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A popular class of weight loss and diabetes drugs looks to be safer than feared, at least so far. This week, the Food and Drug Administration announced it hasn't found compelling evidence that Wegovy, Ozempic, and other GLP-1 drugs can cause suicidal thoughts or behaviors-a concern that first emerged last year. The...Read more...

Though we had mixed feelings about Ghostbusters: Afterlife, we suddenly have a new reason to be excited about sequel Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. Along with a return to the New York City setting of the original films, it looks like one of the most-beloved original characters, Annie Potts' Janine Melnitz, is finally...Read more...

In the face of drug use allegations that could jeopardize million dollar contracts, NASA has come to Elon Musk's defense, as the space agency waits on a SpaceX lunar lander for its Artemis missions.

In a certain way, the incredible Apple TV+ show For All Mankind can be looked at as an unofficial precursor to Star Trek. Both shows imagine an alternate reality where events in the past made it so technology and space travel continued to develop throughout our lifetimes. But while Star Trek starts in the future, on...Read more...

Just how light can a light gaming laptop get? The Asus Republic of Gamers brand has marked the four-year anniversary of its first ultra-thin Zephyrus G14 by going back to the drawing board, all to shave off bare fractions of the total pounds and centimeters of its lightweight laptop brand. At this rate, the Zephyrus...Read more...

For the first time in its history, Marvel Studios went full binge with its latest streaming series, Echo. All five episodes of the show dropped simultaneously on Disney+ and Hulu earlier this week, so by now, hopefully, you've had a chance to watch it.Read more...

NASA's freshly painted X-59 aircraft will be rolled out of its hangar on Friday, January 12, in the lead-up to its first takeoff. The experimental plane, built by Lockheed Martin, is designed to develop a quieter type of supersonic flight.Read more...

There are some things about VR that remain as true today as they have for nearly the past decade, despite how much some companies want to rebrand the whole shebang. Varjo's latest VR/AR headset, the $3,990 XR4, wants to prove that solid displays, controls, and comfort remain the cornerstone of the VR space.

CES 2024 was certainly interesting this year; while we did anticipate AI being inserted into everything from TVs to cars, there were some genuine surprises from the show floor here in Las Vegas. Despite going to what felt like a million press conferences and keynotes, the Gizmodo team did manage to find loads of cool,...Read more...

Netflix just confirmed that Laurence Fishburne has been cast to star in The Witcher season four. The Matrix and John Wick franchise star joins as Regis, a character introduced in Andrzej Sapkowski's novel Baptism of Fire. He's described by Netflix's announcment as a world-wise Barber-surgeon with a mysterious past...Read more...

HP has finally given us what we've wanted for so long. A photo booth that is 1) portable and 2) doesn't make you spend a fortune trying to get good shots. The HP Sprocket Photobooth unveiled at CES 2024 could be the next cool thing if its quality-related promises are kept.

The right-to-repair movement continues to gain steam as another big tech company shows its support for letting people fix their own broken devices.Read more...

Meet Dr. Michael Morbius, the 1/6 scale Morbius figure that captures the vampiric essence of star Jared Leto from Sony's Marvel villain film. Look at him, he looks prime for a 30 Seconds to Mars music video for a biochemist whose rare genetic disorder leads him to heal himself using vampire bat blood!Read more...

Edge of Tomorrow 2 might finally happen, thanks to Tom Cruise's major new Warner Bros. deal. David Gordon Green will no longer direct The Exorcist: Deceiver. Plus, Netflix returns to Eternia in a new trailer for He-Man: Revolution, and new footage from Godzilla x Kong. Spoilers now!

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Tragically, Astrobotic's lander will not be able to pull off a soft landing on the lunar surface. However, Peregrine continues on its trajectory to the Moon, and as a small consolation, its onboard payloads have successfully powered on.Read more...

