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Warped and Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Film Archive, written by Lars Nilsen and others and edited by Kier-La Janisse, is so many different books in one. But if you’re a cult movie fan, a lover of outsider cinema, or someone interested in film collecting and film history, it’s essential reading.

Jennifer Walters’ MCU debut is bringing a ton of giant-sized heroes and villains to Disney+, but it’s also going to give us a quirky glimpse at a world much stranger than the realm of comic book characters beating the snot out of each other: the American legal system.

Four decades of data about bird species in remote parts of the Amazon rainforest indicate the animals’ body sizes and wing lengths have changed. These changes—smaller total body mass and longer wingspan—correspond with a 40-year trend of increasingly hot and dry conditions during the rainforest’s drier season.Read more...

“Why would I ever use Instagram Reels?” you might be wondering. Well, Instagram has a question of its own: Do you like money? Are you interested in... being rich?

As part of today’s Disney+ Day celebrations, Marvel Studio’s continued tease of what’s to come in its plans for the streaming service has given us an early look at Oscar Isaac preparing to step into the suit of Marc Spector, aka Moon Knight, in his own standalone streaming series.

Climate scientists, activists, and academics have used reason, data, and morality to desperately sound the alarm bell around the urgent need to address the climate crisis. For the most part, those pleas have gone unanswered. Now, Pope Francis is offering a sophisticated new alternative: pray and hope for the best.Read more...

It may not be a total lunar eclipse, but the partial lunar eclipse happening next week promises to be spectacular owing to the large amount of shade our planet will cast onto the Moon and its unusually long duration.

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND — Part of the agreement being hammered out at United Nations talks as they stretch into their (in theory) last day could let rich countries get away with continuing to pollute by using a bit of tricky math to justify it under the Paris Agreement. Welcome to one of the most confusing—and…Read more...

Everyone in Miami’s getting free bitcoin, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez told CoinDesk TV on Thursday. The move, part of the fuzzier overall plan to become “the first Web3.0 city,” entails parsing out yields the city makes from MiamiCoin, which has already generated $21 million for the city.

If you had told me five years ago that Kamala Khan was going to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe, I wouldn’t have believed you. If you had told me 10 years ago, I would have assumed you were talking about Carol Danvers, because Kamala didn’t exist yet; Marvel’s first Muslim superhero to headline her own series was…Read more...

Steel undergirds much of modern society. Buildings, cars, medical supplies, you name it, steel is there. But it also represents one of humanity’s greatest threats.Read more...

Assuming you haven’t been gifted a ride for publicity reasons, the going rate for a sub-orbital trip to space is around a quarter of a million dollars, which gets you just a few minutes in microgravity. It’s a short trip only the 1% can afford to experience, but believe it or not, it’s still cheaper than Jacob & Co.’s…Read more...

Radiant Black, Kyle Higgins and Marcelo Costa’s tokusatsu-influenced superhero hero series, has already expanded its world beyond its titular hero with not just similar wielders of Radiant Black’s cosmic powers, but also with Mat Groom and Erica D’Urso’s Kickstarted upcoming series Inferno Girl Red. Now, they’re…Read more...

Let’s cut to the chase—Marvel’s finally figured out what it wants to do with the X-Men, and it has nothing to do with Wanda Maximoff’s feelings about whether there should be more mutants.Read more...

The much-anticipated Willow TV show is still filming, but star Warwick Davis apparently spent his lunch break filming a funny video where he introduces the new supporting cast for the sequel series to his beloved 1988 fantasy film. It’s really cute and reveals something kind of shocking.

Skywatchers in Georgia and Alabama were treated to a glorious light show this Tuesday when a rare earthgrazing meteor zoomed across the night sky.

President Joe Biden this week signed a law gutting one of Huawei and ZTE’s last lifelines into U.S. markets just days before a summit meeting with China’s president, Xi Jinping.

Earlier this year, Microsoft relaunched its Xbox Design Lab to help gamers customize their controllers with a wide mix of colors, and now Microsoft is bringing back even more customizations from last-gen including rubberized grips and metallic paint options.

It seems impossible, but the Ice Age franchise has been around for nearly two decades at this point. It probably stands to reason, then, why the newest film—the sixth, in fact!—in the franchise would go ahead and focus on the series’ most beloved character, the weasel Buck Wild (voiced by Simon Pegg). And, as this…Read more...

Just one year ago, Chloe Gong was a young writer about to release her first book, These Violent Delights. A year later, the Chinese-born New Zealander is still young (she’ll turn 23 in December), but now she’s a best-selling author, with the highly anticipated Our Violent Ends—the sequel to her breakout YA…Read more...

Welcome the newest Disney princess to the family, because the House of Mouse has revealed the first details about Dan Trachtenberg’s new entry in the Predator saga.

Though Baymax, the gentle, Stay Puft-like wellness robot member of Big Hero 6 ended up helping save the world with his combat abilities, he was originally created to help and heal people who suffered from different kinds of injuries. In Baymax, Disney+’s upcoming episodic followup to 2014's Big Hero 6, Baymax stars as…Read more...

James Gunn hypes up his Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 soundtrack. Get a look at all the Easter Eggs that went into making Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City. Plus, a glimpse at Foundation’s season finale, and another look at the Solar Opposites holiday special. To me, my spoilers!

Iceland released a new tourism ad on Thursday, poking fun at Facebook’s (sorry, Meta’s) recent promises for how we’re all going to live in the future. But Iceland’s version of Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t want to sell you on visiting the sci-fi dystopia that we were all warned about for decades. No, Iceland just wants you…Read more...

