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While Universal Pictures has long stepped away from its planned Universal Monsters Dark Universe (except at Universal Studios theme parks), the cinematic lore of the characters has found new life, thanks to standalone films like Leigh Whannell's Invisible Man, Zelda Williams' Lisa Frankenstein, and now Radio...Read more...

Hasbro's Star Wars toys truly love The Mandalorian-there are few entries in the galaxy far, far away (besides the original trilogy) that come close to the sheer depth the toymaker has delved into the Disney+ show for inspiration. Which is why it feels so bizarre that we have these new figures, missing a very familiar...Read more...

The second half of Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon is out this week and, believe it or not, it's like a completely different movie. While Part One: A Child of Fire, followed the heroic Kora (Sofia Boutella) across the galaxy as she picked up allies, Part Two: The Scargiver is way more focused. Everything takes place on one...Read more...

After last week's episode-already a contender for one of 2024's best single episodes of TV-it would be tough for even a show as consistently strong as X-Men 97 to top what it just laid down. It's not surprising then that this week's episode of the Disney+ series doesn't reach the same highs. It doesn't quite...Read more...

Truth Social's stock price appears to be making a slight rebound Wednesday after losing more than half of its peak value in the month of April. That's a bit surprising considering the fact that the far right's favorite meme-stock company has been exposed for buying into the woke ideology of DEI.

Disneyland Forward, the Walt Disney Company's initiative to expand its original theme park, just got the go-ahead from the Anaheim City Council. Deadline reports that the $1.9 billion expansion plan, which will take decades to finish, received unanimous approval.Read more...

Boeing, the troubled aircraft manufacturer that makes most of the planes that Americans fly on, was the subject of an unsettling Congressional hearing Wednesday wherein multiple invited speakers accused the company of fostering a safety culture" that is anything but safe. Among other things, speakers accused the...Read more...

NASA is building a compact seismometer for its upcoming Artemis 3 mission to the Moon, hoping to learn more about the internal structure of the dusty satellite from its lunar tremors.Read more...

There's more Star Trek around right now than there has been since its 90s heyday, but there's not exactly all that much of it in comparison. The franchise's resurgence in the age of streaming has meant condensed seasons-these days, the average season is often half the size (or less) of one from the broadcast era. But...Read more...

A jawbone found in Somerset, England, may belong to the largest marine reptile yet known, a huge ichthyosaur that lived about 200 million years ago. The new species is dubbed Ichthyotitan severnensis and may have been over 80 feet long, according to the team's estimates. The finding means that ichthyosaurs could have...Read more...

Three needs are famously fundamental to survival: food, water, and shelter. According to new research, ancient humans had at least two of those three needs met by a nearly mile-long lava tube about 77 miles (125 kilometers) north of Medina, Saudi Arabia, for at least 7,000 years.Read more...

The newest weight loss drug on the market, Zepbound, might also help keep people's snoring down. On Wednesday, Eli Lilly announced the preliminary results of two Phase III trials testing its drug tirzepatide for people with both obesity and obstructive sleep apnea. Not only did those taking the drug lose much more...Read more...

In the realm of toy collecting, there are few things more iconic than vintage Star Wars toys. The variety. The history. The value. We all have images in our heads when we think of vintage Star Wars toys-but what you maybe don't know is many of those images are from the same person.Read more...

Nine Google workers were arrested for trespassing in New York City and Sunnyvale, California on Tuesday night after an hours-long sit-in protest against their company's contracts with Israel, a spokesperson from No Tech For Apartheid tells Gizmodo. Google says it has cut the protestors' access to their offices and...Read more...

The world of For All Mankind was forever changed when the Soviet Union arrived on the moon before the United States. That one event changed the course of the show's alternate history, and now we'll get to see exactly how it happened.Read more...

Atlas the robot was killed off yesterday, only to rise from the dead today. So don't write off the robot uprising just yet.

Netflix has enough English-language horror movies to keep you binge-watching for weeks, but don't overlook the broad selection of international frights the streamer also has on offer. Here are 10 titles-mostly recent Netflix arrivals-that were all released in their home countries in the past few years.Read more...

Sony's latest TVs are getting updates in all the expected and the least expected ways. Sony's televisions are easily some of the best we've seen, but compared to competitors like Samsung, its latest screen update feels more significant than the average refresh. There's also a lot of talk about new drivers that are...Read more...

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When the trailer for Abigail dropped folks were quick to point out that the Kevin Durand (Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes) bore a striking resemblance to one Elon Musk. Many even thought the tech personality had gone Hollywood again after his brief cameo in Iron-Man 2. But no, the internet movie hive mind formerly...Read more...

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James Gunn has been filming his new film, Superman, for a few weeks now but there's still plenty of news to be had. Case in point, the actor behind Jonathan Kent, aka Superman's Earth father, has just been revealed.Read more...

In a little more than 30 years, we went from knowing only of the planets in our star system to discovering over 5,000 distant worlds spread across the cosmos. So far, none have looked quite like Earth. If an Earth-like planet was orbiting another star, however, it may look different than our precious pale blue dot. In...Read more...

Scientists in California want to know if you would ever feed your cat a bowl of bug chow. They're looking to survey cat owners about their attitudes on the emerging trend of insect-based cat diets, which some researchers and advocates say could be more sustainable and possibly even healthier than traditional pet food.Read more...

Buying an air conditioner is hard. There are lots of specs that aren't found on any other kind of product, the damn things are heavy, so if you buy the wrong one you'll dread returning it even more, and if you mess up you will find yourself living in an unpleasant ice box, or a muggy misery. But don't worry, it's...Read more...

