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Kendrick Lamar Was Only Going to Do a Few Songs for Black Panther… Until He Saw the Movie

Black Panther is one of the most-anticipated superhero films to date, so it’s no surprise it also has an equally hyped soundtrack. This weekend will see the release of Black Panther: The Album, curated and produced by Kendrick Lamar. This was a collaboration dreamed up years in advance, but only became what it was after…

Movies Beth Elderkin Feb 6 '18

France Takes Texting-While-Driving Ban to New Extreme

France is taking new measures to keep drivers off of their phones while they are on the road. The country’s highest court has ruled that drivers cannot use their phones even after pulling over; they’ll need to park in a designated parking spot and shut off their engine. The only exception the court provided is…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz Feb 6 '18

Trump’s Plan to Gut Clean Energy Research Is Misguided and Dangerous

Foiled in his bid to slash the Department of Energy’s clean energy research programs in 2018, Trump is apparently going to try again: As reported by the Washington Post last week, a draft of the administration’s FY-2019 budget proposes cutting funding for the DOE’s Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) programs by 72 percent. Those…

Energy Maddie Stone Feb 6 '18

False Tsunami Warning Scares the Shit Out of People Across the Country

At approximately 8:30am today, the National Weather Service sent a test tsunami warning to an unknown number of people. It was not immediately obvious to some that the alert of an impending, destructive force of nature was a test—and at least one-third party app, AccuWeather, reportedly pushed it out as a genuine alert in multiple…

Tech News Avery Ellis Feb 6 '18

Space-Based Gravitational Wave Observatory Passes Huge Test

Gravitational waves may be the most exciting thing in astronomy right now, but there are only so many things in space that scientists can study with Earth-based gravitational wave detectors. An incredible new test has demonstrated that space-based detectors could become a reality, which could open our ears to entirely new sources of gravitational waves.…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum Feb 6 '18

Julian Assange Loses Bid to Have Warrant Dropped, Will Still Be Arrested If He Leaves Embassy in London

A British court has just ruled that the arrest warrant for Julian Assange, first issued when he skipped bail in June of 2012, is still valid. Assange will be arrested if he steps foot outside of the Ecuadorian embassy in London where he’s claimed asylum ever since. Assange’s lawyers will continue to argue other technical…

Tech News Matt Novak Feb 6 '18

A Game of Thrones Director Is Developing a Conan the Barbarian TV Series

We have confirmation on a few new Solo character names. The X-Files’ Chris Carter has begun to ponder if maybe he shouldn’t end the series after Gillian Anderson leaves. There have been some major changes in the world of Jurassic World since the events of the first film, especially for Bryce Dallas Howard’s character. “Conan,…

Television James Whitbrook Feb 6 '18

DARPA Exec Warns Biohackers to ‘Think Deeply’ About Injecting Untested Treatments

On stage at Body Hacking Con this weekend, DARPA director of biological technologies Justin Sanchez ran through an impressive list of the sort of government projects that might interest people attending a conference about the integration of humans and tech, including plans to prevent global pandemics by turning the body into bioreactor and to restore…

Biology Kristen V. Brown Feb 6 '18

New Whole Foods Ad Campaign Doesn’t Show Any Employees Crying Uncontrollably

This week, Whole Foods launched a new TV ad campaign that’s best described as “quirky.” It’s the grocery retailer’s first major advertising initiative since being acquired by Amazon, but we here at Gizmodo couldn’t help but notice that it’s missing one important detail from the new Whole-azon Foods experience: Crying employees. You may have heard…

Commerce Matt Novak Feb 6 '18

Report: UConn Dental Students, Staff Took Selfie With Severed Heads (Updated)

University of Connecticut dental school grad students and an orthodontics professor took a selfie “with two severed heads used for medical research at a training workshop at Yale University” in 2017, the Associated Press reported on Monday. According to the AP report, the students nabbed the selfies during the DePuy Synthes Future Leaders Workshop, “which…

Health Tom McKay Feb 6 '18

Ram’s Martin Luther King Jr. Ad Was Maybe Just Intolerable Brand Trolling After All

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream was explicitly not for everyone to drive around in expensive, gas-guzzling trucks, which should go without saying but everyone understandably felt the need to clarify to Ram and its parent company Chrysler after they aired a Super Bowl LII ad selectively quoting one of the civil rights…

Tech News Tom McKay Feb 5 '18

Police Departments Warn Facebook Users to Stop Allegedly Sharing a Child Abuse Video

Police departments across the country are warning Facebook users that a child abuse video captioned with a vague plea to identify the perpetrator is spreading across the site via direct messages and status updates—and that sharing this nightmare chain letter or even viewing its contents is, obviously, a crime that could result in serious penalties…

Social Media Tom McKay Feb 5 '18

This Is the Sickest Dinosaur Collectible Ever, Literally

It’s the sick Triceratops from Jurassic Park, of course! To celebrate this year’s 25th anniversary of the Steven Spielberg classic, Chronicle Collectibles is bringing one of the film’s most memorable scenes to life for the first time as a high-end collectible. The limited edition diorama measures 13 inches long, by 11 inches wide, by four…

