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After experiencing massive growth at the onset of the pandemic last year, Peloton is sputtering. While there isn’t a singular cause for its woes, Peloton did single out one company for being behind some of them: Apple.Read more...

DJI’s Mavic drones have become the leading choice for aerial photography enthusiasts, and with the Mavic 3, DJI is upgrading nearly every aspect of its newest high-end drone.Read more...

Dr. Brain, a new Apple TV+ series, looks like one worth putting on your radar—first and foremost because of the talent involved. It’s directed and executive produced by South Korean filmmaker Kim Jee-woon (The Good, the Bad, the Weird; A Tale of Two Sisters; I Saw the Devil) and stars Lee Sun-kyun, who played the…Read more...

I have heard many good things about the Backbone One, a $100 iPhone-only gaming controller. It’s often heralded for its low-to-no latency and overall comfort, which makes it easier and more fun to play games on your phone. This popular peripheral is now getting support for more devices so that Android users like…Read more...

Mystery is at the heart of all the Scream movies and a new video really plays up how the latest film will carry that legacy. The fifth film in the series, which is just called Scream, opens in theaters January 14. It’s set 25 years after a killer dubbed Ghostface began murdering people in the small town of Woodsboro.…Read more...

Comedian-turned-buff Marvel superhero Kumail Najiani’s next film is Eternals, which finally debuts on November 5. But the actor has already finished shooting his mysterious role in Obi-Wan Kenobi, the upcoming Star Wars TV series starring Ewan MacGregor about the Jedi Knight’s time watching over Luke on Tatooine. And…Read more...

What’s the line between making a retro action figure and one that just looks like crap? I don’t know, but Bandai certainly seemed to have crossed it with this new line of “Stranger Things Feature Figures.” These toys of the Netflix series’ five main kids—Mike, Will, Lucas, Dustin, and Eleven—are supposed to look…Read more...

AT&T and Verizon agreed to slightly delay plans to flip the switch on their new 5G spectrum on Thursday in order to massage the Federal Aviation Administration’s concerns about how the deployment might affect cockpit safety systems.

Crypto exchange Binance has announced that it is investigating SQUID, the Squid Game-themed cryptocurrency, and will turn over whatever information it uncovers to the appropriate law enforcement agency.Read more...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released the results of its latest decadal survey, which outlines science objectives for the astronomical community over the next 10 years. The three biggest priorities, the report says, are finding Earth-like exoplanets, better understanding the nature of…Read more...

Gizmodo’s consumer tech team has a podcast, Gadgettes, and our second episode 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…Read more...

Glass desks can help make a tiny office feel more spacious (and maybe a little sci-fi) but they also reveal things that most desks keep hidden, like a rat’s nest of power cords and sync cables. That could soon change with a new product called Power-Tap Glass that conducts both electricity and data signals without any…Read more...

io9 is proud to present fiction from LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE. Once a month, we feature a story from LIGHTSPEED’s current issue. This month’s selection is “I Was a Teenage Space Jockey” by Stephen Graham Jones. You can read the story below or listen to the podcast on our website. Enjoy!

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, a former employee with the (also former) Civic Integrity team, recently leaked thousands of internal documents, including internal employee discussions, memos, research, and presentations, to a consortium of news outlets as part of a project collectively dubbed the “Facebook…Read more...

While most science fiction tales involving cloning almost invariably end up as action-packed spectacles in which people are literally and metaphorically fighting themselves, Apple’s upcoming feature Swan Song from director Benjamin Cleary goes the more quiet, intimate route with a story about a dying man who’s…Read more...

After spending decades profiting off oil and gas and propagating climate denial, Exxon just needs a little money, man. In an interview with the AP published earlier this week, Joe Blommaert, the president of a division of Exxon called Low Carbon Solutions, laid out the company’s plan to transform an industrial…Read more...

Sketchy clinics selling untested and often illegal stem cell treatments in the U.S. are proliferating, new research out Thursday has found. It estimates that the number of businesses offering stem cells for everything from back pain to protection against covid-19 has more than quadrupled since 2016. This rise has…Read more...

