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  • Six Old Weight Loss Treatments and Why We Stopped Using Them

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/weight-loss-pills-1200×675.jpg”] Many people, myself included, have tried to lose weight at some point in our lives. And statistically speaking, the vast majority of the time, those attempts have ended in abject failure, with little sustained weight loss to speak of. This grim outlook has started to change in recent years, thanks to the…

  • Salesforce Announces Huge AI Initiative and Calls It ‘Headless 360’

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2024/11/Saleforce-CEO-Marc-Benioff-at-a-conference-in-San-Francisco-.jpg”] A boneless 360 is kind of a high-effort, low-reward skateboarding trick—a variation on an iconic move from 80s skateboarding that doesn’t actually look very cool in modern street skating, even though pulling it off is hard. A “Headless 360” is, perhaps, if your head fell off while doing a boneless 360, which…

  • ‘Secret Wars’ Is More Than Just an ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Sequel

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2025/12/avengers-doomsday-trailer-steve-rogers-1200×675.jpg”] In over a year, Marvel says goodbye to the multiverse its multiverse focus with Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars. It’s the former that’s in the front of everyone’s minds right now, but it sounds like Secret Wars will be where things really pop off and wow audiences when it arrives next year. In an interview with…

  • The ‘Street Fighter’ Movie Knows What It Is

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/street-fighter-poster-hed-1200×675.jpg”] During this week’s CinemaCon, movie fans were treated to a new Street Fighter trailer. And it looks…incredibly silly, in not just a good way, but an interesting one. Now more than ever, IP adaptations are judged by the amount of instant fidelity to the source material they show. “When will Daredevil get…

  • Trump, When Asked About White House Meeting with Anthropic’s Dario Amodei: ‘Who?’

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2268677104-1200×675.jpg”] In Truth Social-ese, one might say Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview model is “the ‘hottest’ AI model out there”—with Trump’s patented awkward scare quotes around “hottest.” Anthropic has said Mythos is so advanced it “could reshape cybersecurity.” The UK is scrambling to respond to the apparent vulnerabilities it exposed. European cyber agencies have…

  • ‘The Batman, Part II’ Has Finally Found Two-Face’s Dad

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/charles-dance-game-of-thrones-1200×675.jpg”] It looks like The Batman Part II has added another star to its stacked cast. And spoiler, it’s someone from another major franchise. Per Deadline, Charles Dance has signed on for the DC film. Best known for playing Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones, Dance is reportedly set to portray Harvey Dent’s father, Christopher. Earlier…

  • TotalAV Keeps Prices Low While Covering the Basics of Online Protection

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/it-expert-standing-living-room-implementing-coding-1200×675.jpg”] TotalAV isn’t a name most people grew up hearing. Norton and McAfee have decades of marketing behind them. TotalAV showed up in 2016 and spent its early years largely under the radar. What got it noticed wasn’t buzz. It was pricing. The entry-level plan undercuts a lot of the competition, and that’s…

  • RAM Shortage Expected to Continue Into Next Year or Later

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/stick-of-ram-1200×675.jpg”] A report by the Japan-based, English-language magazine Nikkei Asia looked at the state of the memory business in East Asia lately, and, long story short: demand is still astronomical, and progress toward meeting that demand is slow. So don’t expect price relief until next year, and even that might be a stretch.…

  • Marvel Studios’ Former Art Staff Discuss ‘Shortsighted’ Layoffs

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2025/12/thor-avengers-doomsday-1200×675.jpg”] Earlier this week, the entertainment industry was rocked when Disney announced 1,000 layoffs. Among those affected was Marvel Studios, whose visual development team going from 13-15 people to just a handful. This team’s spent decades creating how characters look onscreen and typically has their work collected in big, expansive art books. A…

  • Amazon Delivery Drones Involve a Perilous 10-Foot Drop. Users Are Posting the Apparent Results

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/amazon-drone-drops-package-1200×675.png”] It seemed like this might have been a rare week without a “robot doing dumb shit” story—but never fear, because Jeff Bezos’s squadron of airborne delivery drones is here to save the day. Prime Air, Amazon’s drone delivery service, has been rolling out in a number of US cities over the last…