Taking over the mantle from John Williams can be an intimidating task for anyone stepping into the role of composer within the Star Wars universe. After all, Star Wars wouldn't be Star Wars without its iconic themes. But for Ryan Shore, who's recently composed for a number of legacy franchises including Scooby-Doo, it...Read more...

eBay agreed to pay out a $3 million fine-the maximum criminal penalty-over a twisted scandal that saw top executives and other employees stalking a couple in Massachusetts who published a newsletter that criticized the company. The harassment campaign included online threats, sending employees to surveil the couple's...Read more...

When the Ultimate Marvel line launched 24 years ago, it wanted to bring Marvel's heroes back to their roots, a modern world for modern titans to shape. In the last two and a half decades it lived, thrived, died, and was quietly reborn-but only now is Marvel taking the reigns on what shaping that rebirth should be, in...Read more...

There are jets in Jupiter's magnetosheath, according to Voyager 2 mission data from 1979. The 45-year-old information is now revealing the dynamics of the plasma stream.Read more...

There are plenty of cult horror movies that have rock n' roll as a theme, with an emphasis on heavy metal; think Trick or Treat, The Gate, and Rock n' Roll Nightmare. But far fewer pay glory to progressive rock, a genre stuffed with complicated riffs and tempo changes that's more polarizing than most. Destroy All...Read more...

The U.K.'s Colchester Zoo is trying to bring home the least sneaky animal escapee possible: a rainbow lorikeet. The brightly colored bird made its daring getaway last weekend by simply hitching a ride onto a visitor as they were about to leave its enclosure.

One week ago today, Google disabled tracking cookies for 30 million Chrome users, amounting to just 1% of the 3 billion people who use the internet's most popular browser. By the end of the year, Google will block these cookies entirely and replace them with a new tracking system that's a bit more private called Priva...Read more...

Google Assistant is about to lose 17 different features that the company says are underutilized." The changes come as the tech giant is in the midst of firing large amounts of staff, including many from its Google Assistant team, according to CNBC.Read more...

We'll never understand how certain pockets of the internet vilify Kathleen Kennedy. Since Kennedy became the president of Lucasfilm in 2012, she's been instrumental in bringing one of the most famous franchises in the world back to prominence on the big screen and beyond. Under Kennedy we finally got to see what...Read more...

DNA from ancient humans is providing some vital clues about the emergence of multiple sclerosis and other devastating neurodegenerative conditions. In a series of new research papers out this week, scientists detail evidence that many genetic variants linked to MS first began to spread globally about 5,000 years ago,...Read more...

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After months of fidgeting with a canister that contained rocky samples from an ancient asteroid, NASA engineers have finally removed two stubborn fasteners that appeared to be preventing the space agency from collecting the full amount of Bennu's debris.Read more...

Turntables seem to be making a comeback, at least at CES: JBL took a modern, Gen Z-friendly route with its recently released Spinner turntable that connects via Bluetooth, and Fuse Audio displayed several gorgeous vertical record players at CES 2024. The star of the category at CES was Fuse Audio's upcoming vertical...Read more...

While we've long known Radio Silence was working on the next film in the Universal Monsters revival, and that their Scream leading lady, Melissa Barrera, was starring-the rest was just rumors. Now, we've got a title and a trailer that, frankly, appears to give an awful lot away about its vampire kidnapping plot.

The Webb Space Telescope has spotted something weird: a brown dwarf with what appear to be aurorae, what we Earthlings sometimes call the Northern Lights. What makes the observation particularly surprising is that the brown dwarf doesn't have a nearby star that could cause such an aurora.Read more...

A new rocket is designed for its own destruction, eating itself as it makes its way through Earth's atmosphere to power its journey.Read more...

The announcement trailers for new entries in Doctor Who's classic-era remasters just keep getting more and more involved. At first, it was just a cute way to bring back a classic companion for a fun moment or a short skit, but now they've gotten so big the latest gives us a whole new look at the final days of The Last...Read more...