Earlier this week we featured stunt performer Lee Chesley and now it’s time for part two of our series. Janeshia Adams-Ginyard is a stunt performer who’s also making her mark as an actor: she played Nomble, a member of the Dora Milaje who appeared in Marvel’s Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Avengers: Infinity War, and …Read more...

Carsharing services give residents of big cities the benefits of occasional car use without the downsides of paying for parking and maintenance. But no one wants to climb into a vehicle that smells like a pack of Marlboros, so Bosch has created a new AI-powered sensor that allows carshare fleet operators to know when…Read more...

One of the most surreal parts of going through the mountain of documents captured from within Facebook’s walls by whistleblower Frances Haugen is seeing the words employees use when discussing some of the company’s most sensitive products and systems. Many of these names (CORGI! Yoda!) sound deceptively cute, while…Read more...

As if coming off of Thor: Love and Thunder, a Star Wars movie, showing up in Free Guy, trying to get a Flash Gordon reboot off the ground, and about a zillion other things weren’t enough, Taika Waititi has now attached himself to an adaptation of Alejandro Jodorowsky and Jean Giraud’s (aka Moebius) sumptuous ‘80s…Read more...

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City hints at another iconic video game foe. The Flash and Snowpiercer tease their returns. Matt Ryan returns to Legends of Tomorrow, but not as we know him. Plus, a new look at the next Batwoman. Spoilers get!

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND — In a major announcement at United Nations climate talks on Thursday, 20 countries said they would stop funding fossil fuel development abroad and instead plow money into clean energy.

Australia’s Channel 7 news published photos of an innocent man on Wednesday, alleging he had abducted a young girl from a campsite last month. The only problem? Channel 7 had the wrong guy, apparently because reporters used Facebook and found someone with a similar name, and splashed his photos all over Twitter,…Read more...

SpaceX’s Starlink will eventually have more competition in the satellite broadband business—and rural Americans will have more providers to choose from. The FCC on Wednesday gave Boeing the go-ahead to launch its own satellites, which SpaceX complained would cause interference with its network.

After two Wonder Woman movies (and a third on the way), it’s hard to see Gal Gadot as anything but a beaming, benevolent superhero. But she’ll be putting her shield and superpowers aside for an equally juicy role with a bit more of a poisonous bite: the Evil Queen in Disney’s upcoming live-action remake of Snow White.Read more...

Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender just added some serious TV star power. Daniel Dae Kim, best known for roles on Lost, Hawaii Five-0, and The Good Doctor, has joined the production as Fire Lord Ozai, leader of the Fire Nation and father to the villainous teen, Prince Zuko.Read more...

Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra’s Vertigo comic series Y: The Last Man ran 60 issues over the course of six years. It tells a long, sweeping, epic story that proved very difficult for Hollywood to adapt in the years since its conclusion. After many attempts in multiple mediums, it was showrunner Eliza Clark’s version…Read more...

Months after announcing that WarnerMedia and Discovery will merge into one media behemoth sometime in 2022, executives hinted during an earnings call on Wednesday that it probably makes a lot of financial sense for their flagship streaming services, HBO Max and Discovery+, to combine into one entity, too.Read more...

Clearview AI founder and CEO Hoan Ton-That has previously boasted that his now-notorious facial recognition software relies on a database of over 10 billion images. But now, thanks to a ruling from Australia’s national privacy regulator, the company that some have glibly warned could “end privacy as we know it” will…Read more...

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The UK’s longest-lasting patch of snow, referred to as “The Sphinx,” has completely melted away for the third time in five years, according to the BBC. Pour one out for The Sphinx, another likely lose for the planet due to global warmingRead more...

John Deere workers who have been striking in protest of the company’s contract offers since Oct. 14 will continue to do so after rejecting a second proposal on Tuesday. That means nearly 10,000 workers at plants in Iowa, Illinois, and Kansas will remain on the picket line, telling their employer they’re fed up and…Read more...

