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Nintendo has announced on X, formerly known as Twitter, that Charles Martinet, who has been the video game voice actor for Mario since 1991, is retiring. He will be stepping into a new role" of Mario Ambassador.Read more...

As the cold war between Elon Musk's Twitter (recently rebranded as X) and Mark Zuckerberg's Threads rages on, the latter is preparing to launch a new offensive. Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri announced that Threads was finally getting a bona fide browser version.Read more...

Are you already entirely up to date with all the iPhone 15 rumors ahead of its expected debut next month? Well, don't let the impending release stop you from squinting at the product IDs for Apple's processor series two years in advance.Read more...

One Piece, a beloved, long-running manga and anime that has been read and watched worldwide, is finally coming to live-action. Eiichiro Oda, the original manga's author/artist has been working alongside Netflix throughout the production. A new featurette shows off some all new footage plus interviews with the cast and...Read more...

Last year, a friend came to me with a strange tech problem. The algorithm is screwing me over," he said, peering over a drink at a bar in Manhattan's East Village. Anthony, a 31-year old engineer who asked to withhold his real name, had been on the dating app Hinge for five years. He said he always had a hard time...Read more...

The website for former President Donald Trump's legal defense fund appears to have been hacked and defaced over the weekend. As of the writing of this blog, the defacement is still live on the site and has not been taken down.Read more...

Twitch is finally letting streamers block out those viewers they've already banned from chat. However, these bans won't be based on any user identifier beyond accounts, so the various kinds of insufferable Twitch-holes who are dedicated enough could still find ways to watch.Read more...

Every superhero movie is judged by how well their villain worked, and for the MCU, the success rate of antagonists is up and down. Nowhere is this more apparent than with Thor's movies: Loki and Hela are pretty good villains, Malekith and the Dark Elves aren't, and Gorr the God Butcher ultimately depends on how you...Read more...

Warner Bros. has spent years announcing (and quietly canceling) DC movies of all different shades, which made it a bit of a surprise that a movie based on Blue Beetle actually made it to release. DC films have been in an odd place for nearly a decade now, and this movie was now different, having originally been...Read more...

More often than not, queer stories with supernatural elements focus on the vampires. After all, biting hard enough to draw blood is just inherently erotic, and a lot of supernatural fiction tends to play up how being a dhampir can be sexual in some form or fashion. But for those whose taste skews a little furrier, it...Read more...

The Hollywood strikes have been going on for quite a while-specifically Day 38 for SAG-AFTRA, and Day 111 for the WGA. During this time, most actors and writers haven't been doing promo for any project they're involved with that's been released out into the world. It's the price they're willing to pay in order to get...Read more...

Before we learned that David Corenswet would be playing Superman in DC movies for the next several years, various outlets such as ourselves reported that James Gunn's Superman movie was going to focus on a younger version of the character. It was an important thing to note at the time since Henry Cavill's Superman...Read more...

For our series on innovation, Gizmodo spoke to Olivia Grace, senior director of product management at Slack's headquarters in San Francisco, about recent and upcoming changes to the company's flagship chat software.Read more...

Getting Google to search the web for you is all well and good, but there's a ton of functionality available through the simple-looking box on the world's most-visited website. You could call these bonus features, or Easter eggs, or hidden tricks-but they're all useful in your own way, and can be launched by heading to ...Read more...

First it seemed like The Flash would never come out, for a variety of reasons. Then when it did actually see the light of day, its time in theaters was...kind of a mess. Now, after being an NFT and getting a surprise VOD drop in-mid July, the DC Comics movie is coming to Max about a week from now.Read more...

Uber and Lyft threatened to leave Minneapolis after the city council approved a minimum wage for drivers that would force the tech companies to pay drivers $1.40 per mile and $0.51 per minute during rides. The ordinance, which passed the Council 7-5 on Thursday, could still be vetoed by Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey,...Read more...

