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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]For centuries, astronomers were limited to ground-based observations of the planets, but now we use spacecraft to capture close-up views of our neighboring worlds. Excitingly, our views of solar system planets have been getting progressively better over the decades, as these images attest.
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Dune: Part Two Returns With a New Set of Character Posters in Tow
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]With [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and mandated radio silence due to the Hollywood strikes, the buildup to Dune: Part Two has been nothing short of eventful. While there’s still [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] before audiences can see it, Warner Bros. is getting the promo ball rolling again with footage screened at CCXP to join the first…
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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire's First Trailer is a Monster Mash
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Legendary’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] has been steadily persisting since 2014 and saw its first big titanic crossover in the form of 2021's [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Instead of splitting the titular monsters back off again so they can do their own separate things for a bit, they’re reuniting once more—this time as allies rather than…
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Fallout Show Creators Want It to Feel Like a Brand New Game
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Yesterday, Prime Video gave viewers a first full look at its upcoming [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Based on the RPG franchise by Interplay and Bethesda, the series definitely looks like it belongs with the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and that wasn’t just the mission statement—for all intents and purposes, this is their idea of Fallout 5.
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Open Channel: Tell Us Your Favorite Godzilla Media
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Whether they’re from the US-based [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] or Japan’s Toho Studios, Godzilla movies come out with a reliable frequency. The newest Japan-made film starring [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the country’s first live-action Godzilla flick since 2016's Shin Godzilla and the fifth in the Reiwa era that…
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Skybound Grows Animation Slate with New Japan-Based Studio
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Skybound Entertainment is heading eastward to open up a new studio in Tokyo, Japan.
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The New Slim PlayStation 5 Is Thinner Where It Counts
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is the same console that came out three years ago, at least in most of the ways that matter. That’s for better or worse, though if you’re looking to pick up Sony’s premiere console, then at least you can feel better knowing it might actually fit in your TV cabinet.
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Halo Season 2 Teases a Major Franchise Fall
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The first season of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] TV adaptation was [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], but also kind of a mess. With a new timeline to work with, the show took some [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], shall we say, and things ended in such a way you weren’t fully sure how we were going to make it to Halo: Combat Evolved.
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Star Trek: Discovery's Final Season Goes Monster Hunting For a Premiere Date
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It feels like we’ve been hearing about Star Trek: Discovery’s fifth season—even before we knew it would [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] at this point. But at long last, with the arrival of yet [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], we now know when Michael Burnham and her friends will begin their last tour of active duty.

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The Boys Are Back in Town, and They're Going to the Polls
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s been over a full year since the last season of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and while [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] definitely kept the franchise going, it teed up some interesting developments for the mothership show’s return. While the next season is still a couple of months out, Prime Video’s released a first look at what’s coming next for their…
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House of the Dragon Comes Flying Back with a Vengeance
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Despite initial skepticism, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] proved itself to be a solid return to the world of Westeros and a good show in its own right. The Game of Thrones prequel had its [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] already locked in almost immediately after premiering, and after being technically allowed to film through [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Microsoft’s Handheld Version of the Xbox App Is a Good First Step; Now Do Windows
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Xbox app now plays nice with handheld consoles thanks to a new “Compact mode.” Windows-based handheld console users no longer need to navigate through tiny text and jumbled sidebars on relatively small screens. But Microsoft, you know what would be even better? A full version of Windows 11 made for handheld.
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Fallout's First Trailer Welcomes You to a Familiar Post-Apocalypse
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Interplay’s (and later Bethesda’s) [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] have always held a special place in the hearts of players. Waits between mainline installments have only grown longer, and there may be plenty of other post-apocalyptic worlds, but folks love the RPG series for its immersive world and black sense of humor. Fallout scratc…
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The Marvels Drama, Fallout TV Show Reveals, and More Top Pop Culture News of the Week
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s been a wild week in the world of sci-fi, fantasy, superheroes, and more genre fare. The return of Doctor Who for its 60th anniversary, burning Mandalorian questions, and our epic first looks at Fallout and Furiosa all made the list of our most read stories—but here’s a few more highlights you might have missed—Jam…
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The Great Gmail Purge, New Samsung Galaxy S24 Leaks, and More Top Product News of the Week
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]If you had an old burner Gmail account, this week was your last chance to log in before Google permanently nukes it. Meanwhile, recent Samsung leaks appear to confirm some Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra renders that had been floating around the internet. Gizmodo’s consumer tech team covered that news and more this week.…
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How to Get Started Running Emulators on Windows and macOS
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]You have to go [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for the first generation of video game consoles, and many of them have been released since—consoles that have long since become outdated and obsolete. However, if you’re eager to relive the games and platforms of yesteryear (or try them out for the first time), there’s a way: emulators.

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SpaceX Starship Version 2, Life Extension for Dogs, and More Top Science News of the Week
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]If you told a person on the street in the 1970s that humans would have no base on the Moon by the year 2000, they’d probably laugh in your face. Well, it’s 2023 and we still lack even the barest of lunar infrastructure. But this week, Alenia Space and the Italian Space Agency sketched out their plans for a sustainable…
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Sam Altman's Return, the Mysterious Q, and More of the Top AI News of the Week
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]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. And be sure to check out our weekly newsletter on the biggest developments in AI.
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Why the Entire AI World Was Talking About 'Q' This Week
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In the aftermath of last week’s shocking OpenAI [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], there was one final revelation that acted as a kind of epilogue to the sprawling mess: [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] from Reuters that revealed a supposedly startling breakthrough at the startup. That breakthrough allegedly happened via a little known program dubbed “Q-Star”…
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Doctor Who Has Released an Official Recipe for Its Horrifying Curry
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Baldur's Gate 3's New Epilogue Is a Wonderful Goodbye, But Not the End
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]When Baldur’s Gate 3 released this summer, its ending was one of the rare moments where praise for Larian’s take on [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] wasn’t united in effusive lauding. Abrupt, a little messy, and lacking in closure to characters players had just spent [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] with, it was both interesting and…
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Disney+'s New Harrison Ford Doc Is a Must-Watch for Fans
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OpenAI Chaos Delays GPT Store to 2024
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]OpenAI is delaying the launch of its [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], a marketplace of customizable GPTs, until 2024, according to a memo seen by Axios. Sam Altman told an audience at [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that the GPT Store would launch in November.
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December's Lego Releases Offer a Ticket to Ride
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of 2023 is here, and with it, one more batch of Lego sets to tempt your wallet (or get stuck [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]). From big hits in the Modular Buildings line to Shadow the Hedgehog’s Lego debut, there’s something for everyone, even if there’s not all that many new kits.

