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As part of its efforts to watch over America's assets in space, the United States Space Force is looking into establishing a line of communication with China in case of an emergency in orbit. It's not clear, however, whether or not China will pick up the line.Read more...

Fingernails imagines a world where true love can be proven with the help of technology that ascertains what makes two people an ideal match. Sounds tidy, until a woman newly hired at a love-testing lab starts to fall for her co-worker... despite the fact that she's already got a scientifically certified perfect...Read more...

Scientists may be closer to unraveling the mysteries of long covid. New research this week has found several potentially key differences in the blood of people diagnosed with the chronic ailment compared to those who were not. These differences could help scientists develop accurate diagnostic tests for the condition...Read more...

This January, expect to see two new awards handed out at the Golden Globes: Cinematic and Box Office Achievement" and Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television." While the latter seems reasonable, and probably should have happened years ago, it's the nature of the former award-which is similar to something th...Read more...

In the beginning, galaxies were lacking in chemical and metal abundances, according to a team of astronomers that recently used a telescope to study the ancient universe.Read more...

If The Animal Kingdom was an average movie, you could figure out the whole story from just the premise. It's a film about a world where humans have begun to mutate into animals. So, of course, it's got to be about how most humans hate these mutants, treat them terribly, and we get to see how a small group of them...Read more...

Tubi, an ad-supported streaming service, has rolled out a beta test for its OpenAI's ChatGPT feature starting today, the company announced on Tuesday. The addition, titled Rabbit AI, will provide viewers with TV show and movie suggestions based on queries from the user.Read more...

Science fiction is nothing without commentary on the modern world, but the developers of Cyberpunk 2077 are now apologizing for some commentary appearing in the Ukrainian version of the game that was maybe a little too close to the modern world.Read more...

Let's start here: Martha Wells doesn't have to prove anything. Her storied career, and her novels' many, many deserved accolades, speak for themselves. Her first book, The Element of Fire, 1993, kickstarted her Ile-Rien series, the first two books of which will get repackaged and republished in 2024. If you don't...Read more...

After Bob Smith's resignation as chief executive, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has appointed David Limp, Amazon's former head of hardware and leader of the company's Project Kuiper satellites, as the new CEO.Read more...

My biggest problem with The Creator is that it didn't make me cry. That seems like an odd thing to say, I understand, but let me explain. You see, I'm a softie. The kind of person who cries rewatching their favorite movies for the 500th time. Sometimes the nostalgia just hits me so hard, I can't help but tear up. The...Read more...

Nearly 35,000 SAG-AFTRA members voted in favor of a strike authorization on the Interactive Media Agreement, the union reported last night. The Interactive Media Agreement covers members' work on video games, which includes voice acting and live-action capture. SAG-AFTRA announced the strike authorization over...Read more...

Google is removing its Basic HTML view on all Gmail accounts starting in January 2024, according to a notice on the company's Support Page. The company quietly confirmed the change on its site but did not provide additional information about why it is removing the HTML option.Read more...

45 years ago next month, movies were changed forever by a man in a white William Shatner mask. John Carpenter's Halloween was released in October 1978 and shifted independent film and horror forever, introducing the world to Michael Myers and setting the stage for decades of similarly supernatural killers like Freddy,...Read more...

Spotify is no stranger to breaking the golden rule of if it ain't broke, don't fix it." Now, the music streaming service has bolstered its collaborative playlist offering with Jam, a new feature that allows up to 32 people to control a single playlist.Read more...

The Creator, Gareth Edwards' new sci-fi film, is getting a fantastic special collector's set of the forthcoming artbook, The Art of the Creator. Inside the deluxe edition are three lithographic prints, True Love (a graphic novel used to pitch the film, previously unpublished), and a sketchbook of production designer Ja...Read more...

This fall is really lining up to be an incredible one for sci-fi nerds. Dune is coming to Netflix in October, The Creator is releasing this week, and spooky season is coming. It's a plethora of riches. Also, keep your eyes peeled for news of a SAG-AFTRA-supported Video Game Actor's strike. Spoilers, clear your...Read more...

