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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2024/10/youtube-on-a-phone-e1740147209205.jpg”] YouTube just introduced a new feature that lets viewers essentially earn fewer ads during livestreams, as long as they’re active enough in the chat. In a blog post published on Monday, the video platform said its system can now detect when engagement in a livestream chat is peaking and automatically skip ads…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/mercury-rock-replica-rice-university-1200×675.jpg”] When studying Venus and Mars, Earth’s neighbors in the inner solar system, scientists often rely on what we know about our own planet. However, that doesn’t work when it comes to the surface of Mercury, which has an iron-poor, sulfur-rich crust that is vastly different from what’s found on Earth. Luckily, in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/godzilla-minus-one-godzilla-1200×675.jpg”] Godzilla is coming to America, both in theaters and on the big screen. At CinemaCon 2026, director Takashi Yamazaki took the stage and showed the first teaser from his highly anticipated new film, Godzilla Minus Zero, as well as behind-the-scenes footage and a few glimpses of what’s to come. And that teaser…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/Pancreatic-cancer-cells-1200×675.jpg”] A new era in the treatment of advanced pancreatic cancer may soon be on the way. An experimental oral drug called daraxonrasib has just shown remarkable results in a late stage clinical trial. On Monday, Revolution Medicines disclosed its Phase III trial data of daraxonrasib for people with previously treated metastatic pancreatic…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/solarfarmpanels-1-1200×675.jpg”] Harnessing the Sun’s energy is one of the cleanest ways to generate electricity on Earth. It does, however, come with an obvious limitation. Once darkness falls, solar panels stop generating electricity, creating a gap between when energy is produced and when it’s often needed most. To bridge the divide, a team of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/Spider-Man-Beyond-Spider-Verse-Dad-1200×675.jpg”] Let’s do this one last time. After years of delays, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse is slowly crawling towards your eyeballs with a release set for June 18, 2027. That’s still a long way away, of course, but producers/writers Phil Lord and Chris Miller (fresh off the success of Project Hail Mary) didn’t…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/spooky-dario-amodei-1200×675.jpg”] If Anthropic is kind of like a kid at a Halloween party with a bowl full of spaghetti, telling its blindfolded friends the spaghetti is brains, European cyber agency leaders are like kids who are mad that they still haven’t gotten to stick their fingers in the brain bowl, according to a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/03/data-center-1200×675.jpg”] They tell me Missouri is the Show Me State. Well folks, if you’re a member of the Festus, Missouri city council who was running for re-election last week, voters are showing you something alright. The dang door. According to the minutes of the meeting on March 30 when the council approved the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/openai-attack-1200×675.jpg”] Two people were arrested Sunday for allegedly firing a gun near OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s house in San Francisco, according to a report from the San Francisco Standard. The arrests came just a day after a 20-year-old man was arrested for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at Altman’s home and then driving…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/02/altman-impact-1200×675.jpg”] Over the weekend, OpenAI’s chief new revenue officer, Denise Dresser, sent a memo to employees meant to detail the company’s strategy going forward, but somehow ended up spending a considerable amount of ink on how little the company thinks of Anthropic. The memo, reported on by The Verge, included some direct shots…