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Japan Debuts Six-Story Experimental Fusion Reactor
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The biggest experimental nuclear fusion reactor in operation was inaugurated north of Tokyo today, as scientists continue to plug away at making nuclear fusion a viable source of the world’s energy.

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Hot Toys' New Spider-Man Figure Is Ripped Right From the Comics
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Godzilla Minus One's Director Wants to Do Star Wars, and Oh My Godzilla, Someone Let Him
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] stomps into U.S. theaters today, so director Takashi Yamazaki probably already has a lot on his plate right now. But goddammit, the man wants to do [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and now I can think of nothing more perfect.

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What Would Happen If Everyone Suddenly Stopped Eating Meat?
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HP's Printer App Invaded My PC, and It Might Be Invading Yours
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]An HP app that normally only comes pre-installed on the company’s own PCs is worming its way onto Windows 10 and Windows 11 computers through the Microsoft Store. Both Microsoft and HP have confirmed they’re working to resolve the issue, though in the meantime, you might want to check your Windows PC for a software…
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Apple TV+ and Paramount+ May Soon Bundle Their Streaming Services Together
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Every iPhone 16 Could Get a New and Improved Action Button
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It seems like the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and the iPhone 15 Pro Max might be making a turn for Apple’s next set of iPhones.

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21 New Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books Arriving in December
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]As the end of 2023 approaches, there’s still time to squeeze in more reading—which is where io9 comes in, sharing 21 new [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], fantasy, and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] releases coming out in December, including several [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] perfect for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
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NASA’s First Crewed Lunar Landing Since Apollo May Not Happen Until 2027
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Fresh footprints on the Moon aren’t likely to happen in 2025 as NASA hoped. A new report warns of significant delays to the Artemis 3 mission, the result of two key contractors—SpaceX and Axiom Space—not being able to deliver the goods on time.
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Tesla Releases Baby Cybertrucks for Your Little Doomsday Prepper
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Was your little one disappointed they couldn’t get their own [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]? Well, fear not. Tesla released the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on Thursday, shortly after the release of its grown-up version. Your dystopian, conspiracy-spreading, Elon Musk-loving child will love their little Cybertruck.
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Suicide Squad Isekai's New Trailer Has Monsters, Murder, and Anime John Cena
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]There is a lot going on in our latest look at [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the DC Comics anime that, well, is a Suicide Squad isekai—the popular portal fantasy subgenre about taking people out of their own time and place and dumping them in another world. But I am not going to scrub seeing an anime riff on [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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US Judge Blocks Montana's 'Anti-Chinese' TikTok Ban
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A US Federal Judge blocked a Montana law Thursday that would have banned TikTok in the state starting on January 1st, arguing the bill is unconstitutional on the basis that it [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
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Wyatt Russell Thinks Thunderbolts Is Doing Something Different to Other Marvel Movies
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]To the surprise of no one, a Five Nights at Freddy’s sequel is in the works. Tim Burton drops a new look at Beetlejuice 2 as filming wraps. Say hi to Godzilla and Kong in new Godzilla x Kong posters. Plus, another new look at the Kaiju No. 8 anime. To me, my spoilers!

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Generating AI Images Uses as Much Energy as Charging Your Phone, Study Finds
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Creating images with generative AI could use as much energy as charging your smartphone according to a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Friday that measures the environmental impact of generative AI models for the first time. Popular models like [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] may produce more carbon than driving 4 miles.
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It's Now Way Easier to Play Steam VR Games on Meta Quest
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Finally, playing your full Steam VR library on Meta Quest headsets just got a whole lot easier. Valve shared details about the new [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that lets users stream their VR games to their devices.
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Google Celebrates 1 Billion RCS Users With a Feature Drop for Green Bubbles
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Google’s bet on RCS is paying off, or at least that’s what it wants us to think. After a few minor wins, including Apple [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in the next iPhone and officially surpassing 1 billion monthly active users, Google is celebrating its successes by [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] new features for Messages users on…
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Columbia's New Star Wars Winter Collection Is Hoth as Hell
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Giant Stone Age Cemetery Near Arctic Circle Surprises Archaeologists
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The soil in one of the largest Stone Age cemeteries in Europe is so acidic that all the human remains were destroyed thousands of years ago. But now, a team of archaeologists reviewing the site have found that at least 120 people were once buried there, three times previous estimates.
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Furiosa's First Trailer Is Here, Oh What a Lovely Day!
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Mad Max: Fury Road was a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], rip-roaring, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and now we finally have our first look at Furiosa, its follow-up. Today is a lovely, lovely day indeed.

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Bottlenose Dolphins Somehow Even Cooler Than We Knew, Can Sense Electricity
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It looks like bottlenose dolphins may have more tricks up their fins than we knew. New research involving trained zoo dolphins seems to confirm that these mammals can sense electricity, much like other aquatic life. The talent may allow them to better hone in on hidden fish prey and navigate using the Earth’s magnetic…
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Happy Birthday, ChatGPT
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Did I hear that someone has a birthday today? That’s right, it’s everyone’s favorite language model, a little guy we like to call ChatGPT.

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If You Used Gmail Today, Your Emails May Be Delayed
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Significant delays affected certain Gmail users on Thursday, and Google says you may need to send that email again. According to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], emails from Gmail users sent between 11:30 AM EST and 2:00 PM EST on Thursday may not have gone through or were significantly delayed.

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Hulu's Only Murders in the Building Is Making the Leap to ABC
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The mystery of “Who killed Tim Kono?” is coming to ABC. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Original comedy series Only Murders in the Building is the latest title to shift from streaming to broadcast, with the first three episodes of season one arriving in early 2024.
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Doctor Who Christmas Special First Look Gives Us a New Doctor, New Companion, and New Little Freak
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]If you thought [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] was the apex of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]’s creepy little guys, then either good or bad news: things are going to get so much creepier littler and guy-er this Christmas.

