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Scarlett Johansson sure seemed shaken when asked about those rumors of her return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.Read more...

Radio emissions detected about 24,855 miles (40,000 kilometers) above a dark region on the Sun have aurora-like qualities, according to a team of astronomers that studied the emissions.

NASA is pulling back from its Mars Sample Return program (MSR) in order to develop a revised way of bringing the Martian rocks back to Earth after its original plan was deemed unrealistic.Read more...

Head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, recently rolled out a few updates for Meta's Threads and the biggest standout is that you finally have a way to delete your Threads profile separately from your Instagram account.

In one of those rare cases where the rumor mills are actually accurate, director Taika Waititi confirmed that if Marvel Studios decides to make a fifth Thor movie, he won't be involved. I wouldn't know if that's [a Thor 5 happening] accurate," Waititi said to Business Insider. I know that I won't be involved."Read more...

The SETI Institute, a leading non-profit in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, has received a transformative $200 million gift from the estate of Franklin Antonio, a long-time supporter who passed away last year.

Godzilla looms large in a tense new clip from Minus One. Meet Chris Pratt's Garfield, who sounds an awful lot like Chris Pratt's Mario, among other Chris Pratts. A Voyager icon reconfirms their return for Star Trek Prodigy. Plus, Doctor Whoadds another mystery guest star. Spoilers, away!

Finally, a robot to tell you which jacket you should wear to the function. Google DeepMind, the search giant's AI-centric brain trust, just announced a new weather forecasting model that beats traditional systems more than 90% of the time. Named GraphCast, the machine learning model promises 10-day predictions that...Read more...

YouTube released new policy updates on Tuesday to combat AI-generated content that resembles the voice and style of music artists. Earlier this year, Heart on My Sleeve," a song that sounds like a track made by Drake and The Weeknd, created with generative AI, garnered over 600,000 plays and was even considered for a ...Read more...

If you can get your hands on a telescope, there are few sights more spectacular than the magnificent ringed planet - Saturn.

Celebrate Life Day and all the upcoming winter holidays with this selection of Star Wars-inspired gifts.Read more...

A year ago, James Cameron was everywhere ahead of Avatar: The Way of Water. Then came the Titanic 25th anniversary re-release, followed by Cameron's name inevitably popping up alongside the growing cultural interest in AI. Avatar 3's not due until next year, but don't you dare think Cameron will be out of sight for...Read more...

He's a man for all seasons, that Art the Clown-and while Terrifier 3, the follow-up to surprise sensation Terrifier 2, has claimed October 2024 as its release date, its first marketing push is all about Christmas. And while we've seen a lot of scary Santas in the past, Art's version is exceptionally ghoulish.

Google pays Apple 36% of its search advertising revenue from Safari, according to new details brought to light in Google's search antitrust trial on Monday as reported by Bloomberg. The mere utterance of the number, which Google and Apple have tried to keep sealed, caused Google's main litigator John Schmidtlein to...Read more...

New research seems to show the potential of a CRISPR-based gene therapy meant to neuter certain forms of cardiovascular disease. In the world's first human trial of the therapy, people given the highest doses experienced significant and long-lasting reductions in their low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C). The...Read more...

Lockheed Martin is at the early stages of developing a nuclear propulsion system to power a spacecraft through the depths of the cosmos.Read more...

Another round of layoffs is underway at Amazon, and for the second time, it's happening at the company's video games division.Read more...

Safety is a major selling point in a society that profits from fear-mongering, so I'm scratching my head about the canceled plans for Android's version of satellite connectivity.

The Heeler home from Bluey has been brought to life at family creative center CAMP in Los Angeles, CA, where you and the little ones in your life can step inside of an episode of the hit series as seen on Disney+.

The Marvels is here, and with it, a bunch of updates on just what is going on in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, from Earth, to space, and beyond. But while much of the team-up movie's big beats are neatly wrapped up by its brisk end, there are plenty of questions we have left over...Read more...

Tesla will charge customers of its new Cybertruck a hefty penalty for reselling their vehicle within the first year of ownership, according to a recently added section of the vehicle's order agreement.Read more...

As weird, bad, and awkward as The Star Wars Holiday Special is to watch, apparently, it was just as terrible to film. That's evident from an exclusive excerpt io9 has acquired from the new book A Disturbance in the Force: How and Why the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened by Steve Kozak.

With all the streaming news about price increases and content jumping around, here's something both cool and unusual: Fox's ad-supported free SVOD service, Tubi, is teaming up with screenwriting resource the Black List to select five genre scripts for development, production, and distribution.Read more...

It'd be hard to top last week's Rick and Morty-the cleverly gruesome That's Amorte," still season seven's high point so far-but Unmortricken" accomplishes an important task: addressing the show's ever-looming canon by blowing it apart and changing it forever.Read more...

Ads for fake versions of Google's generative AI tool, Bard, are showing up on Facebook to steal social media accounts of U.S. small businesses, according to a lawsuit from Google filed Monday.

OpenAI rode a hype-fueled rocket to business leadership over the last year. CEO Sam Altman managed to put a consumer-friendly wrapper on a years-old technology and capture the world's attention. And now, for better or worse, OpenAI is better positioned than anyone to build the tools that will save or destroy the...Read more...

