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...
https://gizmodo.com/lord-of-the-rings-rerelease-4k-extended-editions-fathom-1851435489
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...
https://gizmodo.com/moderna-ceo-chatgpt-employees-vaccines-openai-1851435620
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...
https://gizmodo.com/chinese-astronauts-space-station-repairs-debris-impact-1851434957
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...
https://gizmodo.com/check-out-these-amazing-images-from-the-hellish-dust-st-1851435284
Ramp up your summer fandom wardrobe with Heroes & Villains ’ new Star Wars resort collection. This new line from the online retailer has ‘fits perfect for May the Fourth, Mother’s Day, Me...
https://gizmodo.com/heroes-villains-star-wars-resort-collection-ahsoka-1851430513
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...
https://gizmodo.com/worst-airlines-losing-damaging-luggage-bags-1851435386
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...
https://gizmodo.com/doctor-who-disney-plus-release-time-rtd-bbc-streaming-1851435225
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 ...
https://gizmodo.com/lego-space-artemis-milky-way-art-price-release-date-1851434956
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 ...
https://gizmodo.com/google-maps-features-hidden-tips-1851432356
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 ...
https://gizmodo.com/amelie-movie-review-retro-blu-ray-steelbook-4k-tautou-1851429203
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 ...
https://gizmodo.com/tales-of-the-empire-grievous-morgan-elsbeth-star-wars-1851433329
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...
https://gizmodo.com/worldcoin-price-orb-shortage-crypto-iris-scan-tools-1851433214
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...
https://gizmodo.com/28-years-later-cast-zombie-ralph-fiennes-taylor-johnson-1851433699
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...
https://gizmodo.com/bird-flu-detected-milk-dairy-cows-spread-fda-update-1851433417
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...
https://gizmodo.com/airlines-will-now-have-to-give-you-cash-when-they-screw-1851433533
A study recently published in the peer-reviewed American Psychologist journal claims that a combination of facial recognition and artificial intelligence technology can accurately assess a perso...
https://gizmodo.com/ai-can-tell-your-political-affiliation-just-by-looking-1851430714
Many of us watch The Office more often than we care to admit. We’ve spent so much time with the series that, over the years, the characters and the actors who portray themhave almost become fa...
https://gizmodo.com/office-reunion-michael-jim-john-krasinski-steve-carell-1851433120
Trump Media & Technology Group is doubling down on claims that its stock is being illegally traded — this time bringing its concerns to congressional leaders. Read more...
https://gizmodo.com/trump-media-stock-congress-naked-short-selling-djt-1851433385
DARPA announced successful tests of its new autonomous vehicles on Wednesday, all part of the agency’s Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program. And while the te...
https://gizmodo.com/darpa-new-12-ton-robot-tank-glowing-green-eyes-vehicle-1851432307
If you’ve read Blake Crouch ’s 2016 novel Dark Matter —and a lot of people have, considering it’s a best-seller—you’re probably wondering how the upcoming Apple TV+ adaptation will h...
https://gizmodo.com/dark-matter-series-scifi-science-apple-tv-blake-crouch-1851432688
It took 40 years, but recently one of my toy dreams came true. After writing this article about toys that you always wanted, but could never have, I was contacted to see if I’d be interested i...
https://gizmodo.com/voltron-toys-40-anniversary-target-power-rangers-lions-1851420190
I didn’t realize that Microsoft had pushed out the update that brought advertising to the Windows 11 Start menu until I started to read the news. I’ve had recommendations turned off this ent...
https://gizmodo.com/how-to-turn-off-start-menu-ads-in-windows-11-1851432869
The concept of tolerance has weighed heavily upon Disney+ series X-Men ‘97 . And now as the world and what is left of mutantkind looks upon the ruins of Genosha , the series is ready to grit it...
https://gizmodo.com/x-men-97-episode-7-recap-captain-america-bastion-mcu-1851432810
This guide was updated on April 24 at 2:10 to include new details on the iPad calculator app and April 19 at 8:44 a.m. ET to include new rumors from DSCC analyst Ross Young. Read more...
