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Conservation is about preserving the natural world for future generations and the health of our ecosystems. But sometimes, to save local environments, you have to kill some plants. Specifically, invasive plants.

Researchers are developing an mRNA-based vaccine against the contagious H5N1 bird flu virus that is spreading rapidly among poultry and cattle and has already infected two humans in the United States.Read more...

The biggest monoliths in tech can't stop talking about Plus" as of late. Google had its own Chromebook Plus laptops introduced last year, and just this week, Microsoft revealed its new Copilot+ PCs, promising some of the fastest ultra-thin PC performance yet with new ARM-based chips.

The Sun is orbited by eight planets, at least five dwarf planets, tens of thousands of asteroids, and around three trillion comets and icy bodies. Although not all objects of the solar system are as well known as Earth, Jupiter, or other celestial bodies with main character energy, they still make up a valuable part...Read more...

For years, fans have been trying to get Nintendo and Lego to team up on one particular adventure. From one failed attempt after another through Lego's crowd-voted set series Lego Ideas, to official partnerships between the two on Mario and Animal Crossing sets, one white whale has always been out of sight: The Legend...Read more...

OpenAI says it's training the next frontier model, according to a press release on Tuesday, and anticipates it will bring the startup one step closer to artificial intelligence systems that are generally smarter than humans. The company also announced a new Safety and Security Committee to guide critical safety and...Read more...

Dwayne Johnson is back in the booth for the live-action Moana remake. Dafne Keen teases the aesthetic of her Acolyte Jedi Padawan, Jecki Lon. Plus, what's coming on My Adventures With Superman. To me, my spoilers!

In No Pain," the third episode of Interview With the Vampire season two, Armand (Assad Zaman) shares the story of the Theatre des Vampires as Louis (Jacob Anderson) expresses reluctance to join-something that doesn't stop Claudia (Delainey Hayles) from eagerly wanting to be a part of it.Read more...

Everyone knows the magic of George Miller is his practical effects. The Max Max filmmaker loves to do actual stunts and capture them in-camera, and the results are masterful. But what maybe not everyone knows is that Miller's films, in particular Mad Max: Fury Road and the new Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, have a ton of...Read more...

The surface of Venus is littered with thousands of volcanoes, some of which may still be active until today. A fresh look at 30-year-old radar images captured by the Magellan spacecraft revealed new lava flows on Venus, suggesting that the planet was volcanically active between 1990 to 1992.Read more...

You can certainly comb through the big streaming services-Netflix, Peacock, Prime Video, Max-to get your horror-movie fix. But if horror is all you want, Shudder should top your list of subscriptions. It has an excellent library spanning many sub-genres, with classics and new releases alike. If you're looking for a...Read more...

The latest era of Doctor Who has been all over the place-from festive fantasy, to madcap sci-fi silliness, to jauntily uneven camp, and to anti-capitalist wartime thrillers. But its latest juke lands itself somewhere familiar but entirely new for the series, and finally decides to give Millie Gibson's Ruby Sunday the...Read more...

If you tuned in for Google I/O, OpenAI's Spring Update, or Microsoft Build this month, you probably heard the term AI agents come up quite a lot in the last month. They're quickly becoming the next big thing in tech, but what exactly are they? And why is everyone talking about them all of a sudden?Read more...

Tech companies try to keep their interview questions secret, so that prospective employees can't prepare answers in advance. Applicants reclaim the power by sharing their interview experiences publicly on websites like Glassdoor and CareerCup. As a result, what were intended as forums to help career hopefuls navigate...Read more...

Scientists first found microplastics, those tiny pieces of plastic smaller than 5 millimeters, on British beaches in 2004. In the 20 years since, the world has watched on in horror as microplastics began turning up in virtually every nook and cranny on the planet. Today, we've got far-from-complete list that gives you...Read more...

Sadly, people aren't always as nice as they could be, and that's where you need to turn to the various blocking and reporting features on the digital platforms you frequent. Overall, these features work well and effectively put up barriers between you and those you don't want to hear from.

