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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/3033c813a7222408119188efdb687e56.jpgAmerican philanthropist Melinda French Gates will resign from her post as co-chair of the Gates Foundation, the organization she co-founded with her ex-husband Bill Gates.
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/0bd5782c0b5f97c1486b7b85cb52d661.pngA new Wicked trailer (https://gizmodo.com/wicked-ariana-grande-musical-first-trailer-wizard-oz-1851237889) is coming Wednesday, and with that announcement comes a brief featurette showing director Jon M. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians, In the Heights) sharing his excitement for the Wizard of Oz-inspired musical (https://gizmodo.com/lord-of-the-rings-uk-musical-announces-chicago-run-1851398121)—but mostly focuses on stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo (https://gizmodo.com/wickeds-wonderful-witches-whirlwind-into-work-1848004032), including their emotional, adorable…
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/70a71beaa319ddc27762cafda40deea6.pngOpenAI unveiled GPT-4 Omni (GPT-4o) during its Spring Update (https://gizmodo.com/sam-altman-says-voice-is-a-hint-at-the-next-big-thing-i-1851472463) on Monday morning in San Francisco. Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati and OpenAI staff showcased their newest flagship model, capable of real-time verbal conversations with a friendly AI chatbot that convincingly speaks like a human.
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/21b14528db859493c2ad00ce9a890e0b.jpgThe fact that a show about a devious witch has us so confused feels completely on brand. It started back in late 2021 (https://gizmodo.com/report-wandavisions-kathryn-hahn-is-getting-her-own-ag-1847817612) when Marvel revealed it was working on a WandaVision spinoff series focused on Kathryn Hahn’s breakout characte (https://gizmodo.com/was-it-agatha-all-along-on-wandavision-it-almost-wasnt-1846470919)r, Agatha Harkness. Since then, the show has had at least four publicly announced titles,…
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/063cd01a5b4ca3edf083ba26bb6b98a3.jpgHealth officials in Minnesota and Wisconsin issued air quality warnings on Sunday after the smoke from wildfires raging in western Canada started to reach the Upper Midwest. And it’s causing plenty of anxiety in people across a large swath of the U.S. who are dreading the idea of spending yet another summer choking…
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/a2d4a4ba00019d884871f0bd1a20a18e.pngDoctor Who (https://gizmodo.com/doctor-who-bbc-disney-plus-trailer-2-1851377601) is one of the most malleable shows on Earth. Its heroes change every few years, its titular one (https://gizmodo.com/doctor-who-ncuti-gatwa-russell-t-davies-queerness-lgbtq-1851438309) literally transforms into someone new. Every week a different time, a different space, a different tone—and a new chance to deliver a story that’s also wildly malleable in quality. Doctor Who is about…
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/c4b9df13c0f6e7f37bf3a7dc59ab4d35.jpgEarlier this month, South Carolina resident Brent Norman had an especially unlucky time at the beach.
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/e2257cda08dba3e4b7d9020b639585e9.jpgYou’ve got questions and Wes Ball has answers. His new film, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (https://gizmodo.com/kingdom-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-review-wes-ball-movie-1851444769), opened this weekend and io9 recently sat down with the director to talk all about it. We’ve covered all the non-spoiler stuff already (https://gizmodo.com/kingdom-of-planet-of-the-apes-interview-wes-ball-serkis-1851462274) but below, we dive into the film’s surprising prologue, some big character revelations (https://gizmodo.com/kingdom-of-apes-caesar-connection-wes-ball-planet-apes-1851461298),…
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/65c26231805021b9bc2450e8b0c5a213.pngMost folks who walk into a room with an 85-inch TV, let alone a 98-inch TV, offer one of two impressions, often verbalized with some screech of surprise. One is, “Wow, look at the size of that thing.” The other is, “That’s just too damn big.” TV Maker TCL (https://gizmodo.com/tcl-qled-mini-led-tvs-s-q-series-price-buy-brightness-g-1850437182), a company more known as the quality brand for those looking…
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/47f3f707ab717b2e4b7677df26ce6850.jpgThe latest iPad Airs and iPad Pros (https://gizmodo.com/ipad-pro-m4-review-peformance-battery-life-1851470600) breathed fresh life into Apple’s tablets just as they seemed to be getting stale. Love them or hate them (https://gizmodo.com/ipad-pro-air-2024-what-i-love-hate-1851482859), the new Pros and Airs are pretty damn powerful, with the M4-powered tablet being practically just as capable as the most recent baseline MacBooks (https://gizmodo.com/apple-macbook-air-m3-review-specs-performance-1851312960), but with the extra benefit of a…
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/e68d11018bf3faa3e63d8a969521865e.jpgThis week, the Gizmodo science team explored the disturbing trend towards raw milk amid a bird flu outbreak among cattle, and the technological disruptions stemming from the historic geomagnetic storm that triggered stunning auroras across much of the globe. Reporter Ed Cara broke down a study weighing the long term…
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/50acf3d527e1bb0c34925e459f503c61.jpgBlue Origin is preparing to send a crew of private astronauts to suborbital space, finally resuming its space tourism program on New Shepard after nearly two years of it being grounded.
