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We’ve frequently featured Steven Richter’s hypnotic timelapse videos of the artist sculpting memorable Marvel characters like Thanos. But Richter is clearly just as talented with a brush as they are with a lump of clay, as they turn a plastic recreation of the Jumanji board game into a prop that looks straight out of…Read more...

The leader of an illegal logging operation responsible for a wildfire that burned more than 3,300 acres worth of Washington state wilderness was sentenced to 20 months in prison this week thanks in large part to DNA from a tree.Read more...

It’s bad news if all of your 2021 holiday gift giving revolved around Panic’s upcoming Playdate console. Following Valve’s announcement yesterday that its Steam Deck console was being delayed two months into the new year, Panic has also revealed that it won’t get the first 10,000 preordered Playdate units out by the …Read more...

In Riverdale’s upcoming sixth season, the long-running CW Archie adaptation is finally living up to its crossover potential by calling Kiernan Shipka’s Sabrina Spellman in for a little assistance. If you want to know more before the premiere, there’s a lot of her comic history that could come into play and certainly…Read more...

The third episode of Gizmodo podcast Gadgettes 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 about the week’s biggest tech…Read more...

The real estate industry was thrust into the spotlight last week, when Zillow, the digital property listing company, announced that it would be shuttering “Zillow Offers,” its “iBuying” division. In a dire earnings report, the company announced that it stood to lose hundreds of millions of dollars as a result of the…Read more...

Are digital images a manufactured construct? Does the act of zooming fundamentally alter a files’ essence? Those are some of the unexpected, and at times inelegant, questions posed this week by the layers of 18-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse, who is on trial for shooting and killing two people and injuring another at a…Read more...

If you expected a Thanksgiving in the world of Teen Titans Go! to go off without at least one destroyed wall, then I’m not entirely sure you’ve seen Teen Titans Go! before.

Ozy Media, the scandal-ridden media org that is somehow, miraculously still alive, is now being investigated by federal authorities. The New York Times reported this week that both the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have opened investigations into the company.Read more...

The favorite luxury vehicle of rich old billionaires and rap moguls may soon share a name with some small new nuclear reactors. The famed British aerospace and energy manufacturer Rolls-Royce Holdings said this week that it had secured roughly $600 million in public and private funding to develop its business making…Read more...

Flux, the current season of Doctor Who, has seen the series adapt to the weird times of pandemic-induced episode cuts with an experimental hail mary: a singular story told over six chapters. Two chapters in, it’s... hard to say just how well hailed that mary has been, if you will. But showrunner Chris Chibnall says…Read more...

If you’re a lover of movies, bargains, or just pure, unmitigated chaos, buckle up: The ill-fated theater-subscription service MoviePass, which set out to disrupt the movie business in 2017 before flaming out spectacularly a short time later, is reportedly eyeing a relaunch.Read more...

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND — A lot of hoopla has been made over the private jets flying in and out of Glasgow during the United Nations climate talks. But they are far from the only flagrant source of emissions at the conference.

Every April for the next several hundred years, a small asteroid is visible to a select few telescopes on Earth. That asteroid is Kamo`oalewa, a space rock that a team of astronomers says is likely an ancient fragment of our Moon.Read more...

They say never meet your idols, but for stunt performer and martial artist Ashlee Fidow, meeting the legendary Donnie Yen on the set of Mulan—where she was one of star Yifei Liu’s stunt doubles—was anything but disappointing. io9 recently spoke to Fidow about her Mulan experience (in addition to “fangirling” over…Read more...

Even after a full year on the market, the PS5 is still hard to find, and now it appears like Sony’s supply woes are about to get even worse.Read more...

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Here in our world, Scorpio Season is that most enchanted part of the year when it’s always Daylight Savings Time demon time regardless of what the clock says. But the situation’s a bit different on the Earth of Starsigns, Copper Bottle’s new monthly comic series from writer Saladin Ahmed and artist Megan Levens. io9…Read more...

Finn Wolfhard is setting himself up for a return to horror with a new slasher movie. Daniel Dae Kim prepares for his role as Avatar’s villain. Plus what’s coming on Legends of Tomorrow and Batwoman, and a new look at Hanna’s third season. To me, my spoilers!

If you’re like me, you’re probably still using an alarm clock to get up, even with your smartphone charging by your bedside. While the Lenovo Smart Clock 2 isn’t as iconic as the vintage Sony Dream Machine from the late ‘80s, it is just as effective at getting me up in the morning. It also offers access to the Google…Read more...

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND — Costa Rica and Denmark have a new plan to save the world: Stop extracting fossil fuels. In a landmark announcement at United Nations climate talks on Thursday, the countries unveiled the initial signatories of the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance.Read more...

Julia Child taught the world that anyone could be an amateur chef in their own kitchen and whip up more than just meat and potatoes, but then technology came along and filled our kitchens with gadgets that turned everything from baking bread to making stews into push-button processes requiring little skill and even…Read more...

People celebrating a festival in India’s capital of New Delhi this week were greeted with a strange sight: what looked like a blanket of snow covering the city’s main river. A thick covering of white foam has covered the Yamuna River in recent days, a byproduct of the immense amount of waste in the river. Despite the…Read more...

Germany reported 50,196 new cases of covid-19 on Thursday during the previous 24 hours, the highest daily case count for the country for the entire pandemic, according to Germany’s DW news outlet. Thursday’s case numbers in Germany exceeded Wednesday’s 39,676 new cases, which was also a record until today’s figure.

Elon Musk sold roughly $5 billion worth of Tesla shares, according to a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Musk launched a Twitter poll over the past weekend, asking if he should sell 10% of his Tesla stock to pay taxes.

