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In bleak times, funny-looking animals are worth their weight in gold. So it’s with great pleasure that Gizmodo presents the finalists from this year’s Comedy Pet Photography Awards.

Every day, Lake Mead seems to be less deserving of its title. The waterbody has officially reached yet another historic low. The reservoir is now less full than in April 1937, when it was still being filled for the first time. It is hovering around 27% of its full capacity, according to NASA Earth Observatory.…Read more...

I’m not averse to the avatar. I’ve been a fan of virtually identifying myself as a PNG since the dawning of the “cartoon dolls” from the online avatar hangout app called The Palace. Those were the days of anonymously floating around the internet.

We might have only just recently got a better glimpse at Amazon’s Lord of the Rings show, but today at San Diego Comic-Con the streamer gave us another glimpse back into Middle-Earth’s Second Age—and it’s looking quite fantastic.

A federal lawsuit filed against the city of Chicago is calling into question law enforcement’s use of controversial gunshot detection technology for gathering key pieces of evidence. The suit, filed this week by the MacArthur Justice Center at Northwestern University’s law school, alleged Chicago police misused…Read more...

Just days after Russian authorities slapped Google with a multi-billion-Ruble fine for hosting YouTube videos critical of Russia’s invasion in Ukraine, Moscow’s sympathizers in Ukraine are going after the company’s flagship search engine. On Friday morning, the Ukrainian cities Donetsk and Luhansk announced they’d be…Read more...

When bees are sick, their reflexes suffer. Presented with a drop of liquid, the infirm insects don’t extend their proboscises to inspect it as quickly as they do when they’re not ill. Similarly, sick rats take longer to navigate an underwater maze than healthy ones, songbirds don’t learn as many tunes, and crows are…Read more...

One accused New York City grifter—taking a page from the “quality” actors who came before—has officially hit the big time, at least as far as federal police are concerned. A man who has gone by the “Wolf of Airbnb” is now sitting squarely in the sights of federal law enforcement after the FBI unsealed an indictment…Read more...

Even if you don’t watch the Star Wars Disney+ shows, you’re undoubtedly familiar with The Mandalorian’s Baby Yoda: one of the most effective merchandising tools of the past decade. But with the reveal of what is arguably the greatest Baby Yoda collectible to date at Comic-Con, I’m hoping we can finally move on and…Read more...

Watching movies and shows on your phone is all well and good—and would seem fantastically futuristic to anyone from the 1990s—but sometimes you need to see everything much, much bigger. If you need to get videos, photos or audio up on your TV screen from your phone, these are the best ways to go about it.

The International Space Station has been a cornerstone in NASA’s portfolio of spacecrafts since its launch in 1998, but all good things must come to an end, and some of NASA’s safety advisers are getting nervous about what’s next according to a report from SpaceNews.

You just knew someone was going to ask about the goats. Thursday at San Diego Comic-Con, a large chunk of the cast and creative team behind the hit Apple TV+ show Severance took the stage to discuss the show’s breakout first season. Things were going rather normally to start but then the fan Q&A began and the first…Read more...

It’s time to once again steal the declar— another important American artifact! Disney+ brought the cast of National Treasure: Edge of History to San Diego Comic-Con for a first look at the series set to hit the streamer.

Las Vegas may be a city of excess—but no longer when it comes to swimming pools. Officials voted this week to cap the size of home swimming pools in Clark County, Nevada, where Vegas is located, in an attempt to conserve water in the face of the region’s punishing drought.Read more...

In trying to prevent TikTok from making it yesterday’s news, Instagram is foisting TikTok-esque features on its users. If you don’t believe me, just wait until you open the app and see the new avalanche of Reels coming your way.Read more...

YouTube is cracking down on abortion misinformation on its platform, and has started removing certain videos, according to a series of tweets from the company’s official account posted on Thursday. “Starting today and ramping up over the next few weeks, we will remove content that provides instructions for unsafe…Read more...