Electronics giant Toshiba will split into three different companies after years of scandals, according to a press release from the Japanese company on Friday. The move comes after activist shareholders lobbied for the change following several idiotic moves, including a plan to falsify financial documents which saw the…Read more...

In this day and age, it’s hard not to doomscroll, or continuously scan through bad news online even though it makes you feel like the poop emoji. I personally like the quirky word, though not the action itself. A Dallas-based metal guitarist thought “doomscroll” was a cool word, too. Specifically, he thought it was “a…Read more...

The aliens of Solar Opposites have been keeping busy. Not only are there (at least) two more seasons of Hulu’s delightfully crass animated series—created by Rick and Morty’s Justin Roiland and Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Mike McMahan—on the way, there’s a surprise Christmas episode dropping in less than two weeks.

Spotify is already a mess of music and podcasts, and soon the platform will offer audiobooks as part of the heap of content clamoring for your ears every time you open the app.

Rick and Morty has long been linked with the golden arches of McDonald’s thanks to the good (and sometimes bad) association with Mulan’s Szechuan Sauce. Now though, your favorite time traveling duo has leapt from one fast food chain to another thanks to a new promotion with Wendy’s.Read more...

If you’ve been holding out for a new Chromebook made by Google, you’ll have to keep waiting. A Chromebook team member just indicated there is no updated Pixelbook planned for 2022.

Surprising as Archie Andrews’ modern day return to pop cultural relevance might have been to some Western viewers following Riverdale’s premiere on the CW back in 2017, the same likely wasn’t true for those living in India where Archie and his friends have remained much more relevant and popular.Read more...

After briefly and publicly flirting with the idea of integrating Discord with a crypto payment system, the company’s founder and CEO, Jason Citron, issued a statement on Thursday assuring angry subscribers that there were definitely no serious plans to do that if everybody was just going to yell about it all at once.Read more...

What started out as a simple engineering project has now turned into a major windfall for the device’s creator after an auction for the world’s first USB-C iPhone ended with a winning bid of $86,001.

New research suggests Neolithic people at the ancient city of Çatalhöyük used a surprising source of fibers to make clothing: trees.

Andrew Garfield has always been frank about the disappointment he faced with the outcome of his Amazing Spider-Man duology—not in having embodied the legendary superhero, but in the creative and business decisions behind it. Now, as rumors swirl about his potential return, he’s using renewed leverage to remind people…Read more...

Virtual reality experiences are never going to feel like the real world until we’re able to engage all of our senses, not just vision and hearing. As a potential way to simulate a human’s ability to feel physical sensations, researchers have developed haptic VR hardware that applies chemicals to your skin to trigger…Read more...

Fans of cult horror movies will have no trouble recognizing the name of producer, writer, and director Charles Band; it pops up in the credits of well-loved classics like Re-Animator, Ghoulies, Pupper Master, and Troll, all of which he made through his various companies over the years (including the now-defunct…Read more...

It’s been nearly nine months since the Perseverance rover landed in Jezero Crater, a dried-up lake bed on Mars. Since then, its science mission has reached full swing, with the rover now scouring the Red Planet’s surface for interesting rocks to sample. Just this week, it exposed a circular patch of rock that had…Read more...

One potential reason for the explosion of hoaxes, political disinformation, and fabricated clickbait on social media in recent years is the goddamn blue checkmarks, according to new peer-reviewed research accepted for publication in the Journal of Management Information Systems.

New research shows the extent to which cats are likely driving the spread of a problematic brain parasite to wild animals and how the ongoing deterioration of our environment is making this problem even worse.

We’ve frequently featured Steven Richter’s hypnotic timelapse videos of the artist sculpting memorable Marvel characters like Thanos. But Richter is clearly just as talented with a brush as they are with a lump of clay, as they turn a plastic recreation of the Jumanji board game into a prop that looks straight out of…Read more...

The leader of an illegal logging operation responsible for a wildfire that burned more than 3,300 acres worth of Washington state wilderness was sentenced to 20 months in prison this week thanks in large part to DNA from a tree.Read more...

It’s bad news if all of your 2021 holiday gift giving revolved around Panic’s upcoming Playdate console. Following Valve’s announcement yesterday that its Steam Deck console was being delayed two months into the new year, Panic has also revealed that it won’t get the first 10,000 preordered Playdate units out by the …Read more...

In Riverdale’s upcoming sixth season, the long-running CW Archie adaptation is finally living up to its crossover potential by calling Kiernan Shipka’s Sabrina Spellman in for a little assistance. If you want to know more before the premiere, there’s a lot of her comic history that could come into play and certainly…Read more...

The third episode of Gizmodo podcast Gadgettes just dropped on your preferred podcast platform. Each week, your hosts, Gizmodo reporter Florence Ion and senior editor Caitlin McGarry, womansplain the gadgets we’re testing and reviewing as well as interview our fellow Gizmodo reporters about the week’s biggest tech…Read more...

The real estate industry was thrust into the spotlight last week, when Zillow, the digital property listing company, announced that it would be shuttering “Zillow Offers,” its “iBuying” division. In a dire earnings report, the company announced that it stood to lose hundreds of millions of dollars as a result of the…Read more...

Are digital images a manufactured construct? Does the act of zooming fundamentally alter a files’ essence? Those are some of the unexpected, and at times inelegant, questions posed this week by the layers of 18-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse, who is on trial for shooting and killing two people and injuring another at a…Read more...

If you expected a Thanksgiving in the world of Teen Titans Go! to go off without at least one destroyed wall, then I’m not entirely sure you’ve seen Teen Titans Go! before.

Ozy Media, the scandal-ridden media org that is somehow, miraculously still alive, is now being investigated by federal authorities. The New York Times reported this week that both the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have opened investigations into the company.Read more...