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Meta Sues FTC, Says it Has No Constitutional Right to Stop Facebook From Profiting Off of Kids' Data
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Meta is working all the angles it can to ensure it will still be able to profit from children’s Facebook data. After a recent loss in court, the company has now sued the Federal Trade Commission, arguing the agency doesn’t have the constitutional authority to change a 2020 $5 billion settlement over the company’s…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Elon Musk’s electric car company has suffered a reversal of fortune in its [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Turns out, Teslas won’t be getting license plates in the nordic country—at least, not for the foreseeable future.
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Christopher Nolan's Batman Trilogy Gets a Worthy Tribute Poster
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The Sacrifice Game Is a Gory and Fun Christmas Gift
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]At [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in the early 1970s, a student who’s been eagerly awaiting winter vacation gets a call with bad news: they’ll be spending Christmas at school instead of with their family. Is it Alexander Payne’s new Oscar-buzz movie The Holdovers—or Jenn Wexler’s new Shudder release The Sacrifice Game?
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Avatar 3 Won't Have This Hilarious Rumored Title
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]On the internet, most news gets forgotten very quickly. Anything that sticks around for more than a few days does so with good reason, usually because it’s so incredibly weird. In the world of movies, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is the rumored Avatar sequel titles that [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Robert Pattinson Went Full Bird for Miyazaki's The Boy and the Heron
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]When Hayao Miyazaki announced that [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] might be his last picture, Studio Ghibli’s U.S. distributor GKIDS knew it had a big task ahead, assembling [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for the English-language version of the film.
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Iconic Star Betelgeuse Will Temporarily Vanish From the Sky Next Week
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The bright star Betelgeuse, a prominent member of the Orion constellation, is set to be occulted by the asteroid Leona on December 11. This occurrence, expected to last no more than 10 seconds, will cause the star to temporarily vanish from sight, a phenomenon visible along a narrow path on Earth.

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Doctor Who Is Pushing One of Its Oldest and Weirdest Villains
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Here's Your Free Window to Watch A Charlie Brown Christmas on Streaming
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Ryan Reynolds Releases New, Totally Real Deadpool 3 Set Photos
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Elon Musk’s ‘Anti-Woke’ AI Is Here, Snowflakes Need Not Apply
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Elon Musk’s snarky, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], started rolling out to X Premium Plus users on Thursday. X users who paid $16 a month, or $22 via the app, for a blue checkmark started receiving the added feature of getting roasted by xAI’s premiere generative AI chatbot.
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Panera's 'Charged Lemonade' Blamed for Second Death in New Lawsuit
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Panera Bread is once again being blamed for causing someone’s death with its highly caffeinated “Charged Lemonade” energy drink. The family of 46-year-old Dennis Brown has filed a wrongful death suit against the chain this week, alleging that Brown’s heart-related death in early October was caused by the drink. It’s…
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iPhone 16 Will Feature a Much Better Mic for An Improved Siri (and AI) Experience
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Luke Wilson on Being Daddy Bruce Wayne in Merry Little Batman
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Why the 23andMe Data Breach Is Such a Disaster
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Earlier this week, 23andMe admitted that an October hack was [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] than the company initially admitted, affecting 6.9 million people, not the 14,000 it first reported. 23andMe followed up with an early Christmas present for users: a terms of service update that would force people to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Chocolate Plantation Owner Charged With Murder of Jurassic Park CG Studio Founder
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Police alleged a historic chocolate plantation owner murdered and burned the body of one of the leading figures in Hollywood who helped bring us the incredible special effects of some of the 1990’s best films, Dominican police said.

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14 Alternative, Modern Holiday Genre Films to Stream This Holiday Season
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LIGHTSPEED Presents: 'Carbon Zero' by D. Thomas Minton
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Nintendo Cancels Its Next Live Event and Tournaments Due to Threats Targeting Staff
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Nintendo quashed its first live event of the new year and similarly postponed the tournament finals for two of its mainstay franchises due to a wave of “threats” targeting employees, spectators, and venue staff centered around an upcoming Splatoon 3 tournament.
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Greta Gerwig Is Open to Doing a Ken Movie
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Angelina Jolie is setting up a return for Maleficent 3. Natalie Portman says she’d be open to a return to Star Wars. Iman Vellani shares her ideal villain for Ms. Marvel season 2. Plus, more looks at Netflix’s live-action Yu Yu Hakusho. Spoilers, away!

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Apple Scurries Onto the AI Stage With Too Little, Too Late
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Google’s launch of Gemini yesterday was like a bellowing announcement that [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], but Apple had its own AI launch, or more like a quiet whimper that tried to go unnoticed. The iPhone creator released an open-source machine learning framework, MLX, that runs on Apple’s chips. MLX could…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Great things can come in small, slightly repulsive packages. Scientists in the Philippines have detailed the molecular secrets of Stichopus cf. horrens, a sea cucumber species that bears more than a passing resemblance to something else. Their findings indicate that these animals contain several compounds that could…
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The Travel Holiday Gift Guide for Pop Culture Enthusiasts
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Tech Billionaires' Quest to Build a New City in California Continues to Go Terribly
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]California Forever, the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], continues to struggle. The project, which is owned by an opaque parent company, Flannery Associates, and backed by a slew of Silicon Valley luminaries, envisions a utopian new community…
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Google Pixel Cameras Will Finally Unblur Your Pets and Work as a Webcam
Today’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] was inevitably going to suck all the air from any other big Pixel product updates. However, amid all the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Google is also dropping a big [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for Pixel cameras that the company claims will enhance your videos…
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Foreign Governments Can Spy on Your Push Notifications, Senator Warns
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Oregon Senator Rob Wyden alleged foreign governments may be spying on Americans through their push notifications in a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) Wednesday. Sen. Wyden asked Apple and Google to share this information with the U.S. government as well, which would evade the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Woman Enters MRI Machine With a Gun, Gets Shot in Butt
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A woman’s medical exam turned into a literal pain in the butt, thanks to a poorly placed firearm. An adverse event report sent to the Food and Drug Administration earlier this year details an alleged incident where the woman was shot in the right buttock by her own gun that was activated by a magnetic resonance…
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The Last of Us Gets Season 2 Release Window, Plus First Look at It Prequel Footage and More
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]As expected, HBO just confirmed that season two of The Last of Us [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Which is certainly a long time but was mostly expected, since filming won’t begin until early next year. In the meantime though, fans of similar genre content have a ton more to look forward to and a new trailer puts a spotlight…
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Climate Groups to Biden: AI Will Worsen Climate Change Crisis
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]An open letter to the White House from 17 major climate change and anti-disinformation groups says President Joe Biden and his administration have largely ignored the toll AI is already taking on a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. At the top of these groups’ demands is a new rule executive order that would big tech to share just…
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The 10 Biggest Things We Learned About Google's New Gemini AI
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on Wednesday, a technology that will touch on nearly every part of the search giant’s business. The company has spent the last year lagging behind OpenAI, its chief artificial intelligence rival. But Gemini is Google’s long-anticipated attempt to prove its AI is…
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Apple Will Reportedly Drop New M3-Powered iPads and MacBook Airs in 2024
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Apple may be done for the year releasing any new hardware, but fans will only have to sit tight for just a few months into 2024 for brand-new tablets and laptops. A new report claims that Apple will share details on new, more powerful iPads and MacBook Airs coming soon. Everything is supposed to get a shiny, new M3…
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Doctor Who's 60th Anniversary Is Celebrating Being in the Moment
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A24's Theatrical Slate Will Exclusively Stream on HBO, Max, and Cinemax
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Important news for fans of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]'s Oscar-decorated film slate: the company has just signed a multiyear “pay-1" output deal in the U.S. with the HBO and Max brands. What that means is, if you want to stream A24 movies as part of a subscription service, you’ll have use Warner Bros. Discovery’s HBO, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and Cinemax.
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Hulu and Disney+ Are Finally (Slowly) Merging
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Zillow Says You’ll Buy Your Next House With… AI? | AI Unlocked
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Ryan Reynolds Is Disappointed With the Deadpool 3 Spoiler Leaks
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23andMe to Hacked Users: We Won't See You in Court
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], after initially reporting only 14,000 users were affected. If you’ve used 23andMe, there’s basically a coin-flip chance that your data was exposed. The company, however, updated its [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] last week to ensure its customers couldn’t file a class action…
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Our First Test of Meta's AI Image Generator Was a Hilarious Flop
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Meta released a standalone [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on Wednesday that will convert your text-based queries into fantastical, high-resolution images in mere seconds. The free tool, Imagine with Meta AI, is powered by Emu, the company’s image foundation model.
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The Fast and Furious Franchise Has Done Paul Walker Dirty
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]When one of the biggest stars of a franchise dies, obviously that franchise is no longer going to be the same. Such is the case for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] which, 10 years ago last week, lost one of its original stars, Paul Walker. Since Walker’s death, several films have been made continuing the Fast story,…
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The iPhone 13 and iPhone 14 Are About to Get Faster Wireless Charging
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A Captive Prince Plots Escape in Holly Black's Return to the World of The Stolen Heir
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SpaceX May Test Key Technique for Moon Mission on Starship’s Third Flight
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]SpaceX is actively preparing for the third test of its Starship launch system, a mission that may feature the inaugural attempt at in-flight propellant transfer. This capability is essential for enabling deep space missions and is a crucial component of NASA’s Artemis Moon plans.

