Book-devouring horror fans have had March 2024 circled on the calendar for some time now, anticipating Stephen Graham Jones’ trilogy-capping The Angel of Indian Lake. But there’s plenty to please every preference this month, with haunted houses, spa…
Lees meerResearchers studying orcas off the coast of South Africa recently observed one of the whales consuming a great white shark alone, in just two minutes.Read more...
Lees meerThe zombie plague might be a bit of a MacGuffin in AMC’s The Walking Dead—you know, because the real drama comes from conflict between humans—but that life-after-death theme now applies to the franchise too. After 11 seasons of the main series, plus…
Lees meerThe era of bad robot music is upon us. Adobe is working on a new AI tool that will let anyone be a music producer—no instrument or editing experience required.Read more...
Lees meerA pair of AirPods are at the center of an international mystery after race driver Louis Delétraz left his headphones on a United Airlines flight. Delétraz, who said he left the Airpods under a seat in row 16 on a flight to Geneva, Switzerland, track…
Lees meerNikon is making a camera you can take to space. In partnership with NASA, the company is developing a handheld camera for astronauts to use on the surface of the Moon for the upcoming Artemis missions.Read more...
Lees meerThis week, the world had a collective freakout over “Willy’s Chocolate Experience,” an event in Glasgow, Scotland that ended in tears. Organizers used AI-generated ads that promised $45 Wonka wonderland, but when parents and children arrived, they f…
Lees meerIt’s March. Let’s watch some movies. Welcome to io9's latest edition of the Nerd’s Watch, where we pare down the enormous lists of new films and television shows arriving on all your favorite streaming services into the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror t…
Lees meerFor the past year, contractors associated with Google’s YouTube Music Content Operations Team have been attempting to collectively bargain with the tech giant. Those workers won the right to unionize last April in a historic victory and, since that …
Lees meerThings are going really, really well for Denis Villeneuve right now. Dune: Part Two—the sequel to his six-time Oscar-winning 2021 Dune—has gotten rapturous reviews and is on track for massive box-office success. And his career pre-Dune was also full…
Lees meerIncreased drinking during the pandemic has had a real effect on our collective mortality, new research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. The study found that between 2020 to 2021, nearly 500 deaths a day could be attributed …
Lees meerIt wasn’t quite a sandworm, but when a 27-pound, three-foot by three-foot Dune box arrives at your door, it’s about as close as an Earthling can get.Read more...
Lees meerConspiracy theorists spent Thursday trying to claim President Joe Biden had accidentally “admitted” that directed-energy weapons were being used to start devastating wildfires like the one in Texas this week that’s become the largest in state histo…
Lees meerWelcome to Gizmodo’s first annual March Madness bracket. We want you to help us figure out which app is the greatest of all time. We’ve nominated 32 competitors, and two of them will go head-to-head each day until one app is chosen to wear the crown…
Lees meerIf there’s one thing to say about the $169 Flipper Zero, it’s that it’s really damn cute. When the Flipper is idling, the cyber dolphin that appears in all the apps and product materials as the device’s mascot can be found lounging around, making sl…
Lees meerMarch is bringing a ton of new Lego sets to shelves—and a very special celebration for one of the toymaker’s biggest lines, as the Lego Star Wars range celebrates its 25th anniversary with tons of special sets. But that’s far from all that’s droppin…
Lees meerFor chatbots, math is the final frontier. AI language models generate responses using statistics, spitting out an answer that’s mostly likely to be satisfying. That works great when the goal is a passable sentence, but it means chatbots struggle wit…
Lees meerElon Musk has never shied away from critiquing OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT that he cofounded back in 2015. He doesn’t like the fact that the company decided it wants to make money after it was founded as a nonprofit. Now, Musk is doing someth…
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Lees meerCalifornia startup Varda Space released raw footage of its capsule reentering the atmosphere. This mission marked two significant achievements: bringing home the first batch of pharmaceutical crystals manufactured in orbit outside the International …
Lees meerGet a creepy first look at Train to Busan director Yeon Sang-Ho’s Parasyte adaptation. Harvey Guillen talks “voicing” Odie in the new Garfield. Plus, another new look at The First Omen, and Imaginary celebrates making it past leap day with new foota…
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