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OpenAI asked Scarlett Johansson to provide voice acting that would be used in the company's new AI voice assistant, but the actress declined, according to a statement obtained by NPR on Monday. And after last week's demo, Johansson says she was shocked to hear a voice that was identical to her own. Especially since...Read more...

The new iPad Pro pretty much stole the show at the May 7 Apple event. An M4 chip and an OLED display are exciting upgrades. It's powerful (and expensive) enough to almost seriously compete with a Macbook. The iPad Air, on the other hand, leaves a lot to be desired, especially if you've been waiting almost two years...Read more...

Microsoft wants to convince you that a chip tuned for AI will all be worth it. Adobe, DaVinci, and CapCut are among the first apps to offer compatibility with the dedicated NPU inside the new Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite processor running on select PCs. Windows also provides built-in perks for those who adopt a...Read more...

Not only is Amandla Stenberg about to become one of the newest Force wielders in the Star Wars galaxy, they're also about to blow your mind as a musician too.Read more...

Rejoice New Yorkers. The Portal is back.

Microsoft smells blood in the water, and it seems to be exclusively gunning for Apple's latest ultra-thin laptops and iPads with devices sporting all-day batteries and ARM-based processors that boast better performance with better energy efficiency.

A new documentary following the six-year process of making Hayao Miyazaki'sOscar-winning animated film The Boy and the Heron was released at the Cannes Film Festival.Read more...

Longlegs looks like a supernatural Silence of the Lambs with a hint of Zodiac, and we could not be more excited. Written and directed by Osgood Perkins, it's the story of a new FBI agent (Maika Monroe) who finds herself on the trail of a cryptic serial killer who calls themselves Longlegs.Read more...

It seems that nobody-and no body part-is safe from microplastics. In a recent study, researchers found traces of plastic in the testicles of both dogs and humans. The potential health impacts of this discovery are not yet clear, but the team suggests it may help explain why men's sperm counts have declined over time.Read more...

The millennial-skewed telehealth platform Hims & Hers announced Monday that is now offering customers a compounded version of semaglutide, the active ingredient in popular weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy.Read more...

While the names of the three actors joining The Sandman's second season may not be immediately recognizable, the characters they'll be bringing to the Netflix show will definitely intrigue fans: the final three members of the Endless, the cosmic family that also includes Tom Sturridge's Dream.Read more...

Neuralink, the Elon Musk-funded neuroscience startup, has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to implant its next patient with its experimental brain chip. This next operation will seek to fix certain issues that occurred following its first implantation operation.

Halfway to Halloween is upon us, but if it's too early to start binging your horror movie collection-why not binge a horror TV show or two instead? Netflix is a prime destination for ghosts, inter-dimensional creeps, morose high-schoolers, sinister neighbors, and other characters who go bump in the night. Here are 10...Read more...

Lenovo has announced it's joining Microsoft and Qualcomm's foray into AI-based computing with a new lineup of laptops specifically tuned for the Snapdragon X Elite architecture. For the same price as Lenovo's other laptops, you get to be the first to foray into the world with an ARM-based chip tuned specifically for...Read more...

New research could point to a hidden risk of fluoride in early development. The study found a link between higher fluoride exposure in pregnant women and a greater risk of their children later being diagnosed with neurobehavioral problems by age 3. The findings do not confirm a cause-and-effect link, but they do...Read more...

Tickets are now on sale for the summer's most anticipated movie and its stars aren't saying anything about it. Deadpool & Wolverine is out July 26 and, to promote the fact tickets are available, stars Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds did a new interview and released some new footage, none of which spoils anything, but...Read more...

This is a free country, or so I'm told. While that doesn't mean you're entitled to lifesaving healthcare without going bankrupt, it does mean that if you own a hot dog bar in Las Vegas, Nevada, you can host an unofficial meet-and-greet with world famous cartoon pup Bluey and piss off hundreds of children and their...Read more...

OpenAI is reportedly taking away ChatGPT-4o's Scarlett Johansson-like voice that it says is not meant to be an imitation of the actress.Read more...

Louis (Jacob Anderson) and Claudia's (Delainey Hayles) arrival in Paris incites curiosity among the city's local vampire coven, which is run by Armand (Assad Zaman). The pair try to fit in despite still running away from their past to start fresh with a new story in this week's Interview With the Vampire.Read more...

Julian Assange can file an appeal by Friday to fight his extradition to the United States, according to a new ruling from a British court on Monday. The decision, first reported by the New York Times, comes as Assange sits in a London prison over computer hacking and espionage charges first brought by the U.S....Read more...

According to the latest reports, Apple is preparing to unleash an AI avalanche on iPhones at its upcoming WWDC 2024. This will include some cloud-based as well as on-device AI models, but it will be through the lens of easily the most well-known and widest-reaching AI developers around today, OpenAI.Read more...

Everyone's parents tell stories of how their world was different from ours. When it came to media, my parents told me how they only had a handful of TV channels. Their parents told them they didn't even have TV. For me, I'll tell kids that I truly discovered not just the internet, but myself, because of Star Wars. And,...Read more...

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There are a certain amount of expectations when you say the words a Steven Moffat episode of Doctor Who." Over his tenure as a regular writer and then as the series' showrunner for the best part of seven years, Moffat developed a house style-to his detractors, a preponderance for questionable mysteries and twists, to...Read more...

On May 22, 2010, a man in Florida paid 10,000 Bitcoin for pizza.Read more...

Jerry Bruckheimer teases a new course for the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. The Insidious franchise creeps forward with a sixth sequel. Plus, find out which live-action Spider-Man project is canceled at Amazon. The spoilers must flow!

