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Super Bowl XVIII was jam-packed with celebrities, love stories, angry outbursts, and even some football. Many of us watched the Super Bowl on TV with our own two eyes, but Gizmodo set out to learn what the big game would have looked like through the eyes of an AI image generator.Read more...

Dungeons & Dragons turns 50 this year, and as you'd expect, Wizards of the Coast is marking the anniversary with big announcements-some of which look to the tabletop roleplaying giant's rich past. Announced today: six book releases, upcoming gaming events, and brand collaborations that run the gamut from makes sense"...Read more...

In 2021, it was Godzilla versus Kong. But Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire sees the foes team up-reluctantly-to take on a new threat. The dynamic between them might be unfamiliar based on what we've seen in the Monsterverse so far, but movie fans may recognize its origins in... 80s buddy-cop movies?Read more...

A bracelet and possible sword pommel found in a 3,000-year-old treasure hoard were forged from meteoritic iron, according to a team of researchers that recently studied the pieces. In other words, yes: some Bronze Age Iberian was rocking space jewelry and wielding a space weapon.

The Bad Batch returns in an epic final season where the squad has their bonds tested as they fight to reunite with Omega. The youngest member remains inside a remote Imperial science lab facing challenges of her own. The Star Wars show premieres February 21 on Disney+ to tie everything together for the gang as they...Read more...

Yesterday's Super Bowl brought us our first look at Deadpool 3-now formally Deadpool & Wolverine-and a taste of what's to come as Ryan Reynolds' infamous mercenary storms his way into Marvel's sacred timeline. But what else can we glean from the trailer about the world of the X-Men's first major foray into the MCU?

NASA outfitted its aging communications network with a hybrid antenna that allowed it to receive both radio frequency and laser signals for the first time, helping the space agency keep up with its increasing number of missions traveling through deep space.Read more...

The H3 rocket-11 years in the making-is set for its second launch, following a flubbed debut in March 2023. Japan urgently needs the rocket to succeed, with a second failure risking further delays and monumental headaches for Japan's space program.

A rare case of plague has been found in Oregon. Local health officials reported a U.S. case of the bacterial menace earlier this month-the first seen within the state in nearly a decade. The victim has been hospitalized as a result, but appears to be responding well to treatment, officials say.Read more...

Twitter is one of the internet's favorite places for internet beef and Elon Musk is no stranger to it. A particular beef involving a college student tracking his private jet was the catalyst for the billionaire purchasing shares of Twitter, commencing his takeover of the social media platform, according to a new book...Read more...

Game of Thrones' Sophie Turner and Kit Harington are reuniting for a new gothic horror. The minions generate A.I. art in a new look at Despicable Me 4. Plus, what's to come on The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live. Spoilers, away!

President Joe Biden has a message for the right-wing conspiracy theorists who were convinced he was rigging the Super Bowl in favor of Taylor Swift's boyfriend: The plan went off without a hitch.Read more...

Apple computer owners have long felt free to roam the internet without a care in the world. You float out of the Apple Store with a white box that perfectly slides apart when you open it at your home, and inside is your impenetrable, space-grey fortress of solitude with an Apple logo just waiting to shine for you....Read more...

Last month, Gizmodo got an email from WastewaterSCAN, a company that monitors sewage for traces of infectious disease. The outfit had a pitch for us: February 12th is National Poop Day," the company said. Would we like to talk to an expert for our Poop Day coverage?Read more...

If every American, from newborns to centenarians, from vegans to pescatarians, ate four chicken wings each today, we'd still be about 100 million wings shy of yesterday's consumption. At least, that's according to the National Chicken Council, who seems to know their trade.

A crowd in San Francisco vandalized a Waymo self-driving car carrying no passengers on Saturday night, breaking its windshield and setting it ablaze. Once firefighters got the situation under control, only a burned husk of the Waymo remained.

John Krasinski and Paramount aren't just bringing sound-seeking aliens to the theater this year. In May, the actor is directing (and writing) his first kiddie movie, the Ryan Reynolds-starring IF, which came to the Super Bowl with a new trailer on hand.

