Mortal Kombat 1 Fan Creates a Kendrick Vs. Drake Battle

The dust seems to have mostly settled on the Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar rap beef (for now), but the musical back and forth between the two hip-hop titans has imprinted itself on pop culture. That imprint includes video game mods, as a Mortal Kombat 1 fan has recently recreated both … | Continue reading


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Tim Blake Nelson Teases a Practical, Real Leader in Captain America 4

While Marvel’s had no trouble incorporating unresolved material from previous movies into its recent fare, the studio took its sweet time bringing back threads from 2008's The Incredible Hulk. Abomination showed up in She-Hulk after a brief punch of a cameo in Shang-Chi, and next … | Continue reading


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Boeing Employees to Get Whistleblower Training From Their Union

Reuters reports that the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace locals that cover workers at Boeing and fuselage supplier Spirit AeroSystems will be holding trainings Friday to better equip their members on rules and regulations regarding whistleblowing. Read … | Continue reading


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Ghost of Tsushima Gave Sucker Punch the Spotlight It Always Deserved

Ask anyone who plays video games extensively, and they more than likely have at least two studios they go to bat for. We all have developers who, in our eyes, can’t really do any wrong (even though they can and sometimes do); maybe it’s because they were responsible for a life-ch … | Continue reading


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The Acolyte's New Promo Whips Up a Sick New Weapon

In more than ways than one, The Acolyte is being poisitioned as a different Star Wars show than the other live-action offerings. Not only is it winding back the clock to the High Republic era, it’s also doing something different on the action front with some Force-powered martial … | Continue reading


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Neon Picks Up Osgood Perkins & James Wan's The Monkey

It’s Cannes season, and along with advanced screenings of upcoming movies, studios are looking at what films to buy for domestic or international distribution. One of the films on the market during the festival is The Monkey, which found a US distributor in Neon. Read more... | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 17 hours ago

The Dead Cells Show's First Trailer is Dying to Show Its Potential

Since its Early Access release back in 2017, Motion Twin and Evil Empire’s Dead Cells has become one of the most popular roguelikes of the current gaming generation. The two studios may have recently ended development on the game, but it’ll still live on the form of the animated … | Continue reading


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If Only We Could Unsee If

Summer movie season is kicking off in full swing this week, between glitzy debuts at Cannes, and our first thoughts on incoming blockbusters like Furiosa. But it seems neither you or we could escape the absolute nightmare of John Krasinski’s bizarre new fantasy film, If. Click th … | Continue reading


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Palmer Luckey Says It's a 'Certainty' That Future AI Will Kill Innocent People

Palmer Luckey says it’s a “certainty” that artificial intelligence systems will kill innocent bystanders in wars of the future, according to a recent interview the tech mogul did with Bloomberg News. This is why Luckey stresses it’s absolutely crucial to keep human beings in the … | Continue reading


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Everything You (Probably) Didn’t Know You Could Do With Your iPad

The latest iPad Airs and iPad Pros breathed fresh life into Apple’s tablets just as they seemed to be getting stale. Love them or hate them, the new Pros and Airs are pretty damn powerful, with the M4-powered tablet being practically just as capable as the most recent baseline Ma … | Continue reading


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Raw Milk Sales Soar as Misguided Notions of Bird Flu Immunity Spread

This week, the Gizmodo science team explored the disturbing trend towards raw milk amid a bird flu outbreak among cattle, and the technological disruptions stemming from the historic geomagnetic storm that triggered stunning auroras across much of the globe. Reporter Ed Cara brok … | Continue reading


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Bezos' Space Tourism Venture Set for Restart After Explosion Forced 2-Year Hiatus

Blue Origin is preparing to send a crew of private astronauts to suborbital space, finally resuming its space tourism program on New Shepard after nearly two years of it being grounded. Read more... | Continue reading


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The X-Men '97 Team Dishes on the Finale's Big Bad Reveal

That X-Men ‘97 season finale was quite the sucker punch for fans invested in Marvel Animation’s revived classic series coming into a modern era. We saw the X-Men overcome seemingly insurmountable odds against Bastion after the reveal that he was this season’s big bad—not the red … | Continue reading


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Why George Miller Is So Excited for You to See Furiosa

Think about the expectations. Nine years ago, you released maybe one of the best films ever made. It won a ton of Oscars, made solid money at the box office, and has since only risen in respect and reverence. And now, you’re going back. Not just to that world, but to that story a … | Continue reading


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Coroner's Report Reveals Boeing Whistleblower's Cause of Death

Details surrounding the death of John Barnett, a corporate whistleblower who was in the midst of suing aviation giant Boeing when he was found dead in a parking lot earlier this year, have finally been revealed. Read more... | Continue reading


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Make a Summer Splash With These Disney Fashions and Vacation Must-Haves

With Memorial Day weekend coming up and summer vacation not far behind, here’s some of our favorite Disney-inspired fandom fashion, accessories, and other fun essentials to throw in your luggage. Read more... | Continue reading


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Who's Up for Some Killer Bee Beer?