Although most view tic-tac-toe as a kid's game, puzzle designers see it as a canvas. I think the game's simplicity almost taunts people-is a 3x3 grid with only two possible symbols really going to stump you? Yet members of the puzzle community continue to devise ingenious little twists to keep the game fresh and...Read more...

Many of us will spend a lot of hours working in a browser window when sitting in front of a computer-and for two-thirds of people, that browser will be Google Chrome. To put it another way, Google Chrome keyboard shortcuts have the potential to save a lot of users a lot of time, meaning they can jump around the web...Read more...

Last year, a new horror franchise took flight with Pooh: Blood & Honey. With the iconic bear now in the public domain, the film turned Winnie and Piglet into a pair of grim slasher villains carving up a post-grad Christopher Robin and several university students. It went over about as well as expected, but did well...Read more...

The age of Krakoa is over in the X-Men comics-or rather, it will be in another month. Come July, the mutants are off the island and back on Earth fighting the old fight of being hated and feared. Over the last few weeks, Marvel's gradually pulled back the curtain on what's to come with the From the Ashes" line of...Read more...

The new season of Doctor Who is in full swing, and it's already making some big moves early into its run. This week's episode, Boom," puts the Doctor and Ruby on the planet of Kastarion 3, which is currently in the midst of a war the pair are unable to escape from after the Doctor is trapped by an active landmine....Read more...

Unionization was in full force throughout the entertainment industry in 2023, particularly over at Disney. VFX artists across several in-house teams-including those for the MCU and the Avatar franchise-successfully unionized, a trend that's now continuing in the corporation's theme park business.

Artificial intelligence is everywhere these days, but the fundamentals of how this influential new technology works can be confusing. Two of the most important fields in AI development are machine learning" and its sub-field, deep learning." Here's a quick explanation of what these two important disciplines are, and...Read more...

Google's annual developers conference has come and gone, but I still have no idea what was announced.

The dust seems to have mostly settled on the Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar rap beef (for now), but the musical back and forth between the two hip-hop titans has imprinted itself on pop culture. That imprint includes video game mods, as a Mortal Kombat 1 fan has recently recreated both rappers in the game to pit them...Read more...

While Marvel's had no trouble incorporating unresolved material from previous movies into its recent fare, the studio took its sweet time bringing back threads from 2008's The Incredible Hulk. Abomination showed up in She-Hulk after a brief punch of a cameo in Shang-Chi, and next year's Captain America: Brave New...Read more...

Reuters reports that the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace locals that cover workers at Boeing and fuselage supplier Spirit AeroSystems will be holding trainings Friday to better equip their members on rules and regulations regarding whistleblowing.Read more...

Ask anyone who plays video games extensively, and they more than likely have at least two studios they go to bat for. We all have developers who, in our eyes, can't really do any wrong (even though they can and sometimes do); maybe it's because they were responsible for a life-changing gaming experience, or maybe it's...Read more...

In more than ways than one, The Acolyte is being poisitioned as a different Star Wars show than the other live-action offerings. Not only is it winding back the clock to the High Republic era, it's also doing something different on the action front with some Force-powered martial arts similar to wuxia films. Now we...Read more...

It's Cannes season, and along with advanced screenings of upcoming movies, studios are looking at what films to buy for domestic or international distribution. One of the films on the market during the festival is The Monkey, which found a US distributor in Neon.

OpenAI's Superalignment team, charged with controlling the existential danger of a superhuman AI system, has reportedly been disbanded, according to Wired on Friday. The news comes just days after the team's founders, Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, simultaneously quit the company.Read more...

Since its Early Access release back in 2017, Motion Twin and Evil Empire's Dead Cells has become one of the most popular roguelikes of the current gaming generation. The two studios may have recently ended development on the game, but it'll still live on the form of the animated series, Dead Cells: Immortalis.

Summer movie season is kicking off in full swing this week, between glitzy debuts at Cannes, and our first thoughts on incoming blockbusters like Furiosa. But it seems neither you or we could escape the absolute nightmare of John Krasinski's bizarre new fantasy film, If. Click through to see our thoughts there, as...Read more...

Palmer Luckey says it's a certainty" that artificial intelligence systems will kill innocent bystanders in wars of the future, according to a recent interview the tech mogul did with Bloomberg News. This is why Luckey stresses it's absolutely crucial to keep human beings in the loop when AI systems are deployed by...Read more...

The latest iPad Airs and iPad Pros breathed fresh life into Apple's tablets just as they seemed to be getting stale. Love them or hate them, the new Pros and Airs are pretty damn powerful, with the M4-powered tablet being practically just as capable as the most recent baseline MacBooks, but with the extra benefit of a...Read more...

This week, the Gizmodo science team explored the disturbing trend towards raw milk amid a bird flu outbreak among cattle, and the technological disruptions stemming from the historic geomagnetic storm that triggered stunning auroras across much of the globe. Reporter Ed Cara broke down a study weighing the long term...Read more...

Blue Origin is preparing to send a crew of private astronauts to suborbital space, finally resuming its space tourism program on New Shepard after nearly two years of it being grounded.Read more...

That X-Men 97 season finale was quite the sucker punch for fans invested in Marvel Animation's revived classic series coming into a modern era. We saw the X-Men overcome seemingly insurmountable odds against Bastion after the reveal that he was this season's big bad-not the red herrings Magneto and Sinister (who...Read more...

Details surrounding the death of John Barnett, a corporate whistleblower who was in the midst of suing aviation giant Boeing when he was found dead in a parking lot earlier this year, have finally been revealed.Read more...

Think about the expectations. Nine years ago, you released maybe one of the best films ever made. It won a ton of Oscars, made solid money at the box office, and has since only risen in respect and reverence. And now, you're going back. Not just to that world, but to that story and those specific characters.Read more...