Technology As It Happens
You won’t believe the direction in this shot. Image: Lucasfilm International travel, severed heads, and farting. Those were three of the highlights of the 20th anniversary of Attack of the…
Image: Lego, Hasbro Pulse, Hasbro Pulse Welcome back to io9’s Toy Aisle, where this week we’re exclusively featuring toys revealed as part of Star Wars Celebration 2022 taking place in…
Image: Lucasfilm Today marks the release of Obi-Wan Kenobi’s first two episodes, and Disney wants you to be as immersed in as much Star Wars as possible. Beyond this weekend…
Ingenuity took off from the Martian surface for its 25th flight. Gif: NASA/JPL-Caltech Hold on to your hats as the Mars helicopter takes us on another ride over the Red…
SpaceX launched 53 additional Starlink satellites to orbit in April.Photo: John Raoux (AP) In anticipation of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites posing as a threat, military researchers in China want their nation…
Image: Respawn/EA/Lucasfilm Games It feels like so long ago, but it’s only been three years since Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order arrived to near critical acclaim and even bigger sales.…
Popular apps like WeChat have started supporting the Chinese digital currency. Photo: Ng Han Guan (AP) Three Republican Senators have proposed a bill to try and ban the use of…
Photo: Hagen Hopkins (Getty Images) Evidence from the tragic death of a 5-year-old boy in 2008 may finally settle the debate over a mysterious polio-like condition that’s been paralyzing children…
Samsung 200MP sensorImage: Samsung Samsung just teased the marquee feature for its upcoming flagship smartphones, and it’s downright adorable—the teaser, that is. Anyhow, to flex the capabilities of its upcoming…
A new documentary talks about creating all your favorite pieces of Star Wars.Image: Lucasfilm If you’re reading a site like io9 or Gizmodo, chances are Industrial Light and Magic has…
NASA’s SLS rocket outside the Vehicle Assembly Building on March 17, 2022. Photo: NASA/Kim Shiflett A fourth attempt to complete a full-fledged launch rehearsal of NASA’s Space Launch System has…
Photo: rafapress (Shutterstock) Events surrounding the purchase of Twitter are growing ever-more complicated, and it seems like by the end of this adventure, neither Tesla CEO Elon Musk nor the…
Astroscale will develop ELSA-M a new version of their previous debris removal spacecraft ELSA-d, illustrated here.Illustration: Astroscale The European Space Agency is joining forces with Astroscale, an orbital debris removal…
Photo: Andrew Liszewski – Gizmodo Some of the most interesting features promised for the Analogue Pocket didn’t make the cut when the console finally shipped late last year, but in…
The Supreme Court protected the Biden administration’s use of the social cost of carbon on Thursday.Photo: Al Drago (Getty Images) In the wake of some incredibly demoralizing news that’s come…
The Analogue Pocket is finally getting some of the important feature updates promised at launch. As The Verge notes, Analogue has promised a Pocket OS 1.1 beta in July that…
Image: Paris Alleyne/DC Comics Static Shock was one of the more comparatively underrated superhero shows of the early 2000s, and the character’s return to the popular culture has been slow…
Audio player loading… Google has announced a wide range of cybersecurity updates for Chrome OS, the operating system that powers Chromebook devices. The selection of updates covers everything from new…
Just as bears emerge from hibernation and birds migrate in the spring, REI introduces its big anniversary sale every year around Memorial Day. This year’s event lasts through May 30.…
Audio player loading… As inflation soars and the cost of living crisis bites, startups and enterprises alike are having to tighten their belts, cut back on costs and dig in.…
Audio player loading… Valve is rolling out SteamOS 3.2 to the Steam Deck, adding new controls for some settings and, most notably, quieting the gaming device’s loud fan. The full…
Photo: sebra (Shutterstock) A man in the UK appears to be the first person to have gotten a double-hand transplant for his particular condition, known as scleroderma. Five months after…
Logitech MX KeysImage: Logitech Apple’s ill-fated Butterfly keyboard was unreliable, but not everyone hated how the keys felt. In fact, some folks prefer those shallow keys, as they don’t require…
If you’ve been waiting to upgrade your home with the latest gear, this weekend might be the time to do so. From robot vacuums to Instant Pots, there are a…