Toys & Collectibles Germain Lussier Feb 5 '18

Surreal Horrors Invade the Backwoods in Loopy Scifi Short Crittus

The wilderness is a favorite staging ground for horror filmmakers—but Marcus Alqueres’ short Crittus adds some extra dimensions to that concept. Literally. Without spoiling anything, suffice to say this depicts maybe the worst worst-case scenario that could come from a solo camping trip. A few years ago, we shared Canadian-Brazilian filmmaker Alqueres’ apocalyptic short Lasiurus, which…

Movies Cheryl Eddy Feb 5 '18

Pacific Rim Uprising‘s Japanese Trailer Gives Us a Little More Mako Mori

The two Pacific Rim Uprising trailers we’ve had so far have promised more of everything we loved from the first film. More giant robots, more giant monsters, that sort of thing. But they’ve been a bit scant on something else we want more of: Rinko Kikuchi’s returning hero from the first film, Mako. This new…

Movies James Whitbrook Feb 5 '18

1 in 3 Pugs Can’t Even Walk Right

If ever there was an animal that most exemplified a Shakespearean tragedy, it’d be the pug. The same features that have made them Instagram stars and one of the most popular dog breeds—their mushy cubed heads, bulging big eyes, and never-ending folds—also underlie the multitude of health problems from which they suffer. A new study…

Biology Ed Cara Feb 5 '18

This Browser Tool Lets You Remix Spotify’s Recommendation Algorithm

A new browser tool lets Spotify Premium users fool around with the music streaming platform’s famous recommendation algorithm. Arielle Vaniderstine, an engineer at the company, posted a link to Glitch on Monday of a beta build of the tool. Called “Nelson,” the tool displays several sliders representing the “audio features” that inform the algorithm. From…

Tech News Sidney Fussell Feb 5 '18

T-Mobile Customers: If You Got a Confusing Text About Phone Hijacking Scams, You’re Not Alone

For the last few weeks, T-Mobile customers have been receiving text message alerts warning them about “an industry-wide phone number port out scam.” Motherboard confirmed with T-Mobile on Monday that the alert is authentic. A company spokesperson told Motherboard and Gizmodo that the company is alerting its entire “post-paid customer base,” but said not all…

Privacy & Security Jennings Brown Feb 5 '18

Westworld Is One of Six Parks, and Here’s a Peek at the Next One

These violent delights may never end. A newly discovered website for HBO’s Westworld confirms that Delos has five other parks under its belt, and we think we know which one we’re heading to next season. After the season two teaser trailer debuted during the Super Bowl on Sunday, a user on Reddit discovered a well-hidden…

Television Beth Elderkin Feb 5 '18

This Is What ‘Snowfall of the Century’ Looks Like in Moscow

Moscow got more than 18 inches of snow on Sunday and Monday, the typical total for a month. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin called it “the snowfall of the century,” according to Reuters. The heavy snowfall has already killed one, injured at least 22, and destroyed more than 2,000 trees—just from the snow weight. This snowstorm…

Earth Science Yessenia Funes Feb 5 '18

Kendrick Lamar Was Only Going to Do a Few Songs for Black Panther… Until He Saw the Movie

France Takes Texting-While-Driving Ban to New Extreme

Trump’s Plan to Gut Clean Energy Research Is Misguided and Dangerous

False Tsunami Warning Scares the Shit Out of People Across the Country

Space-Based Gravitational Wave Observatory Passes Huge Test

Julian Assange Loses Bid to Have Warrant Dropped, Will Still Be Arrested If He Leaves Embassy in London

A Game of Thrones Director Is Developing a Conan the Barbarian TV Series

DARPA Exec Warns Biohackers to ‘Think Deeply’ About Injecting Untested Treatments

New Whole Foods Ad Campaign Doesn’t Show Any Employees Crying Uncontrollably

Report: UConn Dental Students, Staff Took Selfie With Severed Heads (Updated)

Ram’s Martin Luther King Jr. Ad Was Maybe Just Intolerable Brand Trolling After All

Police Departments Warn Facebook Users to Stop Allegedly Sharing a Child Abuse Video

This Is the Sickest Dinosaur Collectible Ever, Literally

Surreal Horrors Invade the Backwoods in Loopy Scifi Short Crittus

Pacific Rim Uprising‘s Japanese Trailer Gives Us a Little More Mako Mori

1 in 3 Pugs Can’t Even Walk Right

This Browser Tool Lets You Remix Spotify’s Recommendation Algorithm

T-Mobile Customers: If You Got a Confusing Text About Phone Hijacking Scams, You’re Not Alone

Westworld Is One of Six Parks, and Here’s a Peek at the Next One

This Is What ‘Snowfall of the Century’ Looks Like in Moscow

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