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In a study out this month, Swiss researchers say they genetically sequenced dozens of previously unknown bacterial species that were found in patient samples. While many of these novel bacteria might not harm humans, the team did identify several that likely can cause disease.Read more...

Here's your best look yet at the next show from Game of Thrones' David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, 3 Body Problem, made in collaboration with True Blood writer Alexander Woo and based on Liu Cixin's lauded sci-fi novel.Read more...

Netflix physical releases are rare, for obvious reasons-why give fans a Blu-ray when they can just stream whatever they're dying to re-watch? But the service will do it when demand is high enough (see: Stranger Things, The Witcher), and mega-hit Wednesday is now joining that rare club.Read more...

Elon Musk is trying his hand as a TV network executive, and he's slated three shows with controversial hosts to lead X's new venture into streaming. Former CNN anchor, Don Lemon, is partnering with X to create a new show covering politics, culture, sports, and entertainment that will exclusively stream on Musk's...Read more...

Star Wars started 2024 with a big announcement: a Mandalorian movie called The Mandalorian & Grogu will be the next franchise entry to hit theaters. On the surface, that's a very exciting prospect. Two of our favorite Star Wars characters on the big screen for the first time! But it raises more than a few questions,...Read more...

Astrobotic, the team behind the Peregrine spacecraft, is urgently working to extract any possible value from its failing mission. This comes after a catastrophic propellant leak occurred just after yesterday's launch, ending the spacecraft's attempt to land on the Moon.

When Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web back in 1989, he probably didn't imagine that his new system would be the repository for all of humanity's worst impulses, but here we are. The latest example from the internet horror show comes from YouTube, where the company was forced to update its policies to say...Read more...

Update, 1:12 p.m.: Shortly after this article was published, Musk responded to a question about the issue from far-right influencer Jackson Hinkle. Musk promised to investigate, and the accounts went back up soon after. Musk later blamed the mistake" on X's spam algorithms. The Hamas account is still suspended.

It wouldn't be CES in Las Vegas without a Google ad plastered all over the monorail. I'm still trying to capture a photo of this year's wrapping, but until then, you'll want to know about some new features to the Google and Android ecosystem. I'm incredibly excited about this next piece of news rolling out to the...Read more...

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NASA is scaling back on its ambitious Mars Sample Return (MSR) program, fearing federal budget cuts to the space agency's plan to bring back rock and dust from the Red Planet, which has come under heavy scrutiny for having unrealistic costs and timelines.Read more...

It's the news the many fans of HBO's The Last of Us-now a multiple Emmy winner-have been waiting for: who will play Abby in season two. It will be Kaitlyn Dever, a rising star whose strong resume (No One Will Save You, Book Smart, Dopesick) bodes very well for her take on the tricky character.Read more...

After showing an initial prototype four years ago, Samsung officially revealed its cute new robot, Ballie, at CES 2024. This adorable little ball is being marketed as your true AI companion" and can do everything from projecting visuals on your wall to turning switches on or off for you.

The next big screen Star Wars film is coming from the small screen. Jon Favreau will direct The Mandalorian & Grogu, which goes into production later this year, produced by Favreau, Dave Filoni, and Kathleen Kennedy.Read more...

Even before Star Trek came back in a big way in the streaming era, Star Trek Online had been a haven for seeing old favorites from the TV shows continue their journeys boldly going. That's not changed even since streaming has become a way to bring these characters back-and STO is still sometimes beating TV to the pip...Read more...

China hacked into Apple's Airdrop system on Monday allowing the government to identify the name, phone number, and email of the sender's device, according to a post from a state-backed institution. Airdrop is a popular tool for pro-democracy activists in China to send anti-government messages during protests, but that...Read more...

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At its CES press conference today, TCL announced quite a few things but seemed most proud of the Nxtpaper 3.0 display technology. The company believes it could be a game-changer. Nxtpaper is a kind of wellness display technology that looks and feels like paper more than a harsh, glaring, harmful screen.

