Watch Ava DuVernay in Conversation With the Directors of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Some of the best directors in the business, talking one of the best films of last year.
Opportunity Rover, New Gmail Features, and Death Speeds: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week
Space enthusiasts collectively mourned this week with the death of Opportunity, the Martian rover that chugged along making important scientific discoveries for far, far longer than it was expected to explore the Red Planet. In case you missed it, Gizmodo wrote about the incredible distance traveled by Opportunity…
This Video Explores Starship Troopers’ Messy Satirical Relationship With Fascism
Starship Troopers is a seductive satire. Let’s dig into why, and how.
Bill de Blasio Does Not Appear to Be Taking the Amazon HQ2 Breakup Well
Jeff Bezos yanked his would-be HQ2 campus this week in a show that Amazon simply couldn’t take the heat from New Yorkers who opposed the secretive deal and its potential implications for the city’s residents, and the Queens community in particular. After Amazon announced it was pulling out, many progressive…
Tokyo Is Testing a New System to Detect 'Guerilla' Rain and Tornadoes Up to 30 Minutes in Advance
Officials in Tokyo are testing a new technology that utilizes weather radar and terrestrial digital radio waves to “quickly and precisely predict torrential rain and tornadoes” up to 20 to 30 minutes in advance, the Mainichi reported on Sunday.
Report: More Than 300 Chemical Weapons Attacks in Syria, With Pro-Assad Forces Responsible for 98 Percent
Well over 300 chemical weapons attacks have occurred during the nearly eight years-long Syrian civil war, with President Bashar al-Assad’s government and its allies accounting for the vast majority of them, the Washington Post reported on Sunday, citing new research by the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPI).
LG Has No Immediate Plans to Release a Foldable Smartphone, Head of Mobile Says
If you were holding out for a folding phone from LG in the near future, you may be waiting a while. According to the company’s head of mobile communications and home entertainment divisions Brian Kwon, LG thinks it’s too soon for a such a release.
Every Fake Game In Kingdom Hearts 3, Reviewed
Inside the Toy Story world in Kingdom Hearts 3, players can find a video game store. This store is filled with games that presumably exist in the Toy Story universe. These games also need to be reviewed.
Presidents' Day Sales, Ranked
Even if you don’t particularly want to celebrate the president or the presidency, you can just treat this as a weekend (possibly even a three day weekend!) where a bunch of retailers colluded to offer a ton of great sales. Here are our favorites, ranked from best to very good. Hail to the deals.
The Star Wars Twitter Posted a Weird Tweet, and Fans Are Freaking Out
Ah, promotional Twitters, a regular source of both great joy and great consternation to fandom everywhere. Sometimes they bring trailers, exclusive clips, interviews, all the joys the excited fan demands. Sometimes, they bring a bounty like today’s: tweets that don’t make any sense.
Congratulations, Morphing Nerds: The Power Rangers are Going on Tour
When Hasbro got the Power Rangers license, as a lifelong fan, I started wondering what they’d do. A cartoon? Closer collaboration with the show’s Japanese counterparts? More movies? Perhaps the Power Rangers heyday of the 1990s would return.
Airlines Will Offer New Gender Options Beyond 'Male' and 'Female' for Non-Binary Flyers
Many U.S. airlines say they’re in the process of updating their booking systems in order to allow non-binary customers to use pronouns other than “male” or “female.”
C'mon, people, let's leave poor Jar Jar out of this
First, a word of reassurance to anybody who woke up this morning and saw that Star Wars’ least-favorite Gungan was trending on Twitter: Jar Jar Binks isn’t dead. (It’s not his birthday, either. Or hatch-day? We’re sure someone out there knows if Jar Jars do live birth, and if they could do us a favor and never, ever @…
Sunday's Best Deals: LEGO Star Wars Sets, Gloomhaven, Kindle eBooks, Furniture, and More
An LG Ultra-wide Monitor, a Star Wars Art Book, and a Woot T-Shirt Sale lead off Sunday’s best deals.
England and Wales to Require Thousands of Criminals to Wear GPS Tracking Bracelets
Thousands of convicted criminals and others accused of crimes in England and Wales will be required to wear GPS-coordinate-tracking bracelets, replacing an older generation of electronic tags not capable of monitoring someone’s movement in real time, the BBC reported on Saturday.
Wow, Evil Dead 2 Looks Incredible in 4K [Updated]
All the campy horror delight in the world isn’t quite as fun if it’s grainy and washed out. But now, hey, Evil Dead 2 has never looked better.
I Actually Have a Chance of Solving This Motion-Sensing Rubik's Cube Handheld That Gives You Hints
Did the Rubik’s Cube, one of the world’s most deceptively simple puzzle games, need to be turned into a handheld gaming device? I initially thought Super Impulse’s new Rubik’s Tilt game was a gadget the world didn’t need, but it turns out there’s one feature a cube-solving amateur like myself is happy to finally have:…
Got Prime? There's a Woot Shirt BOGO Sale Happening RN
Soon, my loves, summer will be here. And when the sun comes out, we’ll have awesome shirts to show off thanks to this buy-one-get-one-free sale from Woot. They have some fun designs there and you can get up to 5 free shirts, if you have the dough. This sale should be live until Tuesday.
How to Maintain (Relative) Privacy on Dating Apps
Whether you’re on Tinder, Hinge, or Tudder (it’s an app for farmers to meet cows, platonically!), safety is key. You never know who you’ll meet when you’re separated by a screen and a grainy photo.
After Latest Minecraft Update, Fans Are Creating In-Game TVs
Minecraft’s latest snapshot update, 19w07a, changed the way paintings work which has allowed some crafty players to create in-game TVs. The new update, which also added adorable foxes into the game, breaks paintings into multiple textures. Before this update, paintings in Minecraft were created using a single texture.…
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