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One of the Messiest Loose Ends from NFT Mania Has Finally Been Tied Up

No future accounting of the Bored Ape Yacht Club story would be complete without the ending of this bizarre legal saga.

Cryptocurrencies Mike Pearl Apr 9

The OpenAI Foundation’s New Alzheimer’s Effort Helps Demystify ‘AI Will Cure All Diseases’

Artificial Intelligence Mike Pearl Apr 9

The Nazis’ Most Notoriously Complex Cryptographic Machine Is Now Available Online

Gadgets Tom Hawking Apr 9

Steam Gaming Has Arrived on Apple Vision Pro, and It’s Unexpectedly Glorious

Gadgets Kyle Barr Apr 8

RFK Jr. Will Take on Joe Rogan for Podcaster Supremacy

Politics Matt Novak Apr 8

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Gizmodo’s Best Tech of 2025 Awards: Our Favorite Phones, Laptops, Gaming Gear, and More

We reviewed a ton of gadgets this year. Here's our list of winners for everything that blew us away.

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Artificial Intelligence

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The OpenAI Foundation’s New Alzheimer’s Effort Helps Demystify ‘AI Will Cure All Diseases’

You know what speeds up medical research? Money.

Artificial Intelligence Mike Pearl Apr 9

Mark Zuckerberg is seen at UFC 298 at Honda Center on February 17, 2024 in Anaheim, California.

Cast Adrift, Meta Employees Have No Idea Who the ‘Token Legend’ Is Anymore

Artificial Intelligence AJ Dellinger Apr 8

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Meta’s First AI Model From Its Superintelligence Lab Doesn’t Exactly Spark Joy

Artificial Intelligence AJ Dellinger Apr 8

Intel's cube installation at its New York offices

Intel Jumps On Board Elon Musk’s Terafab Chipmaking Project

Artificial Intelligence Mike Pearl Apr 8

Anthropic's Dario Amodei appearing before Congress

Anthropic’s New Model Is So Scarily Powerful It Won’t Be Released, Anthropic Says

Artificial Intelligence Mike Pearl Apr 7

Commerce

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Frozen Food Item From Aldi Recalled Over ‘Rodent Hair’ Worries

Check your freezers.

Commerce Matt Novak Mar 18

Live Nation Employees ‘Almost Feel Bad’ for Gouging Their Customers Who Are ‘So Stupid’

Commerce Justin Caffier Mar 13

Elderly Woman Bombarded With Over a Hundred Amazon Packages She Didn’t Order

Commerce AJ Dellinger Mar 2

New Research Suggests You Actually Want QR Code Menus Replaced by… Augmented Reality?

Commerce Justin Caffier Feb 20

Amazon’s Physical Store Experiment Has Failed

Commerce Bruce Gil Jan 27

Crime

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Still image of Jack Karlson being forced into a police car while shouting.

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

The archive, which also includes The Babadook and a whole trove of materials related to Mad Max, is now much more complete.

Crime Mike Pearl Mar 30

Following UFO Expert Disappearance, New Mexico Residents Asked to Hand Over Home Security Footage

Crime AJ Dellinger Mar 11

South Korean Police Lose Seized Crypto By Posting Password Online

Crime Kyle Torpey Mar 1

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Minnesota Lawmakers and Police Seek Complete Ban on Crypto ATMs

Crime Kyle Torpey Feb 28

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Does ‘Sorry’ Count When AI Writes It for You?

Artificial Intelligence Matt Novak Feb 17

Cryptocurrencies

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One of the Messiest Loose Ends from NFT Mania Has Finally Been Tied Up

No future accounting of the Bored Ape Yacht Club story would be complete without the ending of this bizarre legal saga.

Cryptocurrencies Mike Pearl Apr 9

Trump’s Botched Iran ‘Ceasefire’ Puts Polymarket Bettors in a Bind

Cryptocurrencies Matt Novak Apr 8

A photo of ships at the Straight of Hormuz on March 30, 2026.

