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After eight years of being available to thrillseekers and those who feel just a single wheel satisfies their transportation needs, Future Motion’s Onewheel self-balancing electric skateboards are facing calls for a full recall from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. This comes after four reported deaths over…Read more...

NASA’s Artemis 1 mission is in full swing, with the agency’s SLS megarocket blasting off earlier this morning from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The freshly launched Orion spacecraft is heading to the Moon, but it captured a sweet view of Earth before saying goodbye.Read more...

The ongoing opioid crisis in the U.S. has shortened life expectancy and caused untold suffering. The synthetic drug fentanyl has been particularly devastating, because it’s so potent compared to other opioids. New research in rats may offer a glimmer of hope, however: Scientists found that an experimental vaccine can…Read more...

Up to release, the bulk of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’s press cycle was rightly focused on what the film would do to serve as a memorial for Chadwick Boseman, in addition to gradually making clear that the next Black Panther would be taking their place. While the film itself can maybe bite off more than it can…Read more...

All of Doctor Who’s post-regeneration scenes are brief little windows in what to possibly expect from a new Doctor—but when you’re David Tennant and getting the chance to play not one, but two Doctors, you’re going to want to have a little callback to the last time you did this.

NASA officials spoke at a House subcommittee hearing Wednesday morning about the status of the Webb Space Telescope, which has been capturing images of the universe near and far since early this summer. During the meeting, they revealed Webb’s latest portrait: a shot of a dark cloud called L1527 and the light…Read more...

No time is wasted in the penultimate episode of season one of Andor. “Daughter of Ferrix,” directed by Benjamin Caron and written by Tony Gilroy, is a breakneck build to the finale that drops you right into where everyone is in the final moments before their lives forever change. And you see just what they’ll do to…Read more...

It turns out that you’re never too big to get cut down to size by your friends in the group chat. Soon after Chris Evans’ Sexiest Man Alive cover for People went wide, the original Avengers—Chris Hemsworth, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, and Mark Ruffalo—immediately began to text each other. I…Read more...

Meta’s own policies around fact-checking political candidates may be pigeonholing them into hosting a groundswell of new, immaculate Donald Trump-authored ravings.Read more...

Meta’s Oversight Board overrode the tech giant’s decision to delete a Facebook post earlier this year that compared Russian soldiers to Nazis.Read more...

Boston Dynamics wants to ensure its place in the creepy robot dog market. The tech company has filed a complaint against Philadelphia-based Ghost Robotics claiming that the latter has infringed on Boston Dynamics’ patents.

Earlier this year, The CW decimated its scripted series programming, canceling familiar favorites like Legends of Tomorrow and Batwoman, and announcing that shows that had previously been in the works, like The 100 spinoff, were also getting the axe. Like many smaller superhero shows (Naomi, for example) Stargirl also…Read more...

Sam Bankman-Fried, who was once considered the real ”wunderkind” of the crypto world, is desperately trying to defend his public image despite federal law enforcement investigations and U.S. lawmakers closing in.Read more...

Gizmodo’s inaugural Degrees of the Future introduced the 25 fields that will shape society in the decades to come, along with the best U.S. universities at which to pursue degrees in those fields. We worked with research agency Statista to survey university employees, industry leaders, students, and alumni to narrow…Read more...

There’s going to be less Resident Alien when it returns for season 3. Puss in Boots is an all-star in a new The Last Wish trailer. Disney releases a new clip from its sci-fi adventure Strange World. Plus, a glimpse at what’s coming on La Brea and The Winchesters. Spoilers, away!

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Big name Microsoft execs have come under heavy scrutiny recently for bullying and sexual harassment complaints, but a new easy, breezy independent report requested by the company isn’t ready to hold anyone’s feet to the fire.Read more...

Twitter owner Elon Musk continued to hammer down on the staff he had left on Wednesday in a midnight email that offered them a choice: Be a part of the new ‘hardcore’ Twitter or leave.Read more...

DuckDuckGo released a new privacy tool for Android Wednesday that will help protect you from the companies harvesting personal data through your apps. The new App Tracking Protection feature, now available in beta in the DuckDuckGo for Android app, will let users take advantage of some of the privacy protections…Read more...

Airbnb users still on the fence about whether or not to list their apartment or home as a rental on the site can now get a helping hand from some of the site’s most experienced listers.

Kevin O’Leary, an investor best known from the show Shark Tank, was asked on Tuesday if he’d still invest in Sam Bankman-Fried again, even after the FTX founder admitted to funneling billions of dollars in customer funds to his own hedge fund and caused the crypto platform to file for bankruptcy last week, upending…Read more...

It’s hard to believe, but 2022 is almost over, and that means it’s time to start thinking about holiday shopping. If gadgets are on your shopping list this year, you might want to consider that when you give a tech gift you’re also giving a present to the tech industry: mountains of your loved-ones’ personal data.

NASA’s Artemis 1 mission is officially underway, with SLS lifting off from Kennedy Space Center early Wednesday morning and sending the Orion spacecraft on a 25-day journey to the Moon and back.Read more...

There’s always something for every fan at the Disneyland Resort—and with the release of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, the holidays are getting even more marvelous at Avengers Campus at Disney California Adventure.Read more...

Space Perspective announced its plans to launch a marine spaceport for its balloon-borne capsules, which are designed to take space tourists on trips to the edge of space.Read more...