Anyone skeptical that there’s a new Dungeons and Dragons movie coming out is completely warranted. To date, Hollywood hasn’t done the iconic franchise the justice it deserves. Not by a long shot. But at San Diego Comic-Con, one of the new film’s co-directors revealed a connection to the franchise that’s not just…Read more...

Apparently, openly bigoted, anti-science, Trump cheerleading, and overall anti-democratic rhetoric is no longer welcome on prime time… well, at least one particular station is. Verizon Fios announced late Thursday they are dropping One America News. Ever the gentleman, the last major TV carrier for the beacon of media…Read more...

Launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station has been pushed back by nearly a month due to a Falcon 9 booster getting damaged during transport.Read more...

Add Snap to the list of tech stocks utterly slammed in 2022.Read more...

Most smart lock makers need to throw some big ‘ol scare quotes around the ‘smart’ branding, because a lock that remains permanently locked when you forget to charge its battery doesn’t actually seem very smart. But soon, that may no longer be a limitation, thanks to a new chip that lets your lock harvest all the power…Read more...

Good news for fans of Justin Roiland and Mike McMahan’s surreal, hilarious, occasionally gruesome sci-fi comedy Solar Opposites: its animated aliens will be back for even more hijinks. At yesterday’s San Diego Comic-Con panel, it was announced that the series—which just dropped its third season, and was already…Read more...

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Dan Trachtenberg talks bringing the Predator to life for Prey. The first look at John Wick Chapter 4 is of, well, John Wick. Tim Roth talks returning as Abomination. Plus, good new for Resident Alien, and a new look at the latest season of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. Spoilers go!

There’s a date. That date is Sept. 19. That’s when those sitting like royalty at the top of the Ethereum blockchain say they’ll finally move their proof-of-work-based blockchain system over to proof-of-stake. They’ve made promises before and have routinely pushed back deadlines, but now they have a date, and so far,…Read more...

Earlier this week, Lego revealed a perfect plastic brick recreation of the iconic Atari 2600, the first successful home video game console, as a follow-up to its buildable Lego NES from a few years back. The NES helped turn video games from an oversaturated novelty into a billion dollar blockbuster business, but these…Read more...

Did you see that statement from former president Donald Trump going viral on Thursday about President Joe Biden’s covid-19 diagnosis? It included racist phrases like “the China virus,” multiple references to Hercules, and was shared by countless Republican thought leaders—the best and brightest MAGA minds on the…Read more...

Following a hearing a week ago in which the case was made that Donald Trump had personally instigated the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol last year, the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack kicked off its ninth hearing with a slate of primetime interviews designed to solidify its case against the…Read more...

Based on Robert Jordan’s sprawling, epic fantasy novel series, Prime Video’s The Wheel of Time is stuffed with characters, settings, and dramatic plot threads. And now it’ll get even more space to explore: the series, already renewed for a second season, will return for a third.Read more...

The Wolf pack is back—well, at least in part. We know a few faces are going to be missing from Teen Wolf’s long-in-the-making return, but a new trailer just screened at San Diego Comic-Con made a shocking revelation: at least one star of the show is back from beyond the grave.

Apparently Tesla’s very busy. So busy, the electric vehicle maker can’t be bothered with things like international border crossings. It looks like Tesla now has its very own lane at the U.S.-Mexico border. The company-exclusive thoroughfare was first reported on by Bloomberg News, and confirmed by a representative…Read more...

The X-Men and the rest of mutantkind coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been heavily discussed ever since the ink dried on the Disney/Fox buyout back in 2019. During Comic-Con of that same year, Kevin Feige declared that yes, they and the Fantastic Four would be brought into the fold with Spider-Man, the…Read more...

Hawaii’s volcanic environments contain a rich array of mysterious microbes, new research this week has found. Scientists say that the islands’ lava caves and other structures created by volcanic activity have unique, diverse, and still uncharacterized communities of bacteria living inside them. The findings indicate…Read more...

