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When you think of streaming services, MGM+ doesn't come to mind until you've already listed the likes of Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Hulu, and Peacock. But that doesn't mean you should overlook this arm of Amazon MGM Studios, which offers original programming and live TV option, as well as a small but intriguing...Read more...

It's Day 12 of Gizmodo's March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time and we may have a new frontrunner. With over 77 percent of yesterday's vote, Flashlight left Tinder dead in a ditch. Today we have what was once the king of note-taking apps going up against the pioneer of on-demand music...Read more...

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Hot off its win for Best Animated Feature at this year's Oscars, Hayao Miyazaki's The Boy and the Heron will soon stream on Max. Distributor Gkids has penned another deal with the streamer to continue on as the exclusive home to Studio Ghibli's catalogue of films.Read more...

A mosquito-borne disease best known for causing severe cranial deformities in babies may someday become humanity's ally. Duke University scientists and others have created a weakened version of the Zika virus that could potentially be repurposed into a treatment for often fatal brain cancer. In lab experiments, their...Read more...

SpaceX works under an iterative testing philosophy, using each mission to improve upon the next. Accordingly, the Elon Musk-led company is aiming to push its experimental megarocket, Starship, even further during its third test flight, which could happen later this week.Read more...

For almost three decades, one of the most famous pieces of furniture in Star Trek history was lost. The Captain's chair of the U.S.S. Enterprise-D, introduced in The Next Generation's second season and seen on-screen all the way through to the series' conclusion in 1994, by the time the Enterprise set was refreshed...Read more...

Samara Weaving wants in on a new Nightmare on Elm Street. Get a new look at Dev Patel's ferocious action movie Monkey Man. The Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey sequel has a gross new clip. Plus, another creepy new look at The First Omen. Spoilers, away!

A first-edition iPhone with 4GB of storage would run you about $499 back in 2007, but nowadays they cost around $190,000. An auction house is selling one of these rare iPhones, sealed in its original packaging from 16 years ago, but the last one it sold had a 38,000% markup from its original price.Read more...

Never let it be said that an impending national app ban and swarming billionaire vultures ever stopped TikTok from plowing ahead. But if a fresh leak is true, TikTok may want to rethink the logo for its new app.

If I had to think of the tech I've used most often in my day-to-day, I wouldn't usually consider my phone first. If I ruminate long and hard enough, considering the number of person-hours that go into my work, I would consider my 13-inch M1-powered MacBook Air as my go-to device, like my oft-beleaguered, put-upon...Read more...

Donald Trump took to Truth Social in the early morning hours of Tuesday to opine on the state of his race to win back the White House this November. And while that's not unusual, Trump's decision to coin a new nickname for himself certainly is. The new name? Honest Don, if you can believe it.

John Barnett, a former quality control engineer at Boeing who-just last week-testified against the company as part of a whistleblower retaliation lawsuit, has been found dead, the BBC reports.Read more...

David Lynch's 1984 Dune was the eccentric auteur's take on Frank Herbert's unfilmable" classic science fiction book series. It was divisive but became a cult film nonetheless, and stars Kyle Machlachlan, Patrick Stewart, Max von Sydow, and Linda Hunt.

With the goldfish memory I have, I leave my iPhone in the strangest places and forget where I saw it last. I've recovered my phone from the kitchen cabinets, inside dressing table drawers, and the closet. Thankfully, I've never had it stolen, but I'd want to be prepared for that, too.

Great news if you missed The Boy and the Heron during its initial theatrical run, and felt serious FOMO when it picked up an Oscar for Best Animated Feature last night: Hayao Miyazaki's (possibly final?) movie is coming back to North American theaters soon.Read more...

Earlier this year, author Ernst Cline announced that he would be launching a metaverse company. What made this deeply ironic was that Cline famously wrote Ready Player One, the popular science fiction novel about a dystopia where people escape the harsh realities of their world by plugging into a metaverse-like...Read more...

