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Have you heard about the new Squid Game cryptocurrency? It’s up over 2,000% in the past two days, prompting news outlets like the BBC and Business Insider to write about the token. But unfortunately, it’s a total scam.

The people want Apple products. While Apple would be more than happy to oblige, it can’t, because there’s a global supply chain crisis. The crunch is costing the company billions in lost sales and keeping its money machine, the iPhone, at arm’s length from buyers.Read more...

Stanford researchers think they’ve devised an effective and quick-acting way to treat difficult cases of depression, by improving on an already approved form of brain stimulation. In a new trial published this week, the researchers found that almost 80% of patients improved after going through treatment—a far higher…Read more...

By now, you probably know that it might be a bit difficult to buy all the gifts you want for the holidays this year. It’s one of the consequences of living through a global supply chain crisis. But Amazon, one of the world’s biggest online retailers, isn’t letting that or a range of other factors get in the way of its…Read more...

For fans, the news of Dune Part 2 coming in October 2023 is excellent. That means we will, for sure, see what happens next with Paul Atreides. For Dune Part 1 writer-director Denis Villeneuve, it’s great news too, but unlike the fans he has a bigger issue: actually making the movie in time.Read more...

Cryptocurrencies need to be reigned in by proper regulations, or risk fueling widespread criminality and malfeasance, claims the Financial Action Task Force, a global anti-money laundering watchdog, which published a new report on the subject Thursday.Read more...

In a dismal end to its promise to deliver free, legal broadcast streaming solutions to Americans who would otherwise lack television access, the over-the-air streaming service Locast has agreed to pay a $32 million fine and cease operations for good, according to a Thursday court filing.Read more...

Facebook, which today changed its name to Meta just for fun, is making changes to its virtual reality division to match its rebrand. Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth announced that the company would transition away from the Oculus branding beginning in 2022.

Antlers is a movie we’ve been waiting so long to see it’s almost unbelievable it hasn’t come out yet—but tomorrow, at last, is the big day for the Scott Cooper-directed, Guillermo del Toro-produced supernatural horror tale. The film is coming off a bunch of festival screenings, but to increase the spooky hype that…Read more...

Republicans and fossil fuel interests have a, shall we say, cozy relationship. But that relationship went from snuggly to downright NSFW on Thursday at a hearing ostensibly about fossil fuel misinformation.

Last Night In Soho is director Edgar Wright’s least Edgar Wright film yet. While most of the director’s previous works—including Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and Baby Driver—have a tone that’s light, breezy, and fun, Soho is dark, disturbing, and dense. It’s not a film for someone looking to switch…Read more...

Evidence of aliens might actually be an easy thing for scientists to detect—it’s proving that the evidence is legit that promises to be a greater challenge. A newly proposed framework developed by NASA scientists could help.Read more...

In gen:LOCK’s upcoming sophomore season, the dystopian mech series is making the jump from Rooster Teeth to HBO Max as it continues the story of Julian Chase (Michael B. Jordan) and his fellow Holon pilots, the elite squad recruited into the gen:LOCK program.Read more...

A group of five young climate activists are entering their ninth day of a hunger strike to demand that Democrats in Congress pass meaningful climate legislation as part of the Build Back Better agenda. Hunger strikes have a long, varied history as a tool to fight injustice and demand rights—but this climate strike is…Read more...

Welcome to Gadgettes, a podcast from Gizmodo’s consumer technology team where we womansplain technology. Each week, your hosts, Gizmodo reporter Florence Ion and senior editor Caitlin McGarry, will dive into key tech topics, from the devices we’re testing and reviewing to the week’s biggest tech news.

André Nemec, the showrunner for Netflix’s upcoming live-action adaptation of the monstrously popular 1998 anime series Cowboy Bebop, has said many times that fans shouldn’t expect his show to be a one-to-one remake of the original. That was abundantly clear when the first Cowboy Bebop trailer dropped this week, which…Read more...