Iran Demands Bitcoin and Crypto for Strait of Hormuz Toll Payments

Cryptocurrencies Kyle Torpey Apr 8

The Satoshi Nakamoto bust statue in Budapest

The New York Times Claims It Finally Unmasked Satoshi Nakamoto (This Time for Real)

Cryptocurrencies Bruce Gil Apr 8

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Crypto Project Details Alleged 6-Month North Korean Intel Op Behind $285 Million Hack

Cryptocurrencies Kyle Torpey Apr 7

Culture

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Turns Out Home Taping Wasn’t Killing Music After All

Archivists are uploading thousands of cassette recordings of legendary live shows for your listening pleasure

Culture Tom Hawking Apr 8

Mysterious VHS Tapes May Herald the Release of a New Boards of Canada Project

Culture Tom Hawking Apr 7

Researchers Discover How to Add Psilocybin, DMT, and Other Psychedelics to Tobacco

Culture Tom Hawking Apr 3

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China’s Biggest Social Media Celebrity Is… Kris Jenner?

Culture Justin Caffier Mar 31

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

Crime Mike Pearl Mar 30

Gadgets

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The Nazis’ Most Notoriously Complex Cryptographic Machine Is Now Available Online

Explore the byzantine inner workings of... the Hitler Mill.

Gadgets Tom Hawking Apr 9

Steam Gaming Has Arrived on Apple Vision Pro, and It’s Unexpectedly Glorious

Gadgets Kyle Barr Apr 8

You Can Add ‘Lamp That Folds Your Laundry’ to the List of Doomed Startups

Gadgets James Pero Apr 8

OnePlus Should Abandon Phones and Go All In on Gaming

Gadgets Kyle Barr Apr 8

The Biggest Apple Copycat Is Now Copying Ray-Ban Meta AI Glasses

Gadgets James Pero Apr 8

Internet

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Good News! You Can Finally Change That Ridiculous Gmail Address

Google will let all U.S. users change usernames as of today. Here's how.

Internet Ece Yildirim Mar 31

China’s Biggest Social Media Celebrity Is… Kris Jenner?

Culture Justin Caffier Mar 31

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

Crime Mike Pearl Mar 30

Amazon Says Its Cloud Facilities Were Disrupted Again Due to War in Iran

Internet Ece Yildirim Mar 24

New Website ‘Channel Surfer’ Reinvents the Cable TV Couch Vegetation Experience for 2026

Internet Tom Hawking Mar 14

Politics

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RFK Jr. Will Take on Joe Rogan for Podcaster Supremacy

"This isn't going to be about politics," Kennedy insisted about his new podcast.

Politics Matt Novak Apr 8

President Trump Delivers Remarks At The Fii Priority Summit In Miami Beach

Trump Is Reportedly Going Full Steam Ahead with the Golden Dome

Politics Ece Yildirim Apr 5

Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents arrive to work at William P. Hobby Airport in Houston, Texas on March 10, 2026.

Trump Wants to Start Privatizing TSA in Latest Budget Proposal

Politics Matt Novak Apr 4

Mamdani Lifts NYC TikTok Ban for City Employees, but with Some Unusual Restrictions

Politics Mike Pearl Apr 1

People sit in a cafe outside the Apple Store in Dubai on May 8, 2025.

Iran Threatens to Attack U.S. Tech Companies Starting April 1

Politics Matt Novak Mar 31

Privacy & Security

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ICE Reportedly Acknowledges Its Use of Notorious Graphite Spyware

The Trump Administration claims its use of advanced spyware is "in response to the unprecedented lethality of fentanyl."

Privacy & Security Mike Pearl Apr 8

A man carries belongings in the aftermath of a US-Israeli strike on a residential building that also destroyed the adjacent Rafi-Nia Synagogue on April 7, 2026, in Tehran, Iran.

