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Gyanda Sachdeva, LinkedIn's VP of product management, spoke with Gizmodo for the latest installment of our AI Unlocked" video series.Read more...

Amazon's new Fallout show is the latest in the companies' big, splashy adaptation plans-and it really wants you to know it's taking the retro aesthetic and charm of the classic video game series to heart, beneath its pulsing, murkily irradiated post-apocalypse.

For more than a decade, Twitter has been the Internet's water cooler, a place where people can find the topics driving the day. The like, retweet, and favorite counts were crucial to this system, letting people quickly see what conversations were burning up and motivating them to get in on the action. The system...Read more...

Anybody who has seen the 1999 film Audition knows that Takashi Miike is one sick puppy. Known for his extremely graphic horror films, Miike has made some of the most visually inventive and frightening movies I've ever seen. That's what makes it so weird that Miike's latest work is a 19-minute short for Apple.Read more...

If you're a Roku user, you may have noticed a new user agreement pop up on your screen over the last several days. If, for whatever reason, you did not comply with this agreement, you probably haven't been able to stream since.

Add on to your Star Wars: Ahsoka collection with these Baylan Skoll and Shin Hati figures, now available for pre-order from Hot Toys.Read more...

Update, 5:50 p.m. ET: LinkedIn appears to be back up globally, though it's still not clear what caused the outage.

In a few weeks, the 90s are back in style-well, if you're a fan of Marvel's merry mutants, that is. It's not too much longer until X-Men 97, the new continuation of the iconic X-Men: The Animated Series hits Disney+, and Marvel has now dropped the titles for all 10 episodes of season one... including a few that will...Read more...

The crypto community took a victory lap Tuesday with the news that the price of Bitcoin hit an all-time high of $69,210. Those celebrations cooled when the value dropped a full 8% just a few hours later, but it marked a stunning recovery from the crypto crash of 2022. For the fans, Bitcoin's rally was evidence that...Read more...

If you subscribe to Apple TV+ for its outstanding line-up of sci-fi TV shows (For All Mankind, Foundation, Severance, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, the just-announced Neuromancer), there's a bonus waiting for you next time you sign on. While you'll still find mostly Apple-produced projects, there's now a category...Read more...

You've probably seen the letters ANC' everywhere when shopping for headphones or earbuds. But you've probably got a vague idea of what ANC does and often wondered if you really needed it or not. We've put together a little guide explaining what it is, how the noise-canceling tech works, and why (or why not) you need...Read more...

TSA started testing a new self-checkout" lane in Las Vegas on Wednesday for pre-checked flyers. Network TV morning shows billed it as the future of airport security. But anyone who's been frustrated with the robot cashiers at supermarkets and big box retailers will likely be asking themselves a simple question: Why?Read more...

Product placement in media is a tale as old as time, but the internet was delighted this week after a series of segments showing spots for Chilean beer company Cristal clunkily, yet charmingly,spliced directly into the original Star Wars films have sparked a wave of joyous recreations. Here's some of the best we've...Read more...

There's petty, and then there's Apple's beef with Epic Games. Apple terminated Epic's developer account on Wednesday, blocking the company's ability to make its own Epic Games Store for iOS. Why? All because CEO Tim Sweeney wouldn't stop dunking on Apple's unfair practices on Twitter/X.Read more...

Microsoft Engineer Shane Jones is warning the world that his company's AI image generator, Copilot Designer, needs to be removed from public use. In an interview with CNBC Wednesday, Jones shares how the AI tool produces disturbing, strange images through basic prompts. He says Microsoft has largely ignored him, so...Read more...

In Blumhouse's Imaginary, coming out this week, a tattered old teddy bear hiding a spooky secret befriends a little girl. Things soon escalate from innocent to terrifying because let's be real: a possessed toy is a scary as hell concept. This childhood nightmare is fueled by movies like Chucky from Child's Play (a...Read more...