Just when you thought Morbin' Time couldn't get better, Michael Keaton has put a cherry on top. At the end of Morbius, 2022's campy Spider-Man adjacent film, the iconic actor makes a brief, seemingly non-sensical cameo, reprising his role from 2017's Spider-Man: Homecoming. The implication was some kind of integration...Read more...

On Friday, March 8, a pallet of used batteries from the International Space Station (ISS) reentered Earth's atmosphere over the Gulf of Mexico following an unpredictable journey through orbit.Read more...

Now that Godzilla Minus One is the first Godzilla film to have an Academy Award, it sure would be nice to watch it, right? Well, you can't. At least right now. And for that you can blame Godzilla. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, to be more specific.Read more...

You've probably noticed that your wi-fi slows down when more people or devices use the network. The same goes for larger systems. If you get too many people congregating in one area, the cell phone towers can't handle the influx. With the number of connected devices growing exponentially and the coming wave of AI...Read more...

Apple TV+ is the last major streaming service that doesn't have an ad-supported tier, but that seems poised to change. Apple just hired a 14-year ad executive from NBCUniversal, Joseph Cady, to further beef up its growing video advertising team, according to a report from Business Insider Monday.Read more...

A Florida man's agonizing migraines turned out to have a terrifying cause: actual brainworms. In a recent case study, his doctors describe how he developed a parasitic infestation of tapeworm eggs in his brain, possibly caught from eating undercooked bacon. Thankfully, the man was successfully treated.Read more...

Remember the 90s? The X-Men certainly do, and for good reason. In the world of comics, after Chris Claremont's foundational run on the characters unceremoniously came to an end at the beginning of the decade, X-Books found themselves even more ascendant than ever, and X-Men: The Animated Series catapulted mutantkind...Read more...

NASA's Europa Clipper is launching in October, and it's set to unveil the secrets of one of the most intriguing celestial bodies in our solar system. Coming along for the ride is a commemorative plate that symbolizes humanity's fascination with Jupiter's mysterious moon Europa and our relentless quest to find...Read more...

Airbnb is banning all indoor security cameras at properties worldwide, according to an announcement published online Monday. The change comes after years of horror stories circulating online about secret hidden security cameras, which have long been banned on the platform, though still pop up frequently around the...Read more...

James Cameron fans have been eagerly anticipating this week, when collector's editions of The Abyss, True Lies, and Aliens hit 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray for the first time, joining recently released special collector's editions of Cameron's mega-blockbusters Titanic, Avatar, and Avatar: The Way of Water. io9 has an...Read more...

The specter of naked Sydney Sweeney, a rom-com actress whose boobs recently joined the culture war, is getting the horniest (and dumbest) members of X-the website formerly known as Twitter-to click malicious links.

Donald Trump called into CNBC's Squawk Box on Monday where he talked about crypto, tried to defend his complete 180 on a TikTok ban, and promoted his new sneakers. The former president also railed against Facebook, calling it the enemy of the people." But there's one thing Trump didn't mention about Facebook: He's...Read more...

Netflix's 3 Body Problem-an adaptation ofChinese author Liu Cixin's acclaimed sci-fi novel from David Benioff and D.B. Weiss (Game of Thrones) and Alexander Woo (The Terror: Infamy)-delves into enormous questions. But though its central conflict is planet-sized, it manages to feel like an intimate story, with charact...Read more...

Welcome back to Gizmodo's March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! Yesterday's lineup was another nail-biter but with more than 53 percent of the vote, Duolingo threw Skype out on its culo. Today, the mighty flashlight takes on the only dating app in our lineup.Read more...

AirPods Pro is great for drowning out the people around you, but the earbuds can also work similarly to a hearing aid. In the upcoming iOS 18 release, the AirPods Pro might go all-in with helping those who are hard of hearing. A hearing aid mode will reportedly come to the AirPods Pro with the release of iOS 18 later...Read more...

