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  • Shark Tank Star Is Fighting Phantom Bots While Utah Locals Fight His Data Center

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/05/kevin_oleary-1200×675.jpg”] Kevin O’Leary came to Utah with a pitch: He gets 40,000 acres of their land, and they get an ugly, energy-guzzling data center that creates minimal long-term jobs. Utahans said, “I’m out,” but the Shark Tank star isn’t taking no for an answer. Instead, he’s claiming that it’s actually the Chinese Communist…

  • ‘Anomalous’ Earthquakes Have Hit Utah for Decades. Geologists Are Finally Closing in on an Answer

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/05/Utah-Uinta-Basin-Mantle-Quake-1200×675.jpg”] The tiny town of Randolph, Utah (population: 467), sat atop a deep 3.8 magnitude earthquake in the early morning hours of February 24, 1979—but, mysteriously, none of its residents noticed enough to bother filing a report. Geologists monitoring the quake at the University of Utah Seismograph Stations (UUSS) were baffled. The episode’s…

  • ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Releases New Free Adventure

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/05/dungeons-and-dragons-dagger-danger-1200×675.jpg”] Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast are celebrating the United Nations-recognized International Day of Play (June 11) early this year with a free Dungeons & Dragons adventure that’s perfect for first-time players. Borderlands Quest: Dagger Danger! is a short one-shot adventure for level 1 characters designed to provide a simple but compelling…

  • ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Jurassic World’ Director Gareth Edwards Is All for AI in Filmmaking

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/05/Jurassic-World-Rebirth-Gareth-Edwards-1200×675.jpg”] A director who has made films in some of the biggest franchises in the world just came out as a strong advocate of artificial intelligence in filmmaking. Gareth Edwards, the director of Godzilla, Rogue One, and Jurassic World Rebirth, said at an event this week that he is excited about using generative…

  • Donald Trump’s Personal Investment in Dell Pays Off Bigly

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2025/12/Trump_and_michael_dell-1-1200×675.jpg”] Dell, most commonly known for its personal computers, reported its first fiscal-quarter earnings this week, and it’s doing very well, thanks, somewhat surprisingly, to the AI boom and a boost from President Donald Trump. The computer giant reported blockbuster first fiscal quarter earnings this week, with revenue jumping 88% year over year…

  • The Virtual OS Museum Lets You Emulate 1700+ Operating Systems From as Far Back as 1948

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/05/virtual-os-musuem-1200×675.jpg”] The history of computing is littered with the remains of forgotten operating systems—some rendered obsolete by technological progress, some that never quite captured the public imagination, and some just so aggressively useless that everyone would rather forget they ever existed. But we shouldn’t forget! And happily, there’s a new project devoted to…

  • Let’s Talk About the Ending of ‘For All Mankind’ Season 5

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/05/For-All-Mankind-S5-Cynthy-Wu-1200×675.jpg”] For All Mankind is always fantastic, but it’s best known for its incredible finales. In each of the previous four seasons, Apple TV’s alternate history sci-fi show has always built to some massive, tense, game-changing moment, followed by a mind-blowing tease of what’s to come. The season five finale was no different,…

  • Blue Origin’s New Glenn Rocket Explodes on Launchpad Just Days After Being Cleared for Launch

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/New-Glenn-static-fire-test-april-14-1200×675.jpg”] A New Glenn rocket erupted in a massive fireball during a pre-launch test, marking yet another major setback for Blue Origin as it struggles to resume operations of its partially reusable vehicle. New Glenn exploded on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Thursday night, sending a…

  • How to Watch Arsenal vs PSG Champions League Final Free Online

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/03/watch-football-free-1200×675.jpg”] The good news for anyone travelling, expatriated, or on holiday this weekend: free Champions League live streams still exist in a handful of countries, and a VPN like NordVPN lets you reach them from abroad. I’ve used this method for years on F1 Grands Prix and big football nights, so here’s the…

  • ‘A Paradigm Shift’: Supermassive Black Hole Without a Galaxy Changes What We Thought Came First

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2024/05/115142e4c54681bf22479e99f0a413fa.jpg”] While probing the dawn of the universe for the origins of ancient galaxies, the James Webb Space Telescope uncovered something unexpected lurking at their cores—a discovery that might reshape our view of the early cosmos. Scientists have long thought that galaxies evolved first, while the black holes at their center formed after…