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The legacy of the late great Kevin Conroy as Batman, which began on Batman: The Animated Series and continued in a beloved tenure across DC animated films and games, is celebrated in a featurette made for the home release of Batman:Mask of the Phantasm.Read more...

Sit down and strap in for Apple's next selection of wearables. Apple's big Wonderlust" event Tuesday gave a look at the company's latest smartwatch: a second-gen Apple Watch Ultra again stole the spotlight with its beefed up screen size and lighter frame. Less spectacularly, the regular Series 9 slate of square...Read more...

The Biden administration is trying to take a paternalistic role in stewarding the development of AI for major tech firms. It's not exactly leading from the front but is instead placing a gentle, reaffirming hand on the shoulders of big tech, telling them to be cautious and open about how they lay out the future of the...Read more...

Heating and cooling homes can be expensive, but thankfully, there are heat pumps. And these electric home coolers and heaters are efficient home systems even in extremely cold temperatures, new research has found.Read more...

Perk up your ears-and then plug em with some Apple-brand earbuds-because Apple is back with its latest AirPods and this time, they're letting you charge with one of the most readily available cables around. On Tuesday, Apple announced its second-gen AirPods Pro would charge via USB-C instead of the Lightning cables...Read more...

Ahsoka's metaphysical step into the unknown in the climax of last week's episode, Fallen Jedi," paved the way for the first truly big moment of the series so far-a fated encounter between Ahsoka Tano and her former Jedi Master, Anakin Skywalker. But to find the right balance of such a moment, director Peter Ramsey...Read more...

This week, the Food and Drug Administration has approved updated mRNA vaccines for covid-19. The vaccines are intended to increase people's protection from the latest circulating variants of the coronavirus, which has started to cause a recent uptick in illness. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will soon...Read more...

Broadcasting from Apple Park in Cupertino, California, Apple CEO Tim Cook and other executives are taking the stage Tuesday to announce updates to the company's major product lines. In the tradition of Apple's September events-usually more hardware-focused than the software-heavy WWDC in early summer-the company is...Read more...

After the successful impact of NASA's DART mission on the Dimorphos asteroid, scientists have encountered a series of unexpected outcomes, the latest being the unanticipated lengthening of the asteroid's orbital period around its larger partner, Didymos.

Apple on Tuesday announced it would no longer use leather in its new cases for iPhones, bands for Apples Watches, or other accessories due to the material's outsized carbon footprint. Instead, Apple said it will transition to relying on FineWoven," a micro-twill textile the company claims is made up of 68%...Read more...

Tuesday saw the opening of a major antitrust case against Google, marking the government's first big tech monopoly trial since Microsoft. As the Department of Justice and Google lay out their arguments, two remarkable issues are at stake. First is the nature of Google's business, which raises questions about the very...Read more...

One of the worst parts of The Flash was the untapped potential of Michael Keaton's Batman, whose intended path as a mentor to Leslie Grace's Batgirl instead meant that he was unceremoniously killed (over and over) as fodder serving Barry Allen's arc. Spoiler alert: it hardly changed the speedster, just watch the...Read more...

Meta is intentionally limiting search results on Threads for keywords related to the covid-19 virus and a variety of other potentially controversial topics. In a statement sent to Gizmodo, a spokesperson for the tech giant confirmed the temporary" restrictions and said the social network's newly released search...Read more...

We all know what's happening in Hollywood right now: both the writers and actors are on strike at the same time, and are seriously fucking with the studio's fall release promotional schedules. Disruption is, of course, the point of any strike-but simply because these studios don't have their stars around doesn't mean...Read more...

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection has offered a slim olive branch to one U.S. senator and the many rights groups critical of the agency's use of commercial and seized smartphone data. According to the office of Sen. Ron Wyden, the CBP said it will stop utilizing Commercial Telemetry Data (CTD)"-AKA users'...Read more...

On Tuesday, Lyft announced a new feature that will connect women and nonbinary riders with other female and nonbinary drivers to create a more secure and confident experience. The feature, called Women+ Connect, will allow riders to choose to match with similar drivers which Lyft says was a highly requested feature."Read more...