Surprising no one, Facebook is rebranding itself as Meta.Read more...

Bravely pioneering the “I-used-to-do-slurs-but-now-I-sell-crypto” pipeline, Matt Damon has been named the new face of Crypto.com—the latest move in the platform’s strategy to convert new users and mainstream the digital currencies it sells by way of celebrity endorsement.Read more...

In a truly double-take-inducing finding, geneticists recently surveyed a population of critically endangered California condors and found that two of the birds reproduced without actually mating.Read more...

The chronicling of human evolution has proven to be an onerous and complicated task, resulting in all sorts of contradictions and inconsistencies. A group of scientists is seeking to make better sense of this anthropological mess by proposing a new species of ancestral human that calls for the reassigning of certain…Read more...

UNESCO World Heritage Sites are the planet’s most iconic places and include sites from the natural and built world. But a new report from the group shows that a small but vital number of forests that have received a UNESCO designation are being irrevocably altered by human activities.Read more...

Facebook is trying really hard to make the metaverse happen, and at its annual Connect keynote, CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained what exactly that will entail.Read more...

This month is huge for fans of sci-fi and fantasy books. We’ve got James S.A. Corey’s final Expanse book, Leviathan Falls; a new collection of stories by io9 co-founder Charlie Jane Anders called Even Greater Mistakes; and the latest Brandon Sanderson Skyward Series novel, Cytonic. Plus, new books from Marissa Meyer,…Read more...

Oh no—some of New York City’s, uhh, finest may be forced to join their rage-quitting compatriots over in Washington state and stop being cops rather than get the coronavirus vaccine, as on Wednesday a Staten Island judge ruled against the New York Police Department union’s effort to stop a mandate for municipal…Read more...

There’s a big new presence slurping up power from the U.S. grid, and it’s growing: bitcoin miners. New research shows that the U.S. has overtaken China as the top global destination for bitcoin mining and energy use is skyrocketing as a result.Read more...

While all of Disney+ and Marvel’s character-specific shows have felt like studies of their interior selves, the vibe radiating from the trailers for the MCU’s upcoming Hawkeye series has been a little bit different—less “what makes Clint Barton, the original Hawkeye, tick” and more “of all the original Avengers, what…Read more...

What goes best with fun-sized Hershey bars? Horror movies! And while everybody knows the classics (Beetlejuice, Hocus Pocus, The Craft, the original Halloween, etc.), sometimes you want a less immediately familiar movie that won’t just entertain you—it’ll scare the daylights out of you, too. Here are 12 movie picks…Read more...

A cheap and widely available drug used as an antidepressant now also appears to be a lifesaving covid-19 treatment. In a newly published, large-scale clinical trial, the drug fluvoxamine was shown to reduce the risk of prolonged hospitalization as well as death in high-risk patients treated at an emergency room.…Read more...

For everyone who has been waiting for a true full-frame mirrorless camera from Nikon, today is the day as Nikon has just announced its new flagship cam: the Nikon Z9.Read more...

If there’s something strange in the neighborhood... then you should probably call 911 rather than spend $400 on this life-sized replica of Egon Spengler’s proton pack from Ghostbusters. But if your neighborhood seems reasonably normal and you have cash to spare, this is your chance to own a nigh-perfect recreation of…Read more...

When Star Trek: Prodigy was first revealed as a “kid-friendly” show, certain fans decried that they did not need a “dumbed-down” entry to get into Star Trek when they were young. A blessing then, that this next generation doesn’t have that either: instead, they’re offered something smart, fun, and perfect for them,…Read more...

Once a respected brand when it came to DSLR alternatives, Canon is now slapping the PowerShot label on all sorts of gimmicky experimental cameras, including the new PowerShot PX: a sort of security camera-meets-AI-powered photographer that promises to automatically capture the best possible photos and videos of an…Read more...

Big Oil has had a reckoning with the public. It’s had a reckoning in court. And on Thursday, it will have a reckoning in front of Congress’ most powerful committee.Read more...

