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Half a decade after he was kicked off Twitter by the platform's safety team, professional conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been welcomed back to the site, which is now called X.

Up to release, Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli's newest filmThe Boy & the Heron has had a lot of discussion centering around what it's potentially meant to be. Is it actually Miyazaki's for real, final film?Was it really the best idea to not really promote it or even give any idea as to what it's about? The answer...Read more...

Earlier this week, 23andMe admitted that an October hack was dramatically worse than the company initially admitted, affecting 6.9 million people, not the 14,000 it first reported. 23andMe followed up with an early Christmas present for users: a terms of service update that funnels disgruntled users into a mass...Read more...

23andMe admitted it lost 6.9 million users' DNA in a hack, after initially reporting only 14,000 users were affected. If you've used 23andMe, there's basically a coin-flip chance that your data was exposed. The company, however, updated its terms of service last week to change the ways customers can take legal action...Read more...

For Doctor Who fans, the introduction of a new Doctor is always an event in and of itself. After months of teasing and set photos, yesterday's third and final 60th anniversary special formally introduced the world to Ncuti Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor.

In 2016, South Korean writer Chugong released the video game-like web novelSolo Leveling, which has grown in popularity over the years. An anime adaptation of the series is now in the works, during its Jump Festa panel, Crunchyroll and Aniplex revealed the show will be dropping on January 6, 2024.Read more...

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Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon is a Star Wars-alike ensemble film featuring a who's who of actors you've seen pop in and out of genre fair over the last few years. In addition to Sofia Boutella as leading woman Kora, the cast also consists of Djimon Honsou, Doona Bae, and Ray Fisher. It's also got three Game of Thrones alum...Read more...

All the way back in 2020, it was reported that Sony and Marvel were teaming up to create a TV show for Silk, one of the more recent heroes to spin from Spider-Man's (Peter Parker's) supporting cast. In the years since, news on the show has been hard to come by: after an announcement late last year that it was retitled ...Read more...

A lot of us now spend much of our work and leisure time peering at the web through a browser-and for that time to be spent as productively as possible, the browser in question needs to run swiftly and smoothly. There's actually an integrated browser setting to help with this, too: Hardware acceleration.

A lot happened this summer, so it's easy to forget that Twisted Metal aired on Peacock over the summer. Based on the now classic car combat PlayStation series, the show got decent reviews and was nominated at the recent Game Awards for Best Adaptation. Ultimately it lost out to-and got overshadowed by-HBO's adaptation...Read more...

The prequel trilogy of Star Wars films (and similar material set in the same time period) introduced audiences to plenty of new Jedi, with one of the most striking being Samuel L. Jackson's Mace Windu. Though he's one of the most important players of that era, he hasn't always gotten a chance to headline a story all...Read more...

With the Hollywood strikes now having wrapped in full, productions are able to start back up again. Stranger Things, according to Deadline, is set to get back to work in early January.

Is Rock Band back? Well, kinda, maybe, eventually. Epic Games revealed the new Fortnite experience Fortnite Festival, a new update that lets players take their persona out of the battle royale and stuff a guitar or pair of drumsticks in their hands in rhythm game action familiar to any old Guitar Hero fans.Read more...

It's been a bit of an up-and-down week for the House of Ideas, as Marvel both pulled out of reporting any further on The Marvels' box office performance and Ryan Reynolds bit back against Deadpool 3 set leaks. All this, more Doctor Who, and even Star Wars' 2024 made the list of our most read stories, so here's you...Read more...

A Martian moons mission, a plethora of private lunar landers, probes to Venus and Jupiter, and reusable heavy-lift rocket tests are among the many highlights we'll be watching in the coming 12 months, in what looks to be an extraordinary year in spaceflight. Here's your 2024 calendar.Read more...

At last, researchers say they've found a way for lab mice to easily use virtual reality goggles. The unusual set-up does have practical applications, since it should make it easier for scientists to study how mice respond to things commonly encountered in the wild, like predatory birds.

Gemini, Google's ambitious new AI for phones, will make its way to Pixel 8 Pros next week. On the Apple side, we might begin to see M3-powered iPads and MacBook Airs hitting store shelves a lot sooner than we expected. Gizmodo's consumer tech team has all the latest news and more. Here's a roundup of our most-read...Read more...

Our most-read science stories this week contain a few timeless life lessons. One, don't go into an MRI room carrying metal, particularly if that metal is a loaded gun. Two, don't cross a killer whale, even if you're a great white shark. And finally, never judge a sea cucumber by its cover-no matter how repulsive that...Read more...

There were a few AI product launches this week. Google released Gemini, it's newest AI platform, while Grok, Elon Musk's annoying chatbot, rolled out to X Premium users. Apple, meanwhile, tried to keep up by releasing...an open-source machine learning framework. Not quite as exciting. That said, the AI industry...Read more...

Ever since Sam Altman was fired by the OpenAI board two weeks ago, questions have swirled about what precipitated the drama. The fact of the matter is this: We still don't really know what happened or why Altman was forced out. Altman himself has said he won't be talking about it. Microsoft obviously isn't talking....Read more...

There'd be no science fiction without a 19-year-old Mary Shelley in 1816 writing the tale of a scientist who their undead creature to life. Ever since, her tale of creation has inspired adaptations that have propelled the evolution of genre in film, television, and even music.Read more...

Sean Gunn has been tapped to play Maxwell Lord in James Gunn's new DC Universe.Read more...

Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodo's weekly deep dive on what's been happening in artificial intelligence.Read more...

Indiana Jones movies always end with the impossible. Ghosts coming out of an ark, a rock healing a village, a cup granting immortality, aliens with crystal skulls. So, when Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny gets to its big third-act moment, it's shocking, but also fits right in. However, getting to that idea...Read more...

