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Hugo Gernsback was a pioneer in the world of science fiction during the first half of the 20th century-so much so that the Hugo Awards are named after him. But Gernback also edited serious tech magazines and came up with ideas that were often way ahead of their time. Or, in the case of the office isolator" pictured...Read more...

A Bluey episode originally released in 2020 everywhere except the United States finally gets the green light to be seen-with a catch: it's only online (for now).Read more...

Time to celebrate the moms in your life-who we should really be celebrating every day-with the latest fashion and accessory releases from major geeky retailers in stores and online. BoxLunch, the Disney Store, the Gap, Hot Topic, and more have incredible fandom picks across genre favorites like Star Wars, The Lord of...Read more...

A long-standing tradition for most Planet of the Apes sequels is a long title with a unique, fitting first word. So far there's been Beneath, Escape, Conquest, Battle, Rise, Dawn, and War. That tradition continues with next week's Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes which, according to director Wes Ball, was always the...Read more...

There's been a lot of talk about the Tesla Cybertruck having a deep desire to chomp people's fingers off with its power frunk latch, but no one has been brave enough to stick their fingie in there and find out what happens... until now. So far, we've only seen various vegetables and dummy hands get crunched by the...Read more...

Over the years, the Star Wars saga has been taken under the knife and chopped and edited-for better or worse-many times, even beyond the Special Editions of the 90s. And yet one of the weirdest tweaks is still one of the most recent: the bizarre rally cry of maclunkey!" when Greedo goes to shoot Han Solo in A New...Read more...

Months after it shutdown the popular Switch emulator Yuzu over copyright infringement and piracy concerns, Nintendo has initiated a mass takedown of related backups and apparent clones on the Microsoft-owned platform Github. Over 8,000 repositories were removed as the Zelda publisher seemingly tries to stomp out forks...Read more...

Bird flu continues to be a real public health threat, but apparently not to our food supply at least. The Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Department of Agriculture separately announced late Wednesday that their tests of pasteurized milk and ground beef failed to find any live H5N1 in samples at risk of being...Read more...

Prime Video's Outer Range-one of the weirdest sci-fi series in recent memory, and among the weirdest sci-fi neo-Western series ever-is returning for a second season, which feels like a streaming miracle. You can likely thank the star power of Josh Brolin, who anchors the show's oddball plot and tone with his...Read more...

Just a few weeks after Discovery showed how much confidence it had in taking a Star Trek trope it knew it was good at and damn near perfecting it, this week we get the series diving into another-and not really finding much interest in why it even took it on in the first place.

Humans aren't the only primates with a medicine cabinet, it seems. In a new paper published today, scientists document a male orangutan named Rakus using a plant with known medicinal properties to help heal his facial wound. While there have been other recent accounts of animals using medicine in the wild, this...Read more...

The Sonic the Hedgehog Cinematic Universe is knocking out the competition on Paramount+ as limited series Knuckles sets a streaming record for the platform.Read more...

Another whistleblower who raised safety concerns about production practices related to Boeing has died. Joshua Dean, who previously worked as a quality auditor at the plane manufacturer's supplier, Spirit AeroSystems, died Tuesday as the result of a sudden, fast-spreading infection," the Seattle Times reports.Read more...

As NASA prepares to send astronauts to the Moon as part of the upcoming Artemis 2 mission, the space agency still needs to resolve a few lingering issues with its Orion capsule that could jeopardize the safety of the crew on board, according to a new report.Read more...

Last week Hot Toys surprised Star Wars fans with a two-for-one reveal that the toymaker would start to dip into the world of Star Wars Legends"-the contemporary name for the galaxy far, far away's former canon in the Expanded Universe. Now, it's somehow topping that surprise even further, with this: Dark Empire...Read more...

It's been over a decade since the final Twilight movie, so the timing feels just right for Kristen Stewart to enter her second vampire era with Flesh of the Gods. Things are going to be quite a bit different this time around though, with Oscar Isaac as her co-star and Mandy director Panos Cosmatos at the helm.Read more...

