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Valentine's Day is on the horizon! So whether you're partnered up or celebrating with friends, here are some fun fandom picks for gift-giving and beyond.Celebrate with ideas inspired by Lore Olympus, Shrek, Star Wars, Studio Ghibli, and more pop culture that evokes the bonds of both romantic and platonic...Read more...

NASA's current batch of ISS spacesuits are getting long in the tooth, having been in service for over four decades. The space agency is keen to acquire spacesuits fit for the 21st century, and recent zero-gravity tests performed by Collins Aerospace are a step in the right direction.

A federal agency is pushing to outlaw AI-generated robocalls after criminals tried to disrupt New Hampshire's Democratic primary with a deepfake phone call from President Biden. The phone call from our sitting President told voters to stay home last weekend in an unlawful" attempt at voter suppression, according to...Read more...

A new report from CNBC shows that lobbyists connected to the AI industry were quite busy last year. Indeed, in 2023, AI lobbying efforts shot up 185 percent from the previous year. The analysis, which is based on disclosures provided to the non-profit OpenSecrets, shows that the long list of companies that tried to...Read more...

Tesla has issued a recall for almost every car it sold in the U.S. because of illegible warning lights. The massive recall affects more than 2 million cars and follows a similarly huge recall that hit almost every car Tesla has sold in China.

It's a sad day in the galaxy far, far away: Carl Weathers, who brought a gruff dignity (with a hint of mischief) to his role as The Mandalorian's Greef Karga, has died at the age of 76. Weathers was also much-beloved for his portrayals of Apollo Creed in the Rocky films and Col. Al Dillon-opposite Arnold SchwarzeneggerRead more...

If you've been curious about True Detective: Night Country, but don't have an HBO or Max subscription, prepare to be further tempted: episode one is now streaming free on YouTube. Writer-director Issa Lopez's (Tigers Are Not Afraid) new installment of the anthology series is an Alaska-set tale that tips its fur-lined...Read more...

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I'm pretty sure we all saw this coming. Why would Apple, out of all companies, not participate in, as Gizmodo reporter Kyle Barr puts it, the AI-ification of everything? During an earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook said he thinks there is a huge opportunity for Apple with generative AI and AI," hinting that the...Read more...

Before The Super Mario Bros. Movie was a global sensation, Sonic the Hedgehog had already done it twice. The first two Sonic movies grossed almost $900 million globally so, of course, a third one is on the way. But will the main villain return? The answer is yes.Read more...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., infamous anti-vaxxer and 2024 presidential hopeful, says he wasn't the one who posted a message on the TikTok page of a fitness influencer who was admiring her glutes after a workout. Sure, RFK Jr., we believe you as much as you believe Big Pharma.Read more...

Asteroid 99942 Apophis is fast approaching our home planet for an uncomfortably close encounter in 2029. In order to prepare for the rare event, NASA is calling for ideas for low cost missions to rendezvous with Apophis, but the space agency already has a pair of asteroid probes ready to take on the task.

Meta's official mother-in-chief, Mark Zuckerberg, swung his head toward the minivan's back seat to tell all his Apple-obsessed Meta Quest 3 customers, We have Vision Pro at home." The company is planning to facilitate Apple's own spatial video" within the Meta Quest 3 in hopes that even more augmented reality...Read more...

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25 years ago, the internet was kludged together with duct tape and a dream. Sometimes typing in a URL brought up a website. Sometimes things were just broken. Google, then just a bizarrely named startup, would soon offer a solution. The company added cache" links to its search results, which brought up a previously...Read more...

Netflix has a teaser for Family Pack, the board game-based film starring Jean Reno. Taika Waititi is adapting Kazuo Ishiguro's novelKlara and the Sun with Jenna Ortega and Amy Adams set to star, and there's a new poster for murderous teddy bear movie Imaginary. It's spoilerin' time!Read more...