The announcement of The Mandalorian & Grogu this week raises a bunch of interesting questions about just why this is the next chapter of the titular heroes' tale. But one of the most interesting is when it's coming. The end of season three saw Din undo the machinations of his greatest foil on The Mandalorian, and the...Read more...

Researchers believe they've found the oldest known fossilized skin, hidden away in a limestone cave system in Oklahoma. The skin sample dates to the early Permian Period, between 289 million years ago and 286 million years ago.

SpaceX used its Starlink satellites to send and receive a text message from low Earth orbit in an effort to expand its connectivity beyond the reach of traditional cell tower signals.Read more...

Jason Momoa hypes up the chance he might play DC's Lobo. Get a new look at Lionsgate's creepy killer teddy bear movie Imaginary. Monarch: Legacy of Monsters showrunner Chris Black has high hopes the show will return for season 2. Plus, Netflix teases a new German sci-fi series. Spoilers get!

For millennia, our species looked at the Moon as a place that would forever be beyond our reach, but 20th-century technologies finally made our natural satellite accessible to probes, landers, and even human explorers. Despite these achievements, however, the Moon has furiously resisted our overtures, whether it be...Read more...

Few fans of the first season of Halo would call it an exactly faithful adaptation of Microsoft's legendary sci-fi video game series. But the series is picking itself up for round two by taking on an iconic moment from the series' battle for the fate of humanity: the infamous Fall of Reach.

Jesse Lyu, founder and CEO of Rabbit, was bothered by how we have to open a different app each time we wish to get something done on our phones. So, he came up with a device that will manage all your apps for you. Think of it like a voice assistant but fairly more advanced.

It would be nice to tune into the world without taking off my headphones. That's the premise behind Auracast, a new broadcasting feature coming to Bluetooth. Not only can the headphones and earbuds you use now tap into the capability, but so can hearing aids. I got to try out the technology at CES 2024, and I can...Read more...

In the year that Greta Gerwig's Barbie movie is a major awards contender-with a script the director co-wrote, starring and produced by Margot Robbie, and an incredible ensemble of female talent-women in film are still a majorly marginalized group. Mattel, no doubt inspired by Barbie's success, has come out with a new...Read more...

Winter weather is a great reason not to leave the couch-so why not crank up the heat, pile on some blankets, and seek chills in your entertainment instead? Hulu's got a great selection of recent horror films streaming right now, so here are 10 to get you started.Read more...

Star Trek has been doing quite well on TV of late but it's time to beam back to the big screen. While a fourth Star Trek film on the Kelvin timeline is still in the works, now a new project has been revealed too.

It's the horror sequel we didn't realize we were waiting for, and now demand ASAP: 28 Years Later, a continuation of the post-apocalyptic zombie tale started in 2002's 28 Days Later and further explored in 2007's28 Weeks Later. And this time, director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland are coming back.Read more...

Superman will make his return to the big screen next year and he might be bringing Supergirl with him. Last year, when James Gunn and Peter Safran revealed their ambitious schedule for the future of the DC Universe, it included a film called Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, based on the Tom King comics. Now, with that...Read more...

A legal battle over how death row prisoners in Alabama can be killed has reached a critical point. On Wednesday, a federal judge ruled that the state can proceed with its planned execution of inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith using nitrogen gas. The execution is scheduled for later this month and would be the first ever to...Read more...

To coincide with the release of Echo, Disney+ has rolled out its own take on the correct order to watch the Marvel Cinematic Universe's shows and movies. It includes shows like Daredevil and Jessica Jones, holdovers from the Netflix slate of once loosely related universes. They officially enter the fold, with Echo...Read more...

After a hilarious fake out yesterday, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) *officially* approved 11 Bitcoin ETFs, giving the crypto world a much needed win. The ETFs will make it easier for normal, non-web3 people to invest in the cryptocurrency, opening up the opportunity for broader interest in the...Read more...

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