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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Inside the deluxe edition are three lithographic prints, True Love (a graphic novel used to pitch the film, previously unpublished), and a sketchbook of production designer Ja...Read more...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...

Back in the 2000s, Marvel released a line of Ultimate Marvel comics that offered then-modern takes on the publisher's premier characters. While the line overall eventually fell in quality, two of its strongest books were Ultimate Spider-Man and its sequel series, Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man from writer Brian Michael...Read more...

In the realm of animal-based horror movies, the spider is widely overlooked. Snakes, wolves, sharks, bears, you feel like you see them all the time. And yes, there are killer spider movies, but not as many as one might think considering just how scared so many people are of the eight-legged creatures. Well, a new one...Read more...

When Squid Game dropped in 2021, it hit in such a way that you could tell that Netflix was going to let it go on far as long as the show's momentum would allow. Though season two is still a-ways away, the streamer is looking for other ways to fill the void left by the South Korean thriller until its return. And one of...Read more...

This summer, the United States roasted like never before. People got third-degree burns from simply falling onto hot pavement in Arizona, filling up all the beds in Maricopa County's burn center. High humidity teamed up with the Midwest's worst heat wave in years to send the heat index, or the feels like"...Read more...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is on its way to Earth to drop off rocky samples from asteroid Bennu on Sunday, marking NASA's first attempt to retrieve a piece of a pure space rock.Read more...

With less than two months to go before the first 60th anniversary special for Doctor Who, the BBC is beginning to ramp up its promo. The three-part event is bringing back David Tennant as the 14th incarnation of the Doctor, with Catherine Tate once again playing his companion Donna Noble, and it all begins with The...Read more...

DC Comics has been in the serialized podcast game for the last few years, and it started in earnest with Batman Unburied back in 2021. The Spotify series was notably headlined by Black Panther's Winston Duke as the Dark Knight himself, and has featured other celebrities in key roles such as Hasan Minhaj as the...Read more...

Since ChatGPT's release in late 2022, many news outlets have reported on the ethical threats posed by artificial intelligence. Tech pundits have issued warnings of killer robots bent on human extinction, while the World Economic Forum predicted that machines will take away jobs.

It's that time of the year again, where Dimension 20 has a brand-new season. Throughout 2023, Dropout's TTRPG show has taken its cast through the underworld, food kingdoms, a person's mind a la Osmosis Jones. For season 20, the show is going for a more relatively normal setting.

Before the world premiere of So Unreal at Fantastic Fest 2023, the programmer said one of the reasons they loved this particular movie was because they love movies about movies. That got my attention. I too enjoy movies about movies and so, right away, I was excited about what was in store. Even then, what followed...Read more...

For better or worse, the timeline between a big triple-A game's reveal and its actual release can often be a long one. Star Wars Eclipse's debut trailer was shown at the 2021 Game Awards, and in that time, there's been nary a mention of the future PlayStation exclusive. Given how Star Wars movies have a habit of gettin...Read more...

Life finds a way. It's a cliche, but one borne of the inarguable perseverance of creatures in hostile conditions. The images that follow-part of this year's Nature TTL Photographer of the Year competition-showcase life's indomitable nature, as well as some of the remarkable environments that foster it.Read more...