Do we really need a full-body suit and massive VR headset like a reject Ready Player One concept to get immersed in our games? Razer is imagining haptics in a much more constrained-and more comfortable-fashion with a simple seat cushion stuffed with advanced rumble. Some gamers will do anything to increase immersion,...Read more...

Say it with me, The Claw." What does that name evoke? Saturday morning cartoons? Timeless Pixar classics? PC maker MSI hopes you'll start to instead think about gaming, as it's the latest company to offer up its version of a Steam Deck, and this one indeed shares quite a few similarities to Valve's original handheld...Read more...

Alienware's laptops have, for a long time, been a bit on the big side. That's especially true in one particular dimension we'll be gentle and refer to as the M-series laptop brand's posterior." Alienware returned to the drawing board and redesigned the m16 so it's smaller thanks to its contracted rear and makes some...Read more...

The Hz wars have come, and Alienware is beaming down from its spaceship to put its own foot into the refresh rate arena with a pair of large, frankly beautiful-looking displays that pack a wallop in the QD-OLED gaming monitor scene. Boy, howdy, that curved 32-inch, 4K QD-OLED monitor is a real doozy.Read more...

I'm a sucker for a 2-in-1, and doubly so if it's featuring the two operating systems I rely on daily. Lenovo has announced its laptop lineup for the year in tandem with CES 2024. The upcoming refreshes include updates to its gaming and work laptops and the ThinkBook series, including the ThinkBook Plus Gen 5 Hybrid,...Read more...

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XReal just revealed its Air 2 Ultra AR Glasses and seems pretty confident about them being the perfect alternative to the Apple Vision Pro. Unlike Apple's painfully expensive $3500 spatial computer headset, the Air 2 Ultra will just set you back $700. They're also quite decent-looking thanks to a titanium ring frame...Read more...

Awards season is in full swing all across the world, but for most movie fans, one award matters more than all the others: the Oscar. The Acadamy Awardsare voted on by the people who work on them, from actors and directors to costume designers and set builders. It's widely considered to be the most prestigious and...Read more...

If you're driving on the freeway around Phoenix anytime soon, keep your eyes peeled for a car driving itself. Waymo will start testing its autonomous vehicles on Arizona highways this month, the company announced Monday. The driverless robotaxi service, from the same parent company as Google, is branching out from...Read more...

JFK was an interesting man." At least, that's the first thing you read if you follow the top Search result for variations of Did JFK support the death penalty?" Google turns up 7.5 million results, but for some reason, it starts you off with a Google Doc that appears to be a middle schooler's homework assignment.Read more...

Nearly six years ago, Mark Hamill made the most shocking and scandalous of Star Wars revelations he could possibly ever make, sending the already perpetually tumultuous fandom's heads spinning: he had never met Natalie Portman, aka his own goddamn space mother. At long last, this great injustice has been undone.

In recent years, drop tests"have become a popular way to test the durability of new iPhones and their cases. As you might expect, these tests" typically involve dropping the item from a pre-established height-whether that's a bridge, a helicopter, or the roof of the world's tallest building. Whether these tests...Read more...

It was inevitable that once Mickey Mouse entered the public domain via early Disney short Steamboat Willie, projects exploiting the icon's newly accessible status would follow. News of horror flick Mickey's Mouse Trap broke last week, complete with instantly viral trailer-and now its creators are sharing more about...Read more...

Google has been the dominant search engine since the early 2000s, but Jeff Bezos is betting that AI will change the way people find information on the internet. Bezos invested millions in Perplexity AI last week, a startup that hopes to revolutionize search with AI-generated answers and make Google a thing of the past.Read more...

LG announced a new transparent TV at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. Gizmodo's staff got to check it out in person, and it's gorgeous. LG claims this is the world's first wireless transparent OLED TV and is calling it the Signature OLED T (T for transparent).

A silky shark with a chunk taken out of its dorsal fin regrew much of its lost appendage, according to photographs taken of the fish nearly a year apart. Research describing the elasmobranch's recovery is published in the Journal of Marine Sciences.