Image: Lucasfilm For much of Obi-Wan Kenobi’s pre-release buildup, the focus was rightly on how time has changed Ewan McGregor’s titular Jedi, and the eventual round two he’d have with…
Bacterial secretions might dye your future wardrobe, and that’d be an improvement. That’s because textiles usually get their hues from toxic chemicals, and the resulting wastewater—laden with dyes, acids and…
Want to bring inflation to heel? There’s no single, simple fix, of course, or we would have done it already. But a good place to start would be weaning the…
Photo: Amelia Bartlett/Unsplash You may have never realized it, but you don’t necessarily have to settle for the keyboard defaults that you get on your laptop out of the box:…
The cannabis industry is doing very well in the United States: more than 75% of the population lives in a state where access is permitted, and the legal market is…
Audio player loading… Microsoft has announced that Windows Server 2022 now supports Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2), giving users access to more of the capabilities of Linux distros. The…
Ford has begun deliveries of the F-150 Lightning. The first customer to get their hands on the electric pickup is Nicholas Schmidt, who lives in the automaker’s home state of…
Audio player loading… Sony is gearing up to reveal a slew of new games for the PS5, as well as showing off games for the PSVR 2. If you need…
A satellite view of Hurricane Rita on September 22, 2005. Rita intensified over the Loop Current.Image: NOAA (Getty Images) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said this week that it’s…
Dungeons & Dragons & Netflix.Image: Netflix It’s time to go back to Hawkins, Indiana, the freakiest town in America, and reconnect with all our pals—as well as the Stranger Things…
Tesla won’t set up a manufacturing plant in India until it is first allowed to sell and service cars in the South Asian nation, the carmaker’s chief executive Elon Musk…
It’s been possible to automatically create song stems on your computer, but now you have that option in a sampler app on your phone. Elf Audio has updated its Koala…
Photo: Andrew Liszewski – Gizmodo After a brutal storm this past weekend completely uprooted trees in my neighborhood and knocked out the power for several days, I had a lot…
Audio player loading… It’s a year of big questions and changes for Netflix, but we might have a cool, cool summer if the streaming giant holds off on expanding its…
A video posted to NASASpaceflight’s YouTube channel showed the new prototype being rolled out to the testing area.Screenshot: Gizmodo It’s been nine months since we last saw a new Starship…
More users are returning to in-person shopping following the ease of pandemic restrictions.Image: Sebastian Kahnert (AP) PayPal has reportedly started laying off employees this week from its offices in Chicago,…
On the heels of BTS dance workouts arriving on Fitness+, Apple is once again teaming up with the all-conquering K-pop group. A three-episode Apple Music series will delve into the…
Image: Paramount The first Sonic the Hedgehog movie was a simple story of Ben Schwartz’s blue, CG rodent fighting Jim Carrey’s Doctor Eggman, but the sequel went all in on…
Young golfers can now turn their physical surroundings into a digital putting green, courtesy of the same tech behind Niantic’s Pokémon Go. The PGA Jr. League today unveiled Safari Par-Tee,…
School may be winding down, but that isn’t stopping Google from making Chromebooks more useful as note-taking tools. The company is rolling out a Chrome OS M102 release that makes…
Audio player loading… Nearly two years after the launch of the current console cycle, Sony has shared its plans to stop producing PS4 games by 2025. Detailing its financial expectations…
Xbox Series XPhoto: Sam Rutherford/Gizmodo Xbox confirmed that it’s still developing a low-cost streaming stick designed to bring Game Pass to the masses by cutting out the console. However, the…
Memorial Day is nearly here and, as usual, you can find a number of solid gadget deals across the web ahead of the holiday. A few Apple devices are on…
Gif: YouTube – MultiMediaTechnology In an ideal world, virtual reality brings with it the exciting potential to make unique and entertaining experiences easily accessible to the masses. But we don’t…
Audio player loading… Chinese telecoms giant Huawei wants in on the data center construction business, and claims it can build them significantly faster than the competition. According to The Register,…