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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Grinding coffee beans with a spritz of water can reduce static electricity, creating less mess and improving the taste of espresso, according to Oregon-based researchers who borrowed from the physics of volcanoes to design the experiment. The team of chemists and volcanologists found that the inside of a coffee…
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The 2023 Hollywood Strikes Are Officially Over After SAG-AFTRA's Contract Vote
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Hollywood’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]n might have largely been over when SAG-AFTRA announced it had [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] with the AMPTP a month ago—but it’s not over until it’s over, and we’ve finally reached that moment. Or at least we have for another three years.

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NASA Discovers Root Cause of Parachute Glitch in Asteroid Sample Landing
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Inconsistent labels in the OSIRIS-REx landing plans are what caused the out-of-order parachute deployment during the return capsule’s descent to Earth on September 24, NASA [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in a release yesterday.
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Google’s Gemini Turns Pixel 8 Pro Into a True AI Phone
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The Boys Teases the Craziest Season It's Ever Done
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Kid Cudi is working on a wild new monster movie. Mahershala Ali offers a tiny update on Marvel’s Blade movie. Plus, there’s good news for Foundation and Fionna and Cake, with confirmations of new seasons on the way. Spoilers, now!

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Update: HP's Printer App Invaded My PC, and It Might Be Invading Yours
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Update: Microsoft [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] the issue was relating to a bug in the latest Windows update. Users on Microsoft’s forums [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that their printers were all being converted to the HP LaserJet M101-M106. All the printer metadata was being converted on both Windows 10 and 11 platforms as well as Windows Server 2012 or…
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Meet Gemini, the AI That Google Says Is Way, Way Better Than ChatGPT
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Google unveiled its new AI model Gemini on Wednesday, giving the public a first look at a technology that’s had the tech press mired in rumors. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the company’s most powerful AI to date, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] starting today, and will soon integrate with other products across Google’s services…
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Magnets, How Do They Work in Keychron’s Newest Mechanical Keyboard?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Keychron, the brand behind some of Gizmodo’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for beginning enthusiasts, has launched a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for a keyboard with a new switch. It’s called the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], with “HE” referring to the Hall effect switches featured on this board, which use magnets rather than pins to detect…
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Magnesium Supplements Could Protect Your Liver From Acetaminophen
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Magnesium supplements might be able to blunt a well-known side effect of the painkiller acetaminophen, new research suggests. The study found evidence in lab animals that oral magnesium can prevent acetaminophen-related liver damage by affecting the gut microbiome. More research will be needed to confirm this…
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NASA Shows Off Concept for an Alien-Hunting 'Cryobot' Probe
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Astrobiologists suspect there could be alien life just out of reach in our solar system, in oceans hidden beneath icy crusts on moons circling Jupiter and Saturn. But unlike the surface of Mars, which can be explored by rovers and landers, these mysterious oceans are currently inaccessible to us. In an effort to…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]While most AI companies are preciously unveiling their latest algorithms with press tours and blog posts, others seem content to throw their latest wares out into the digital ether like a pirate ship casting off dead weight. One company that fits this latter category is Mistral, a French AI startup that released its…
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Doctor Who's 60th Anniversary Is Finally Joining Magic: The Gathering
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A few months ago Wizards’ latest Magic: Universes Beyond release celebrated [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], with decks filled with cards from [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]... except its then-upcoming present. That’s all changing very soon, thankfully.

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Apple’s Journal App May Be the Only Thing to Keep You Sane This Holiday
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Author Loses Book Deal After Blaming Star Wars Fans for Bizarre Review-Bombing Scheme
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Late last week, the YA [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] found itself in disarray following allegations of an author [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] several other authors in the community. The end result has seen writer Cait Corrain lose her deal with Del Rey Publishing, and other partnerships she had in the works also canceled.

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Ready to Upgrade? Rumors Suggest PlayStation 5 Pro Arriving Late in 2024
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A wave of rumors has engulfed Sony’s premiere fish tail-shaped console, with speculation centering on an upcoming PS5 Pro next year with a beefed-up CPU and GPU supposed to help it swim above any of the other prominent consoles currently on the market.