Pro-Iran Hackers Target Critical U.S. Energy and Water Infrastructure

Privacy & Security Matt Novak Apr 7

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei looks on during a meeting with France's President Emmanuel Macron on the sidelines of the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on February 19, 2026.

Anthropic Launches ‘Project Glasswing’ to Stealthily Spot Cybersecurity Issues for Rivals

Privacy & Security AJ Dellinger Apr 7

President Trump Holds News Conference With Military Officials On Mission To Rescue Downed Airman In Iran

Trump’s War on American Cybersecurity Ramps Up With Planned $700 Million Cuts to CISA

Privacy & Security Ece Yildirim Apr 7

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Russia Allegedly Swung at VPNs but Accidentally Hit Its Own Banking Sector Instead

Privacy & Security Mike Pearl Apr 5

Robots

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First Lady Melania Trump being escorted to a White House event by a Figure F.03 humanoid robot.

Was This Really the First Humanoid Robot at the White House? An Investigation

Suddenly Al Gore doesn't count as "humanoid"?

Robots Mike Pearl Mar 25

Self-Directed Delivery Robot Directs Itself Straight Through a Bus Shelter

Robots Tom Hawking Mar 25

That McDonald’s Robot Video Isn’t What It Looks Like

Robots Matt Novak Mar 24

Robot Losing Its Mind in a California Restaurant Is Just as Fed Up as Everyone Else

Robots Tom Hawking Mar 18

Co-Founder of Uber Pivots Real Estate Company to Robots, Posts Manifesto

Robots Mike Pearl Mar 15

Social Media

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Mamdani Lifts NYC TikTok Ban for City Employees, but with Some Unusual Restrictions

If you work for the city, you can't just whip out your work phone and use TikTok.

Politics Mike Pearl Apr 1

Elon Musk speaks during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on January 22, 2026.

Judge Denies Liking LinkedIn Post Critical of Elon Musk But Reassigns His Cases Anyway

Social Media Matt Novak Mar 30

Bluesky Has a New App, and It’s All About AI

Artificial Intelligence Mike Pearl Mar 29

An AI generated banana with the text "Aright f all you 3. No more fruit love island • Since people so obsessed with it all my videos banned I make no money. I guess I am being targeted, be no other ai account getting Yall heard it from bananito himself.. bye"

Whatever Just Happened with ‘Fruit Love Island,’ Nobody Won

Artificial Intelligence Mike Pearl Mar 29

Fourth Most Populous Country in the World Bans Most Social Media for Kids

Social Media Mike Pearl Mar 28

Do you love expertly choreographed drone videos? Then you’re in luck, because we’ve got the coolest video you’ll see all week—an expertly piloted and impressively directed video that was shot at the Bryant-Lake Bowl in Minneapolis. The video, titled “Right Up Our Alley,” was created by Sky Candy Studios and directed by Anthony Jaska. The…

Sploid Matt Novak Mar 10

Watch This Jetpack Pilot Zip Around Like a Real-Life Iron Man

Sploid Alyse Stanley Feb 17

You’re Not Doing the Fourth of July Right If You’re Not Blowing Up the World’s Largest Fireworks Tank

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Jul 4

A Tiny Drone Carrying a Deconstructed GoPro Captured This Incredible Dinosaur Museum Fly-Through

Sploid Andrew Liszewski Jun 4

I Wasn’t Prepared for the Crushing Melancholy of Watching This Bull Pop His Toy Ball

Sploid Rhett Jones Mar 1

Tech Policy

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Wisconsin Remains a Gooning Sanctuary State After Governor Rejects Age Verification Bill

Digital ID requirements stop at the border.

Tech Policy AJ Dellinger Apr 6

Trump Is Reportedly Going Full Steam Ahead with the Golden Dome

Politics Ece Yildirim Apr 5

Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI

Artificial Intelligence AJ Dellinger Apr 1

Photo of Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump flanked by security.

