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Google’s 2022 I/O Conference is finally here. From virtual maps that come to life to a new way to communicate with your home security system, there’s a lot of unexpected surprises from the keynote to unpack. Here are some of the highlights.Read more...

On Tuesday, amid high tides and heavy winds brought on by a storm, two unoccupied houses in the Outer Banks, North Carolina fell into the ocean. One collapsed in the early hours of the morning. The other, which fell in the afternoon, was caught on video. The houses were on the same stretch of beach and both were…Read more...

Beleaguered rush hour commuters desperately looking to future flying taxis to deliver their traffic salvation are in for some potentially bad news.Read more...

For a man who spent a few decades hanging out in a small house in the desert, Obi-Wan Kenobi actually had a pretty busy life in the Star Wars canon even before A New Hope—and even before his upcoming, self-titled Disney+ series. Here’s a few tidbits from Obi-Wan’s life on Tatooine that are fun to know about in the run…Read more...

Google seems to be taking the “try, try again” proverb to heart when it comes to tablets, given that it just teased plans to release another tablet during Google I/O. But that doesn’t mean it’s not shaking things up. Whereas the company’s short-lived Pixel Slate ran Chrome OS, the mysterious tablet just teased at the…Read more...

After so many leaks and waves of copious speculation, Google has finally announced the existence of the Pixel Watch. The company teased it during its Google I/O 2022 keynote, though you won’t be able to get your hands on it yet. The Pixel Watch will launch alongside the rest of the renewed Pixel lineup later this year.

On the Google I/O 2022 keynote stage, Google has officially confirmed what we’ve been suspecting: new Pixel smartphones are on the horizon, and they are imminent. The mid-tier Google Pixel 6a will be the first one to hit shelves, coming this summer. Later this year, you can also expect the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro.…Read more...

Google used its I/O Developer Conference this year to introduce the world to the latest family of Pixel products, including a new member in the Pixel Watch. Yes, the long-awaited smartwatch has finally been announced, giving hope to Android users awaiting a true rival to the Apple Watch. While the Pixel Watch won’t…Read more...

Google stumbled out of the gate with its first attempt at wireless earbuds (which still came with a wire), but since 2017, Pixel Buds have been slowly improving. Now, for the first time, they’re getting a pro model with active noise cancellation, although it pushes Pixel Buds to their highest price point yet.Read more...

Even as covid-19 continues to dominate the public health spotlight, our old friend the flu is showing up with some new surprises. This year’s flu season is not following the usual bell curve pattern, as an NBC graphic illustrates, where cases peak around January and February and then fall toward the end of April.…Read more...

Google I/O, the tech giant’s annual developer conference is happening this week. Among many new features and reveals came the Tuesday announcement of “scene exploration,” and search tool that combines panoramic photos and text.

Google announced it is finally fully capitulating to demands from both the European Union and news media companies that tech giants should pay to display snippets of reporters’ work on sites or search results.Read more...

There’s an argument to be made that Bryce Dallas Howard has been the best, most consistent live-action Star Wars director... maybe ever. Directing not one, not two, but three of the best pieces of Star Wars in recent memory, it’s very clear that Howard is no longer simply a formidable actress, she has full command on…Read more...

If you’re used to riding the cyrpo rollercoaster, then you know the admission to ride comes with the promise of both ups and downs.Read more...

Google will roll out virtual credit cards for Pay on Chrome and Android later this year, in an effort to better protect users’ financial information during online transactions.

At this year’s Google I/O conference, Google announced a host of new privacy and security features designed to keep the massive amounts of digital information they have on you secure. These include a custom ad experience and the ability to more easily delete your personal information from its search engine results.…Read more...

Climate change is making the world’s oceans lose their “memory,” according to new research.

More than two dozen rights groups are calling on Zoom to scrap its efforts to explore controversial emotion recognition technology. The pushback from 27 separate groups represents some of the most forceful resistance to the emerging tech yet, which critics fear remains inaccurate and under tested.Read more...

The Detroit Zoo’s 5-month-old wallaby joey went missing over the weekend, and yesterday zoo officials suggested a haunting possible explanation: that the young marsupial may have been plucked out of its enclosure by a bird of prey.

Sana Amanat has been with Ms. Marvel from the beginning. Back in 2014, she was the Marvel comics editor who collaborated with writer G. Willow Wilson, artist Adrian Alphona, and fellow editor Steve Wacker in order to help bring the teenaged superhero from Jersey City to life. When the trailer for the upcoming Disney+…Read more...

Can you nuke a storm out of existence? Can you redirect a swirling cyclone of wind and rain with a Sharpie? Can you shoot a hurricane out of a gun and across the planet? These are the questions of our time, and thank god we have Donald Trump to ask them.

In a scene that’s reminiscent of the 1980 cult comedy Airplane!, a flight pulling into West Palm Beach this week managed to avoid certain calamity when a passenger with no flying experience took over the controls from the pilot, who was suffering a “medical emergency.”Read more...

Are summer movies back? For the past few years, the summer movie season has been super weird. In 2020, there wasn’t one due to the pandemic. In 2021, it was an odd mix of theatrical and streaming releases with some of the biggest films having both. But now, in 2022, summer movies are back! Almost.Read more...

Big oil and gas companies under pressure to clean up their act on climate have a new “solution”: Ditching responsibility for polluting assets by selling them off to no-name companies.Read more...