Miles Morales has more than a few problems to work out by the end of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. First and foremost, he's gotta figure out how to get off Earth-42, where he's been captured by an alternate version of himself as the Prowler. Then, he's gotta deal with the revelation that his origin was the...Read more...

Update: 2:07 p.m. ET: A fourth update from Astrobotic, issued around 1:00 p.m. ET, is exceptionally discouraging. Unfortunately, it appears the failure within the propulsion system is causing a critical loss of propellant," the company noted on X. The team is working to try and stabilize this loss, but given the...Read more...

Cheryl Eddy is a senior writer for io9 as well as its news editor. You can follow her coverage hereand email tips to cheryl.eddy@gizmodo.com.Read more...

Three weeks ago, Wizards of the Coast made the bold declaration that use of generative AI tools at any stage of the creative process for Magic: The Gathering products was forbidden. Little did it know that declaration would soon be smashing a proverbial rake in its face.

If you have several thousand dollars burning an Apple-shaped hole in your pocket, then get your eyes ready and shave your head for good measure because Apple's long-time coming spatial computer," the Vision Pro, will finally make its way into Apple fans' hands Feb 2. The Cupertino company said Monday that you'll find...Read more...

Elon Musk smoked weed on camera with Joe Rogan. There are numerous stories about the billionaire taking drugs including cocaine, LSD, psychedelic mushrooms at parties all over the globe. He's discussed using ketamine with a prescription, but there are anecdotes that Musk took the drug recreationally with his brother...Read more...

It seems like not as many people took the chance to see The Marvels in theaters as Disney and Marvel may have liked, given how the studio quietly stopped publicly updating its box office and then very publicly decided on who it could blame for that. But now, people will get a chance to see what Carol, Monica, and...Read more...

Over the weekend, Apple users finally began receiving their piece of the batterygate' settlement in the form of $92 payments, as first reported by MacRumors. Apple admitted to slowing down old iPhones back in 2017 without notifying users, saying it was part of delivering the best experience for customers."Read more...

Update: January 8, 10:41 a.m. ET: Vulcan Centaur took off right on schedule, successfully blasting off from the Cape Canaveral launch pad and delivering Peregrine on its historic mission to the Moon.Read more...

Emma Stone offers a vague Cruella 2 update. Get a look at Ghosts' return. Echo prepares for a showdown with the Kingpin. Plus, what's coming on For All Mankind, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, and more. Spoilers get!

I don't usually opt for white tech, mostly because I have the nasty tendency to stick my expensive stuff where it's dustiest. But HP's new Omen Transcend 14 and 16 gaming laptop might push me over the edge. Its bright-as-hell rainbow LED keyboard does something for me against that pearly white scheme, but ignore the...Read more...

This week in trends, Big Tech bros could not stop talking about the woke mind virus. Many Silicon Valley leaders crowed that the ousting of Harvard's President was the beginning of the end for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts, which they described as immoral" and illegal."Read more...

Tis the season for New Year's resolutions. As we all sign up for gym memberships or invest in a Peloton that will just gather dust by March, I resolve to work out your brain this year. January 1, 2024 is a Monday. So what day was January 1 last year? Because of the regularities in how we slice and organize time, you...Read more...

The winter nights may be long, but they don't have to be dull, even for folks with small apartments who don't have room for an extra big telescope. Unistellar's latest telescope, the Odyssey, is half the size and less than half the weight of the company's last big release from 2023. However, with a few taps on your...Read more...

Since Everything Everywhere All at Once came out and cleaned up during awards season, Ke Huy Quan's been gradually rebuilding his career after taking a 20-year acting break. Having already done supporting roles in Disney+'s Loki and American Born Chinese last year, Quan's next project will have him front and center as...Read more...

Every other year or so, Todd McFarlane has promised that no, really, the new Spawn movie's totally going to happen! And each time, it's started to feel less and less like a sure thing, even as Hollywood's been more than willing get adaptations for literally anything else to the big or small screen in a timelier manner.