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Google has finally delivered on the promise of surround sound for YouTube TV. Subscribers have been waiting a long time for the ability to materialize, and it’s finally rolling out to Google TV and Android TV devices.Read more...

A new group of fans has Bieber fever: anti-vaxxers. To them, he’s living proof that bad things inevitably happen to people who get the covid-19 vaccine, though there has been no clear evidence and no word from the Biebs himself.

After last week’s attempts at more moral complexity didn’t quite hit the mark, this week Star Trek: Strange New Worlds re-centered on what’s worked for it in the past: a camp, tropey bit of action hung around a central member of the Enterprise crew. This time, Ethan Peck’s Spock took the limelight again—and although…Read more...

When Amazon purchased Comixology, the internet’s premiere digital comics site, fans were worried. As it turns out, they had every right to be, as the “revamped” service was absolutely terrible—so terrible that Amazon had to promise some (very basic) improvements a mere week later. However, the new Comixology is still…Read more...

Even having grown up using Commodore 64s, Apple IIs, and IBM PCs, I have no fondness for mechanical keyboards. I’m most happy with a set of short-travel, chiclet-style laptop keys under my fingers, but even I can feel myself being lured to the cult of mechanical keyboards by this impressive compact recreation of a …Read more...

Tim Drake is getting new solo series, penned by Meghan Fitzmartin. Tim Drake: Robin, continues the story she began last year in Batman Urban Legends, where he begins questioning core aspects of his identity as ‘Robin’ and a sleuth-in-training. He also begins questioning his sexuality and eventually realizes he has…Read more...

Elon Musk’s Boring Company—which has been living up to its name—has received approval to expand its Las Vegas tunnels. The expansion will bring the company’s Las Vegas loop all the way to city limits.

Discord is ramping up its content moderation tools and rolling out resources to support its overworked volunteer moderators. The company is also expanding its premium memberships program, which allows users to set up paid subscriptions for their servers.Read more...

There’s “free” snacks, ample seating in a variety of configurations, complimentary Wi-Fi, plentiful outlets, printers and scanners, and even beer on tap. Is it a modern open office with tech company perks? Perhaps a co-working space? Is it a bird? Is it a plane?

Twitter employees singing “when you wish upon a star” seem to have accidentally performed an eldritch rite, and instead of summoning a magical cricket to whisk them away to a land of fun and wonder, employees have summoned the world’s richest billionaire to their door.Read more...

It was 10 years ago yesterday that Gravity Falls debuted on the Disney Channel. If you know the show, there’s about a 98 percent chance you love it and are still somewhat aching from the loss since the finale aired in 2016; if you don’t know the animated series, all I call tell you is you’re missing out. But you don’t…Read more...

The menu bar may not take up much room on your macOS screen, but there’s a whole lot of functionality packed into that little strip, whether it’s showing you how quickly your battery will run out or giving you access to widgets and notifications. However, you might not yet be using the macOS menu bar to its full…Read more...

Democrats in Congress warned Elanco CEO Jeff Simmons on Wednesday that his company’s product, the Seresto flea and tick collar, which has been linked to at least 98,000 adverse reaction incidents and more than 2,000 pet deaths in complaints to the federal government, might be banned if the company doesn’t acknowledge…Read more...

The Hunger Games prequel adds another star, as does Marvel’s Ironheart. To the surprise of no one, new Predator movie Prey has been given an R rating. Puss goes on an existential adventure in the new trailer for Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. Plus, a look at the return of Tuca & Bertie. Spoilers away!

Yellowstone National Park is currently closed to all visitors and Montana has declared a statewide disaster because of historic, widespread flooding. Roads, homes, bridges, the electric grid, and drinking water infrastructure have all been damaged, according to the a press release from Montana Governor Greg Gianforte…Read more...

Rainn Wilson, the actor who played Dwight Schrute on The Office, thinks his iconic character would be up to more than just selling Dunder Mifflin paper if the show was still on the air today.

Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte, a man best known nationally for once body-slamming a reporter, has been missing for the past few days as the state experiences devastating and historic flooding. The governor’s office refuses to say where Gianforte currently is, only stating that he left the country sometime last week,…Read more...

This piece is part of Gizmodo’s ongoing effort to make the Facebook Papers available to the public. See the full directory of documents here.Read more...

Google said goodbye to Google Pay a few months ago when it introduced the revamped Google Wallet, and now it appears that Samsung is doing the same for its own ecosystem. The company today announced Samsung Wallet, which will combine Samsung Pay and Samsung Pass into one all-inclusive app.

Lionsgate is taking Hellboy into a digital inferno with the Sandbox in a new partnership to create metaverse film and television content. Deadline reports that the subsidiary of Amicoca Brands, known for popular mobile games, is now pivoting to bringing IP to the blockchain—with the studio behind the Dark Horse comics…Read more...

When we are first introduced to Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen) in Crimes of the Future, he’s laid up in a bed that looks like a fleshy, rotting orchid, in extreme discomfort. He’s informed that a new hormone has entered his system, a biological measurement of the internal change that he’s experiencing. In our very…Read more...

A sweeping Interpol operation led to the seizure of $50 million in illicit funds and the arrests of 2,000 alleged scammers from a number of different countries earlier this week.Read more...

A group of data journalists have uncovered evidence that Facebook is collecting sensitive personal information about people who visit the websites of so-called crisis pregnancy centers—clinics that are notoriously dedicated to pressuring people out of getting abortions while aping healthcare providers that do offer…Read more...

Federal regulators released data today painting the clearest picture yet of the state of driver-assisted technology in the U.S. That picture includes at least half a dozen deaths.Read more...

The blockbuster success of Jaws famously cleared the way for an explosion of animal-attack horror films. One of the most blatant rip-offs is also one of the best rip-offs, and it’s arriving on Shudder next week. Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the woods, behold the terror of Grizzly!

Yesterday, Science and Technology Daily, a state-backed media outlet in China, published what could have been an exciting piece of news: Researchers recorded radio signals that looked like evidence of extraterrestrial technology. Rogue blips from an advanced alien civilization made their way to Earth? Well, probably…Read more...

For Facebook and its parent company Meta, “pride” and “envy” aren’t so much mortal sins as they are a modus operandi. The company’s obsession with being at the top of the social media ladder could also propagate more harmful content for users.Read more...

Inu-Oh, from acclaimed director Masaaki Yuasa (Ride Your Wave, Keep Your Hands Off Of Eizokuen!), has gotten a new trailer in anticipation of its showing at the Annecy International Film Festival. With an exciting soundtrack and incredibly vibrant visuals, the trailer feels totally unique while still retaining the…Read more...

Capitalism breeds innovation: YouTube Shorts (you know, the video sharing website’s clunky attempt at TikTok) reportedly gets 1.5 billion viewers a month.

On Tuesday, news broke of a potential acquisition that would upend the surveillance industry if approved: NSO Group, one of the most well-known, notorious, and troubled spyware vendors on the market, may be bought by L3Harris Technologies, a major American defense contractor that specializes in a wide assortment of…Read more...

Anthony Fauci, perhaps the most well-known public health figure in America, has contacted covid-19. Health officials said Wednesday afternoon that the 81-year-old Fauci tested positive for the coronavirus, reportedly for the first time. He’s said to be experiencing mild symptoms currently.

Yesterday, Elon Musk said Starship will be ready for its first orbital launch next month, followed by monthly liftoffs from the company’s south Texas base. It’s an ambitious timeline, but the private space company has not yet secured permission to launch the heavy rocket, as it must meet a number of outstanding…Read more...

While Kathleen Kennedy did confirm that the Star Wars film by Taika Waititi (Thor: Love and Thunder, Jojo Rabbit) would be going ahead, she didn’t mention any of the storylines, characters, or even the timeline it would be set in. Now, Waititi himself has said in an interview with Total Film, that he “would like to…Read more...

