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There's something new and powerful for ChatGPT users to play around with: Custom GPTs. These bespoke bots are essentially more focused, more specific versions of the main ChatGPT model, enabling you to build something for a particular purpose without using any coding or advanced knowledge of artificial intelligence.

2023 has been a union-heavy year, and in the case of Disney, it's seen the formation of entirely new unions. VFX artists at both Marvel Studios and Disney overall successfully unionized this year, in what some referred to as a hot labor summer." Turns out, it's more of a hot labor year, because the team behind James...Read more...

In three weeks time, Marvel's Echo series will make its way over to Disney+ and Hulu. The big hook of the show isn't just giving Alaqua Cox's titular character (and Hawkeye antagonist) a spotlight of her own: unlike the other Disney+ Marvel shows, this one is aiming to be a crunchier, more violent show similar to Dared...Read more...

DC Comics sure likes releasing goofy alternate takes on the Justice League. Last year, they were mech pilots, and not long before that, they were anthropomorphic dinosaurs. Next up on the gimmick list? Why apes, of course!Read more...

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When The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King released into theaters December 15, 2003, it had the feel of a significant moment in Hollywood's trajectory, not only from a cultural standpoint (it became the second-highest grossing blockbuster ever, at the time) but from the standpoint of accelerating Hollywood's...Read more...

Months after the live-action adaptation of the popular manga/anime One Piece released, Netflixis doing...an anime remake of One Piece. Really.Read more...

Nearly 15 years ago, Jaume Collet-Serra's Orphan released in theaters. Unlike other horror films involving a seemingly sweet young child, the twist of their dark tendencies was considerably more straightforward, Isabella Fuhrman's nine-year-old Esther wasn't possessed by a demon or a conduit to hell, she was in...Read more...

Japanese actor Kenpachiro Satsuma died earlier today, according to a translated post from Matomedane, from what's said to be interstitial pneumonia. The 76-year-old actor is best known for portraying various monsters during Godzilla's Heisei era, including the lead monster himself.

Space is hard, as the cliche reminds us, and that was plenty clear this week, as several groups ran into trouble: NASA with its aging Voyager 1 spacecraft, AstroForge with a struggling debut mission to prove asteroid mining can work, and a few missing-in-action satellites from a recent SpaceX launch. Back on Earth,...Read more...

Next week sees the release of Aquaman & the Lost Kingdom, DC's final movie of 2023. The original 2018 film was a billion-dollar hit, but the sequel feels like is occupying this weird space where it feels like it should've been out by now, or is farther away than it seems. Either way, if you were wondering about the...Read more...

In mid-March during the Oscars, Netflix's Pinocchio took home the award for Best Animated Feature. During his acceptance speech, co-director Guillermo del Toro said the animation medium was ready to be taken to the next step," a statement that was meant to be inspiring after animation was belittled at that very...Read more...

20th Century Fox's Planet of the Apes reboot films re-introduced the world to the dystopian sci-fi series. Led by Andy Serkis as the first hyperintelligent ape Caesar, the trilogy ended with such a finality you don't usually get with franchises, and ensured that if more films did happen, they'd have to jump forward in...Read more...

Somehow fans of Star Wars' Kylo Ren and Rey Skywalker made the news for very different reasons this week. But outside of big drama in the sci-fi book world, we also got the last of Doctor Who's anniversay specials, a new Dune Part Two trailer, and more in the list of our most read stories, so here's you might have...Read more...

If you ever wanted help picking out an outfit, Meta just rolled out a beat for its Ray-Ban Smart Glasses that'll give you fashion advice based on what's in your closet. Meanwhile, the Apple and Beeper Mini messaging saga took a dramatic turn. Gizmodocovered all this news and more, and you can catch up with our weekly...Read more...

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From casting to the cutting room, One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda collaborated closely with the team behind Netflix's live-action series adaptation of his beloved tale every step of the way.Read more...

For a year, a rogue tomato was missing in action on board the International Space Station (ISS), sparking rumors that an astronaut may have eaten it during a moment of weakness. It turns out that there were actually two missing tomatoes, not just one, found squished in a tiny ziplock bag, and they're looking a little...Read more...

When people think of the DC films of the past several years, they mostly think of the failures. The controversies. What they don't usually think of are the successes, of which there were many, and none more so than Aquaman. James Wan's 2018 film starring Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Nicole Kidman, Willem Dafoe, Patrick...Read more...

What happened with AI this week? Well, the passage of the European Union's AI Act-a landmark piece of regulation that seeks tackle the potential harms of the AI industry-is a pretty big deal. It could totally reshape how European nations' relationship to the technology. But a lot of less consequential if no less weird...Read more...

Fifty years ago, Doctor Who's 11th season began with The Time Warrior" and brought with it a notable sea of changes. It marked the debut of the show's iconic diamond" logo, which has now seen a return for the modern era with Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor. It added an immediately iconic creature to the show's monster canon in...Read more...

Americans are increasingly calling poison control centers over semaglutide, the active ingredient in popular weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy. Most of these calls appear to concern potential overdoses of semaglutide and might be tied to a rise in compounded versions of the drug, which aren't tested for their...Read more...

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A new research paper out of OpenAI Thursday says a superhuman AI is coming, and the company is developing tools to ensure it doesn't turn against humans. OpenAI's Chief Scientist, Ilya Sutskever is listed as a lead author on the paper, but not the blog post that went with it, and his role at the company remains...Read more...

By all accounts, the European Union's AI Act seems like something that would make tech ethicists happy. The landmark artificial intelligence law, which enjoyed a huge legislative win this week, seeks to institute a broad regulatory framework that would tackle the harms posed by the new technology. In its current...Read more...

