Trump White House Takes Down 'Tetris' For Xenophobes Game Over Copyright Threat
Gizmodoby AJ Dellinger·8 Sept 2026
Last week, the Trump White House launched an arcade on the White House website with, among other games, a racist version of Tetris meant to invoke the Trump slogan “Build The Wall.” On Tuesday...
'Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power' Is Getting a Physical Release
Gizmodoby Cheryl Eddy·8 Sept 2026
Obviously, yes, you can still stream seasons one and two of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power on Prime Video, and with season three arriving in November, starting your rewatch now isn’t a...
Your Toilet Flush Launches a Microbial Mist—and It Reaches Your Face
Gizmodoby Ed Cara·8 Sept 2026
A recent study might make you more wary about your toilet. Researchers from Flinders University in Australia examined the scientific literature on what happens after we flush a toilet.
Silicon Valley’s AI Agent Push Has Been Paying Off—for Cybercriminals
Gizmodoby Webb Wright·8 Sept 2026
AI companies have made a lot of noise about the technology supercharging healthcare, scientific discovery, education, productivity, and just about everything else worth caring about.
LG TVs Are Capable of Listening to More Than Your Screen, Report Claims
Gizmodoby Kyle Barr·8 Sept 2026
Smart TVs are built to siphon your data and sell it to advertisers or whomever else wants to know your viewing habits.
Tech CEOs Are This Fall’s Favorite Movie Villains
Gizmodoby AJ Dellinger·8 Sept 2026
We live in a time of complicated villains, bad guys with backstories that help us understand how they got to the dark point that we meet them at.
Sebastian Stan’s Marvel Spinoff Idea Probably Won’t Be Happening
Gizmodoby Germain Lussier·8 Sept 2026
Sebastian Stan’s run through the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been wild. From best friend to sworn enemy, super soldier to Congressman, few characters have been as prolific or flexible in the...
Dolly Parton's Sister Asks People to Stop Posting AI Slop of the Legendary Singer
Gizmodoby Matt Novak·8 Sept 2026
The internet was flooded with countless tributes to Dolly Parton after her death on Aug. 25 at the age of 80 years old.
'Donnie Darko' Will Spread Dread Anew With a 4K 25th Anniversary Rerelease
Gizmodoby Cheryl Eddy·8 Sept 2026
It’s perfect timing for Richard Kelly‘s Donnie Darko to come back around. Its original release, in October 2001, felt the blowback of bad timing thanks to its airplane-adjacent plot points so soon...
Chinese Satellite Breaks Apart in Rare Orbit That Could Hold Debris for Centuries
Gizmodoby Passant Rabie·8 Sept 2026
A reconnaissance satellite suffered an unidentified anomaly and broke apart into pieces. Now, those fragments are trapped in a high altitude above Earth, where they risk a head-on collision with...
Even the NYPD Thinks Smart Glasses Are Sketchy
Gizmodoby James Pero·8 Sept 2026
The same reasons that make smart glasses appealing to police are also a cause for concern to, well… other police.
'Star Wars' and 'Star Wars: Starfighter' Both Getting 70mm IMAX Releases
Gizmodoby Germain Lussier·8 Sept 2026
We’ll probably never see Christopher Nolan make a Star Wars movie, but his impact will soon be felt in a galaxy far, far away.
What We're Expecting at Apple's 'Surprise and Shine' iPhone Event
Gizmodoby Raymond Wong·8 Sept 2026
Take this moment in. It will likely be the last time the world exists without a foldable iPhone. A reported decade in the making, Apple is widely expected to debut its first foldable iPhone...
Trump’s Ten-Hour AI Social Media Bender Sparks Fresh Fears of Cognitive Decline
Gizmodoby Webb Wright·8 Sept 2026
Donald Trump, the eighty-year-old leader of the free world, had a very productive Labor Day Weekend. Over a roughly ten-hour period on Sunday, the U.S.
The First Teaser for M. Night Shyamalan's Nicholas Sparks Movie Is Predictably Heavy-Handed
Gizmodoby Cheryl Eddy·8 Sept 2026
Remain, the novel by Nicholas Sparks, hit shelves last year. That’s not normally something io9 would take notice of, but Remain was a first for the oft-adapted author known for penning The Notebook...
Back to School: All the Accessories You Need to Replace Your Laptop With a Foldable Phone
Gizmodoby Raymond Wong·8 Sept 2026
A solid laptop is a must-have for students going back to school. But what if you’re a bit of a rebel, a weirdo who just prefers to do things differently?
Google Mapped a Fruit Fly’s Brain. Now It’s Playing Doom and Super Mario 64
Gizmodoby Bruce Gil·8 Sept 2026
Researchers at Google and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus last week announced a major milestone in neuroscience. On Sept.
Guess What the Tech Industry's Solution to Construction Labor Shortages Delaying AI Data Centers Is
Gizmodoby Tom Hawking·8 Sept 2026
One of the more irksome characteristics of a certain type of tech executive is their tendency to profess to have “solved” a problem about which they know relatively little.
Second-Hand Smoke Is Still Killing 1.7 Million People Every Year
Gizmodoby Ed Cara·8 Sept 2026
Cigarette smoking has become more unpopular in the U.S. than ever, especially among teens. Research out this week, however, shows that it’s still indirectly killing plenty of people globally via...
‘Black Zombie’ Takes a Thoughtful Look at the Troubled History of a Horror Monster
Gizmodoby Cheryl Eddy·8 Sept 2026
Zombies are inescapably everywhere in pop culture. The Walking Dead is still shuffling along with its spin-offs.
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