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For no reason at all-the reason was last month's Eurovision Song Contest-I have been lurking around Gen Z spaces and noticed a return to the old form of gadgetry. It started with wired headphones, and now it seems like the lust for single-feature gadgets has been wholly revived, from point-and-shoot cameras to MP3...Read more...

The Meta Quest 3 hasn't enjoyed much time in the spotlight this year, and that probably won't change with the headset's most recent hardware and app updates. But let's cast a more intense glow on the Meta Quest anyway because there's something else happening to the Quest ecosystem if you've been paying attention. The...Read more...

There's only one Last of Us game remaining to adapt but it's going to take much longer than previously expected. After turning the first Last of Us game into a complete season of television, showrunners Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann recently revealed that they have an outline of how they'll adapt The Last of Us Part...Read more...

Researchers in the UK appear to have discovered a pivotal genetic cause of inflammatory bowel disease. In a new study Wednesday, the team found evidence of a specific genetic flaw that seems to play a key role in driving immune cells to attack the guts of those with IBD-a flaw found in nearly all the cases they...Read more...

Local prosecutors in California recently filed a lawsuit against Kroger (which also owns the Ralphs and Food 4 Less supermarket chains) for allegedly mislabeling the calorie counts on store-name bread. The Kroger Carbmaster bread line listed just 30 calories per slice, when the bread was actually 50 calories or more...Read more...

Loki going from Marvel Studios' God of Mischief to God of Stories gave actor Tom Hiddleston the opportunity to explore the full arc of the fan-favorite anti-hero. From his first appearance in Thor, directed by Kenneth Branagh, to his many deaths in The Avengers films, to finally getting the throne he always sought at...Read more...

Mystery and Star Wars go hand in hand. The franchise has, for the best part of half a century, dedicated itself to answering mysteries big and small about its galaxy-sometimes for good or ill. But rarely has a Star Wars story been a mystery in regards to its genre, and The Acolyte embraces that structure...Read more...

The 1980s were a glorious decade for horror films, heralding the rise of slasher franchises and an influx of European oddities and creative indies, with the uncertain energy of the times summoning forth movies that offered a blend of kitsch, adventurous gore, and last-days-of-the-Cold-War unease.Read more...

While David Lynch fans are still hoping he'll one day to return to Twin Peaks (again), a small kernel of dreamy Lynchian bliss has just entered the atmosphere. It's the video for Sublime Eternal Love," which Lynch directed, offering the first taste of Cellophane Memories, his new album with Chrystabell.Read more...

Join me now for a look into my soul. Many times before on this website, I've written about my weird obsession with Han Solo in Carbonite from Star Wars. I love Han Solo as a character, of course, but in terms of collecting, I mainly collect Han in Carbonite, as well as Hoth Han-blue jacket, not brown.Read more...

House of the Dragon and Game of Thrones are both adapted from the works of George R.R. Martin, but with distinct challenges: Dragon is based on a history tome, while Thrones' plot ended up advancing beyond that of Martin'sas-yet-unfinished book series. Dragon showrunner Ryan Condal knows endings are an issue in...Read more...

Update: June 5, 11:02 a.m. ET: ULA's Atlas V rocket blasted off this morning at 10:52 a.m. ET, with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams sitting inside Boeing's Starliner capsule. The first crewed mission of this spacecraft, following two failed launch attempts, is finally underway. Of course, the true test...Read more...

Dermatologists are sounding the alarm over two emerging types of fungi that can cause nasty bouts of ringworm. In a new report Wednesday, they describe the first known U.S. case of one ringworm fungus that can spread sexually, while another recent paper details the arrival of a species resistant to the most common...Read more...

If you're mainly plotting routes through Google Maps on your web browser, Google is telling you it's past time to start using the app and only the app. The company is ending access to the Timeline feature for users on the web. If you want to keep your past routes, you'll need to download them to your app.Read more...

