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A total solar eclipse will happen on Monday, April 8, putting on quite a show for roughly 44 million people who live within the totality-the places on the Earth that will be completely shielded by the Moon as it comes between us and the sun. But there are more than a few people on platforms like YouTube and TikTok who...Read more...

News dropped earlier this month that Warner Bros. Discovery is shuttering Austin, Texas-based animation company Rooster Teeth-and now one of the studio's most beloved titles is getting a big send-off. Red vs. Blue: Restoration, the web series' 19th season, is arriving in May, and it'll be released as a single feature...Read more...

Sara Poyzer, an actress who starred in the stage production of Mamma Mia! for over 10 years, will be replaced by AI in an upcoming production for the BBC. Sobering..." said the star in response to a crass email from producers posted in a tweet Tuesday.Read more...

If you want your iPad to go back to looking the way it did when you first got it, you can reset its settings to default without losing your data.

Twenty-five years ago, a team of researchers excavated a cemetery in West Virginia hoping to find George Washington's little brother. Five graves were unearthed, and after testing small bones retrieved from these burial sites, tentative identities have been assigned. A new DNA analysis has now certified three sets of...Read more...

Truly, it is the week of here is merchandise featuring Deadpool and Wolverine, but it's definitely not Deadpool & Wolverine merchandise, because licensing takes time." Just after we got to see some rad Logan and Wade art, Hasbro has announced two updated movie figures of the irascible mutant duo... but it's mostly so...Read more...

The Japanese SLIM lander is still clinging onto its unfortunate existence, surviving a second lunar night while lying face down on the Moon.Read more...

The Scream revival, which kicked off in 2022 and found continued success with last year's Scream VI, took a major detour in November 2023 when star Melissa Barrera was fired from the franchise by production company Spyglass, which took issue with social media posts Barrera had shared regarding her views on Gaza and...Read more...

Welcome back to Gizmodo's March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! Duolingo's surprise performancein the bracket was cut short in yesterday's tournament and the unstoppable Flashlight advances to the Final Four. Today we have Google Earth taking on Calculator.Read more...

At the very least, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire delivers on its biggest promise. You get to see lots of giant creatures fighting other giant creatures. Godzilla and Kong are just two of many and, when they fight in fantastical-looking settings with eye-popping color and lighting, there's an undeniable pleasure in...Read more...

It's a picture frame! It's a speaker! No, it's... a speaker frame. Since Samsung first showed off its new Music Frame at CES, we've been jonesing to spend time in front of it to see whether it will knock our socks off or offer a gentle kiss of sound on the cheek. After checking out Samsung's latest TVs, we were granted...Read more...

It's been 16 years since Asajj Ventress stalked her way into Star Wars canon-five years after her actual debut, in 2003's Star Wars: Clone Wars-and the Clone Wars 3DCG series. Since then, she has walked many paths along the road to the one we found her in this week, when she returned in The Bad Batch for a new chapter...Read more...

Live ordnance from both the First and Second World Wars are more likely to detonate as they age, according to a new study published in Royal Society Open Science.

Google's Circle to Search is arguably one of the best new features for Android devices in a long time. It's also one of the first to roll out with a major Samsung flagship launch.Read more...

Maggie Gyllenhaal's Bride of Frankenstein movie gets a shorter name and a new cast member. Get a look at not one, but two young vampire movies. Milla Jovovich has signed up for Brad Anderson's new sci-fi thriller. Plus, what's coming on Invincible. Spoilers, away!

The Massachusetts State Police claim one of the members of its bomb squad has gone above and beyond in the line of duty and taken bullets for the team. However, the officer in question is not a human or even a canine, but rather Roscoe," the police's specialized robot dog created by Boston Dynamics.Read more...

A slew of conservative states have recently passed age verification laws for websites and, in response, Pornhub has gotten in the habit of shutting off service in those states rather than acquiescing to local regulations. The company has already shut off service in six states, including Texas, Utah, Mississippi,...Read more...

Human instinct dictates that when we see a toy, we want to open it. It's why old toys that are still in their box are so valuable. Everyone who bought them as a child opened and played with them, making ones still in the package much rarer. But what if there were toys that went against that instinct? Toys not meant to...Read more...

There's a new crew of ne'er do wells joining up to save the world in Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts. The new film starring Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova, this era's Black Widow, has started shooting in Atlanta, Georgia and the actress has given fans a look behind the scenes of the shoot.

Shrek's swamp comes home-with a spa upgrade-thanks to a new Lush collection featuring an all-star ensemble of Shrek characters, including Donkey, Princess Fiona, Gingy, and the big green ogre himself. It's the latest Lush collaboration with Universal Pictures after a successful Super Mario Bros. Movie team-up last...Read more...

As the Moon wedges itself between Earth and Sun, temporarily dimming the day's light over parts of our planet, three rockets will take to the skies to observe how those brief moments of darkness affect Earth's upper atmosphere.

Twitch has once again redefined its policy regarding nudity on streams. This time around, it seems like you can stream parts of your body but don't do it for the entire playthrough of Baldur's Gate 3.Read more...

Apple users are being targeted by an elaborate and annoying phishing scam that aims to change their password and lock them out of their devices, according to a new report from Krebs on Security. In some cases, the scammers have even called individuals and pretended to be Apple Support.Read more...

Nearly two years after a highly public feud kicked off between the Walt Disney Company and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis-involving the takeover and subsequent renaming of of Disney's Reedy Creek Improvement District as the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District-a settlement has been reached.Read more...

A team of astronomers recently captured a series of images of a distant star as it wentsupernova, providing a remarkable play-by-play of stellar death and possibly the birth of a black hole.Read more...

