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  • The Best Gadgets for Throwing a Kick-Ass Super Bowl LX Party

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/02/best-gadgets-throw-superbowl-lx-party-1200×675.jpeg”] As a Buffalo Bills fan who was barely alive in the early ’90s, I’m always watching the Super Bowl from the outside in. It sucks in one way, watching my team get so close year after year without ever making it to the proverbial dance. But in another way, I’ve learned how…

  • Universal Successfully Bullied Into Letting Olympian Use ‘Minions’ Music

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/02/Minions-1200×675.jpg”] Two things you never imagined existing in the same sentence came together this week in a truly heartwarming way. Those things are “Olympic figure skating” and “the Minions.” Tomás‑Llorenç Guarino Sabaté, a six-time Spanish national figure skating champion, is set to make his Olympic debut later this month at the games in…

  • Sam Altman Expects to Get What He Wants

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/01/shutterstock_2672751937-1200×675.jpg”] On Monday, two of AI’s biggest players had a little public tiff that started with a well-sourced report from Reuters that OpenAI is dissatisfied with Nvidia’s chips and ended in OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tweeting, “I don’t get where all this insanity is coming from,” after Nvidia’s top exec Jensen Huang publicly…

  • The Big ChromeOS and Android Merger May Be Google’s Last Walled Garden

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2025/07/lenovo-chromebook-plus-14-2025-review-09-1200×675.jpg”] Google’s big plan to merge its lingering laptop-based ChromeOS with Android could be one of its most monumental shifts for its multi-decade experiment with computing. The new OS, which has since been dubbed “Aluminum,” may arrive later rather than sooner, according to newly revealed court documents posted by The Verge. More than…

  • ‘Starfleet Academy’ Sneakily Brought Some More ‘Star Trek Online’ Ships to TV

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/02/star-trek-starfleet-academy-battle-of-faan-alpha-1200×675.jpg”] After Star Trek Online had spent a good few years presenting its own vision for Star Trek‘s future while the franchise was away from TV, Trek paid it forward over the course of Picard‘s second and third seasons as it brought several of the MMO’s original ship designs into TV canon for the first time.…

  • Check Out 10 Weird and Wonderful Finalists for the ‘Pulitzer of the New Instrument World’

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/02/guthman-music-competition-fiddle-henge-1-1200×675.jpg”] Music nerds and lovers of fascinating inventions, rejoice! The 10 finalists in Georgia Tech’s annual Guthman Musical Instrument Competition were announced recently, and they’re just as weird and wonderful as we’ve come to expect. The competition offers a $10,000 prize for “the newest and greatest ideas in music.” In 2017, the Guardian…

  • While the World Waits for ‘Doctor Who’ to Return, the BBC Is Selling Off Some Major Props

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/02/Tardis-1200×675.jpg”] Doctor Who and Disney ended their partnership in 2025, and the show’s new era will begin with a Christmas special to close out 2026. Right now, though, fans are in a weird place. Ncuti Gatwa’s tenure as the Fifteenth Doctor had some fun highs but also some dreadful lows—and it ended with…

  • CDC Refuses to Take Blame for Measles Spiraling out of Control

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2025/06/measles-rash-1200×675.jpg”] Measles is making an unwelcome comeback in the United States, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is looking to dodge any responsibility for it. In a recent editorial for the Wall Street Journal, Ralph Abraham, the principal deputy director of the CDC, took aim at people criticizing the government’s response…

  • It’s Monster on Monster on Monster in the New ‘Monarch’ Season 2 Trailer

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/02/monarch-1200×675.jpg”] When a very large and angry new Titan rises up from the rift—who you gonna call? The characters in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters have Godzilla and King Kong on speed dial, but it’s not clear if either will play nice enough to get the job done… or if it’s even possible for…

  • The Director of ‘Wall-E’ Has a New Movie That Looks Like a Mini ‘Cloud Atlas’

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2025/12/In-the-Blink-of-an-Eye-1200×675.jpg”] Andrew Stanton, the Oscar-winning director of Wall-E and Finding Nemo, is going to have a big year. This summer, he’s taking the reins of Pixar’s marquee franchise as the director of Toy Story 5. And, before that, he’s dropping his latest live-action movie, which spans all of human existence and beyond. You…