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A dangerous fungal infection has seeded its spores farther across the United States than previously assumed. Research out this week details evidence that cases of blastomycosis are regularly showing up in Vermont, outside of the established areas of the U.S. where it's thought to be endemic.Read more...

Apple has been relatively absent from last year's AI hype cycle, and Microsoft even briefly surpassed it as the most valuable company in the world. But don't count out the iPhone maker as some analysts expect the move into AI will happen with iOS 18 at this summer's Worldwide Developers Conference, according to the Fin...Read more...

A modern folk horror tale that draws upon Australia's troubled history to enhance its monstrous elements, The Moogai also includes an exploration of postpartum depression. Unfortunately, its one-dimensional plot ultimately detracts from the elements that make it an otherwise unique story.Read more...

Cruise, the self-driving car company whose robotaxi dragged a pedestrian, shared footage from the graphic incident with regulators using a bad internet connection, according to an independent review. Cruise didn't explicitly say that a pedestrian was dragged 20 feet, and hoped screen sharing a video would speak for...Read more...

Earth's orbit will be monitored by a watchful set of robotic eyes, the first commercial constellation of satellites with the ability to keep track of objects in space to avoid collisions between spacecraft.Read more...

The next version of the Nintendo Switch might be released later this year and feature an 8-inch LCD display, based on reporting from Bloomberg.Read more...

The world was already a pretty excellent place for Godzilla fans considering a) Godzilla Minus One exists and is in theaters, and b) its black and white version, Godzilla Minus One/Minus Color, is also in now in theaters for a limited time. One thing could make it better though. Maybe, say, a new limited edition...Read more...

Some of our posts include links to retailers. If you buy something from clicking on one, G/O Media may earn a commission. Because editorial staff is independent of commerce, affiliate linking does not influence our editorial content.The smartphone audience is so wide that it's difficult to settle on just one of the best phones of 2024. Some of us want huge screens, fast processors, and tons of memory. Others want the very best camera. And then there are the folks who want the best budget phone and/or best small phone (they're often the same...Read more...

Everything about the moviegoing experience is merchandisable, and long has been. But the rising trend of increasingly complex and elaborate collectible popcorn buckets might have finally reached the apex with Dune: Part Two, which invites you to place your hand in a very different kind of Gom Jabbar test.Read more...

Earlier this week, AI-generated porn featuring Taylor Swift started circulating on X (formerly Twitter). Swifties were scandalized. Polite society was incensed. Swift herself hasn't publicly commented on the scandal but it's easy to imagine she's probably not thrilled about it.Read more...

A series of AI-generated images of Taylor Swift in suggestive and pornographic situations are causing an uproar on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. Though some of the images have been taken down, others remain on the platform. Swift's army of fans have embarked on a campaign to bury the images by flooding...Read more...

Do not scratch your eyes: the Moon is slowly shrinking, causing quakes on its surface that complicate NASA's plans for landing Artemis 3, the first Artemis mission that will make a crewed landing on the Moon, and more ambitious missions geared towards maintaining a prolonged human lunar presence.Read more...

Being the space nerd that I am, I often imagine a museum filled with the most important objects ever sent to space. We couldn't possibly build a place like this, but we can speculate as to which human artifacts deserve a place in our imaginary spaceflight museum.Read more...

The Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra has a lot going for it just in terms of the smorgasbord of AI software it's packing, but under the hood, it's also a very interesting specimen. It didn't take long before the first DIYers pried back the shell on Samsung's latest premium phone, and from the looks of things, the South Korean...Read more...

Netflix wants to make a sequel to Leo already. Go behind the scenes on Ghosbusters: The Frozen Empire. Plus, Wolf Pack will howl no more at Paramount. Spoilers, away!

A conservation group released a report in 2023finding that more than 40% of all animal species in the U.S. are at risk of going extinct. Most in danger were small, not-so-exciting animals-snails, crayfish, mussels-that nevertheless make up key cornerstones of our ecosystems.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) launched an inquiry into the billion-dollar AI deals of OpenAI, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Anthropic on Thursday. Throughout the inquiry, cloud providers must disclose details about the nature of their partnerships and investments with AI startups. Of particular interest is the...Read more...