A new decadal survey from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine just dropped, and establishing a sustained human presence off-Earth is on the docket. But NASA's Division of Biological and Physical Sciences (BPS) is underfunded, the survey reports, which could jeopardize humankind's ability to...Read more...

Lego's Star Wars Ultimate Collector Series has played host to massive recreations of the galaxy far, far away's vehicles and ships, big and small, for years-and now it's heading back to the Clone Wars for its latest, and one of its biggest sets yet.

Is there a raven? Of course! There's also a mansion, courtroom drama, a droll dinner party, death threats, quips about funeral attire and sympathy tweets, and what looks like a gory revenge plot being leveled at the Usher crime family." Strap in for the first trailer for The Fall of the House of Usher, featuring a...Read more...

The Lucy spacecraft is getting closer to its first asteroid encounter, a small, stony celestial body that was recently added to the mission's itinerary. Still on its way to rendezvous with Jupiter's swarm of asteroids, Lucy caught a glimpse of Dinikinesh in the main asteroid belt.Read more...

As SAG-AFTRA reaches the end of its second month on strike, the union may have found an unlikely hero in the face of Taylor Swift. The singer-songwriter has reportedly met the union's demands over the release of her concert film for The Eras Tour, which will hit theaters next month.Read more...

TikTok officially launched its online shopping feature in the U.S. nearly a year after it first started testing the waters, the company announced on Tuesday. The Chinese-owned app has now added a shop" button to the homepage to bring its TikTok Shop service to its more than 150 million users in the U.S.

Hellboy: The Crooked Man has found a new home. Get a look at the return of Fear the Walking Dead. Plus, what's coming on American Horror Story: Delicate, and the team behind The Crow reboot are hoping for a multimedia franchise. Spoilers go!

Vitalik Buterin, a computer programmer who co-founded the popular cryptocurrency Ethereum, is clearing the air after his account on Twitter (now known as X) was hacked this weekend. The hack involved a post touting a commemorative NFT that was actually a cryptocurrency wallet drainer.Read more...

Apple has officially declared it's iPhone 15 time. We've been preparing behind the scenes to bring you up-to-date coverage of what's next. But we won't see anything crop up until at least 10:00 A.M. PT / 1:00 P.M. ET. on Sept. 12, 2023, when Apple's Wanderlust event officially kicks off.Read more...

Parents of more than 100 trans and gender-expansive children are urging lawmakers to turn their back on the dangerous and misguided" Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) currently winding its way through Congress. In a fiery open letter shared with Gizmodo, the parents said KOSA, which is intended to shield kids from the...Read more...

Lorcana has revealed its newest set: Rise of the Floodborn. It features characters from both classic and new Disney franchises, spread across 200 cards. Characters from films like The Jungle Book, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Great Mouse Detective, Pinocchio, Zootopia, and Raya and the Last Dragon will make...Read more...

Researchers say they've discovered 85 social media accounts and blogs originating from China and working in tandem to amplify a conspiracy theory claiming the deadly fires in Maui were caused by a secretive weather weapon" unleashed by the US military. NewsGuard, which has previously uncovered other online influence...Read more...

Get your haunt gear and chilling lawn decor ready for Halloween as we get closer to fall.

Disney's The Little Mermaid just posted the biggest Disney+ debut of the year. According to the company, the film got 16 million views in its first five days" on the platform, making it the most viewed Disney movie premiere on Disney+ since Hocus Pocus 2," which came out just over a year ago.Read more...

Give whoever thought to have M3GAN dancers at Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights Orlando and HHN Hollywood a bonus.Read more...

It would appear that MGM Resorts-one of the largest entertainment and hospitality venues in the world (and the largest casino operator on the Las Vegas strip)-just got hacked.Read more...

An independent developer for the kids-focused build-your-own game metaverse" Roblox was booked into jail Sunday after he allegedly fought police outside the company's community developer conference. Cops said they later discovered he held a concealed firearm in his car alongside armor-piercing ammunition and a...Read more...