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/f8a6c3eeb2d33d56ebc1b21666a43961.pngThat X-Men ‘97 season finale (https://gizmodo.com/x-men-97-finale-recap-ending-explained-apocaplyse-mcu-1851479371) was quite the sucker punch for fans invested in Marvel Animation’s (https://gizmodo.com/x-men-97-finale-spider-man-mary-jane-cameo-explained-1851484759) revived classic series coming into a modern era (https://gizmodo.com/x-men-97-morph-wolverine-finale-beau-demayo-lgbtq-1851481991). We saw the X-Men overcome seemingly insurmountable odds against Bastion after the reveal that he was this season’s big bad—not the red herrings Magneto and Sinister (who…
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/68714e4b2ae6f370967571f4bc14f601.jpgDetails surrounding the death of John Barnett, a corporate whistleblower who was in the midst of suing aviation giant Boeing when he was found dead in a parking lot (https://gizmodo.com/boeing-john-barnett-whistleblower-death-lawsuit-court-1851327035) earlier this year, have finally been revealed.
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/1c896dacbb8ab51c8811554835f17150.jpgThink about the expectations. Nine years ago, you released maybe one of the best films ever made (https://gizmodo.com/do-you-realize-mad-max-fury-road-is-a-miracle-1707000166). It won a ton of Oscars, made solid money at the box office, and has since only risen in respect and reverence. And now, you’re going back. Not just to that world, but to that story and those specific characters. (https://gizmodo.com/furiosa-mad-max-saga-timeline-1851323734)
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/c7f297d1b4c213bb243ff714ceb8923e.jpgWith Memorial Day weekend coming up and summer vacation not far behind, here’s some of our favorite Disney (https://gizmodo.com/tianas-bayou-adventure-how-to-ride-at-walt-disney-world-1851476584)-inspired fandom fashion, accessories, and other fun essentials to throw in your luggage.
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/0a5a2a2a6259872d88faa0fafa4a355d.jpgIf you’re looking for booze with an extra bit of buzz, you’re in luck. Microbiologists in the U.K. have just created beer using yeast sourced from the guts of Africanized honey bees, a.k.a. killer bees.
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/82209dd255d5d81db98902ac457375a1.pngA team of marine researchers with the Minderoo—UWA Deep Sea Research Centre got a treat recently, when a rare deep-sea hooked squid (Taningia danae) mistook the crew’s baited camera for prey. The team captured the remarkable footage about 3,281 feet (1 kilometer) beneath the waves in the South Pacific, north of the…
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/73a3edac6b943112a8abc7dd566e3e17.jpgOpenAI’s Superalignment team, charged with controlling the existential danger of a superhuman AI system, has reportedly been disbanded, according to Wired (https://www.wired.com/story/openai-superalignment-team-disbanded/) on Friday. The news comes just days after the team’s founders, Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, simultaneously quit the company (https://gizmodo.com/ilya-sutskever-leaves-openai-1851477658).
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/f23862f32d96e98a64362286d09c3ada.jpgWho could have guessed that John Krasinski would be so good at making horror movies? His directorial debut was A Quiet Place (https://gizmodo.com/a-quiet-place-is-an-unexpectedly-terrifying-and-intense-1824209906), he followed it up with A Quiet Place Part II (https://gizmodo.com/a-quiet-place-part-ii-is-a-super-solid-edge-of-your-se-1846914069), and now he’s made IF, not a horror film by genre but a horrible film in quality. We reviewed the film quite unfavorably here (https://gizmodo.com/if-movie-review-ryan-reynolds-john-krasinski-carell-1851478795) but now that it’s in…
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/764d2720aa4f6fa177325c67407d2464.pngHertz gambled (https://jalopnik.com/that-tesla-hertz-deal-isnt-done-after-all-1847980622) and lost when it placed its big EV bet on Tesla a few years ago. It was a chance for the rental car company to shake up the industry, instead the company bought 30,000 (https://qz.com/hertz-selling-evs-teslas-1851449165) Teslas, got scared away by depreciation and expensive repairs (https://jalopnik.com/sky-high-depreciation-and-massive-repair-bills-force-he-1851447937) and now wants to get rid of them (https://jalopnik.com/hertz-is-selling-its-fleet-of-rental-tesla-model-3s-for-1851155899). While all those used Teslas looked to be…
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/87a4d360c7f750a5e4625f6118d32051.jpgAlkaline water will improve your metabolism, boost your liver health, and even help you fight off cancer—at least according to its fans. The actual truth, however, is far more mundane. There is little good evidence for these and many other health claims attached to alkaline water, and the only thing that it’s clearly…