Stop worrying, everyone! Carbon dioxide is actually good for us, and climate change is making our planet safer. That’s according to noted nutjob and QAnon Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia).Read more...

While companies like Sony and Epson strive to bring giant movie theater-caliber projectors into the home, Philips is taking the opposite approach with compact alternatives that create big images from smaller hardware, like its new 1080p Screeneo U4 ultra short throw that looks no larger than a shoe box.Read more...

When we left Kamala (Iman Vellani) last week, she discovered she has powers! She’s a hero for saving Zoe Zimmer (Laurel Marsden). But how will she further move forward as a hero?

Phoenix is one of the hottest cities in the United States, but this month has been particularly intense: The area has seen temperatures higher than 110 Fahrenheit (43 Celsius) for several days in a row, and, even more concerning, it’s broken an overnight heat record of 90 degrees F (32 degrees C). This was the first…Read more...

Get out your smallest violin—or maybe your biggest—for the petite frogs whose miniature ear structures hinder their ability to hop, one of the defining characteristics of frogs.Read more...

Star Wars, Funko, and Comic-Con. Individually, they’re three of the coolest things in the world. But what happened when you mash them all together? You’re about to find out. At San Diego Comic-Con this year, Funko will have multiple exclusive Star Wars Pops, and io9 has the exclusive reveal.Read more...

I wanted to see how alike I could be to HAL-9000 in my own, ragged rendition of the song Daisy Bell. It turns out, I actually sound better as the vague approximation of the demented artificial intelligence from 2001: A Space Odyssey than either HAL’s actor Douglas Rain or my normal, human voice.Read more...

Sierra Space announced its plans yesterday to launch a spaceflight center and astronaut training academy, which is good news for all of the adults out there who never got to go to space camp as a kid.

Yesterday, Webtoon issued an apology after a New York City ad campaign went viral on Twitter. Kennedy Homan, a Webtoon author herself, took a photo of an ad on a subway platform that read “Comics are literature’s fun side-hustle” next to images from the Webtoon Lore Olympus, the most popular comic on Webtoon with over…Read more...

Nothing, the startup behind one of the best wireless earbuds, revealed the rear design of its upcoming Phone (1) smartphone. The company, led by OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei, is scheduled to reveal the Android device in full at a July 12 event.

Despite the Biden administration’s vows to fight climate change, the U.S. is currently embarking on a major effort to build out fossil fuel infrastructure following the war in Ukraine—with potentially disastrous climate results.

From the very first scene, there was a sense that something about the fifth episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi was going to be different—that it was going to take things to a whole new level. Several storylines paid off in an Empire Strike Back-inspired siege that was filled with intense action, but really shined thanks to the…Read more...

An emerging disease is set to get a new coat of paint. Officials at the World Health Organization announced this week that they will soon choose a different name for the disease known as monkeypox—one intended to avoid the stigmatization and inaccuracy of its current moniker. The name of the virus behind the disease,…Read more...

There’s now another reason to drag out the photo album and start digitizing that aging collection of old, slowly deteriorating family snapshots. Digitally restoring vintage photos is usually a process that can take hours, even for a skilled photo editor, but a new AI-powered filter coming to Photoshop appears to …Read more...

The 2022 Summer of Terror continues to scorch the cryptocurrency industry. Just as some eagerly hoped the worst might be over, prices of Bitcoin Wednesday hit yet another grim milestone, dropping to an 18-month-low.

Last year, we learned that Nickelodeon and Paramount had big plans for a revival of Avatar: The Last Airbender, to once and prove forever that kids using elemental powers are cooler than Disney’s blue man group. But now the studio has confirmed they’re even bigger, adding not one, but two new movies to its internal, …Read more...

Remember this day, as Microsoft has officially retired IE, marking the end of a 26-year era for the once-dominant web browser. Microsoft will now automatically redirect the seven users still using Internet Explorer to its new Edge browser for the next few months. Support for IE has officially ended, and in its place…Read more...