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A man programmed ChatGPT to find his wife on Tinder, and it turns out that Tinder is fine with you doing the same.Read more...

Andrej Karpathy, a leading researcher in the AI community and a founding member of OpenAI, left the company on Monday, as first reported by The Information. Karpathy later confirmed his departure.Read more...

It's a truth universally acknowledged that typos can be embarrassing and frustrating. They can also, as ride-sharing company Lyft found out on Tuesday, make everyone forget that you actually had a pretty good year.Read more...

Physicists at MIT have spotted the second sound of a superfluid. Besides being pleasantly alliterative, the phenomenon may explain how heat moves through certain rare materials on Earth and deep in space.Read more...

Lonely on Valentine's Day? AI can help. At least, that's what a number of companies hawking romantic" chatbots will tell you. But as your robot love story unfolds, there's a tradeoff you may not realize you're making. According to a new study from Mozilla's *Privacy Not Included project, AI girlfriends and boyfriends...Read more...

From the moment I heard about tech billionaires' weird plans to create a bustling new city in the heart of California's Solano County, I was preoccupied with one basic question: Who is actually going to run this thing?Read more...

In just 24 hours the Deadpool & Wolverine movie trailer became the most viewed piece of promotional content from Disney with a line about pegging. Bless the Merc with the Mouth played by Ryan Reynolds, whose return to the big screen with the promise of Hugh Jackman's Wolverine rocked the Super Bowl teasers on every...Read more...

Facebook users reported hearing a bizarre chirping sound while using the social media platform on mobile devices on Tuesday. In fact, many people thought it was something they did wrong or a setting they accidentally changed. But it's not your fault, according to the company.

Can't we all just get along? Not if you're an employee of the federal government. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) just filed a lawsuit against the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) over a $1.45 billion tax bill stemming from the bailout of Silicon Valley Bank.Read more...

Have you got a secret you don't want anyone to know? Don't tell any of humanity's fancy new AI-powered assistants because the companies behind these new tools are probably keeping your data a lot longer than you think.

It seems that by the power of Greyskull, the Master of the Universe movie is back on! New developments have been publicized by Deadline, revealing that Laika ceo and President Travis Knight has pitched his take on the Mattel franchise. Travis is no stranger to the live-action toy world, having previously directed...Read more...

If you're pissed that Amazon recently pulled a fast one and inserted ads into its previously ad-free streaming service Prime Video, you can now make your wrath felt. A recently proposed class-action lawsuit is asking the e-commerce giant to fork over $5 million to compensate users who were deceived" by Amazon's...Read more...

Intuitive Machines is preparing its Nova-C lander for takeoff, hoping that it becomes the first private mission to touchdown on the lunar surface following a a few failed attempts by others. The lander is packed with science and technology instruments for NASA, as well as some commercial payloads that have no place on...Read more...

David Tennant is the most popular actor to play the Doctor of the modern era-arguably, brushing up against Tom Baker's fourth incarnation to be the most popular of them all, full stop-so it's no surprise that he's kept slowly but surely returning as Doctor Who celebrates its big birthdays over the last decade. But...Read more...

If you're feeling particularly spiteful this Valentine's Day, HawkWatch International has got you covered. For as little as a measly five bucks, the charity will feed their Raptor Ambassadors" a rodent named after your ex or other object of hatred. And for you lovebirds out there, the organization also has a gift...Read more...

Tubi has tons of movies, but it also has a robust TV selection, particularly in the realms of curiously specific reality shows. But if sci-fi and horror series are what you seek, the free, ad-supported streamer is a great go-to; in addition to an entire channel dedicated to classic Doctor Who, it has plenty of other...Read more...

Buying all the 194 paid apps available for Apple's Vision Pro will only set you back $1,100.08, according to app intelligence firm Appfigures. Considering you just coughed up $3,500 to buy the company's newest headset, that's kind of a bargain.Read more...

iMessage, once considered an exclusive messaging service for Apple users, was just deemed too lame to regulate by EU officials. The European Commission said it would not regulate iMessage as a gatekeeper service" on Tuesday, along with Microsoft's Bing and Edge, which allegedly have a similar level of importance. Oof.Read more...

