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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/08/phil-tippett-hed-1200×675.jpg”] Update(8/31/2026 @ 7AM ET): On Facebook, Tippett Studio clarified its status, saying it’s “evolved our physical footprint and production approach.” While its Berkely office is shut down and its materials sold off, its Toronto office still continues operations and the studio’s VFX and animation work. Notably, the Toronto office is “in active…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2292329062-1200×675.jpg”] Google has caved to Trump’s whims again. Less than two years after controversially relabeling the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” Trump has now attempted to formally rename Lake Ontario “Lake America” by executive order following a trade standoff with Canada. Google quickly followed suit with the changes Over the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/08/whiplash-rendering-1200×675.jpg”] With the increasing prevalence of autonomous vehicles on the streets of several global cities, It’s sometimes easy to forget how humans still factor into their operation. Test drivers operating AVs before they’re ready to go driverless are hugely important, and a concerning report shows a consistent trend of injuries to humans in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/08/quantum-computer-bitcoin-1200×675.jpg”] A StarkWare researcher has successfully sent the first Bitcoin transaction designed to resist attacks from a sufficiently powerful quantum computer. The experimental transaction landed on Bitcoin’s mainnet without requiring a soft fork or any change to the network’s consensus rules. While the achievement is significant, it is not a full fix for…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/08/Roborock-Qrevo-2-Pro-1200×675.jpg”] When folks ask the internet (well, mostly on Reddit) for robovac recommendations, you’ll see mentions of Eufy, Ecovacs, and Dreame here and there. But it’s Roborock that bubbles up the most. People seem to really like this company’s products. ​The newest midrange Roborock vac-bot is the $800 Qrevo 2 Pro, a vacuuming,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/08/google-glass-2014-1200×675.jpg”] Remember back in 2014 when early adopters of Google Glass, the widely ridiculed face computer, were constantly getting punched in the face? That seems to be the internet’s collective memory of what happened to “glassholes” as they were dubbed, but the number of people who were physically assaulted was actually quite small.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2021/12/c699e36b98141b87c856cae26a2a3134.jpg”] Despite tech and economics commentator Tyler Cowen professing his undying love for it in the Free Press last year, the AI-generated gooning prop known as “Tilly Norwood” seems destined to collect dust in a curio cabinet marked “Notable Garbage From the 2020s AI Boom.” Unless there’s a large, secret fandom waiting with…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/08/transformers-optimus-hed-1200×675.jpg”] This was a week full of surprising celebrity deaths, with Peter Cullen among those who passed. Though his most recent role was on Prime Video’s Invincible as Thaedus, he famously voiced Optimus Prime for Transformers. Cullen was a constant for the Hasbro franchise, going all the way back to the original 1984…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/08/Avengers-Endgame-Encore-cropped-1200×675.jpg”] Marvel gave the public a first trailer for the Avengers Endgame: Encore re-release, and it’s understandably broken some records. Per Deadline, the trailer amassed over 77 million collective views in its first 24 hours. That’s said to be over four times what any previous re-release trailer’s opened to—for comparison, Top Gun had…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/08/Coyote-vs-Acme-sign-1200×675.jpg”] Three years ago, today never felt possible. That was when Warner Bros. unceremoniously and rather mysteriously shelved its upcoming film, Coyote vs. Acme. Years passed with the film in limbo until Ketchup Entertainment picked it up and spent a year building the hype, and now it’s in theaters. The whole thing feels…