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NASA Asteroid Probe Snaps First Image, Revealing a Field of Stars
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It departed our planet just over two months ago, but [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is already 16 million miles from Earth, well on its way to its main destination: the asteroid Psyche. Eager to prove its readiness, the spacecraft recently beamed back the first images captured by both of its cameras to create a tantalizing…
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Rick and Morty's Cast and Crew Talk Season 7's Triumphs—and What's Next
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]With just one episode remaining in [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], it’s officially time to celebrate: [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] need not have worried about [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] after the high-profile departure of co-creator and key voice actor Justin Roiland. Though every episode wasn’t solid gold, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], including…
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Not Even James Mangold Noticed Indiana Jones 5's Wild Disney Animation Deep Cut
So I’m watching Oliver and Company, the 1988 [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] featuring the voices of Billy Joel and Bette Midler, and it hit me like a ton of bricks. As Oliver, Dodger, and the crew are being chased through New York City, they head into the subway and jump on the tracks. “This reminds me of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Something Unearthly Could Switch Train Signals From Red to Green
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Some train track circuits are at the mercy of distant storms on the Sun’s surface, researchers found, which could cause train signals to jump from red to green and vice versa as a result of extreme space weather.
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Doctor Who Saved Its Biggest Gift for Itself
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]For a show that is often so [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—and where change is baked into its hearts—[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] often has a bittersweet view of its own past. Heroes and friends come and go, goodbyes are frequent and brief, and a lot of them are permanent, especially when part of the key to its longevity is that its…
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Microsoft Forms Alliance to Help Union Workers Stop Worrying and Learn to Love AI
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Microsoft announced an alliance with the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) to ensure that artificial intelligence serves the interests of workers, according to a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Monday. Labor leaders called the collaboration “historic” as Microsoft became the first big tech…
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Taylor Swift Is Shadowbanned From Google's 2023 Year In Trending Searches List
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Taylor Swift is so popular that seismologists measured recent tour dates in Seattle as a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. You wouldn’t know it from the latest edition of Google’s annual annual “[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]” roundup, though. Every December, the company publishes a list of the year’s most popular search terms. But one name…
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Three Satellites From SpaceX's Latest Rideshare Mission Are Missing in Action
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Among the over 100 satellites that launched on board [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Transporter-9 mission, three failed to deploy and their current whereabouts are unknown.
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Showtime's Cable Channel Is Changing Its Name to... Paramount+ With Showtime
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]As of January 8, linear Showtime will be no more. Instead, it’ll be rebranded as “Paramount+ With Showtime,” an arrangement spurred by the fact [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] streaming service and executives just have to change things to justify their salaries. It’s the latest rebrand in the…
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Our Favorite Toys of 2023
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Watch James Cameron Film an Actual Jet in This True Lies Clip
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]This week True Lies, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], is being released on 4K for the first time. Unlike Titanic, Aliens, and Avatar though, True Lies [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] hasn’t been on physical media since [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. It literally [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] before getting a proper, high-definition release.
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Google's Project Ellmann Shows Your Life in Photos
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In a recent internal summit, Google proposed its next big idea: an AI-powered feature titled ‘Project Ellmann’ that would provide users with a snapshot or, as they’re calling it, a “bird’s eye view” of their entire lives.

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How Jason Momoa Got a 'Story By' Credit on Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Director James Wan lights up when talking about his Aquaman star Jason Momoa. Back in 2018, the two had an unexpected box office smash with the first film and are hoping to top even that with this month’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] out December 22. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], that relationship between director and star seems…
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How to Watch SpaceX Launch Space Force’s Spaceplane for the First Time
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]For the first time, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy will attempt to deliver the Pentagon’s spaceplane to low Earth orbit. The mission marks the seventh for the mysterious spacecraft, aiming to expand the Space Force’s knowledge of the space environment and test new technologies.
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Tucker Carlson Launches Subscription Streamer, Because X Reportedly Couldn’t Do the Job
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Tucker Carlson launched his streaming service on Monday, charging users $9 a month for five original shows starring the former Fox News host. Carlson explored launching the subscription service on X, where he’s been hosting a show for several months, but Elon Musk’s platform couldn’t develop the technology quickly…
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Barbie Scores Big In the 2024 Golden Globe Nominees
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The 2024 Golden Globe nominees are here, and this year everybody is still living in [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Pipping its biggest rival at the ceremony this year, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], to take most nominations, Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie, and Ryan Gosling are the vanguard when it comes to all things genre.

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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]James Wan wants to return to horror again after Aquaman 2. Jennifer Love Hewitt would be down for more I Know What You Did Last Summer. Plus, what’s coming on Rick & Morty’s season finale, and the last episode of Archer. To me, my spoilers!

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Freewrite Alpha Review: Can This Minimalistic E-Typewriter Cure My Writer’s Block?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The curse of all writing is not necessarily a distraction, but the anxiety stemming from creating something you know is awful. Writing is undoubtedly a painful, twisted joy until you read your work and wonder if you ever had a bare ounce of creativity.
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Apple Quashes Beeper Mini App to Lord Over the Blue Bubbles
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Apple isn’t keen to let just any peasant enter its hallowed and gloried domain of iMessage. The company officially declared it had blocked the Beeper Mini app, which let Android users send blue bubble messages to their friends and family on iPhone by reverse engineering the iMessage protocol.
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Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: Do Your Coworkers Make More Money Than You?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]We all keep secrets. It’s easy to do once you’ve committed to it. Just don’t say anything. But it can be harder when you want to share a little bit of information, without your confidante inferring tea that you didn’t intend to spill. Computer scientists often draw this distinction between security and privacy.…
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Alex Jones Is Back on X, Thanks to Elon Musk
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Half a decade after he was [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] by the platform’s safety team, professional conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been welcomed back to the site, which is now called X.

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The Boy & the Heron Flies to Break a North American Box Office Record
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Up to release, Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli’s newest film [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] has had a lot of discussion centering around what it’s potentially meant to be. Is it actually Miyazaki’s for real, final film? Was it really the best idea to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] or even give any idea as to what it’s about? The answer…
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Here's Why the 23andMe Data Breach Is Such a Disaster
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Earlier this week, 23andMe admitted that an October hack was [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] than the company initially admitted, affecting 6.9 million people, not the 14,000 it first reported. 23andMe followed up with an early Christmas present for users: a terms of service update that [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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23andMe to Hacked Users: We Won't See You in Court
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Doctor Who is So Thrilled Ncuti Gatwa's Finally Here
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]For [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] fans, the introduction of a new Doctor is always an event in and of itself. After months of teasing and set photos, yesterday’s third and final [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] formally introduced the world to Ncuti Gatwa’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].

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Solo Leveling Gets Anime Ready to Start Off 2024
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In 2016, South Korean writer Chugong released the video game-like web novel Solo Leveling, which has grown in popularity over the years. An [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of the series is now in the works, during its Jump Festa panel, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and Aniplex revealed the show will be dropping on January 6, 2024.
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'Even AI Rappers Are Harassed by Police' | AI Unlocked
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Staz Nair Is a Beast(Master) in New Rebel Moon Clip
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Zack Snyder’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] ensemble film featuring a who’s who of actors you’ve seen pop in and out of genre fair over the last few years. In addition to Sofia Boutella as leading woman Kora, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] also consists of Djimon Honsou, Doona Bae, and Ray Fisher. It’s also got three Game of Thrones alum…
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Silk's Show Still Exists, Writers Room to Spin Back Up Next Month
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]All the way back in 2020, it was reported that Sony and Marvel were teaming up to create a TV show for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], one of the more recent heroes to spin from Spider-Man’s (Peter Parker’s) supporting cast. In the years since, news on the show has been hard to come by: after an announcement late last year that it was retitled [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Your Browser Has a Hidden Setting That Will Speed Up the Web
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A lot of us now spend much of our work and leisure time peering at the web through a browser—and for that time to be spent as productively as possible, the browser in question needs to run swiftly and smoothly. There’s actually an integrated browser setting to help with this, too: Hardware acceleration.

