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A new photo of Odysseus released by NASA illustrates just how rough the lander's journey to the Moon has been, shining a light on its spunky resilience against all odds.Read more...

The internet is filled with scam artists who try to swindle unsuspecting people out of their money. But impersonation scams that use Elon Musk and his bevy of tech companies-including Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and X-have exploded in popularity in recent years. And Gizmodo obtained reports about many of these scams...Read more...

Even though February is the shortest month of the year, it was jam-packed with loads of new product launches and fun concepts from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. We got to spend some time with the Apple Vision Pro to see if it lives up to the hype.

There may be bad news if you purchased one of Amazon's Overall Picks" for video doorbells in recent months. New tests from Consumer Reports find that popular doorbell cameras sold under names including Eken and Tuck are rife with security flaws that make it dead simple for anyone to watch your camera footage.

Elon Musk tweeted late Wednesday night that he's never gone to therapy, a fact that he wants to be immortalized on his gravestone. And whatever you think of the billionaire's attitude to mental health treatment, Musk's tweet would seem pretty unremarkable in isolation. However, Musk keeps tweeting about this for some...Read more...

Journalist Kara Swisher's long-anticipated memoir Burn Book hit the shelves today. Apparently, a long list of other writers have also been hard at work writing about her experience as well. On the day after her book launch, Amazon is flooded with AI-generated Swisher biographies, complete with cover art from beyond...Read more...

Have you seen a photo on social media recently that appears to show a man in 1980s-style clothes smoking a cigarette in McDonald's? The image has gone viral, racking up over 21 million views at the time of this writing. But it's completely fake. The image was made using generative AI.

These days, if you're an epic sci-fi story looking to be told, there's only one destination: Apple TV+. From popular novels like Foundation and Silo to originals like For All Mankind and Severance, the streamer is a haven for weird, bold sci-fi. Which is why it feels like the perfect, natural home for William Gibson's ...Read more...

Take a look at Disney Parks' latest fairytale theme expansion at Tokyo DisneySea in Japan. Set to feature the kingdoms of Frozen and Tangled, plusPeter Pan's Never Land, Fantasy Springs will open June 6 at the Tokyo Disney Resort.Read more...

After a nail-biting touchdown on the lunar surface that left Odysseus bent over on its side, the lander is ready for its nap. Intuitive Machines is getting ready to power down its lunar lander, with hopes that Odie may wake up once the Sun illuminates its functioning solar array again.Read more...

Season seven of Rick and Morty made it clear: Rick Prime, long the nemesis of the show's main Rick, won't be around anymore. Instead, his absence is something Rick will have to reckon with. But another of the show's big villains, Evil Morty, has plenty of runway to return-something the show is already teasing.Read more...

While normal, middle-class Americans struggle to buy starter homes or even just afford rent, American billionaires are busy buying up huge tracts of land all over the world for nebulous reasons. Case in point: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who is estimated to be worth over $10 billion, is said to be buying up huge...Read more...

Nearly three decades ago, Dark Forces hit the PC with all the firepower of a fully armed and operational battle station-and in doing so helped revolutionize gaming, Star Wars or otherwise. But even after it changed the genre as we knew it, its legacy has persisted; its view of the galaxy far, far away has continued to...Read more...

Honda announced a new Extended Reality Mobility Experience" debuting at this year's SXSW festival in Austin, where the company will invite attendees to strap on a VR headset and strap into a fancy wheelchair. The future is here, maybe.Read more...

A new climate intervention strategy aims to decrease the amount of water vapor in the stratosphere by injecting it with ice-forming nuclei. The idea is that, by reducing the water content, more heat in the form of infrared radiation would leak out into space.Read more...

In a tense moment for space safety, two satellites-NASA's TIMED spacecraft and the defunct Russian Cosmos 2221-came alarmingly close to smashing into each other above Earth, prompting concerns about the risks of space debris.Read more...

If you hadn't already done it after Arrival or Sicario or Blade Runner 2049, we think it's time to officially declare that Denis Villeneuve is one of the best filmmakers working today. He cements that and more with Dune: Part Two, a thrilling, engaging conclusion to Villeneuve's vision of adapting Frank Herbert's Dune....Read more...

Coinbase users' accounts showed a zero balance" on Wednesday afternoon. Coinbase confirmed the problem on its status page at 12:40 p.m. ET but claims customer cryptocurrency funds are safe. The cryptocurrency exchange blames the outage on increased traffic, as Bitcoin's price surged past $60,000.Read more...

Your dog's poop might be a dangerous source of bacterial superbugs. In a new study, researchers in China detail evidence that dogs experiencing diarrhea are commonly carrying multi-drug resistant strains of Escherichia coli-around 50%, in their study.Read more...

Last year brought us lots of fantastic animated films and while Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem was the outlier in terms ofOscar nominations, it might be the first to get a sequel.Read more...

Bitcoin's price surged past $63,000 and then receded just a bit under on Wednesday, reaching a level the crypto coin hasn't seen since November 2021. While it still has a little way to climb to reach an all-time high of $68,000, that level feels comfortably within reach. And if you're feeling uneasy about the rally,...Read more...

Parents, children, and now disgruntled actors are in an uproar over a catastrophic Willy Wonka-themed event in Scotland that went viral over the weekend. The Willy's Chocolate Experience" ended with police sirens when families enticed by fantastical AI-generated images arrived to find a filthy, barely decorated...Read more...

Almost 30 years to the day after The Crow hit theaters in 1994, a new version of the grim revenge tale is arriving-this time around, directed by Rupert Sanders (Snow White and the Huntsman) and starring Bill Skarsgard. Whatever feelings one might have about the remake, the first images of Skarsgard in character are...Read more...