23andMe is in a death spiral. Almost everyone who wants a DNA test already bought one, a nightmare data breach ruined the company's reputation, and 23andMe's stock is so close to worthless it might get kicked off the Nasdaq. CEO Anne Wojcicki is on a crisis tour, promising investors the company isn't going out of...Read more...

It's safe to say that most people walking out of The Rise of Skywalker for the first time were left with a lot of questions, but one at the forefront of our minds back in 2019, and frankly, still even now, is perhaps the darkest ever raised by Star Wars: when, exactly, did Palpatine fuck? We're just glad to know that I...Read more...

Typically, the Perseverance rover is looking down, scouring the Martian terrain for rocks that may reveal aspects of the planet's ancient past. But over the last several weeks, the intrepid robot looked up and caught two remarkable views: solar eclipses on the Red Planet, as the moons Phobos and Deimos passed in front...Read more...

The search for Bigfoot is one of those wild concepts that gets tossed around and discussed but never taken quite seriously. Surely Bigfoot, a giant, humanoid creature called a Sasquatch, doesn't exist. Surely the idea is just silly. But, if he did, he'd come from somewhere. He'd have a family. And maybe that family is...Read more...

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Elmo celebrated his birthday earlier this month. The beloved children's entertainer made his first appearance on Sesame Street in 1980, so it seems like a fair guess that he would have turned at least 44 years old this year. By any normal measure, Elmo should be a middle-aged man, but lurking in the details of his...Read more...

An unspecified defect in early model Starlink satellites has prompted SpaceX to preemptively deorbit the units before they potentially fail and become hazards in low Earth orbit. While the company remains confident that the deorbiting of these problematic units will prevent any issues, this incident underscores the...Read more...

The Bad Batch has had to, for obvious reasons, spend a lot of time revolving around the characters of its masculine stars-Omega aside, the series must look beyond the rank and file of the former Clone Army for a feminine perspective. But as the third and final season looms, it's setting the stage to center three very...Read more...

Once upon a time, the heroes of the DC and Marvel universes teaming up wasn't too uncommon a thing. From Spider-Man and Superman to Batman and Devil, or to the wild world of 90s comics in the Amalgam universe-where DC and Marvel heroes literally got mashed together-the two rivals" of the comics industry have a long...Read more...

Get a look at Kung Fu Panda's return in a new clip. Oscar Isaac still has hope for Moon Knight season 2. Ben Mendelsohn talks Andor and the chances of a return to his Rogue One character. Plus, it's Beth vs. Tammy in a new clip from the Rick and Morty anime. Spoilers, away!

After causing a stir by mysteriously grounding its new Airbus A321neo planes on Monday, United Airlines wants people to know the decision has nothing to do with safety and isn't even that exciting. Rather, it has to do with the aircrafts' No Smoking" signs, which are required by a 1990 law to be operated by the...Read more...

The ability to remember the past-to learn from our mistakes-is perhaps one of humanity's greatest survival advantages. But as crucial as memory is to our daily lives, it's far from perfect.Read more...

The creators behind the popular Flipper Zero multi-tool device have teamed up with computing renegade Raspberry Pi to create a video game integration that will turn your Flipper into a low-key game controller.Read more...

Madame Web is a two-hour trailer for the movie you think you're watching, but actually aren't. If that's confusing, welcome to the world of Madame Web, where everyone-the characters, the actors, the audience, and everyone in between-is confused about basically everything, all of the time. It's a film that sets...Read more...

The Flipper Zero is having a bit of a moment: it's by no means a new device, but it is now grabbing more headlines than ever, thanks to its ability to brick iPhones, potentially get you into cars, and plenty more.

