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Five former Twitter employees who were fired on Thursday have already filed a lawsuit against the social media company for failing to adhere to California’s WARN Act, a law that requires large employers to provide 60 days of notice to employees before mass layoffs. And the lawsuit even calls out another company run by…Read more...

Scientists investigating the genomes of ancient South Americans have made a surprising discovery: the presence of DNA from Neanderthals and Denisovans, two species of humans that are now extinct. The findings complicate our understanding of ancient South Americans and their ancestries.Read more...

Back in August, Dr. Lisa Su introduced the world to AMD’s newest iteration of CPU technology, the Ryzen 7000 Series–but she didn’t stop there. We got an announcement for an announcement: RDNA 3, AMD’s next generation of GPU technology. Well, today is November 3rd, and we now know more about AMD’s answer to the RTX 40…Read more...

As the first season of Andor hurtles toward its season finale later this month, development for the Disney+ Star Wars series’ second season is already in the works.Read more...

Fast and Furious fans would do just about anything for actor Sung Kang. Case in point, they were so vocal about how poorly his character, Han, was treated, they all but convinced the studio to bring Han back for F9. Now though, Kang might need those fans to support him in a new way—by seeing a movie he made.Read more...

It’s been a very busy time for Henry Cavill lately, what with his formal return to the role of Superman and his shock exit from The Witcher, and even throwing a reprisal as London’s second greatest detective in the Enola Holmes sequel. But he is concerned not with these things. He just wants to talk miniatures.

In Marvel’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, audiences will be introduced to the underwater civilization of the Talokan (inspired by the ancient Aztec paradise Tlālōcān), which reimagines the Atlantean villain Namor (Tenoch Huerta) and his armies as more complex antagonists.

Drones are going to be lighting up the night sky above the Hudson River Thursday night. Why, you may ask? Well how could you not know it’s Candy Crush Saga’s 10th anniversary? Such an event obviously demands filling the western New York City skyline with displays of poking a silly cupcake to make other cupcakes…Read more...

There’s something you need to know about me: I am a huge Taylor Swift fan. So much so that I’ve successfully weaseled my way into transforming that interest into content for Gizmodo. It’s also important for me to point out that I get a lot of pitches here at Gizmodo—that’s not a flex, that’s just a fact. With that…Read more...

Billionaire Jeff Bezos is being sued by one of his former housekeepers, Mercedes Wedaa. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Washington’s King County Superior Court, alleges that Wedaa worked for three years in the Amazon founder’s primary residence and other homes. It details alarming claims of racial discrimination, long…Read more...

A study out this week is the largest of its kind to suggest that psilocybin—the key ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms—can be a potential treatment for depression. The randomized trial found that people with treatment-resistant depression who received a large dose of psilocybin along with psychological support…Read more...

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All of the glaciers in Yosemite National Park, Italy’s Dolomite mountains, the continent of Africa, and thousands of other individual ice giants are set to disappear over the next 30 years, according to a new report from the United Nations.

If you’ve been on Twitter at all since it became an Elon Musk company, you’ve no doubt seen apoplectic users imploding as they worry it’s becoming more of a swamp than it was before—if that’s even possible. In recent days, a barrage of users has lamented the state of blue bird app and collectively asked: What …Read more...

The Connected Standards Alliance, or the CSA, wants to remind you all that the Matter 1.0 smart home standard is live and is now supported by over 190 devices. The CSA held an event in Amsterdam to officially debut devices that will be compatible with the new smart home standard. They include reveals from gadget…Read more...

Deep Space Nine revolutionized so much of what could be possible in the world of Star Trek, but it will always be remembered for one of its most transgressive plot threads: the devastating outbreak of the Dominion War, a conflict that, 25 years ago, challenged everything the franchise’s idealistic vision of utopia…Read more...

You know the old joke about running Doom on everything from graphing calculators to rotten potatoes to even a window inside Doom itself? Well, we’re starting to progressively witness the same thing, but with your entire Steam game library. On Thursday, Google announced that Chromebooks running ChromeOS 108 beta will…Read more...

Six months ago, after the news broke that changes were coming to Twitter’s policies against disinformation and hate speech, I decided to give Mastodon a try. Unfortunately, I didn’t stick with the app long enough to develop a habit of using it. After returning to it once again this week, that’s something I’ve come to…Read more...

The University of Alaska Fairbanks has teamed up with Explore.org, an organization with a network of live nature cams, to launch a webcam that gives you a live look at the university’s musk oxen, reindeer, and bison.Read more...

Lyft workers, like so many others in the tech industry this year, opened their inboxes today to read some dreaded news: Nearly 700 of their coworkers would lose their jobs.Read more...

io9 is proud to present fiction from LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE. Once a month, we feature a story from LIGHTSPEED’s current issue. This month’s selection is “Beyond the Shore” by Tania Fordwalker. You can read the story below or listen to the podcast on Lightspeed’s website. Enjoy!

Saturday’s drawing in the Powerball multi-state lottery has an estimated jackpot of $1.5 billion. That’s the third-largest lottery prize ever in U.S. history.

Seemingly every corner of our world is now littered with plastics, and only a tiny percentage of it is ever recycled. To mitigate this, many companies are offering items labeled as “compostable” or “biodegradable” plastic—but as new research finds, those may be a misnomers.

There’s magic in the air, Muppets fans! The wait is finally over as Disney+ is officially adding the extended cut of The Muppet Christmas Carol to the streaming platform. And yes, it’s going to include the beloved holiday musical’s long “lost” song, “When Love is Gone.”Read more...