If I could, and if physics would let me, I would happily fly away on my Zephyr(us). From the time I opened the box on the newly-redesigned ROG Zephyrus G14 to finally sitting down to write this review, I was constantly surprised by all the ways I liked the Asus-owned brand's pint-sized gaming laptop. For somebody who...Read more...

The crew of the Falkor (too) research vessel is at it again: In January, the team discovered four underwater mountains off the coast of Chile. The vessel has now identified 29 seamounts, hills, and trenches since 2012.

Tech bros were vocal with stories about why they were returning their Apple Vision Pros earlier in February. However, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo found that nearly a third of returns were because users couldn't figure out how to set up the $3,500 newfangled technology.

Much-loved sci-fi TV series The Expanse had so much going for it, with memorable characters navigating high-stakes space action as well as often tense personal relationships. But the one thing it didn't have, besides a seventh season (sigh), was a set of action figures. Beltalowda, that's all about to change.

Jane Schoenbrun's new queer horror was one thing to watch at this year's Sundance-if you were there in person, that is. Now, everyone else can actually get a look behind the buzz, and this coming of age creepshow certainly lives up to it all.

Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski bragged on Tuesday that his company's new OpenAI-powered customer service chatbot was doing the work of 700 people-nearly two years after Klarna laid off about 700 people.Read more...

Juno Temple gives an update on Venom 3. Sam Rockwell says a Galaxy Quest follow up could happen, with a little help from Simon Pegg. Plus, new looks at Imaginary and Immaculate, and what's next on Resident Alien. To me, my spoilers!

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The internet had its own never-frozen beef with Wendy's when it discovered the fast food chain was planning surge pricing for 2025. Wendy's clarified in an updated statement on Tuesday night that it has no plans" for surge pricing.Read more...

Google CEO Sundar Pichai is not happy about what's been going on with the company's Gemini AI chatbot, calling viral and historically inaccurate errors from its image generator unacceptable" in an internal memo to employees on Tuesday.Read more...

The OnePlus Buds 3 offers a lot for its price. They're a decent budget-friendly pick unless you're a big bass fan. The sound feels nicely layered, and the ANC is powerful enough to silence everyone on the subway. Unless I'm to blame for having extraordinarily small ears (which isn't true), I wish they fit more snugly....Read more...

Back in the early 20th century, food and cigarette companies would sometimes include collectible cards with their products. And that's exactly what happened around 1910 when Wills's Cigarettes included cards about the history of flying with their smokes.Read more...

If you like vaporware and looking at phones and gadgets you'll never own, then Barcelona's Mobile World Congress (MWC) is the trade show for you. This week's annual menagerie revealed new devices like the TCL Nxtpaper 14 and a working model of Motorola's rolling phone display. Other brands-namely Samsung-used the...Read more...

The secret's out of the bag for Mean Girls musical star and original voice of Disney's Moana, Auli'i Cravalho. After much speculation among fans, the actress confirmed she will be reprising the role that launched her into stardom for Moana 2.Read more...

Ever since a passenger plane's door blew off in early January, plane-maker Boeing has been under increased scrutiny. Now, a new report from the Federal Aviation Administration calls into question the aircraft manufacturer's safety procedures, calling them inadequate."Read more...

Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender live-action series is officially a success. The new series debuted on the streamer's English-language TV list with 21.2 million views and reached the top 10 in 92 countries,according to Netflix's released rankings.Read more...

Dune: Part Two star Josh Brolin's resume is peppered with mega-blockbusters (see: his run as Thanos in the Avengers movies), but he hasn't lost his quirkiness. Things like his Dune poetry and his mastery of the Dune space guitar" have roots in his love of sci-fi, which he's carried since childhood.Read more...

Automattic, the parent company of sites like WordPress and Tumblr, is in talks to sell content from its platforms to AI companies like MidJourney and OpenAI for training purposes, according to a new report from 404 Media Tuesday. And while the details of the deal are still sketchy, Automattic is trying to reassure...Read more...

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Google swears it's not trying to kill journalism, but many of its latest projects seem geared toward that end. Google is paying five-figure sums to small publishers asking them to test out a generative AI platform geared toward newsrooms. News outlets are asked to publish three of these AI-assisted articles a day, in...Read more...

When Tenet released in 2020, it did so under the worst of circumstances. The context of the pandemic made the film a lightning rod when writer-director Christopher Nolan encouraged people to see it in theaters. Compared to his other recent movies, the time-bending spy thriller saw a more muted reaction. It made $365...Read more...

The New York Times is currently suing OpenAI for copyright infringement and claims that the influential tech startup used its journalistic material to train its chatbot, ChatGPT, without paying the proper licensing fees. But Sam Altman's company is fighting back against these accusations with some accusations of its...Read more...

Do you never want to go back into the office again? We created a list that would make anybody's work-from-home setup so ergonomic, comfortable, and so convenient it will make you want to avoid ever stepping into an office again. Those currently in an office can instead stare at this list with a burning jealousy.Read more...

There appears to be another Netflix price increase just around the corner. Wall Street analysts are expecting Netflix to raise prices across its streaming service in 2024, first reported by Variety.Read more...

As Dune: Part Twodraws closer and closer, one thing has been on everyone's mind as the cast and crew open up about their experiences filming the next chapter of Frank Herbert's spicy sci-fi saga: what about that popcorn bucket though?

Apple's long-anticipated (and much delayed) project to build an electric car is going to that junkyard heap in the sky, according to a new report from Bloomberg. And much of the team will transition to working on generative AI, though it's unclear how many people might be laid off.Read more...

Apparently making super creepy mystery movies for major movie studios just runs in the Shyamalan family. M. Night Shyamalan, of course, is well-known for movies like The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs. He's been freaking us out and making us guess for decades. But now, his daughter Ishana Night Shyamalan is...Read more...