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OpenAI will roll out GPTs, customizable chatbots similar to ChatGPT, worldwide by the end of November via the GPT Store. Developers already created thousands of these GPTs in just a couple of weeks, and Gizmodo went through a lot of them to figure out the best ones you should check out.Read more...

The Hubble Space Telescope just ogled an exoplanet passing in front of a star in a triple system, revealing the nearby world's mass.

Dune: Part Two just had its release date moved up. Unfortunately, that date is not tomorrow" but we'll take what we can get.Read more...

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One of the most anticipated horror movies of 2023 is about to make its Peacock debut. And while The Exorcist: Believer didn't exactly set critics on fire, here's your chance to check out David Gordon Green's would-be franchise reviver and trilogy-starter ahead of the annual slew of best/worst" film lists.Read more...

An engineer hacked Apple's infamous Magic Mouse to make it more user-friendly, ergonomic, and overall less annoying. Ivan Kuleshov is the said engineer, and he has also hacked the Apple Mac Mini in the past to be powered over Ethernet.

Thanksgiving is almost here and it's a special time for Star Wars fans. That's because 45 years ago, it was during Thanksgiving week that a Star Wars event for the ages took place. CBS aired The Star Wars Holiday Specialone time, and one time only. After airing, it was quickly buried, left only to the imaginations of...Read more...

Every November, there's a fantastic event for bringing people together: that's right, the Leonid meteor shower. It will peak in the night sky this weekend, and this is how you can optimize your view of the show.

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Disney celebrates its legacy in Wish-a movie filled with the company's own mythology that also has bold allegorical similitudes to its recent history, all weaved into a powerful fairytale.Read more...

A gold-capped laser transceiver attached to the asteroid probe Psyche saw its first light on Tuesday, sending and receiving data through laser beams from far beyond the Moon for the first time.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.

The season finale of Goosebumps hits Hulu and Disney+ today, wrapping up the fun that started during spooky season with the return of Slappy in a new reboot of the seminal YA horror series inspired by R.L. Stine's YA horror books.Read more...

Discord is shutting down its AI chatbot, Clyde, in December. Considering it was introduced just earlier this year, why it's being shut down so soon is unclear.

Tom Hardy confirms filming has resumed on Venom 3. Eli Roth digs deep into designing Thanksgiving's villain. Harley Quinn will return to Max for another season. Plus, get a look at Disney's Percy Jackson series. Spoilers, assemble!

Gather round, weary shoppers, and rest with me for a moment beneath the veil of the celestial canopy, where stars twinkle like forgotten spells and the moon casts its silvery incantations upon the world. As the world around us transforms into a realm of holidays and merriment, I, a grizzled explorer of the online...Read more...

Google is having a hard time catching up with OpenAI. Google's competitor to ChatGPT will not be ready until early 2024, after previously telling some cloud customers it would get to use Gemini AI in November of this year, sources told The Information Thursday.Read more...

Including the unusual, hard-to-find, totally new and strangely wonderful, we've got a selection of gifts and games that will be appreciated by both hardcore tabletop roleplayers and people who are curious about TTRPGs but might not know where to start. Most-if not all-of these products physically came out this year,...Read more...

And there it goes. The astronaut tool bag that floated away during the most recent extravehicular activity outside the International Space Station (ISS) appears as a tiny white speck in this new astronomical image.Read more...

AI is the name of the game for this year's chips, particularly for Qualcomm's mobile processors. The chipmaker has announced the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 processor for mid-range Android devices with promises of improved AI performance.

Finally, Iman Vellani can geek out publicly about going from Marvel fan to Ms. Marvel and The Marvels star to Marvel Comics writer.Read more...

The 90s are about to become hot again, both on the small screen and in your comic book shop.Read more...

Well, we have our first quarter of the MCU's Fantastic Four. Yesterday, reports broke revealing that Pedro Pascal is likely to end up playing Reed Richards in the upcoming Matt Shakman-directed film, provided Pascal isn't too busy with other projects, namely Gladiator 2 and new seasons for The Mandalorian and The Last...Read more...

Exoplanets pushing their atmospheres away may explain a gap in exoplanet masses, according to a team of researchers that recently studied data from NASA's retired Kepler Space Telescope.

Just when you thought his reputation couldn't get worse, TikTok has officially canceled Osama bin Laden. Somehow, videos promoting Osama bin Laden's letter explaining his reasoning for orchestrating the 9/11 terrorist attacks have gone viral this week and TikTok is responding with a crackdown on bin Laden stan...Read more...

Next week, Doctor Who turns 60, and it's preparing for a blockbuster celebration in the days and weeks to come, with a re-colored release of one its most iconic early stories, a trio of brand new specials, and a new Doctor arriving on Christmas Day. We can't judge just how good the 60th has it just yet-but what about...Read more...

This article has been updated to reflect the new Saturday launch date. Ground teams need the extra time to replace a grid fin actuator on the Starship booster.Read more...

The surface of the Moon is littered with defunct hardware from past missions that are now buried amongst the lunar regolith. A recent crash site left a distinct and curious mark, creating two impact craters of equal size. Scientists examining the collision believe that there may have been an undisclosed object that...Read more...