The Cygnus X-1 system is one of the brightest sources of X-rays in the Milky Way, consisting of a black hole called Cygnus X-1 and its giant companion, a star packing 41 times the mass of our Sun. Researchers recently measured the polarization of those X-rays to better understand the geometry of the superheated plasma…Read more...

As you’ve probably noticed, there’s a lot going on at Twitter at the moment. If the thought of a social network helmed by Elon Musk has you seriously considering quitting the platform for greener pastures—perhaps you’re not keen on paying for features that used to be free—we’ve pulled together some of the leading…Read more...

When a person loses a loved one, you never quite get over it. But, eventually, you do have to move forward. And that was one of the many dilemmas the cast and crew of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever had. What do you do in a sequel to a movie whose star, Chadwick Boseman, tragically died? Do you recast the role? Do you…Read more...

An out-of-control booster from a recently launched Long March 5B rocket is expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphere on Friday. The 22-metric-ton object poses a threat to human lives and property, but determining exactly when and where it will crash is proving to be fiendishly difficult, and here’s why.Read more...

When Meta’s shares plummeted last week in response to yet another dismal earnings report, most analysts pointed to Mark Zuckerberg’s obsession with the Metaverse as the source of the company’s woes. And while it’s true that Zuckerberg’s Metaverse experiment to date has been underwhelming, these analysts are missing…Read more...

There’s a reason Godzilla is the King of the Monsters: the Big G has had 37 films to his name since his debut in 1954. Now you can add #38 to the list as Toho Studios has announced another Godzilla movie will be coming out next year.

What once seemed like some sick joke or wild fantasy has finally become a reality. After months of rumors, Netflix finally has an ad-supported tier, and it’s launching across 12 different countries this week.Read more...

The Department of Defense (DOD) has signed agreements with four companies to help develop a space-based communications network of commercial and military satellites. The project hopes to use military and commercial satellites to transport data across a secure communication architecture, ultimately delivering it to…Read more...

A new Magic: The Gathering set is on the way, and that of course means more cards to fling at your opponent’s deck—and io9 has a look at a particularly sneaky card coming to The Brothers’ War.

WhatsApp revamped its group chat functionality today with the rollout of a new featured called “Communities.” Communities lets users bring together multiple different group chats in a single hub, and includes a number of upgrades, including polls and 32-person video chats.Read more...

Patreon creators no longer have to rely on third-party sites like YouTube or Vimeo to share video content. Instead, the platform launched its own native video feature on Thursday. “There are no ads, no trolls in the comments, and you never have to worry about ending up on the wrong side of the algorithm,” Patreon…Read more...

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Elon Musk’s hyperloop—the sci-fi-esque subway of the future that definitely will not flood—is apparently hitting a speed bump. The Hyperloop’s inaugural tunnel, a prototype built in Hawthorne, California, has been torn down and will be replaced with parking spots for SpaceX employees.

Christopher Paolini first achieved literary fame with Eragon, a YA fantasy he began writing when he was just a teen. Now in his 30s, he’s since branched out into adult lit, including 2020's best-selling To Sleep in a Sea of Stars. His latest book—Fractal Noise, a standalone sci-fi tale that’s part of his Fractalverse…Read more...

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The U.S. Space Force, the smallest of all six uniformed military branches in both budget and personnel, has a new leader who on his first day talked up making his command “combat ready” as tensions between the biggest space faring nations grow larger.Read more...

Hocus Pocus 2 has opened up the chance for even more witchery in the works at Disney. Tuca & Bertie is no more, again. Ryan Reynolds puts his own spin on A Christmas Carol in Spirited. Plus, what’s coming on Reginald the Vampire, Chucky, and more. To me, my spoilers!

Countries will need close to 3 billion acres (1.2 billion hectares) of land to fulfill their current climate pledges, thanks to their focus on techniques like planting new trees over tougher but less land-intensive methods of reducing greenhouse gasses, a report released Tuesday finds. That’s roughly half the amount…Read more...

Hell hath no fury like an Adobe designer who can’t see the colors they thought they had already paid for.Read more...

Elon Musk plans to fire roughly half of Twitter’s workforce as a cost-cutting measure on Friday, according to a new report from Bloomberg News. Musk had denied reports that he was going to lay off 75% of workers last week when he first visited Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters, trying to sooth the social media…Read more...

Marvel Studios’ upcoming WandaVision spinoff Agatha: Coven of Chaos is assembling quite the badass band of witches. Variety reports that the internet’s dear Evil Hag and Christmas Witch herself, Aubrey Plaza, is joining the anticipated Disney+ series in an unnamed role—but if it’s not as a witch they are doing it…Read more...

It’s probably not a surprise given the first season was so well-received by both critics and viewers, but Netflix will be bringing back Neil Gaiman adaptation The Sandman for more episodes.Read more...

It will have taken two decades, but next year the clones will attack. No, not those clones. The clones of Clone High, the MTV animated show created by Phil Lord, Chris Miller, and Bill Lawrence.Read more...

Google wants everyone to know that it’s indeed using its unprecedented access to the world’s ever growing data to build out powerful new AI tools. But while other newcomers to the field that are releasing products at an astounding clip, Google’s past battle scars with ethicists and regulators is forcing them to take a…Read more...

The Witch From Mercury, the latest series in the Gundam franchise, carves its own path in the series in many ways, the least of which involves the introduction of yet another alternate timeline to the already-multiversal-level series. But that doesn’t mean that the series isn’t making its own fascinating connections…Read more...

SpaceX’s super-heavy lift rocket could finally be ready to embark on its first orbital test flight in December, according to a NASA official.Read more...