Snyderverse." Whether you know the word or not, odds are you've heard it. And, for several years, it very clearly referred to the series of DC films director Zack Snyder directed and produced at Warner Bros. The world where Henry Cavill is Superman, Ben Affleck is Batman, and a legion of fans convinced a studio to...Read more...

In September, fragments of a near-Earth asteroid were carefully dropped off in the Utah desert. The space rocks hold clues to the origin of the solar system and can possibly answer crucial questions about how our planet came to be-if only we can get to them first.

It's once again time to crane our heads sideways in bafflement at all the strange ways people got sick or hurt this year.

That didn't take long: just two days after livestreaming giantTwitch announced a more permissive approach to certain sexual content, including artistic nudity," the company has slammed on the brakes.

Apple silently fixed an exploit that let Flipper Zero devices mass-bombard nearby iPhones with popup notifications, so much so they would essentially disable users' phones requiring a restart.Read more...

Life comes at you fast, so I'm already recapping what we expect from Samsung's Galaxy S24 flagship, just as this year's release has started popping up all over holiday gift guides. But this is within Samsung's timeline: the company launches its flagship first thing in the year before following up with something more...Read more...

Just last week, my roommate went through what no one should ever go through losing her phone's entire data while getting it repaired after she dropped it in the toilet. Google just announced a solution for that. Well, to save your data. Not dropping your phone in the toilet.

Fans of genre movies had an absolute blast in 2023. Hollywood studios and streamers alike provided us with a seemingly never-ending slate of excellent fare. The animated films were fire. Some superhero films were super. And along the way, there were lots and lots of happy surprises. Below, you'll find io9's picks for...Read more...

If anybody remembers the old Can it run Crysis?" meme, the joke has long since fallen flat as more games have long exceeded the specs requirement on that 16-year-old game. On the flip side, Can it run Doom?" has a separate connotation. It belies the ingenuity of tinkerers and DIYers trying to find the most unique...Read more...

Google announced changes to the way it harvests your location data this week that will finally put a stop to its compliance with geofence warrants, a police surveillance technique that many say circumvents the Constitution.Read more...

There's little to no evidence suggesting that your devices are listening to you," but that hasn't stopped people from believing big tech is monitoring every word they say. Now, a marketing subsidiary of Cox Media Group is throwing fuel on the fire with claims that it can deploy active listening" through your...Read more...

Hideo Kojima will team with A24 on his Death Stranding movie. Alexander Siddig will join Foundation's third season, while John Waters will join Chucky's. Plus, another new look at the Doctor Who Christmas special. To me, my spoilers!

Do you like Star Wars? How about Lord of the Rings? Harry Potter? Dune? What about The Matrix? Would you like to see elements of all of those and more in the skeleton of Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai? If the answer to any of that is yes, Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire is the movie for you.Read more...

MoviePass has a bit of a checkered history, but the theater subscription service relaunched last year and has continued to evolve, including the introduction of a virtual card earlier this month aimed at making buying movie tickets a smoother process. It has a long way to go if it wants to reach the heights of...Read more...

When Rebel Moon releases in theaters this week (and on Netflix next week) it'll mark the end of a 10-year journey. A journey that began with a 2013 rumor that director Zack Snyder was working on some kind of Star Wars movie. That rumor, it turns out, was not true. At the time, Snyder had the idea of taking one of his...Read more...

Good news, everyone! Scientists discovered additional evidence suggesting the potential habitability of a peculiar icy moon orbiting Saturn, one of the planet's 146 moons.Read more...

The big day is drawing near and so are those shipping cut-offs for getting everyone on your list a special fandom holiday gift. Don't worry, io9's latest gift guide inspired by the worlds of DC and the WB has some shopping tips at places that offer in-store pickup, including BoxLunch and Target.

Kanopy is one of the best streaming deals around: it's free and doesn't have any ads breaking up its content, though you must have a library card or be part of a college, university, or other institution to make an account. Released today, the service's 30 most-watched films of 2023 definitely reflect those academic...Read more...

For the past 40-plus years, Indiana Jones has meant nothing but fortune and glory. Each of the franchise's first four films was one of the top three highest-grossing films in the U.S. the year they were released. Raiders of the Lost Ark was #1 in 1981, Temple of Doom was #2 in 1984, Last Crusade was #2 in 1989 and King...Read more...

Intel's latest chips boast big performance gains, but never mind any of that. What would be a normal annual chip refresh announcement from one of the world's biggest silicon developers has put the biggest emphasis yet on onboard PC AI, with the latest Intel Core Ultra line as part of the current Meteor Lake chipsets...Read more...

Although it feels like it can be said every year recently, it's hard to imagine a better year in terms of its influence than 2023 has been for Dungeons & Dragons. A movie, TV channels, a video game that has dominated the world, and of course a not-insignificant glimpse toward the game's own future. But for all those...Read more...

Goodness gracious, has it really been five years already?

Grimes, the futuristic pop singer and mother of Elon Musk's children, is working on a plush AI toy named Grok" with the Silicon Valley startup Curio. The toy reportedly has no relationship or affiliation with Musk's AI chatbot from xAI, the woke" chatbot that's also named Grok, according to The Washington Post.Read more...

On Wednesday, Twitch's confusing policies regarding what kind of sexual content streamers can include-and what's an absolute no-go-got a rewrite and a very clear blog post explaining the changes. The company says it wants its content creators to feel confident they understand our rules" and viewers to feel confident...Read more...