The number of ways you can chat with generative AI engines continues to grow, from ChatGPT to Claude to Google Bard to Bing AI, and FreedomGPT is one of the latest options you can add to your list of potential conversational partners. Here we're going to take you through the key features that mark it out as being a...Read more...

Once upon a time, Twitter (now renamed X) routinely tried to label what it deemed state affiliated" news sites, in an effort to highlight potential government disinformation and propaganda. After Elon Musk took over the platform late last year, however, he decided to put the kibosh on that policy. Predictably, new...Read more...

Barbie-a movie so big it had already won the U.S. box office in August-is also a movie so big that on Friday, it made the leap to IMAX for a one-week run. As usual, Barbie is on the forefront of what's in fashion, somethingDune director Denis Villeneuve, who's very pro-IMAX, seems to agree with.Read more...

Nightmare has an unfortunately generic title, but it's the word in its most literal usage, referring to the Mare"-a creature from folklore thought to torment sleepers. In Norwegian writer-director Kjersti Helen Raasmussen's new film, coming to Shudder this week, it takes the form of a particularly nasty dream demon.

Lost in Cult and Retro Dodo have collaborated to assemble dozens of essays on the art of the handheld device. From the hardware to the games themselves, A Handheld History: A Celebration of Portable Gaming is a gorgeous introspection into the decades of gaming that many of us remember from long rides on trains,...Read more...

Masterclass is becoming a shell of its former self as subscriptions dropped following spending thousands of dollars on A-list celebrities teaching the courses, including Disney CEO Bob Iger. The company even paid a reported $100,000 to recreate Iger's office space with the total cost to hire Iger, build the set, and...Read more...

India's Chandrayaan-3 lander and rover have been asleep on the surface of the Moon while efforts to revive the pair continue until the end of the lunar day.Read more...

One animal's poo might be another person's treasure. Scientists in the UK say they've discovered viruses that could be turned into a weapon against bacterial superbugs in a perhaps unexpected place: the feces of several endangered species at a nearby zoo. The team believes these viruses could be especially effective...Read more...

Gareth Edwards' new film, The Creator, is filled with nods and winks to all of your favorite sci-fi movies: Star Wars, 2001, Aliens, Blade Runner, Akira, Ghost in the Shell, you name it. Some filmmakers might be coy about that fact, but Edwards is 100% unapologetic about it.Read more...

Dream Scenario, the new film from writer/director Kristoffer Borgli, starts with a terrible yet tantalizing premise: what if millions of people all over the world started dreaming about one person? And not some famous celebrity. Just some normal professor at a small college. Why is this happening? How is it happening?...Read more...

As if the hype around AI couldn't get any more exasperating, Coca-Cola had to hop on the bandwagon. The massive beverage company has tapped an artificial intelligence to serve as its advisor in developing a new flavor of its titular soft drink. Naturally, Gizmodo had to get to the bottom of it (the soda bottle) and...Read more...

Francis Lawrence, who directed three of the four original Hunger Games films, is back in the director's chair for the prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. He sat down with Entertainment Weekly to give an overview of what to expect from the latest franchise installment, and explained the appeal of watching a...Read more...

A team of scientists appears to have unearthed a previously unknown genetic trigger for Parkinson's disease-one much more commonly seen in people with recent African ancestry. They found that those who were born with one or two copies of this associated variant were noticeably more likely to develop Parkinson's. The...Read more...

The last few months have been quite a time for Kamala Khan and her legions of fans. From her (initially leaked to widespread scorn) fridging and death in Amazing Spider-Man #26, to her resurrection and the not-so-shocking-yet-still-befuddling reveal that she is in fact a Mutant as well as an Inhuman, to the...Read more...

U.S. employees are fighting against return-to-office policies, with the majority of workers saying they are willing to switch jobs if it means they won't have to commute. According to a survey by Bankrate last month, an overwhelming 89% of workers say they want to exchange working in the office for a fully remote or...Read more...