If you’re looking for booze with an extra bit of buzz, you’re in luck. Microbiologists in the U.K. have just created beer using yeast sourced from the guts of Africanized honey bees, a.k.a. killer bees. Read more... | Continue reading


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John Krasinski's IF: The Spoiler FAQ

Who could have guessed that John Krasinski would be so good at making horror movies? His directorial debut was A Quiet Place, he followed it up with A Quiet Place Part II, and now he’s made IF, not a horror film by genre but a horrible film in quality. We reviewed the film quite … | Continue reading


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Head of Sony Seems Pretty Sure Spider-Man 4 Is Happening

Two things are true when listening to the head of a movie studio. One, they’re not going to say anything bad about their movies, and two, they definitely know everything happening with those movies. That’s why a new interview with the chairman of Sony Motion Pictures Group, Tom R … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 day ago

25 Great Things About The Phantom Menace

This weekend, The Phantom Menace turns 25—and while we’ve celebrated the ways the film brought so much to Star Wars in the past, for its 25th anniversary we wanted to look back at a few different things, big and small, that make Phantom Menace so great all these years later, whet … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 day ago

RIP Silk: Spider-Society

Conspicuously absent from the incredible news this week that Nicolas Cage was coming to Prime Video to play Spider-Man Noir was a single mention of Silk: Spider-Society, another Spider-Verse show that has been in the works for a long, long time. Read more... | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 day ago

NYPD Should Equip Drones With Tasers for 911 Calls, According to Pro-Trump Congressman

The New York Police Department plans to use drones to respond to some 911 calls in a new program, according to testimony delivered Thursday at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing in Washington, D.C. And while that’s concerning enough, one Republican congressman had some i … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 day ago

OpenAI Reportedly Dissolves Its Existential AI Risk Team

OpenAI’s Superalignment team, charged with controlling the existential danger of a superhuman AI system, has reportedly been disbanded, according to Wired on Friday. The news comes just days after the team’s founders, Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, simultaneously quit the company. … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 day ago

X-Men '97's Finale Managed to Tie Up a 26-Year-Old Spider-Man Mystery, Too

The third and final episode of “Tolerance Is Extinction,”the season finale of X-Men ‘97, had a lot to pay off—not just from the plot threads it wove throughout its own debut season, but in bringing to a head years of lingering character work dating back to the original X-Men: The … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 day ago

What the Hell's Going on With This Space Cloud?

It looks a bit like a boat, or a stout fedora. So what the hell is this rusty brown gossamer of a space cloud? Read more... | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 day ago

How to Turn Off YouTube Ads for Alcohol, Gambling, Weight Loss and More

The last thing an alcoholic wants to see is YouTube ads featuring alcohol, which can trigger the desire to drink. The same goes for someone who has perhaps experienced a miscarriage and continues to see YouTube ads for diapers and baby clothes, sending people into a spiral of dep … | Continue reading


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iPhone 16 Pro Max Could Get Longer, Better Battery Life

According to Apple analystMing-Chi Kuo, there’s a possibility we could get a longer battery life on the upcoming iPhone 16 Pro Max, which will be expected to launch later this year. Read more... | Continue reading


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10 Hole-y Questions We Have After Outer Range Season 2

Sci-fi Western Outer Range released its second season on Prime Video this week, bringing more time-travel shenanigans for the people of Wabang, Wyoming—especially the families of Royal Abbott (Josh Brolin) and Wayne Tillerson (Will Patton). The show’s giant hole still contains mo … | Continue reading


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Orbital Paparazzi Captures a Sneaky Picture of the ISS

The International Space Station (ISS) was caught looking a little undignified in a new photo captured by an imaging satellite in orbit. Read more... | Continue reading


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Elon Musk’s Neuralink Is Looking for a New Cyborg

Elon Musk’s Neuralink is now accepting applications for a second patient to receive its brain-computer interface, just five months after Noland Arbaugh became the first human to have the startup’s technology surgically implanted. The second patient will receive the same fame and … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 day ago

Alkaline Water Is Useless

Alkaline water will improve your metabolism, boost your liver health, and even help you fight off cancer—at least according to its fans. The actual truth, however, is far more mundane. There is little good evidence for these and many other health claims attached to alkaline water … | Continue reading


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How Has Louis Changed Since Season 1 of Interview With the Vampire?