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Twisted Metal Revs Up for a Second Two on Peacock
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A lot happened this summer, so it’s easy to forget that [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] aired on Peacock over the summer. Based on the now classic car combat PlayStation series, the show got decent reviews and was nominated at the recent Game Awards for Best Adaptation. Ultimately it lost out to—and got overshadowed by—HBO’s adaptation…
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Mace Windu Shatters The Glass Abyss in New Star Wars Novel
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The prequel trilogy of Star Wars films (and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] set in the same time period) introduced audiences to plenty of new Jedi, with one of the most striking being [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Though he’s one of the most important players of that era, he hasn’t always gotten a chance to headline a story all…
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Stranger Things Gets Back In Production This January
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Fortnite Festival Brings an Ounce of That Old Rock Band Magic Back From the Dead
Is Rock Band back? Well, kinda, maybe, eventually. Epic Games revealed the new Fortnite experience Fortnite Festival, a new update that lets players take their persona out of the battle royale and stuff a guitar or pair of drumsticks in their hands in rhythm game action familiar to any old Guitar Hero fans.
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The Marvels' Box Office, Deadpool Leaks, and More Top Pop Culture News of the Week
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s been a bit of an up-and-down week for the House of Ideas, as Marvel both pulled out of reporting any further on The Marvels’ box office performance and Ryan Reynolds bit back against Deadpool 3 set leaks. All this, more Doctor Who, and even Star Wars’ 2024 made the list of our most read stories, so here’s you…
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2024 Will Be an Epic Year in Spaceflight
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A Martian moons mission, a plethora of private lunar landers, probes to Venus and Jupiter, and reusable heavy-lift rocket tests are among the many highlights we’ll be watching in the coming 12 months, in what looks to be an extraordinary year in spaceflight. Here’s your 2024 calendar.
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Scientists Created Tiny VR Goggles for Lab Mice, With Adorable Results
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]At last, researchers say they’ve found a way for lab mice to easily use virtual reality goggles. The unusual set-up does have practical applications, since it should make it easier for scientists to study how mice respond to things commonly encountered in the wild, like predatory birds.

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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Gemini, Google’s ambitious new AI for phones, will make its way to Pixel 8 Pros next week. On the Apple side, we might begin to see M3-powered iPads and MacBook Airs hitting store shelves a lot sooner than we expected. Gizmodo’s consumer tech team has all the latest news and more. Here’s a roundup of our most-read…
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MRI Shoots Woman, a Betelgeuse Eclipse, and More Top Science News of the Week
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Our most-read science stories this week contain a few timeless life lessons. One, don’t go into an MRI room carrying metal, particularly if that metal is a loaded gun. Two, don’t cross a killer whale, even if you’re a great white shark. And finally, never judge a sea cucumber by its cover—no matter how repulsive that…
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Google's Gemini, Grok Goes Premium, and More of the Top AI News of the Week
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]There were a few AI product launches this week. Google released Gemini, it’s newest AI platform, while Grok, Elon Musk’s annoying chatbot, rolled out to X Premium users. Apple, meanwhile, tried to keep up by releasing...an open-source machine learning framework. Not quite as exciting. That said, the AI industry…
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New Report Accuses Sam Altman of Being a Terrible Boss
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Ever since Sam Altman was [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] two weeks ago, questions have swirled about what precipitated the drama. The fact of the matter is this: We still don’t really know what happened or why Altman was forced out. Altman himself [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Microsoft obviously isn’t talking. And even former…
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Poor Things and 22 Other Frankenstein Adaptations in Pop Culture
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]There’d be no science fiction without a 19-year-old Mary Shelley in 1816 writing the tale of a scientist who their undead creature to life. Ever since, her tale of creation has inspired adaptations that have propelled the evolution of genre in film, television, and even music.
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James Gunn Has Found His DC Universe's Mandatory Sean Gunn Role
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Sean Gunn has been tapped to play Maxwell Lord in [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]’s new DC Universe.
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Should Section 230 Protect AI Companies From Being Sued Out of Existence?
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The Shocking Ending of Indiana Jones 5 Wasn't Always What's in the Movie
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Indiana Jones movies always end with the impossible. Ghosts [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], aliens [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. So, when [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]gets to its big third-act moment, it’s shocking, but also fits right in. However, getting to that idea…
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Beeper Mini Rules, But It Doesn't Solve Android's Messaging Problem
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Note: As I was getting ready to publish this piece, Beeper’s servers [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] reports that Beeper Mini had lost access to Apple’s servers, though I’m still able to send text-based messages with a bit of delay. This piece covers the experience before this breaking news hit. I reached out to Beeper to…
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How One Piece Creator Eiichiro Oda Gave Notes for the Netflix Show
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]From casting to the cutting room, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] creator Eiichiro Oda collaborated closely with the team behind [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] every step of the way.
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We Finally Saw That Missing Space Tomato and Wish We Hadn't
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]For a year, a rogue tomato was missing in action on board the International Space Station (ISS), sparking rumors that an astronaut may have eaten it during a moment of weakness. It turns out that there were actually two missing tomatoes, not just one, found squished in a tiny ziplock bag, and they’re looking a little…
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Everything You Need to Remember About Aquaman Before The Lost Kingdom
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]When people think of the DC films of the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], they mostly think of the failures. The controversies. What they don’t usually think of are the successes, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and none more so than Aquaman.[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Amber Heard, Nicole Kidman, Willem Dafoe, Patrick…
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Grok Gets Some Competition, ChatGPT Gets Depressed, and More of the Top AI News Stories This Week
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]What happened with AI this week? Well, the passage of the European Union’s AI Act—a landmark piece of regulation that seeks tackle the potential harms of the AI industry—is a pretty big deal. It could totally reshape how European nations’ relationship to the technology. But a lot of less consequential if no less weird…
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50 Years Ago Today, Sarah Jane Smith Changed Doctor Who Forever
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Fifty years ago, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]’s 11th season began with “The Time Warrior” and brought with it a notable sea of changes. It marked the debut of the show’s iconic “diamond” logo, which has now seen a return for the modern era with [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. It added an immediately iconic creature to the show’s monster canon [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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People Are Overdosing on Wegovy, Poison Control Data Shows
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Americans are increasingly calling poison control centers over semaglutide, the active ingredient in popular weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy. Most of these calls appear to concern potential overdoses of semaglutide and might be tied to a rise in compounded versions of the drug, which aren’t tested for their…
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Wyatt Russell Would Love to Remake This Sci-Fi Film
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Ilya Sutskever’s Team at OpenAI Built Tools to Control a Superhuman AI
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A new research paper out of OpenAI Thursday says a superhuman AI is coming, and the company is developing tools to ensure it doesn’t turn against humans. OpenAI’s Chief Scientist, Ilya Sutskever is listed as a lead author on the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], but not the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that went with it, and his role at the company remains…
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It Sure Looks Like Governments Want to Let AI Surveillance Run Wild
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]By all accounts, the European Union’s AI Act seems like something that would make tech ethicists happy. The [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], which enjoyed a huge legislative win this week, seeks to institute a broad regulatory framework that would tackle the harms posed by the new technology. In its current…
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Are Rebel Moon and Army of the Dead Now the One True Snyderverse?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]“Snyderverse.” Whether you know the word or not, odds are you’ve heard it. And, for several years, it very clearly referred to the series of DC films director Zack Snyder directed and produced at Warner Bros. The world where Henry Cavill is Superman, Ben Affleck is Batman, and a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] convinced a studio to…
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It's Been 2 Months. Why Can't NASA Open the Asteroid Sample Container?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In September, fragments of a near-Earth asteroid were [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. The space rocks hold clues to the origin of the solar system and can possibly answer crucial questions about how our planet came to be—if only we can get to them first.

