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A frantic search is underway for a submersible that disappeared while on a $250,000-per-person dive carrying five tourists to view the historic Titanic shipwreck on Sunday. The 21-foot submarine, named the Titan, which was operated with a video game controller, carried the CEO of the company in charge and four...Read more...

WhatsApp introduced a new automatic call-silencing feature intent on targeting potential spam calls this week. The feature, plainly dubbed silence unknown callers" in the WhatsApp settings menu, is bringing another layer of protection to calls and messages from unknown numbers to combat an increase in unwanted calls.Read more...

A probe is familiarizing itself with the closest planet to the Sun, gearing up to explore Mercury's heavily cratered surface. The BepiColombo mission recently captured stunning new images of Mercury during a close flyby, which resulted in the naming of an impact crater after a pioneering Jamaican artist.Read more...

Anyone who keeps up with The Mandalorian can surely agree that season three had as many highs as it did lows. And those lows could be pretty low. But the highs? Well, they could also be pretty high, and by far one of the best moments of the season was when Grogu took the body of his old friend IG-12 for a joyride. It...Read more...

With artificial intelligence hype leaving venture capitalist firms foaming at the mouth, ready to buy into any new company that sticks an A" and I" in its name, we sure as hell need a new way of defining what constitutes an AI. The Turing Test fails to define real intelligence in today's world of large language...Read more...

Although satnavs and smartphones with GPS have made work easier for pizza delivery drivers, Domino's wants to make sure they're earning their minimum wage with a new app feature allowing pizzas to be ordered from almost anywhere customers can get a GPS signal, and no longer just specific addresses.Read more...

We all know and love when Harrison Ford is a curmudgeon, especially when he cuts an interview short or gives a curt, hilarious answer to a question. But he's also an incredible actor, and after decades spent portraying some of the most beloved characters in cinema history, you have to think part of him is playing...Read more...

AI proved just how talented it can be at ripping off major artists after a computer-generated song based on The Weeknd and Drake went viral in April. Now, the Recording Academy-the body that votes on and manages the annual Grammy Awards-is setting new rules for AI's role in the coveted accolade.

It is hot as hell in Texas at the moment, and the sky-high temperatures are straining the state's grid. Excessive heat warnings and heat advisories are in effect for most of the state today, according to the National Weather Service.

A 3-alarm fire in lower Manhattan killed four people and left two others in critical condition in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Lithium-ion e-bike batteries are to blame, according to the New York City Fire Department. The blaze, which began in an e-bike shop on the first floor of a multi-story, mixed-use...Read more...

Michael Shannon reprises his role as the Superman villain General Zod in the recently released swan song of the DCEU, The Flash. He has previously admitted he was confused by Zod's return to the silver screen given that Superman murdered the shit out of him in Man of Steel. Now he says, quite pointedly, that big...Read more...

About 40 light-years from Earth, a set of seven Earth-sized planets are orbiting a star called TRAPPIST-1. Now, scientists studying the system with the Webb Space Telescope have found one of them, TRAPPIST-1 c, either lacks an atmosphere or has a very thin one, indicating that habitable planets may be fewer and...Read more...

New research this month adds more fuel to the debate over gas stoves. The study found that gas and propane stoves emitted detectable amounts of benzene, a common air pollutant and carcinogen. Benzene levels were often above recommended safety thresholds and could linger for hours after the stoves were turned off in...Read more...

The niche but beloved web browser Opera got an artificially intelligent makeover Tuesday, with new and useful-looking AI features, as well as other tools to streamline your portal to the internet. So far, most of the AI web browsing options we've seen from companies like OpenAI and Microsoft offer a gimmicky...Read more...

Though remakes have been a part of our media landscape for decades, the backlash and distaste for them really began to escalate in the late 2010s. It isn't just the public's reflexive dislike for redoing something that's already been done-and often with dubious merit-it's also the how" of those of remakes. Of the...Read more...

Those hugging close to the latest Apple products for fear of any scuff, scrape, or damage can breathe a little easier, so long as you have the cash to pay the tech giant for repairs. Apple announced on Monday its self-repair kits are now available for the iPhone 14 lineup and more recent MacBook products.Read more...

