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Best VPN for 2025: Our Top 10 Favorite VPN Services

Its never too late to look for the best VPN in 2025. Securing your online presence is a challenge for many, given the amount of ISP surveillance and online censorship. In addition, people are bothered by geo-restrictions, as they prevent them from accessing more content. © Gizmodo.com The Internet, as much as its awesome and handy, can be a dangerous place. Your private data will inevitably end up in the wrong hands and your privacy will be exposed....

April 25, 2025 · 15 min · 3158 words · Kathryn Smith

Shark Attacks on Humans Aren’t Always What They Seem, Scientists Say

Sharks might not be as responsible for rare human bites as we assumed. Marine biologists from France led the research,publishedin Frontiers in Conservation Science. The findings should help inform shark bite prevention efforts, the researchers say. A blacktip shark (Carcharhinus limbatus). These sharks have only rarely been documented to bite people unprovoked.© Diego Grandi via Shutterstock He often heard about fishermen who systematically slaughtered sharks that had unwittingly become trapped in fish pens....

April 25, 2025 · 1 min · 169 words · Kelsey Logan

An Artist Claims to Have Created Paint in a ‘New’ Impossible Hue Conjured by Scientists

Now, a British artist claims to have literally bottled the color. Stuart Sempleclaims to havereproduced the new color and is selling it on his website. He has dubbed it YOLO. © 9gifts via Shutterstock Scientists discover new colour and Ive already liberated it, Semplerecently wroteon his Instagram. The most expensive paint on the planet is super affordable for artists. Scientists may not be interested in the artistic uses for their new colour discovery but I am....

April 24, 2025 · 2 min · 225 words · Sharon Calderon DDS

An Employee Surveillance Company Leaked Over 21 Million Screenshots Online

As part of its services, WorkComposer captures screenshots of an employees computer every 3 to 5 minutes. WorkComposer, too, should be out of a job. In addition to screenshot monitoring, WorkComposer offers services like time (including monitoring breaks) and web tracking. © Artem Golub / Gizmodo The statement is a bit ironic. Surveillances detrimental psychological and mental health impacts are well-documented. That doesnt magically change when its third-party companies monitoring employees....

April 24, 2025 · 1 min · 148 words · Duane Mooney

Andor‘s Tony Gilroy and Genevieve O’Reilly Break Down Mon Mothma’s Pivotal Dance

Gilroy also discussed how framing these pivotal years as three-episode mini-movies came about. How much of the backstory was provided and developed as you went along? Is it going to have lots of exposition when we come back? © io9/Gizmodo Where people have to say Oh since last I saw you…? I found her moment of letting loose in particular in episode three so cathartic. Can you take me behind where you were in having that moment unfold for her?...

April 24, 2025 · 1 min · 172 words · Tony Gonzalez

BeholdBallerina‘s Smoking Character Posters

Check them out below. Ballerinaisnt the only thing coming out ofJohn Wickin the near future. But first:Ballerina, which comes to theaters June 6. © Lionsgate Want more io9 news? News from the future, delivered to your present. © Lionsgate © Lionsgate © Lionsgate © Lionsgate © Lionsgate © Lionsgate © Lionsgate © Lionsgate © Lionsgate © Lionsgate © Lionsgate © Lionsgate

April 24, 2025 · 1 min · 61 words · Cody Gilmore

Brains Scans Reveal What Really Happens When Your Mind Goes Blank

If youve ever had your mind blank out while in the middle of something, youre far from alone. In research published this week, scientists are making the case that mind blanking is a genuine brain phenomenon. But interest in it has also been steadily gathering steam among researchers studying cognition and sleep in recent years. Mind blanking might be a universal experience, but some people are more prone to it, a new review suggests....

April 24, 2025 · 1 min · 167 words · Lisa Johnson

Bryce Dallas Howard Hopes to Bring Mace Windu Back from the Dead at Disney+

House of the Dragonadds three new cast members. Taskmaster cant get a break in a newThunderbolts*clip. And is the nextMission: Impossiblemovie really longer thanMagnolia? Mace Windu moments before falling out a window in Revenge of the Sith© Lucasfilm/Disney Morning Spoilers: you opened it, we came. Yourspoiling will be legendary,even in hell! Lovecrafts short story,Herbert West: Reanimator. © HBO We did it the way thatThe Lord of the Ringsdoes Elvish orGame of Thronesdoes Dothraki....

April 24, 2025 · 2 min · 273 words · Patrick Pena

Carrie Bradshaw Would Love These Swarovski Crystal-Studded Motorola Earbuds

I dont blame you if youve never heard of open-ear wireless earbuds. Theyre kind of a recent trend. Theyre basically the same style earbuds as theBose Ultra Open Earbuds.Unsurprisingly, the sound itself is engineered by Bose. Motorola’s special edition Swarovski Moto Buds Loop open-ear wireless earbuds© Raymond Wong / Gizmodo Needless to say, theres a lot more audio leakage compared to traditional wireless earbuds. The Swarovski special edition is no doubt aimed at fashion-conscious consumers....

April 24, 2025 · 1 min · 125 words · Mike Franco

GameStop Bungles Nintendo Switch 2 First Day Preorders

Well, that could have gone better. Preorders were supposed to go live at 11 a.m. ET onApril 24,however the retailers site and app shit the bed almost immediately when the time came. Nintendo Switch 2 running Donkey Kong Bananza© Nintendo Users, including several of our Gizmodo staff, received a Cloudflare error 502 for bad gateway. Clicking on it, I was taken to a page where I could buy the console....

April 24, 2025 · 3 min · 430 words · Michael Davis

Google Calls More Remote Staff Back to Office—or Else

We forget how good we had it. The news is hardly a shock. Some company leadersincluding MetasMark Zuckerbergand TwittersJack Dorseyhad once proclaimed that remote work was here to stay forever. Google tells more employees to work in-office or risk losing their jobs.Shutterstock Many people moved when they went remote, stimulating smaller economies. Employees in tech do not have much of a choice in the matter. CEOs have griped that remote workers are less productive, but the data to support that belief is mixed....

April 24, 2025 · 1 min · 187 words · Amy Grant

Hasbro’sStar WarsTeam on Tariffs and Turgle

The celebration, metaphorically and literally, couldnt have come at a better time. Check out our full interview below. Whats led the design team to start embracing that side ofStar Warsrecently? © Hasbro Andthentheres gaming in between, and we want to do those! io9: Dash was one of the big announcements right out of the gate here. Can you talk about the inspirations you drew on to create the sculpt for the figure?...

April 24, 2025 · 2 min · 339 words · Donna Clark

Marvel Comics’ Next IP War Is With the Predator

Who else but the Predator, whos gettinglive-actionandanimatedmovies this year? Spider-MansMarcelo Ferreira, the five-issue book sees a Predator King go up against Marvels heroes and villains. That title is not misdirection, he told IGN. Predator (1987)© 20th Century Studios Your favorite heroes and villains will falleven as others rise up against this extinction-level event. […] Earth is now a hunting preserve. The Vibranium stolen by the Yautja invs. Percy teased a jaw-dropping conclusion, so get ready to watch a notable hero die....

April 24, 2025 · 1 min · 119 words · Erica Allison