In his search for giant stars hosting large worlds, Samuel Grunblatt, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University, came across a strangely puffy planet that's smaller, hotter, and older than it's supposed to be. We didn't expect to find any planet that looks like this," he told Gizmodo.Read more...

Star Wars has long been a little in love with itself, for better or worse-familiar faces and locales showing up over and over, nods to familiar events, and of course, lines that become something akin to catchphrases. And while The Acolyte is both a series that charts a lot of new ground for Star Wars on-screen, it's...Read more...

Apple and OpenAI have reportedly forged a partnership to ingrain ChatGPT into the iPhone's operating system, according to Bloomberg and The Information. The big news is expected to be announced at next week's Worldwide Developers Conference. Apple seems to be the latest to join a large party of companies that have...Read more...

Gen V expands its cast for season 2. Paul Giamatti is set to bring Hostel to TV. A new Creep show is in the works. Plus, what's coming on Evil. To me, my spoilers!

Unless you're a horror fan, there's a chance you're missing out on one of the coolest cinematic universes going today. It's Ti West's X trilogy, which started with X, continued with Pearl, and on July 5, concludes with MaXXXine.Read more...

For more than 30 years, NASA's iconic Hubble Space Telescope has been scouring the cosmos to look for ancient galaxies and dazzling nebulae. The wear and tear of traveling through low Earth orbit is starting to show on the aging telescope, forcing it to resort to using only one of its three remaining gyroscopes to...Read more...

Update, 7:50 p.m. ET: AT&T says the issue has now been fixed, telling Gizmodo over email, We collaborated with the other carrier to find a solution and appreciate our customers patience during this period." The original article remains below.

We've all had time to absorb the wonder that is the official Deadpool & Wolverine popcorn bucket; now, you can appreciate another subversive movie-theater flourish courtesy of Marvel's eagerly awaited summer release. The full Silence Your Phone" PSA featuring the characters has been released, and it's a bleepin'...Read more...

The fifth Avengers film is less than two years away and it seems as if Marvel is finally honing in on who is going to direct. Destin Daniel Cretton was originally announced for the film, then called The Kang Dynasty, but dropped out late last year. Now, reports are that Marvel has asked Shawn Levy, who is finishing up ...Read more...

The Marvel Cinematic Universe loses its Hope Van Dyne after a run in the Disney franchise world starring in Ant-Man, Ant-Man and the Wasp, and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania-as well as appearances in the MCU event Avengers films. The Wasp is done.Read more...

ChatGPT went down for all users on Tuesday morning due to a flurry of major outages, according to OpenAI's status page. There were two distinct outages, the first of which began around 3 a.m. ET and a second around 10:30 am ET, but the app now appears to be operational. It's unclear at this time what the cause of the...Read more...

Tim Burton's iconoclast agent of undead chaos Beetlejuice has, over the years, become a pop culture staple especially during Halloween. Between Warner Bros. collections at Hot Topic, Funko, Loungefly, and Spirit Halloween, the Jooce has become a comedic ambassador for all things spooky. This is something that star...Read more...

Major accounts on TikTok were taken over by hackers Tuesday, including CNN, Sony, and Paris Hilton, according to a report from Forbes. And while it doesn't appear that the hackers have posted anything to the accounts, the method reportedly didn't include the targets doing anything more than opening a direct message.

If there's one thing we know about Hasbro and its Star Wars figures, it's that they love a Mandalorian. Not just The Mandalorian, the show or the main character, but any Mandalorian character. Mostly because, well, they all have relatively similar armor which, in theory, means mass-producing them is probably just a...Read more...

British actor William Russell, beloved for his role in the early days of Doctor Who as companion Ian Chesterton, has died, the Guardian reports.Read more...

Seeing book authors beam with pride is one thing. When those authors are two of the main creatives behind not just the book, but its subject as well, it's something else. That's what we've got with Josh Brolin and Greig Fraser, co-authors of Dune: Exposures, a new book combining the former's poetry and the latter's...Read more...