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Unusually warm temperatures in Northern Greenland last week triggered a huge ice melt, alarming scientists.Read more...

After a very slight title announcement video in April, we haven’t heard much about the new, and long-awaited, Dungeons & Dragons movie. Sure we’re had casting announcements out the wazoo but the plot has been pretty much under wraps. And now? Straight from San Diego Comic-Con, we’ve gotten a trailer.

January 6, 2021 will live in infamy as the day that right-wing protestors stormed the U.S. Capitol building under the false pretense that the 2020 election was stolen from lame duck president Donald Trump. While the investigations into the attack by a House committee started nearly a year ago, they’re continuing to…Read more...

The Mars Express Orbiter recently imaged a canyon system on the Red Planet that is nearly 10 times longer, 20 times wider, and five times deeper than Earth’s Grand Canyon.Read more...

Everybody remembers Neopets, right? The company that lets you create and take care of digital animals has been a mainstay of teen fun since it launched in 1999. Well, I hate to break it to you, but a hacker recently spat on your childhood nostalgia by breaking into the company’s database and stealing data on millions…Read more...

If big business mergers were a game of Pac-Man, where every pellet was a small company and each power pellet was a juicy merger, then tech companies would be playing a perfect game. In this admittedly overstretched metaphor, some U.S. regulators are desperately trying to pull the arcade cabinet’s chord, but it’s not…Read more...

Just as the Hilton Bayfront was set to open its doors to San Diego Comic Con attendees, special guests, and press, the workers at the hotel set up a picket line in front of the hotel. The strike only lasted a few hours, proving once again that collective action, worker solidarity, and excellent timing will often force…Read more...

San Diego Comic-Con can be a very trying experience. So what better way to deal with it than to sever your memory of it from the rest of your well-being? Thankfully you can do just that, hypothetically of course, at Apple TV+’s Severance activation located at the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego, CA.Read more...

A Dutch company that claims it can help businesses “turn [their] CO2 into forests” using data, drones, and other tech is responsible for sparking a wildfire in Spain this week that has already burned tens of thousands of acres and caused 2,000 people to evacuate.Read more...

The only thing constant is change, and the same is true for Facebook’s interface. Meta announced a massive overhaul to the social media’s app interface that more closely resembles TikTok (but they’ll probably never say that).

Among Android fans, the Pixel A-series has been a relative hit for Google. Whenever I step into Android spaces, I hear nothing but praise for the company’s mid-range smartphone. I know several “extremely tech-y” people in my life who have lived with the A-series for years, perfectly satisfied with what’s in their…Read more...

The Space Launch System has yet to launch, but NASA is already thinking about future versions of its mega Moon rocket. An upgraded version of the SLS rocket booster is being tested later today, and you can catch the big blast live right here.Read more...

Social media and reality star Kylie Jenner recently posted what she probably thought was a romantic photo of herself and her partner, Travis Scott, embracing. The black-and-white photo on Instagram shows the two celebrities standing between two private jets with the caption, “you wanna take mine or yours?”Read more...

In an announcement that coincides with San Diego Comic Con, Disney+ has announced that Deadpool, Deadpool 2, and Logan will be available to stream on Disney+ starting July 22. The inclusion of these three films comes with a reminder in the press release that parents can adjust their parental controls to help curate…Read more...

With Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon set to roar onto HBO Max in just one short month, the hype machine was on full, fiery blast at San Diego Comic-Con. io9 got a chance to check out “House of the Dragon: The Dragon’s Den,” an activation set up across the street from the convention center. Here’s what we…Read more...

There are good reasons to raise an eyebrow about smartwatches designed for kids, given how much time they already spend starting at screens. But the Mellow Watch, which comes complete with contactless payment abilities, makes a strong case for itself as a tool to help kids not only earn money, but spend it responsibly…Read more...