The Steven Spielberg-presented Tiny Toons Looniversity brings out familiar iconic WB Animation, mixing it with the filmmaker's Amblin touch and outrageous modern cartoon comedy.

Sensors placed on the surface of the Moon during the Apollo 17 mission picked up a mysterious tremor, one that regularly occurred as the Sun rose to its peak position over the lunar surface. Unlike regular moonquakes that are triggered by the varying temperatures of the lunar environment, however, this one had a...Read more...

A hot chip challenge might have become deadly for 14-year-old Harris Wolobah in Massachusetts this month. According to his family, the boy felt sick and died mere hours after eating a potato chip made with two of the hottest peppers on record. A final determination into his cause of death has not been released yet,...Read more...

Critical reception to Apple TV+'s The Changeling has been mixed so far, a surprising situation considering its source material, Victor LaValle's 2017 novel, was met with near-universal acclaim. (io9 liked the show, for the record!) But director Jonathan van Tulleken doesn't sound too concerned by any of the...Read more...

In an era of misguided technological innovation, teachers in Sweden are taking things back to basics. A movement in the country's education system is emphasizing analog technology like actual books and handwriting in a bid to make education more effective.Read more...

Disney and Charter Communications have finally reached an agreement after a two-week blackout that stopped Spectrum subscribers from watching Disney Channel on the streaming service starting on Aug. 31. The companies announced the agreement on Monday, only hours before the New York Jets and Buffalo Bills football game...Read more...

As artificial intelligence is increasingly developing and data centers are erected to further this tech, it's becoming clear that AI has a water usage problem.Read more...

Nishimura (2023 P1), a comet discovered just last month, is set to make its nearest approach to Earth in the next 400 years during tomorrow's predawn sky.

A common ingredient in over-the-counter cold and cough medicines might not be long for this world. The Food and Drug Administration is about to decide whether oral phenylephrine should remain in OTC nasal decongestant drugs. Outside experts will deliberate the topic and offer their recommendations this week, but FDA...Read more...

Usually when we're talking about a new Hot Toys figure, it's often to gush about how the company has managed to create another eerily accurate little Hollywood homunculus. This time, the eerie vibes are still there, but perhaps for... other reasons.

If I have to see one more variation of why didn't anybody tell me Interview With the Vampire was this good?" on social media I might lose it. Because, bestie, we tried! So many of us-journalists, fans, everyone-tried to tell you to watch this show. The AMC production, which aired to incredibly high ratings, critical...Read more...

Sir Ian Wilmut, the British scientist who led the team which cloned Dolly the sheep, has died, the University of Edinburgh in Scotland confirmed in a statement on Monday. He was 79 years old.Read more...

Audiences have been floored by Starfield, the new Bethesda game with seemingly no limits. Players on PC, however, have been noticing issues while whipping around the Settled Systems and hunting down alien artifacts, with those on Nvidia and Intel having an especially difficult time.Read more...

X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has apparently shadowbanned The New York Times, preventing users from seeing tweets that link to the newspaper's coverage. The move smacks of a particular irony, given that the Times is one of X's major advertisers and is currently running campaigns to promote its new sports...Read more...

Mutts cartoonist Patrick McDonnell is has long sought to connect his own spiritual journey with the worlds that inspired him to become a comic artist in the first place-and while he got to do the former in Heart to Heart, a cartooning collaboration with the Dalai Lama, his next graphic novel comes at it from a more...Read more...

When astronaut Frank Rubio launched to the International Space Station (ISS) in September 2022, he was scheduled to return back to Earth in six months' time. Rubio's ride to his home planet, however, suffered a malfunction that left him stranded in low Earth orbit. As a result of the mishap, Rubio is set to spend more...Read more...

Sure, you might have a Disney+ subscription, but we all know that Disney is playing fast and loose with what they're putting on that streaming service. If you're feeling antsy you might not be able to watch your favorite Disney (and select Pixar) films whenever you want, can Disney interest you in a limited edition...Read more...