In 1996, when Twister was released, climate change" didn't quite carry the very real, very doom-laden weight that it does now. These days, dangerously freaky weather grabs alarmingly regular headlines, so the time feels ripe for an update-and here comes Twisters to bring us killer tornados aplenty.

Centuries have passed since Caesar helped his fellow apes evolve beyond mere animals into the dominant species on the planet. Humans still exist, but only in hiding. And that's where Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes picks up, following a new ape unaware of this history, who finds himself in another epic struggle.

At long last, the Super Bowl spot for Wicked: Part One finally gives us a new look at Oz. Jon M. Chu's cinematic musical adaptation stars Ariana Grande and Cynthis Erivo in a new story behind The Wizard of Oz's witchy feuds.Read more...

Marvel Studios is only releasing one movie this year-but, from the looks of it, it's going to be unforgettable. That movie, of course, is Deadpool & Wolverine, which brings the R-rated, fourth-wall-breaking hero from Fox's X-Men Universe into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Ryan Reynolds stars and, this time, he's...Read more...

Flying from Tokyo, Japan back to the U.S. to get to the Super Bowl and watch her boyfriend Travis Kelce play was very important to pop superstar Taylor Swift-so important that she apparently had a second private jet on standby.Read more...

In the early 2010s, the novelty of the original Kick-Ass movies was how they served as a naughty, meaner version of DC and Marvel flicks. If you ever wanted a preteen Robin-alike to shoot gangsters in the head or slice them up with a butterfly knife, you'd go to these filmsfor your fix. But when you're trying to make...Read more...

Tenet occupies an odd place in Christopher Nolan's filmography. It became one of the big tentpole movies during the early days of the pandemic, and Warner Bros. simultaneous streamer/theatrical release of its movies led to him jumping ship over to Universal. Ahead of the movie's upcoming re-release, Nolan's telling...Read more...

After being put on ice with 2018's The Predator, the sci-fi horror franchise came back to life with Prey. The 2022 movie wound back the clock to 1719 in the Great Plains to focus on a Comanche woman named Naru, and it took off big with audiences. Not only was it graced with a physical release last year after it...Read more...

Last October, a new Goosebumps TV show was released on Disney+. Like many, we thought it was a pretty solid adaptation of R.L. Stine's beloved series, so it's glad to hear it'll be coming back with another season.Read more...

Since 2013, Warner Bros.' Conjuring movies has been going along with mainline installments and spinoffs for various villains of the Warren family. But all scary things must come to some kind of end, and the upcoming The Conjuring 4 is aiming to bring the mothership series to some kind of close.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse did a lot of things right, and one of them was its music. That movie had a really good original soundtrack, and its obvious standout is Post Malone and Swae Lee's Sunflower." Releasing a few months before the film came out helped a lot, and it's one of those songs that's perfect for...Read more...

Last week, Stanley landed itself in hot water after a safety advocate went viral for pointing out that the company uses toxic lead in cups, tumblers, and other products. The internet, which spent recent months celebrating Stanleys as the must-have hot girl product, went ballistic. Stories about the leaded Stanley cups...Read more...

Come April 2, Funimation is going the way of the dodo. Earlier in the week, Sony revealed it'll be sunsetting Funimation's app and website in order to unify both it and Crunchyroll...something the company first revealed all the way back in 2022.

Earlier this week, it was reported that Jurassic World 4 had potentially found a director in Bullet Train's David Leitch. Smash cut to now, and Leitch is no longer attached to the project.Read more...

The Star Wars fandom got into a tizzy earlier this week when Empire Magazine teased something. Rather than being a look at the future of the franchise-like say, The Acolyte, Andor, or Bad Batch-it was all about the past. Thanks to Empire, we're going back to the Prequels, babyyyyyyyy!

This week AI showed it can destroy the world for the sake of peace, but if you train correctly, it can also help you find love. Also, happening this past week is Taylor Swift not happy her private jet is being tracked, TikTok showing signs of sucking more than usual, and some people with Apple Vision Pro are acting...Read more...