If you've still not had a chance to experience a real, large gaming OLED display, then jumping in front of Alienware's AW3225QF QD-OLED monitor is akin to submerging your eyes in a warm bath of color. It's a pleasant feeling, the kind of thing you hope to get from an ultra-premium device. Like a massage, the first...Read more...

The EnVision mission to Venus was officially adopted by the European Space Agency on Thursday, which means the organization has committed to getting the spacecraft Venus-bound by the early 2030s.Read more...

Welcome to another installment of Gizmodo's Animal Crime of the Week. Last week, we admired the trash-stealing parrots of Australia. This week features a bitey, cake-stealing iguana that added injury to insult by giving its victim a nasty, rare infection.Read more...

The excitement over Dune: Part Two's March 1 arrival is building-so much so that other movies are trying to capitalize on it. Christopher Nolan's Tenet is returning to theaters accompanied by a special tease of Denis Villeneuve's sequel-but first, David Lynch's take on Dune will be getting its due.Read more...

Apple is granting more access to its manicured walled garden to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in the European Union (EU). In a press release, the company announced a heaping of forthcoming iOS, Safari, and the App Store changes, including support for apps from third-party app stores and the ability to set...Read more...

Sometimes you just want a portrait of your favorite characters from TV and movies on your wall. And when that happens, artist Dakota Randall is there. In conjunction with the Hero Complex Gallery, Randall has been creating beautiful, affordable, realistic-looking portraits for a few years now, inspired by dramas,...Read more...

The new movie Love Me takes place over 10 billion years and stars only two actors who don't play humans. It's part nature film, part animation, part stage drama, and incredibly ambitious and dense both in scope and theme. Written and directed by Sam and Andy Zuchero, it's a film that attempts to capture the entire...Read more...

After nearly three years of flying across the Martian terrain, the Ingenuity helicopter has finally ended its mission. NASA declared Thursday that Ingenuity had sustained damage to a blade during its most recent landing and would not make another flight.Read more...

It's not quite her dream sci-fi role, but until Killers of the Flower Moon breakout Lily Gladstone's Star Wars Ewok aspirations come true, The Memory Police sounds like an excellent entry into the genre. The team behind this project is ridiculous; besides Gladstone as the lead, it includes director Reed Morano (The...Read more...

iPhone apps including Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, and X/Twitter are skirting Apple's privacy rules to collect user data through notifications, according to tests by security researchers at Mysk Inc., an app development company. Users sometimes close apps to stop them from collecting data in the background, but this...Read more...

The Screen Actors Guild prevents two actors from claiming the same name, for obvious reasons; that's why, for instance, we know Emily Stone as Emma Stone. Actors with very similar names don't have that issue-though as veteran performer Tom Hollander has revealed, that can still lead to confusion.Read more...

If you're not familiar with them before asking, you might be surprised if an X-Men comic reader declares Hank McCoy-the fuzzball genius Beast-one of the most evil characters in the franchise. This is not a new twist, either, even in the wake of X-Men: The Animated Series and the Fox films paving his mainstream...Read more...

You can now check your temperature with your Pixel 8 Pro thanks to the new updates Google recently added to its flagship phone. The newly added temperature sensor allows you to simply put your phone to your forehead and check how you're doing.Read more...

Stay calm, everybody stay calm. But it's finally happening: The European Space Agency is committing itself to the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), a gravitational wave observatory that will study some of the universe's most enigmatic phenomena.Read more...

Netflix is on everything. It's on your phone, computer, and game console, going all the way back to the Nintendo Wii. Hell, you can get your Netflix fix on a Peloton if you really need to work off the vicarious carbo loads of Paul Hollywood while watching the latest season of The Great British Bake Off. One place...Read more...

The miracle-pregnancy theme is right there in the title-Immaculate-but the conception in question in Sydney Sweeney's new nun horror movie feels way more malevolent than anything involving Mary, Joseph, and a manger. The film's first trailer is here, and the plot appears as devilish as you'd imagine.Read more...