Finally, an extension of a beloved horror movie franchise that feels like it's bringing something new to the table. While The First Omen looks to have some familiar tropes-imperiled nuns, supernatural pregnancies, that all-important mark of the beast-it also looks legitimately terrifying. Maybe the The Omen didn't need...Read more...

California startup Stratolaunch completed the first powered flight of its Talon-A hypersonic vehicle as it works to develop a reusable version that's capable of carrying science payloads and flying them at five times the speed of sound.Read more...

Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard whose employees famously started publicly shit-talking as soon as he was out the door, is reportedly looking for a new company to rule. Word on the street is that the company is TikTok.Read more...

Get jet-set and travel with Loungefly's latest accessory line Collectiv. Featuring Star Wars and Marvel's Loki, this new assortment of backpacks and luggage highlights fandom with a subtle edge, featuring emblems on brand with the spirit of the God of Stories or a galaxy far, far, away.

The Oscars award ceremony is a night for the stars of Hollywood to gather together and celebrate cinema, while also looking incredibly glamorous is lavishly expensive and immaculately presented couture. And yet no one at last nights awards-no one-could beat the hottest look of the night: a soft vinyl monster toy spray...Read more...

Elon Musk said his startup xAI will open-source Grok later this week, revealing the inner workings of the chatbot to anyone who wants to dissect the AI or build a competing product. The announcement - which came just before 3 am Monday morning in Texas, where Musk makes his home - is short on details, but it's...Read more...

Being a Reddit user has always had its perks, but now the most loyal Redditors will get VIP passes to own part of the company. Reddit disclosed plans to launch its long-awaited IPO at up to a $6.4 billion valuation, according to a Monday filing with the SEC, and the company is reserving 8% of its shares for longtime...Read more...

Gady Hendrix's Ankle Snatcher is becoming a film at Sony. Millie Bobby Brown gives a Stranger Things filming update. Plus, what's coming on Ghosts and Ninja Kamui. To me, my spoilers!

There was a time when you could hop onto Netflix and feel like you had pretty much any movie or show at your fingertips. Those years are long gone. Now, consumers have a growing number of streaming providers clamoring for attention, splitting up the media catalog against dozens of services and making finding the best...Read more...

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Do you want to be chained to an outlet for the rest of your life? Of course not. That's why you got a laptop in the first place. Somewhere down the line, many of us got the idea that our laptops should always be plugged in to improve their performance. This is a myth that's slowly killing your laptop. Once your laptop...Read more...

Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, wants everyone to chill out about the photo of her and her kids, which has caused an international firestorm after being pulled by some of the world's biggest photo agencies for being manipulated." According to Middleton, that is correct. In fact, she Photoshopped it herself.Read more...

This Thursday is Pi Day, the one day of the year devoted to a mathematical constant (it also happens to be Einstein's birthday). We all learned as kids about how special pi is and have since accepted its cultural status as a geeky totem and a number worth celebrating. But perhaps we should revisit pi through the jaded...Read more...

After enduring the pandemic and a pair of industry-stopping strikes, Hollywood seemed extra jazzed about celebrating itself at this year's Oscars. While there weren't a ton of genre movies on the ballot-truly, last year's Everything Everywhere All at Once sweep still feels rather validating-a few did find their way to...Read more...

Godzilla is a titan of moviemaking, but now he's toppled his loftiest goal yet: award season. Just announced at the 2024 Academy Awards, Godzilla Minus One-io9's favorite movie of 2023-has won the Oscar for best VFX.Read more...

Mad Max: Fury Road was a revelation when it released in 2015, and a lot of that can be owed to Charlize Theron's Furiosa. Even with Max Rocktansky getting top billing, it's more her movie than his, and we'ree now primed to get an origin story with the upcoming Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.

The world was shocked to learn on Thursday night to learn that Akira Toriyama, creator of the eternally longlasting Dragon Ball franchise, had passed away at the age of 68.Read more...

Get ready for some good ol' 2000s nostalgia during the spring and summer movie season. From April to June, Dreamworks' Shrek 2 and Sony's live-action Spider-Man movies are set to return to theaters.