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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2025/09/sam_altman_open_AI-1200×675.jpg”] Last week, Apple filed a lawsuit accusing frontier AI lab OpenAI of stealing company secrets. The legal battle may also prevent OpenAI from stealing Apple’s market share. According to a report from Bloomberg, the lawsuit has put OpenAI’s dreams of launching its own devices (with former Apple designer Jony Ive, no less!)…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/WE-PPD-cartoon-shark-paintable-electrode-zhang-1200×675.jpeg”] In high-performance scenarios, your skin sweats. Sticky electrode pads rub loose, disrupting their biometric accuracy. And the metal-to-skin interface of your typical smartwatch, while impressive, can only do so much—often failing on key data points, like calorie expenditures. So, how is anyone supposed to be the very best (like no one ever…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/Crystal_Lake-1200×675.jpg”] Just when we’d started loudly whining about the lack of Crystal Lake updates, Peacock came through. Today, Friday the 13th fans got a first teaser for the prequel show, as well as more images and some insights from star Linda Cardellini and showrunner Brad Caleb Kane, the latter courtesy of Entertainment Weekly.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/tetris-1200×675.png”] We all know Tetris. Or, at least, we think we do. But while the core concept of the game hasn’t changed over the years, the implementation of that concept has a surprisingly rich history, starting with the game’s original release in the West—for MS-DOS, in January 1988—and continuing right through to the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/Jurassic-Park-Sam-Neill-1200×675.jpg”] Sam Neill lived the type of life each of us aspires to. Professionally, he acted for half a century, starring in several unforgettable, immortal films like Jurassic Park, cementing a legacy of excellence. Personally, when you read tributes from those who knew him, it seems that as good an actor as he…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/zohran-mamdani-july-4-2026-1200×675.jpg”] New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani started his press conference Monday by zipping around at the Coney Island go-kart track. It was admittedly a silly way to make a pun about a “PIT Crew,” but Mamdani’s announcement was an important one for New Yorkers who care about how government tech can improve the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2025/06/Spaceballs-2-Dark-Helmet-1200×675.jpg”] One of the main reasons 2027 is the perfect time to release a new Spaceballs is that Star Wars is in disarray. Sure, 2027 is the 50th anniversary of the franchise, and there are a lot of cool things planned, but the franchise hasn’t been itself in a long time. Star Wars:…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/Factory-1200×675.jpg”] It’s become a trope in Silicon Valley to liken the rise of AI to the Industrial Revolution. Hardcore AI true-believers often say that the rise of intelligent machines will not only make humanity more productive than ever before—far surpassing the productivity gains caused by the invention of the steam engine—but also allow…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/SamsungGalaxyS26-Ultra-1200×675.jpg”] For all the Android heads out there: if you have been waiting for the right moment to make an upgrade from your old phone to something new, now might be the time. Samsung released the Galaxy S26 lineup right before Spring, and now that we’re more than halfway through the year, its…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2025/09/sam-altman-and-elon-musk-1200×675.jpg”] OpenAI co-founders-turned-rivals Elon Musk and Sam Altman traded several jabs on X over the weekend. While the two have gone back and forth online plenty of times before, this latest spat was prompted by news that Apple is suing OpenAI. “Scam Altman strikes again,” Musk wrote Saturday morning in response to a…