Batman fans have their favorites miniseries, and among the most beloved is The Long Halloween. The original miniseries from Jeph Loeb and the late Tim Sale saw widepsread acclaim when it released in 1996 and spawned two sequels and a film adaptation. And much like Frank Miller with hisDark Knight Returnsseries, Loeb...Read more...

As old horror franchises have gotten new leases on life in recent years, more and more people have just wanted to know why Friday the 13th can't get the same treatment. While the series was kept semi-alive with a video game not too long ago, there hasn't been a new movie since the 2009 reboot. It sounds like even with...Read more...

Nearly 10 years ago, George Miller brought the Mad Max franchise blasting back to relevance with Fury Road. The film wasn't just well-liked, it was basically a game changer for plenty of moviegoers and delivered them something they'd never really seen at the time. And of the many things to love about Fury Road, people...Read more...

Disney announced revered composer Richard Sherman passed away on Saturday from age-related illnesses." He was 95 years old.Read more...

There's been a number of dormant horror franchises that've been revived in the past few years-your Alien, Halloween, Strangers, and so on. (Sorry, Jason.) Several of these have come courtesy of Blumhouse, and it's now working to resurrect another old movie: My Bloody Valentine.

The newly released Furiosa has the world blazing with Mad Max fever. Some are celebrating the occasion by rewatching 2015's Fury Road, if not all four movies. Others are thinking about what could've been, particularly as it pertains to the 2015 Mad Max game from Just Cause creator Avalanche Studios.

Between now-classic movies like the Spider-Man films and the 1999Mummy flick, it's been a spring of re-releases. Most of them have been from studios like Sony and Disney, but now Paramount is making a play by returning Star Trek III: The Search for Spock to the silver screen.

Update, 5/25 @ 1:15 PM ET: James Gunn has confirmed Chris Mundy and Damon Lindelof are involved with Lanterns. The two men, along with DC Comics scribe Tom King-who was previously cooking up a New Gods movie with Ava DuVernay-came up with the show's initial pilot script and bible. (King, said Gunn, has been involved...Read more...

Ghost in the Shell is making a comeback, courtesy of a brand-new anime by Scott Pilgrim Takes Off studio Science SARU and longtime franchise studio Production I.G (Kaiju No. 8).Read more...

This week, pop culture had lots to get excited about: Steven Spielberg's intriguing new sci-fi film; long-awaited horror comedy sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice; our first glimpse of the (new) star of The Witcher; more details about Australia's mini-theme park celebrating all things Bluey, and beyond! - Cheryl EddyRead more...

It turns out that killer wales do not like boats. They really don't like them, in fact, and have made it their mission to sink them all to the bottom of the ocean in recent years. Now, instead of letting the orca have their fun with boats sailing the seven seas, one New Zealander has tried to fight back, which is...Read more...

The federal government made some interesting moves by making private jets owned by celebrities such as Elon Musk and Taylor Swift harder to track, but at the same time, advancing legislation to make agencies share more info about UFOs. Back on the ground, AI is coming for your voice if you're Scarlet Johansson, you're...Read more...

This week, the company behind the wearable chatbot AI Pin is already looking to sell for upwards of a billion dollars just one month after its rough product launch. Speaking of AI, Microsoft shared its plans for the future of AI in Windows with Copilot+. However, we still have some privacy concerns over its spotlight...Read more...

This week, science reporter Isaac Schultz described a groundbreaking effort to measure the spin of a supermassive black hole, and a fascinating experimental archaeology experiment in which marines fought each otherto test how well ancient Mycenean armor works. Other science coverage included a botched SpaceX engine...Read more...

What a lovely, lovely day! After years of anticipation and discussion, George Miller's follow-up to Mad Max: Fury Road is finally here. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is now in theaters and it acts as a perfect compliment to that 2015 masterpiece, giving the character of Furiosa an intense backstory while also building out...Read more...

George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead arrived 10 years after he invented the modern zombie movie with 1968's Night of the Living Dead. To mark the 45-year anniversary of its U.S. release in 1979-an international co-production, it world-premiered in Italy in 1978-star Gaylen Ross, who's also in Romero and Stephen King's...Read more...

