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Financial disclosures show that members of Congress who voted for the so-called TikTok ban" last week may own between $29 million and $126 million worth of stock in competing tech companies, according to data from Quiver Quantitative, a company that tracks congressional investments. Among the 352 members of the House...Read more...

A 58-year-old man with a rare medical condition sees faces normally on screens and paper, but in person, they take on a demonic quality. The patient has a unique case of prosopometamorphopsia (PMO), a condition that causes peoples' faces to appear distorted, reptilian, or otherwise inhuman.Read more...

Hasbro's multitude of celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons include streaming the fan-favorite 1980s D&D cartoon on the 24/7 Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures FAST channel. The animated series, despite a relatively short run of three seasons and 27 episodes, has become a fantasy genre classic....Read more...

Some travelers have become nervous about flying on Boeing planes after a string of highly publicized technical issues, including the door plug that simply fell off an Alaska Airlines flight at 16,000 feet back in January. But is there any way to easily check the type of plane you'll be flying on?

The cost of Wegovy will soon be covered by Medicare, according to an announcement from the federal health insurance program for seniors on Thursday. And while that's great news for people over 65 who want access to a medication that's drawn so much attention for its ability to help with weight loss, there's just one...Read more...

The eternal question-Who you gonna call?"-has come back around thanks to Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. Ray Parker Jr.'s 1984 anthem has us thinking about the pop songs so prominently featured in some of our favorite sci-fi, animated, and superhero movies, they've become just as well-known as the movies they're...Read more...

Things are about to get even more strange and unusual, from the looks of the utterly fun and unhinged first trailer for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Tim Burton directs the returning Michael Keaton as Beetlejuice, Winona Rider as Lydia Deetz, and Catherine O'Hara as her step mom, Delia-plus Jenna Ortega as Lydia's...Read more...

Apple was hit with a major antitrust lawsuit filed by the DOJ on Thursday. The iPhone maker was accused of creating a monopoly with the iPhone, but other devices were mentioned including the Apple Watch. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland says the smartwatch made it hard to use the Apple Watch on a non-iPhone, but...Read more...

If frolicking in the woods foraging for wild mushrooms is on your bucket list, by all means, go forth. But when the time comes to determine whether you can eat the mushrooms you picked, please don't rely on AI.Read more...

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A new trailer for the second half of Chucky's third season is here-and the pint-sized serial killer has never looked more terrifying. As teased in the cliffhanger that ended the season's first half, Chucky's sudden and rapid aging process has only gotten more advanced-and he's getting even more desperate as a result.Read more...

California Forever, a tech billionaire-backed project to develop a new city on hundreds of acres of Bay Area farmland, is entering a critical phase. After buying nearly a billion dollars worth of land in Solano County, the project's developers now need to convince at least 13,000 county residents to support a ballot...Read more...

The U.S. military has spent the past month running exercises at various locations in California to prepare for future war-winning readiness." And the photos being officially released include plenty of robot dogs, augmented reality headsets, resupply drones, and at least one mysterious AI-driven vehicle. There's also...Read more...

Three things you can count on in this world are death, taxes, and new Star Wars merchandise. Just days after a huge dump of new figures for the upcoming show The Acolyte, it's now time for a March to May the 4th." Basically, that means a reveal of new May the Fourth merchandise in March. (Also March is a word in Imp...Read more...

The parent company of Donald Trump's social media company, Truth Social, could soon become a multi-billion dollar public company, depending on a vote scheduled for Friday. Trump could stand to gain over $3 billion if the proposed merger goes through, which could be his ticket out of some hefty legal bills.

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It might be the end of the road for two of NASA's most iconic telescopes as the space agency looks to reduce the funding for the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, much to the dismay of scientists who rely heavily on the cosmic observations of the missions.Read more...

Friday the 13th-inspired story In A Violent Nature gets its trailer. It looks like something Deadman-related will be coming to DC Studios-and we get a look at Harold and The Purple Crayon. It's spoilerin' time!

Apple is in major legal trouble as the Department of Justice (DOJ) and 16 state and district attorneys filed a lawsuit against the iPhone maker, as reported by the Washington Post Thursday. They accuse Apple of building a monopoly with the iPhone.Read more...

At long last, Westeros is ready to tear itself apart in civil war (uhhh... again, although all this happened before the last time it did that for us). House of the Dragon is ready to return, and is preparing to bring one of the most infamously bloody conflicts in Game of Thrones history to life.

X-Men 97's release on Disney+ this week brings us practically right back to where the beloved X-Men: The Animated Series left off. The nostalgia is strong with the show right out of the gate, with its lovingly updated riff on the legendary theme song and the original show's opening sequence. Let's take a look at just...Read more...

Wendy's is starting a new drone delivery program in Christiansburg, Virginia on Thursday, where residents will be able to choose airflight as an option on DoorDash. Autonomous drones from Wing will fly 65 mph while holding Bacanotors, Frosties, and other items before gently dropping them onto the front lawn of a...Read more...

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Things have been heating up for the Sun, as the star approaches peak activity during its 11-year cycle, with giant eruptions bursting regularly from its surface. Luckily for us, this coincides with the Moon passing between the Earth and its host star, offering a captivating view of the solar corona during the upcoming...Read more...

The U.S. House passed a bill that would ban third-party data brokers from selling the user data of Americans to geopolitical adversaries like China and Russia. And while it still needs to pass the Senate to become law, it's a step in the right direction as recent headlines mostly focus on a potential ban on TikTok in...Read more...

