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Ghostbusters: Afterlife finally premiered last Friday, raking in more than $44 million over its first weekend—far more than critics and its studio, Sony, had predicted. That doesn’t mean the movie’s better than critics are saying, of course, but that’s not why I’ve brought you here today. We need to talk about a…Read more...

Tile, which dominated the Bluetooth tracker market for years, is reportedly being acquired by family location-sharing service Life360 in a deal valued at $205 million.Read more...

Apple has filed a lawsuit against Israeli surveillance-for-hire company NSO Group over its Pegasus spyware that has been used to target Apple devices.Read more...

Astronomers announced this week the discovery of the fastest-rotating white dwarf star on record, with a spin rate of once every 25 seconds. The star is about the size of Earth but, by the team’s measurements, contains least 200,000 times more mass, making the dense little object a spinning freak of nature.

Usually your foes at school are bullies, mean teachers, and homework deadlines. But when you’re a student in Dungeons & Dragons, and the school is a magical crossover with the world of Magic: The Gathering, dangerous encounters are going to get a bit tougher to face than a paper written an hour before it’s due.

Snowflake alert. Repeat, snowflake alert: conservatives are super mad about vaccinated puppets and won’t let them into their little safe space next year, Insider reported on Monday.

Krypto, Superman’s dog and the star of Warner Bros.’ upcoming DC League of Super-Pets animated feature, is one of the more famous superheroic pets running around DC’s universe of comic books. His whole deal needs little explanation—but League of Super-Pets’ other headliners, like Ace the Bat-Hound, Chip the squirrel,…Read more...

The slow creep of U.S. carrier consolidation continues. In this installment, Verizon is getting ready to gobble up millions of new wireless subscribers now that the Federal Communications Commission has officially approved its acquisition of Tracfone, one of the country’s largest providers of subsidized mobile phones…Read more...

The company that reduced peak Arnold Schwarzenegger to a ghastly golem and brought us the friendly but dimwitted Times Square diarrhea probe is offering $200,000 for your face. Forever. Plus, your voice for free. Ominously, according to the site, a robot version of the winning face should “start its activities” in…Read more...

A processing anomaly has caused an unexpected vibration to course through the entire Webb telescope just weeks before launch. An investigation is now underway to determine if the incident somehow damaged the observatory.

On Tuesday, President Joe Biden is expected to announce that he will be releasing millions of barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in an attempt to combat soaring gas prices.

There’s so much about Hawkeye the trailers aren’t telling you. The trailers have been all about Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) and Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld) traveling around New York at Christmas time, firing arrows, and getting into general mayhem. Oh, and did they mention it was Christmas time? Obviously, though, …Read more...

Joby’s GorillaPods have been a lighter, cheaper, and more flexible (pun intended) alternative to tripods for 15 years now, allowing cameras and action cams to be safely mounted and perched in seemingly impossible places. The company’s new PodZilla line isn’t meant to be a GorillaPod replacement, which is unfortunate,…Read more...

Even though there aren’t all that many things the Jurassic Park franchise has yet to put on the big screen when it comes to pitting modern day humanity against a cavalcade of genetically-engineered dinosaurs that should not exist, director Colin Trevorrow is about to try his damndest to shock audiences with his…Read more...

Microsoft’s legendary talking office supply has returned from the dead. While the jovial paperclip won’t improve your spelling or help you write a letter, Clippy is being resurrected as part of Microsoft’s new batch of emoji for Windows 11.

At the same time that Cowboy Bebop’s trio of heroes is keeping busy hunting down valuable bounties, they’re also living in the shadow of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate, an organization from Spike Spiegel’s past that begins catching up with him in the present day as Netflix’s new series begins. Before Jet and Faye, it…Read more...

The newly publicized details of an arbitrator’s ruling show that the actor Kevin Spacey was ordered to pay nearly $31 million for breach of contract to the studio behind House of Cards last year—the result of numerous sexual harassment allegations that had been levied against the actor at the time, halting production.Read more...

The U.S. is tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and releasing around 50 million barrels of oil in an effort to cut down on soaring energy costs.Read more...

What Rodrigo Alfonso lacks in shooting well-lit videos, they make up for with their impressive hardware hacking skills. Through the use of a custom cartridge, this unmodified, 20-year-old Game Boy Advance can actually run 3D PlayStation games at full speed, bringing the 16-bit handheld into the 32-bit era.Read more...

There is a realm the laws of physics forbid us from accessing, below the resolving power of our most powerful microscopes and beyond the reach of our most sensitive telescopes. There’s no telling what might exist there—perhaps entire universes.Read more...

Scott Snyder and Tony S. Daniel’s Nocterra is coming to Netflix. The third Trolls movie is getting a limited theater run before it goes on-demand next year. Plus, what’s coming in Dexter: New Blood. Spoilers, away!

The deluge of emails hitting our inboxes shows no signs of stopping or slowing down maybe ever, so if your email service of choice is going to be in any way usable, it’s crucial that you take steps to protect your primary addresses. There are now numerous options for doing this, and you should be able to find at least…Read more...

Here’s a serious question: What even happened in 2021? For what feels like a lot of people, the year that was supposed to usher in a slide out of the Covid-19 doldrums simply came and went in the blink of an eye, with way less of the fêting, debauchery and travel than was promised. Obviously, the fact that we’re very…Read more...

GoDaddy recently learned that the impacts of a compromised password can be far-reaching. The domain registrar and web hosting platform revealed on Monday that it had experienced a security breach that disclosed up to 1.2 million email addresses for active and inactive Managed WordPress customers, as well as those…Read more...

This holiday season, Twitter has decided it wants in on shopping, so it’s partnering with one of the biggest retailers around: Walmart. The retailer is turning the social media platform into its own version of QVC for one day only this weekend, just in time to kick-off the Cyber Monday fever.Read more...

The governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, has called up the National Guard to assist long term care facilities, as the state struggles with a huge surge in covid-19 hospitalizations that has overwhelmed the health care system.Read more...

Your chance to watch Dune at home is over. For a month, the hit sci-fi spectacle from filmmaker Denis Villeneuve was both in theaters as well as streaming on HBO Max. However, that window has now closed, which means if you want to see Dune, you can either go to a theater or wait at home. Thankfully, the wait is rather…Read more...

Let your Mac-owning friends boast all they want about the blinding speeds of Apple’s new M-series chips, because who needs fast performance when you have freedom of choice? That’s one of the benefits of buying a PC—or at least, it’s supposed to be.

One of the Netflix employees at the center of the worker-led movement to get the company to answer for a string of perceived homophobic comments made by comedian Dave Chappelle has officially resigned from the company.Read more...

If you happen to own an iPhone 12 or 12 Pro and have recently experienced some annoying speaker issues, you may be in luck and eligible for a free Apple repair.Read more...

The Matrix Resurrections is now just one month from release and we still know very little about it. Case in point are these brand new character posters revealed on the movie’s official Twitter account. Oh, sure, we know Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss’s deal. But who are some of the other characters and actors who…Read more...

Gizmodo has been following ongoing court proceedings in Sines v. Kessler, the federal civil rights case brought by those harmed by the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. This page may be updated to reflect further developments in the case.

Marine invertebrates like octopuses, squids, shrimp, and crayfish are capable of feeling pain, hunger, joy, and excitement, among other expressions of sentience. The U.K. government will now update its new animal welfare bill accordingly.Read more...

The U.S. and China may be on a collision course over scarce resources, the fallout of which could have a massive impact on developing countries.Read more...

Every year, Qualcomm shows off newer, faster smartphone processors that are used in the latest Android phones. This year is no different, but Qualcomm is switching things up. While we don’t know every detail about the company’s latest Snapdragon CPU, we do know that it will have a new name: Snapdragon 8-series.Read more...

When Rey Skywalker gazed out on the binary sunset of Tatooine at the end of The Rise of Skywalker, it was as much an ending as a beginning. Sure, the granddaughter of Palptaine had defeated the Sith and taken her mantle alongside her Skywalker mentors. But the galaxy was in as much turmoil as ever. Much as Luke’s…Read more...

A new update to the Roku TV reportedly bricks the YouTube TV app, the latest development in an ongoing saga between the two streaming services that has seen its ripple affects extend to customers in recent weeks.

NASA’s DART mission to redirect a non-threatening asteroid is set to launch later this week. Here’s what you need to know about this historic deep-space test and how “kinetic impactors” could eventually protect our civilization from an asteroid apocalypse.

I spend an uncomfortable amount of my life thinking about the death of the Arctic. Whether it’s covering studies, writing about the tundra exploding, or trying to find the perfect photo to illustrate a story on the sudden meltdown of the Greenland ice sheet, the Arctic is a large part of my professional life.Read more...

Star Trek’s progressive LGBTQ history has had a lot of ups and downs, and Discovery is no exception. It’s charted the chaotic lives of two of its biggest characters: Anthony Rapp’s Paul Stamets and Wilson Cruz’s Hugh Culber, who’ve gone through a lot together in the road to season four. But now, looking back, the duo…Read more...

Last week, ConstitutionDAO, the DAO that crowdsourced over $47 million to buy a copy of the Constitution, suffered a poetically tragic loss to billionaire Citadel CEO Ken Griffin. They’d inspired meme investors and blockchain idealists and fell to the guy accused of wiping out Robinhood users’ Gamestop gains,…Read more...

NASA is teaming up with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory to develop a non-solar power source on the Moon by the year 2030. But they need some help with the details.Read more...

The Weeping Angels are one of modern Doctor Who’s strangest paradoxes. Their smash-hit debut in “Blink” instantly created a iconic presence few other creatures of the revived era of the show could immediately command. And yet, they’re dangerous to use: the Angels are beloved, so people want more, but the more you see…Read more...

Over the past few years, we’ve seen Uber evolve from a ride-hailing company into a full-blown delivery empire that schleps people’s groceries, cosmetics, prescriptions, and more. And now, it looks like we can add people’s canna-hauls to that delivery list: Reuters was first to report on Monday that the company is…Read more...

One of the many, many things that makes Netflix blockbuster hit Squid Game so engaging is how real it feels. It’s a little fantastic, for sure, but the big idea that people can get so desperate in their lives they’re willing to do anything for money always rings true. Plus, these people aren’t competing in some sort…Read more...

In an old experimental hall previously used for particle physics experiments, a team of French engineers are checking the filters on what will be the largest digital camera ever built. It’s October 2021, and I’m seeing the camera during its assembly at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, California.…Read more...

With some people returning to the office and others starting to travel again, I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about how to create the best gadget kit for traveling light while still being able to handle any unforeseen circumstances. After extensive testing, I’ve come up with this gift guide to help you or…Read more...

Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop is a show that often feels at odds with itself as it haphazardly shifts between the various and disparate tones that defined the original anime it’s based on. Just when the series feels like it might have found a comfortable groove to settle into, it switches things up, and its characters are…Read more...

The best way to minimize the foul and feral amount of hate speech currently polluting Twitter is apparently to just nicely ask people to stop, according to new research published by Cambridge University Press.Read more...

Health officials in New Jersey are scrambling to prevent an outbreak of hepatitis A after a Starbucks employee reportedly tested positive for the virus last week. The location where the employee worked was temporarily shut down, and hundreds of people have received a vaccine against the virus, including the employee’s…Read more...