For nearly a decade, a near-Earth asteroid named Kamo’oalewa has invoked speculation over how it came to orbit the Sun in total synchrony with Earth as though it shares some special relationshi...
https://gizmodo.com/violent-origin-enigmatic-earth-quasi-moon-1851432253
Edit Kermit the Frog singing “Rainbow Connection” over almost anything and people are going to get emotional. But when you put it over a documentary about the man who created Kermit, with f...
https://gizmodo.com/jim-henson-documentary-disney-plus-ron-howard-kermit-1851432468
Before you leave the Vault and head to the Wasteland, you’d better pack the essentials . Water, weapons, Pip-Boy, and of course a vinyl copy of the original soundtrack to Fallout . Read more.....
https://gizmodo.com/fallout-tv-show-vinyl-music-prime-video-music-bethesda-1851429803
SpaceX, the world leader in rocket launches, is increasingly coming under scrutiny for its workplace practices. A recent safety review performed by Reuters highlights an upsetting trend at the ae...
https://gizmodo.com/spacex-worker-injuries-workplace-safety-1851432112
President Joe Biden signed the TikTok bill into law on Wednesday morning, officially starting the 270-day clock for TikTok’s owner, China-based Bytedance, to sell the social media app or face ...
https://gizmodo.com/biden-signs-tiktok-ban-into-law-but-his-campaign-will-1851432382
Fallout ’s delightful fun first season dropped all eight episodes on Prime Video at once , meaning if you started watching it when it arrived, you’ve no doubt reached the end—and are longi...
https://gizmodo.com/10-apocalyptic-scifi-movies-like-fallout-road-warrior-1851429202
It’s a classic Elon Musk move . Tesla released some pretty grim first-quarter numbers on Tuesday, showing that net income dropped more than 50% from last year. During the earnings call, however...
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-tesla-needs-robots-he-needs-them-now-1851431989
The chronology of any comic book storyline or character —woven throughout decades of creative teams, retcons, and realignments to the narrative—is always a complicated affair. But there are f...
https://gizmodo.com/deadpool-3-wolverine-fox-x-men-timeline-explained-mcu-1851430583
Another milestone in pig-to-human transplantation has been crossed, with doctors at New York University Langone today announcing the world’s first combination pig kidney and heart pump transpla...
https://gizmodo.com/first-pig-kidney-transplant-heart-pump-nyu-1851431849
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It’s just about halfway to Halloween and Home Depot is ready to start rolling out spooky season decor to celebrate. The store’s most viral release—Skelly, the 12-foot skeleton—is consis...
https://gizmodo.com/home-depot-12-ft-skeleton-new-halloween-lawn-decor-1851429565
Tired of the so-called AI PCs already? Buckle up because we, or perhaps the artificial intelligence, haven’t even begun to peak. More power-efficient ARM-based CPUs don’t get nearly as much ...
NASA is a proud boomer that loves posting a good photo album. The space agency released 100 of its best 2023 photos on flickr , which go through the exciting highlights of the previous year. Rea...
https://gizmodo.com/explore-nasas-best-photos-of-the-year-1851429649
If you have really basic questions about your new AirPods , this guide will help you with everything from connecting them to cleaning them. It also includes some tips for improving sound and cust...
https://gizmodo.com/essential-airpods-tips-for-newbies-1851429964
Apple’s Neuromancer adaptation finds itself a new hacker. Al Pacino and Dan Stevens are teaming up for a new exorcist horror. Plus, more casting news from Wednesday season 2, what’s coming on...
https://gizmodo.com/nathan-fillion-guy-gardner-green-lantern-james-gunn-1851430565
Unlike its predecessor Curiosity, NASA’s Perseverance rover is explicitly intended to “search for potential evidence of past life,” according to the official mission objectives . Read more...
https://gizmodo.com/nasa-rover-promising-place-search-fossilised-life-mars-1851431427