If you're behind on what's happening with the robot uprising, have no fear. Here's a quick look at some of the weirdest and wildest artificial intelligence news from the past week. Also, don't forget to check out our weekly AI write-up, which will go into more detail on this same topic.

Warner Bros.' Conjuring franchise has a handful of recurring villains, and one of them is Valak the Demon Nun. Played by Bonnie Aarons, Valak first appeared in 2016's The Conjuring 2, then got boosted to primary star status with her own sub-series, whose second installment is set to hit theaters in a few weeks.Read more...

For those in the entertainment industry (and creative fields more generally), AI has been an extremely divisive topic. As various websites like ArtStation have decided to basically let art created by the controversial technology persist on their platforms-either freely or with specific guidelines-Hollywood writers and ...Read more...

Earlier in the year, Prime Video announced that its sci-fi series The Peripheral would return for a second season. With a first season that was said to be fairly enjoyable and starring the likes of Chloe Grace-Moretz and Jack Reynor, it sucks that the biggest bit of news about season two is also its very last, as...Read more...

The BMC Ecology and Evolution photo competition has come to an end, and the winners and runners-up cover a diverse sweep of the animal and fungal kingdoms.Read more...

You've probably got a ton of photos and videos in your social media and messaging apps at this point-pictures of sunsets posted to Instagram, pictures of the kids posted to family WhatsApp groups, and so on-but you might not necessarily have those pictures and videos saved anywhere else.Read more...

These days, it seems like Disney+ has been deleting more shows than it's adding. But yes, it is still adding them, and one of the biggest coming later this year is Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Based on the hit book series by Rick Riordan, the show follows a boy who finds out that he's the son of a God.Read more...

It's time to start planning those Halloween haunt and theme park event trips before they sell out. Seriously, if you think it's early talk to anyone who was unable to secure tickets to Disneyland's Oogie Boogie Bash, all the dates of which are no longer available-unless you score tickets from folks who can't make it....Read more...

You would think that, with as much as the Galaxy Z Fold 5 costs, Samsung would throw in a stylus for good measure. Unfortunately, the $1,800 book-like foldable that opens into a tablet has no accompanying S Pen like the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra. If any device could benefit from the S Pen, it's the Fold 5's inner...Read more...

If there are two things I love in this world it's The Lost Boys and wasting money. So it should be of little surprise to my friends, family, and you readers that I am salivating over Sideshow Collectables' latest announcement: a 1/6 scale collectible of Kiefer Sutherland's iconic character David from The Lost Boys.Read more...

Twitter, (recently rebranded as X) appears to be taking another turn for the worse as Elon Musk claimed on Friday that he is removing the Block feature from the app. If Musk goes through with it, users will reportedly still have the option to mute other profiles from appearing on their feeds, but the option to block...Read more...

It's the first real day of Gen Con and I'm meeting up with Ned Donovan and Brian David Judkins in the labyrinthine upper suites of Lukas Oil Stadium. We can't go into the Wizards of the Coast press suite, as apparently someone else louder than us called dibs, but we sneak into a suite reserved for someone named...Read more...

An incident at Pinewood Studios during the shoot of The Little Mermaid live-action film, has left a model maker injured into early retirement.Read more...

Devastating wildfires that have killed more than 100 people have also created dangerous conditions for fragile wildlife and natural ecosystems off Maui's shores. Scientists and officials are worried that coral reefs near Maui are going to be hurt in the aftermath of these fires.

Yes, there's a lot of genre TV on a lot of different streamers-and yes, Apple TV+'s Foundation is a high-concept show at the midpoint of its second season. But if you're a sci-fi fan, and you're not tuning in (it's adapted from the works of Isaac Asimov), you're missing out on unique characters, multiple threads of...Read more...

As private space companies have ramped up production and launches in the past several years, they've also been unwittingly putting a target on their back. U.S. government agencies are warning the private space sector that they are in the crosshairs of foreign intelligence agencies.Read more...