Things get cosmic in a new X-Men 97 clip. Velma sets the stage for its unlikely return. Plus, Chucky gets into the family atomics, and what's coming up on Smiling Friends season 2. Spoilers now!

It's been a wild ride with Google's total pivot toward infusing AI into every bit of its products, and I need a break. The company released Gemini for the Pixel phones a few months ago, and it's already wreaking havoc on my life and the lives of others on Reddit. Gemini doesn't do everything the Google Assistant does,...Read more...

U.S. officials pledged not to pursue the death penalty against Julian Assange if he's extradited from the UK to face charges related to his publication of documents highly embarrassing to the U.S. government, according to a report from Australia's ABC News Tuesday. But that will be cold comfort to some in the British...Read more...

Say what you want about gaming gear's absolute obsession with RGB lighting on every desktop, keyboard, and laptop, but at least they're consistent. We've gotten used to gaming setups awash in the glow of RGB lighting, but good old boy Razer has come out with a new extra-colorful mouse pad called the Firefly V2 Pro, a...Read more...

Warhammer 40,000's grimdark world of horrors both human and alien has developed a complicated relationship with elements of its audience over the years. What was once a biting satire of Britain's conservative government in the late 80s has, in iteration after iteration of lore and retcons, become a messy...Read more...

As much as Star Wars fans are looking forward to The Acolyte and Skeleton Crew, if we're being honest, the crown jewel of the upcoming release calendar is Andor. The highly anticipated second season of the Emmy-nominated show has had a rough road amid all the strikes and, as a result, got pushed back into the next...Read more...

There have been many things in recent years that have helped Dungeons & Dragons transform into a global pop culture force-including the pandemic's necessity for remote social forms of play, the rise of actual play into its own entertainment boom, andBaldur's Gate 3. But few perhaps match the boost that Stranger Things...Read more...

More than 10 workers held a sit-in on the 10th floor of Google's New York City headquarters on Tuesday to protest Google's ties to Israel, organizers from No Tech for Apartheid" tell Gizmodo. The New Yorkers were joined by a simultaneous sit-in inside of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian's office in Sunnyvale,...Read more...

Motorola has announced its new family of flagships, the Edge 50 series. The series features three new models, from premium to mid-range, available in various finishes, from vegan leather (plastic) to wood. And like the rest of the Android brood, Motorola is hedging its bets on AI-infused software features to attract...Read more...

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So what if you just emptied your wallet for those rare Star Wars posters io9 shared last week? This auction of vintage horror and cult movie posters has some truly staggering offerings too. And if you're not in the market for pricey memorabilia, well-you can still ogle this slideshow of the goods, courtesy of ...Read more...

Wednesday was a huge hit for Netflix, breaking records for the streamer and pulling in Emmy nominations. So it's no surprise a second season is on the way-or that the cast is adding another big name to a slate that already includes Jenna Ortega, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Christina Ricci: Steve Buscemi.Read more...

Much of the ocean's life remains a mystery to us, but an international team of scientists has just filled in a few blanks after a 40-day expeditionto the Salas y Gomez Ridge. The ridge is a lengthy corridor filled with over 100 underwater mountains that extends from Chile to Rapa Nui, more commonly known as Easter...Read more...

Though Doctor Who fans met Ncuti Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor in Christmas special The Church on Ruby Road," he'll be setting out for his first proper season of adventures next month-and the early teases have signaled a big change for the show beyond the new star and the Disney dollars: the Doctor's incredible range of...Read more...

The Brits are getting serious about deepfake porn-so serious, in fact, that if you get caught making or sharing the content in the United Kingdom it could soon get you thrown in prison.Read more...

AirPods have taken the consumer audio industry by storm and successfully entered most households. There's a chance that most of us (like me) have never tried to look into everything they can do. Let's look at those hidden features we didn't know about one of the planet's most popular pairs of buds.

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Marvel's comics have suddenly dovetailed into what's been going on in Marvel's movies for a long time-even before the MCU hit stratospheric heights, there's always been elements from adaptations that then make their way back to the source. But while this has been an often left-unspoken (or at least diplomatically...Read more...

Rover bills itself as the most popular pet-sitting app in the U.S., with tens of millions of bookings since the service was founded in 2011. But just like other gig-economy apps such as Uber and Airbnb, Rover is offered as a technology platform rather than a direct employer of pet-sitters. And that can lead to some...Read more...

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Every year, Stanford University's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence releases a big report about the status of the artificial intelligence industry. This year's report, published this week, is a whopping 502 pages and includes a wealth of insights on the trendy technology. Tucked into its section on...Read more...

The Bigfoot movie genre is about to get a very intriguing new entry in Sasquatch Sunset, the latest from sibling filmmaking team David and Nathan Zellner (Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter). It delighted audiences at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, and hits theaters nationwide this week.Read more...

Well, this is awkward. A NASA investigation confirmed that a small piece of trash tossed from the International Space Station (ISS) survived atmospheric reentry and ended up in a Florida home. This is a rare case of space junk causing damage on Earth, and the homeowner may be seeking legal action.

The vast majority of official adventures released for Dungeons & Dragons' 5th edition have been about finding ways to introduce the legions of newcomers to the fabled TTRPG to its various worlds-stories that onboard brand new adventurers on their paths through D&D's early progression. Some have thrown in ways to advanc...Read more...

We haven't experienced a major meteor shower since the Quadrantids ended in early January, but the annual meteor drought has officially ended with the Lyrids now in action. Here's what you need to know about this yearly light show and how to watch it.Read more...