Tag: gizmodo.com

  • Spotify Founder Daniel Ek Is Bringing His Body-Scanning Clinics to the U.S.

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/Neko-Health-Marylebone-2.1-1200×675.jpg”] Spotify co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek has apparently been on a side quest building a health startup that offers full-body scans in Europe. Now, the company is planning to expand across the United States. Neko Health announced Wednesday that it raised $700 million in a new funding round as it prepares to…

  • The UK Wants Older Teens to Have a Digital Bedtime

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2175366434-1200×675.jpg”] The United Kingdom government is planning a default online curfew between midnight and 6 am for 16- and 17-year-olds. But here’s the catch: the curfew is optional, meaning that families can switch it off whenever they want. Along with the curfew, the British government announced that addictive design features meant to increase…

  • ‘The Odyssey’ Is Almost as Wondrous as You Wish It to Be

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/The-Odyssey-Review-1200×675.jpg”] You know that feeling of complete physical exhaustion? The sensation you get after you’ve worked out super hard or maybe eaten a huge meal, and you feel totally spent, but still somehow perfect? That’s the feeling Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey provides. It’s a movie that’s so massive, so comprehensive, so emotional, and…

  • Sorry Qualcomm, Nvidia Can Make ARM Gaming PCs Happen

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/Microsoft-Surface-Laptop-Ultra-Alan-Wake-II-1200×675.jpg”] If ARM-based PC gaming is to find its footing, it will require a cash-rich figure with the kind of clout to push publishers to support the platform. Nvidia could be the Daddy Warbucks that gaming on ARM needed all along. Nvidia touted its RTX Spark PCs as a gaming platform and not…

  • Pebble Will Replace Cracked Screens on Its Revived Smartwatch

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/pebble-time-2-design-reveal-0-image-e1784125914552-1200×675.jpeg”] After several Pebble Time 2 owners reported issues with broken screens, Core Devices—the new startup led by Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky—hasannounced this week it will offer free smartwatch replacements to affected customers. While Core Devices is working on multiple new wearables, including a round smartwatch and an AI-enabled ring, these hardware issues…

  • New Startup Is Building Mini Drones to Wage a War of Total Destruction on Mosquitos

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/Tornyol-1200×675.jpg”] Human beings have long been at war with mosquitos, and it’s not at all clear we’ve been winning. Malaria alone—just one of many deadly mosquito-borne illnesses—kills over 600,000 people every year, most of them very young children. Until now, all we’ve had were short-term solutions, like public inoculations, insecticides, traps, and (usually…

  • Samsung’s New Foldables Will Fix the Worst Thing About Their Screens

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2025/07/samsung-galaxy-z-fold-7-5-1200×675.jpg”] After seven years of foldable phone releases, Samsung may have finally fixed the last major hardware complaint about the mobile form factor. A week ahead of its Galaxy Unpacked event in London, Samsung has announced “Flex Titanium,” a more durable display structure that reduces the crease on foldable screens. Samsung has confirmed…

  • Smart Glasses Are Landing People With Criminal Charges Now

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2025/11/even-realities-even-g2-review-17-1200×675.jpg”] Smart glasses might seem like a great way of cheating on exams, and technically speaking, they are, but before you use a pair to unethically ace a test, you’re going to have to weigh some consequences—potentially criminal ones. According to the JoongAng Daily, an English-language newspaper in South Korea, a man is…

  • An Unholy Union of Smart Glasses and Wireless Earbuds Is Upon Us

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/smart-glasses-earbuds-1200×675.jpg”] It seems like everyone is trying to get you to buy a face computer these days. Meta has seemingly endless pairs; Google and Samsung are on the verge of getting in on the action; Apple might be interested. That’s not even counting the array of popular big brands like Rokid and Alibaba that…

  • Hisense 32-Inch Smart Roku TV Is Now Under $100 at an All-Time Low, Priced More Like a Streaming Stick

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/Hisense32InchTV-1200×675.jpg”] It’s great to be able to watch movies or shows on a huge OLED TV with 4K content and brilliant contrast, but not every room in your house needs that kind of picture. For a lot of us, it sure isn’t worth the money it takes to do that. If you just…