Prolific actor John de Lancie-currently voicing Granamyr on Netflix's Masters of the Universe: Revolution-will always be Q to Star Trek fans, who welcomed the delightfully antagonistic character's return on Star Trek: Picard. In a new interview, he gave some insight into the Picard finale's post-credits scene, and...Read more...

You won't be-leaf the shape of this ancient tree. A team of researchers found a 350-million-year-old fossilized tree species that looks like something out of Dr. Seuss.

You want your lawyer to be on your side. The more passionate they are, the better. If they're so passionate they can't control their emotions, though, you might be in trouble. That's exactly what happened to Elon Musk in a recent court case. Todd Maron, former General Counsel for Tesla and the billionaire's former...Read more...

Gary Bowser loves video games, but Nintendo turned him into a villain. No, not just because he shares a name with Bowser, the actual villain of the Mario franchise. The human Bowser helped mod Nintendo's gaming consoles so people could play free, pirated versions of its video games. Then one day, he woke up with three...Read more...

Japan's SLIM, the Smart Lander for Investigation Moon, has entered a dormant mode on the Moon's Shioli Crater, facing a 14-day lunar night with temperatures dropping below -200 degrees Fahrenheit.

The Browser Company makes no effort to hide its gleeful disdain for the reigning King of Search, also known as Google. It is openly taking aim at the tech giant's advertising business with new features for Arc, its AI-powered web browser.Read more...

Cryptocurrency cleaned up its act this week as spot Bitcoin ETFs made their Wall Street debut in January. The digital tokens are looking almost unrecognizable from what the industry represented just a few years ago, leading to the question, is Bitcoin still crypto?

Welcome to another installment of Gizmodo's Animal Crime of the Week, an exploration of animals and their mischievous behavior. Let's talk about the Great Ape Escape of 2019, when a band of chimpanzees at the Belfast Zoo in Northern Ireland brazenly scampered to the edge of freedom.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is feeling pretty philosophical about his roller coaster of a week, which saw him berated by Congress over the harmful content on his products one day and celebrated by investors for delivering buckets of dough the next.Read more...

io9 is proud to present fiction from LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE. Once a month, we feature a story from LIGHTSPEED's current issue. This month's selection is A Sojourn in the Fifth City" by P H Lee. You can read the story below or listen to the podcast on LIGHTSPEED's website. Enjoy!Read more...

Some of the best moments in both Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Marvel's Spider-Man 2 are the cross-medium crossovers. In Spider-Verse, the game's Spider-Man briefly appears in Miguel O'Hara's world. In Spider-Man 2, there's a brief reference to Miguel and the movie's multiverse too. Considering both projects...Read more...

You wouldn't steal a car. You wouldn't steal a handbag," said that infamous 2000s anti-piracy commercial from the Motion Picture Association. Piracy is stealing."Read more...

December and January are traditionally lighter months for publishing, but February is ramping things back up again-just in time for picking out a book for your Valentine (or yourself)! Romance is a theme this month-but you'll also find space adventures, inter-dimensional hijinks, magical libraries, monsters, and more.Read more...

A couple of years ago, Snap (the company behind Snapchat) decided that the selfie production pipeline needed to be improved upon. Bathroom mirrors and selfie sticks were not cutting it. No, no, Snap decided that the next evolution in the art of taking pictures of yourself would involve a flying robot.Read more...

The Walt Disney Company faced a legal defeat today after its lawsuit alleging retaliation was dismissed in a Florida court. The claim focused on the state's violation of the company's First Amendment rights for standing against Governor Ron DeSantis' Don't Say Gay" bill, a homophobic law that endangers the human...Read more...

The start of the year is always a huge time for Lego, so it's not surprising that February is looking a little slim on releases compared to last month. But that doesn't mean there aren't some very cool sets dropping-including the long-awaited release of the Dune set, and its glorious, glorious Long Baron.

Lurking inside your reheated fried rice is a dangerous bacterial killer-at least, that's what you might think after watching one of the latest viral videos shared on TikTok and other social media platforms. There is a grain of truth to this claim, and you should try to properly store your leftovers, but the risks of...Read more...