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/0b71673c16b7a34e1adf1f930e534132.jpgTwo things are true when listening to the head of a movie studio. One, they’re not going to say anything bad about their movies, and two, they definitely know everything happening with those movies (https://gizmodo.com/spiderman-4-movie-update-tom-holland-marvel-studios-son-1851061533). That’s why a new interview with the chairman of Sony Motion Pictures Group, Tom Rothman, should both be taken with the… (https://gizmodo.com/28-years-later-release-date-june-2025-sony-pictures-1851471063)
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/19a9831685a981bcf8a81683d9d1fb8b.jpgThis weekend, The Phantom Menace (https://gizmodo.com/george-lucas-says-the-phantom-menace-is-one-of-his-favo-1834054609) turns 25—and while we’ve celebrated the ways the film brought so much to Star Wars in the past (https://gizmodo.com/the-best-things-the-phantom-menace-brought-to-star-wars-1834822221), for its 25th anniversary we wanted to look back at a few different things, big and small, that make Phantom Menace so great all these years later, whether you caught it on the big screen agai… (https://gizmodo.com/fall-guy-phantom-menace-summer-box-office-1851457193)
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/43381592de204cad54000927536d30a9.jpgConspicuously absent from the incredible news this week (https://gizmodo.com/nicolas-cage-spider-man-noir-show-prime-video-streaming-1851474644) that Nicolas Cage was coming to Prime Video to play Spider-Man Noir was a single mention of Silk: Spider-Society (https://gizmodo.com/spider-man-universe-tv-series-silk-spider-society-sony-1849796927), another Spider-Verse show that has been in the works (https://gizmodo.com/silk-may-lead-a-new-series-of-sony-spider-verse-shows-a-1844947276) for a long, long time.
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/26e29ab45d1e51274372bb06b87b044d.pngThe New York Police Department plans to use drones to respond to some 911 calls in a new program, according to testimony delivered Thursday at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing in Washington, D.C. And while that’s concerning enough, one Republican congressman had some ideas about how to improve the idea.…
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/1de19eae1c51f779eab20d3e7ae4bc6c.jpgThe third and final episode of “Tolerance Is Extinction,” the season finale (https://gizmodo.com/x-men-97-finale-recap-ending-explained-apocaplyse-mcu-1851479371) of X-Men ‘97 (https://disneyplus.bn5x.net/c/379647/564546/9358?subId1=GO-&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.disneyplus.com%2Fseries%2Fx-men-97%2Fvc1XIz90ZNH5), had a lot to pay off—not just from the plot threads it wove throughout its own debut season (https://gizmodo.com/x-men-97-morph-wolverine-finale-beau-demayo-lgbtq-1851481991), but in bringing to a head years of lingering character work dating back to the original X-Men: The Animated Series. But in just a few…
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/a0985dd3c08f6a0dd7d8b889929df776.jpgIt looks a bit like a boat, or a stout fedora. So what the hell is this rusty brown gossamer of a space cloud?
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/0498335e5041db54c670cb12a824d806.jpgThe last thing an alcoholic wants to see is YouTube ads featuring alcohol, which can trigger the desire to drink. The same goes for someone who has perhaps experienced a miscarriage and continues to see YouTube ads for diapers and baby clothes, sending people into a spiral of depression. But if you’re struggling with…
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/17ec948a4098484ebfd1fd2065a81145.jpgFans of 3 Body Problem (https://gizmodo.com/3-body-problem-netflix-sci-fi-series-review-no-spoilers-1851313711) were thrilled to hear (https://gizmodo.com/3-body-problem-netflix-spoilers-questions-aliens-1851333553) the show had been renewed by Netflix (https://gizmodo.com/3-body-problem-renewed-netflix-sci-fi-alien-invasion-1851479898), but something about the announcement was puzzling. Usually, when a show gets greenlit for more, there’s a specific announcement about what that means: another season (https://gizmodo.com/fallout-season-2-renewed-prime-video-bethesda-new-vegas-1851420918), two more seasons, a special array of finale episodes (https://gizmodo.com/evil-s4-teaser-premiere-date-finale-details-paramount-1851260843), etc. That…
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https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_80,w_636/7bdbe919c96341e228193e130d3d1af8.jpgC. Gordon Bell, a true visionary in the world of computing who helped design some of the first minicomputers in the 1960s, died May 17 at the age of 89, according to a new report from the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/21/technology/c-gordon-bell-dead.html) Tuesday. Bell died in Coronado, California from pneumonia according to the Times, which cites an unnamed family…
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