EV buyers are often motivated by a desire to save money on gas and/or drive something more environmentally friendly. But, a recent story out of Florida in The Miami Herald details how EV owners there have been blindsided by how fast they're having to change the tires on their EVs.Read more...

The saga of Japan's lunar lander continues to unfold, with the first images of SLIM on the surface of the Moon revealing the unfortunate position the spacecraft has ended up in.

On Wednesday, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced the Big Apple would be the first city to officially classify social media as a public health risk. Social media is an environmental toxin," Adams said in a speech, comparing the problem to guns and tobacco. The mayor then promptly went on-where else-social media...Read more...

A popular class of weight loss drugs may offer more lasting success than assumed, new data from Epic Research suggests. The study of medical records found that a slight majority of people who took GLP-1 drugs like semaglutide either maintained or improved their weight loss in the year after they stopped using the...Read more...

The Sundance Film Festival is fond of programming Satan-themed documentaries, including 2019's Hail Satan?, about the Satanic Temple, and 2023's Satan Wants You, about the Satanic Panic phenomenon of the 1980s. This year, Realm of Satan continues the tradition, though it's hardly a traditional doc.Read more...

Meta no longer allows teenagers to receive direct messages from anyone they're not following on Instagram, or friends with on Facebook, according to a company blog post on Thursday. The policy update aims to create a safer environment for minors on the platform, one week after Meta's internal documents revealed that...Read more...

Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan's vampire movie is close to finding a home. Robert McCamon's post-apocalyptic novelSwan Song is being turned into a TV series. Dune Part 2 gets the mandatory floating heads poster. Plus, what's to come as La Brea enters the endgame. Spoilers now!

Big tech's big dreams of a corporate metaverse filled with virtual reality workplaces aren't quite dead yet, at least according to Microsoft. The Redmond, Washington tech giant finally unveiled its 3D Mesh integration for Microsoft Teams, offering a new wave of generic-looking, legless avatars for making work meetings...Read more...

Meet the animal kingdom's newest little guy. This is Booralana nickorum, a recently described species of deep-sea isopod found in The Bahamas. It is a cirolanid isopod-a member of the family Cirolanidae-and is only the second species of its genus described from the Western North Atlantic.

In the summer of 2022, 18-year-old Aditya Verma was boarding a flight to Spain at London's Gatwick Airport when he sent a message to his friend on Snapchat: On my way to blow up the plane (I'm a member of the Taliban)." As you might expect, the message was a joke. Unfortunately, the kid happened to be using the...Read more...

Christopher Nolan is currently having the biggest year of an already incredible career and he's about to rewind it back in time. Apparently, he asked Warner Bros. if it would re-release his troubled 2020 film Tenet in theaters as a way to build hype for Dune: Part Two, and it agreed.Read more...

It's already been established that a pocket of toxic Star Wars fandom is rooting for Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy's movie exploring the New Jedi Order to fail. But the star of the first Star Wars feature to be directed by a woman-Rey Skywalker herself, Daisy Ridley-is here to remind fans to keep culture wars out of Star Wars.Read more...

Oscar winner Halle Berry may have at one time played Catwoman, but this week she got Batgirl'd. In a move reminiscent of what Warner Bros. did to the DC film a few years back, Netflix has decided to pull the plug on Berry's upcoming sci-fi film The Mothership before the film was finished.Read more...

The labyrinthine mire that is Twitch's streamer revenue-sharing system is getting both a little more streamlined and more convoluted in equal measure.Read more...

No, you're not seeing double. The Sun just flung out two massive flares of radiation from opposite hemispheres at nearly the same exact moment, a sign that our host star is fast approaching a period of peak activity.Read more...

The Lincolnshire Wildlife Park in the UK is trying a new plan to contain its growing group of foul-mouthed African grey parrots. The zoo will introduce the expletive-loving birds to a larger flock in hopes that the other parrots will pass along their good manners. But there is a chance that the experiment will only...Read more...

In the grim darkness of Warhammer 40,000's future, there is only one thing: war. In the grim darkness of Warhammer 40,000 fandom right now, there are only two: not enough hardback novels, and too many reseller bots gobbling them up.