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Donald Trump recently called himself the crypto president," pulling a complete 180 from the days when he referred to crypto as a scam. And it's causing quite a lot of confusion in an already hectic presidential race where the former president is neck-and-neck in the polls with President Joe Biden.

In May, we learned that creator Bryan Fuller had departed the much-anticipated Friday the 13th prequel series Crystal Lake, a project produced by edgy studio A24 for Peacock. At the time, Fuller posted on social media that for reasons beyond our control, A24 has elected to go a different way with the material."Read more...

WWDC 2024 was a pretty loaded event, and perhaps owing to time restraints, Apple might have skipped out on a seemingly small but crucial update for the Apple Watch coming to WatchOS 11.Read more...

Raise your glasses-and your eyebrows: A team of archaeologists has found the oldest liquid wine in a Roman mausoleum in Spain. The team determined it was a white wine, reddened by centuries of chemistry, and muddled with the cremated remains of a Roman man. Delicious.Read more...

Have you recovered from watching the House of the Dragon season two premiere yet? Considering what happens in the closing moments of A Son for a Son"-probably not, actually, and we can surely expect you-know-which scene to have reverberations throughout the coming episodes.Read more...

Paramount has released a new trailer for Smile 2, a sequel to the 2022 film about a trauma-harvesting entity that smiles at you like Richard D. James on an Aphex Twin album cover.

We've already seen companies try for a laptop alternative using AR glasses as a screen with the Spacetop G1. So why don't we have a phone made explicitly for AR? Well, AR glasses maker XReal has decided to unleash something phone-like. It will run your usual slate of Android apps. It will even take photos and video...Read more...

Children and teens with high body mass index should be guided toward intensive lifestyle interventions to manage their weight, an influential panel of experts is recommending.

The Legend of Zelda franchise has dabbled a few times with letting players actually get to play as Zelda herself-she's been a playable character in spinoffs, fighting games, and, somehow, two of those awful Phillips CD-i games. But, at long last, Zelda is going to star as the hero of a classically-styled Zelda game......Read more...

Every year for the past few years, Dungeons & Dragons has gotten bigger than ever. Now, in 2024 with the twinned anniversaries of its latest, fifth edition turning 10, and the RPG series at large turning 50, the game is ready to shape the next decade of adventuring-and its new versions of the core rulebooks are nearly...Read more...

Five years ago, a galaxy 300 million light-years away got a lot brighter in telescopes, radiating ultraviolet, optical, and infrared light out into space. This year, the resurgent galaxy started emitting X-rays, indicating that its initial brightening was really just a warmup.Read more...

Maika Monroe teases an even darker sequel inThey Follow. The Doctor and Mel face a storm of death in Doctor Who's season finale. Plus, what to expect from the next House of the Dragon. To me, my spoilers!

Last night's second season premiere of Game of Thrones' spinoff House of the Dragon tackled one of George R.R. Martin's most infamous deaths-in a new way that surprised the fandom.Read more...

It's been a while since we've heard from Google about the smart home, but a recent new FCC listing related to the company suggests something on the horizon.Read more...

In the Like The Light By Which God Made The World Before He Had Made Light", the revelations from the last episode come bubbling to the surface. Even in Louis' narrative of the past Armand's (Assad Zaman) actions begin to get colored a little differently right before the fire at the Theatre des Vampires.

Tesla temporarily paused Cybertruck deliveries over an issue involving the vehicle's large windshield wiper, according to several posters on the Cybertruck Owner's Club forum. The electric vehicle maker hasn't issued a formal statement on the reported issue, and it hasn't responded to Gizmodo's request for comment,...Read more...

Mondo's X-Men action figure line already has some pretty killer figures in it to celebrate mutantkind's animated legacy. But its next figure is now going to leap a little forward, and bring X-Men 97's finest hero to the forefront: Scott Summers, a.k.a. Cyclops.Read more...

Apple says it's shutting down Apple Pay Later, the tech giant's buy now, pay later" loan service, less than a year after launching the product to United States users in October 2023. Apple announced the move in a statement to 9to5Mac on Monday, saying it would replace the service with loan offerings from eligible...Read more...

YouTube will soon be testing a feature that allows users to add notes under videos to correct inaccurate or misleading information, according to an announcement from the video-sharing platform on Monday. And while it sounds strikingly similar to X's Community Notes program, there are still a lot of questions about how...Read more...

Sure, you'll probably never get your hands on that infamous extending lightsaber last seen at the now-defunct Galactic Starcruiser hotel, but-like The Force-hope is always there for Star Wars fans if they know where to look. A few DIYer tech YouTubers have crafted a fully extending and retracting lightsaber that's as...Read more...

Doctor Who, of course, is king of the cliffhanger. For a show that thrived on needing to get people to tune back in next week as storylines stretched across multiple episodes, few ongoing series have mastered the art of a last minute hook screaming into the closing titles that will have you seated this time in seven...Read more...

If you paid $1400 for a Dream Key annual pass at Disneyland between August and October of 2021, you may be entitled to a financial settlement, thanks to a new $9.5 million lawsuit.

The U.S. government sued Adobe on Monday for allegedly trapping" customers in its default, most lucrative subscription plan. In a complaint, the Department of Justice (DOJ) writes that Adobe locks customers into a year-long agreement that's not effectively disclosed as such, and ambushing" users with hefty hidden...Read more...

Heat waves don't just make you sweat - they can also mess with your brain. It's been established that hot weather can result in lower scores on math tests and higher rates of aggression, ranging from mean-spirited behavior to violent crime. A small but growing body of research suggests it can also influence how people...Read more...

TikTok recently announced Symphony Digital Avatars, a new way to incorporate ads on its platform. The social media app will soon feature AI-generated avatars of popular creators. According to the company, the aim is to help creators and brands captivate global audiences and deliver impactful messages in an immersive...Read more...

