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If crawling out of bed, showering, and getting dressed every morning already provides you with a significant daily challenge, you’ll want to stay well clear of a new Japanese variant of the iconic Rubik’s Cube that makes lining up the colored squares significantly harder as the squares constantly change color.Read more...

India has blocked close to two dozen YouTube channels for “for spreading disinformation related to India’s national security, foreign relations and public order,” the country’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting announced on Tuesday. The 22 banned channels had racked up a combined 2.6 billion views between them.Read more...

Star Trek: Picard is going out with a hell of a bang. Paramount has confirmed that the third and now officially final season of the series will culminate with guest appearances from The Next Generation legends: Jean-Luc is getting the Enterprise-D band back together, at last!

Before Jodie Whitaker says goodbye to Doctor Who and a new actor takes her place, the Thirteenth Doctor is closing out her time with a trio of holiday specials. The first one premiered on New Years and brought back the Daleks, and now the new special, Legend of the Sea Devils, is taking the Doctor, Yaz (Mandip Gill),…Read more...

Since Iron Man 2 in 2010, pretty much all of Marvel’s movies have been team-up films in some form or fashion, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is no exception. The sequel, picking up after the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home, will see Benedict Cumberbatch’s Stephen Strange fight through the many…Read more...

Moon Knight finally debuted its first episode earlier this week on Disney+, and so far, it looks mighty impressive. Whether you came for Oscar Isaac playing Marc Spector and his several alternate personalities or the tinge of supernatural horror the show purports to bring to the MCU, fans have been won over by how…Read more...

Set your mind back to Marvel Comics in 2015, during their “All New, All Different Marvel” period, wherein several legacy heroes were being replaced by younger, more diverse counterparts after the universe-altering events of Secret Wars. While many of those characters managed to make it off the ground, like Riri…Read more...

Two years ago, the initial covid-19 lockdowns sent students home from school, closed the dining rooms of restaurants, and ground international travel to a halt. All over the world, public life slowed down. With less human activity, there were reports of emissions dropping and unbothered wildlife roaming empty streets.…Read more...

The night of Feb. 27, German historian Sebastian Majstorovic couldn’t sleep. Three days earlier, Russia had invaded Ukraine, a country Vladimir Putin believes lays no claim to independent statehood or a distinct identity.Read more...

If there’s anything you can count on, it’s that Hollywood is never too far away from making yet another Crow reboot announcement. This time around, Bill Skarsgård (It’s Pennywise the Dancing Clown) is attached to don Eric Draven’s harlequin makeup, marking the end of Jason Momoa’s tenure of trying to get The Crow…Read more...

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Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of all things good and plastic on the internet. This week, Lego dips into Lightyear, and Moon Knight swings into the merchandising world with new figures from Hot Toys and Hasbro. Plus, begun, the Lego Clone Wars have, and at last: a talking Pikachu you can squish.…Read more...

Financial troubles, job stress, and a fraught home life would be enough to push anyone to the edge, but as Gordon Fleming (Westworld’s Peter Mullan) discovers, there’s nothing like a (probably haunted) abandoned psychiatric hospital to really turn the screws.Read more...

The Steam Deck is now shipping to customers, which means those who pre-ordered the handheld console should be receiving it...eventually. I’m afraid there is not much Gizmodo can do about shipping delays. What we can do is provide the tools you need to get the most out of the console once it arrives. We’ve already…Read more...

Comics have a long, convoluted, and wildly inconsistent history with licensed brand crossovers. As of late, DC in particular has gone through this, delivering branded tie-ins that range from working on absurdity alone, actually working as great comics, or just being absolute garbage. But its latest crossover might be…Read more...

A team of researchers recently reported that a little over 4 pounds of helium-3 leak out of Earth every year, an indication that our planet formed in a solar nebula.Read more...

“Why are NFTs?” is a question I ask myself every day. I don’t have the answer yet but Samsung wants to put them in your living room anyway.

Before joining the creative crew behind Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser, Alex Lee worked in the theatrical market, then was recruited by Disney Parks to work on products for East Asian audiences, then did a stint at the Shanghai Disneyland Resort. All of that experience comes together at his current gig: entertainment…Read more...

British Columbia experienced devastating landslides and flooding last fall after torrential rain fell on regions scarred by wildfires, and more of these events are likely coming soon. A study published Friday in Science Advances found that under a high-emissions scenario—in a world where we do nothing to stop current…Read more...

Imagine being a fan of Halo, waiting what feels like decades to see the game brought to live-action, only for it to happen, it be released, and you can’t watch it. That surely happened to some of the faithful this week when Halo debuted on Paramount+, if they weren’t subscribers to the service. But the streamer is…Read more...

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I don’t think that you could call any film about a second-rate Spider-Man character much anticipated, but that doesn’t change the fact that Morbius comes out today. The reviews are decidedly less than great, including our own, but there’s no way that’s going to stop Sony from trying to make a buck from the weird,…Read more...

Amazon workers at a Staten Island warehouse facility voted in favor of forming a union Friday, notching a momentous victory a growing U.S. labor movement.Read more...

Welcome to the revived Gaming Shelf! We’re back with a bimonthly schedule, a new creator’s spotlight, and a whole lot of links that will be rounding up the gaming news, notable releases, and crowdfunding campaigns that grabbed our attention over the two weeks.Read more...

It’s April, and that means another crop of new sci-fi and fantasy books are upon us! This month we’ve got brand-new releases from io9 co-founder Charlie Jane Anders as well as Station Eleven author Emily St. John Mandel, plus tales of magical hospitals and hotels, space voyages gone sideways, witches and plagues, and…Read more...

I am the self-professed Tamagotchi expert here at Gizmodo, and I’ve been tasked with ranking all the Tamagotchis from best to the best.Read more...