Neuralink, Elon Musk's neuroscience startup, live-streamed an interview with its first patient on Wednesday. The man in question, a 29-year-old quadriplegic who identifies himself as Noland Arbaugh, said that he has been unable to move his arms or legs for nearly a decade. Using Neuralink's brain implant, which was...Read more...

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Everyone who reads both books and fanfiction knows there's a clear difference in reading speed. While a 500 page book might take a week to get through, reading at fanfiction speed" can allow a reader to devour a similarly sized fic over the course of one night. How is fanfic routinely able to defy the bounds of eye...Read more...

The Flipper Zero has been under scrutiny ever since last month when Canadian officials claimed that it was to blame for a rise in car thefts in the country and proposed a ban on the popular (and cheap) penetration-testing device.

A Texas man was arrested in Salt Lake City on Sunday after he was discovered roaming around on a Delta Air Lines flight without a designated seat to call his own. How did he get on the plane in the first place? The man allegedly photographed a fellow passenger's boarding pass without their knowledge and successfully...Read more...

The House of Representatives had plenty of fireworks Wednesday during the Oversight and Accountability Committee's hearing into the impeachment of President Joe Biden. Tony Bobulinski, a former business partner of Hunter Biden, was one of the star witnesses of the hearing and so was his Blackberry.Read more...

Mark Zuckerberg began testing a horizontal swiping feature on Wednesday for his pet project, Threads, the app whose main purpose seems to be trolling Elon Musk. The feature appears to be something Musk tweeted about two weeks ago, noting that he's wanted to add it to X for the last year.Read more...

Fede Alvarez started making an Alien movie without realizing he was making an Alien movie. He was in a meeting with Ridley Scott's company right before Scott made Alien: Covenant, and he mentioned some things he would like to see. I was like, I think you guys should do this and approach it this way, and maybe it's...Read more...

Your favorite childhood toy is probably gone. Maybe your parents threw it out. Maybe you broke it yourself. Or maybe it's sitting in an attic somewhere, in a box of other toys you once loved and now have forgotten about. Whatever the case, we all had our favorite toys as kids-and now, most likely, we don't.Read more...

It's (nearly) showtime! The highly anticipated trailer for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is coming soon-but first, Tim Burton has given a first look at the sequel for his eponymous horror comedy to Entertainment Weekly.Read more...

UPDATE: When reached for comment by Gizmodo, DARPA provided the following statement clarifying that the program had not been named after the pedophile temple from True Detective. It reads:Read more...

Hasbro's latest Star Wars reveals may have been ostensibly for its villain-themed Imperial March" this month, but really, it was all about The Acolyte. Just a day after we got our first look at the next Star Wars series in action, Hasbro came prepared with a bevy of new figures inspired by the show, and then some.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating the Ethereum Foundation and companies doing business with the nonprofit, according to a new report from Fortune Wednesday. And that's very bad news for crypto enthusiasts who were hopeful that spot Ether ETFs, which would make it easier for investors...Read more...

The Kate Middleton saga has been a boon for tabloids and cat nip for internet conspiracy theorists. Since Middleton had abdominal surgery in January and then failed to show up at a number of annual and/or scheduled events, the internet has been flooded with theories about what might have happened to her. Then came th...Read more...

Jeff Bezos' space venture is ready to test its Blue Ring orbital platform, which could become a pivotal pitstop for missions journeying to the Moon and beyond.Read more...

Captain America and Black Panther have shared the screen in the Marvel Universe before, but not like this. The year is 1943, the pair are both on the same mission in Nazi-occupied Paris, and you'll get to become both of them.

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Law enforcement in Kansas recorded the front of a man's home for 68 days straight, 15 hours a day, and obtained evidence to prove him guilty on 16 charges. The officers did not have a search warrant, using a camera on a pole positioned across the street to capture Bruce Hay's home. A federal court ruled on Tuesday...Read more...

It's Day 20 of Gizmodo's March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time and the competition is getting fierce! We lost a legend yesterday, as YouTube defeated Vine with an overwhelming victory. Today, Venmo will try its luck against Twitter.Read more...

The X-Men never die. In the comics, that's sometimes more literal than metaphorical, more meta text than actual text. But it always means that, for the most part, no matter how long the X-Men wane, they always come back: the same but different, adapted to the latest age of a world that hates and fears them. X-Men: The...Read more...

The third test flight of Starship on March 14 marked a huge victory for SpaceX, with the experimental rocket hitting a number of key milestones. The unplanned loss of both stages triggered a Federal Aviation Administration investigation, but neither the FAA nor SpaceX anticipate the lengthy delays experienced after...Read more...

Millions of people across North America will soon have the opportunity to witness a rare and special astronomical event-a total solar eclipse-during which the Moon will completely obscure the Sun along an exceptionally long path of totality. To prepare you for the Great North American Solar Eclipse, we've put...Read more...

In the 1980s and 90s, movies about kids going on adventures were commonplace. E.T., Stand by Me, The Goonies, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, The Sandlot, the list goes on and on. In 2024 though, movies like that are much rarer-so that a new one is coming out at all would be exciting even if it wasn't great. Thankfully, Ridd...Read more...

Just paying for Netflix or Hulu seems like no big deal, but a new report from Deloitte suggests most Americans are paying for four streaming services. That's pushing Americans to the brink, leading to the average household spending $61 a month on streaming. Half of the study's respondents said they would cancel a...Read more...

Superman & Lois has finally found its Jimmy Olsen. Gen V has a season 2 filming update. Plus, what's coming on Ninja Kamui and Them's second season. To me, my spoilers!