The Walking Dead may be coming to an end, but like the zombies at its core, its legal troubles never die. Last year, AMC reached a $200 million settlement with producer Frank Darabont after he sued the network over what he believed was “shady accounting” in regard to his profits. That result was in direct contrast to…Read more...

Digital activism started with KONY 2012, which asked people to highlight the crimes of an African warlord in an attempt to aid a global manhunt to catch him. The ALS ice bucket challenge aimed to raise awareness of the horrors of a degenerative disease.Read more...

As the temperature drops, now becomes the perfect time to start hosting more game nights. Maybe start up that new campaign you’ve been thinking about. Whether you’re a forever DM or have never DM’d before, we’ve got some great games that are sure to challenge you and delight all your players.

Qualcomm has announced its second-generation flagship mobile chip. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 will be available in various flagship Android devices as soon as the end of 2022.

Willow returns on November 30 and a new clip shows you exactly how it happens.Read more...

Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc, was told it needs to make aggressive cost-cutting moves after receiving a letter from activist hedge fund TCI Fund Management.

FTX, the bankrupt crypto exchange that mismanaged customer funds and can’t account for billions in assets, is currently imploding like a dying sun. The wave of financial destruction wrought by the meltdown now threatens to swallow other companies that did business with it, and the latest victim is BlockFi, one of the…Read more...

A tiny spacecraft is about to sail into its demise, burning up as it reenters Earth’s atmosphere for the end of its mission.Read more...

DoorDash, the online food ordering courier, announced a suite of worker-safety-focused features on Monday. The changes include a new ability for delivery workers to block customers who make them feel unsafe, cancel an order if a customer is rude in a text or call, plus other shifts to the DoorDash app, as the company…Read more...

Two cameras on the Mars Express orbiter captured images of a series of dust storms near the Martian North Pole in 2019. Analysis of the images indicates that big clouds of dust on Mars formed similarly to water vapor clouds on Earth—an unintuitive finding, given how different the planets are.Read more...

Doctor Who’s Daleks have undergone a few makeovers since they were turned into bronzed machines of extermination in the 2005 revival of the show. And now, they’re apparently ready for another one—but just how much of an overhaul they’ll get remains to be seen.

Netflix says it knows you’ll be traveling around this holiday season, so just in case you loaded your account on your distant uncle’s TV and forgot to sign out, you can now log them off manually. You know, in case there’s somebody like an ex accessing your account you don’t want to. Or, perhaps, there might be changes…Read more...

After the success of The Icewind Dale trilogy and the immense popularity of its breakout star, Drizzt Do’Urden, R.A. Salvatore was inevitably going to explore how the one non-evil drow elf in the Forgotten Realms became… well, non-evil. The result was the Dark Elf trilogy, which began with Homeland. It was by far my…Read more...

In the newest chapter of fast food franchises stepping into the future, Subway’s new grab-and-go smart fridge tech has rolled out on a college campus in California this fall. Customers can grab sandwiches as they wish from the fridge, which is also listening to what you’re saying as you’re using it.

To the chagrin of many Mastodon users, the software’s developer has decided to formally retire the word “toot,” a term long used to describe posts on the decentralized social media service.

If you’ve ever wondered how much methane the landfill in your neighborhood emits, there’s now a way to potentially find out. A promising new tool can zoom in on spots around the world in various industries to measure just how much greenhouse gases those locations and facilities are emitting.Read more...

It’s true. The hierarchy of power in the DC universe is about to change. But it won’t be Black Adam doing the changing—it’s Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav. At a recent event, he described the future of DC Films as more focused and singular than it had been in the past. “There’s not going to be four Batmans,”…Read more...

Pour one out for Mindstorms. The build-it-yourself Lego robotics brand is getting discontinued at the end of next year, but that doesn’t mean it won’t forever live on in our hearts. But it almost didn’t happen. In his book The Lego Story, Jens Andersen writes about the toy company’s growth from making wooden ducks to…Read more...

Fueled by morning cartoons that were nothing more than thinly veiled commercials, the 1980s were arguably the golden era of toys, with iconic lines like Transformers, G.I. Joe, and the Masters of the Universe debuting that are still popular today—and maybe even moreso, based on a toy-filled auction that ends tomorrow.

Since its launch in September, the BlueWalker 3 satellite has had anxious observers watching the skies in anticipation of its full deployment. Now, the prototype satellite has fully stretched out its massive array of antennas, significantly increasing its brightness and posing a threat to astronomers’ views of the…Read more...

In the world of Chainsaw Man, Tastuki Fujimoto’s smash hit manga—and now even smashier hit anime—perpetually miserable boy hero turned devil-hunter Denji thinks he’s found the dream life when he gets recruited into the government’s anti-devil Public Safety Division. But he’s about to find out that nothing is easy with…Read more...

Twitter owner Elon Musk can add another title to his already long list: Big Brother. On Tuesday, the social media boss showed his employees that he was always watching what they were saying on Twitter’s internal channels, especially if they were talking smack about him.Read more...

Fyre Festival mastermind Billy McFarland is offering an olive branch to the Bahamas, the country where the disaster of a music festival kinda sorta took place in 2017.

Sometime today, November 15, the 8 billionth human on Earth is projected to be born. It could be happening right now, as I write this (or you read this). Or maybe it happened hours ago. But regardless of the exact second, today we officially enter a world with an estimated 8 billion people in it, according to a new…Read more...