Cult-beloved cult-movie series Mystery Science Theater 3000 has big plans for its crowdfunded 14th season, with a 48-hour version of its traditional Thanksgiving marathon styled as a telethon to help it reach its goal. Ahead of next week's Mega Turkey Day Marathon Telethon," io9 got a chance to talk to MST3K...Read more...

Here's an AI tool you probably hadn't considered. Google's AI-powered Search Generative Experience (SGE) is getting a slew of updates this December, including a feature that lets you dream up a product out of thin air with artificial intelligence, and then search the web for something similar that exists in the real...Read more...

Later this week, SpaceX is poised for a highly anticipated, and undoubtedly exciting, second test flight of its Starship megarocket-provided it receives the final regulatory approvals. Here's what you need to know about this critically important test.

At its core, Poor Things is the relatively simple story of a woman growing up and finding herself. However, in the hands of director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Favourite), it tells that tale in the most fantastical, imaginative, disturbing, and hilarious way possible. Words that, in fact, also describe the...Read more...

Amazon already has a stranglehold on most of the stuff people buy, and now the retail giant wants to sell you a car.

It's been over two years since Apple released its all-in-one desktop after skipping the entire M2 generation of chips, leaving us wondering when the iMac would make its dramatic return. The iMac comes in seven fun colors, is powered by Apple's fancy new M3, and even promises to make gaming on a Mac a thing.

Are you watching For All Mankind? If not, you should be. Apple TV+'s phenomenal sci-fi drama just returned for season four, and io9 has an exclusive clip from its second episode which debuts Friday. But even if you're not watching the show, this clip, as simple as it may be, is an almost perfect example of why you...Read more...

Yesterday, the folks at Cambridge Dictionary named Hallucination" the word of the year and, Jesus, they really hit the nail on the head. Like, wow. Frankly, this could be the word of the decade, not merely just the last twelve months. By that I mean, the world has gotten so weird lately that I feel like I've been...Read more...

Climate-related disasters can trap people in their homes, leave them without power for extended periods, trigger mass evacuations, and many other disruptions to the safety and conveniences most of us are accustomed to. As these events become more frequent and more extreme, it's not just preppers who aim to keep a...Read more...

This is not your average coffee gear list. I grew up around coffee, working at my uncle's coffee shop starting at age 14. Since then, I've gathered roughly 10 years of experience working in specialty coffee shops. Coffee is a personal and professional obsession of mine, and I've become truly fascinated with some of...Read more...

The holidays are coming, and no matter your age, that can often mean sitting down after all your gifts are unwrapped, surrounding yourself with bags of plastic bricks, and building a new Lego set. To help you become the most popular gift giver of 2023, we've rounded up our favorite sets of the year-from fancy...Read more...

In Star Wars' current canon, we stand on the precipice of a return years in the making: at the end of Ahsoka's first season, Grand Admiral Thrawn had made his way back from a galaxy even further away to restore a remnant Empire to glory and imperil the New Republic. But what happened when Thrawn made a comeback the...Read more...

Doctor Who fans who don't live in the UK or Ireland have had to be exceptionally organized when keeping track of where to watch the long-running sci-fi series. But the BBC Studios show's classic era (up to and including the Seventh Doctor) finally has a free resource: Tubi, which just added over 600 episodes dating...Read more...

On September 7, 2022, the Zwicky Transient Facility detected a new transient object in deep space, about one billion light-years from Earth. The object was very bright, and now, a team of astronomers believes it's a star that's come back from the dead.Read more...

Apple may have found a solution to the iPhone 15's overheating problems by using a graphene heat sink in its newer models, according to a leak reported by 9to5Mac Thursday. The solution, if true, should keep the iPhone 16 cool, especially with early word that the next Apple flagship phone could be more expensive than...Read more...

With both the Writer's strike at an end and SAG-AFTRA's suspend as it heads to vote on its next contract, Hollywood is getting back into the swing of things: announcing things, way, way, way ahead of time for absolutely no rhyme or reason.Read more...

Russell T. Davies teases a more human Doctor for David Tennant's latest Doctor Who incarnation. Scarlett Johansson has an update on her Tower of Terror movie. Has The Last of Us found its Abby? Plus, what's coming on Quantum Leap. Spoilers, away!

You know about Qi charging, the open wireless charging standard that charges up your phone when you lay it on a special charge pad. But wait until you meet Qi2. It's faster at charging your phone, and its use of magnets will allow Android phones and iPhones to live in relative harmony, at least regarding accessories.

YouTube is licensing out the voices and styles of popular artists with its first set of AI music experiments, announced Google in a blog post Thursday. Dream Track will allow creators to make short, AI-generated songs, using the voices of artists like Charlie Puth, T-Pain, and John Legend.Read more...

Analogue has just relaunched the Pocket in some new, charming colors. It brought back the OG colors of the Game Boy Advance and Pocket to its new Classic Limited Edition consoles. These colors are blue, green, indigo, spice orange, pink, red, silver, and yellow.Read more...

Meta made a quiet policy update last year allowing advertisers on Facebook and Instagram to say the 2020 election was rigged. The company has made one thing clear: you can't use their ad systems to question the legitimacy of the American election system - unless you have a credit card, in which case they're happy to...Read more...