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OpenAI's Superalignment team, charged with controlling the existential danger of a superhuman AI system, has reportedly been disbanded, according to Wired on Friday. The news comes just days after the team's founders, Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, simultaneously quit the company.Read more...

Since its Early Access release back in 2017, Motion Twin and Evil Empire's Dead Cells has become one of the most popular roguelikes of the current gaming generation. The two studios may have recently ended development on the game, but it'll still live on the form of the animated series, Dead Cells: Immortalis.

Summer movie season is kicking off in full swing this week, between glitzy debuts at Cannes, and our first thoughts on incoming blockbusters like Furiosa. But it seems neither you or we could escape the absolute nightmare of John Krasinski's bizarre new fantasy film, If. Click through to see our thoughts there, as...Read more...

Palmer Luckey says it's a certainty" that artificial intelligence systems will kill innocent bystanders in wars of the future, according to a recent interview the tech mogul did with Bloomberg News. This is why Luckey stresses it's absolutely crucial to keep human beings in the loop when AI systems are deployed by...Read more...

The latest iPad Airs and iPad Pros breathed fresh life into Apple's tablets just as they seemed to be getting stale. Love them or hate them, the new Pros and Airs are pretty damn powerful, with the M4-powered tablet being practically just as capable as the most recent baseline MacBooks, but with the extra benefit of a...Read more...

This week, the Gizmodo science team explored the disturbing trend towards raw milk amid a bird flu outbreak among cattle, and the technological disruptions stemming from the historic geomagnetic storm that triggered stunning auroras across much of the globe. Reporter Ed Cara broke down a study weighing the long term...Read more...

Blue Origin is preparing to send a crew of private astronauts to suborbital space, finally resuming its space tourism program on New Shepard after nearly two years of it being grounded.Read more...

That X-Men 97 season finale was quite the sucker punch for fans invested in Marvel Animation's revived classic series coming into a modern era. We saw the X-Men overcome seemingly insurmountable odds against Bastion after the reveal that he was this season's big bad-not the red herrings Magneto and Sinister (who...Read more...

Details surrounding the death of John Barnett, a corporate whistleblower who was in the midst of suing aviation giant Boeing when he was found dead in a parking lot earlier this year, have finally been revealed.Read more...

Think about the expectations. Nine years ago, you released maybe one of the best films ever made. It won a ton of Oscars, made solid money at the box office, and has since only risen in respect and reverence. And now, you're going back. Not just to that world, but to that story and those specific characters.Read more...

With Memorial Day weekend coming up and summer vacation not far behind, here's some of our favorite Disney-inspired fandom fashion, accessories, and other fun essentials to throw in your luggage.Read more...

If you're looking for booze with an extra bit of buzz, you're in luck. Microbiologists in the U.K. have just created beer using yeast sourced from the guts of Africanized honey bees, a.k.a. killer bees.

A team of marine researchers with the Minderoo-UWA Deep Sea Research Centre got a treat recently, when a rare deep-sea hooked squid (Taningia danae) mistook the crew's baited camera for prey. The team captured the remarkable footage about 3,281 feet (1 kilometer) beneath the waves in the South Pacific, north of the...Read more...

Who could have guessed that John Krasinski would be so good at making horror movies? His directorial debut was A Quiet Place, he followed it up with A Quiet Place Part II, and now he's made IF, not a horror film by genre but a horrible film in quality. We reviewed the film quite unfavorably here but now that it's in...Read more...

Hertz gambled and lost when it placed its big EV bet on Tesla a few years ago. It was a chance for the rental car company to shake up the industry, instead the company bought 30,000 Teslas, got scared away by depreciation and expensive repairs and now wants to get rid of them. While all those used Teslas looked to be...Read more...

Alkaline water will improve your metabolism, boost your liver health, and even help you fight off cancer-at least according to its fans. The actual truth, however, is far more mundane. There is little good evidence for these and many other health claims attached to alkaline water, and the only thing that it's clearly...Read more...

Two things are true when listening to the head of a movie studio. One, they're not going to say anything bad about their movies, and two, they definitely know everything happening with those movies. That's why a new interview with the chairman of Sony Motion Pictures Group, Tom Rothman, should both be taken with the...Read more...

This weekend, The Phantom Menace turns 25-and while we've celebrated the ways the film brought so much to Star Wars in the past, for its 25th anniversary we wanted to look back at a few different things, big and small, that make Phantom Menace so great all these years later, whether you caught it on the big screen agai...Read more...

Conspicuously absent from the incredible news this week that Nicolas Cage was coming to Prime Video to play Spider-Man Noir was a single mention of Silk: Spider-Society, another Spider-Verse show that has been in the works for a long, long time.Read more...

The New York Police Department plans to use drones to respond to some 911 calls in a new program, according to testimony delivered Thursday at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing in Washington, D.C. And while that's concerning enough, one Republican congressman had some ideas about how to improve the idea....Read more...

The third and final episode of Tolerance Is Extinction,"the season finale of X-Men 97, had a lot to pay off-not just from the plot threads it wove throughout its own debut season, but in bringing to a head years of lingering character work dating back to the original X-Men: The Animated Series. But in just a few...Read more...

It looks a bit like a boat, or a stout fedora. So what the hell is this rusty brown gossamer of a space cloud?Read more...

The last thing an alcoholic wants to see is YouTube ads featuring alcohol, which can trigger the desire to drink. The same goes for someone who has perhaps experienced a miscarriage and continues to see YouTube ads for diapers and baby clothes, sending people into a spiral of depression. But if you're struggling with...Read more...

This page was updated 5/17/24 to include information on how to access the PPSPP and RetroArch emulators on iPhone.Read more...