Amazon has finally laid out its plans for adopting the new Matter smart home connectivity standard, which is launching sometime next year.

At United Nations climate talks, the U.S. and EU rolled out a global pledge to address one of our most pressing climate problems: methane. Since the Tuesday announcement, more than 100 countries have now said they’re join the pledge. But a few key actors are sitting out of the pledge—and one, in particular, is…Read more...

Since the moment they were first introduced together in the pages of Young Avengers back in 2005, Teddy Altman, the shapeshifting heir to the Kree and Skrull thrones, and Billy Kaplan, the Scarlet Witch and Vision’s reincarnated son, have been inseparable, and their love for each other been obvious to everyone who…Read more...

Scientists studying the most massive known galaxy in the early universe have found evidence of water in it, an intriguing observation that sheds light on how the universe has evolved.Read more...

Taking action against the uncertified channels it has long ignored, Roku announced a policy shift last week that will see the company effectively ban private channels, including porn streaming services, on March 1, 2022.Read more...

“Last Action Hero is a joyless, soulless machine of a movie. An $80 million-plus mishmash of fantasy, industry in-jokes, self-referential parody, film-buff gags, and too-big action set-pieces.” That’s what the Hollywood trade Variety wrote in late 1992 just before the Arnold Schwarzenegger-led, John…Read more...

A proposed plan to cull upwards of 10,000 feral horses, while still retaining a smaller population, won’t prevent ongoing damage to a sensitive Australian park, according to a concerned group of scientists.Read more...

Upon finishing Dragons of Winter Night, the second book in Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman’s beloved first Dragonlance series, I realized I had a problem: I didn’t know what it was about. Or rather, I don’t know what it isn’t about. So many characters are added, so many new plots are begun, and giant detours are taken…Read more...

Last month, engineering student Ken Pillonel showed off the world’s first iPhone with a USB-C port, and now Pillonel has returned to reveal how he did it while also putting his custom USB-C iPhone up for auction.Read more...

A lot of things are about to change on Doctor Who, and not just in front of the camera, as Jodie Whittaker’s incarnation of the Time Lord prepares to end her run in explosive style as Flux begins. Behind the camera, the impending return of former showrunner Russell T. Davies is going to bring about an interesting…Read more...

Starting today, the Federal Trade Commission will start doing something Amazon failed to do for around 140,000 of its Flex delivery drivers: pay them their tips.Read more...

More than a year after the discovery of what’s the largest gasoline spill in the U.S. in decades, the owners of a massive pipeline are being taken to court. The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the Colonial Pipeline, which owns the eponymous pipeline, alleging…Read more...

As a general rule, if you want to make a vehicle more fuel-efficient, you do everything you can to make it lighter. For planes, that usually involves using space-age composites to build the fuselage and wings, but one YouTuber has found a very unorthodox material for a simple glider’s wings: soap and water.Read more...

What if, instead of going through life in the Matrix as the coolest version of you, you were a Funko Pop avatar instead? Probably a little less flexible for those bullet-time moves. Regardless, that’s the existence realized today as Funko has rolled out its first figures to celebrate the release of Lana Wachowski’s…Read more...

Get to know the Eternals (again) as Marvel dumps a few more guides to its new heroes. The Book of Boba Fett confirms an intriguing new guest star. Geralt and Ciri trade swords in a new image from The Witcher season two. Plus, what’s next on La Brea and Stargirl. Spoilers, away!

Peloton’s new treadmill is finally available to buy, but you’d be forgiven for being confused. Wasn’t Peloton’s treadmill recalled due to safety issues? Isn’t it super expensive to be having so many problems? Yes and yes, but let’s back up a second to clarify.Read more...

Now that you’ve snagged a shiny new Google Pixel 6 or Google Pixel 6 Pro, it’s time to figure out how to make the most of it. These new flagship phones come packed with new features from Google, especially in the AI and camera departments. Here are some tips and tricks that new Pixel 6 owners should start using ASAP.