Trump Bros Back a Drone Company as the Pentagon Prepares to Spend Billions

Tech Policy Bruce Gil Mar 9

Uk Microchip Company Newport Wafer Fab Sold To China

A Bizarre International War Inside One Chip Company Threatens the Global Automotive Industry

Politics Mike Pearl Mar 7

Transportation

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Uber Is Testing Driverless Volkswagen ID. Buzz Vans in Los Angeles

The ride-hailing company plans to start offering public rides by late 2026.

Transportation Bruce Gil Apr 8

A Delta Air Lines Airbus A220 airplane prepares to takeoff at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, on July 10, 2025.

Delta Becomes Third Airline to Hike Bag Fees as the Iran War Makes Jet Fuel More Expensive

Transportation Matt Novak Apr 7

Waymo Has Stopped Testing Its Robotaxis in New York City and No One Knows What Happens Next

Transportation Bruce Gil Apr 6

Trump Wants to Start Privatizing TSA in Latest Budget Proposal

Politics Matt Novak Apr 4

US Airlines Are Hiking Bag Fees Amid Iran War Oil Crisis

Transportation Bruce Gil Apr 3

Tech News

One of the Messiest Loose Ends from NFT Mania Has Finally Been Tied Up

The OpenAI Foundation’s New Alzheimer’s Effort Helps Demystify ‘AI Will Cure All Diseases’

The Nazis’ Most Notoriously Complex Cryptographic Machine Is Now Available Online

Steam Gaming Has Arrived on Apple Vision Pro, and It’s Unexpectedly Glorious

RFK Jr. Will Take on Joe Rogan for Podcaster Supremacy

Gizmodo’s Best Tech of 2025 Awards: Our Favorite Phones, Laptops, Gaming Gear, and More

One of the Messiest Loose Ends from NFT Mania Has Finally Been Tied Up

The OpenAI Foundation’s New Alzheimer’s Effort Helps Demystify ‘AI Will Cure All Diseases’

The Nazis’ Most Notoriously Complex Cryptographic Machine Is Now Available Online

Steam Gaming Has Arrived on Apple Vision Pro, and It’s Unexpectedly Glorious

RFK Jr. Will Take on Joe Rogan for Podcaster Supremacy

Uber Is Testing Driverless Volkswagen ID. Buzz Vans in Los Angeles

Cast Adrift, Meta Employees Have No Idea Who the ‘Token Legend’ Is Anymore

You Can Add ‘Lamp That Folds Your Laundry’ to the List of Doomed Startups

Trump’s Botched Iran ‘Ceasefire’ Puts Polymarket Bettors in a Bind

OnePlus Should Abandon Phones and Go All In on Gaming

Meta’s First AI Model From Its Superintelligence Lab Doesn’t Exactly Spark Joy

Iran Demands Bitcoin and Crypto for Strait of Hormuz Toll Payments

Turns Out Home Taping Wasn’t Killing Music After All

The New York Times Claims It Finally Unmasked Satoshi Nakamoto (This Time for Real)

The Biggest Apple Copycat Is Now Copying Ray-Ban Meta AI Glasses

8GB of RAM Hasn’t Hurt MacBook Neo Sales at All

ICE Reportedly Acknowledges Its Use of Notorious Graphite Spyware

Intel Jumps On Board Elon Musk’s Terafab Chipmaking Project

Anthropic’s New Model Is So Scarily Powerful It Won’t Be Released, Anthropic Says

Musk Asks Court to Give Potential Winnings in OpenAI Suit to OpenAI’s Nonprofit

The OpenAI Foundation’s New Alzheimer’s Effort Helps Demystify ‘AI Will Cure All Diseases’

Cast Adrift, Meta Employees Have No Idea Who the ‘Token Legend’ Is Anymore

Meta’s First AI Model From Its Superintelligence Lab Doesn’t Exactly Spark Joy

Intel Jumps On Board Elon Musk’s Terafab Chipmaking Project

Anthropic’s New Model Is So Scarily Powerful It Won’t Be Released, Anthropic Says

Frozen Food Item From Aldi Recalled Over ‘Rodent Hair’ Worries

Live Nation Employees ‘Almost Feel Bad’ for Gouging Their Customers Who Are ‘So Stupid’

Elderly Woman Bombarded With Over a Hundred Amazon Packages She Didn’t Order

New Research Suggests You Actually Want QR Code Menus Replaced by… Augmented Reality?