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Researchers Capture Wild Video of Rare Bioluminescent Deep-Sea Squid

A team of marine researchers with the Minderoo—UWA Deep Sea Research Centre got a treat recently, when a rare deep-sea hooked squid (Taningia danae) mistook the crew’s baited camera for prey. The team captured the remarkable footage about 3,281 feet (1 kilometer) beneath the wave … | Continue reading


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Updates From Furiosa, Silent Hill, and More

Return to Silent Hill lifts the lid on its Pyramid Head. Halle Berry gets frightful in the new trailer for Never Let Go. Plus, The Thundermans could be making a return. To me, my spoilers! Read more... | Continue reading


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17 Roger Corman Movies You Should Watch Right Now

Roger Corman, one of the most prolific, influential filmmakers of all time, died last weekend at the age of 98. Prominently known for his campy, 1960s horror films (his nickname was “King of the B’s”), Corman was far more than a small-time B-movie director. He helped launch the c … | Continue reading


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How to Purge the AI From Your Google Searches

“Let Google do the searching for you.” Read more... | Continue reading


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What I Love and What I Can’t Stand About the 2024 iPads

The latest iPads are strange beasts. Beyond the cheaper base iPad, you have the iPad Air and the iPad Pro. They’re both at the top of their game. They’re more powerful than ever, and the more expensive version has processing capabilities nearly equivalent to that of a MacBook. An … | Continue reading


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Superman and Fantastic Four Lead 2025's Amazing IMAX Slate

This year is already off to a very good start at the movies but 2025 is looking even bigger, in more ways than one. Fresh off the huge success of last year’s Oppenheimer and this year’s Dune: Part Two, IMAX just revealed 14 titles in 2025 that will not only be released in IMAX, b … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 days ago

The Stars of Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Promise Things Will Actually Happen This Season

The debut season of Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power—for those that actually ended up making it through all eight episodes—often struggled to really really feel there was narrative moment outside of that one hella cool moment when a mountain blew up. By its climax, it felt l … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 days ago

This Is the Coolest, Most Unique Obi-Wan Kenobi Figure Ever

Whenever a new set of Star Wars toys is announced, fans have come to expect to see characters in some sort of armor. Be it Mandalorian armor, stormtrooper armor, or Clone Trooper armor, toy companies love it because all they have to do is make a new head and reuse an old body. It … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 days ago

Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis Chaotically Wows Cannes

Reactions for Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis have begun to hit the internet and they are as all over the place as the film itself seems to be. Megalopolis is a sci-fi love story between architect Cesar (Adam Driver) and socialite Julia (Nathalie Emmanuel), who become caught u … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 days ago

Five Nights at Freddy's 2 Will Bring Its Dead-Eyed Horrors to December 2025

Video game adaptation Five Nights at Freddy’s proved unstoppable at both the box office and on Peacock, and its follow-up hopes to repeat that success when it arrives December 5, 2025. The release date for Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 is the biggest calendar addition for a slew of u … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 days ago

Possible SpaceX Debris Crashes Onto Canadian Farm

It’s raining space junk. Just one month after NASA admitted that a piece of trash tossed from the International Space Station (ISS) crash-landed through a home in Florida, a massive piece of space debris ended up on a farm in Canada. Read more... | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 days ago

The Big Problem With Hertz's Used Teslas

Hertz gambled and lost when it placed its big EV bet on Tesla a few years ago. It was a chance for the rental car company to shake up the industry, instead the company bought 30,000 Teslas, got scared away by depreciation and expensive repairs and now wants to get rid of them. Wh … | Continue reading


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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ Director on the Film’s Opening

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Friday the 13th Just Got a Huge Update. Maybe.

A new company just announced it’s come on board and is ready to take Jason Voorhees and the Friday the 13th franchise into the future. What exactly that means though, is not quite crystal (lake) clear. Read more... | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 days ago

OpenAI Staffers Responsible for Safety Are Jumping Ship

OpenAI launched its Superalignment team almost a year ago with the ultimate goal of controlling hypothetical super-intelligent AI systems and preventing them from turning against humans. Naturally, many people were concerned—why did a team like this need to exist in the first pla … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 2 days ago

George Miller on Why His Mad Max Action Is So Incredible

George Miller has been directing pulse-pounding action sequences for almost 50 years. It started in the late 1970s with his first film, Mad Max, and continued through the decades, reaching a whole new level of awesome in 2015's Mad Max: Fury Road. Next week, he takes things to ye … | Continue reading


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