Tag: gizmodo.com

  • The Best Budget Laptops Under $1,000 for Back to School

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/BTS-Gift-Guide-Laptops-Under-1000-1200×675.jpg”] 2026 is proving to be the best and, absolutely, the worst time to buy your next big back-to-school laptop. Your choices are more limited than ever if you hope to stick to a sub-$1,000 budget. Thankfully, the laptops on offer at this price point are some of the best in years. At…

  • ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Tickets May Go on Sale Before the Trailer Even Drops

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/Avengers-Doomsday-Comic-Con-Hall-H-2024-1200×675.jpg”] Marvel fans are eagerly awaiting the studio’s Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday, July 25, where it’s widely believed the company will debut the first trailer for Avengers: Doomsday. But, according to a new report from the Hollywood Reporter, tickets for the film will go on sale on Monday,…

  • Marshall Monitor III ANC Headphones Are Selling Fast at a 365-Day Low on Amazon, Now More Than 50% Cheaper Than AirPods Max

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/Marshall-Monitor-III-A.N.C.-Wireless-Over-Ear-Bluetooth-Headphones-1200×675.jpg”] The Marshall Monitor III A.N.C. is Marshall’s flagship wireless noise-canceling over-ear headphone, released in October 2024 as the successor to the Monitor II A.N.C. from 2020. Battery life reaches 70 hours with ANC on and 100 hours with ANC off, giving over a week of listening between charges. Bluetooth 5.3 supports LE…

  • Scientists Finally Solved the Mystery of Earth’s ‘Great Dying.’ It’s Bad News for Our Future

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/shells-and-marine-fossils-1200×675.jpg”] Roughly 252 million years ago, nearly all life on Earth vanished. In a blink of geologic time, the Permian-Triassic mass extinction—also known as the Great Dying—wiped 96% of marine species and 70% of terrestrial species off the planet. The question that has plagued researchers for decades is, why? Well, hang on a…

  • Anker 8-in-1 Docking Station Is Just $1 Away From Its Black Friday Price, Turning Your Laptop Into a Dual-Monitor Setup With Two HDMI Ports

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/Anker-Laptop-Docking-Station-Dual-Monitor-8-in-1-USB-C-Hub-1200×675.jpg”] A USB-C hub going on sale is really not all that newsworthy, but this one is worth stopping for. The Anker PowerExpand 8-in-1 USB-C PD Media Hub is down to $41 at Amazon right now. That’s 24% off its regular $54 price, and for that money it gives you a genuinely usable…

  • ‘Sugar’ Showrunner on How It’s Changed Now That the Audience Knows the Sci-Fi Twist

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/Sugar_dogs-1200×675.jpg”] When Sugar debuted in 2024, audiences initially thought Colin Farrell’s character was just a regular ol’ Los Angeles private detective. Sure, he was unusually empathetic, could seemingly communicate with animals, and spoke an alarming array of languages. But most folks were not anticipating the mid-season twist that revealed John Sugar’s quirks were…

  • Forget JBL, This IPX7 Waterproof Outdoor Bluetooth Speaker Is 40% Off in Amazon’s Clearance Push

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/outdoor-speaker-1200×675.jpg”] You can now grab a portable, completely waterproof Bluetooth speaker without spending a lot of money. The Houl Zallee speaker is built to add life to outdoor parties with its durable, rugged design, and the black version is now discounted by 40% on Amazon. This drops the usual $100 price to only…

  • DHS Cybersecurity Reportedly Has an ‘I’m Sure It’s Nothing’ Problem

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2025/11/DHS-homeland-security-sign-1200×675.jpg”] Dismissed a valid alert about a cybersecurity breach once? Shame on the intruder. Dismissed a valid alert about a cybersecurity breach twice? Something may be systemically wrong. Last month Nextgov/FCW reported that, per anonymous sources, an unknown attacker with as-yet unknown affiliations had compromised the Homeland Security Information Network, a database intended…

  • Anthropic Says Claude’s Values Are Different Depending on Which Language You’re Using

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/03/dario-amodei-legal-brief-1200×675.jpg”] If you’ve ever tried chatbots in multiple languages, you already know the languages have slightly different personalities. As part of a new report on behavior inconsistencies published on Monday, Anthropic researchers acknowledged this quirk. Rather unsettlingly, they note that due to differences in the attributes of texts the models are trained on,…

  • Flock Says ‘We Hope to Resume’ Work With LAPD After Getting Dropped

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/LAPD-patrol-cars-1200×675.jpg”] Flock was dropped by the Los Angeles Police Department on Saturday after a three year contract was allowed to expire without renewal. But the video surveillance company, which works with police to monitor cities across the U.S., tells Gizmodo that while it was surprised by the decision, it hopes to resume work…