Action-packed adventures are coming toNetflix in 2024-including the return of Squid Game, the debut of Avatar: The Last Airbender, Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon: The Scargiver, and fantasy epic Damsel with Stranger Things' Millie Bobby Brown. Alas, there's no tease of Stranger Things itself, or One Piece season two-but...Read more...

Biogen is abandoning its lackluster Alzheimer's disease drug, Aduhelm. The Massachusetts-based company announced Wednesday that it is pulling the medication from the market following poor sales and controversy over its approval by the Food and Drug Administration in 2021. The company says it is only doing so to...Read more...

February is here. Let's watch some 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 ones...Read more...

Humans have used light to trap insects for at least 2,000 years (thanks, Romans). Now, a team of researchers says they know why the animals are apparently drawn to the light-and it's not a happy tale.Read more...

Skylight recently released a 27-inch variant of its smart calendar, which looks pretty promising. It's essentially a huge touchscreen display housed in an aluminum or plastic case that you put on your wall like a framed piece of art. It lets you add, remove, and edit upcoming events and looks great as an organizer...Read more...

A Delaware judge struck down Elon Musk's $55.8 billion pay package at Tesla after finding the CEO had extensive ties" with the board members who approved his pay deal, according to the Wall Street Journal Tuesday. Musk had a temper tantrum after the decision, suggesting he may move Tesla's incorporation from Delaware...Read more...

In 2024, the ghost with the most is back and his new movie is one word short of total chaos. Warner Bros. released the first piece of official marketing for Beetlejuice 2 on Thursday and with it, we now know that it's not actually called Beetlejuice 2." It's called... Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.Read more...

SpaceX's Starship is poised to be the most coveted launch vehicle in the world once it's finally up and running, but the Pentagon is hoping to take things a step further by grabbing full control of the megarocket for critically important missions.

It's been a week since NASA announced the end of its Mars helicopter mission, and we're still not over losing our beloved Ginny. But apparently, neither is NASA, as the space agency is still trying to figure out what happened during Ingenuity's last flight on Mars.Read more...

Universal Music Group began removing its entire library of songs from TikTok on Wednesday night, according to Bloomberg, as the record label failed to renew its contract with the social media platform. The label condemns TikTok for unfairly paying artists and doing little to protect them from AI, in an open letter...Read more...

Somehow, Lightning returned. Apple's $3,500 Vision Pro is going on sale Friday, and unlike most other high-end VR headsets, it's sporting an external battery pack. Little did we know, but that external battery with its supposedly non-detachable wire is actually easily removable so long as you have a SIM card removal...Read more...

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Luke Cage showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker looks back on what could've been for season 3. La Brea teases its series finale. Netflix has iced Black Summer. Plus, what to expect on Quantum Leap. Spoilers, away!

Time to alert your friends and family members who have access to your Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ accounts. The House of Mouse is officially putting those dastardly U.S.-based customers who dare share their passwords on notice. Netflix already started cracking down on password sharing last year, so it was only a matter...Read more...

Remember fast-food kids meals with specially marketed pop culture toys? They just don't make em like they used to. In the 1990s, Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, McDonald's, and Burger King often chose chaos with their tie-ins, like the Batman Forever glass mugs or the Hercules plates. Heck, even when big event films like...Read more...

In 2018, Mark Zuckerberg waltzed into the halls of Congress for the most high-profile moment of his career. He was pale and glass-eyed, his tie wrapped loosely around his neck, and his hair cropped high and thin in a bizarre homage to Augustus Caesar. His speech was practiced and robotic, and while his performance...Read more...

OpenAI released a study the company conducted on GPT-4's effectiveness in creating a bioweapon on Wednesday. The company found that its AI poses at most" a slight risk in helping someone produce a biological threat. There's a lot of talk about AI accelerating our impending doom, but OpenAI wants you to know that...Read more...