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OpenAI rode a hype-fueled rocket to business leadership over the last year. CEO Sam Altman managed to put a consumer-friendly wrapper on a years-old technology and capture the world's attention. And now, for better or worse, OpenAI is better positioned than anyone to build the tools that will save or destroy the...Read more...

Doctor Who's new 14th Doctor-with that old face-has already gone on his first adventures in the pages of the show's official magazine. But he'll be making his televised debut a little earlier than anticipated... and bringing some old foes with him.Read more...

I can't help but feel bad for the Legion Go. Lenovo's first take on the handheld console market is a strong one. It's got a much bigger screen than the original Steam Deck. It has a better battery than the original Steam Deck. Thanks to its pop-out controllers, it's more innovative than the Steam Deck or the Asus ROG...Read more...

For the next two weeks, NASA will not be sending commands to its fleet of Martian rovers, orbiters, and spacecraft until the Sun moves out of the way.Read more...

There is a significant likelihood" that the Icelandic volcano Fagradalsfjall will erupt in the coming days," according to the country's meteorological office. The volcanic activity is primarily occurring in the island's southwest, northeast of the fishing town of Grindavik.Read more...

Although the season of Hollywood strikes came to an end when SAG-AFTRA closed its picket lines last week having secured a tentative agreement with the AMPTP, it's not over yet-ahead of the union membership vote on the potential three-year contract, SAG-AFTRA has released a summary of the deal to read online.

If you have an old Gmail account lying around that you haven't used in a while, make sure to use it before December 1, or Google will permanently delete it. By in a while,' Google means two years. That's the criteria they have set for the amount of time that should have passed for them to consider an account inactive.

A new international trailer for Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom gives us new footage. The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon expands its cast for season 2. Plus, what's to come on Rick and Morty and Fear the Walking Dead's final episodes. Spoilers, away!

Optical illusions and puzzles share overlapping vibes. Mental trickery, aha' moments, cross-eyed frustration. Did you know that the Neural Correlate Society holds an annual contest for the Best Illusion of the Year? This year's winner created a LEGO model of Harry Potter's Platform 9 3/4, complete with a seemingly...Read more...

Since the start of the year, Netflix has been giving out a drip feed of information for Zack Snyder's sci-fi action flick Rebel Moon. With almost a full month to go before it finally becomes a thing you can watch, a new trailer was shown at the streamer's Geeked Week event, and it continues to look like the biggest...Read more...

The 1992 anime adaptation of Yoshihiro Togashi's YuYu Hakusho is one of those series that hit at just the right time for a generation of animation fans, not unlike Dragonball Z. At a time of live-action adaptations of popular animated material, it wasn't entirely unexpected to hear the series would be getting one of...Read more...

In the nine months since Ant-Man & the Wasp: Quantumania hit theaters, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has gone through some sizable upheavals. More recent weeks have been particularly heavy with discussions about the megafranchise's future, something that Marvel itself has quietly acknowledged by pushing back three of...Read more...

Filmmaker Robert Butler passed away earlier in the month on November 3 at 95 years old, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Earlier in the year, it was reported that Warner Bros. Discovery had successfully sold off its upcoming comic book show Dead Boy Detectives over to Netflix. During this weekend's Geeked Week event, the streamer showed off the first trailer for the show, and the young sleuths duo looks they'll be getting up to some...Read more...

The Terminator franchise is making a comeback, but as an anime series for Netflix.Read more...

Along with being one of the biggest platforms to watch anime, Crunchyroll is also a hub to read manga on your phone or computer. While not as big as say, Shonen Jump, it's managed to stick around for a little over a decade...which makes it tragic irony to reveal that the service is going to be delisted a full month...Read more...

The Man of Steel is staying right where he is on the calendar. On X (formerly Twitter), director/writer James Gunn revealed his next film, Superman: Legacy, would be sticking to its previously announced date of July 11, 2025 now that the SAG-AFTRA strike has (seemingly/hopefully) reached its end.Read more...

Days ago, Warner Bros. Discovery announced it'd shelved another film: Coyote vs. Acme, which was intended to be the newest film for the Looney Toons brand. Originally meant for Max before getting bumped up to a theatrical release, WBD said the completed film would be vaulted and never see the light of day. And much...Read more...

This past summer, Warner Bros. released its other swan song to the DCEU in Blue Beetle. If you were one of the folks who didn't see the moviewhen it was in theaters back in mid-August and forwent the physical release in favor of streaming, good news: it's hitting Max next Friday, October 17.Read more...

As 2023 stumbles towards its close, it's clear we're preparing to enter a world that will soon be filled to the brim with robots. Science fiction tells us that AI will soon gain sentience and inevitably crush humanity in its never-ending quest for power. I'll believe it when I see it. For now, the robots that surround...Read more...

We live in a multilingual world, which is represented in the billions of pages published on the web-but just because a website isn't written in your native tongue doesn't mean that you can't read it. All of the most popular browsers come with translation tools built-in on desktop and mobile, so you don't have to limit...Read more...

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

Following the news Wednesday night that the SAG-AFTRA strike had come to an end after nearly 120 days, supporters have been waiting to hear more details about the tentative agreement. Today, union president Fran Drescher, national executive director and chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, and others held a press...Read more...

The Federal Bureau of Investigations confiscated New York City Mayor Eric Adams' two cell phones and his iPad this week in a federal corruption investigation into his 2021 campaign, according to The New York Times.Read more...

The holidays have begun and hot off the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike, actor David Harbour was excited to talk about his DC Studios future.Read more...

