A Partial Solar Eclipse Will Create ‘Devil Horns’ on Saturday. Here’s How to Watch

Thats because the Sun, Moon, and Earth are not perfectly lined up. When is the partial solar eclipse? The partial solar eclipse will begin at 4:50 a.m. A partial solar eclipse as seen behind the Delaware Breakwater Lighthouse on June 10, 2021.NASA/Aubrey Gemignani ET on Saturday, and will peak at 6:47 a.m. ET, according totimeanddate.com. However, it will begin at different times in different locations. Eclipse map. © NASA As noted, the eclipse will be partial for everyone in the Moons shadow....

March 28, 2025 · 1 min · 193 words · Melissa Cook

Android Auto Now Has Gaming Features in Effort to Ape Tesla

Before you ask, yes, its only available while youre parked. Google firstpromotedgaming apps on Android Auto when discussing itsMarch 4 Pixel Drop. These few games may not be optimized for Android Auto, just yet. Games may be the only full-screen experience you can get on Android Auto. Not even Google Maps can make that claim.© Florence Ion / Gizmodo Its the kind of feature that seems extraneous but for very select few users....

March 28, 2025 · 1 min · 125 words · Mr. Daniel Lawrence

CoreWeave Is at the Center of the AI Revolution, and Its IPO looks Like a House of Cards

CoreWeave in recent years found itself in something of an enviable position. Unfortunately though, looks like the industry does not need them as much today. Even worse, CoreWeave is suffocating under a heavy debt burden. Apple’s data center in southwest China’s Guizhou Province.Photo: Ou Dongqu/Xinhua (Getty Images) seems as if CoreWeave needed to go public out of a desperate need to pay down debt. And they need it, tooinvestors demand returns, especially as few companies went public in recent years....

March 28, 2025 · 2 min · 279 words · Barbara Osborne

DOGE Plans to Rewrite Entire Social Security Codebase in Just ‘a Few Months’: Report

Most Americans who rely on Social Security dont have a hyper-rich relative to bail them out. The real reasons are two-fold. In fact, what were doing will help their benefits, Musk said. Elon Musk speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 11, 2025.© Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images I want to emphasize that. Musk even said he wanted people to check back on his claim in the future....

March 28, 2025 · 1 min · 149 words · Natalie Scott

Elon Musk Declares Intention to Bribe Voters (Again) to Attack U.S. Judicial System

Wisconsin voters will go to the polls next week to choose between candidates for the states Supreme Court. Elon Musk has spent $17 million so far to support the Republican-aligned candidate, according to theAssociated Press. On Sunday night, I will give a talk in Wisconsin, Musk tweeted. Elon Musk jumps awkwardly at an event before the 2024 election to promote Donald Trump at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks, Pennsylvania, on October 18, 2024....

March 28, 2025 · 2 min · 305 words · Melissa Osborne

Elon Musk’s AI Company xAI Buys Elon Musk’s Social Media Platform X

The transaction values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion, according toCNBC. xAI has acquired X in an all-stock transaction. Musks tweet announcing the sale called X the real-time source of ground truth for 600 million active users globally. © Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/Bloomberg via Getty Images Traffic at X reportedly plummeted after the 2024 presidential election. xAI and Xs futures are intertwined. Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent....

March 28, 2025 · 1 min · 121 words · Carlos Williams

FBI Arrests 36-Year-Old Nevada Man for Allegedly Setting Fire to Teslas

We will continue to find, arrest, and prosecute these attackers until the lesson is learned. Las Vegas police released several videos from March 18 showing someonesetting firetomultiple cars. The image below, for instance, was released by Las Vegas police as a suspect photo on Thursday. The word “RESIST” is shown spray painted on the entrance of a Tesla Collision Center after an individual set several vehicles on fire on March 18, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada....

March 28, 2025 · 1 min · 149 words · Anthony Ramirez

Giant, Ancient Life Form Doesn’t Fit Into Any Known Branch of Life

Hundreds of millions of years ago, mysterious life forms called Prototaxites towered toward the sky. Their position in the greater tree of life has been hotly debated for over a century and a half. Their work is detailed in astudyposted to the preprint server bioRxiv, and hasnt been peer-reviewed yet. A painting of what Prototaxites may have looked like.© Painting by Mary Parrish, National Museum of Natural History. We conducted an extensive re-examination ofP....

March 28, 2025 · 1 min · 132 words · Vickie Vang

Google Is Closing Up Android Development, but It’s Not What You Think

Gemini is the main sell, now. Burke had been a steward of the platform for 14 years. The move to developing Android in-house shouldnt have too many implications on the platform. Android as you know it will stay the same but will be developed a little differently behind the scenes.© Florence Ion / Gizmodo Overall, nothing major will change with the Android platform on the consumer-facing side. The biggest difference will be in how Google interfaces with the developers who dont have GMS agreements....

March 28, 2025 · 1 min · 117 words · Aaron Banks

If You Stop Vaping This Tamagotchi Dies

There is a cursed vape somewhere in NYC that holds the soul of a Tamagotchi. If you stop vaping, the digital pet dies. Only engineers who once worked for Meta and weapons manufacturer Anduril could create a machine so heinous. A mockup of a Tamagotchi that dies if you stop vaping at the NYU Stupid Hackathon in 2025.© NYU via YouTube. And thats exactly what they did at the annual NYU Stupid Hackathon last month....

March 28, 2025 · 2 min · 333 words · Maria Mason

Legendary U.S. Particle Collider Is About to Perform Its Final Smash

For the RHICs final run, the top priority is gold-on-gold collisions at energies of 200 billion electron volts. The collider will specifically scrutinize the strong nuclear force, which binds quarks together. News from the future, delivered to your present. Superconducting magnets in the RHIC tunnel.Photo: Kevin Coughlin/Brookhaven National Laboratory Its One Particle Accelerator, Michael. What Could It Cost$17 Billion? CERN says its Future Circular Collider has no technical hurdlesthough the expected costs are exorbitant....

March 28, 2025 · 1 min · 92 words · Nathaniel Vasquez

Nintendo Just Revealed theZeldaMovie’s Release Date in the Most Nintendo Way Possible

This morning, Nintendo confirmed thatWes BallsLegend of Zeldamoviewill hit theaters March 26, 2027. Instead, the company casually revealed the date through its new Nintendo Today calendar app. And now, apparently, major breaking news from the company before you see it anywhere else. © Nintendo Want more io9 news? News from the future, delivered to your present. Those who want a console at launch June 5 should get in line as soon as possible....

March 28, 2025 · 1 min · 75 words · Joshua Garcia

People Making AI Studio Ghibli Images Are Now Producing Fake Legal Letters to Go With Their Fake Art

Imagination is not illegal. If I have to be a martyr to prove that, so be it. Take responsibility for ones own actions? © Studio Ghibli/Gkids Better point the finger at someone else, even if that other person is crafted from thin air! Screenings are still ongoing and you’re free to find out detailshere. Want more io9 news? News from the future, delivered to your present. Why the Hell Is OpenAI Building an X Clone?...

March 28, 2025 · 1 min · 115 words · Craig Mitchell