Despite not having a game out this year, 2023 is an important year for Naughty Dog. HBO's TV adaptation of its hit zombie horror franchise The Last of Us premiered and landed with such resounding success that it was clear a second season was coming before the official green light was given. And if that weren't...Read more...

It's been 12 hours since I watched River. I've seen three movies in the meantime, all of which I loved, and yet I still can't stop thinking of River. It's that good, that funny, that smart, that just plain awesome. It's a flat-out phenomenal sci-fi comedy that everyone should see.Read more...

Little more than a week before Google is set to unveil the Google Pixel 8 and Pixel Watch 2 at its Made By Google" event, practically everything we could possibly want to learn about the devices' specs and launch promos is out well before the announcement date. This includes an eye-popping phone and watch combo deal,...Read more...

Having trouble finding the love of your life on Tinder? Don't dig deep and work on yourself, just fork over $500 every month to the platform to find your soul mate.Read more...

The big, wrinkly brain at the head of the massive conservative News Corp media conglomerate, Rupert Murdoch, announced he's finally stepping down Thursday. The 92-year-old multi-billionaire-who brought us Fox News as the centerpiece for a massive news and entertainment media empire-is finally slinking away to live the...Read more...

Meta is preparing to unleash a small army of talkative AI chatbots onto Facebook and Instagram in a bid to attract younger users, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal. The chatbots will reportedly embody various personas," ranging from sassy shit-talkers to extraterrestrial aliens. But back-talking...Read more...

But who's doing the voices? We still don't know!Read more...

Join Loki production designer, Kasra Farahani, as he shows off the kind of esoteric background details in the Time Variance Authority. Going through the Monitoring Hub-where the TVA keeps track of the sacred timeline, defending it against all threats-Farahani gives an in-depth tour of what went on behind the scenes of...Read more...

In its latest bid to adopt artificial intelligence technology, Amazon announced on Monday that it is investing a bundle in OpenAI competitor Anthropic. The investment will reach up to $4 billion, making Amazon Web Services (AWS) the primary cloud provider for Anthropic.Read more...

After grinding its teeth about AI for over a year, one of the biggest stock image sites around, Getty Images, will let subscribers start creating their own AI images through its site. The company promises users won't have to worry about all those sticky copyright issues since its AI is only trained on Getty's own...Read more...

On Monday, ChatGPT-maker OpenAI announced it was starting to roll out voice and image recognition in ChatGPT. Essentially, the AI can recognize a picture for what it is, and communicate with users about it. Plus, the AI now has speech-to-text and text-to-speech synthesization capabilities. All the new features are...Read more...

After previously announcing that it would be pivoting to recycled plastic bottles to make bricks, Lego is now walking back on that promise. The toy manufacturer has given up on its plan to use recycled bottles, claiming that the plastic wasn't sustainable enough.Read more...

Yesterday, after nearly 4 straight days of intense bargaining, the WGA has approved a tentative contract, ending the pickets and tentatively signaling an end to the Writer's Strike that has lasted 146 days. It's been an incredible summer for labor action, as SAG-AFTRA went on strike as well, joining the WGA on the...Read more...

In early August, college radio stations and student newspapers across Canada started noticing something odd. Station managers and editors saw big dips in visits to their websites, particularly by way of Facebook and Instagram. Rowan Grice, a 28-year-old station manager at the University of Victoria's CFUV station,...Read more...

After tenuous negotiations, the WGA appear to have finally reached a fair deal with the AMPTP after nearly 140 days on strike, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The strike began on May 2, 2023 after the WGA and the AMPTP failed to come to a consensus for terms on writers' contracts. Many of the issues centered...Read more...

Since 1987, Right Stuf has been a reliable way for those who don't live in Japan to purchase anime. In 2022, it was acquired by Sony, after which it became part of Crunchyroll while still operating as its own thing. But starting next month, Right Stuf will be no more as it becomes fully integrated into Crunchyroll.

Fancasting popular actors into big properties is nothing new, but every once in a while, you see that actually pay off in the material itself. Almost everyone has an ideal actor they think would be best to portray a particular character, and in the case of One Piece, fans have been clamoring for years to have Freaky...Read more...