanding a villain. Part of the reason the franchise's greatest evils are also some of its most compelling characters is because it loves to dive deep into understanding why these figures are the way they are. The time has come for Morgan Elsbeth's turn-and for us and the actress...Read more...

In his vast career, Francis Ford Coppola has made masterpieces (Apocalypse Now, The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, The Conversation), cult classics (Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Outsiders), and curious whatsits (The Godfather Part III, Peggy Sue Got Married). Which will Megalopolis be? While the world waits to see ...Read more...

Cannabis is expected to officially become a less dangerous drug in the eyes of the U.S. government. The Associated Press reported Tuesday that the Drug Enforcement Administration will soon propose to reclassify cannabis. The change will likely still take some time to come into effect and would not legalize it...Read more...

Update: April 30, 4:22 p.m. ET: NASA says Hubble is back online and resuming science duties, doing so on April 29. The spacecraft is in good health and once again operating using all three of its gyros," the space agency said. All of Hubble's instruments are online, and the spacecraft has resumed taking science...Read more...

A lot of Star Trek opinion is based on the paradoxical idea that the series within the franchise simply get good" at some point. TNG's not TNG until Riker has a beard, we say, ignoring all the fantastic ideas the series got into before that. The idea of Trek shows usually having a dodgy first season has been...Read more...

A mysterious new AI chatbot called gpt2-chatbot" turned heads this week after it became available on a major large language model benchmarking site, LMSYS Org. No one knows where it came from, but many consider it to have roughly the same capabilities as OpenAI's GPT-4. This put gpt2-chatbot in a rare class of AI...Read more...

Researchers have found a blue hole they say is the deepest in the world-and they've yet to find where it bottoms out. The formation is the Taam Ja' Blue Hole in Mexico's Chetumal Bay, and it has so far been measured to 1,378 feet deep, or 420 meters below sea level.Read more...

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is just over a week away and if you are still on the fence about it, a major revelation in a new trailer might change that.Read more...

Binance founder and former CEO Changpeng CZ" Zhao was sentenced to four months in federal prison on Tuesday, first reported by the Associated Press. Zhao pleaded guilty to money laundering violations as part of Binance's agreement with the United States Department of Justice, allowing the company to settle legal...Read more...

Netflix's 3 Body Problem won over audiences with its sci-fi mysteries, complex characters, and startling visuals. If you're still haunted by that Panama Canal scene-in which a ship full of people is sliced into ribbons-or the unpredictable landscapes of the VR game world, here's a peek behind how they came together.Read more...

Would you be willing to eat pitch-black garlic cloves in exchange for no stinky breath? Researchers in Australia are studying and hoping to popularize a unique, specially aged variant of the cooking herb. The blackened variant apparently has a sweet flavor, while still having the potential health benefits associated...Read more...

Apple announced two new offerings to its Beats line of headphones and earbuds. The Beats Solo Buds are a pair of true wireless earphones that promise up to 18 hours of battery life, while the Beats Solo 4 is an upgrade for those looking to swap their current over-the-ear cans for something new. Both devices are more...Read more...

If you had to make a list of visuals Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace is best known for, Queen Amidala's costumes would be right near the top. Darth Maul is certainly striking, the cities of Theed and Otoh Gunga are stunning, and those Naboo Starfighters are awesome, but Amidala's dresses are more than just...Read more...

Jostling on the fault lines of Enceladus' frozen crust may be responsible for the plumes of icy material spewing from the moon's watery underbelly, according to a team of researchers that recently modeled the motion.Read more...

Every generation has a legend. Every journey has a first step. Every saga has a beginning." This week, that saga once again begins in movie theaters with Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, returning for not just May the Fourth Be With You, but its 25th anniversary, happening May 19. In its honor, Lucasfilm...Read more...

Dave & Buster's plans to add a feature to its app that will allow customers to place bets amongst themselves on competitive games, according to an announcement from the entertainment chain on Tuesday. It's just the latest sign that tech-based gambling is becoming normalized in the U.S. at an unprecedented rate,...Read more...