Doctor Who's new 14th Doctor-with that old face-has already gone on his first adventures in the pages of the show's official magazine. But he'll be making his televised debut a little earlier than anticipated... and bringing some old foes with him.Read more...

I can't help but feel bad for the Legion Go. Lenovo's first take on the handheld console market is a strong one. It's got a much bigger screen than the original Steam Deck. It has a better battery than the original Steam Deck. Thanks to its pop-out controllers, it's more innovative than the Steam Deck or the Asus ROG...Read more...

For the next two weeks, NASA will not be sending commands to its fleet of Martian rovers, orbiters, and spacecraft until the Sun moves out of the way.Read more...

There is a significant likelihood" that the Icelandic volcano Fagradalsfjall will erupt in the coming days," according to the country's meteorological office. The volcanic activity is primarily occurring in the island's southwest, northeast of the fishing town of Grindavik.Read more...

Although the season of Hollywood strikes came to an end when SAG-AFTRA closed its picket lines last week having secured a tentative agreement with the AMPTP, it's not over yet-ahead of the union membership vote on the potential three-year contract, SAG-AFTRA has released a summary of the deal to read online.

If you have an old Gmail account lying around that you haven't used in a while, make sure to use it before December 1, or Google will permanently delete it. By in a while,' Google means two years. That's the criteria they have set for the amount of time that should have passed for them to consider an account inactive.

A new international trailer for Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom gives us new footage. The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon expands its cast for season 2. Plus, what's to come on Rick and Morty and Fear the Walking Dead's final episodes. Spoilers, away!

Optical illusions and puzzles share overlapping vibes. Mental trickery, aha' moments, cross-eyed frustration. Did you know that the Neural Correlate Society holds an annual contest for the Best Illusion of the Year? This year's winner created a LEGO model of Harry Potter's Platform 9 3/4, complete with a seemingly...Read more...

Since the start of the year, Netflix has been giving out a drip feed of information for Zack Snyder's sci-fi action flick Rebel Moon. With almost a full month to go before it finally becomes a thing you can watch, a new trailer was shown at the streamer's Geeked Week event, and it continues to look like the biggest...Read more...

The 1992 anime adaptation of Yoshihiro Togashi's YuYu Hakusho is one of those series that hit at just the right time for a generation of animation fans, not unlike Dragonball Z. At a time of live-action adaptations of popular animated material, it wasn't entirely unexpected to hear the series would be getting one of...Read more...

In the nine months since Ant-Man & the Wasp: Quantumania hit theaters, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has gone through some sizable upheavals. More recent weeks have been particularly heavy with discussions about the megafranchise's future, something that Marvel itself has quietly acknowledged by pushing back three of...Read more...

Filmmaker Robert Butler passed away earlier in the month on November 3 at 95 years old, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Earlier in the year, it was reported that Warner Bros. Discovery had successfully sold off its upcoming comic book show Dead Boy Detectives over to Netflix. During this weekend's Geeked Week event, the streamer showed off the first trailer for the show, and the young sleuths duo looks they'll be getting up to some...Read more...

The Terminator franchise is making a comeback, but as an anime series for Netflix.Read more...

Along with being one of the biggest platforms to watch anime, Crunchyroll is also a hub to read manga on your phone or computer. While not as big as say, Shonen Jump, it's managed to stick around for a little over a decade...which makes it tragic irony to reveal that the service is going to be delisted a full month...Read more...

The Man of Steel is staying right where he is on the calendar. On X (formerly Twitter), director/writer James Gunn revealed his next film, Superman: Legacy, would be sticking to its previously announced date of July 11, 2025 now that the SAG-AFTRA strike has (seemingly/hopefully) reached its end.Read more...

Days ago, Warner Bros. Discovery announced it'd shelved another film: Coyote vs. Acme, which was intended to be the newest film for the Looney Toons brand. Originally meant for Max before getting bumped up to a theatrical release, WBD said the completed film would be vaulted and never see the light of day. And much...Read more...

This past summer, Warner Bros. released its other swan song to the DCEU in Blue Beetle. If you were one of the folks who didn't see the moviewhen it was in theaters back in mid-August and forwent the physical release in favor of streaming, good news: it's hitting Max next Friday, October 17.Read more...

As 2023 stumbles towards its close, it's clear we're preparing to enter a world that will soon be filled to the brim with robots. Science fiction tells us that AI will soon gain sentience and inevitably crush humanity in its never-ending quest for power. I'll believe it when I see it. For now, the robots that surround...Read more...

We live in a multilingual world, which is represented in the billions of pages published on the web-but just because a website isn't written in your native tongue doesn't mean that you can't read it. All of the most popular browsers come with translation tools built-in on desktop and mobile, so you don't have to limit...Read more...

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...

Following the news Wednesday night that the SAG-AFTRA strike had come to an end after nearly 120 days, supporters have been waiting to hear more details about the tentative agreement. Today, union president Fran Drescher, national executive director and chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, and others held a press...Read more...

The Federal Bureau of Investigations confiscated New York City Mayor Eric Adams' two cell phones and his iPad this week in a federal corruption investigation into his 2021 campaign, according to The New York Times.Read more...

The holidays have begun and hot off the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike, actor David Harbour was excited to talk about his DC Studios future.Read more...