Spotify users biting their nails for over two years waiting for a once-heralded HiFi audio feature might be down to their cuticles at this point, but the music streaming app could finally deliver this year. Well, you will have some access to CD-quality audio as long as you're willing to pay the Supremium" toll.Read more...

The largest newspaper publisher in the U.S. is taking on one of the world's largest tech corporations in court. USA Today's parent company Gannett filed a lawsuit against Google and its parent company Alphabet Inc. on Tuesday over alleged anti-competition tactics in digital advertising.

Opening weekend for The Flash was certainly not what many people involved expected it to be. The box office was much less than anticipated. Complaints about visual effects and more were rampant. And yet, if you step back and look at The Flash's Rotten Tomatoes audience score, it's over 80%, which suggests many fans...Read more...

Multiple tornadoes formed and swept through Mississippi on Sunday night, into Monday morning. The twisters left behind a trail of extensive property damage, and injuries for affected residents, the Associated Press reported.Read more...

The music of John Williams is so well known, we tend to take it for granted. In Star Wars or Jurassic Park or Superman,the music is such an integral part of the story youdon't always think about how it's guiding your emotional responses to what's on screen. That is, until, you watch a new Star Wars or Jurassic Park...Read more...

As Emmy award For Your Consideration" season heats up, Star Trek is going in phasers blazing with a bevy of insights into the making of Picard's final season. And hey, maybe we don't decide what does and doesn't get an Emmy, but we can at least reap the benefits of access to all this rad behind-the-scenes material,...Read more...

Adobe's pending purchase of Figma, the popular online graphics editing and interface design application, is facing yet another challenge. The European Union Commission plans to begin an in-depth investigation into the acquisition, according to a report from The Financial Times, attributed to four sources familiar...Read more...

On Tuesday, that other video hosting site, Vimeo, said it will introduce a new suite of generative AI features into its video editing tools for paying users with the aim of shortening the scripting and editing process from hours to minutes. Vimeo has steadily backed off from challenging YouTube for amateur content in...Read more...

The easiest way to avoid a costly repair job on your vehicle is to take it in as soon as warning lights pop up on your dashboard, but that assumes you understand what each dashboard symbol means-and when your car is reaching out for help. You can do one of two things to ensure you know what your car is saying: read...Read more...

Failed crypto founder Do Kwon is now facing a stint behind bars, not due to his many alleged crypto crimes, but for his very shady passports. On Monday, Montenegro's basic court announced it had sentenced Kwon and his compatriot, former Terra chief financial officer Han Chong-joon, to four months in jail. The pair had...Read more...

Frozen 3 is going ahead without Jennifer Lee as director. Velma will be back for season 2. Warner Bros. animation is planning an action-focused Beast Boy spinoff from Teen Titans, and tease Batman: Caped Crusader. Plus, even more Secret Invasion footage before its premiere this Wednesday. To me, my spoilers!

After thousands of subreddits went dark to protest Reddit's decision to charge money for API access, the revolt continues with a new figurehead. Redditors in some major subreddits have flooded their respective communities with photos of British comedian John Oliver instead of the typically posted content.

Although Twitch's new Partner Plus program, which gives streamers an increased share of their subscription revenues, was seen as an olive branch by many in the streaming community, creators should probably take a second look at the company's sparkling initiative before starting to cheer, industry experts say.Read more...

Google has by now notched a significant history of hardware just as good as its namesake search engine, including the Pixel 7 smartphone and its industry-leading camera. The company's hardware efforts have, however, struggled when it comes to tablets, taking what we've previously described as a try, try again"...Read more...

I think we can all agree we'd love to visit somewhere as beautiful as the Spider-Verse. So many colors, so many unique looks, so much vibrant life. For that to happen, though, you'd either have to employ thousands of artists to illustrate the world around you, or just grab the work several artists have already done.

The seventh Mission: Impossible, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, had its world premiere in Rome, Italy on Monday and the first reactions are here. It's a film many, many fans have been waiting for. A film that started filming pre-pandemic and had many, many ups and downs along the way. So, after all...Read more...

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is still swinging in theaters and now Sony has begun to spotlight its next Spider-project. It's Kraven the Hunter starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, the latest in Sony's stable of Spidey villain projects like Venom and Morbius before it.Read more...

