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The live-action How to Train Your Dragon cast keeps expanding. Get a sneak peek at Monsters at Work season two. MaXXXine finds itself a new release date. Plus, what's coming on Ghosts and Resident Alien. Spoilers, away!

Researchers seeking to understand how life may have emerged from Earth's primordial soup have found an interesting behavior of ribonucleic acid (RNA), which they suggest could have given way to RNA-based life.Read more...

Anyone who's gone through an all-nighter or has had bouts of insomnia knows that getting adequate sleep is a key part of feeling good. Next to regular physical activity and avoiding risky things like smoking, ensuring that we usually have a good night's sleep might be the most impactful thing we can do to improve our...Read more...

It turns out Warner Bros. isn't the only studio canceling its own releases. While there are no specifics on the level of that company's ill-fated Batgirl or Coyote vs. Acme, it has been confirmed that Disney has also done some strategic killing" of projects as part of a plan to get its profits back on track.Read more...

Google says it will begin cracking down on AI-generated content created solely for the purpose of gaming its systems and ranking high in Google Search-a change that could potentially have a ripple effect on the quality of what we see online.Read more...

Last week, it was revealed that Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff had been buying up lots of land in Hawaii at an accelerating clip. Benioff, who is worth billions and billions of dollars, has procured approximately $100 million in land parcels throughout the Big Island via a series of nondescript LLCs. He's been quite...Read more...

There are Star Wars collections-and then there are collections from people who are Star Wars. A very rare trove of franchise memorabilia is now up for sale at Los Angeles auction house called Propstore, and it's direct from the collection of Anthony Daniels, who played C-3PO for over 40 years.Read more...

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission authorized a land swap deal with SpaceX, granting Elon Musk's rocket company 43 acres of land that were heavily sought after as part of conservation efforts in the area.Read more...

There are arguably two dominant superhero cinematic universes around right now: the MCU (although that's a little more debatable these days), and, as io9 has written about before, the Fast and Furious franchise. But while Fast has dabbled with superheroics and touched the edge of full-on cars in space movies, we now...Read more...

Count Dakota Johnson out of any future superhero movie discourse. After Madame Web became Sony's latest Spider-verse flop, the movie got ripped apart by the internet despite a rising cult of fans calling the messy film camp. Most recently on Saturday Night Live, Johnson's co-star Sydney Sweeney joked you probably...Read more...

The Arctic may become ice-free for the first time on a late August or early September day in the 2020s to 2030s, 10 years earlier than expected, a shocking new study finds.Read more...

It's time to face your fears with Blumhouse and Lionsgate's Imaginary. The film directed and co-written by Jeff Wadlow (Truth or Dare) stars DeWanda Wise (Jurassic World Dominion) as Jessica, who moves her family into her childhood home. While tension-filled domestic dynamics are at play, Chauncey Bear, her tattered...Read more...

A German man seems to be no worse for wear after having allegedly gotten more than 200 covid-19 vaccine doses. In a new study out this week, scientists examined the man's blood and saliva and found no evidence that the hypervaccination" he went through harmed his immune response to covid-19 or his general health. If...Read more...

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has reversed course and is no longer banning a famous World War II-era photo of a sailor kissing a woman from VA facilities. The photo was taken in Times Square on V-J Day, the date in the summer of 1945 when victory was declared over Japan, and has become controversial in...Read more...

World Wildlife Day was March 3, and the International Fund for Animal Welfare celebrated the event with its annual International Youth Art Contest. Now, the winning artworks have been selected from a group of 15 semi-finalists. These selections were made from over 3,000 entries submitted from 141 countries and...Read more...

Facebook and Instagram users are experiencing widespread outages on Tuesday morning. Over 566,000 Facebook users are experiencing an outage according to Down Detector. Instagram's app was also having issues on Tuesday, with over 89,000 users reporting outages. The outage started just after 10:00 a.m. ET, and appears...Read more...