Following back-to-back annual losses, SpaceX has reportedly turned a profit during the first quarter of the year despite an increase in costs as the company continues to spend on its unproven Starship rocket, which has not flown.Read more...

A brand new Star Wars show comes to Disney+ next week but, unlike many of its predecessors, it's more of a sequel than an original. Star Wars: Ahsoka debuts on August 22 and though it promises to tell a brand new story, wholly accessible to any Star Wars fan that wants to watch, Ahsoka and her place in the universe is...Read more...

The new era of DC Studios is kicked off with Blue Beetle, originally part of the old regime, it now starts off James Gunn and Peter Safran's new slate of heroes in a big way.Read more...

A US federal judge in California has dismissed a racial discrimination lawsuit brought against YouTube and its parent company Google by non-white YouTube content creators who alleged the platform's recommendation algorithms unfairly throttled and even removed their content. The judge, according to Reuters, said the ...Read more...

The Georgia Department of Agriculture announced earlier this week that a beekeeper in Savannah found an unusual insect later identified by University of Georgia officials as a yellow-legged hornet.Read more...

The iPhone 15 is just a month away, and the rumor mill is spinning in high gear before its expected announcement date. The latest news to come down the pipeline of whispers claims Apple's latest iteration of its smartphone will support charging wired up to 35 watts, faster than the current model. Now, it's no 1.21...Read more...

In a move right from the playbook of little guys who taunt jacked up dudes a bar, Politico reports that Ron DeSantis has said that he's ready to move on" from his lawsuit with Disney... but, buddy, that's not up to you any more, especially not in a legal battle you started.Read more...

Amazon is offering influencers a measly $25 per video to promote products listed on its new shopping feed, Inspire. The company is capping the payout at $12,500, saying influencers can submit a maximum of 500 videos to reach that price.Read more...

If you're a Star Wars fan who was always groggy watching the latest episodes of The Mandalorian, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Book of Boba Fett, and Andor, you're in luck. Lucasfilm just announced that all episodes of Ahsoka will debut on Disney+ at 6 p.m. PST, 9 p.m. EST Tuesdays, beginning this Tuesday August 22 with the...Read more...

Atlantic tropical storms are more likely to kill minorities and those in other vulnerable communities, according to a new study published in Science Advances.Read more...

Of all the intriguing tales in the new Return of the Jedi anniversary anthology From a Certain Point of View, one revolving around Attack of the Clones' premiere gourmet establishment proprietor Dexter Jettster was arguably the most intriguing to many when it was announced. What was Dexter up to during the original...Read more...

Wildfires in Maui have devastated the communities in Hawaii over the last week, but a new book listed on Amazon about the natural disaster has raised eyebrows from reviewers.Read more...

Get a look at Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal in Amazon's new sci-fi thriller Foe. Archer heads to England in new details about the last season. Plus, Netflix gives us one last look at Disenchanted's own finale, and when to expect a return to Adventure Time in Fionna and Cake. Spoilers now!

Threads is desperately trying to stay relevant by announcing a small update on Thursday to include a repost tab feature to the app. The newest tweaks come as the number of daily active users decreased by 80% since the app launched in July.Read more...

Meta's language-centric LlaMA AI will soon find itself in the company of a nerdier, coding wiz brother. The company's next AI release will reportedly be a big coding machine meant to compete against the proprietary software from the likes of OpenAI and Google. The model could see a release as soon as next week.Read more...

If the spectacular failure of Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX exchange wasn't evidence enough, the crypto bubble has officially popped. Now, Bitcoin, one of the most widely used cryptocurrencies, has fallen to a two-month low.Read more...

Star Wars fans have been waiting over five years for this. When Star Wars Rebels ended in March 2018, creator Dave Filoni teased a story where Ahsoka Tano and Sabine Wren would team up and go to find their friend, Jedi Ezra Bridger. Well, it took a while, and it's not the way we expected, but the story will finally...Read more...