A team of researchers used a flattened skull of a female Neanderthal who lived some 75,000 years ago to reconstruct the woman's likeness, providing an uncannily vision of her appearance in life.

Two years ago, Star Wars stepped into a new animated format with Tales of the Jedi, examining the stories of two characters ostracized by the titular order in Dooku and Ahsoka Tano. Now, in celebration of Star Wars Day this weekend, it's trying again-this time with a touch of the Dark Side. But while Tales of the...Read more...

Starlink satellite internet terminals are reportedly still operating in unlicensed places, despite the company's warning last month that the service would be shut down by May 1 in those areas.Read more...

Ashley Madison, the dating website devoted to cheating on your partner, was hacked in 2015, exposing the private data of 37 million users in more than 40 countries. And a new documentary series from Netflix explores the fallout from that historic data breach.

Chubb, the insurer of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge, is reportedly preparing to make a $350 million payout to Maryland a little more than a month after it collapsed.Read more...

Elon Musk said he wanted to be absolutely hardcore" about reducing Tesla's headcount earlier this week, and it looks like he's entered full demon mode," as his biographer calls it. Now, an unlikely cohort is feeling his wrath: Tesla's summer interns. College students shared how Musk's cost-cutting efforts imploded...Read more...

The recent total solar eclipse on April 8 provided a rare glimpse of the Sun's roiling corona, including some eye-grabbing prominences. Those views were neat, but a new video captured by Europe's Sun-buzzing probe is providing some of the best close-up views of our host star that we've ever seen.Read more...

Oppenheimer may have been named the Best Picture of 2023, but io9 reserves that honor for its spiritual sequel. We're talking about Godzilla Minus One, the creature feature from the legends at Toho, which follows a monster born from the technology Oppenheimer helped create. io9 said it's the best film of the year and...Read more...

The sixth and final season of Cobra Kai is coming this July. And this November. And next year. Netflix just revealed a first look at the popular show's sixth season and with it, news that it'll feature 15 episodes spread over three unique release dates. Part one will arrive on July 18, part two on November 28, and the...Read more...

If you were born early enough to come into semi-adulthood in 1999, you used to have a Nokia 3210. OK, maybe you didn't, but your friend or a family member had one, or they had a slightly later model. Maybe you forgot about it completely because, for hell's sake, it's been 25 years. But you'd recognize the silhouette,...Read more...

The reviews for Rabbit R1 and Humane AI Pin are here, and they're bad. These AI-enabled devices promised to reduce our dependency on smartphones, but now everyone is wondering why they're not apps to begin with. I have no idea if we'll be using Rabbits and AI Pins five years from now (if so, I hope they can set alarms...Read more...

Terrifier 3 will terrify you a little earlier than planned. Warner Bros Animation lifts the lid on Crisis on Infinite Earths Part 3. Barriss Offee returns in a new clip from Tales of the Empire. Plus, a new look at Furiosa. Spoilers get!

Good news: A legislative push to save AM radio is almost certain to succeed, which means that America's weirdest auditory wavelength will continue to survive for the foreseeable future.Read more...

Things are about to get powered up: today, Universal Orlando Resort revealed more details about theSuper Nintendo World coming to its new Epic Universe theme park, hot on the heels of revealing more about one of the other portals,How to Train Your Dragon's Isle of Berk. And yes, it's better than the one at Universal...Read more...

I've spent a day with the Rabbit R1, and to say that I was underwhelmed would be an understatement. In fact, I was surprised at how little it offers at the moment, and even from what it offers, what a poor job it does at that. According to the CEO Jesse Lyu, the R1 is the worst this technology will ever be," which...Read more...

The fossil shark Ptychodus was first identified 190 years ago, but in the intervening centuries of paleontological inquiry, a comprehensive look at the ancient fish has been hard to come by. Until now. In a paper published last week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, a team of researchers describe an...Read more...