Oppenheimer was an enormous success at the box office last summer and has been nominated for 13 Oscars at the Academy Awards this Sunday, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director. But now that you've had plenty of time to see the movie, it's time to talk about a scene that many people missed. In fact,...Read more...

OpenAI's founders published a scathing response to Elon Musk's lawsuit Tuesday night, claiming that Musk made a power grab to achieve absolute control" of the AI startup in 2017. The emails reveal Musk was originally on board with making the startup less open-sourced and profitable, even though he is now suing OpenAI...Read more...

Some 150 Rooster Teeth employees, as well as contractors and other creators, are left scrambling after today's announcement that parent company Warner Bros. Discovery is closing it down after over 20 years in business. The production company created animated web series like Red vs. Blue and RWBY, as well as Max...Read more...

It's day 6 of Gizmodo's March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time and things are heating up. Thus far in the competition, we've had some huge apps taking on smaller or even defunct players and the tech giants swept every round. But yesterday, Vine came from behind and crushed Snapchat with...Read more...

Colossal Biosciences, which calls itself the world's first de-extinction company," has created stem cells it thinks will hasten the company's marquee goal of resurrecting the woolly mammoth. The team's research describing the accomplishment will be hosted on the preprint server bioRxiv.

A few years ago Star Wars fans got to see the story of Han Solo and Leia Organa's wedding-in the current canon, at least-unfold in the pages of Beth Revis' The Princess and the Scoundrel. But now readers young and old will get to see Star Wars' fairy tale wedding in a new light, with a gorgeous new picture book about...Read more...

Netflix's Avatar adaptation may have suffered a similar critical fate to its predecessor in the M. Night Shyamalan movie, but that didn't stop it from becoming the biggest show on the platform since in launched a few weeks ago-so it should surprise no one to learn that more is on the way.

SpaceX teased a tentative date for the third launch of its Starship rocket. The company posted a link on X for viewing Starship's third flight test next week after having completed a wet dress rehearsal for its massive rocket on Sunday night.Read more...

Elon Musk met with Donald Trump in Florida this past Sunday, according to a new report from the New York Times. And while it's not clear what the two men discussed, news of the meeting comes as Musk has ratcheted up his rhetoric against illegal immigration and Trump looks for new sources of cash.Read more...

There is no iPhone 16 yet; it will not be until later this year. But people have their wishlists because when there's talk of a possible update to their daily carry on the horizon, it inspires them to think of where they'd want to spend their money.Read more...

The live-action How to Train Your Dragon cast keeps expanding. Get a sneak peek at Monsters at Work season two. MaXXXine finds itself a new release date. Plus, what's coming on Ghosts and Resident Alien. Spoilers, away!

Researchers seeking to understand how life may have emerged from Earth's primordial soup have found an interesting behavior of ribonucleic acid (RNA), which they suggest could have given way to RNA-based life.Read more...

Anyone who's gone through an all-nighter or has had bouts of insomnia knows that getting adequate sleep is a key part of feeling good. Next to regular physical activity and avoiding risky things like smoking, ensuring that we usually have a good night's sleep might be the most impactful thing we can do to improve our...Read more...

It turns out Warner Bros. isn't the only studio canceling its own releases. While there are no specifics on the level of that company's ill-fated Batgirl or Coyote vs. Acme, it has been confirmed that Disney has also done some strategic killing" of projects as part of a plan to get its profits back on track.Read more...

Google says it will begin cracking down on AI-generated content created solely for the purpose of gaming its systems and ranking high in Google Search-a change that could potentially have a ripple effect on the quality of what we see online.Read more...

Last week, it was revealed that Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff had been buying up lots of land in Hawaii at an accelerating clip. Benioff, who is worth billions and billions of dollars, has procured approximately $100 million in land parcels throughout the Big Island via a series of nondescript LLCs. He's been quite...Read more...

There are Star Wars collections-and then there are collections from people who are Star Wars. A very rare trove of franchise memorabilia is now up for sale at Los Angeles auction house called Propstore, and it's direct from the collection of Anthony Daniels, who played C-3PO for over 40 years.Read more...

