Gizmodo

It feels like a billion years away, but Deadpool 3 is getting on track for its November 8, 2024 release. Hugh Jackman is preparing physically to play Wolverine again, he and Ryan Reynolds are riffing on social media, and the delicate balance of having two giant comic book superstars with radically different tones…Read more...

In little more than a month’s time, the Alphabet-owned tech giant Google will soon be the main face of the entire tech industry defending how the internet currently exists, good and ill. The Supreme Court is gearing up to hear arguments that could completely redefine whether companies are liable for everything that…Read more...

Some people, like disgraced crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried, really just don’t know when to stop talking. Despite facing eight counts of U.S. criminal charges and living under house arrest, SBF, as he’s often called, decided it was a good time to launch a Substack newsletter.

We’re a long way from seeing Matt Reeves’ second installment of his Batman trilogy, but the director is already thinking about how to avoid a problem that’s plagued Bat-sequel movies for years: they always seem to focus on the villains instead of Batman himself.

The results of a small new trial may offer a salve to people worried about the health effects of sitting all day at work. The study found that taking walking breaks as short as five minutes every half-hour can stabilize blood sugar and blood pressure levels compared to prolonged sitting. People also reported feeling…Read more...

The Guinness World Records announced Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk has broken the world record for the person to lose the largest amount of personal wealth in history. The billionaire has reportedly lost a total of $182 billion since November 2021. Some of the loss was attributed to the $44 billion deal reached to …Read more...

Congress, in all its wisdom, declined to give the Army an additional $400 million in its 2023 budget that the army planned to use to buy an additional 6,900 AR combat goggles developed in partnership with Microsoft.Read more...

Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast has apparently cancelled an announcement about its updated Open Gaming License for a second time this week. Inside sources at Wizards of the Coast tell io9 that the company is scrambling to formulate a response to backlash against the new OGL that has occurred over the…Read more...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is looking for a new way to get nice and cozy: The agency is funding research into drugs that could protect people from extreme cold. Should these efforts bear fruit, the drugs could have a variety of uses, from treating hypothermia patients to helping people…Read more...

Animal testing will no longer be a mandated part of the Food and Drug Administration’s approval process for all new drugs. Since 1938, pharmaceutical makers seeking FDA approval have had to successfully put their medications through multiple animals trials before proceeding to human tests.

Read more...

There’s only one more season of Stranger Things left and while Finn Wolfhard and the rest of the cast are currently busy promoting other projects, the hit Netflix series is still what everyone wants more details about.Read more...

ExxonMobil knew even more about how damaging climate change is than we thought, a study out this week shows.

Amazon reportedly dropped its Bar Raiser program during its hiring process, allegedly leading to a quantity-over-quality hiring process.Read more...

Polling the internet: what is the best way to de-anonymize a Tor user? Somebody over at the FBI definitely has a method, but they clearly aren’t planning on telling anybody anytime soon.Read more...

I eat a lot of fast food.Read more...

The director of Attack the Block has a new show where people fight ghosts with swords. Really, we could stop the article there, plop in the trailer and call it a day because you won’t read a cooler sentence this week. Let’s just reiterate: Joe Cornish, director of Attack the Block, has a new Netflix show and in it,…Read more...

Researchers have found an extreme binary system that features two dwarf stars that are so cool, they don’t emit visible light. And they’re so close together that they take less than one Earth day to orbit around each other.

There’s a lot of Twitter news circulating these days, in the long and chaotic wake of Elon Musk’s takeover. But if you are (or ever were) a Twitter user, I promise, this particular story is probably something you probably want to keep tabs on.

Sarah Michelle Gellar is back in a new supernatural series, though it appears there’ll be no pesky vampires in Wolf Pack. As the title suggests, this new Paramount+ series co-starring Rodrigo Santoro (Westworld) as well as a mess of teens is about you-know-which howling creatures of the night. The full trailer is here…Read more...

NASA’S Jupiter mission is back in action after suffering from an acute case of spacecraft amnesia, which caused the Juno spacecraft to temporarily lose access to data stored in its memory.Read more...

As someone who would eagerly apply three or four screen protectors to their touchscreen devices were it not for the strange looks I’d get, I can’t help but cringe at this new stylus from MSI that also works as a pencil without swapping tips or switching ends. But apparently, MSI promises it won’t scratch or mar your…Read more...

SpaceX’s military rideshare launch, designated USSF-67, appears ready to rock, with a static fire test successfully completed earlier in the week and pleasant weather conditions forecasted for Saturday. Here’s what you need to know about the private company’s second national security launch and the fifth flight of its…Read more...

It turns out a corrupted database file may be all it takes to briefly bring the entire air industry to a standstill.Read more...

For over 20 years, Johnny Yong Bosch has been one of the most prolific voice actors around. But the role that kicked off his career was Vash the Stampede, the lead role in Trigun, the beloved anime series based on Yasuhiro Nightow’s manga, about a gun-toting pacifist on a Wild West-esque planet where everyone’s…Read more...

Microsoft founder Bill Gates said he will donate a vast amount of his fortune to his philanthropic endeavors including much of the farmland he currently owns. Gates is currently the seventh richest man in the world with a net worth of $103.6 billion according to Forbes, and he’s now pledging to give away most of his…Read more...

