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We've all been there: You're getting some peanut butter, or looking to nosh a nice pickle, when you find your wrist strength is insufficient to get at the jar's delicious contents. That's more or less NASA's vexing issue with the OSIRIS-REx asteroid samples-though, of course, that canister's contents aren't for eating.Read more...

If Prime Video's regular movie selection doesn't feel deep enough, a new streaming video channel from one of the most noted indie film distributors is here to help. This week, Kino Lorber launched Kino Film Collection, a new addition to Amazon's SVOD line-up, and one that's filled with an impressive array of titles...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.Read more...

Sam Bankman-Fried may be headed to prison but the story of FTX is far from over. Like an evil spirit, the exchange seems destined to haunt the crypto community for the rest of its days.Read more...

Christmas is starting now-well, maybe that actually happened a couple weeks ago, as it wiped out most Halloween sections well before October 31. We know, we know, it's wild to see aisles already filled with holiday cheer and online stores rolling out their winter collections.Read more...

Earlier today, we got our surprising first look at Marvel's Hawkeye spinoff series centered around Alaqua Cox's Maya Lopez, Echo. But now that Maya is getting into the spotlight, she's going to be even more different than her comics counterpart.Read more...

EV startup Revel's moped-share option is ending in both New York City and San Francisco, the company announced in a company-wide email on Friday, citing the need to focus on its ride-hail service, according to a company-wide email seen byTechCrunch. Revel added rideshare in June of last year as a more eco-friendly...Read more...

Scientists seem to have found a kink in the armor of super gonorrhea. In a large-scale clinical trial reported this week, the experimental drug zoliflodacin was found to be just as effective as other frontline antibiotics at treating the stubborn bacterial infection. The results will pave the way for zoliflodacin to...Read more...

After landing back to Earth from Virgin Galactic's latest suborbital flight, planetary scientist Alan Stern and science communicator Kellie Gerardi received a ton of text messages from other researchers asking, How do I get to do that?"Read more...

You probably know Jupiter, the rotund fifth planet from the Sun, asorange and tan with a big red splotch. But the Hubble Space Telescope recently imaged the gas giant in ultraviolet light, giving the world a very different look.Read more...

Inspired by the impact of chance in everyday life, BalletCollective, an experimental dance group in New York City, collaborated with SamLeigh (Anamnesis), an award-winning tabletop roleplaying game designer, to create a totally new and unique expression of the medium: a ballet inspired by a TTRPG.Read more...

Godzilla isn't just a monster movie icon, the king of all kaiju: he is a king of looks too. In the nearly seven decades he's been stomping around the box office, Godzilla's gone through more appearances than most cinematic legends ever could. From his earliest days to hissmashup with Kong in Warner's Westernized...Read more...

Unlike a lot of other upcoming movies, Deadpool 3 is still on track to open as scheduled, in May of 2024. In a new interview, director Shawn Levy explains that much of the Ryan Reynolds-Hugh Jackman Marvel movie was already filmed when the SAG-AFTRA strike shut down production. He also dropped in a hint about some...Read more...

You have an opportunity. If you turn back now, you can live out the rest of your days without absorbing the cosmic horror that is the music video for Now and Then," or as Paul McCartney's marketing team puts it, the last Beatles song."Read more...

Loki (Tom Hiddleston) travels through dying timelines to find his team-but has to decipher what's really reality, as everything is crumbling-in Loki episode five, Science/Fiction," now streaming on Disney+.Read more...

Netflix has plenty of titles sorted into its horror, sci-fi, and indie categories. But its skimpy cult" section contains a hodgepodge of genres that feels decidedly random. We've picked out five that Netflix thinks are cult movies-followed by five more, found elsewhere on the streamer, that also fit the criteria.

Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodo's weekly roundup where we do a deep dive on what's been happening in artificial intelligence.Read more...

Max customers who currently pay $15.99 a month for the legacy ad-free" plan might have noticed an email this week with an ominous subject line: Upcoming changes to your Max subscription plan." For once, the missive wasn't about an outright price increase-but subscribers will have to kick in more if they want to hold...Read more...

In a surprise move, Marvel has just lifted the lid on its mysterious crime thriller series Echo, spinning out of the events of Hawkeye-but honestly, most of the surprises aren't about the story of the show itself.

Of all the moves made with Doctor Who in recent years, few proved as divisive as The Timeless Children"-the season 12 finale that saw Jodie Whittaker's 13th Doctor face the Master on their homeworld, and discover the truth behind the Time Lords' origins. But as much as new eras of the show like to play with past...Read more...

New research may change the narrative over how mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, has become a human problem. Researchers found evidence that strains of the virus have been circulating between humans since at least 2016, years before it caused a surprise global epidemic in 2022. Though reported cases of the viral...Read more...

As NASA's Lucy spacecraft zoomed past its first asteroid on Wednesday, its mission scientists made a surprising discovery of a bonus space rock.Read more...

69 years ago today, the movie industry was changed forever as Godzilla stomped its way into Japanese theaters, revolutionizing the monster movie as we would come to know it for generations. Now, he's doing much the same as Japanese theatergoers head to see Godzilla Minus One-and although we've got to wait a little...Read more...

Neopets is still kicking around 24 years after its first release, and now it's planning its big comeback, of sorts. World of Neopia CEO Dominic Law, who now leads the company that bought Neopets for $4 million back in July, emphasized that the team is done with those obtuse efforts at monetization like NFTS. Instead,...Read more...