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission authorized a land swap deal with SpaceX, granting Elon Musk's rocket company 43 acres of land that were heavily sought after as part of conservation efforts in the area.Read more...

There are arguably two dominant superhero cinematic universes around right now: the MCU (although that's a little more debatable these days), and, as io9 has written about before, the Fast and Furious franchise. But while Fast has dabbled with superheroics and touched the edge of full-on cars in space movies, we now...Read more...

Count Dakota Johnson out of any future superhero movie discourse. After Madame Web became Sony's latest Spider-verse flop, the movie got ripped apart by the internet despite a rising cult of fans calling the messy film camp. Most recently on Saturday Night Live, Johnson's co-star Sydney Sweeney joked you probably...Read more...

The Arctic may become ice-free for the first time on a late August or early September day in the 2020s to 2030s, 10 years earlier than expected, a shocking new study finds.Read more...

It's time to face your fears with Blumhouse and Lionsgate's Imaginary. The film directed and co-written by Jeff Wadlow (Truth or Dare) stars DeWanda Wise (Jurassic World Dominion) as Jessica, who moves her family into her childhood home. While tension-filled domestic dynamics are at play, Chauncey Bear, her tattered...Read more...

A German man seems to be no worse for wear after having allegedly gotten more than 200 covid-19 vaccine doses. In a new study out this week, scientists examined the man's blood and saliva and found no evidence that the hypervaccination" he went through harmed his immune response to covid-19 or his general health. If...Read more...

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has reversed course and is no longer banning a famous World War II-era photo of a sailor kissing a woman from VA facilities. The photo was taken in Times Square on V-J Day, the date in the summer of 1945 when victory was declared over Japan, and has become controversial in...Read more...

World Wildlife Day was March 3, and the International Fund for Animal Welfare celebrated the event with its annual International Youth Art Contest. Now, the winning artworks have been selected from a group of 15 semi-finalists. These selections were made from over 3,000 entries submitted from 141 countries and...Read more...

Facebook and Instagram users are experiencing widespread outages on Tuesday morning. Over 566,000 Facebook users are experiencing an outage according to Down Detector. Instagram's app was also having issues on Tuesday, with over 89,000 users reporting outages. The outage started just after 10:00 a.m. ET, and appears...Read more...

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In the wake of Disney's wave of content deletion on Disney+ in the last few years, physical releases of the platform's original shows are more important than ever. Especially so when it's physical releases of the far and away best piece of media to come out of the platform's entire existence.

If you've ever wondered what quantum computers actually do, you're not alone. The truth is, no one knows what modern problems this technology can solve. Google launched a multi-year, global competition on Monday to find real-world use cases for quantum computing, and the finalists will split $5 million.Read more...

Bitcoin hit an all-time high of $69,170 Tuesday morning, according to CoinMarketCap, breaching the previous all-time high of $68,990 in November 2021. The price then slipped back under $68,000 soon after reaching its peak.Read more...

Superman has found its latest Perry White. Rebecca Ferguson is teaming up with Chris Pratt for Timur Bekmambetov's new sci-fi movie. Get a look at Fallout's retro world in three new posts. Plus, what's coming on the next episode of Halo. To me, my spoilers!Read more...

The Meth Lab Oompa Loompa Lady,' whose real name is Kirsty Paterson, has been through a lot over the past week, but even she wasn't ready for the latest twist in her story. After being forced to learn an AI-generated script for a disastrous Willy Wonka-themed event in Scotland and facing hordes of hate on X/Twitter,...Read more...

The point of a budget smartphone is to exist as the fast fashion" equivalent of its flagship counterparts. For instance, in the case of the top Android phone seller, Samsung, its A-series delivers some of the brand's premium experiences at a fraction of the cost. Mid-range Samsung devices are known for sporting the...Read more...

X owner Elon Musk is dreaming of a world where people ditch their cell phones and instead make audio and video calls on the social media platform. Musk's vision has elicited nearly collective horror from users of his platform-as well as potential risks to their IP addresses.Read more...