Tag: gizmodo.com

  • MINTernet 5G Home Internet Now Comes With Less Commitment, But the Same Great Service

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/08/mintmobile-5g-1200×675.jpg”] There’s never been an issue with Mint Mobile’s 5G Home MINTernet offer. A 12-month Unlimited cellular plan bundled with fast, reliable 5G home internet cost just $45 per month, combined. But just when you thought that was hard if not impossible to improve upon, this limited-time offer arrives: Now through September 30,…

  • io9’s Top 5 Films of Summer 2026

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/08/best-movies-summer-2026-1200×675.jpg”] The 2026 summer movie season was historic. Not only did we see two films, The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New Day, break major box office records, but several smaller films from young directors, mainly Obsession and Backrooms, broke through in a way few could’ve foreseen. So it’s been a fantastic summer. But…

  • Speedo’s New Wearable Adds Speed and Stroke Tracking to Goggles You Might Already Own

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/08/speedo-iq-1200×675.jpg”] Plenty of smartwatches can track pool workouts, but few wearables are specifically built for swimming. Speedo is hoping to expand swimmers’ wearable options with a new removable module for its Vanquisher goggles called Speedo iQ. The smart module can not only track all four competition strokes (freestyle, butterfly, backstroke, and breaststroke) but…

  • Pebble Time 2 Review: The Most Joyful Smartwatch I’ve Ever Worn

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/08/Pebble-Time-2-Smatwatch-11-1-1200×675.jpg”] The Pebble Time 2 is a small, relatively innocuous smartwatch. It doesn’t do that much beyond acting as a wearable smartphone companion. And yet the Pebble experience is like walking along a beach finding that one smooth stone that you fall in love with, despite there being billions of rocks strewn in…

  • Remember the Earthquake That Hit New York in 2024? Scientists Finally Found the Source

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/08/2024-tewksbury-earthquake-1200×675.jpg”] On April 5, 2024, a magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck Tewksbury, New Jersey. The shaking took an estimated 42 million people from Virginia to Maine by surprise—the East Coast certainly isn’t known for its seismic activity. Now, researchers have finally figured out where this bizarre quake came from, and its origin wasn’t what…

  • Meet Zosia, the 17th-Century Vampire Suspect Buried With a Sickle at Her Throat

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/08/zosia-skull-anti-vampiric-grave-1200×675.jpg”] In 2022, Polish archaeologists encountered an unsettling burial site of a young woman. Her toe was caught in a triangular padlock, and a sickle—the blade pointed toward the body—lay across her throat. This was so bizarre that it took the team four years to find a plausible explanation: anti-demonic practices. A bit…

  • Jane Schoenbrun Hopes to Direct ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/08/MS-August-28-1200×675.jpg”] Guy Gardener makes his Lanterns debut. Paramount Primal acquires the film rights to Nick Cutter’s The Troop. Lana Condor discusses the possibility of Jubilee’s return to the MCU. Does a mall babe eat chili fries?!  It’s Friday’s Morning Spoilers! Scissor Mouth Deadline reports Tara Reid (Josie and the Pussycats) and Johnny Pemberton…

  • Judge Says the Pentagon’s Blacklisting of Anthropic Is Illegal

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/08/anthropic-pentagon-judgement-1200×675.jpg”] Anthropic just scored a major win in its fight against President Donald Trump’s administration over efforts to blacklist the AI company. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin ruled Thursday in Anthropic’s lawsuit against the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and several other federal agencies over the administration’s decision to designate the company a…

  • First Leak of Nvidia’s DLSS 5 Apparently Makes Games Look and Run Worse

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/03/Nvidia-DLSS5-resident-evil-requiem-leon-1200×675.jpg”] We haven’t heard or seen much of Nvidia’s derided DLSS 5 since the company first revealed the “neural rendering” feature back in March. We now wish it would have stayed that way. Modders have managed to plug what appears to be a newer, leaked version of the AI-infused visual model into several…

  • Meta Smart Glasses Creeps Now Have One Less Way to Be Creepy

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2025/10/Meta-Ray-Ban-Display-review-05-1200×675.jpg”] When Meta launched its increasingly popular smart glasses, it gave them one small line of defense against becoming full-on spy glasses: the “capture LED,” Meta’s terminology for the LED that lights up when you’re capturing pictures or videos. It was a small gesture, but an important one, and in theory, it could…