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The upcoming Daredevil: Born Again series may have been fully reborn on a casting level. Along with leading man Charlie Cox, both Deborah Ann Woll and Elden Henson may be set to reprise their respective roles as his friends/coworkers, Karen Page and Foggy Nelson.Read more...

It's been a full month since NBC's pretty solid Quantum Leap revival went on a midseason break to account for the holidays. But it won't be too long a wait before the show returns: per Deadline, the remaining episodes of season two will begin airing on Tuesday, January 30.

A full month from now, Madame Web will be making its way into theaters. Like Venom and Morbius before it, the film is Sony's bid at making a universe of interconnected Spider-Man movies that don't feature the hero in question. And in another universe, we'd have one of those movies playing out in theaters this weekend.Read more...

Just before the weekend, Universal finally pulled back the curtain on its cryptic horror movie from filmmaking duo Radio Silence. The resulting film is Abigail, which sees Melissa Barrera and Dan Stevens headline a team of kidnappers who snatch up a kid to hold her for ransom. The twist? The titular Abigail, played by...Read more...

Earlier in the week, Disney surprisingly revealed Din Djarin will be headlining two films. Along with Dave Filoni's New Republic-era movie still potentially called Heir to the Empire, the Mandalorian will star in The Mandalorian & Grogu, which sees father and son go on a big-screen adventure.Read more...

Netflix and Lionsgate aren't the only ones with Frankenstein movies in the works. Warner Bros. also has a movie about the undead creature and his lovely Bride in production, and the Maggie Gyllenhaal-directed picture has built up a pretty sizable roster of actors.

Click through for our coverage of the SEC Twitter/X hack, new Google TV features revealed at CES, Elon Musk's alleged drug use, and more.Read more...

Lucasfilm decided to drop a bomb this week with the shocking reveal of a remixed movie slate: now headlined by a Mandalorian movie, the first Star Wars film to enter production since The Rise of Skywalker. But that wasn't all in the galaxy far far away: Ahsoka's back! Luke and Padme finally met, sort of! There's all...Read more...

Failure in space dominated our headlines this week, with Astrobotic's uncrewed lunar lander mission Peregrine-1 experiencing critical issues shortly after leaving Earth. Back on the ground, though, NASA finally-after months of trying-succeeded in opening the container filled with samples plucked from the asteroid...Read more...

CES is no stranger to some supremely extravagant booths, but this year's convention might take the cake (in one case, quite literally). The Consumer Technology Association, the group that runs the event every year, was hoping to have 130,000 attendees strolling around Vegas in search of the latest and greatest the...Read more...

Laser technology is continuing to prove its worth in the Amazon: A team of archaeologists in Ecuador just used the tech to discover thousands of earthen mounds hidden under the forest's canopy.Read more...

Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodo's weekly deep dive on what's been happening in artificial intelligence.Read more...

Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone has made no secret of her love for Star Wars, especially the Ewoks from Return of the Jedi. The Golden Globe winner (and Oscar contender) told the New York Times she had a strong desire to be an Ewok at age five"-that's how deep the love is.

The International Festival of the Arts 2024 kicks off this weekend at Epcot, celebrating the rich fabric of Disney storytelling through the arts. The annual festival, a fan favorite, runs January 12 to February 19 at the Walt Disney World Resort. It features live Broadway music, art activations, creative curated...Read more...

Shandong-based Orienspace pulled off its first-ever launch, breaking the record for the largest payload capacity on a commercial rocket for China's growing space industry.

Did The Rise of Skywalker and rampant speculation over just which Skywalker is rising, who a Skywalker is, and why they're rising break some brains over at Lucasfilm? Almost every bit of Star Wars on the small screen we've gotten since (and planned for the big one) is a character title, named for an individual or the...Read more...

Oscar nominations will be announced later this month, and Poor Things' Emma Stone and Barbie's Margot Robbie are all but guaranteed to be in the Best Actress race. Last year, Everything Everywhere All at Once swept three of the four acting categories. That suggests sci-fi and fantasy films, whose stars don't always...Read more...