It's a big day for Star Wars' prequel-prequel era. As The Acolyte prepares to drop on Disney+ today, it's not the only big event for the High Republic era to deal with this, as the transmedia publishing initiative's latest novel prepares to hit shelves-and we've got a look inside.

This summer, director Fede Alvarez is ready to give the world a great big face hug. His new movie, Alien: Romulus hits theaters August 16 and it promises another great battle between humanity and those face-hugging, chest-bursting, acid-filled little devils called Xenomorphs.

For the past few years, Star Wars has been fascinated with the question of how we came to the status quo of its original trilogy of movies. Across books, comics, games, and shows we have seen the franchise engage with the road that brought us from the time of Revenge of the Sith to the start of A New Hope-and a little...Read more...

Injuring people, bricking after going through a carwash. Multiple off-road embarrassments-the Cybertruck has had a rough first year. And here we are again showing you another example of why the Cybertruck is potentially dangerous to drive.Read more...

The company made famous by pandemic video chatting has a new vision for the future of work. Zoom CEO Eric Yuan told The Verge that AI avatars will one day do your job on your behalf. According to Yuan, the avatar will speak in your Zoom meetings for you, answer emails, and take phone calls, supposedly freeing you up...Read more...

Suppose you've been biting your bottom lip for years waiting for the Game Boy-like Analogue Pockets to return in stock. In that case, there's another company set to release another handheld to play your old cartridges natively without any emulation hassle. ModRetro now has its $200 Chromatic not-Game Boy available for...Read more...

Blue Origin, the company founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, has launched an investigation following an incident during its first crewed flight in two years, in which one of the parachutes on the New Shepard capsule failed to fully inflate.Read more...

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I enjoy a massive, sloping maw of a gaming-first, curved display as much as any screen-obsessed gamer. However, Samsung's latest flat-paneled Odyssey OLEDs have some of the most exciting features behind the display. I had the opportunity to spend about an hour in front of Samsung's latest Odyssey monitors, including...Read more...

If you're on the hunt for your next (or first) pair of wireless buds, you may be in for quite a bit of work. With dozens of options to choose from, choice paralysis is only natural.Read more...

After a short visit to the Moon's far side, a Chinese spacecraft loaded with lunar rock and dust has started its return trip to Earth to deliver these precious samples.Read more...

Get a look at Willem Dafoe's mysterious character in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. The Boys returns in the first photos from season four's premiere episodes. Plus, Snowpiercer prepares for the end in a new teaser. To me, my spoilers!

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The banking industry took its time to transition from paper bills to plastic cards. Now it's in the midst of a more rapid transformation: going digital.Read more...

An internal Google database containing six years' worth of potential privacy breaches and security issues was recently obtained, and reveals-among many other things-that a Google employee used their access to watch a private YouTube video uploaded by Nintendo and leaked the details online.Read more...

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Keith Gill, the popular investor who sparked the skyrocketing of GameStop's stock back in 2021 and appears to be back at it again, might have his E*Trade account shut down, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal Monday. The stock trading platform and its owner Morgan Stanley reportedly have concerns about...Read more...

Mixing your long plane ride with alcohol could be a dangerous cocktail for your heart, new research out Monday suggests. The small trial found that healthy volunteers experienced a greater drop in their blood oxygen level and corresponding rise in heart rate after drinking alcohol while sleeping in high-altitude...Read more...

Sci-fi and fantasy entertainment has finally seen a shift toward more diverse casting-a move that not only better reflects our world, but also brings joy to fans who've longed to see people who look like them represented onscreen. (It can also, as we've seen especially with Star Wars, bring out toxic fans.) In a press...Read more...

Meta is testing unskippable Instagram ads, first reported by TechCrunch on Monday, alongside the patience of every user who has to put up with the feature. The unskippable ads, which some users shared their experience with on other social media platforms this weekend, force users to sit through a timed ad before they...Read more...