Amazon’s Physical Store Experiment Has Failed

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

Following UFO Expert Disappearance, New Mexico Residents Asked to Hand Over Home Security Footage

South Korean Police Lose Seized Crypto By Posting Password Online

Minnesota Lawmakers and Police Seek Complete Ban on Crypto ATMs

Does ‘Sorry’ Count When AI Writes It for You?

One of the Messiest Loose Ends from NFT Mania Has Finally Been Tied Up

Trump’s Botched Iran ‘Ceasefire’ Puts Polymarket Bettors in a Bind

Iran Demands Bitcoin and Crypto for Strait of Hormuz Toll Payments

The New York Times Claims It Finally Unmasked Satoshi Nakamoto (This Time for Real)

Crypto Project Details Alleged 6-Month North Korean Intel Op Behind $285 Million Hack

Turns Out Home Taping Wasn’t Killing Music After All

Mysterious VHS Tapes May Herald the Release of a New Boards of Canada Project

Researchers Discover How to Add Psilocybin, DMT, and Other Psychedelics to Tobacco

China’s Biggest Social Media Celebrity Is… Kris Jenner?

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

The Nazis’ Most Notoriously Complex Cryptographic Machine Is Now Available Online

Steam Gaming Has Arrived on Apple Vision Pro, and It’s Unexpectedly Glorious

You Can Add ‘Lamp That Folds Your Laundry’ to the List of Doomed Startups

OnePlus Should Abandon Phones and Go All In on Gaming

The Biggest Apple Copycat Is Now Copying Ray-Ban Meta AI Glasses

Good News! You Can Finally Change That Ridiculous Gmail Address

China’s Biggest Social Media Celebrity Is… Kris Jenner?

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

Amazon Says Its Cloud Facilities Were Disrupted Again Due to War in Iran

New Website ‘Channel Surfer’ Reinvents the Cable TV Couch Vegetation Experience for 2026

RFK Jr. Will Take on Joe Rogan for Podcaster Supremacy

Trump Is Reportedly Going Full Steam Ahead with the Golden Dome

Trump Wants to Start Privatizing TSA in Latest Budget Proposal

Mamdani Lifts NYC TikTok Ban for City Employees, but with Some Unusual Restrictions

Iran Threatens to Attack U.S. Tech Companies Starting April 1

ICE Reportedly Acknowledges Its Use of Notorious Graphite Spyware

Pro-Iran Hackers Target Critical U.S. Energy and Water Infrastructure

Anthropic Launches ‘Project Glasswing’ to Stealthily Spot Cybersecurity Issues for Rivals

Trump’s War on American Cybersecurity Ramps Up With Planned $700 Million Cuts to CISA

Russia Allegedly Swung at VPNs but Accidentally Hit Its Own Banking Sector Instead

Was This Really the First Humanoid Robot at the White House? An Investigation

Self-Directed Delivery Robot Directs Itself Straight Through a Bus Shelter

That McDonald’s Robot Video Isn’t What It Looks Like

Robot Losing Its Mind in a California Restaurant Is Just as Fed Up as Everyone Else

Co-Founder of Uber Pivots Real Estate Company to Robots, Posts Manifesto

Mamdani Lifts NYC TikTok Ban for City Employees, but with Some Unusual Restrictions

Judge Denies Liking LinkedIn Post Critical of Elon Musk But Reassigns His Cases Anyway

Bluesky Has a New App, and It’s All About AI