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Fede Alvarez started making an Alien movie without realizing he was making an Alien movie. He was in a meeting with Ridley Scott's company right before Scott made Alien: Covenant, and he mentioned some things he would like to see. I was like, I think you guys should do this and approach it this way, and maybe it's...Read more...

Your favorite childhood toy is probably gone. Maybe your parents threw it out. Maybe you broke it yourself. Or maybe it's sitting in an attic somewhere, in a box of other toys you once loved and now have forgotten about. Whatever the case, we all had our favorite toys as kids-and now, most likely, we don't.Read more...

It's (nearly) showtime! The highly anticipated trailer for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is coming soon-but first, Tim Burton has given a first look at the sequel for his eponymous horror comedy to Entertainment Weekly.Read more...

UPDATE: When reached for comment by Gizmodo, DARPA provided the following statement clarifying that the program had not been named after the pedophile temple from True Detective. It reads:Read more...

Hasbro's latest Star Wars reveals may have been ostensibly for its villain-themed Imperial March" this month, but really, it was all about The Acolyte. Just a day after we got our first look at the next Star Wars series in action, Hasbro came prepared with a bevy of new figures inspired by the show, and then some.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating the Ethereum Foundation and companies doing business with the nonprofit, according to a new report from Fortune Wednesday. And that's very bad news for crypto enthusiasts who were hopeful that spot Ether ETFs, which would make it easier for investors...Read more...

The Kate Middleton saga has been a boon for tabloids and cat nip for internet conspiracy theorists. Since Middleton had abdominal surgery in January and then failed to show up at a number of annual and/or scheduled events, the internet has been flooded with theories about what might have happened to her. Then came th...Read more...

Jeff Bezos' space venture is ready to test its Blue Ring orbital platform, which could become a pivotal pitstop for missions journeying to the Moon and beyond.Read more...

Captain America and Black Panther have shared the screen in the Marvel Universe before, but not like this. The year is 1943, the pair are both on the same mission in Nazi-occupied Paris, and you'll get to become both of them.

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Law enforcement in Kansas recorded the front of a man's home for 68 days straight, 15 hours a day, and obtained evidence to prove him guilty on 16 charges. The officers did not have a search warrant, using a camera on a pole positioned across the street to capture Bruce Hay's home. A federal court ruled on Tuesday...Read more...

It's Day 20 of Gizmodo's March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time and the competition is getting fierce! We lost a legend yesterday, as YouTube defeated Vine with an overwhelming victory. Today, Venmo will try its luck against Twitter.Read more...

The X-Men never die. In the comics, that's sometimes more literal than metaphorical, more meta text than actual text. But it always means that, for the most part, no matter how long the X-Men wane, they always come back: the same but different, adapted to the latest age of a world that hates and fears them. X-Men: The...Read more...

The third test flight of Starship on March 14 marked a huge victory for SpaceX, with the experimental rocket hitting a number of key milestones. The unplanned loss of both stages triggered a Federal Aviation Administration investigation, but neither the FAA nor SpaceX anticipate the lengthy delays experienced after...Read more...

Millions of people across North America will soon have the opportunity to witness a rare and special astronomical event-a total solar eclipse-during which the Moon will completely obscure the Sun along an exceptionally long path of totality. To prepare you for the Great North American Solar Eclipse, we've put...Read more...

In the 1980s and 90s, movies about kids going on adventures were commonplace. E.T., Stand by Me, The Goonies, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, The Sandlot, the list goes on and on. In 2024 though, movies like that are much rarer-so that a new one is coming out at all would be exciting even if it wasn't great. Thankfully, Ridd...Read more...

Just paying for Netflix or Hulu seems like no big deal, but a new report from Deloitte suggests most Americans are paying for four streaming services. That's pushing Americans to the brink, leading to the average household spending $61 a month on streaming. Half of the study's respondents said they would cancel a...Read more...

Superman & Lois has finally found its Jimmy Olsen. Gen V has a season 2 filming update. Plus, what's coming on Ninja Kamui and Them's second season. To me, my spoilers!

The Devil Comet," known formally as Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, is set for a rare conjunction alongside the Great North American Total Solar Eclipse on April 8. For skywatchers, this raises the tantalizing prospect of capturing a highly unusual alignment, but it's not yet certain if the comet will be visible to the...Read more...

People are thirsty for the Dune: Part Twolimited edition sandworm popcorn bucket. So thirsty, in fact, that some eBay resellers are hawking the thing for hundreds of dollars.Read more...

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire feels like the first real Ghostbusters sequel since 1989's Ghostbusters II, even though it isn't. In between, we had 2016's Answer the Call, a controversial, largely unrelated entry. There was also 2021's Afterlife, a valiant, well-intentioned effort that had to simultaneously lay the...Read more...

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The U.S. ranks as the 23rd happiest country in the world, according to a new report from the United Nations published on Wednesday. And while that may not sound too bad, given the fact that there are 143 countries on the list, it's a significant drop from last year when the U.S. ranked 15th. Sadly, it looks like...Read more...

Silicon Valley is not well known for its fashion scene. New York and Los Angeles have their own unique trends and styles-you can dress like a New Yorker or an Angelino. But how do you dress like you're in Silicon Valley?Read more...

I think one thing we can all agree on is that the world is a pretty noisy place. We can also agree on the fact that no one likes that. And, at least sometimes, we'd ideally like to shut it all out. While that's not possible, a pair of effective noise-cancelling headphones can make you feel like you're in your own...Read more...

