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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/05/MV-Hondius-3-1200×675.jpg”] The hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius has become one of the most widely watched events so far this year, and for good reason. That said, the more we learn about this outbreak and the virus behind it, the less worried I’ve become. As of Friday morning, there have been eight suspected or…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/05/the-mandalorian-and-grogu-din-cockpit-1200×675.jpg”] This week, the promotional campaign for The Mandalorian and Grogu kicked into high gear as we began to stare down just weeks until the movie’s release. It mostly did so by releasing a new promo that proverbially pointed a blaster at the head of Pedro Pascal’s Din Djarin and said, “Come see this…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/05/duke-university-hack-1200×675.jpg”] School-related nightmares are something of a universal experience across cultures and generations. Who among us hasn’t experienced a stressful dream where we’re suddenly thrust back into high school or college, about to take a major exam we’ve not prepared for, or staring down the barrel of some other scholastic catastrophe? Students at…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/05/extreme-heat-in-arizona-1200×675.jpg”] Climate scientists and meteorologists are sounding the alarm as model projections show growing certainty of a “super” El Niño. Sea surface temperatures in the central equatorial Pacific could surge more than 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit (3 degrees Celsius) above average, challenging records held by the strongest El Niño events in history. Such an…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/05/karl-urban-billy-bucther-boys-season-4-1200×675.jpg”] Mortal Kombat II is finally in theaters, and that means getting to really see one of the things that has excited us most about the sequel in action: genre legend Karl Urban as the loveably washed-out nut puncher supreme, Johnny Cage. But we apparently have The Boys to thank for Urban landing the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/05/cat-laying-down-1200×675.jpg”] The H5N1 strain of avian influenza might not be in the news as much these days, but it’s still widely circulating among wild birds. And these birds can transmit the virus to other animals, including dairy cows and cats. Research out this week appears to confirm that cats can subsequently spread H5N1…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/05/Mortal-Kombat-2-Liu-Kang-1200×675.jpg”] In 2021, Warner Bros. brought the Mortal Kombat video game franchise back to the big screen. It was a weird time for movies, with the pandemic still fresh on everyone’s minds, and yet the film was still a big enough success for a sequel to be put into the works. That sequel,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/05/satellites-in-low-earth-orbit-from-artemis-1200×675.png”] We often hear about the number of objects that are whizzing around our planet, but it’s rare that we actually get to see the situation for ourselves. NASA released a decent visualization a couple of years ago, but the recent Artemis II mission provided an unexpected first-hand glimpse of just how crowded…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2025/09/Apple-AirPods-Pro-3-Review-5-1200×675.jpg”] Way back in 2024, when rumors of AirPods with cameras on them first surfaced, the whole thing sounded a little outlandish—cameras? For what? Who would even use a device like that? A lot has changed in that time, and what seemed like a long shot of a product is starting to feel…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2025/06/nintendo-switch-2-hands-on-37-e1749737981488-1200×675.jpg”] Nintendo tried to avoid raising prices on its nearly year-old Switch 2 for as long as it could, but in the end, even the mighty Mario maker couldn’t stave off the ongoing “RAMpocalypse” that’s caused the prices of just about all consumer electronics that require memory or flash storage to increase. In…