Tag: gizmodo.com

  • ‘Spaceballs 2’ Is Already Making Fun of ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’

    [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:…

  • Economists Are Comparing the AI Boom to the Industrial Revolution—Not in a Good Way

    [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…

  • Galaxy S26 Ultra No Longer Carries a New-Flagship Price Tag on Amazon, Cheaper Than Samsung Store

    [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…

  • Apple’s Lawsuit Against OpenAI Sparks Another Musk-Altman Online Spat

    [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…

  • ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ Is Waking Up Again

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/Nightmare_on_Elm_Street_1984-1200×675.jpg”] Paramount has a major horror name attached to its newly named Paramount Primal genre label, and he wears a grubby red-and-green sweater and a glove tipped with razors. After nine A Nightmare on Elm Street films, including the Friday the 13th crossover Freddy vs. Jason and the regrettable 2010 remake, a tenth…

  • Blackview Triple Screen Extender Is Back at Its Lowest Price, Giving You Three Screens From One Laptop

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/Blackview-DCM6-Triple-Laptop-Screen-Extender1422-1080P-FHD-IPS-Portable-External-Screen-1200×675.jpg”] A single laptop screen is fine at a desk where a monitor is a cable-plug away. Traveling is different, and anyone who’s tried to juggle a research window, a writing window, and a Slack sidebar on a 15-inch display in a hotel room knows how quickly that falls apart. The Blackview DCM6…

  • Evil Deads, Ranked

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/Evil-Dead-Ranked-badge-1200×675.jpg”] Ash Williams put it best: the Evil Dead franchise is “groovy.” Last week, the sixth film in the franchise, Evil Dead Burn, came to theaters, and with a seventh one on the way in 2028, the world of killer demons unlocked by the Book of the Dead is showing no signs of…

  • LEGO Star Wars Grogu With Hover Pram Joins Amazon’s Final Clearance Push at Nearly 40% Off After Millennium Falcon Deal

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/LEGO-Star-Wars-Grogu-with-Hover-Pram-Building-Toy-Set-1200×675.jpg”] The LEGO Star Wars Grogu with Hover Pram is a 1,048-piece brick-built display model of Grogu from The Mandalorian, sized for ages 10 and up. The finished sculpture stands over 7.5 inches tall in a hovering pram, with dial-operated arms, a poseable head, and moving ears. A brick-built Sorgan frog, a shifter…

  • Acer’s First New Phone in Years Has a Screen on the Back

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/sospiro15-1200×675.jpg”] Acer has largely stepped away from the smartphone industry in recent years; the company’s heavily focused on tablets, laptops, handheld gaming, and sometimes smart glasses these days. But today the company announced the Sospiro A15, a midrange smartphone with a rare rear display. The Sospiro A15—which is, for now, limited to the…

  • Astronomers Detect Sugar in Interstellar Space for the First Time

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/galactic-center-hubble-spitzer-chandra-composite-1200×675.jpg”] Astronomers have long suspected that sugar exists in deep space—frontiers beyond our solar system. That hypothesis was proven correct via samples from the asteroid Bennu, but scientists wanted to take things a step further: Was there a way to directly detect sugar in interstellar space? The answer to that question is a…