Tag: gizmodo.com

  • Netflix Sure Is Having a Hard Time Letting Go of ‘Stranger Things’

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/Stranger_Things_poster-1200×675.jpg”] Remember Stranger Things, the hit Netflix series that ran for six seasons, launching multiple careers and exponentially more themed merchandise? Of course you do! The finale just arrived this past New Year’s Eve with tons of fanfare, as well as a whole post-release conspiracy theory that was fake and a making-of documentary…

  • ‘Human Vapor’ Is a Creature Feature That Doesn’t Completely Go Up in Smoke

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/Human-Vapor-Netflix-1200×675.jpg”] When a prolific scientist on the verge of revealing a cutting-edge ecological technology is levitated into the air by a mysterious, sentient vapor, then inflated and burst like a pulpy water balloon on live television, journalists, police officers, politicians, yakuza, and wannabe YouTubers descend into chaos. They scramble to explain what happened…

  • Home Depot’s 12-Foot Skeleton Is (Almost) Becoming Self-Aware

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/Home_Depot_skelly-1200×675.jpg”] While a 12-foot skeleton is an arresting sight even if it’s just standing still, not doing anything in particular, Home Depot knows that Halloween fanatics will always shell out any time Skelly evolves. The spooky icon gets a big tech upgrade this year, and while it’s not quite lurching into self-aware robot…

  • ‘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…

  • Fidelity: Actually, Homes Are Getting Cheaper (as Long as You Price Them in Bitcoin)

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/house-sold-1200×675.jpg”] Are you priced out of the housing market? No you’re not, you idiot. You just aren’t using the right kind of money. That’s the argument of an article from July 6 on the Fidelity Digital Assets site—in other words the crypto division of one of the world’s largest asset management companies. The…

  • The House Just Passed Another Permanent Daylight Saving Time Bill

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2025/11/crazy-clock-1200×675.jpg”] On Tuesday, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would lock in daylight saving time as permanent. The bill is called the Sunshine Protection Act, and it’s sponsored by two Republicans, Brett Guthrie and Gus Bilirakis. It seems to stem from something President Trump promised shortly after he was elected the…

  • Meta Sued For Allegedly Using Discriminatory AI In Layoff Decisions

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2261799526-1200×675.jpg”] Twenty-six anonymous Meta employees are suing the tech giant, claiming that it used inherently discriminatory AI-powered software systems in a massive round of layoffs. Meta conducted a substantial round of layoffs in May that impacted 8,000 employees, representing 10% of its entire workforce. The layoffs were done in an effort to help…

  • The OpenAI Mystery Device Will Reportedly Be Basically Just a Smart Speaker

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/OpenAI-AI-device-phone-1200×675.jpg”] According to an anonymously sourced report from Mark Gurman at Bloomberg, the much hyped and frequently mocked physical doohickey coming soon from OpenAI will be… a smart speaker that moves. In April, another major source of Apple rumors, Ming-Chi Kuo, analyst at TF International Securities described something in a different category when…

  • SpaceXAI’s Unpermitted Data Center Power Project Impacts Black Communities, Analysis Finds

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2276194137-1200×675.jpg”] SpaceXAI, the AI division of SpaceX, operates dozens of unpermitted gas turbines, and it’s disproportionately impacting the Black communities living near them, according to a Reuters report from Tuesday. Elon Musk owns an estimated 42% of SpaceX, which is now a publicly traded company. The gas turbines power Colossus 2, the data…

  • Google Images Is Trying to Be… Pinterest?

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2022/12/160ae6839c8d0c77f4850f5eb9203cb6.jpg”] Google Images’s latest update appears to be taking some inspiration from the digital pinboard platform Pinterest. The company is celebrating Google Images’s 25th anniversary this week by looking back at its history and announcing a major redesign that turns the search engine into more of a personalized visual feed. It all started…