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Sixty-four years ago, a team of archaeologists found a 3,500-year-old suit of armor in Dendra, Greece, several miles from the ancient site of Mycenae. Known as the Dendra Panoply, researchers were unsure if the resplendent suit of armor was purely ceremonial or battle-ready.Read more...

If you're a fan of Star Wars, Lego, or both, you might want to clear a few minutes right now. Photographer Hue Hughes has generously shared with io9 some of his stunning photographs of Lego Star Wars pieces and we are completely obsessed.Read more...

Celebrities and billionaires have long complained that it's just way too easy for random people on the internet to monitor how much fuel exhaust they waste as they flit through the skies via their private jets. Well, it appears that our government's legislators have heard these complaints and, unlike when the rest...Read more...

X Premium users have been able to hide the posts they've liked for months now, but the feature may soon become the default for everyone. A director of engineering at X said the platform is making likes private in a Tuesday post, noting that public likes may be discouraging people from engaging with content that might...Read more...

Earlier this month, bigwigs at Marvel and Disney made it clear they'd be making a strategic decision to release fewer movies and TV shows going forward. Now we know at least one new Disney+ series that'll be part of that scaled-down plan: a show centering Vision which will bring back Paul Bettany as the character...Read more...

In real life, if you look at them side by side, Liam Hemsworth and Henry Cavill don't really resemble each other. But put them in White Wolf wig and costume, and turn the brightness way down, and... man, The Witcher's continuity problem isn't seeming so dire now.Read more...

We're used to seeing Star Wars characters fight with lightsabers. But the first clip from upcoming Disney+ series The Acolyte shows us some highly skilled, absolutely relentless hand-to-hand combat. Even Master Sol (Lee Jung-jae) is confused: You attack me without a weapon," he says to Mae (Amandla Stenberg), his...Read more...

A Tesla owner in Ohio had a terrifying experience recently when his car tried to drive him right into a crossing train, according to multiple videos posted to the Tesla Motors Club forum. The vehicle was in Full Self-Driving (FSD) mode and allegedly, this isn't the first time the driver has experienced a disturbing...Read more...

A team of astronomers has managed to calculate the speed of a distant supermassive black hole's spin thanks to the object's chance meeting with a star-which it promptly destroyed.Read more...

What if Marvel Studios, Disney+, Industrial Light & Magic, and Apple all came together for a single project? Well, we don't have to ask What If?" It's actually happening. It's called What If...? - An Immersive Story, it's a virtual reality experience exclusive to Apple Vision Pro, and the first trailer is here.Read more...

Amazon is reportedly releasing a generative AI version of Alexa later this year and plans to charge a monthly subscription fee separate from Amazon Prime for the technology, according to CNBC on Wednesday. It's part of Amazon's effort to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT-4 Omni and Google's Gemini 1.5, which threaten...Read more...

Google Maps is one of the most popular navigation apps. Gizmodo readers have voted it the greatest app of all time. That said, it never hurts to explore your options when it comes to figuring out which navigation app is right for you. We've found some of the best Google Maps alternatives on iOS and Android for...Read more...

Microsoft's full-throttle push into artificial intelligence technology is getting more scrutiny by regulators worried that the conglomerate is invading consumers' privacy.Read more...

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When a film is a huge success, we often imagine studios pressuring filmmakers to follow it up. Get the sequel out fast," is the prevailing thought. And while sometimes that happens with varying degrees of success,George Miller told io9 he didn't feel any pressure to follow up Mad Max: Fury Road after that film's...Read more...

The $700 Humane AI Pin didn't have the best launch, mainly because reviewers got their hands on the pint-size wearable chatbot and realized a lot of features didn't work as well as advertised. Now, the company that made the device, headed up by two ex-Apple developers, is reportedly looking to sell the company for...Read more...

Steven Kostanki's Deathstalker remake releases its first image. Another new look at Alien: Romulus. Plus, you'll have to read a YA novel to find out what happened at the end of Goosebumps' first season. Keep watching the spoilers!

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When OpenAI's board fired Sam Altman in late 2023, the board members said he was not consistently candid in his communications." The statement raised more questions than answers, indirectly calling Sam Altman a liar, but about what exactly? Six months later, creatives and former employees are once again asking the...Read more...

Out of all the big blowout declarations from Microsoft Build, from the launch of all new Copilot+" PCs with Snapdragon X Elite chips to new software, perhaps the most standout offering is Recall. It's an always-on screenshotting time machine that is supposed to let users search through every last minute of their...Read more...

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, announced late Tuesday afternoon that he would accept donations in Bitcoin, Ether, Dogecoin, Solana, and other cryptocurrencies. With this move, he has become the first major party candidate to embrace digital currencies. Earlier this month, the former...Read more...

Fans of 3 Body Problem were thrilled to hear the show had been renewed by Netflix, but something about the announcement was puzzling. Usually, when a show gets greenlit for more, there's a specific announcement about what that means: another season, two more seasons, a special array of finale episodes, etc. That...Read more...

C. Gordon Bell, a true visionary in the world of computing who helped design some of the first minicomputers in the 1960s, died May 17 at the age of 89, according to a new report from the New York Times Tuesday. Bell died in Coronado, California from pneumonia according to the Times, which cites an unnamed family...Read more...

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Every movie starts with a script and a movie we've all been waiting for is finally getting one. Michael Lesslie, the writer of last year's The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes, is in negotiations to write Marvel Studios' upcoming live-action X-Men movie.Read more...

Star Wars fans have been buzzing about a potentially huge reveal in new footage from The Acolyte, and now a curious change to that footage on YouTube adds fuel to the fire of its accuracy.Read more...