Ghostface strikes in a new look at Scream’s return. The latest Stephen King adaptation rounds out its cast. Get a tiny glimpse of the new Paranormal Activity. Plus, new looks at what’s next on Legends of Tomorrow, Batwoman, and Creepshow. Spoilers away!

Papua New Guinea’s government finance office has been hit with a ransomware cyberattack and the hackers are demanding bitcoin, according to Bloomberg News. And while many of the specifics surrounding the attack are still unclear, it’s becoming obvious that hackers won’t just target the wealthiest countries and richest…Read more...

The National Rifle Association has reportedly been hacked. A cybercriminal gang claims to have stolen the much maligned gun lobby’s data and has been posting samples of it to the internet.Read more...

On March 15, 2019, a heavily armed white supremacist named Brenton Tarrant walked into two separate mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, and opened fire, killing 51 Muslim worshipers and wounding countless others. Close to 20 minutes of the carnage from one of the attacks was livestreamed on Facebook—and when the…Read more...

Let’s face facts. The 1999 South Park movie, Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, is one of the best movie musicals ever. And in the 22 years since its release, while its creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have made plenty of South Park, they haven’t made another movie. But that changes later this year, in a weird sort of way.Read more...

The phrase “shooting blanks” has passed into colloquialism. But, literally speaking, what does it mean to shoot blanks? And why can people who get shot with blank ammunition still die? We’ll explain what blanks are, why they’re used, and why they can still kill you.Read more...

Neon Genesis Evangelion no longer has the monopoly on shows about divine angels being sent to destroy humanity for its sins. The anime now shares this honor with Hellbound, an upcoming Netflix series from Yeon Sang-ho, director of the international hit horror movies Train to Busan and its sequel Peninsula.Read more...

The Android tablet will soon get good, or at least it seems like Google is hoping it will with Android 12L. This new version of Android is designed for tablet-sized screens and anything above 600dp, and is available for developers today.

A prominent Chinese tech firm that sells hardware to companies throughout the world is currently under investigation after being accused of facilitating cyberattacks on various American and European targets.Read more...

An outbreak of hepatitis A has sickened at least 50 people in Virginia, with one person dying and another needing a liver transplant. The cases have been tied to a restaurant employee who worked at several locations of a local chain. Though the spread of the outbreak is now thought to be largely contained, more cases…Read more...

Just five companies have spent $96.3 million over the past two years in a fight over a transmission line in northern Maine that will face a reckoning at the ballot box next week. A remote transmission line running through miles of sparsely populated woods may not seem like such a big deal, but the issue has…Read more...

Apple Music subscribers who also own a PlayStation 5 can now stream to their heart’s content after the gaming console quietly rolled out a new integration for the subscription music service this week.

When the Charmed reboot’s Madeleine Mantock recently announced that she would be leaving the show after its third season, it was impossible not to notice the parallels between the ongoing CW series and its WB predecessor from the mid-‘90s starring Shannen Doherty, Holly Marie Combs, and Alyssa Milano. Coincidentally…Read more...

The people can now repair and tinker with their own devices under copyright law. The US Copyright Office (USCO) submitted recommendations, approved today by the Librarian of Congress, to add exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)’s rules governing access to devices and software. (This section.) The…Read more...

There is no anime more responsible for a love of space bounty hunters (and an ill-advised love of jazz) than Cowboy Bebop. The seminal series has been beloved for so long, and with the Netflix adaptation on the way now’s as good a time as any to dive in and see if Bebop is a jam session you can jive with. Here are our…Read more...

Hundreds of naturally mummified human remains in the Tarim Basin, part of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, have long perplexed archaeologists. The remains, which date from 2,000 BCE to around 200 CE, are confounding for their remarkable state of preservation, luxurious clothing, and their burial in boat coffins…Read more...

Intel has officially announced details on its much-anticipated 12th-gen Alder Lake processors, including pricing and performance details for three new chips.Read more...