Last week, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in California released a ruling that concluded state highway police were acting lawfully when they forcibly unlocked a suspect’s phone using their fi...
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Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor Who debut last year broke the mold for many reasons , but for one excellent one among many, it meant that for the first time ever fans got to be introduced to a Doctor pl...
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The Atacama Desert—an arid, unpopulated swath of northern Chile that is home to some of the most perceptive ground telescopes on Earth—is actually teeming with life beneath the ground, accord...
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The Greek philosopher Plato—Socrates’ student and Aristotle’s teacher—died nearly 2,400 years ago, having produced a voluminous amount of writing on political philosophy, aesthetics, ethi...
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Baltimore County Police arrested the former athletic director of Pikesville High School on Thursday, alleging he used an AI voice clone to impersonate the school’s principal, leading the publi...
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A lot is going on this May to celebrate 25 years of the prequel trilogy kicking off in The Phantom Menace—a way for us to reflect , and look back on how remembrance and appreciation of the fil...
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Over the last several years, Saudi Arabia has been working on a massive infrastructure project that its leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (or MBS) hopes will transform the Kingdom and its...
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Zach Cregger’s mysterious Barbarian follow up recruits a Silver Surfer. Rosario Dawson dances around the mystery of Ahsoka season 2. Olga Kurylenko shows off from the Thunderbolts set. Plus, wh...
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A dead dolphin recently found washed up at West Mae’s Beach in Cameron Parish, Louisiana was shot three times, according to a news release from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrati...
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Congress passed a bill this week that forces TikTok to be sold or face a nationwide ban . President Biden signed it into law Wednesday, starting a 270-day timer for TikTok to decide its future i...
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No matter your composition, the lighting, and your attempts to manually set zoom or exposure, iPhone pictures all still have the same dull quality. They are not dull in the sense they’re not v...
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Fans of Pixar’s sleeper hit Turning Red will be happy to know that Mei and her friends have taken over both Disneyland and Disney California Adventure in a big way. Read more...
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Like the video games before it, Fallout is a hit. The Prime Video series is getting a second season , which means we’ll get to see what’s next for Ella Purnell’s Lucy. After leaving the a...
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) killed net neutrality back in 2017 under former president Donald Trump, but on Thursday, it brought it back from the dead. Read more...
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When The Flash launched in October 2014—the second project of the CW’s bold attempt to flesh out its own superhero cinematic universe —its premiere episode ended with a bold statement: not...
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A team in the UK hasfound a new window into cancer, thanks to a novel imaging technique that allows them to take a detailed look at the fatty cargo inside a single tumor cell. The tech could make...
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Arguably the most important, game-changing event in the history of Star Wars storytelling happened 10 years ago today. On April 25, 2014, Lucasfilm announced that the Star Wars Expanded Universe ...
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In the past, every new version of Android felt like a special occasion for the platform’s devoted users. It meant new software features, better algorithms, improved user interfaces, and maybe e...
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His Jekyll and Hyde moment might have evaporated with Universal’s ill-fated Dark Universe, but Russell Crowe hasn’t turned his back on horror: on the heels of The Pope’s Exorcist , which b...
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Jupiter and its moons are a diverse and dynamic subdivision of our solar system’s neighborhood, one that NASA’s Juno spacecraft has been visiting since 2016. Besides hosting the system’s la...
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Outside of Avengers: Endgame , Deadpool & Wolverine may carry the most pre-release baggage of anything in Marvel history. For Deadpool, you’ve got not just two movies, but also all the behind-...
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UPDATE, 1:33 P.M.ET: Reddit says on its status page that a fix for the problem has been deployed and the site should be coming back up for everyone. Read more...
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We’ve said this many times before, and will no doubt say it a least a few times before as it nears its final end this season: Star Trek: Discovery is not a subtle show . It never has been, but ...
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Pack the lembas bread and gather up your fellowship , we’re going back to Middle-earth. Warner Bros. is releasing the extended editions of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy in theate...
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One of the world’s top vaccine-makers is partnering with a major AI company to advance medicine — and its chief executive is excited. Read more...
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China’s space station crew carried out two spacewalks this past winter to repair the solar wings attached to the core module, which had been damaged by space debris. Read more...
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Residents in Greece were witnesses to a hellish-looking dust storm this week. The dust originated from the Sahara desert in North Africa and was blown across the Mediterranean Sea by strong winds...