In the past, every new version of Android felt like a special occasion for the platform's devoted users. It meant new software features, better algorithms, improved user interfaces, and maybe even something fun.

Hidden right above Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean, the ride that started the Disney Parks attraction-to-movie pipeline, is the members-only Club 33, an exclusive destination for industry professionals, insiders, the rich and the famous, and their lucky friends. There's plenty of mystique built into Club 33,...Read more...

New research this month is the latest to link the use of Ozempic, Wegovy, and other GLP-1 drugs to a greater risk of gastroparesis, a potentially serious medical condition. So what exactly is gastroparesis and how worried should you be about it if you're on or thinking about taking these medications?

Netflix fantasy Sweet Tooth-based on Jeff Lemire's DC comic series-will unveil its third and final season in June, and the stakes are sky-high for the hybrid kids and their allies. Today brought a new trailer and images highlighting new characters, including those played by Star Wars' Kelly Marie Tran and The Expanse's...Read more...

Despite the fact that they're created by humans, large language models are still quite mysterious. The high-octane algorithms that power our current artificial intelligence boom have a way of doing things that aren't outwardly explicable to the people observing them. This is why AI has largely been dubbed a black...Read more...

Bluey's World is opening later this year in the Heeler family's neighborhood of Brisbane, Australia. Inspired by Ludo Studio's hit animated series Bluey, this mini theme park experience is an upgrade from a traveling pop-up; it's more of a permanent residence with attractions throughout, offering a real recreation of...Read more...

A teen girl's kitten turned out to cause much more trouble than usual. In a new case report this month, doctors in Portugal describe how the cat likely transmitted an usually mild germ that caused the girl to develop a serious and rare bone infection. Thankfully, once the infection was identified and treated, the girl...Read more...

Compasses at the bottom of the ocean wobbled as a massive solar storm hit Earth last week, giving the instruments two miles under the sea a jolt of magnetic shock and awe.Read more...

Over the past five years, new Marvel movies may have been confusing if you didn't watch the streaming shows. Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness was basically a direct sequel to WandaVision. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania had its roots in Loki. And The Marvels featured main characters from Ms. Marvel and Wa...Read more...

Our galaxy stretches across 100,000 light-years and contains somewhere between 100 to 400 billion stars. It appears in our night skies as a long, hazy strip of light littered with celestial objects. Photographers worldwide have been captivated by the sight of the Milky Way from Earth, capturing its incredible details...Read more...

Star Trek just got itself another Oscar winner and Starfleet Academy just got itself a new chancellor. Holly Hunter, best known for work in films including Raising Arizona, The Incredibles, and Home for the Holidays,has just been cast as the lead in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, a new Trek show coming to Paramount+.Read more...

Minnesota legislators reached a compromise with Uber and Lyft to increase pay for drivers across the state through a newly passed bill on Sunday, according to the Star Tribune. The ridesharing companies say they will continue operating throughout the state, after threatening to leave Minneapolis in August when the...Read more...

Simon Kinberg's name is recognizable to fans of the X-Men movies-his feature directorial debut was 2019's X-Men: Dark Phoenix, but he's long been a producer and sometimes writer on the franchise, starting with 2006's X-Men: The Last Stand right up through this summer's Deadpool & Wolverine. But he's got another...Read more...

It's very possible we'll know more about UFOs soon. Due to a stipulation inside the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, the federal government is now required to share any and all internal reports on the subject of unidentified flying objects with the National Archives, which will then (eventually) share those...Read more...

While many of 2024's most anticipated horror titles are yet to come-think A Quiet Place: Day One, Longlegs, Trap, and MaXXXine-there are also plenty of must-see titles that either already wrapped their theatrical runs, or were released straight to streaming. Plan your next horror movie night at home starting with one...Read more...

In a new update to its full self-driving (FSD) mode, Tesla is reportedly removing what its drivers call steering wheel nag."Read more...

Neanderthal remains from the Altai Mountains contain human viruses, a team of researchers has found, suggesting that infectious diseases may have been transmitted between anatomically modern humans and our closest (extinct) cousins.Read more...

The unreliable haze of nostalgia, the intoxicating connection that comes from a shared obsessive fandom, and the tricks the mind plays to shield us from unbearable truths all come into play in I Saw the TV Glow, the latest psychological horror movie from writer-director Jane Schoenbrun.Read more...

Former President Donald Trump shared a video on Truth Social Monday afternoon referencing the creation of a unified Reich" among possible headlines that would read if he wins re-election in November. Trump deleted the video sometime around 8:30 a.m. ET on Tuesday after receiving stark criticism.Read more...

Imagine if you dropped your phone, and instead of bemoaning its new dented existence, you watched as the screen fixed itself before your eyes, as if watching the X-Men's Wolverine repair himself after a battle that would kill a mortal man. A new Apple patent offers something slightly less spectacular, describing a...Read more...

NASA aims to set up a long-term human presence on the Moon, but maintaining a habitat on the surface will require some innovative infrastructure. To one day transport cargo across the dusty, cratered landscape, NASA is considering a magnetic levitation railway system.Read more...

Sonos, the renowned audio company known best for its speakers, has finally revealed its first-ever pair of headphones, the Ace. We've known for some time that Sonos has been working on a pair of high-end headphones for a while now. I spent some quality time with the Sonos Ace at an NYC event recently and left...Read more...

What We Do in the Shadows teases its series finale. Jerry Bruckheimer clarifies his plans for the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. Plus, a new look at Alien: Romulus. To me, my spoilers!

In case you missed it, we highly recommend you go check out Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga this week. We've seen it, we loved it, we've been covering the crap out of it, and if you're as excited as we were for it, we think you'll be happy.Read more...