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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2219759299-1200×675.jpg”] Earlier this month, Maine was firmly on track to become the first state to institute a moratorium on AI data centers. The state’s Democrat-controlled legislature officially passed a bill that would ban data centers that carry a load of 20 megawatts or more until November 1, 2027, and create a 13-member council…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/foldable-iphone-leak-1200×675.jpg”] A new, anonymously-sourced Bloomberg report describes what may be Apple’s gambit for getting the public to fall in love with its new CEO, John Ternus: marry him to a new product they expect the public to love too. One small problem with that product: it’s reportedly going to be a foldable iPhone…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/spider-noir-nuhed-1200×675.jpg”] With just over a month to go before Spider-Noir, Prime Video dropped a new trailer at CCXP Mexico. Or two, rather, since they want you to remember the show comes in black-and-white, too. Where the first trailer was heavy on the noir and the psyche of Nicholas Cage’s Ben Reilly, this new one’s more…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/alien-isolation-hed-1200×675.jpg”] Today’s Alien Day and surprisingly, that means we’ve gotten our first tease of Alien: Isolation 2. Developer Creative Assembly put out a short video on Sunday morning dubbed “False Sense of Security.” It opens on a dark room with a light flashing red as the camera slowly pushes in on it. When the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/alien-xenomorph-hed-1200×675.jpg”] April 26 is Alien Day, and Disney’s celebrating the occasion with a big new piece of xenomorph merch. That would be an animatronic Xenomorph that stands at 6 feet and 8 inches tall. Sculpted in detail to look like it came from the movies, the animatronic also moves like the iconic monster—it’s…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/01/raw-oysters-1200×675.jpg”] Bailey Magers and Sunil Kumar cut strange figures on Pensacola Beach. Bags of disinfectant solution surrounded them on the white sand; their gloved hands juggled test tubes while layers of rubber and plastic shielded their skin from the elements. As the two organized their seawater samples on the popular Florida shoreline last…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/Ecovacs-April-1200×675.jpg”] The ECOVACS DEEBOT X12 OmniCyclone is designed to fix the one issue all of today’s robot vacuum cleaners have yet to do well: true stains. According to research, Americans spend an average of 56 minutes a week cleaning their floors, and stains on floors rank among the top 10 most difficult cleaning…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/Soundcore-Space-2-review-10-1200×675.jpg”] If there’s one thing gadgets could use more of right now, it’s value. There’s a time and a place for premium products, don’t get me wrong, but in a world where RAM prices are sending MSRPs for lots of tech through the roof, getting more for not that much feels borderline radical. And…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/DESI-Map-3D-Universe-Complete-1200×675.jpg”] Last week, the Dark Energy Spectroscopy Instrument (DESI) concluded its first official survey. Over the past five years, the experiment recorded more than 47 million galaxies and 20 million stars over 11 billion years of cosmic history. The idea of a big, important observatory wrapping up a “final run” suggests that, as…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/02/elon-doug-burgum-1200×675.jpg”] Elon Musk, currently the richest person in the world by far, has sometimes complained about running out of money. His wealth is tied up in company shares, and turning shares into cash for short term gain is an unappealing prospect—a little like the point-oh-one-percenter version of raiding your 401(k). It triggers taxes,…