ChatGPT has quickly become a household name, but many of us are struggling to figure out what to do with it. We all know that ChatGPT can yap quite a bit, but generative AI chatbots have some practical applications that have nothing to do with text generation. The bots continue to get better at data analysis, coding,...Read more...

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A woman's hair care routine seems to have given her repeated bouts of kidney damage. In a new case study this month, her doctors describe how the woman's use of hair-straightening products containing a certain ingredient likely injured her kidneys. The ingredient, called glyoxylic acid, has been tied to similar...Read more...

Just as screenshotting on an iPad works, restarting an iPad works differently on devices with and without a home button.

Adaptation is always a challenge-but it's a particularly daunting one in the case of comic books, where a new medium has to reckon with translating sagas told across years of issues and continuity fluxes. For the most part, X-Men 97's latest episode navigates this task the best it can, but the sacrifices it makes...Read more...

Keanu Reeves has been in a lot of movies and in almost every single one he manages to say whoa" at least once. Now, a website developer has helpfully created a site where you can listen to every single Reeves whoa that exists.

The first association most fans have with Carrie-Anne Moss is the black-clad badass Trinity in The Matrix-and that makes sense. The sci-fi thriller, which was released 25 years ago this weekend, brought Moss widespread acclaim, and the movie became an instant classic. With The Acolyte, which will see Moss use her...Read more...

Have you ever thought about where the term Wi-Fi comes from? Most people would logically assume it's a shortened version of some highly technical description for the tech that allowed computers to access the internet wirelessly. But those people would be wrong.

In The Walking Dead universe, three things never die: zombies, spinoffs, and lawsuits. Just as the show's sixth spinoff enjoys newfound success, so too has a lawsuit brought against its network, AMC, which at one point almost ended, but has since returned.Read more...

Welcome back to Gizmodo's March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! With more than 81 percent of the vote in yesterday's tournament, YouTube is headed to the Final Four and Venmo has been eliminated. Today, we have another difficult match. Duolingo has been the Cinderella story of this...Read more...

The Artemis 3 astronauts will be the first to walk on the surface of the Moon in more than 50 years, unlocking a new era of lunar exploration. NASA has chosen just the right tools for the astronauts to use, designed to test the feasibility of a long-term human presence on the Moon.Read more...

Star Trek's streaming revival finds itself at a bit of a crossroads. Discovery, the series that brought the show back to its current heights, is preparing to begin its final season next week-and Picard, arguably one of its biggest successes, came to an end last year. But things ending has never stopped Star Trek from...Read more...

A new image of our galaxy's central black hole reveals the magnetic field surrounding the object in polarized light. The image reveals how gas and superheated matter in the immediate vicinity of the black hole move around it. But aside from that, it's a great way to visualize the extreme physics happening at the...Read more...

Being a Spider-Man is not without its downsides-even beyond getting the superheroic snot beaten out of you by the occasional baddie. After a year's waiting for it to get a public release, Sony's new short film sees just how Miles Morales faces some of those more personal downsides as he settles into his role as a hero.Read more...

Digital kiosks from Soofa seem harmless, giving you bits of information alongside some ads. However, these kiosks popping up throughout the United States take your phone's information and location data whenever you walk near them, and sell them to local governments and advertisers, first reported by NBC Boston Monday.Read more...

The Bad Guys will return next year. The First Omen goes retro in its new TV spot. Get a look at Roku's take on The Spiderwick Chronicles. Plus, the X-Men go to hell in a look at today's episode of X-Men 97, and what's to come on Resident Alien. To me, my spoilers!

When former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer unveiled the promotional images for her new photo-sharing app, Shine, on Tuesday, I thought I was looking at one of the Facebook posts my elderly aunt has a habit of creating. But alas, the person posting was not my aunt, it was Mayer.Read more...

When the Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed in the early morning hours of Tuesday, there was almost immediately chatter on social media about potential conspiracy theories. In reality, the bridge collapsed because a container ship lost power and crashed into a column, causing it to tumble into the river below. But many...Read more...

The big TV releases for 2024 are finally coming down the pike, and if it wasn't already clear, this year's theme is split between AI and displaying the most film-accurate picture for your home display. Samsung's latest QLED and OLED TVs all emphasize their AI scaling tech, but no matter how much you try to make 4K...Read more...

Do you remember Facebook Watch? Me neither. Mark Zuckerberg's short-lived streaming service never really got off the ground, but court filings unsealed in Meta's antitrust lawsuit claim Watch" was kneecapped starting in 2018 to protect Zuckerberg's advertising relationship with Netflix CEO Reed Hastings.

Have you seen YouTube ads recently for a slippage bot" that uses ChatGPT and promises to help you earn passive income with crypto? It's a scam. And it's ripping off a lot of people, all while using unsuspecting actors hired on Fiverr who don't understand what they've been hired to read. One of the actors tells...Read more...

Are you excited for Deadpool & Wolverine? Us too. The highly anticipated third Deadpool movie starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman is coming this summer and could potentially blow the roof off the Marvel Cinematic Universe with its hard R-rating and multiversal connections.

So-called activist investor Nelson Peltz, who's aiming to win two Disney board seats, has stirred up some controversy by calling out Disney's recent era of woke" strategy through diversifying its slate of films at Marvel Studios.

A police department in California that started obscuring its suspects' faces with Lego heads will cease the practice after the toy company reportedly reached out and told it to please stop.Read more...

The massive cargo ship responsible for the bridge collapse in Baltimore on Tuesday, had a previous, similar incident on its record, reports USA Today.