Now that CES 2024 is done and gone. I think it's safe to say that there was a lot of news out of Las Vegas this year. Thankfully, we've got all the important announcements listed below.

A popular class of weight loss and diabetes drugs looks to be safer than feared, at least so far. This week, the Food and Drug Administration announced it hasn't found compelling evidence that Wegovy, Ozempic, and other GLP-1 drugs can cause suicidal thoughts or behaviors-a concern that first emerged last year. The...Read more...

Though we had mixed feelings about Ghostbusters: Afterlife, we suddenly have a new reason to be excited about sequel Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. Along with a return to the New York City setting of the original films, it looks like one of the most-beloved original characters, Annie Potts' Janine Melnitz, is finally...Read more...

In the face of drug use allegations that could jeopardize million dollar contracts, NASA has come to Elon Musk's defense, as the space agency waits on a SpaceX lunar lander for its Artemis missions.

In a certain way, the incredible Apple TV+ show For All Mankind can be looked at as an unofficial precursor to Star Trek. Both shows imagine an alternate reality where events in the past made it so technology and space travel continued to develop throughout our lifetimes. But while Star Trek starts in the future, on...Read more...

Just how light can a light gaming laptop get? The Asus Republic of Gamers brand has marked the four-year anniversary of its first ultra-thin Zephyrus G14 by going back to the drawing board, all to shave off bare fractions of the total pounds and centimeters of its lightweight laptop brand. At this rate, the Zephyrus...Read more...

For the first time in its history, Marvel Studios went full binge with its latest streaming series, Echo. All five episodes of the show dropped simultaneously on Disney+ and Hulu earlier this week, so by now, hopefully, you've had a chance to watch it.Read more...

NASA's freshly painted X-59 aircraft will be rolled out of its hangar on Friday, January 12, in the lead-up to its first takeoff. The experimental plane, built by Lockheed Martin, is designed to develop a quieter type of supersonic flight.Read more...

There are some things about VR that remain as true today as they have for nearly the past decade, despite how much some companies want to rebrand the whole shebang. Varjo's latest VR/AR headset, the $3,990 XR4, wants to prove that solid displays, controls, and comfort remain the cornerstone of the VR space.

CES 2024 was certainly interesting this year; while we did anticipate AI being inserted into everything from TVs to cars, there were some genuine surprises from the show floor here in Las Vegas. Despite going to what felt like a million press conferences and keynotes, the Gizmodo team did manage to find loads of cool,...Read more...

Netflix just confirmed that Laurence Fishburne has been cast to star in The Witcher season four. The Matrix and John Wick franchise star joins as Regis, a character introduced in Andrzej Sapkowski's novel Baptism of Fire. He's described by Netflix's announcment as a world-wise Barber-surgeon with a mysterious past...Read more...

HP has finally given us what we've wanted for so long. A photo booth that is 1) portable and 2) doesn't make you spend a fortune trying to get good shots. The HP Sprocket Photobooth unveiled at CES 2024 could be the next cool thing if its quality-related promises are kept.

The right-to-repair movement continues to gain steam as another big tech company shows its support for letting people fix their own broken devices.Read more...

Meet Dr. Michael Morbius, the 1/6 scale Morbius figure that captures the vampiric essence of star Jared Leto from Sony's Marvel villain film. Look at him, he looks prime for a 30 Seconds to Mars music video for a biochemist whose rare genetic disorder leads him to heal himself using vampire bat blood!Read more...

Edge of Tomorrow 2 might finally happen, thanks to Tom Cruise's major new Warner Bros. deal. David Gordon Green will no longer direct The Exorcist: Deceiver. Plus, Netflix returns to Eternia in a new trailer for He-Man: Revolution, and new footage from Godzilla x Kong. Spoilers now!

