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When you look in the mirror, what do you see? In all likelihood, you see a complex shape that you immediately recognize as yourself. Now, a team of researchers has found that mice appear capable of doing the same thing.

Meta and IBM assembled the Avengers of open-sourced artificial intelligence on Tuesday to form the AI Alliance, taking on leaders in the space such as OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. The group of 50 companies, startups, universities, research institutes, and government bodies aims to foster an open-sourced community...Read more...

Tuesday was the scheduled day for the reveal of Grand Theft Auto VI, but someone got their hands on the trailer early. Not long after the leak showed up online, developer Rockstar Games pulled the trigger and the official trailer went live Monday evening.Read more...

Following Richard Branson's announcement of halting further financial contributions, the stock price of Virgin Galactic experienced a significant drop of over 17% by Monday's close. This latest complication adds to a series of challenges the company has faced, including recent layoffs and a suspension of commercial...Read more...

If you want to know what average online folks are trying to learn about, then perhaps the total view counts on Wikipedia might offer us a glimpse into what most people want to learn about. If the top 25 most-viewed Wikipedia articles of 2023 are anything to go by, then people really cared about the rise of AI and the...Read more...

It's approaching peak time for festive merriment, both for travelers packing for those winter trips and locals getting their holiday theme park fixes.Read more...

You no longer have to worry about sending low-quality images on WhatsApp. Well, at least on iPhone. According to WABetaInfo, WhatsApp's latest software update for iOS allows you to send images as a document (just like on Gmail), meaning the original quality of the pictures is retained without you having to do any...Read more...

Timothee Chalamet is reason enough to see Wonka, the new musical that acts as a prequel to the Roald Dahl-inspired films Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and, if you're so inclined, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Chalamet plays the famous title character in his formative years, passionate and optimistic about...Read more...

23andMe, the world's leading consumer DNA harvesting enterprise, announced Friday that hackers stole about 14,000 people's ancestry information, as well as a significant number of files" about other users. It turns out the word significant" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. According to TechCrunch, 23andMe...Read more...

A great white shark carcass that washed up near Portland, Australia, in October was killed and eaten by orcas, according to researchers who studied the fish's remains.

X-planes are a class of experimental aircraft designed to test and demonstrate new innovations in flight-some were created for NASA, others for DARPA or the U.S. military. The first X-plane, X-1, was flown by Chuck Yeager in the 1940s and was the first craft to fly faster than the speed of sound. Over the decades,...Read more...

The year 2023 was a fairly huge one for Marvel and Star Wars shows on Disney+. Marvel brought us Loki season two, What If...?, and Secret Invasion. Star Wars gave us The Mandalorian season three and Ahsoka in live-action, as well as Bad Batch, Visions, and Young Jedi Adventures in animation. Will 2024 live up to that...Read more...

If Doctor Who's triumphant return in The Star Beast" was a romp in Russell T. Davies' hallmark style to prove that Doctor Who can really still feel like its recent past, then Wild Blue Yonder" is a similarly triumphant attempt to prove that Doctor Who can still be weird, chilling, and inventive as it ever was. But...Read more...

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The rumors are true: Netflix and Max are combining forces for a streaming bundle that costs just $10 a month. Of course, there are some strings attached; you must be a Verizon myPlan customer, and the deal includes the ad-supported versions of Netflix and Max.

When Bernard Cribbins passed away in July 2022, Doctor Who fans knew they'd get to see him one last time in the series, after set pictures revealing him shooting a scene with Catherine Tate and David Tennant emerged online. But while there were plans for more, what we saw when that scene broadcast this past weekend is...Read more...

Amazon, known for its speedy delivery to your doorstep, has faced delays in deploying its internet satellites into orbit, prompting the Jeff Bezos-led company to form an unexpected partnership with its rival SpaceX.

Grandpa rockers KISS finally hung up the makeup brushes this weekend on the last night of their The End of the Road" farewell tour. The band promises this marks the end of its 50-year live career, but Gene Simmons found a way to squeeze the last few dollars out of his geriatric fans. KISS is done touring, but you'll...Read more...

Spotify staff could be listening to a funerary dirge in their own Spotify Wraps. The company announced it was making sweeping staff cuts across the board, reducing global headcount by around 17%. Merry Christmas.Read more...

Those of you on an Android device may be exhausted by the emotional turmoil brought on by messaging apps. I warn you: this next bit of news may be too much too soon. Strava, the fitness tracking app geared toward athletes and People Who Like Data, has announced that it's launching messaging between its users on iOS...Read more...

Every few months, a math problem goes viral on social media. Disappointingly often, it lacks mathematical meat. It seems over half of them boil down to the order of operations. Some tweet will get thousands of likes claiming that the Internet is divided over an arithmetic problem like: what does 6/2(1+2) equal? It's...Read more...

For centuries, astronomers were limited to ground-based observations of the planets, but now we use spacecraft to capture close-up views of our neighboring worlds. Excitingly, our views of solar system planets have been getting progressively better over the decades, as these images attest.Read more...

With shifting release dates and mandated radio silence due to the Hollywood strikes, the buildup to Dune: Part Two has been nothing short of eventful. While there's still a few more months before audiences can see it, Warner Bros. is getting the promo ball rolling again with footage screened at CCXP to join the first...Read more...

Legendary's Monsterverse has been steadily persisting since 2014 and saw its first big titanic crossover in the form of 2021's Godzilla vs. Kong. Instead of splitting the titular monsters back off again so they can do their own separate things for a bit, they're reuniting once more-this time as allies rather than...Read more...