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In the wake of Disney's wave of content deletion on Disney+ in the last few years, physical releases of the platform's original shows are more important than ever. Especially so when it's physical releases of the far and away best piece of media to come out of the platform's entire existence.

If you've ever wondered what quantum computers actually do, you're not alone. The truth is, no one knows what modern problems this technology can solve. Google launched a multi-year, global competition on Monday to find real-world use cases for quantum computing, and the finalists will split $5 million.Read more...

Bitcoin hit an all-time high of $69,170 Tuesday morning, according to CoinMarketCap, breaching the previous all-time high of $68,990 in November 2021. The price then slipped back under $68,000 soon after reaching its peak.Read more...

Superman has found its latest Perry White. Rebecca Ferguson is teaming up with Chris Pratt for Timur Bekmambetov's new sci-fi movie. Get a look at Fallout's retro world in three new posts. Plus, what's coming on the next episode of Halo. To me, my spoilers!Read more...

The Meth Lab Oompa Loompa Lady,' whose real name is Kirsty Paterson, has been through a lot over the past week, but even she wasn't ready for the latest twist in her story. After being forced to learn an AI-generated script for a disastrous Willy Wonka-themed event in Scotland and facing hordes of hate on X/Twitter,...Read more...

The point of a budget smartphone is to exist as the fast fashion" equivalent of its flagship counterparts. For instance, in the case of the top Android phone seller, Samsung, its A-series delivers some of the brand's premium experiences at a fraction of the cost. Mid-range Samsung devices are known for sporting the...Read more...

X owner Elon Musk is dreaming of a world where people ditch their cell phones and instead make audio and video calls on the social media platform. Musk's vision has elicited nearly collective horror from users of his platform-as well as potential risks to their IP addresses.Read more...

House and Senate appropriators have released NASA's final spending bill for the fiscal year 2024, focusing on the Artemis program's goal of returning astronauts to the Moon. However, there's still considerable uncertainty surrounding the agency's plans for bringing back rocky samples from Mars.Read more...

NASA still has plenty of cool projects afoot in the real world-did you hear about that asteroid-redirecting test? Or those space-friendly cameras?-but it's also trying to stir imaginations in fantastically creative ways, too. Enter The Lost Universe, the agency's first-ever tabletop roleplaying game.Read more...

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A civilian employee of the U.S. Air Force has been arrested and charged with sharing highly classified military information on a dating app, according to an announcement from the U.S. Department of Justice on Monday. And it's pretty clear from the indictment that whoever this man was talking to knew what she was after.

Ruling the galaxy with an iron fist and a not-insignificant amount of planet-sized battle stations is tiring work, and that's even before you get to sexing your way to an immortal bloodline of evil. What's an Emperor and Dark Lord of the Sith to do if not occasionally sit back, relax, and crack open a beer with the...Read more...

Apple's lightest laptop, the MacBook Air, is back and powered with the tech giant's swankiest new silicon. The M3 chip that we've seen inside of it's new MacBook Pro. Gizmodo had a chance to see the new Airs in person, but while the starting $1,099 laptop might look very similar to fans, most of the new you'll care...Read more...

Several former Twitter executives filed a lawsuit on Monday alleging Elon Musk illegally tried to stiff them out of severance totaling roughly $128 million. Musk is portrayed in the lawsuit as a petty and vindictive man who, uses his wealth and power to run roughshod over anyone who disagrees with him." And it gets...Read more...

Denis Villeneuve's Dune movies are visually striking-cinematographer Grieg Fraser and production designer Patrice Vermette already have Oscars from Dune: Part One. But Dune: Part Two is even bolder, and includes a black-and-white sequence that leaves a lingering impact.Read more...

Nintendo has a history of not just stopping video game pirates, but ruining their lives. The Mario maker sued Yuzu, a notorious free emulator of the Nintendo Switch just last week. On Monday, the developers behind Yuzu agreed to shut down the website entirely and pay Nintendo $2.4 million dollars, according to court...Read more...

