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Close-Up View of Comet NEOWISE Shows It Survived Close Encounter With Sun

Comets don’t always survive their sojourns into the inner solar system, but a new close-up image suggests the NEOWISE comet—the brightest in decades—has kept it together. Some 6,800 years from now, our descendants, should they still be around, can expect a return visit from comet NEOWISE. This 3-mile-wide comet (5-kilometer) appears to have survived its…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

Why Is Disney+ Running Commercials From 1977?

With the Covid-19 pandemic shutting completely down film and TV production, streaming services are getting creative when it comes to sourcing new content. If you’re a Disney+ subscriber and search for The Mouseketeers at Walt Disney World, you’ll be treated to a thinly-veiled hour-long ad for the theme park that appears to have been captured…

Internet Andrew Liszewski

Could The Thing Be Blumhouse’s Next Big Horror Reboot?

Yeon Sang-ho is already thinking about another Train to Busan sequel. Candace Patton teases Iris’ journey out of the mirrorverse in The Flash’s next season. Netflix has bad news for I Am Not Okay With This and The Society. Plus, what’s to come on Lovecraft Country, and hear Wonder Woman 1984’s Themyscira theme. Spoilers go!…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

Zoom Is Down at the Worst Possible Time [Update: It’s Back]

The same day that many schools are back in session, Zoom, the teleconferencing software that’s become the go-to for many educators’ remote-teaching needs for the foreseeable future, seems to have crashed for large swaths of the US. While Zoom’s own Twitter account hasn’t mentioned the widespread outages thus far, Zoomers across the country have posted…

Tech News Shoshana Wodinsky

How to Identify Any Song or Movie Using Your Phone

Your smartphone is a pocket portal to information on just about every song and movie in history, thanks to the internet—and it’s better than you might have realized at matching what’s in the real world to the wealth of data on the web. Of course, there aren’t going to be too many occasions when you…

Gadgets David Nield

Are We Already Living in a Tech Dystopia?

For the most part, fictional characters rarely recognize when they’re trapped in a dystopia. Watching their neighbors get carted off for harboring subversive thoughts, they almost never say, “I wish we weren’t living in this dystopia.” To them, that dystopia is just life. Which suggests that—were we, at this moment, living in a dystopia ourselves—we…

Tech News Daniel Kolitz

Trump Exploring Ways to Release Coronavirus Vaccine Before Proper Trials: Report

President Donald Trump is exploring ways to release an experimental coronavirus vaccine before the 2020 presidential election in November, even if the vaccine doesn’t meet normal U.S. safety standards established by the FDA, according to a new report from the Financial Times. And while the news is not exactly a surprise, it’s still somewhat shocking…

Health Matt Novak

Lovecraft Country Would Like to Point Out that You Can’t Eat at Just Anybody’s House

Lovecraft Countryunderstands that the best horror always allows for its heroes to make at least a few poor decisions in service of the plot. As much fantasy as George, Leti, and Atticus consume, you would think that they’d know better than to be lulled into a false sense of security within an obviously magical person’s…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

Sea Monsters, Voice-Controlled Faucets, And an Ode to Flypaper: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Because I am, at my core, a basic bitch, I have a sign in my office that says “Today is a good day for a good day” (in garish sparkly gold and white letters naturally). It’s a sentiment that’s been harder to believe in these days, what with the universe apparently going through its rolodex…

Tech News Alyse Stanley

FDA Grants Emergency Authorization for Covid-19 Plasma Treatments Because Science Schmience

The Food and Drug and Administration has issued an emergency use authorization for convalescent blood plasma as an experimental treatment for covid-19 patients. And President Donald Trump, per his usual M.O., found a way to put himself at the center of the announcement—no doubt in a bid to drum up some good press on the…

Tech News Alyse Stanley

Louisiana Braces for Unprecedented Back-to-Back Hurricane Strikes

Two hurricanes are forecasted to slam the Gulf Coast this week, and Lousiana could see back-to-back landfalls in an unprecedented succession. Marco strengthened from a tropical storm to a Category 1 hurricane over the weekend, and the latest National Hurricane Center forecast has it hitting the southeastern coast of Lousiana on Monday. Tropical Storm Laura…

Earther Alyse Stanley

The ThunderCats Are Loose in This Impressive CGI Recreation of the Show’s Classic Theme

Generally speaking, I’m a skeptic of the “recreated in CGI” genre of fan work. But this one really is something special. As shared by the Hollywood Reporter, creator Mike Booth on YouTube has recreated the intro animation for the original ThunderCats, and the results are distinctly impressive. Despite being, according to the video description, a…

io9 Julie Muncy

Matt Reeves Says The Batman Will Find the Caped Crusader at a Pivotal Moment in His Heroic Evolution

