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Airbnb is banning all indoor security cameras at properties worldwide, according to an announcement published online Monday. The change comes after years of horror stories circulating online about secret hidden security cameras, which have long been banned on the platform, though still pop up frequently around the...Read more...

James Cameron fans have been eagerly anticipating this week, when collector's editions of The Abyss, True Lies, and Aliens hit 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray for the first time, joining recently released special collector's editions of Cameron's mega-blockbusters Titanic, Avatar, and Avatar: The Way of Water. io9 has an...Read more...

The specter of naked Sydney Sweeney, a rom-com actress whose boobs recently joined the culture war, is getting the horniest (and dumbest) members of X-the website formerly known as Twitter-to click malicious links.

Donald Trump called into CNBC's Squawk Box on Monday where he talked about crypto, tried to defend his complete 180 on a TikTok ban, and promoted his new sneakers. The former president also railed against Facebook, calling it the enemy of the people." But there's one thing Trump didn't mention about Facebook: He's...Read more...

Netflix's 3 Body Problem-an adaptation ofChinese author Liu Cixin's acclaimed sci-fi novel from David Benioff and D.B. Weiss (Game of Thrones) and Alexander Woo (The Terror: Infamy)-delves into enormous questions. But though its central conflict is planet-sized, it manages to feel like an intimate story, with charact...Read more...

Welcome back to Gizmodo's March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! Yesterday's lineup was another nail-biter but with more than 53 percent of the vote, Duolingo threw Skype out on its culo. Today, the mighty flashlight takes on the only dating app in our lineup.Read more...

AirPods Pro is great for drowning out the people around you, but the earbuds can also work similarly to a hearing aid. In the upcoming iOS 18 release, the AirPods Pro might go all-in with helping those who are hard of hearing. A hearing aid mode will reportedly come to the AirPods Pro with the release of iOS 18 later...Read more...

Finally, an extension of a beloved horror movie franchise that feels like it's bringing something new to the table. While The First Omen looks to have some familiar tropes-imperiled nuns, supernatural pregnancies, that all-important mark of the beast-it also looks legitimately terrifying. Maybe the The Omen didn't need...Read more...

California startup Stratolaunch completed the first powered flight of its Talon-A hypersonic vehicle as it works to develop a reusable version that's capable of carrying science payloads and flying them at five times the speed of sound.Read more...

Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard whose employees famously started publicly shit-talking as soon as he was out the door, is reportedly looking for a new company to rule. Word on the street is that the company is TikTok.Read more...

Get jet-set and travel with Loungefly's latest accessory line Collectiv. Featuring Star Wars and Marvel's Loki, this new assortment of backpacks and luggage highlights fandom with a subtle edge, featuring emblems on brand with the spirit of the God of Stories or a galaxy far, far, away.

The Oscars award ceremony is a night for the stars of Hollywood to gather together and celebrate cinema, while also looking incredibly glamorous is lavishly expensive and immaculately presented couture. And yet no one at last nights awards-no one-could beat the hottest look of the night: a soft vinyl monster toy spray...Read more...

Elon Musk said his startup xAI will open-source Grok later this week, revealing the inner workings of the chatbot to anyone who wants to dissect the AI or build a competing product. The announcement - which came just before 3 am Monday morning in Texas, where Musk makes his home - is short on details, but it's...Read more...

Being a Reddit user has always had its perks, but now the most loyal Redditors will get VIP passes to own part of the company. Reddit disclosed plans to launch its long-awaited IPO at up to a $6.4 billion valuation, according to a Monday filing with the SEC, and the company is reserving 8% of its shares for longtime...Read more...

Gady Hendrix's Ankle Snatcher is becoming a film at Sony. Millie Bobby Brown gives a Stranger Things filming update. Plus, what's coming on Ghosts and Ninja Kamui. To me, my spoilers!

There was a time when you could hop onto Netflix and feel like you had pretty much any movie or show at your fingertips. Those years are long gone. Now, consumers have a growing number of streaming providers clamoring for attention, splitting up the media catalog against dozens of services and making finding the best...Read more...