Yesterday, Prime Video gave viewers a first full look at its upcoming Fallout show. Based on the RPG franchise by Interplay and Bethesda, the series definitely looks like it belongs with the actual games, and that wasn't just the mission statement-for all intents and purposes, this is their idea of Fallout 5.Read more...

Whether they're from the US-based Legendary Pictures or Japan's Toho Studios, Godzilla movies come out with a reliable frequency. The newest Japan-made film starring the giant dinosaur is Godzilla Minus One, the country's first live-action Godzilla flick since 2016's Shin Godzilla and the fifth in the Reiwa era that...Read more...

Skybound Entertainment is heading eastward to open up a new studio in Tokyo, Japan.Read more...

The first season of Halo's TV adaptation was sometimes interesting, but also kind of a mess. With a new timeline to work with, the show took some sharp divergences, shall we say, and things ended in such a way you weren't fully sure how we were going to make it to Halo: Combat Evolved.Read more...

It feels like we've been hearing about Star Trek: Discovery's fifth season-even before we knew it would be its final-for a very long time at this point. But at long last, with the arrival of yet another new clip, we now know when Michael Burnham and her friends will begin their last tour of active duty.

It's been over a full year since the last season of The Boys, and while Gen V's definitely kept the franchise going, it teed up some interesting developments for the mothership show's return. While the next season is still a couple of months out, Prime Video's released a first look at what's coming next for their...Read more...

Despite initial skepticism, House of the Dragon proved itself to be a solid return to the world of Westeros and a good show in its own right. The Game of Thrones prequel had its second season already locked in almost immediately after premiering, and after being technically allowed to film through the Hollywood strikesRead more...

The Xbox app now plays nice with handheld consoles thanks to a new Compact mode." Windows-based handheld console users no longer need to navigate through tiny text and jumbled sidebars on relatively small screens. But Microsoft, you know what would be even better? A full version of Windows 11 made for handheld.Read more...

Interplay's (and later Bethesda's) Fallout games have always held a special place in the hearts of players. Waits between mainline installments have only grown longer, and there may be plenty of other post-apocalyptic worlds, but folks love the RPG series for its immersive world and black sense of humor. Fallout scratc...Read more...

It's been a wild week in the world of sci-fi, fantasy, superheroes, and more genre fare. The return of Doctor Who for its 60th anniversary, burning Mandalorian questions, and our epic first looks at Fallout and Furiosa all made the list of our most read stories-but here's a few more highlights you might have missed-Jam...Read more...

If you had an old burner Gmail account, this week was your last chance to log in before Google permanently nukes it. Meanwhile, recent Samsung leaks appear to confirm some Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra renders that had been floating around the internet. Gizmodo's consumer tech team covered that news and more this week....Read more...

You have to go back to the 1970s for the first generation of video game consoles, and many of them have been released since-consoles that have long since become outdated and obsolete. However, if you're eager to relive the games and platforms of yesteryear (or try them out for the first time), there's a way: emulators.

If you're behind on what's happening with the robot uprising, have no fear. Here's a quick look at some of the weirdest and wildest artificial intelligence news from the past week. And be sure to check out our weekly newsletter on the biggest developments in AI.Read more...

If you told a person on the street in the 1970s that humans would have no base on the Moon by the year 2000, they'd probably laugh in your face. Well, it's 2023 and we still lack even the barest of lunar infrastructure. But this week, Alenia Space and the Italian Space Agency sketched out their plans for a sustainable...Read more...

In the aftermath of last week's shocking OpenAI power struggle, there was one final revelation that acted as a kind of epilogue to the sprawling mess: a report from Reuters that revealed a supposedly startling breakthrough at the startup. That breakthrough allegedly happened via a little known program dubbed Q-Star"...Read more...

When Doctor Who returned to our screens this past weekend in The Star Beast," it brought with it all sorts of weird and occasionally fearsome threats, from the mischievous Meep to the insectoid Wrarth Warriors. But perhaps nothing could send you scurrying behind the sofa than one single joke/threat: a fish curry made...Read more...

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When Baldur's Gate 3 released this summer, its ending was one of the rare moments where praise for Larian's take on the world of Dungeons & Dragons wasn't united in effusive lauding. Abrupt, a little messy, and lacking in closure to characters players had just spent hundreds of hours with, it was both interesting and...Read more...

Audiences everywhere have spent nearly 50 years watching and adoring Harrison Ford, and a new documentary on Disney+ takes that wonderful experience and condenses it down to 90 minutes.Read more...

OpenAI is delaying the launch of its GPT Store, a marketplace of customizable GPTs, until 2024, according to a memo seen by Axios. Sam Altman told an audience at DevDay that the GPT Store would launch in November.Read more...

The final month of 2023 is here, and with it, one more batch of Lego sets to tempt your wallet (or get stuck under the Christmas tree). From big hits in the Modular Buildings line to Shadow the Hedgehog's Lego debut, there's something for everyone, even if there's not all that many new kits.

The biggest experimental nuclear fusion reactor in operation was inaugurated north of Tokyo today, as scientists continue to plug away at making nuclear fusion a viable source of the world's energy.

Here's a first look at the latest Spider-Manfigure from collectible giants Hot Toys.Read more...

Godzilla Minus One stomps into U.S. theaters today, so director Takashi Yamazaki probably already has a lot on his plate right now. But goddammit, the man wants to do a Star Wars movie, and now I can think of nothing more perfect.

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With the recent news that Max and Netflix might soon offer subscription bundles for certain customers and the imminent combination of Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ (which are all owned by the same parent company) into a single app, there's another potential team-up on the horizon: Apple TV+ and Paramount+.Read more...