A salmonella outbreak in humans has been traced back to a very-not-human source: dog food. Federal health officials determined that at least seven people, mostly infants, have gotten sick from certain brands of dry dog food. Mid America Pet Food, the company implicated in the outbreak, recalled all of its dog and cat...Read more...

In an effort to secure precious access to low Earth orbit, the European Space Agency (ESA) signed an agreement with Airbus and Voyager Space for the use of their commercial space station which is currently under development as a replacement for the International Space Station (ISS).Read more...

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. Also, don't forget to check out our weekly AI write-up, which will go into more detail on this same topic.Read more...

We're going to be waiting a long while before Geralt's live-action adventures-complete with a new face-continue on Netflix. But that's not to say the Witcher won't be witching any time soon either, thanks to a new movie-starring a very familiar voice.Read more...

Nerf was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame Friday, as the longtime fan favorite secured its legacy as one of the greatest toys of all time. Nerf blasters were the coveted toy of any 90s child, and its foam balls, originally released in the 1960s, unleashed indoor sports for countless children when the...Read more...

SpaceX has undoubtedly cemented its position as a leader in the emerging space industry, but that may have come at a painful price. A shocking new investigation by Reuters documents 600 workplace injuries and one death at Elon Musk's rocket company, highlighting a dangerous disregard for safety practices for the sake...Read more...

We've known since 2020 that Game of Thrones co-creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss would be shepherding 3 Body Problem, Netflix's series adaptation of Chinese author Liu Cixin's acclaimed sci-fi novel-and we've known since 2021 who was going to star in it. Now, we know when it's arriving: March 21, 2024.Read more...

In the season two finale of Disney+ and Marvel Studios' Loki-which circles back to the same title as Loki season one, episode one, Glorious Purpose"-everything falls into place, creating an ouroboros of its own making that seals Loki's fate.

Parents are increasingly finding ways to keep their children unvaccinated as they enter kindergarten, new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. The percentage of parents claiming vaccine exemptions for their children has increased nationwide this year, with many states rising over 5%....Read more...

Valve recently revealed the Steam Deck OLED, an updated version of the Steam Deck with a new OLED display and better battery. While the company has called the new handheld the definitive first generation Steam Deck," it's not quite a Steam Deck 2.

The Daleks are Doctor Who's most persistent foe, and for many the ultimate test of just how a new actor slips into the role is how they handle going up against the legendary pepperpots. But Ncuti Gatwa might not get that test for a long while, if returning showrunner Russell T. Davies has his way.Read more...

A new report suggests that Verizon customers may soon be able to snag a subscription combining the ad-tier Max and Netflix options for just $10. That's a significant discount; as separate subscriptions, the ad-tier costs for those services run $9.99 per month and $6.99 per month, respectively.

Frank Borman, born in 1928, emerged as one of the most influential figures in the history of space exploration. As a test pilot, astronaut, and commander of the groundbreaking Apollo 8 mission, Borman's career spanned the heights of the Cold War space race.Read more...

Samsung didn't release any new lower-cost, lower-powered fan edition" phone last year in the months since it released the Galaxy S22. Instead, the company took its time and gave it a full year before it could come out with a full refresh. This means the Galaxy S23 FE, at its $600, benefits from a good deal of time...Read more...

The largest land mammal of our time has an evolutionary story at least 60 million years in the making. On Monday, a new exhibit revealing the secret lives' of the trunked giants will open at New York's American Museum of Natural History, clueing us into how elephants evolved, communicate, and persevere in a world...Read more...

Major Marvel crossovers continue to be set up as we get deeper into Phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.Read more...

With SAG-AFTRA's strike coming to an end this week, Hollywood has been quickly getting its stars back into promoting their projects, even as the landscape shifts to give movies and shows time to get back into production. But it's not just upcoming material opening back up-things that dropped during the strike are...Read more...

Apple will dispute the European Union's latest crackdown on Big Tech by appealing the decision to regulate iMessage and the App Store as anticompetitive services, according to Bloomberg.Read more...

Update: All the online backlash that Microsoft received finally worked. They got rid of the survey that users were forced to take every time they would quit the OneDrive app. They also remarked that it was just a test. In a statement that they gave to The Verge, it said, Between Nov. 1 and 8, a small subset of...Read more...

Amazon's space venture, Project Kuiper, is making good progress, with a pair of prototype satellites executing controlled maneuvers in low Earth orbit. The ongoing Protomission, as it's called, sets the stage for the company to further develop its internet satellite constellation, one that could eventually compete...Read more...

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They say you should never build statues of anyone still living, as they still have enough time to disappoint you. Tesla CEO and Twitter owner Elon Musk has had plenty of time to spare in that department, having tanked his self-made reputation as a billionaire genius. The man already has one major book describing his...Read more...

According to MacRumors, Apple is set to release the fourth-gen of their budget-friendly iPhone SE line in 2025. And reports suggest that its body is going to look a lot like the iPhone 14. Until now, the SE series featured an iPhone 8-style design, but that will end with the upcoming model. A more modern look and a...Read more...

Captain Marvel was dead, to begin with. More than one Captain Marvel, if we want to be perfectly accurate about it. By 2012, the Marvel Comics hero that bore the company name had been relaunched in no fewer than six different series, and seen a total of three separate characters take on the name. More than three...Read more...

While air is a gaseous delight unique to Earth, a team of astrophysicists have made a satisfying discovery: the direct observation of atomic oxygen on Venus' dayside, confirming that the element crucial for our existence exists on both sides of the hellish planet.Read more...