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As the cliche saying goes, the best camera is the one you always have on you. That is why smartphones have become essential pieces of kit. They help document our lives and give us a window into what's happening at any given time.

Donald Trump appeared to come out in defense of TikTok, the social media platform facing a potential ban by Congress, in a post late Thursday on his social media platform Truth Social-the same platform that experienced a widespread outage as the former president attempted to live-tweet President Joe Biden's State of...Read more...

Truth Social, the social media platform launched by Donald Trump in 2022, suffered a widespread outage on Thursday. And it's unfortunate timing for the former president. He was right in the middle of furiously tweeting (or Truth-ing, to use the site's tortured parlance) about President Joe Biden's State of the Union...Read more...

Akira Toriyama, one of the most famous and influential mangaka of all time, has died. He was 68.Read more...

As was foretold in Fatboy Slim's Weapon of Choice" music video, in which Christopher Walken danced to a line from Dune (Walk without rhythm, It won't attract the worm"), the actor would be destined to join Frank Herbert's sci-fi universe in Denis Villeneuve's acclaimed adaptation. In fact, Dune: Part Two brought...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 Let the Star Explode" by Shingai Njeri Kagunda. You can read the story below or listen to the podcast. Enjoy!Read more...

The U.S. embassy in Russia issued a warning on Thursday that Americans should avoid large gatherings in Moscow for the next 48 hours. The embassy said it was over a potential terrorist threat in the city, but didn't elaborate beyond mentioning concerts as a potential target. And now the embassy's website appears to be...Read more...

Fans of the original Star Wars-inspired ride will now be able to travel through all the eras of the live-action stories from a galaxy far, far away. Disney Parks' Star Tours - The Adventure Continuesrecently announced that characters and a new setting from Disney+ seriesThe Mandalorian, Ahsoka, and Andor are set to...Read more...

A 2.9-ton cargo pallet, once used for a critical battery upgrade mission on the International Space Station (ISS), is now approaching the end of its journey and is expected to reenter the Earth's atmosphere in the coming days.Read more...

For more than 45 years, the Voyager 1 spacecraft has been cruising through the cosmos, crossing the boundary of our solar system to become the first human-made object to venture to interstellar space. Iconic in every regard, Voyager 1 has delivered groundbreaking data on Jupiter and Saturn, and captured the loneliest...Read more...

Russian troops in Ukraine have allegedly been using SpaceX's Starlink terminals to get internet access during the ongoing war that has seen hundreds of thousands of casualties on each side. And now, House Democrats are finally asking hard questions of SpaceX leadership about how this could be happening, according to...Read more...

Star Trek: Picard's third and final season had a lot going on-and that's even before you throw in half the regular cast of The Next Generation, and then some, showing up as the weeks went on. But it turns out, there were almost even more returning faces-and not necessarily just from TNG.Read more...

Max intends to follow both Netflix and Disney in stopping subscribers from sharing their passwords, according to a report from Variety on Thursday. The shutdown is set for sometime later this year.Read more...

TikTok sent a push notification to United States users on Thursday morning asking them to call their local representative to Stop a TikTok shutdown." The app refers to a bipartisan bill gaining momentum in Congress this week which could ban TikTok altogether.

Veterinary scientists seem to have unraveled a mystery about why certain dogs simply can't ever get enough to eat. In research out this week, they found evidence that a common mutation in Labrador retrievers causes them to experience greater hunger than usual while also reducing their metabolic rate, both of which...Read more...

Google's new Bay View building, the first campus built by the search giant, was touted as a green, technologically advanced canvas of creating new ways to be together" when it opened in 2022. However, employees working in the Mountain View, California building wish one of those ways to be together" was a decent...Read more...

It's one of the oldest debates in the character's 85-year history: should Batman kill people in his quest to safeguard Gotham City? Although time and time again Batman's darkness has pushed and pulled the character to pretty rough precipices, at least one defining creator continues to be steadfastly be on the side of...Read more...

