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After a decade of dominance climaxed in Avengers: Endgame shattering records along its way to cultural and box office royalty, it isn't entirely unfair to say that Marvel has had a bit of a rollercoaster time setting the stage for its next era. But even as critical and financial consensus wanes on the studios' output,...Read more...

Anthropic, a startup born out of OpenAI defectors, claims its new chatbot, Claude 3, has broken new ground for the AI world. The updated AI chatbot, released on Monday, outperforms ChatGPT and Google Gemini's most advanced models, potentially crowning a new king in the AI world. Anthropic released three tiers - Opus,...Read more...

It's day 4 of Gizmodo's March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! Yesterday's match-up was the biggest blowout we've seen yet with Google Maps taking 96 percent of the vote and eliminating Yelp from the tournament. Today, we have another David vs Goliath fight as Apple's iMessage takes on...Read more...

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An ambitious NASA project designed to test satellite refueling in space, known as OSAM-1, has been discontinued after significant technical, cost, and scheduling difficulties. The cancellation comes in the wake of an October 2023 report from NASA's Office of Inspector General that cited poor performance" by Maxar,...Read more...

Editor's Note: The following story contains references to self-harm. Please dial 988" to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline if you're experiencing suicidal thoughts or mental health-related distress.Read more...

Four astronauts are scheduled to ride on board the Orion spacecraft in September 2025 for NASA's first crewed mission to the Moon in more than 50 years. But before the Artemis crew can strap into Orion, the space agency still needs to resolve an issue with the spacecraft's side hatch that could prevent the astronauts...Read more...

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Donald Trump supporters are creating and sharing AI-generated images of the former president with Black voters. The photos appear to be an attempt to inflate Trump's popularity with the Black community, which may be irreparably harmed by his ties to white supremacist groups, but the photos are nothing but fakes.Read more...

Tim Blake Nelson teases the Leader's rise in Captain America: Brave New World. Jason Blumhouse still wants to make a new Friday the 13th. Evil co-showrunner Robert King lifts the lid on the final season. Plus a new look at the long-awaited third season of One Punch Man. Spoilers now!

On Monday, Apple was hit with a stunning 1.84 billion ($2 billion) fine for violating antitrust laws in Europe. The EU said the company abused its dominant position" by forcing Spotify and other music streaming apps not to tell customers they could save money if they subscribed outside of the App Store.Read more...

Researchers studying orcas off the coast of South Africa recently observed one of the whales consuming a great white shark alone, in just two minutes.

When you're buying a new smartphone, salesmen love pestering you to buy some increased protection - insurance, a case, and, obviously, a screen protector. The screen protector has long been hailed as a necessity, costing anywhere from $10 to $60. These little slips of plastic and glass have ballooned to a $50 billion...Read more...

This week's puzzle is difficult. Not because it has an exceedingly complicated solution, but because the idea that underlies it is deep and ingenious. I only know of one method to solve it, but I'm curious whether alternative approaches exist. Feel free to spitball half-baked ideas in the comments. You might find...Read more...

If you haven't spent a lot of time inside Google Maps-besides getting from A to B and finding the nearest restaurant or bar-then you might not know about all the various features stuffed into the app since it first launched in 2005.

It's March, and we've got our first big movie for 2024 in Warner Bros. and Legendary's Dune: Part Two. Even as its release date shifted around a few times, there's been a palpable excitement in the air for the second half of Denis Villeneuve's adaptation of Frank Herbert's novel, and that was before it was getting...Read more...

Mark Dodson, a voice actor best known as Mogwai in the 1984 film Gremlins, passed away on Saturday at 64 years old.Read more...

Freelance comic book writers and artists have accused publisher Scout Comics of not paying them for their work, in some cases not doing so (or communicating with them) for a year or more.Read more...

Like Twitter or Tiktok, Reddit is a platform built on (often fake) stories-some funny, some sad, and some scary as hell. And with anything up for grabs to turn into a TV show or movie, the scariest (and most viral) of Reddit's horror tales are being adapted for the small screen with the upcoming series Tales From the...Read more...

Welcome to day 3 of Gizmodo's March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! WhatsApp barely beat out Dark Sky in our second round of the tournament, garnering 53 percent of the overall vote. RIP Dark Sky. And today we have an epic grudge match between Google Maps and Yelp.Read more...

Denis Villeneuve's first Dune managed to become a hit in 2021, even as it came out during the pandemic and with a simultaneous streaming date on HBO Max. After WB and Legendary greenlit Dune: Part Two for 2023 (to the delight of many), anticipation for it has been through the roof, even when it was delayed to 2024 due...Read more...

Sooner or later, modern superhero comics dig into what it means for people with extraordinary powers to exist in the world on a larger geopolitical scale. With the right team at the helm, those kind of stories can lead to compelling drama, and Image Comics is hoping you'll turn up to see how that shakes out in its...Read more...

If you've ever wanted a movie about werewolves that also comes with some social commentary wrapped inside, your needs could possibly be sated in the near future with an upcoming movie.Read more...

2020's The Last of Us Part II is a revenge story built around two sides: that of Ellie (as played in the show by Bella Ramsey) and newcomer Abby (Kaitlyn Dever). Both women have their own respective supporting casts, and the HBO adaptation has mainly cast the folks in Ellie's social circle like Dina and Jesse.

It's day 2 of Gizmodo's March Madness bracket challenge to crown the greatest app of all time! The mighty Fart App has fallen to Instagram in our first round and today's challengers are WhatsApp vs Dark Sky. Will Mark Zuckerberg win again? That's up to you.