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Ramp up your summer fandom wardrobe with Heroes & Villains ’ new Star Wars resort collection from Bioworld. This new line from the online retailer has ‘fits perfect for May the Fourth, Moth...
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It would be easy to presume that airlines would spare no expense to ensure that passengers’ luggage meets them at their destination, considering how lucrative the attached fees are. Airlines g...
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From spiders struggling to make webs in orbit to bats clinging to the outside of the Space Shuttle, the history of animals in space is as fascinating as it is weird. Here are some of our favorite...
The Steam Deck remains extra popular partly due to the stranglehold Valve’s Steam has on the PC games market but also partially because it (arguably) popularized the modern rendition of the ha...
There is perhaps no funnier dichotomy in sci-fi fandom than Doctor Who—a show that has inherently been about the nature of change and the mutability of time for six decades—having a fandom t...
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Robotic telescopes of various shapes and sizes are hitting the market these days, each promising clear views of the cosmos and ease of use—attributes not often found paired together in a single...
https://gizmodo.com/unistellar-odyssey-telescope-review-1851426401
Drake released a diss track against Kendrick Lamar over the weekend featuring AI-generated versions of West Coast legends Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur. Tupac’s estate sent Drake a letter on Wed...
https://gizmodo.com/drake-court-rapping-ai-tupac-shakur-snoop-diss-track-1851435020
If you thought Lego’s space toys for May were limited to the world of Star Wars , think again—the toymaker’s latest reveals bring things back to our time and our galaxy, and they combine ...
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io9 talked to cult filmmaker Don Coscarelli when he released his memoir in 2018 . Now, the director of Phantasm I-IV, as well as Bubba Ho-Tep , The Beastmaster, and John Dies at the End , is try...
https://gizmodo.com/don-coscarelli-phantasm-book-adaptation-interview-1851420805
In about five years’ time, a potentially hazardous asteroid will swing by Earth at an eerily close distance of less than 20,000 miles (32,000 kilometers). During this rare encounter, Apophis wi...
https://gizmodo.com/how-scientists-preparing-asteroid-apophis-flyby-earth-1851433340
Hasbro is working with Sony on bringing Clue back to the world of film and TV. The producers of Dead Boy Detectives tease the new adaptation. Plus, Furiosa gets rated. Spoilers, away! Read more....
https://gizmodo.com/sonic-3-movie-sonic-adventure-2-shadow-sega-1851433950
Garry’s Mod , a popular 2006 sandbox game that emerged from the modding scene around Valve’s Source software, has recently been issued takedown notices by Nintendo . As a result, Facepunch S...
https://gizmodo.com/nintendo-garrys-mod-takedown-content-1851434683
President Biden signed the TikTok ban into law on Wednesday, forcing China-based Bytedance to sell the app or face a ban in American app stores. TikTok tells Gizmodo it will fight the law in cou...
https://gizmodo.com/do-you-have-a-constitutional-right-to-tiktok-1851433877
I have always used Google Maps but never cared enough to look beyond the basic features. It wasn’t until today that I made an effort to explore the app and ended up going down a rabbit hole of ...
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Try putting pure joy into words. The English language has plenty of worthy adjectives and beautiful metaphors but nothing quite comes close to actually, perfectly capturing what it feels like to ...
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When we first met General Grievous 20 years ago this month in Genndy Tartakovsky’s Clone Wars microseries, it gave him an immediate, chilling presence . But then Revenge of the Sith, and with ...
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Steam’s refund policy for games is simple: You have two hours to play the game after you buy it to decide if you want to keep it. Like all good things, some folks decided to take advantage of a...
https://gizmodo.com/steam-changes-refund-policy-to-stop-freeloaders-1851432212
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Worldcoin, the project that hands out free cryptocurrency in exchange for biometric data, is experiencing a shortage of the orbs that scan everyone’s eyeballs, according to a new report from Se...
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Director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland are not screwing around when it comes to their upcoming zombie film, 28 Years Later . Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Ralph Fiennes are the fi...
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Food and Drug Administration officials reported this week that lab tests have found genetic material from strains of H5N1 avian influenza in samples of store-bought pasteurized milk. Officials sa...
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The Department of Transportation announced a final rule mandating that airlines automatically give cash refunds to passengers and inform passengers of their right to a refund on Wednesday. The p...
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