As much as the crypto industry has been pummeled over the past year, both in terms of slouching crypto prices as well as waning public opinion, scammers, hackers, and sanctioned entities still managed to make a good chunk of change in 2022.Read more...

We all make bad deals here and there, but JPMorgan has made a really bad one. The financial services company claims that its acquisition of startup Frank was built on a lie in which the young startup owner claimed the company had millions of users.

Don Cheadle discusses how Armor Wars will dig deep into War Machine. Matt Reeves says the Penguin show will tie into his plans for The Batman sequel. Plus, Gates McFadden teases kicking ass in Star Trek: Picard, and there’s a new poster for The Flash’s final season. Spoilers get!

Twitter CEO Elon Musk’s brilliant ideas have resulted in embarrassment yet again. This time, the impact fell on employees in the company’s Singapore offices, who were reportedly unceremoniously escorted out of the building by landlords because the company didn’t pay the rent on time.Read more...

When you’re done playing all of the latest releases on your Steam Deck, you have the option of converting your handheld console into an emulator and firing up a variety of classics from gaming’s past. With the right software and a little know-how, you can be playing titles from the GameCube, the original PlayStation,…Read more...

There are now several music streaming services to choose between, and at first glance they can all seem pretty similar—tens of millions of tracks to stream, mobile and desktop apps, offline caching options, and all the rest. It’s not always clear where the differences are, but here we’re going to highlight one of the…Read more...

No matter what your gaming platform of choice—PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, Steam Deck, Android or iOS—you have the option of sharing your exploits with the wider world through livestreaming. This can seem a daunting prospect at first, but you don’t need much (or in some cases any) additional software or hardware, as…Read more...

In just one of many Las Vegas hotel suites where tech companies were offering journalists like me the opportunity to get early tests of prototype tech, I didn’t expect much. I sat down in a spare casino suite with Lumus, an Israel-based company announcing its 2D ‘Z-Lens’ glass architecture, for use by other companies…Read more...

Samsung has announced a slew of software updates coming to the Galaxy Buds 2 Pro and Galaxy Watch. The audio update brings a new type of recording feature to Samsung’s earbuds, while the Galaxy Watch update lets you do more with the wearable when using it as a smartphone camera remote.

It’s fair to say it’s been a busy few months for Twitter, with a lot of changes coming in a short amount of time. Those changes have included a revamp of how checkmarks and account labels are used, and if your head is spinning while scrolling through your Twitter timeline, then we’re here to carefully and calmly…Read more...

The Epcot International Festival of the Arts begins this week at Walt Disney World Resort. It’s the Disney fandom destination for art pieces, collectibles, and prints inspired by all the franchises under the Mouse House umbrella. Aside from creative food booths and Broadway caliber entertainment, the festival’s…Read more...

The latest trailer for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania made it very clear: this movie is quite different from the previous two films in the series. And that point has now been made even clearer as one of the funniest characters in the original films has pivoted to a new role.Read more...

Research from a team in Israel appears to offer encouraging news: The majority of symptoms tied to long covid might fade away over time for those who initially had a mild case of covid-19. The study found that mild cases had a higher risk of more than a dozen health conditions compared to uninfected controls in the…Read more...

California isn’t out of the woods yet. At least 17 people are dead, thousands have been forced to evacuate, and cities and municipalities all over the state are looking at millions of dollars in damage from devastating winter weather that began late last month and doesn’t look like it will stop anytime soon.

Writer-director Phillip Trow’s short Upstairs is tense from the start, as a mom and two of her two adult children await the arrival of the family’s other daughter, who’s bringing her boyfriend to meet them for the first time. A sense of dread hangs heavily over the table, and it only increases as the meal continues.Read more...

A little-known policing app credited with helping more than 60 law enforcement departments conduct multi-agency raids may have leaked confidential data about those raids, suspects not yet convicted of crimes, and, in some cases, the very officers involved in the operations, to the open internet.Read more...

Much-beloved genre director John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing, Escape From New York) turns 75 this month, and in a new interview he casually mentions that sure, he’d be up for making another feature film someday—if certain conditions were met, that is.Read more...

The United Kingdom’s answer to the U.S. Postal Service, Royal Mail, is warnings its customers to hold onto international letters and packages for now. The courier is “experiencing a severe service disruption,” impacting its ability to send items abroad because of a “cyber incident,” Royal Mail wrote in a vague news…Read more...

An end-to-end encrypted chat app that collects almost no data and requires no personal information to sign up? Sounds like a dream come true for privacy enthusiasts. The only problem is that Threema, the Swiss privacy company behind the messenger in question, has been using an unreliable cryptographic protocol, whose…Read more...

People living near airports that service piston-engine aircraft are disproportionately exposed to lead, a dangerous neurotoxin.Read more...

Read more...

Hackers who targeted The Guardian in a December ransomware attack accessed the personal information of journalists and other staff, the U.K.-based news outlet confirmed on Wednesday.

Today Hasbro lifted the lid on its latest swath of Indiana Jones toys, our second major look at the line after Lucasfilm revealed it was partnering with its Star Wars ally to really get some use out of those Harrison Ford headsculpts. And while there wasn’t much from the new movie shown off, there were a few treasures…Read more...

SpaceX is yet again teasing the possibility of a Starship orbital launch test, stacking the huge rocket on top of its launchpad at the company’s Starbase site in Texas.