Now that the Apple Vision Pro is finally out, these headset owners are finding, let's say, pretty unique ways of using their $3,500 mixed reality headset. That's not the only Apple news either; the Cupertino giant is rumored to be working on not one but two foldable iPhones.

The 46-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft is on the fritz again, and this time it may be critical. As one engineer said, this is, by far, the most serious since I've been project manager." Here are our top science stories from this week.Read more...

As Dune: Part Two approaches, io9 took a look at an amazing tie-in Lego set-and asked the cast and crew what they thought (they love it, too). We also recommended some books to read (other than Dune) for upcoming sci-fi, fantasy, and horror adaptations; debuted a cool mutant-movie trailer; and more. - Cheryl EddyRead more...

This week, Tucker Carlson conducted an interview with Vladimir Putin for his show on X. The interview, which is over two hours long, was ostensibly an attempt to interview the Russian leader about the war in Ukraine. Before talking about that, however, Putin launched into a lengthy digression about his own version of...Read more...

Just like the bad guy out of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, real life cartoon villain David Zaslav has revealed his nefarious plot: based on a damning investigative report from the Wrap, it seems the Warner Bros. head honcho planned to delete Coyote vs. Acmeall along. Apparently, he never even watched the movie.Read more...

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Las Vegas becomes the destination of choice this weekend with the Super Bowl taking place in Sin City. With that comes a slew of interactive pop-ups, including a Cheetos-themed wedding chapel, the Paramount+ mountain, and of course staples like Area15 and spooky escape room fun with Pennywise at Escape It.

There's a new Apple image editor, if you know where to look. The iPhone kings teamed up with researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara to build a tool that lets you edit photos and images with text-based instructions. It doesn't have an official release, but the researchers are hosting a demo you...Read more...

A striking set of gigantic sunspots, first spotted from Mars and now designated AR3576, is currently facing Earth, capturing the attention of astronomers, space enthusiasts, and concerned space weather forecasters.Read more...

It's not uncommon to see multiple adaptations of popular books, but this is hardly a David Lynch's Dune versus Denis Villeneuve's Dune" situation. Weeks before Netflix is set to roll out its high-profile adaptation of Chinese author Liu Cixin's award-winning sci-fi novel The Three-Body Problem, a rival streamer is...Read more...

During mating season, male seals usually have one thing on their mind. For about three months, the seals conserve all their energy to mate, or at least try to, with nearby females at the beach. But not all heroes wear capes; some of them wear 2 tons of blubber and are willing to sacrifice precious energy to save a pup...Read more...

Another week, another study finding that Ozempic/Wegovy and similar drugs may do a lot more than just help people lose weight. New research has found that patients who start taking GLP-1 drugs are less likely to be diagnosed with depression and anxiety afterward, compared to similar patients not on the drug. The...Read more...

In more ways than you realize, sports and movies are the exact same thing. On the simplest level, each consists of a group of highly trained, sometimes well-paid, professionals doing various specific jobs all with a singular purpose: telling a story, usually for profit. The main difference is that in movies (and TV)...Read more...

Google just released its long-awaited ChatGPT killer, Gemini, an ultra-smart AI chatbot that can finally match OpenAI's ChatGPT. Early reviews of Google's chatbot are slowly rolling out, and everyone is impressed. However, some can't shake this eerie feeling that Gemini has more ghosts than a haunted house.Read more...

Even before its 2022 finale, the world of AMC's The Walking Dead was expanding. Fear the Walking Dead kicked off the spinoff trend, and shows like Daryl Dixon, World Beyond, Dead City, and Tales of the Walking Dead followed. Now, the most highly anticipated of those shows, The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, is set...Read more...

Great news for fans of the Predator franchise, particularly standalone prequel entry Prey: the director of that 2022 film, Dan Trachtenberg (who also made 10 Cloverfield Lane), is returning to the universe. While Prey 2 still might happen, that's not what this new project is; rather, it's another standlone titled Badla...Read more...

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