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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/Doomsday-Hall-H-io9-SDCC-1200×675.jpg”] The time is finally upon us. Yes, at this time next week, the world of pop culture will pull a Sauron and turn its eye to San Diego for Comic-Con 2026. For four straight days, everything you love about comics, movies, TV, games, toys, and more all gather under one roof to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/american-horror-story-13-cast-ms-1200×675.jpg”] Brad Dourif talks the branching paths of Child’s Play 8. Andy Serkis defends using A.I. in The Hunt for Gollum. An apocalyptic tsunami threatens earth in the latest trailer for Digger. Kathryn Newton and Lana Condor enter The Devil’s Mouth. Look… the point is, you are alive when they start to eat…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/Space_debris_around_Earth-1200×675.jpg”] Earth’s geosynchronous orbit (GEO) holds some of the most valuable satellites that carry out tasks for phones, television, and radio, as well as weather and environmental monitoring. As new research points out, these precious devices may be under threat from tiny pieces of space junk that have gone previously undetected until now.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/bose-deal-1200×675.jpg”] If you’re hoping to add a bit more music to the coming months, then a good way to do just that is with a portable Bluetooth speaker. There are an unfathomable number of these around though, so if you’re looking to get yourself one, then you’ve got a lot of them to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/BTS-Gift-Guide-Laptops-Under-1000-1200×675.jpg”] 2026 is proving to be the best and, absolutely, the worst time to buy your next big back-to-school laptop. Your choices are more limited than ever if you hope to stick to a sub-$1,000 budget. Thankfully, the laptops on offer at this price point are some of the best in years. At…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/Avengers-Doomsday-Comic-Con-Hall-H-2024-1200×675.jpg”] Marvel fans are eagerly awaiting the studio’s Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday, July 25, where it’s widely believed the company will debut the first trailer for Avengers: Doomsday. But, according to a new report from the Hollywood Reporter, tickets for the film will go on sale on Monday,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/shells-and-marine-fossils-1200×675.jpg”] Roughly 252 million years ago, nearly all life on Earth vanished. In a blink of geologic time, the Permian-Triassic mass extinction—also known as the Great Dying—wiped 96% of marine species and 70% of terrestrial species off the planet. The question that has plagued researchers for decades is, why? Well, hang on a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/Sugar_dogs-1200×675.jpg”] When Sugar debuted in 2024, audiences initially thought Colin Farrell’s character was just a regular ol’ Los Angeles private detective. Sure, he was unusually empathetic, could seemingly communicate with animals, and spoke an alarming array of languages. But most folks were not anticipating the mid-season twist that revealed John Sugar’s quirks were…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2025/11/DHS-homeland-security-sign-1200×675.jpg”] Dismissed a valid alert about a cybersecurity breach once? Shame on the intruder. Dismissed a valid alert about a cybersecurity breach twice? Something may be systemically wrong. Last month Nextgov/FCW reported that, per anonymous sources, an unknown attacker with as-yet unknown affiliations had compromised the Homeland Security Information Network, a database intended…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/03/dario-amodei-legal-brief-1200×675.jpg”] If you’ve ever tried chatbots in multiple languages, you already know the languages have slightly different personalities. As part of a new report on behavior inconsistencies published on Monday, Anthropic researchers acknowledged this quirk. Rather unsettlingly, they note that due to differences in the attributes of texts the models are trained on,…