It turns out that Samsung's repair program isn't as breezy as we initially thought. In the past few days, we've discovered some harsh truths about Android's best-selling smartphone maker. The company has quietly parted ways with iFixit on phone repair kits. It has also required independent repair shops to disclose...Read more...

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Speculation about new character arrivals in Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge has circled for weeks as a mysterious tarp appeared stationed on Batuu at Disneyland. Today Disney Experiences confirmed two new Star Warscharacter arrivals, who speak through one: a modified R1 series astromech droid named Bard, owned by Tohan...Read more...

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It's a mega-movie summer at Universal Studios Orlando with the East Coast resort punching up cinematic nostalgia and the opening of DreamWorks Land. With nighttime shows themed around the likes of Back to the Future, E.T., Ghostbusters, Jaws, Trolls, and Shrek, movie fans of all ages can get into vacation mode like in...Read more...

HBO's smash-hit video-game adaptation The Last of Us has added a veteran of the source material to its second season: Oscar nominee Jeffrey Wright, who'll be stepping back into the role of Isaac Dixon. Wright's previous genre credits include another big HBO series in Westworld, as well as Marvel's animated What If... ? seriesRead more...

Artificial intelligence chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT are being sold as revolutionary tools that can help workers become more efficient at their jobs, perhaps replacing those people entirely in the future. But a stunning new study has found ChatGPT answers computer programming questions incorrectly 52% of the time.

One of the year's best and most polarizing movies just made its way home. Alex Garland's Civil War, the terrifying near-future thriller about a United States that's no longer so united, is now available on demand. It grossed almost $70 million domestically, which means plenty of movie fans saw it, but even more...Read more...

House of the Dragon season two is nearly upon us, and while it's been a year and a half since the season one finale, fans will easily remember the key players from the Game of Thrones prequel: Rhaenyra Targaryen and her family, aka the Blacks, and Alicent Hightower, the newly crowned Aegon II, and their crew, aka the...Read more...

Google tested out AI overviews for months before releasing them nationwide last week, but clearly, that wasn't enough time. The AI is hallucinating answers to several user queries, creating a less-than-trustworthy experience across Google's flagship product. In the last week, Gizmodo received AI overviews from Google...Read more...

Spotify recently emailed its customers, informing them that Car Thing will be discontinued and no longer operational after December 9, 2024. This oddly-named device is the streaming company's first-ever attempt at hardware and allows users to control Spotify in their cars via a touch-screen or voice commands.Read more...

Whatever Apple is cooking up in the kitchens inside of 1 Infinite Loop, it seems it's very interested in making a foldable, but only on its own terms. The Cupertino, California company is reportedly working on a folding MacBook that lacks any semblance of that annoying crease found on most other foldables.Read more...

Google parent Alphabet is reportedly making headway in its bid to acquire the $30 billion marketing software company HubSpot. That deal, which would be Google's largest-ever acquisition, is part of the company's strategy to compete with Microsoft in the cloud applications market.

Last week, Sam Altman apologized for OpenAI's contracts which threatened to claw back equity from former employees, claiming in a tweet he did not know this was happening and I should have." Now, documents leaked to Vox on Wednesday suggest Altman did know, showing that the CEO and other senior OpenAI executives...Read more...

A winemaker's renovation project in Gobelsburg, Austria, has led to the discovery of mammoth bones dating back up to 40,000 years, providing potential new insights into Upper Paleolithic hunting practices.Read more...

Aubrey Sitterson and Megan Hutchison's Archie Comics: Judgment Day returns for its second installment June 19, and io9 has a sneak preview today. The Archie Horror mini-series event takes place in an alternate version of Riverdale plagued by demons that-terrifyingly-often spawn from Archie's friends and loved ones,...Read more...

James Gunn's Superman gets an update. King Kong joins Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. Plus, the Dexter prequel series casts its leads. To the victor go the spoilers!

Games are expensive, and for some, it's far too expensive to be a regular hobby. That makes shopping for deals that much more of a necessity. I'm here to offer a few tried and tested ways to find good deals on games, including legitimate ways to find games to play for free.Read more...