I had just 30 minutes to test out Apple's $3,500 Vision Pro headset. Others who received a review unit from Apple or purchased one themselves have spent a week or more with it by this point. We've seen a lot of interesting use cases for the headset and an equal number of people hawking dumb and potentially dangerous...Read more...

Isabela Merced's resume is already stacked, but the star of underrated gem Dora the Explorer and The Lost City of Gold is just getting started. In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, the young actress-who's soon to enter Sony's live-action Marvel universe as Anya Corazon (whose spider-sona is Arana) in Madame WebRead more...

Italian horror master Lucio Fulci is best known for his gruesome Gates of Hell trilogy-especially The Beyond-and the immortal Zombi 2, but his career also contained excellently off-kilter giallo movies, including Don't Torture a Duckling and The New York Ripper. The Psychic, coming soon to Shudder, has fewer of those...Read more...

Amazon allegedly tricked users into buying more expensive products through the use of its Buy Box," according to a class action lawsuit filed last week. The Buy Box, which features a Buy Now" and Add to Cart" button next to eligible items, funnels users into terrible deals through the ease of one-click shopping...Read more...

Seeing Hayden Christensen get his due and recognition has been one the best things to come out of the Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau universe of shows. From donning the suit as Darth Vader on Obi-Wan Kenobi to playing a Force ghost as well as Clone Wars Anakin Skywalker in Ahsoka, it's been amazing to see Christensen...Read more...

Have you got 30 minutes to check out one of Apple's biggest, riskiest, and most controversial product launches of the last several decades? The tech giant is still hosting demos for its Apple Vision Pro in stores across the U.S. If you're like us, and you don't have $3,500 lying around in a coat pocket-or else you...Read more...

What do you want from the next iPhone? Now is your chance to let Apple know by telling us instead. There have been many rumors about what's next for the iPhone 16, which we expect to arrive later this year. The phone is currently in manufacturing, getting its ends polished off for approval by the big bosses managing...Read more...

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Super Bowl XVIII was jam-packed with celebrities, love stories, angry outbursts, and even some football. Many of us watched the Super Bowl on TV with our own two eyes, but Gizmodo set out to learn what the big game would have looked like through the eyes of an AI image generator.Read more...

Dungeons & Dragons turns 50 this year, and as you'd expect, Wizards of the Coast is marking the anniversary with big announcements-some of which look to the tabletop roleplaying giant's rich past. Announced today: six book releases, upcoming gaming events, and brand collaborations that run the gamut from makes sense"...Read more...

In 2021, it was Godzilla versus Kong. But Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire sees the foes team up-reluctantly-to take on a new threat. The dynamic between them might be unfamiliar based on what we've seen in the Monsterverse so far, but movie fans may recognize its origins in... 80s buddy-cop movies?Read more...

A bracelet and possible sword pommel found in a 3,000-year-old treasure hoard were forged from meteoritic iron, according to a team of researchers that recently studied the pieces. In other words, yes: some Bronze Age Iberian was rocking space jewelry and wielding a space weapon.

The Bad Batch returns in an epic final season where the squad has their bonds tested as they fight to reunite with Omega. The youngest member remains inside a remote Imperial science lab facing challenges of her own. The Star Wars show premieres February 21 on Disney+ to tie everything together for the gang as they...Read more...

Yesterday's Super Bowl brought us our first look at Deadpool 3-now formally Deadpool & Wolverine-and a taste of what's to come as Ryan Reynolds' infamous mercenary storms his way into Marvel's sacred timeline. But what else can we glean from the trailer about the world of the X-Men's first major foray into the MCU?

NASA outfitted its aging communications network with a hybrid antenna that allowed it to receive both radio frequency and laser signals for the first time, helping the space agency keep up with its increasing number of missions traveling through deep space.Read more...

The H3 rocket-11 years in the making-is set for its second launch, following a flubbed debut in March 2023. Japan urgently needs the rocket to succeed, with a second failure risking further delays and monumental headaches for Japan's space program.