Succession star Brian Cox has joined the parade of actors fighting against artificial intelligence, calling it a human rights issue." Cox, who's known for playing Logan Roy in the series, equated using AI to replicate an actor's likeness as identity theft" in an interview with Sky News this week, adding that he...Read more...

Stephen King hypes up the new Salem's Lot adaptation. Natalie Holt teases what to expect in Loki's season two finale. Plus, what's coming on Quantum Leap, and another snifter of new Godzilla Minus One footage. To me, my spoilers!

On Friday, Google and real estate group Lendlease called off plans to build 15,000 homes in the San Francisco Bay Area, as housing developers continue to exit the troubled region.Read more...

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If you've invested in a shiny new iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone 15 Pro Max, then it comes with a change to previous iPhones: The long-serving mute switch (officially known as the Ring/Silent switch) has been replaced by the more dynamic-sounding Action button. You can customize this button to perform a variety of...Read more...

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Sam Bankman-Fried is guilty on all seven federal charges in his criminal trial for defrauding customers of his crypto exchange out of billions of dollars with his crypto empire, jurors decided on Thursday night in a Southern District of New York court, Reuters reports. Jurors reached a verdict at 7:40 p.m., according...Read more...

Much-loved DC Comics characters Superman and Lois aren't going anywhere-you might have heard about that James Gunn movie in the works-but their iteration on the CW is coming to an end. The fourth season of Superman & Lois, due to arrive next year, will be its final.Read more...

David Tennant's Doctor is very big on hands. Well, most biped humanoids, Time Lords included, are quite keen on having all their limbs. But remember the sword fight in Christmas Invasion"? Remember the fighting hand? Remember how he grew a whole other version of himself out of that hand four years later?Read more...

Amazon will close its two physical clothing stores by next week, less than two years after it opened its first location in May 2022. The closures appear to reflect a shift in focus toward its grocery stores and add to Amazon's 68 other brick-and-mortar store closures last year.Read more...

Republican lawmakers pounding the well-worn TikTok ban drum are using flaming hot tensions over the conflict in Israel to try, once again, to knock the app offline. The new line of attacks, based on shoddy data analyses, claims TikTok is boosting anti-Israel content in order to brainwash a generation of gullible...Read more...

Roccat recently released two gorgeous mechanical gaming keyboards as part of its Vulcan series: the Vulcan II and Vulcan II Mini Air. Both models showcase vibrant RGB lighting and robust construction, with the former being a wired variant and the latter presenting a TKL (tenkeyless) design.

NASA issued an apology for a slightly shady post on X that questioned people's ability to visit Jupiter.Read more...

Doctor Who is set to celebrate its big 60th birthday in a few weeks-but it wouldn't be a party without a few friends, nor a few enemies: because the Daleks are showing up to menace the proceedings in glorious color!Read more...

In the latest twist in the satellite industry, Boeing has decided to forfeit its license for a low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation, a project that would've competed with SpaceX's Starlink network.Read more...

Apple Music subscribers can no longer sign up for the Voice Plan and existing subscribers' auto-renew will turn off at the end of the billing period, Apple said in a blog post on Wednesday. Subscribers paid just $4.99 for Apple Music's Voice Plan which launched in 2021 and allowed users to access their music library...Read more...

Disneyland's Indiana Jones Adventure ridegets its moment in the spotlightas part of documentary series Behind the Attraction season two, now streaming on Disney+.Read more...

Amazon faces allegations from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) of wielding price-gouging algorithms through an operation called Project Nessie" according to court documents filed Thursday. The FTC says the algorithm has generated more than $1 billion in excess profit for Jeff Bezos's e-commerce giant.Read more...

Our global carbon budget to avoid permanently reaching 1.5 degrees of warming is smaller than we previously thought, new research says. A study published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change found that the planet can only emit another 250 gigatons of carbon dioxide for a 50% chance of reaching 1.5 degrees...Read more...

Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures-a free ad-supported (FAST) channel devoted to the ever-popular roleplaying game-launches soon, and Hasbro Entertainment has released new clips showcasing the three original series (including a cooking show!) arriving the week of November 13.

After a third season that felt like spinning its wheels, so far season four of Star Trek: Lower Decks has made a great effort on pushing all of its characters to grow and change, and to better reflect the arcs we've seen them go on. In its season finale, the show sends that journey off with a bang-one that feels like...Read more...

Music icon John Lennon was assassinated 43 years ago, but his voice is still kicking around. Using the latest AI technology, surviving members of The Beatles, Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney, have the ability to extract Lennon's voice from the most notorious track of his unreleased library.Read more...

Crunchyroll's latest absurd mega-collection anime box set is bringing together all of Code Geass into one place... and then throwing in an entire chess set, among other things, for good measure.

YouTube announced a new effort to curb its own recommendation algorithms to protect teenagers from the rabbit hole of videos that could inspire eating disorders, body image problems, violence, and other problems. The new initiative comes amidst a growing threat of legislation to address kids' safety on the internet...Read more...

Dream Chaser, built by Sierra Space, is being prepped for transport to a NASA facility in Ohio, where it will undergo a series of tests to make sure the spaceplane can survive its heated reentry through Earth's atmosphere. Starting these tests is crucial, demonstrating Dream Chaser's readiness for flights and...Read more...

Deep into the night before All Hallows Eve, Apple's Cupertino spaceship headquarters was shrouded in a dense, black fog as if preparing to release a malevolent force upon the world. Thankfully, when the fog cleared, what we had instead was three new chips, a MacBook Pro update, and an iMac refresh.Read more...