If you have a cave full of gold and an achingly lonely toy shelf, Hake's Auctions has a stash of well-preserved vintage collectibles ready to serve your needs. While we probably won't be bidding on any of the lots-including decades-old releases from Star Wars, Transformers, G.I. Joe, Batman, Ghostbusters, and Ralph...Read more...

If you want to stay grounded-which is to say, you want a haunting reminder of your own diminutive size and mortality-do I have the tool for you. Meet Galactic Compass: an app which will point the user towards the whopping black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr once said that artificial intelligence could kill us all" if it were used improperly. Still, concern about the misuse of AI apparently hasn't stopped RFK Jr. from arguably misusing it. Instead, the long-shot presidential candidate, who has a lot of kooky ideas, allowed some of those kooky ideas...Read more...

There's a lot of sandworms in Dune: Part Two. We even get to learn a lot about how to start riding them, thanks to an extended sequence where Paul is trained in mounting the massive creatures. But getting off of one? Only one man currently knows that beyond Arrakis, and he's keeping it very secret.Read more...

Tron: Legacy is the type of sequel modern Hollywood dreams about, but rarely gets right. I figured this out a few weeks ago when, after seeing that Disney was finally in production on a long-awaited Tron 3, I went back and revisited the 2010 film. But, of course, one can't simply revisit Tron: Legacy. You have to tee...Read more...

The internet is in an uproar after a question and answer session featuring Google co-founder Sergey Brin over the weekend, where an attendee in a mostly male audience wore a shirt depicting a naked woman's body.

After a decade of dominance climaxed in Avengers: Endgame shattering records along its way to cultural and box office royalty, it isn't entirely unfair to say that Marvel has had a bit of a rollercoaster time setting the stage for its next era. But even as critical and financial consensus wanes on the studios' output,...Read more...

Anthropic, a startup born out of OpenAI defectors, claims its new chatbot, Claude 3, has broken new ground for the AI world. The updated AI chatbot, released on Monday, outperforms ChatGPT and Google Gemini's most advanced models, potentially crowning a new king in the AI world. Anthropic released three tiers - Opus,...Read more...

It's day 4 of Gizmodo's March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! Yesterday's match-up was the biggest blowout we've seen yet with Google Maps taking 96 percent of the vote and eliminating Yelp from the tournament. Today, we have another David vs Goliath fight as Apple's iMessage takes on...Read more...

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An ambitious NASA project designed to test satellite refueling in space, known as OSAM-1, has been discontinued after significant technical, cost, and scheduling difficulties. The cancellation comes in the wake of an October 2023 report from NASA's Office of Inspector General that cited poor performance" by Maxar,...Read more...

Editor's Note: The following story contains references to self-harm. Please dial 988" to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline if you're experiencing suicidal thoughts or mental health-related distress.Read more...

Four astronauts are scheduled to ride on board the Orion spacecraft in September 2025 for NASA's first crewed mission to the Moon in more than 50 years. But before the Artemis crew can strap into Orion, the space agency still needs to resolve an issue with the spacecraft's side hatch that could prevent the astronauts...Read more...

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Donald Trump supporters are creating and sharing AI-generated images of the former president with Black voters. The photos appear to be an attempt to inflate Trump's popularity with the Black community, which may be irreparably harmed by his ties to white supremacist groups, but the photos are nothing but fakes.Read more...

Tim Blake Nelson teases the Leader's rise in Captain America: Brave New World. Jason Blumhouse still wants to make a new Friday the 13th. Evil co-showrunner Robert King lifts the lid on the final season. Plus a new look at the long-awaited third season of One Punch Man. Spoilers now!

On Monday, Apple was hit with a stunning 1.84 billion ($2 billion) fine for violating antitrust laws in Europe. The EU said the company abused its dominant position" by forcing Spotify and other music streaming apps not to tell customers they could save money if they subscribed outside of the App Store.Read more...