An exoplanet with distinctly Jupiter-like characteristics has been discovered in old data gathered by NASA’s Kepler space telescope. Remarkably, Kepler made the observation using gravitational microlensing, in what is a first for a space-based observatory.

Once a brand tied to self-balancing scooters that never really delivered a promised transportation revolution, Segway now represents a broader range of personal mobility devices including scooters that will soon be an even more terrifying way to zip through traffic with a new GT line boasting top speeds of over 43 MPH.Read more...

I cannot stop thinking about the end credits scenes of Morbius. They might be the apex of what end credits scenes can be. From here? It’s all downhill. These scenes are magical. The scenes are terrible and, frankly, we love them for it. We’ve peaked and there’s no going back.Read more...

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It’s not every day you get to make a phone call to the Star Trek universe—after all, in an era of combadges and intergalactic communication, phone lines are, well, rather quaint. But with Star Trek: Picard currently playing around in the near future of 2024, a chance to sneak in a cute phone number made for a very fun…Read more...

The beginning of the end for The Walking Dead (well, at least in one form) is here. Scream 6 gets a new release date shuffle. Plus, Rachel Zegler teases her mysterious Shazam! character, and a peculiar new look at Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness art. Spoilers now!

Last October, a determined engineering student did what Apple has stubbornly refused to do: upgrade an iPhone with a USB-C port instead of Lightning. That phone went on to sell at auction for over $86,000, proving there was a demand for the upgrade. This time Ken Pillonel has done the opposite, swapping out an…Read more...

Lake Powell, the country’s second-largest reservoir and a key source of water and power for much of the West, is more parched than ever. Earlier this month, the lake dropped below 25% capacity, the federal government said, and has also lost 7% of its total potential capacity since 1963.Read more...

Dungeons & Dragons actual play shows have been popular for years, but the phenomenon really kicked off seven years ago when the McElroy brothers started The Adventure Zone podcast using the newly released Fifth Edition (5e) of the incredibly popular role-playing game as a basis for their comedy storytelling. As the…Read more...

Marvel’s latest streaming show Moon Knight is only six episodes long, and though everyone expects the character to show up and showdown with the likes of Captain Marvel, Black Panther, Ant-Man, and Spider-Man, there’s no guarantee that’s going to happen.Read more...

We’ve known from the get-go that Halo The Series would split apart from the established lore of the beloved Microsoft gaming franchise to offer its own spin on familiar beats and ideas that have been touched upon in over 20 years of games, tie-in books and comics, and more. But one of its most fascinating differences…Read more...

A “massive ranking failure” in the Facebook News Feed promoted content it pegged as bad for the past six months. The flaw in the News Feed’s ranking algorithm elevated misinformation, violence, and the Russian state media outlets Facebook pledged to downrank in response to President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of…Read more...

We can’t get over how cool this looks: a stage adaptation of Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away with live actors, costumed creatures, and incredible puppets? While legions of Hayao Miyazaki fans will have to make do with these new glimpses of the production—since the Toho Co., Ltd. production is only touring Japan for…Read more...

Instagram’s DM’s just got a major makeover. The overhaul, which adds seven new features to enhance the platform’s messaging functionality, comes amid a broader reimagining of Instagram away from image sharing and toward super-app status.Read more...

With Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi rapidly approaching, interest in the character is running sky-high, with a new novel on the way that’ll examine another key period in the Jedi’s life. Mike Chen’s Star Wars: Brotherhood will explore how Count Dooku’s Sith apprentice Asajj Ventress first met Kenobi at the very…Read more...

Welcome back to io9's monthly Nerd’s Watch, where we pare down the enormous lists of new films and television shows arriving on all your favorite streaming services into the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror titles we think you’ll like most.Read more...

Serving as a robotic security guard might feel like a dystopic use of the amazing technology powering Boston Dynamics’ Spot, but the robotic dog is actually well suited to protecting a historically significant area like Pompeii, whose crumbling ruins still pose a safety hazard, especially when it comes to protecting…Read more...

The world’s most powerful banks have funded fossil fuel projects to the tune of $4.6 trillion in the six years since the Paris Agreement, a new report from a group of NGOs finds. A quarter of that funding comes from just four U.S. banks—JPMorgan Chase, Citi, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America—all of which have signed…Read more...

Scientists have finished mapping the entire human genome, about 20 years after most of the map was complete. In new research this week, a team reports they have achieved a gapless genome sequence, accounting for 8% of genetic information not previously known. The missing data may provide more insights about the…Read more...

If you have a Wyze security camera, my suggestion would be to rip it out of the wall and throw it in the nearest trashcan. For the past three years, a glaring security vulnerability has sat festering in the company’s V1, V2, and V3 internet-connected cameras—the likes of which would have allowed hackers to access…Read more...

A UK Twitter user with few followers was sentenced to 150 hours of community service for an anti-military tweet deemed “grossly offensive” by a court. The sentence highlights fundamental differences in online speech protections in the UK and U.S. at a time when both countries are considering new legislative efforts to…Read more...

Michael Bay has regrets. During a press interview for his upcoming film Ambulance, the director revealed that the significantly better director Steven Spielberg once advised him to stop making Transformers films, advice I desperately wish Bay had taken. What’s surprising to me is that Spielberg only told him this…Read more...

Black Widow and Captain America are going to space. Apple just picked up the rights to a new movie called Project Artemis which will star Scarlet Johansson and Chris Evans and be directed by Jason Bateman, who will also co-star. The script is by Rose Gilroy, who’s the daughter of Nightcrawler director Dan Gilroy and …Read more...

The Hubble Space Telescope recently observed the light of a star that existed in the first billion years of the universe. It is the most distant individual star ever seen.Read more...