Note: As I was getting ready to publish this piece, Beeper's servers began faltering. TechCrunch reports that Beeper Mini had lost access to Apple's servers, though I'm still able to send text-based messages with a bit of delay. This piece covers the experience before this breaking news hit. I reached out to Beeper to...Read more...

Presto, the self-acclaimed leader in drive-thru voice automation" wants artificial intelligence to take your order. The drive-thru AI company works with Carls Jr, Chili's, and Del Taco, and it partially runs on ChatGPT. However, SEC filings from November reveal that Presto's AI may not be capable of taking your...Read more...

Hideo Kojima's in the news for his appearance last night at the Game Awards where he announced he's working on a spooky Xbox game, OD, alongside Oscar-winning horror director Jordan Peele. Now, fans wishing to know more about the popular game designer (Metal Gear, Death Stranding) can look forward to the streaming...Read more...

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Godzilla Minus One's critical and public acclaim has skyrocketed it to box-office heights-heights so worthy of such a titanic being that Toho has had to dash its plans to bring the film's theatrical run to an end and extend screenings. But now the King of All Monsters is now also the king of live-action Japanese cinemaRead more...

If you want a Star Trek or Transformers fix, Paramount+ is your go-to. But once you've landed on the streamer, you'll find plenty of sci-fi options beyond just those big franchises. Here are 10 sci-fi tales to get keep you going after you've finished watching Bumblebee or binging Strange New Worlds.

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A team of paleontologists revealed a remarkable fossil: a young tyrannosaurid with the hindlimbs of two year-old dinosaurs in its stomach. In other words, this theropod was chowing down on baby legs.Read more...

It's been Denis Villeneuve's plan since day one: adapt Frank Herbert's epic sci-fi novel, Dune, in two parts, and then bring the story of Paul Atreides to a close with an adaptation of the follow-up, Dune Messiah. He's been saying that since before the release of Dune: Part One but, at that time, it was more a dream...Read more...

On paper, The Cello is fascinating. It's directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, who's made four Saw movies; it features Saw villain Tobin Bell and Oscar winner Jeremy Irons, and most of it takes place (and was filmed in) Saudi Arabia. It's also about a demonic cello. Unfortunately, those elements don't quite come together,...Read more...

It seems the universe is always trying to push us back in time. We just saw JBL releasing a turntable like it's 1994. Yamaha is returning to the glorious Y2K with its new CD-C603RK rack-mountable CD player.

The Game Awards brought with them, alongside a host of rapid-fire award ceremonies, the usual and unfortunately actual main event of the show: a whole bunch of new looks at upcoming video games. Here's the best of what we saw from the genre worlds of sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and then some out of last night's show.

The curious case of the conspicuously absent cherry tomato has finally been put to rest eight months after the lab-grown edible went missing.

Google is trying to sprinkle a bit of AI spice into the staid flavor of note-taking apps with NotebookLM, an AI assistant app focused on helping writers, educators, students, or other creative types.

Google released Gemini, its newest generative AI chatbot that promises to be better than ChatGPT, alongside a splashy demo video showcasing its capabilities. A Google developer blog post reveals that the viral showcase was edited, sped up, and used different prompts than the ones shown in the video.

The Minecraft movie expands its cast. David Rysdahl teases just how different the Alien show is going to be. Plus, what's coming on Quantum Leap. Spoilers, away!

For those in the northern hemisphere, it is officially the season to bust out the box of holiday-themed sweaters. I used to have a couple I'd cycle through, but then my house got crowded, and I had to find them new homes. Now, I live vicariously through press releases and my coworkers who try on these sweaters to get...Read more...

The bright star Betelgeuse, a prominent member of the Orion constellation, is set to be occulted by the asteroid Leona on December 11. This occurrence, expected to last no more than 10 seconds, will cause the star to temporarily vanish from sight, a phenomenon visible along a narrow path on Earth.

There are a lot of AI image generators on the market, and it's hard to know which ones are great and which ones can be skipped. We put some leading AI image-generating models to the test and found that there are huge differences.Read more...

Elon Musk's electric car company has suffered a reversal of fortune in its ongoing battle with Sweden's labor unions. Turns out, Teslas won't be getting license plates in the Nordic country-at least, not for the foreseeable future.Read more...

Which Christopher Nolan Batman film is your favorite? Most people would say The Dark Knight-which, clearly, is incredible. Personally, my pick is Batman Begins, just because of the way it handles Batman's origin. And we'd imagine someone out there is just such a big Tom Hardy fan, their favorite is The Dark Knight...Read more...

At a boarding school in the early 1970s, a student who's been eagerly awaiting winter vacation gets a call with bad news: they'll be spending Christmas at school instead of with their family. Is it Alexander Payne's new Oscar-buzz movie The Holdovers-or Jenn Wexler's new Shudder release The Sacrifice Game?Read more...

On the internet, most news gets forgotten very quickly. Anything that sticks around for more than a few days does so with good reason, usually because it's so incredibly weird. In the world of movies, an example of that is the rumored Avatar sequel titles that were first reported way back in 2018.Read more...

When Hayao Miyazaki announced that The Boy and the Heron might be his last picture, Studio Ghibli's U.S. distributor GKIDS knew it had a big task ahead, assemblinga very special dub cast for the English-language version of the film.Read more...

This weekend, Neil Patrick Harris will do battle with the Doctor and Donna Noble in the third and final Doctor Who 60th anniversary special-playing a new version of one of the show's oldest and most obscure villains. Mostly obscured by the fact the last story they were in aired 57 years ago, and 75% of it is lost to...Read more...