Almost ten years ago, Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail began work on a passion project of his. Bring Fritz Lang's 1927 sci-fi masterpiece, Metropolis, back to life as a long-form television series. It was a dream that was very close to becoming a reality with Apple TV+ getting ready to start production later this year....Read more...

Open Netflix at any given time, and the trending" menu is inevitably peppered with true crime-tales of murder, cults, scandal, and beyond, all rendered with a stylistic polish that makes binging salacious stories feel like a not-completely-trashy experience. Black Mirror knows you can't tear your eyes away from true...Read more...

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the coolest toy and merchandise around. This week, NECA gets us ready for San Diego Comic-Con with a glorious TMNT collection; there's not one, but two wildly different cool dino toys; and Lego offers a moment of peace. Check it out!

Most of us spend most of our days inside apps of one type or another, and if you're looking for a new one, there's no shortage: You'll find around 1.6 million of them in the iOS App Store alone, for example, which is enough to last several lifetimes. Now, while the majority of these apps are perfectly benign and...Read more...

Announcement: The Gizmodo Monday Puzzle is going on a summer hiatus. Look out for us again in the fall! Follow me on Twitter to stay up to date about the series and for more puzzles, math, and other curiosities.

Sun’s out, fandom fits out, for a summer of geeky fashion and more. Check out these blockbuster-inspired merch collections out in time for the release of The Flash, The Little Mermaid, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Barbie, and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.Read more...

“Calm. Kindness, kinship. Love. I’ve given up all chance at inner peace, I’ve made my mind a sunless space. I share my dreams with ghosts. I wake up every day to an equation I wrote 15 years ago from which there’s only one conclusion: I’m damned for what I do.”Read more...

Emily Blunt has no shortage of gigs—the star of Jungle Cruise, Mary Poppins Returns, and the first two Quiet Place movies, to name just a few, is currently doing the pre-Emmy nomination rounds for her BBC-Prime Video series The English. But there’s one project many sci-fi fans have been hoping to see: that much-teased…Read more...

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman slammed subreddit moderators who continued to push back against the company’s plan to charge for access to its API, a change that would shutter beloved third-party Reddit apps like Apollo, calling them “landed gentry” and saying they weren’t considering the desires of their communities.Read more...

From TNG to Picard, Jean-Luc has had a hell of a ride in the Star Trek galaxy—and now, an overwhelming majority of it is going to find itself bundled all into one pricey, but glorious package.Read more...

Earlier this week Ubisoft dazzled gamers with a surprise fully fledged look at Outlaws, its upcoming open-world action adventure Star Wars game. In what we’ve seen so far, Outlaws wants to play with Star Wars in ways other recent games maybe haven’t so much—an intriguing mid-Trilogy setting, a smuggler protagonist…Read more...

Twitter is in freefall—ad revenue is down more than half since last year, owner Elon Musk is mucking around and firing people left and right, and users (including me) have noticed a steep decline in the quality of their feeds. Bluesky, a near-clone of Twitter built on a decentralized protocol with the support of…Read more...

After years of being damn near perfect, Pixar has entered a whole new phase. Its past few releases have failed to live up to the company’s impossible standard, and more and more animation studios seem to have caught up to Pixar in terms of innovation and story. This week, Pixar’s latest film, Elemental, hits theaters,…Read more...

John Wick: Chapter 4 released in theaters a few months ago and only recently hit streaming for those who wanted to see it in their own home. Though the movie gives a fairly conclusive end to the story of Keanu Reeves’ unflappable and enduring assassin, it appears that final chapter wasn’t quite so final as you’d think.

Imagine it’s 2001. You turn on your old Dell shoebox computer and boot up your newly-installed Windows XP copy to hear that choppy “bummm” sound and see the classic rolling hills of the stock desktop wallpaper. Well, if you’re really interested in returning to the ancient operating system more than 20 years after its…Read more...

As companies like Asus, Logitech, and Sony continue to push the limits of handheld gaming devices (seriously, Sony, an eight-inch screen?), companies like Anbernic are making them smaller and smaller. Its latest, the RG Nano, looks to be smaller than a pack of playing cards, but still capable of playing thousands of…Read more...

Updated 5/26/2023, 7:17 P.M. ET: The Writers Guild of America-West posted a tweet endorsing President Obama’s statements in support of the union and strike effort on Friday afternoon, following initial publication of this article.Read more...