After a lot of up and downs about whether or not Megalopolis would even make it to theaters-and a wildly divided but still rather fascinated reaction to its premiere at Cannes this year-Francis Ford Coppola's latest will head to the silver screen after all.Read more...

Have you ever wondered what your favorite memes might look like if they were animated? Well, wonder no longer. Thanks to advancements in artificial intelligence technology, you can now see those static images come to life. And they look like absolute dogshit.Read more...

Welcome back to Westeros, where everyone's still reeling from the final events of House of the Dragon season one: the installment of King Aegon II (Tom Glynn-Carney) on the Iron Throne in place of designated heir Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D'Arcy)-and the tragic death of Rhaenyra's son, Lucerys, thanks to Aegon's...Read more...

During a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly reflecting on his long career in Hollywood, Alan Cumming cited 2003's X2: X-Men United as the gayest film [he's] ever done."Read more...

A team of astronomers has spotted the most distant merging galactic cores yet, seen as they were when the universe was less than a billion years old. The duo of active galactic centers, called quasars, is the only confirmed pair seen during the Cosmic Dawn.Read more...

Normally, we have to wait a few months after Apple's big WWDC conference before getting the full iOS release on iPhones. But now, thanks to AI, this year's release schedule will look very different. Apple's been a little vague about what new Apple Intelligence" features are coming to iPhones immediately, especially...Read more...

McDonald's is ending a two-year-old partnership with IBM to test AI's ability to replace drive-thru workers at more than 100 restaurants, according to Restaurant Business. The world's largest fast-food company is reportedly pulling the technology later in July. However, McDonald's tells Gizmodo this experiment with...Read more...

In a recent Twitter post, Marvel Comics revealed an updated logo to better differentiate its film, animation and comic book divisions from one another. There can now no longer be any confusion that what you hold your hand is a not a movie, per se, but instead a booklet of still images to pursue at your own leisure....Read more...

It seems like Apple's long-term design dream for its iPhones and iPads-to create some kind of magic pane of glass-are inching toward reality. The screens on Apple's iPhones keep getting bigger as the bezels shrink. Now, we have word that Apple is truly stressing the thinness of its devices after showcasing its...Read more...

The Transformers/GI Joe crossover has found its writer. Evil Dead Rise director Lee Cronin is working on a new horror movie. Plus, get a look at what's coming on Evil, and Doctor Who prepares for its season finale. To me, my spoilers!

I hope you all had a nice time yesterday celebrating any fathers in your lives. I can trace my love of puzzles back to my dad, who was quizzing me about Zeno's paradox and the Fibonacci sequence before I was potty trained. This was us nearly every night of my childhood:

When night fell on Uganda's second-largest national park in early February, Jacob, a three-legged African lion, made several attempts to cross a dangerous channel with his brother, Tibu.

After several years where most of their movies launched on Disney+ (and not without controversy), Pixar's back in theaters withInside Out 2. The sequel's big hook isa trio of new Emotions that've emerged from Riley's growth into puberty, and it's got a lot audiences who've seen it jumping for joy.Read more...

Last month, it was revealed Star Trek: Picard showrunner Terry Matalas was heading up a Disney+ show for Vision after his White variant departed WandaVision. Matalas now has another project lined up alongside that, which is good news for him, but not so good news for anyone holding out hope for him to continue any of P...Read more...

Over the last few months, Delicious in Dungeon has been airing over on Netflix. Based on the manga of the same name by Ryko Kui, the adaptation courtesy of Studio Trigger (the team behind Promare and Cyberpunk Edgerunners) has been a really good watch, and just wrapped its first season this past Thursday. Fans didn't...Read more...

Marvel's relaunched version of the Ultimate Universe has been going strong between its current quartet of titles. Between Ultimate Spider-Man, Ultimate X-Men, The Ultimates, and Ultimate Black Panther, the line's writers and artists have been gradually sketching new alternate versions on classic characters. But now...Read more...

Artificial intelligence is pretty much everywhere you look at the moment, churning out reams and reams of text and piles and piles and images, and its ability to synthesize new' material out of vast amounts of training data extends to audio too: You can have your own little customized ditty put together for you in...Read more...

As Apple eulogized its commitment to purportedly non-invasive AI during its annual developer conference, the iPhone maker neglected to disclose a critical update that's coming to the next evolution of its Mac operating system - macOS Sequoia.

Supermassive Games' interactive horror game Until Dawn is getting adapted to film, and it's now locked down about half its primary cast of young adults turned potential murder victims.Read more...

Defying persistent requests" from Russian media regulator Roskomnadzor, Mozilla said this week that it will restore local access to five censorship-circumventing add-ons.Read more...

The works of Stephen King have mainly been adapted as feature films in recent years, but TV's due to get its own King things pretty soon. Along with HBO's Welcome to Derry, MGM+ is entering the ring with a show based on the author's 2019 novel The Institute.

Star Wars has a particular type of music that runs throughout most of its media. Following on from John Williams, composers like Kevin Kiner, John Powell, and Michael Giacchinno have evoked the score of his films through the various spinoffs like Rogue One and Clone Wars. It's only been recently that Star Wars: Jedi...Read more...

If you're a fan of My Adventures with Superman, good news: it's getting another season.Read more...

Warner Bros. and DC have gone back to the world of Watchmen off and on ever since the 2009 live-action movie. While it's been a few years since the last time they returned to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' world, they've apparently still got Watchmen fever and are now looking to bring the superhero story as a movie once...Read more...

Kimberly Gasuras doesn't use AI. I don't need it," she said. I've been a news reporter for 24 years. How do you think I did all that work?" That logic wasn't enough to save her job.