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The Weirdest Medical Cases of 2023
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s once again time to crane our heads sideways in bafflement at all the strange ways people got sick or hurt this year.

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Twitch Reverses Policy on ‘Artistic Nudity’ After Just Two Days
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]That didn’t take long: just two days after [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], including “artistic nudity,” the company has slammed on the brakes.

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Apple Shuts Down Flipper Zero’s Ability to Shut Down iPhones
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Apple silently fixed an exploit that let Flipper Zero devices mass-bombard nearby iPhones with popup notifications, so much so they would essentially disable users’ phones requiring a restart.
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Everything We Know About the Samsung Galaxy S24
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Life comes at you fast, so I’m already recapping what we expect from Samsung’s Galaxy S24 flagship, just as [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] has started popping up all over [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. But this is within Samsung’s timeline: the company launches its flagship first thing in the year before following up with something more…
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Google Just Made Repairing Your Pixel Phone Much Easier
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Just last week, my roommate went through what no one should ever go through: losing her phone’s entire data while getting it repaired after she dropped it in the toilet. Google just announced a solution for that. Well, to save your data. Not dropping your phone in the toilet.

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The 20 Best Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Films of 2023
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Fans of genre movies had an absolute blast in 2023. Hollywood studios and streamers alike provided us with a seemingly never-ending slate of excellent fare. The [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] were fire. Some superhero films [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. And along the way, there were lots and l[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Below, you’ll find io9's picks for…
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30 Years After Doom’s Release, These Are the 30 Best-Worst Ways to Play the Game That Started It All
If anybody remembers the old “Can it run Crysis?” meme, the joke has long since fallen flat as more games have long exceeded the specs requirement on that 16-year-old game. On the flip side, “Can it run Doom?” has a separate connotation. It belies the ingenuity of tinkerers and DIYers trying to find the most unique…
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Google Finally Stops Handing Your Location Data to Cops
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Google announced changes to the way it harvests your location data this week that will finally put a stop to its compliance with geofence warrants, a police surveillance technique that many say circumvents the Constitution.
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Ad Company Claims 'It’s True. Your Devices Are Listening to You'
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]There’s little to no evidence suggesting that “[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...],” but that hasn’t stopped people from believing big tech is monitoring every word they say. Now, a marketing subsidiary of Cox Media Group is throwing fuel on the fire with claims that it can deploy “active listening” through your…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Hideo Kojima will team with A24 on his Death Stranding movie. Alexander Siddig will join Foundation’s third season, while John Waters will join Chucky’s. Plus, another new look at the Doctor Who Christmas special. To me, my spoilers!

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Rebel Moon Is a Sci-Fi Greatest Hits Album, Fun but Empty
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Do you like Star Wars? How about Lord of the Rings? Harry Potter? Dune? [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Would you like to see elements of all of those and more in the skeleton of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]’s Seven Samurai? If the answer to any of that is yes, Zack Snyder’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is the movie for you.
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MoviePass's CEO Wants to Give You One More Free Movie Ticket
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] has [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], but the theater subscription service [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and has continued to evolve, including the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] aimed at making buying movie tickets a smoother process. It has a long way to go if it wants to reach the heights of…
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How Rebel Moon Would've Been Different if It Were Star Wars
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]When [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in theaters this week (and on Netflix next week) it’ll mark the end of a 10-year journey. A journey that began with [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] some kind of Star Wars movie. That rumor, it turns out, was not true. At the time, Snyder had the idea of taking one of his…
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Key Ingredient for Life Spotted on Saturn’s Ocean Moon
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Good news, everyone! Scientists discovered additional evidence suggesting the potential habitability of a peculiar icy moon orbiting Saturn, one of the planet’s 146 moons.
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Holiday Gift Guide: Must-Have DC and Warner Bros. Fandom Merch
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The big day is drawing near and so are those shipping cut-offs for getting everyone on your list a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Don’t worry, io9's latest gift guide inspired by the worlds of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and the WB has some shopping tips at places that offer in-store pickup, including BoxLunch and Target.

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Everything Everywhere All at Once Tops Kanopy's List of Most-Watched Films of 2023
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James Mangold Has Some Thoughts on Indiana Jones 5's Box Office
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]For the past 40-plus years, Indiana Jones has meant nothing but fortune and glory. Each of the franchise’s first four films was one of the top three highest-grossing films in the U.S. the year they were released. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] was #1 in 1981, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] was #2 in 1984, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] was #2 in 1989 and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Intel’s New Core Ultra Processors Will Power 'AI PCs,' Whatever That Means
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Intel’s latest chips boast big performance gains, but never mind any of that. What would be a normal annual chip refresh announcement from one of the world’s biggest silicon developers has put the biggest emphasis yet on onboard PC AI, with the latest Intel Core Ultra line as part of the current Meteor Lake chipsets…
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2023 Should Have Been D&D's Best Year, Until It Wasn't
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Although it feels like it can be said every year recently, it’s hard to imagine a better year in terms of its influence than 2023 has been for[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. A movie, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], a video game that has [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and of course a not-insignificant glimpse toward the game’s own future. But for all those…
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Into the Spider-Verse Remains Spider-Man's Most Impactful Story
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Goodness gracious, has it really been five years already?