Sci-fi Western Outer Range released its second season on Prime Video this week, bringing more time-travel shenanigans for the people of Wabang, Wyoming-especially the families of Royal Abbott (Josh Brolin) and Wayne Tillerson (Will Patton). The show's giant hole still contains more secrets than answers, and just like...Read more...

According to Apple analystMing-Chi Kuo, there's a possibility we could get a longer battery life on the upcoming iPhone 16 Pro Max, which will be expected to launch later this year.Read more...

The International Space Station (ISS) was caught looking a little undignified in a new photo captured by an imaging satellite in orbit.

Elon Musk's Neuralink is now accepting applications for a second patient to receive its brain-computer interface, just five months after Noland Arbaugh became the first human to have the startup's technology surgically implanted. The second patient will receive the same fame and life-changing technology Arbaugh has...Read more...

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Return to Silent Hill lifts the lid on its Pyramid Head. Halle Berry gets frightful in the new trailer for Never Let Go. Plus, The Thundermans could be making a return. To me, my spoilers!

Roger Corman, one of the most prolific, influential filmmakers of all time, died last weekend at the age of 98. Prominently known for his campy, 1960s horror films (his nickname was King of the B's"), Corman was far more than a small-time B-movie director. He helped launch the careers of droves of actors and...Read more...

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The latest iPads are strange beasts. Beyond the cheaper base iPad, you have the iPad Air and the iPad Pro. They're both at the top of their game. They're more powerful than ever, and the more expensive version has processing capabilities nearly equivalent to that of a MacBook. And as tempting as they are, before you...Read more...

This year is already off to a very good start at the movies but 2025 is looking even bigger, in more ways than one. Fresh off the huge success of last year's Oppenheimer and this year's Dune: Part Two, IMAX just revealed 14 titles in 2025 that will not only be released in IMAX, but are being filmed specifically for...Read more...

The debut season of Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power-for those that actually ended up making it through all eight episodes-often struggled to really really feel there was narrative moment outside of that one hella cool moment when a mountain blew up. By its climax, it felt like things had barely just started, in...Read more...

Whenever a new set of Star Wars toys is announced, fans have come to expect to see characters in some sort of armor. Be it Mandalorian armor, stormtrooper armor, or Clone Trooper armor, toy companies love it because all they have to do is make a new head and reuse an old body. It's a cheat on 99% of occasions. But,...Read more...

Reactions for Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis have begun to hit the internet and they are as all over the place as the film itself seems to be. Megalopolis is a sci-fi love story between architect Cesar (Adam Driver) and socialite Julia (Nathalie Emmanuel), who become caught up in the plans that Julia's powerful...Read more...

Video game adaptation Five Nights at Freddy's proved unstoppable at both the box office and on Peacock, and its follow-up hopes to repeat that success when it arrives December 5, 2025. The release date for Five Nights at Freddy's 2 is the biggest calendar addition for a slew of upcoming Universal Blumhouse releases,...Read more...

It's raining space junk. Just one month after NASA admitted that a piece of trash tossed from the International Space Station (ISS) crash-landed through a home in Florida, a massive piece of space debris ended up on a farm in Canada.Read more...

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A new company just announced it's come on board and is ready to take Jason Voorhees and the Friday the 13th franchise into the future. What exactly that means though, is not quite crystal (lake) clear.Read more...

OpenAI launched its Superalignment team almost a year ago with the ultimate goal of controlling hypothetical super-intelligent AI systems and preventing them from turning against humans. Naturally, many people were concerned-why did a team like this need to exist in the first place? Now, something more concerning has...Read more...

George Miller has been directing pulse-pounding action sequences for almost 50 years. It started in the late 1970s with his first film, Mad Max, and continued through the decades, reaching a whole new level of awesome in 2015's Mad Max: Fury Road. Next week, he takes things to yet another new level with...Read more...

This week's season finale of X-Men 97 brought an emotional, explosive climax to mutantkind's battle against Bastion and the Prime Sentinels-and the X-Men love nothing more for their soap operatic drama than a big emotional twist while everything's going bonkers. The finale delivered on that front... although as with...Read more...

Every now and then a corporation is at least a bit funny when going about their late-stage capitalism. For instance, Samsung has released an absolutely perfect diss-ad response to Apple's recent crushing PR disaster.Read more...

On September 29, 2022, NASA's Juno spacecraft made its closest flyby of Europa, coming to within 220 miles (355 kilometers) of the Jovian moon's frozen surface. The closeup view of Europa revealed incredible details of the moon's chaotic terrain, which suggest that its icy crust is not where it used to be. The images...Read more...

Scientists in the U.K. seem to have unearthed yet another benefit of exercise: It could make our bodies better at using up certain kinds of fat. In a new study out this week, researchers found that endurance athletes were much better at burning off saturated fat compared to sedentary people with type 2 diabetes-a...Read more...

When 14-year-old Harris Wolobah of Massachusetts died last fall, the boy's family suspected it could be related to a viral spicy potato chip he ate just a few hours earlier. Wolobah's family was correct, according to an autopsy report obtained by the Associated Press.

Sure, Google I/O was one massive AI-palooza focused mostly on Gemini. But for Global Accessibility Awareness Day, there are a few more AI-enhanced vision features coming to some accessibility features coming to the Look to Speak app that will let users talk by staring at pictures, symbols, and-yes-even emojis, which...Read more...

Since it aired a few weeks ago, I keep touching on what still remains the standout episode of Discovery's final season so far: Face the Strange," an incredible hour of television that used a format the series excels at to reflect on how far its central character and the series itself has come. This week, the show...Read more...