Oh look, my AirTag sense is tingling. Laugh if you may, but that might actually be a thing in a future version of iOS, and we would all be safer for it.

“Who’d spend $6,000 to stay at Disney’s Star Wars hotel for and LARP for two nights?” we all asked, ready to be cut down by our hubris like Anakin Skywalker slicing his way through younglings. Turns out the answer is a lot of people.

Spotify is finally making it possible to block other users from seeing your activity. Previously, if you wanted to block someone from spying on you and your music habits, you had to contact customer service or report the user. Now, all you have to do is tap a button.Read more...

Making games is hard. So is making television. But there is something slightly ominous about Bethesda’s Todd Howard explaining why the TV show the studio announced with Amazon last year to bring Fallout to streaming hasn’t had an update since, well... it was announced.

We’ve already been waiting years for new Transformers and Star Trek movies, and now we’re going to have to wait a bit more. Paramount has reportedly delayed the upcoming Transformers film, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, a whole year, from June 24, 2022 to June 9, 2023. That was the day a new Star Trek movie was set…Read more...

Uber, which claimed to make a profit in the third quarter if you squint your eyes and ignore the billions of dollars it continues to hemorrhage on a quarterly basis, is facing a Department of Justice lawsuit targeting yet another of its dubious business practices.

If you thought affordable TV giant Vizio was primarily a hardware company, you’d be wrong. At least in terms of where its money is coming from, Vizio is becoming an advertising firm.Read more...

If you’re a fan of the Jurassic Park movies and you’re not watching Netflix’s Camp Cretaceous cartoon, you’re really missing out. It’s not a thinly veiled Sesame Street segment to help kids learn Dino Facts, but a Jurassic adventure that pulls no punches for its young characters. It’s also completely canonical with…Read more...

After a nine-day delay, NASA and SpaceX are preparing to launch the third operational commercial crew mission to the ISS. You can catch the action live right here.

The global chip crunch has claimed yet another victim: Valve announced today that the launch of its handheld PC gaming console Steam Deck is being pushed back by two months.Read more...

Gizmodo has reporters on the ground at the UN climate talks in Glasgow. This page is updated regularly to include the latest news and stories from COP26. Last update 11/10/21 4:15 p.m. ET.

Physicists have been trying for several years to double-check a signal from an experiment buried in an Italian mountain—a signal that looked an awful lot like a dark matter suspect known as a WIMP. Previous attempts to see that signal with other projects had fallen flat, and now, the experiment most similar to the…Read more...

That company you once knew as Facebook is partnering with enterprise rival Microsoft to integrate its Workplace tool with Teams in a potential foreshadowing of future metaverse collaboration.Read more...

The holidays can be a stressful time for anyone, but what if you knew the world was ending after Christmas Day? Would that make things unbearably worse, or would it take some of the pressure off? In the new holiday/apocalypse movie Silent Night, the answer seems to be a bit of both.

Suddenly very concerned about your well-being in a way that has been not at all influenced by recent U.S. Senate hearings, Instagram is reportedly experimenting with a new “Take a Break” feature that will encourage users to do just that.Read more...

Facebook’s Oversight Board, a group of supposedly independent experts that has the power to intervene and hand down decisions when they feel Facebook has misjudged, is either a nominal check on the social media company’s unending excesses or a feckless exercise in corporate blame-shifting. Either way, Facebook claims…Read more...

In recent days there has been an uptick in Pixel 6 users on Twitter begging Google to bring back the face unlock feature it offered on previous Pixels. The company left out the ability in its latest flagship in favor of an in-screen fingerprint sensor. (Some users have reported issues with that feature, too.)

YouTube’s Like and Dislike counters have been a fixture at the bottom of videos since what feels like the dawn of time, but now in order to combat harassment and so-called dislike attacks, YouTube will now begin hiding dislike counts.

Kiersten White is known for writing the Camelot Rising, And I Darken, and Paranormalcy YA series, but next year she’ll be releasing her first adult novel. Horror tale Hide is about a high-stakes competition that takes place at an abandoned amusement park. If that creepy setting isn’t enough to draw you in, io9 has an…Read more...

Ask 100 people why they love Ghostbusters and you’re likely to get 100 different answers—it’s part of the reason why returning to that world has always been so complicated. No one knows that better than Jason Reitman, the co-writer and director of the new film Ghostbusters: Afterlife. “The real question is what is the…Read more...

Today, after months of reading and writing about Netflix’s highly anticipated, if bizarre, foray into gaming, I finally stretched my hands out like a cartoon character and sat down with my iPhone to see what all the fuss is about—and to get a better idea of what the most popular streaming platform in the world sees…Read more...

Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time novels have legions of fans and sold millions of copies, but adapting their 10,000+ pages into live-action was never going to be easy. Spanning thousands of years and starring thousands of characters, there’s literally too much material to put on film. io9 talked to showrunner Rafe…Read more...

As impressive as it is to watch a rocket blast off into space, harnessing fossil fuels and explosions to pursue our dreams of space exploration is ironically primitive. A company called SpinLaunch thinks it has a better idea: It wants to launch small objects into space using a giant spinning centrifuge instead.Read more...

After a considerable wait, Netflix’s live-action Lost in Space is ready to fly once more, and for the last time. The Robinson family’s story will wrap up in season three and a new trailer reveals just what’s in store for them and their helpful robot.

In the aftermath of Apple v. Epic, Apple was ordered to make it possible for developers to add links to external payment options for apps on the App Store after Apple was ruled to be in violation of California’s Unfair competition Law. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has now denied Apple’s request to forestall the …Read more...