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Mad Max franchise auteur George Miller knew even before Fury Road, that by creating an extensive outline for the 2015 hit, he might have more stories to tell. But that wasn't always the case for Miller, who co-created the concept with Byron Kennedy in Mad Max (1979), Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981), Mad Max Beyond...Read more...

The Department of Transportation announced a new final rule last week that would require airlines to automatically refund passengers whose flights are canceled or significantly delayed. There are some exceptions, but in general, it's a huge win for passengers who are tired of airlines giving them the runaround. As...Read more...

It was inevitable, really: as soon as beloved childhood characters became fair game under public domain, they'd be seized upon by horror filmmakers... and eventually, the biggest headliners would square off. The world may not be ready for Mickey vs. Winnie, but it's coming, and its creators promise gore galore.Read more...

Just in case you'd like to know: Alpaca sex is weird, biologically speaking. In a recent paper, scientists have presented evidence that male alpacas impregnate their partners by thrusting their penises all the way up inside the female's uterus-a tactic not documented with any other mammal species to date.Read more...

While fans of Futurama-who've learned to be very patient and eternally hopeful-await the show's next season, premiering July 29 on Hulu, here's a fun nugget to chew on: The Art of Futurama, an art book timed to the show's 25th anniversary, is on the way. The book's not arriving until October, but a first look did drop...Read more...

Nearly a week after launching to space, a microwave-sized cubesat phoned home for the first time as it prepares to embark on its mission of sailing through low Earth orbit.Read more...

The moment mutantkind has been dreading has come-and after the ashes of Genosha taught our heroes to expect the worst, not even the little preparation they have is going to be enough to stem the tide. But as X-Men 97 sets the stage for its grand finale, whether or not the X-Men will survive the experience isn't the...Read more...

Aircraft safety is a hot topic these days, with Federal Aviation Administration investigators looking into door seals at Boeing, aircraft slides flying off mid air and engine failures plaguing several planes in recent months. But what happens if the power in your plane actually does go out? That's an issue that nobody...Read more...

Early crypto investor Roger Ver, a.k.a. Bitcoin Jesus,' has been charged with a tax fraud, with the Department of Justice saying he evaded nearly $50 million in taxes.Read more...

New themed stays are coming to Airbnb with Icons, a new category of lodging featuring unique experiences inspired by major icons in music, film, television, art, sports, and more.

T-Mobile officially finalized the $1.35 billion deal to acquire Mint Mobile, according to a press release from the telecom company. The deal was first announced in March 2023 but had to clear regulatory approval.

Samsung teased the Galaxy Ring earlier this year when it introduced the Galaxy S24 series of smartphones. Naturally, this sparked a flurry of rumors about what's to come and what the wearable could be like. But Samsung is still making smartwatches, too. Based on the hearsay, 2024 may be the year the company pulls out...Read more...

May is always a huge month for Lego-thanks to its annual celebration of all things Star Wars on May 4. This year's even more special, with the 25th anniversary of both The Phantom Menace and Lego's Star Wars line, but while the galaxy far, far away is a big part of this month's releases, galaxies closer to home have...Read more...

The California Forever project is one step closer to becoming a reality. This week, the ambitious project's backers announced that they had received enough local support to trigger a ballot initiative. Local voters will now decide the fate of the project during the November election.Read more...

Ashley Madison promotes itself as a dating site that helps people cheat on their partners. But newly released consumer complaints filed with the FTC, obtained exclusively by Gizmodo, should probably give any potential cheaters pause. The site is lousy with extortion attempts, to put it mildly.Read more...

There's tackling a beloved franchise... and then there's tackling The Legend of Zelda. Wes Ball has done the former a few times, most recently with his foray into the world of Planet of the Apes with Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Soon though, he'll take that to a whole new level as the first director to make a...Read more...

Just when we thought we'd already seen all of what 2024's mini-LED TVs had to offer, Hisense finally gave us the chance to look at the new pinnacle of its ULED displays, the U9N. It's a TV that's desperately trying to thread that fine needle between ultra-premium and upper mid-tier, but all wrapped up with a bow...Read more...