This isn’t an origin story. If anything, it’s Batman: Year Two. (No, not the one where he almost shoots Joe Chill.) Talking yesterday at DC Fandome, Matt Reeves, the director of The Batman starring the very gothcore Batman stylings of Robert Pattinson, shed some intriguing light on what kind of Batman, precisely, we’ll be getting,…

Movies Julie Muncy

The X-Files Theme Has Lyrics Now, and You Can Hear the Cast and Crew Sing Them

Did it need lyrics? No. Am I going to pass up the opportunity to see Gillian Anderson do literally anything? Also no. The X-Files theme is iconic. Wavering, uneasy, and oddly mystical, it strikes the perfect balance between soothing and terrifying. It’s one of the elements of the show that’s deeply permeated pop culture, to…

io9 Julie Muncy

The First Trailer for The Flash‘s 7th Season Is a Roller Coaster

The Flash’s sixth season ended a little early. So the seventh is going to have a lot to untangle. Today at DC’s Fandome streaming event, the CW unveiled the first trailer for the upcoming seventh season of The Flash, which features Barry and friends trying to untangle the complexity of alternate dimensions, impostors, and time-warping…

Trailers Julie Muncy

A Meta-Theory of Physics Could Explain Life, the Universe, Computation, and More

You may think of physics as a way to explain the behaviors of things like black holes, colliding particles, falling apples, and quantum computers. But a small group physicists today is working on a theory that doesn’t just study individual phenomena; it’s an entirely new way to describe the universe itself. This theory might solve…

Physics & Chemistry Logan Chipkin

The Batman Has Landed With a Brutal, Excellent First Trailer

It’s raining Batman these days but Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Jeffrey Wright, Colin Farrell, star in Matt Reeves’ The Batman.

Trailers Jill Pantozzi

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League‘s First Trailer Gives You a Dangerous Mission

I mean, it’s right there. It’s right there in the title. Rocksteady hasn’t ventured into the world of DC Comics-based games since the excellent Batman: Arkham Knight, released near the start of this current generation of gaming consoles in 2015. But after years of anticipation, we’ve finally have a look at what the studio has…

Trailers James Whitbrook

Shazam 2 Reveals Its Full Title and a Surprising Cast Member

Shazam proved a pleasant surprise when it was released last year—it was earnest, it was hopeful, it made a ton of money, and above all it was delightfully entertaining. Like most comic book movies, it also ended with a tease for a sequel that we haven’t heard too much about since—until now. At DC Fandome,…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

Titans‘ Third Season Will Be Bringing Some Gotham City Flair With Familiar New Heroes and Villains

After closing out a rather meandering second season with a finale that left much to be desired, Titans is back and making another go at it on HBO Max—with hopes of finally finding its footing and place among the slate of DC’s other more-than-solid shows like Harley Quinn and Doom Patrol. At this year’s DC…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Close-Up View of Comet NEOWISE Shows It Survived Close Encounter With Sun

Why Is Disney+ Running Commercials From 1977?

Could The Thing Be Blumhouse’s Next Big Horror Reboot?

Zoom Is Down at the Worst Possible Time [Update: It’s Back]

How to Identify Any Song or Movie Using Your Phone

Are We Already Living in a Tech Dystopia?

Trump Exploring Ways to Release Coronavirus Vaccine Before Proper Trials: Report

Lovecraft Country Would Like to Point Out that You Can’t Eat at Just Anybody’s House

Sea Monsters, Voice-Controlled Faucets, And an Ode to Flypaper: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

FDA Grants Emergency Authorization for Covid-19 Plasma Treatments Because Science Schmience

Louisiana Braces for Unprecedented Back-to-Back Hurricane Strikes

The ThunderCats Are Loose in This Impressive CGI Recreation of the Show’s Classic Theme

Matt Reeves Says The Batman Will Find the Caped Crusader at a Pivotal Moment in His Heroic Evolution

The X-Files Theme Has Lyrics Now, and You Can Hear the Cast and Crew Sing Them

The First Trailer for The Flash‘s 7th Season Is a Roller Coaster

A Meta-Theory of Physics Could Explain Life, the Universe, Computation, and More

The Batman Has Landed With a Brutal, Excellent First Trailer

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League‘s First Trailer Gives You a Dangerous Mission

Shazam 2 Reveals Its Full Title and a Surprising Cast Member

Titans‘ Third Season Will Be Bringing Some Gotham City Flair With Familiar New Heroes and Villains

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