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Tragically, Astrobotic's lander will not be able to pull off a soft landing on the lunar surface. However, Peregrine continues on its trajectory to the Moon, and as a small consolation, its onboard payloads have successfully powered on.Read more...

Taking over the mantle from John Williams can be an intimidating task for anyone stepping into the role of composer within the Star Wars universe. After all, Star Wars wouldn't be Star Wars without its iconic themes. But for Ryan Shore, who's recently composed for a number of legacy franchises including Scooby-Doo, it...Read more...

eBay agreed to pay out a $3 million fine-the maximum criminal penalty-over a twisted scandal that saw top executives and other employees stalking a couple in Massachusetts who published a newsletter that criticized the company. The harassment campaign included online threats, sending employees to surveil the couple's...Read more...

When the Ultimate Marvel line launched 24 years ago, it wanted to bring Marvel's heroes back to their roots, a modern world for modern titans to shape. In the last two and a half decades it lived, thrived, died, and was quietly reborn-but only now is Marvel taking the reigns on what shaping that rebirth should be, in...Read more...

There are jets in Jupiter's magnetosheath, according to Voyager 2 mission data from 1979. The 45-year-old information is now revealing the dynamics of the plasma stream.Read more...

There are plenty of cult horror movies that have rock n' roll as a theme, with an emphasis on heavy metal; think Trick or Treat, The Gate, and Rock n' Roll Nightmare. But far fewer pay glory to progressive rock, a genre stuffed with complicated riffs and tempo changes that's more polarizing than most. Destroy All...Read more...

The U.K.'s Colchester Zoo is trying to bring home the least sneaky animal escapee possible: a rainbow lorikeet. The brightly colored bird made its daring getaway last weekend by simply hitching a ride onto a visitor as they were about to leave its enclosure.

One week ago today, Google disabled tracking cookies for 30 million Chrome users, amounting to just 1% of the 3 billion people who use the internet's most popular browser. By the end of the year, Google will block these cookies entirely and replace them with a new tracking system that's a bit more private called Priva...Read more...

Google Assistant is about to lose 17 different features that the company says are underutilized." The changes come as the tech giant is in the midst of firing large amounts of staff, including many from its Google Assistant team, according to CNBC.Read more...

We'll never understand how certain pockets of the internet vilify Kathleen Kennedy. Since Kennedy became the president of Lucasfilm in 2012, she's been instrumental in bringing one of the most famous franchises in the world back to prominence on the big screen and beyond. Under Kennedy we finally got to see what...Read more...

DNA from ancient humans is providing some vital clues about the emergence of multiple sclerosis and other devastating neurodegenerative conditions. In a series of new research papers out this week, scientists detail evidence that many genetic variants linked to MS first began to spread globally about 5,000 years ago,...Read more...

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After months of fidgeting with a canister that contained rocky samples from an ancient asteroid, NASA engineers have finally removed two stubborn fasteners that appeared to be preventing the space agency from collecting the full amount of Bennu's debris.Read more...

Turntables seem to be making a comeback, at least at CES: JBL took a modern, Gen Z-friendly route with its recently released Spinner turntable that connects via Bluetooth, and Fuse Audio displayed several gorgeous vertical record players at CES 2024. The star of the category at CES was Fuse Audio's upcoming vertical...Read more...

While we've long known Radio Silence was working on the next film in the Universal Monsters revival, and that their Scream leading lady, Melissa Barrera, was starring-the rest was just rumors. Now, we've got a title and a trailer that, frankly, appears to give an awful lot away about its vampire kidnapping plot.

The Webb Space Telescope has spotted something weird: a brown dwarf with what appear to be aurorae, what we Earthlings sometimes call the Northern Lights. What makes the observation particularly surprising is that the brown dwarf doesn't have a nearby star that could cause such an aurora.Read more...

A new rocket is designed for its own destruction, eating itself as it makes its way through Earth's atmosphere to power its journey.Read more...