The Fujifilm X100VI is not the camera for everybody, but it sure as hell is one of the most fun I've had in photography in a long while. It's a relatively simple, fixed 23.5 mm lens shooter that takes some brilliant, highly detailed photos at 40.2 MP. I would want to recommend it to anybody. However, at $1,600 for the...Read more...

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AMC'sbeloved messy vampire drama will soon return for second bites. In season two ofInterview with The Vampire, Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) continues to recount his life story to Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian)- but this time, with his partner Armand (Assad Zaman) chiming in.Read more...

Having already dropped two trailers, the next move for Prime Video's adaptation of the wildly popular Fallout games is to share an actual scene from an episode-and it's picked an ideal one, showcasing the post-apocalyptic setting and dynamics between three key characters: Ella Purnell's greenhorn-with-a-gun Lucy;...Read more...

Diamonds are the hardest naturally occurring material on Earth, but a supercomputer just modeled stuff that's even harder. Called a super-diamond,' the theoretical material could exist beyond our planet-and maybe, one day, be created here on Earth.Read more...

When Ghostbusters: Afterlife ends, it really ends. Ghostbusters new and old defeat Gozer, we see the Ecto-1 driving to New York City, and that's pretty much it. What exactly was next for the Spengler family we'd been following for an entire film? How did they feel having encountered the ghost version of Egon? We never...Read more...

PlayStation 5 Pro news consists of only rumors so far-Sony hasn't even confirmed the existence of a beefed-up console. However, a recent leak of the PS5 Pro specs appears to be legit and it's reportedly prompted Sony to go on the hunt to find who spoiled the surprise.Read more...

Just one week after Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, apologized for editing a photo of herself and her children on Mother's Day, the UK royal family is in hot water again over another family portrait-which coincidentally is connected to Middleton.

Our first official look at the next Star Wars series, The Acolyte, is here, and with it a real glimpse at a crucial, unexplored period of Star Wars in action. Although the High Republic books and comics have given us a look at the Republic and Jedi at their apex, The Acolyte, set about 100 years after the events of...Read more...

Threads users in the United States will finally be able to see what topics are trending on the app, a longheld staple feature of Twitter, according to a post from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday. The Trending Now" page appears under the search bar on Threads.Read more...

A 39-year-old man in the UK was sentenced to more than a year in prison on Tuesday for sending unsolicited images of his genitals to a 15-year-old girl and a woman in her 60s, according to a press release from Essex Police. The teen girl was left overwhelmed and crying" according to the Guardian.

Steven Moffat-the former Doctor Who showrunner and head writer whose association with the series spanned 2005 to 2017-is stepping back into the TARDIS. According a social media post by the BBC, he'll be making an explosive return," penning an episode for Ncuti Gatwa's first season as the Fifteenth Doctor.

From the fastball special to the resurrection powers of the Five on Krakoa, the concept of mutant powers combining in unexpected ways has fascinated X-Men stories for generations. Now, X-Men 97 is going back to the 90s for a continuation of X-Men: The Animated Series, but it's bringing with it a modern approach to...Read more...

What does it mean to poke" someone on Facebook? Is it flirty, friendly, or even annoying? The answer is all of the above, and somehow, none at all. The ambiguous feature was largely invisible for many years, but now Facebook is reporting a 13x spike in poking in the last month.Read more...

When The Acolyte hits Disney+ in June, it'll be the first time many Star Wars fans discover the High Republic, an era of the franchise set hundreds of years before the movies. Others though have been reading about it for years and they'll surely be anxious to see if any of their favorite characters pop up.Read more...

Welcome back to Gizmodo's March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! Google Maps enjoyed a decisive victory against iMessage in yesterday's tournament. Today, we have the two best video apps duking it out.Read more...

It's been several months since that first Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga trailer gave us a juicy glimpse of George Miller's prequel, starring Anya Taylor-Joy as a younger version of Charlize Theron's badass character introduced in Mad Max: Fury Road. It is now time, then, to witness a new trailer!

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The European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid telescope has been gradually losing its vision as layers of water molecules have frozen onto its mirrors. That's bad news for a mission tasked with observing the dark universe using super-sensitive cameras, but the team behind the telescope has come up with a plan to keep...Read more...

After weeks of teasing, Lego has finally revealed its huge collaboration with Dungeons & Dragons to celebrate the legendary roleplaying game's 50th anniversary-and it's huge in many ways, from piece count to price.Read more...

Star Wars' next live-action project is one of its most ambitious yet-a series that will bring a previously unexplored era to the small screen, and with it darkness. The Acolyte, a story that will foretell the downfall of the Jedi Order from its highest highs and examine the rise of the Dark Side, is nearly here, and...Read more...

Google announced it's building a new large language model that will give health and fitness tips on Tuesday, part of a broader push across the company to develop AI health algorithms and robot doctor tools.Read more...

I'm suffering from an acute case of solar eclipse anxiety; maybe you can relate. The promise of this historic celestial spectacle, an event I've been looking forward to for years, has begun to fill me with dread. Let me explain.

Benedict Wong teases his return to the MCU. Karen Gillain has hopes for the future of Jumanji. Get a look at the anime adaptation of Akira Toriyama's Sand Land. Plus, Warner Bros. wants to make Dr. Seuss strike again with a new Cat in the Hat movie. Spoilers get!

Samsung smartphones are known for their big, beautiful AMOLED displays, so I was curious when I saw its Windows laptops get similar treatment. The 16-inch display on Samsung's latest Galaxy Book 4 Pro 360 is one of the sharpest, most responsive laptop displays I've pawed at in a while. In the Windows world, you...Read more...