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Do you want to be chained to an outlet for the rest of your life? Of course not. That's why you got a laptop in the first place. Somewhere down the line, many of us got the idea that our laptops should always be plugged in to improve their performance. This is a myth that's slowly killing your laptop. Once your laptop...Read more...

Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, wants everyone to chill out about the photo of her and her kids, which has caused an international firestorm after being pulled by some of the world's biggest photo agencies for being manipulated." According to Middleton, that is correct. In fact, she Photoshopped it herself.Read more...

This Thursday is Pi Day, the one day of the year devoted to a mathematical constant (it also happens to be Einstein's birthday). We all learned as kids about how special pi is and have since accepted its cultural status as a geeky totem and a number worth celebrating. But perhaps we should revisit pi through the jaded...Read more...

After enduring the pandemic and a pair of industry-stopping strikes, Hollywood seemed extra jazzed about celebrating itself at this year's Oscars. While there weren't a ton of genre movies on the ballot-truly, last year's Everything Everywhere All at Once sweep still feels rather validating-a few did find their way to...Read more...

Godzilla is a titan of moviemaking, but now he's toppled his loftiest goal yet: award season. Just announced at the 2024 Academy Awards, Godzilla Minus One-io9's favorite movie of 2023-has won the Oscar for best VFX.Read more...

Mad Max: Fury Road was a revelation when it released in 2015, and a lot of that can be owed to Charlize Theron's Furiosa. Even with Max Rocktansky getting top billing, it's more her movie than his, and we'ree now primed to get an origin story with the upcoming Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.

The world was shocked to learn on Thursday night to learn that Akira Toriyama, creator of the eternally longlasting Dragon Ball franchise, had passed away at the age of 68.Read more...

Get ready for some good ol' 2000s nostalgia during the spring and summer movie season. From April to June, Dreamworks' Shrek 2 and Sony's live-action Spider-Man movies are set to return to theaters.

It's Day 10 of Gizmodo's March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! SwiftKey pulled off a surprise upset yesterday, eliminating Telegram and advancing to the next round. Today, we have two apps that don't get a lot of attention but have changed the game in their own ways.Read more...

A full year after Halloween Ends had come out and brought the reboot trilogy to a close, Miramax snagged the TV rights for the iconic slasher franchise. You wouldn't think this series would ever leave the TV space, but that's apparently what it's doing, and it'll have its own space where Michael Myers can do his...Read more...

In what's surely a shock, Nintendo's confirmed a second Super Mario Bros. movie is in the works.Read more...

This past January, HBO canceled Our Flag Means Death after the show's second season premiered (and wrapped) in October. As with most cancled shows, a fan campaign emerged to try and get HBO to renew the show, while creator David Jenkins said he'd try his best to shop the show around somewhere else that'd be open to a...Read more...

If you've been thinking to yourself, I need some new Legos to put on my shelf," the company's got you covered. Along with its newly revealed set for Batman: The Animated Series, a new array of sets for its Super Mario line are in the works.

Welcome back to Gizmodo's March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! Yesterday's lineup was an extremely close race and Read It Later fans put up an admirable fight but with 52 percent of the vote, Twitter goes to the next round. Today, we have a contest between apps for people who like to...Read more...

Adult Swim's My Adventures with Superman was a pleasant surprise when dropped in last year, and one of DC's best animated outings in some time. Audiences really seemed to get on board with the romcom antics of Superman and Lois Lane, and DC's taking advantage of that momentum by giving it its own comic miniseries.

Pondering the scale of the cosmos can feel as if you're peering over the edge of the brink; it can be daunting enough to make you want to flee to the comforts of working, commuting, and other quotidian endeavors. But in Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges From the Cosmic Ocean, theoretical physicist...Read more...

