Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: The World’s Simplest Game With a Massive Twist
maandag 20 mei 2024 inGizmodo (Gadgets)
Although most view tic-tac-toe as a kid’s game, puzzle designers see it as a canvas. I think the game’s simplicity almost taunts people—is a 3x3 grid with only two possible symbols really going to stump you? Yet members of the puzzle community conti…
Lees meerTo Me, My New X-Men Comics!
zondag 19 mei 2024 inGizmodo (Gadgets)
The age of Krakoa is over in the X-Men comics—or rather, it will be in another month. Come July, the mutants are off the island and back on Earth fighting the old fight of being hated and feared. Over the last few weeks, Marvel’s gradually pulled ba…
Lees meerDoctor Who Just Threw Everyone a Heck of a Curveball
zondag 19 mei 2024 inGizmodo (Gadgets)
The new season of Doctor Who is in full swing, and it’s already making some big moves early into its run. This week’s episode, “Boom,” puts the Doctor and Ruby on the planet of Kastarion 3, which is currently in the midst of a war the pair are unabl…
Lees meerDisneyland's Characters and Parade Performers Successfully Unionize
zondag 19 mei 2024 inGizmodo (Gadgets)
Unionization was in full force throughout the entertainment industry in 2023, particularly over at Disney. VFX artists across several in-house teams—including those for the MCU and the Avatar franchise—successfully unionized, a trend that’s now cont…
Lees meerThis Year's Google I/O Was the Most Boring Ever
zondag 19 mei 2024 inGizmodo (Gadgets)
Google’s annual developers conference has come and gone, but I still have no idea what was announced. I mean, I do. I know that Gemini was a big part of the show—the week’s primary onus—and that the plan is to infuse it into every part of Google’s p…
Lees meerMortal Kombat 1 Fan Creates a Kendrick Vs. Drake Battle
zaterdag 18 mei 2024 inGizmodo (Gadgets)
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 …
Lees meerGhost of Tsushima Gave Sucker Punch the Spotlight It Always Deserved
zaterdag 18 mei 2024 inGizmodo (Gadgets)
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…
Lees meerBoeing Employees to Get Whistleblower Training From Their Union
zaterdag 18 mei 2024 inGizmodo (Gadgets)
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 …
Lees meerNeon Picks Up Osgood Perkins & James Wan's The Monkey
zaterdag 18 mei 2024 inGizmodo (Gadgets)
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 distri…
Lees meerThe Dead Cells Show's First Trailer is Dying to Show Its Potential
zaterdag 18 mei 2024 inGizmodo (Gadgets)
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 li…
Lees meerEverything You (Probably) Didn’t Know You Could Do With Your iPad
zaterdag 18 mei 2024 inGizmodo (Gadgets)
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…
Lees meerMake a Summer Splash With These Disney Fashions and Vacation Must-Haves
vrijdag 17 mei 2024 inGizmodo (Gadgets)
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...
Lees meerJohn Krasinski's IF: The Spoiler FAQ
vrijdag 17 mei 2024 inGizmodo (Gadgets)
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 quali…
Lees meerOpenAI Reportedly Dissolves Its Existential AI Risk Team
vrijdag 17 mei 2024 inGizmodo (Gadgets)
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, s…
Lees meerWild Video Shows Deep-Sea Squid Using Its 'Headlights' to Attack Camera
vrijdag 17 mei 2024 inGizmodo (Gadgets)
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…
Lees meerWho's Up for Some Killer Bee Beer?
vrijdag 17 mei 2024 inGizmodo (Gadgets)
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...
Lees meerHead of Sony Seems Pretty Sure Spider-Man 4 Is Happening
vrijdag 17 mei 2024 inGizmodo (Gadgets)
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 So…
Lees meerThe Truth Behind Alkaline Water
vrijdag 17 mei 2024 inGizmodo (Gadgets)
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 cl…
Lees meerThe Big Problem With Hertz's Used Teslas
vrijdag 17 mei 2024 inGizmodo (Gadgets)
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 n…
Lees meer25 Great Things About The Phantom Menace
vrijdag 17 mei 2024 inGizmodo (Gadgets)
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 gr…
Lees meerX-Men '97's Finale Managed to Tie Up a 26-Year-Old Spider-Man Mystery, Too
vrijdag 17 mei 2024 inGizmodo (Gadgets)
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 …
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