A new paper found that large language models from OpenAI, Meta, and Google, including multiple versions of ChatGPT, can be covertly racist against African Americans when analyzing a critical part of their identity: how they speak.Read more...

Last week, it almost seemed like Elon Musk was going to do a good thing. The eccentric, loud-mouthed billionaire announced he would be suing OpenAI, the influential tech company he co-founded back in 2015. The reason? Musk said that OpenAI had betrayed its original mandate of helping humanity." The company, which...Read more...

Have you seen a tweet from Grimes making fun of her former partner, Elon Musk, for saying that wealthy ex-wives are destroying Western civilization? The Grimes tweet is fake. The musician didn't actually poke fun at Musk over the comment. The Musk tweet, on the other hand, is completely real, at least until he deleted...Read more...

One of the first, and arguably still most, intriguing things about Amazon's Fallout adaptation was the news that Walton Goggins would appear in the series-with the intrigue doubled further when that news was paired with the fact he'd be playing a noseless, peeling, irradiated creature known as a Ghoul. That remains...Read more...

A huge virtual gallery of museum skeletons is fully open for viewing. A large group of scientists has painstakingly created 3D reconstructions of thousands of vertebrate specimens, which are now freely available to view online. The endeavor not only allows the public to see once-inaccessible museum collections, but it...Read more...

We're rapidly approaching the quarter mark of the 21st century, but instead of being at the brink of a radical transformative stage, such as the futuristic vision akin to Arthur C. Clarke's Star Child from 2001: A Space Odyssey, we're still throwing proverbial bones into the sky.Read more...

Welcome back to Gizmodo's March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! YouTube handily defeated Words With Friends in yesterday's lineup, taking more than 87 percent of the vote. Now it's time for two very different money apps to duke it out.Read more...

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Inside Out protagonist Riley is turning 13-and the emotions we got to know in Pixar's 2015 coming-of-age hit get fresh company in the sequel. In the latest trailer ahead of Inside Out 2's June 14 release, we meet Anxiety, Envy, Ennui, and Embarrassment... all crucial components of the middle-school experience.

Pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly is making a plea to some of its customers: stop hoarding our weight loss drugs. In a new Oscar-themed commercial set to run on TV this weekend, the drugmaker is not-so-subtly telling people to stay away from its new blockbuster medications if they're only looking to lose a few pounds....Read more...

Earlier this week, a new satellite launched to track methane as it emanates from oil and gas fields across the world, hoping to expose major producers of the greenhouse pollutant and hold them accountable for their commitment to lower emissions.Read more...

Security researchers report they uncovered a design flaw that let them hijack a Tesla using a Flipper Zero, a controversial $169 hacking tool. Partners Tommy Mysk and Talal Haj Bakry of Mysk Inc. said the attack is as simple as swiping a Tesla owner's login information, opening the Tesla app, and driving away. The...Read more...

Boxing legend Mike Tyson and YouTuber turned boxer Jake Paul will have a match in July that will be streamed live exclusively on Netflix, according to a press release from the streamer on Thursday. The Tyson vs. Paul fight is set for July 20 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. If the recent fights of both boxers are...Read more...

Lego has, of course, done plenty of Batman sets in its time. But how do you capture the unique aesthetic of one of the character's most iconic adaptations-the legendary Batman: The Animated Series-in brick form? It's not the traditional play set some might have hoped for, but this new build is probably about as good...Read more...

There's so much talk about AI and ChatGPT these days, but what is it really good for? If you've been struggling to figure out how to actually use AI in your everyday life, you're not alone. Many of us are feeling lost about AI, but the practical use cases of ChatGPT are not as obvious as you might think. These magical...Read more...

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Karate Kid's cast expands with the arrival of Ming Na-Wen. Lionsgate wants to turn John Wick and Twilight into animated series. Get a creepy look at Train to Busan director Yeon Sang-ho's Parasyte adaptation. Plus, what's to come on Resident Alien. Spoilers, away!

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...