Almost a decade ago, Ubisot tried to make a new for itself as a movie company by bringing its Assassin's Creed franchise to the big screen. That didn't go particularly well, and though we got the fairly solid Werewolves Within a few years later, the French publisher has (sort of) pivoted to TV. But Ubisoft's hoping to...Read more...

In our top science stories this week, data from NASA's Juno spacecraft helped scientists calculate how much oxygen is being produced on the intriguing Jovian moon Europa (enough for a million humans to breathe a day, according to the study). Back on Earth, a German man got 217 covid-19 shots and is apparently doing...Read more...

Things weren't what they appear to be this week. Screen protectors don't protect much, Google wants reward you for figuring out what the heck quantum computing is for, and a tech billionaire is giving away money after getting some heat for buying land in Hawaii. For those watching the Oscars, make sure to check out a...Read more...

Jupiter's icy moon Europa produces plenty of oxygen every day, according to new findings based on data from NASA's Juno spacecraft. The moon has long been of interest to astrobiologists because of the possibility that life could exist in its subsurface ocean. - Isaac Schultz Read MoreRead more...

It's been a week of highs and lows in the world of genre entertainment-as we took a look at the aftermath of Dune: Part Two's monumental release last weekend, and Lego teased a gorgeous new Batman: The Animated Series tribute. But little compared to the shock that came Thursday evening that one of the most influential...Read more...

This week, we got our hands on the new 13- and 15-inch Macbook Air, which takes advantage of Apple's fancy M3 silicon. If you're looking for a new budget Android phone, the Nothing Phone (2a) might be right up your alley. Finally, we will ask Gizmodo readers what they want in the next iPhone.Read more...

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UFOs are back in the news this week with the release of a long-awaited Pentagon report that was designed to address public interest in the topic.Read more...

Some of our posts include links to retailers. If you buy something from clicking on one, G/O Media may earn a commission. Because editorial staff is independent of commerce, affiliate linking does not influence our editorial content.Sam Altman will return to OpenAI's Board of Directors, the exclusive group with ultimate control over the ChatGPT developer, first reported by The Information on Friday. The decision comes just over four months after the board mysteriously fired Altman, causing more than 700 OpenAI employees to revolt and threaten to...Read more...

Cinema's annual awards race comes to a close this weekend during the Academy Awards, and there's no other story like Nimona's journey to becoming a nominee in the Best Animated Feature category.Read more...

The New York Times is on the hunt for copies of Wordle, the word-guessing game it acquired for seven figures in 2022. And it's using takedown notices to kill 1,900 versions of the game housed on GitHub.Read more...

Some apples are sweet, some not so much. Apple reversed its ban on Epic Games' developer account on Friday afternoon, according to an updated blog post, clearing a path again for an Epic Games Store on iOS devices in Europe. The decision comes just two days after Apple terminated Epic's account over some tweets from...Read more...

The Cybertruck was such a misfire for Tesla that Elon Musk, close to tears, told investors we dug our own grave" in the effort to launch the vehicle. But after years of delays, failed promises, and on-stage gaffes, the truck finally made it onto the streets and into the hands of drivers. For better or worse, the...Read more...

With four damaged underwater cables in the Red Sea, telecommunication providers are now looking to the skies for connectivity. Satellite operators are lending their space-based connectivity to reroute internet traffic, suggesting that a hybrid system combining underwater and orbital internet might be the best approach...Read more...

Star Wars has a long history in the realm of card games, and its latest foray, Unlimited, marks the first time in a while that the franchise has delved into a pure collectible card game system. But one other thing that makes it stand out: its unique, artful take on every era of Star Wars media.

The month is off to a running start when it comes to space, with a fresh crew launched to the International Space Station, some new astronomical insights, and the promise of a third SpaceX Starship test flight. Click through for the week's coolest space imagery.Read more...

Last year was an odd one for the Marvel Cinematic Universe in a lot of ways that couldn't help but hover over its 2023 output. The biggest example of this was The Marvels: the movie received a mixed reception in November, and ended up being one of the lowest-performing MCU movies to date.Read more...