Carvana, the online car retailer, has reportedly laid off over 2,500 employees, some over Zoom, this past Tuesday according to Protocol.

I’m getting teary-eyed, and I can’t help it. Why the emotion? Because after years of stubbornly using the Lightning connector on the iPhone, a new leak says that Apple will make the switch to USB-C next year.

Wind is picking up speed on the West Coast. California plans to produce 10 to 15 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2045—enough to power between 10 million and 15 million homes, according to a report by the state’s Energy Commission released on Friday. The goal is the biggest of any state so far, surpassing New…Read more...

Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness released last weekend to incredible box office numbers, and as fans sat for two hours and twenty minutes to watch a couple mid- and post-credit scenes, they were rewarded with an exciting reveal that has big implications for the future of the MCU.

The Omen prequel has found its director. Westworld season 4 adds another big name to its roster. The Boys’ college supes spinoff has had another cast shakeup. Plus, Syfy un-cancels SurrealEstate, and the CW is still trying to make that Powerpuff Girls show. Spoilers now!

On Monday, Gizmodo showed you how much money you have today if you invested in various cryptocurrencies six months ago. All the top cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin and Ether, were down big, except for one standout coin: Terra’s Luna. If you bought $100 of Luna six months ago, you had about $119 worth of Luna early…Read more...

Lenovo is best known for its ThinkPad business laptops, but its Legion series has birthed some of the best gaming systems I’ve used in the past few years. Today, the laptop maker is replacing the old with a new fleet consisting of the Legion 7 and Legion Slim 7, each available with either AMD or Intel (denoted with an…Read more...

Dragon Ball is back at the box office, like it’s never really gone away—and for the first time, Crunchyroll is taking one of its upcoming anime movies and releasing it around the world, instead of just in American theaters.

Back in 2018, director Danny Boyle was slated to make the 25th James Bond film along with his screenwriting partner John Hodge. After some creative differences the filmmaker left the project, which would go on to became No Time To Die and Daniel Craig’s final bow as Bond. Now we know what Boyle’s never-made take on…Read more...

In honor of a dinosaur franchise (the dinosaur franchise), or perhaps in spite of it, we have found some great dinosaur games. (Two entries that would have made the cut, Primal Quest, and Diesel and Dinosaurs were featured in earlier articles, but just in case you wanted even more content.) Many of these games are not…Read more...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is trying to give the NSA and FBI a run for their money as leading purveyors of U.S. surveillance. While ICE regularly made headlines during the Trump Administration for its involvement in the president’s at times ruthless so-called “zero-tolerance” immigration policy, a new report…Read more...

NASA’s Insight Mars lander recorded a magnitude 5 quake on the Red Planet last week, the largest such rumble ever observed on another world.Read more...

Amid an absolutely stacked cast, Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once, Nora from Queens) has been cast as a guest star in the new Disney+ series American Born Chinese. According to Variety, “Hsu will appear as Shiji Niangniang, the Goddess of Stones, who works in a modern day jewelry shop along with her…Read more...

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One of the best things about Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is it practically forces you to talk about it once it’s over. The film’s multiple surprises and loose ends leave lots of questions to be answered, so we sat down with one of the few people who has the answers: writer Michael Waldron.Read more...

The leading trio of kids cast in the upcoming Disney+ original series Percy Jackson and the Olympians have mostly been met with celebration, as Walker Scobell (The Adam Project) signed on as Percy alongside Aryan Simhadri (Spin) as Grover and Leah Sava Jeffries (Empire) as Annabeth in the reboot of the film franchise.…Read more...

Elon Musk finally said the silent thing out loud, telling a live audience that yes, he would cancel former president Donald Trump’s Twitter ban if his purchase of the company goes through.Read more...

Water inside of California’s largest reservoirs is disappearing fast.Read more...

Take a sneak peek at Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind in this slideshow of images from the new Marvel ride’s queue and gift shop. We were recently invited as press to preview the coming attraction in EPCOT at Walt Disney World.Read more...

Advertisements could be a part of Netflix as early as October 2022, according to an internal company note to staff, first reported on by the New York Times.

Patches continue to roll out for Tesla cars heading into late spring for the latest 2021 and 2022 models. This time, the problem is reportedly due to touchscreen display CPUs that are running too hot, forcing them to malfunction.Read more...

Emperor penguins are at severe risk of extinction by 2060, biologist Marcela Libertelli, who studies the birds at the Argentine Antarctic Institute, told Reuters in a Friday report. The scientist attributed that increasing extinction threat largely to climate change, as the seasonal sea ice emperor penguins need…Read more...

RIP iPod. It was a hell of a ride.

Few Marvel movies have had as many rumors surrounding them as Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. At some point, in some corner of the internet, basically any Marvel character you can imagine was rumored to be appearing. Now that the film is in theaters, we saw that some of that actually came true. The…Read more...

When Intel told us in March that the first Arc 3 laptops were shipping “today,” we assumed they were, well, ready. It turns out, however, that like every other thing we’ve been dying to try in the past two years, Arc is delayed.

In yet another case of stablecoins being less-than-stable, terraUSD (UST) plunged below its $1 price peg for the first time since its inception. Bloomberg spotted the coin slipping to about 99 cents over the weekend, before plunging to roughly 60 cents on Monday night. As of this writing, Coindesk reports that the UST…Read more...