Every horror movie has The Moment: where you see the main characters do something that both kicks off the plot and is often also an extremely boneheaded move. Usually, it involves a door and someone making the choice to open it or go in there, which they should never, ever do. So it goes with Lionsgate's upcoming...Read more...

As the upcoming Superman movie begins filming over in Atlanta, it's landed one more actor to round out its principle cast: beloved actor Wendell Pierce will play Perry White.

The Flipper Zero may be one of the most versatile, and most controversial keychain-sized devices ever put to market. The device can scan, receive, send, and mimic several types of signals. It can scan NFC and RFID signals used by many common products. It can replicate the frequency used for your workplace's ID card....Read more...

Evil! This week there's a lot of it, whether it's seeming confirmation as to just who Emma Corrin will play in Deadpool and Wolverine, or Star Wars subtly and not so subtly reminding us that the Jedi Order really did go off the rails with all that systemic rot. Also evil: the way Bill Skarsgard looks in the new Crow...Read more...

In our top science stories this week: Writer Ed Cara looks back at the terrifying prion disease known as Mad Cow; researchers discover seamounts taller than the Burj Khalifa; and the journal that published a horrifying diagram of rat dck' explains what went wrong. -Rose PastoreRead more...

There are some things near and dear to many. For some, it's fast food at a good price, and for others, it's Willy Wonka. Both were messed with this week by people who wanted to make a quick buck. Here are those stories and the other top tech stories of the week.Read more...

This week, the team reviewed the mighty ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 gaming laptop that packs a lot of horsepower inside its 14-inch chassis. We also pitted the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra against the S24+ to see which one is worth your hard-earned money. And, if you're looking for the best (and weirdest) work-from-home gear...Read more...

Have you seen that croissant made in the shape of a dinosaur that's gone viral in recent days on sites like Reddit and X? It's incredibly cute. But we regret to inform you this Croissantosaurus" was made using generative AI. In fact, if you track down where this pastry was first posted, you'll find an entire fake...Read more...

We live in a golden age of Star Wars prequel renaissance. The biggest stories right now all go back to the age of the prequel trilogy, its stars-some of them at least- are returning left and right. Arguably the most important character in the galaxy right now, Ahsoka Tano, was born from Clone Wars' own diligent...Read more...

Book-devouring horror fans have had March 2024 circled on the calendar for some time now, anticipating Stephen Graham Jones' trilogy-capping The Angel of Indian Lake. But there's plenty to please every preference this month, with haunted houses, space hotels, mythology-inspired fantasies, and so much more.Read more...

The zombie plague might be a bit of a MacGuffin in AMC's The Walking Dead-you know, because the real drama comes from conflict between humans-but that life-after-death theme now applies to the franchise too. After 11 seasons of the main series, plus five previous spin-offs, the latest entry, The Walking Dead: The Ones...Read more...

The era of bad robot music is upon us. Adobe is working on a new AI tool that will let anyone be a music producer-no instrument or editing experience required.Read more...

A pair of AirPods are at the center of an international mystery after race driver Louis Deletraz left his headphones on a United Airlines flight. Deletraz, who said he left the Airpods under a seat in row 16 on a flight to Geneva, Switzerland, tracked the headphones as they traveled across the globe. But when they...Read more...

Nikon is making a camera you can take to space. In partnership with NASA, the company is developing a handheld camera for astronauts to use on the surface of the Moon for the upcoming Artemis missions.Read more...

This week, the world had a collective freakout over Willy's Chocolate Experience," an event in Glasgow, Scotland that ended in tears. Organizers used AI-generated ads that promised $45 Wonka wonderland, but when parents and children arrived, they found a barren, filthy warehouse. Several actors involved with the...Read more...

It's March. 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 that we...Read more...

For the past year, contractors associated with Google's YouTube Music Content Operations Team have been attempting to collectively bargain with the tech giant. Those workers won the right to unionize last April in a historic victory and, since that time, have been trying to get Google to come to the bargaining table....Read more...

Things are going really, really well for Denis Villeneuve right now. Dune: Part Two-the sequel to his six-time Oscar-winning 2021 Dune-has gotten rapturous reviews and is on track for massive box-office success. And his career pre-Dune was also full of acclaim. But one film in particular carried so much weight, he...Read more...

Increased drinking during the pandemic has had a real effect on our collective mortality, new research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. The study found that between 2020 to 2021, nearly 500 deaths a day could be attributed to excessive alcohol use-significantly higher than the death toll seen...Read more...

It wasn't quite a sandworm, but when a 27-pound, three-foot by three-foot Dune box arrives at your door, it's about as close as an Earthling can get.Read more...

Conspiracy theorists spent Thursday trying to claim President Joe Biden had accidentally admitted" that directed-energy weapons were being used to start devastating wildfires like the one in Texas this week that's become the largest in state history. But you won't be surprised to learn that the video clip these...Read more...

Welcome to Gizmodo's first annual March Madness bracket. We want you to help us figure out which app is the greatest of all time. We've nominated 32 competitors, and two of them will go head-to-head each day until one app is chosen to wear the crown for eternity.

If there's one thing to say about the $169 Flipper Zero, it's that it's really damn cute. When the Flipper is idling, the cyber dolphin that appears in all the apps and product materials as the device's mascot can be found lounging around, making sly references to older movies. Sometimes, they record a dancing praying...Read more...

March is bringing a ton of new Lego sets to shelves-and a very special celebration for one of the toymaker's biggest lines, as the Lego Star Wars range celebrates its 25th anniversary with tons of special sets. But that's far from all that's dropping this month.

For chatbots, math is the final frontier. AI language models generate responses using statistics, spitting out an answer that's mostly likely to be satisfying. That works great when the goal is a passable sentence, but it means chatbots struggle with questions like math where there's exactly one right answer.Read more...