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Grimes Enters the AI Race With a Baby Grok Doll
Grimes, the futuristic pop singer and mother of Elon Musk’s children, is working on a plush AI toy named “Grok” with the Silicon Valley startup Curio. The toy reportedly has no relationship or affiliation with Musk’s AI chatbot from xAI, the “[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]” chatbot that’s also named [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], according to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
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'Artistic Depictions of Nudity' Are Now Allowed on Twitch
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]On Wednesday, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]’s confusing policies regarding [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—and what’s an absolute no-go—got a rewrite and a very clear blog post explaining the changes. The company says it wants its content creators “to feel confident they understand our rules” and “viewers to feel confident…
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John Krasinski's New Imaginary Friend Movie Sure Looks Like Something
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]We simply don’t know what to make of the first trailer for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. On paper, the idea is beautiful. The imaginary friends you made as a child are real, everywhere, and require saving. The cast, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and Krasinski, but Steve Carell, Emily Blunt, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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GM Is Removing Apple CarPlay and Android Auto From Its Future Cars Over Safety Concerns
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]GM sounds like it’s not going to budge regarding its decision to replace [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] with its in-house infotainment system on its future electric vehicles. The only difference is that it’s making it about safety this time.

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How to Watch Rocket Lab’s Next Launch as It Seeks to Recover From a Scary Setback
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Despite an unfortunate anomaly nearly three months ago, Rocket Lab is ready to see its Electron rocket fly once again with a new mission slated for launch on Friday.
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Rock Out With Scott Pilgrim Takes Off on Vinyl
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Good Omens Will Return For a Third and Final Season
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The end is nigh, and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is preparing for it again. Having evolved from [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] exploring the story of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s beloved novel into its [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of ideas from the pair left unpublished, now Good Omens is ready to call time on Amazon... and on the Apocalypse.
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Zuck’s Naughty and Nice List: Threads in EU, AI Instagram Backgrounds, and More
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Threads finally [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for European users Thursday roughly five months after [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. The rookie social media platform also received some fact-checking filters that might put advertisers’ minds at ease. Meanwhile, Americans received AI-generated backgrounds for Instagram…
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Neanderthal Genes Could Explain Why Some of Us Are Morning People
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]If you’re irritated by the morning people in your life, you might have Neanderthals to blame for their existence, at least a little bit. New research suggests that our hominin relatives possessed genetic variations that predisposed them to waking up early and that they passed on these genes to our Homo sapiens…
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Ryan Gosling Will No Longer Be Universal's Next Wolf Man
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Smile 2 is expanding its cast. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is bringing back a familiar spectral face. Moon Knight’s screenwriter will join Captain America: Brave New World for new reshoot material next year. Plus, another look at what’s coming in La Brea’s final season. Spoilers, away!

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10 Studio Ghibli Dubs We Love, Including The Boy and the Heron
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Asus Plans to Debut the 'Transcendent' ROG Phone 8 at CES 2024
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Unfortunately, I still have to lurk on X, formerly known as Twitter, to see when companies [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] upcoming releases. As it turns out, Asus is still making its ROG—the Republic of Gamers—smartphone. It runs Android, and it will probably have some beefy innards. But all we know so far is that it’ll be revealed at CES…
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Hasbro's New X-Men '97 Figures Hail the Goblin Queen
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Finally, You Can Buy an Apple AirPods Pro USB-C Case Separately
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The Magical Madrigal Branches of Disney's Encanto Family Tree
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Elon Musk Is Launching a New University in Texas
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Hackers Hit With Legal Threats After They Fixed a 'Bricked' Polish Train
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Three hackers in Poland were hired to fix the software of a broken train, and they were successful, but now the train company, Newag, is threatening to sue them, according to Polish outlet [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. The hackers allege that the trains were deliberately outfitted with software that would ensure they couldn’t…
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Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos Explains Why It Has Been Hiding All That Streaming Data
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Elon Musk Draws the Ire of the Tesla Hoe
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10 Movies to Stream Tonight If You Can't Stand Christmas
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INTERPOL Arrests 3,500 Suspects in Sweeping Cybercrime Operation
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The Google Play Store Ruling Is Bad News for Longtime Android Phone Users
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Last week, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] a years-long suit against Google for anti-competitive practices within the Play Store. We were all left wondering: what would happen to Android’s app store moving forward?

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What We Do in the Shadows Is Coming to an End
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China’s Spaceplane Just Released Six Mysterious Objects in Orbit
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Dave Filoni Sees Hera Syndulla as Thrawn's Ultimate Foe
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A second season of Ahsoka [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], but showrunner Dave Filoni has begun to share some of its possibilities.
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2023 Was the Weakest Year for Memes in History
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]For the last two decades, some of the weirdest and most creative things on the internet played out in images and GIFs. There have always been terrible memes, but for years, memes as a category were consistently funny, useful, inspiring, and even thought-provoking. They crossed over into all of the furthest reaches of…
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Can Apple Finally Make Mac Gaming Stick?
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Master & Dynamic's New Headphones Will Use Neural Sensors to Help You Focus
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Fantastic Gifts for the Skywatchers in Your life
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Amateur astronomy is so hot right now, and it’s never been easier for backyard enthusiasts to gaze into the cosmos and contemplate their puny, meaningless existences. We’ve assembled a collection of exceptional gift ideas to help your favorite space enthusiast take their skywatching skills to the next level.

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Lego Is Officially Making a Twilight Set
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Vampires are so hot right now. With [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] being anywhere and everywhere online, we’re in a toothsome renaissance not seen since the days of... well, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. So it’s perhaps fitting that it itself returns for the occasion, although in a much…
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Marvel Became Its Own Worst Enemy in 2023
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]This year, the once-untouchable [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] finally showed some vulnerability. For 15 years, the studio behind some of the biggest and best superhero movies ever was all but invincible. Every single gamble paid off. Every story expertly seeded over a decade [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. And even in the less cohesive few…
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Polish Train-Bricking Scandal Reportedly Kept Under Wraps by Government Officials
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See the Breathtaking Power of Iceland's Volcanic Eruption
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A trepidatious Iceland has waited for this moment for over a month: a large crack in the ground has started to spew up lava. In mid-November, hundreds of tremors—earthquakes that portended the eruptions to come—[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of the nearby Icelandic village of Grindavík and at least one famous tourist…
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Blue Origin Rebounds With New Shepard's Successful Launch After Previous Mission Failure
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]After over a year of being grounded, Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket embarked on its first cargo mission since a fiery anomaly led to a mission failure in September 2022.

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Rick and Morty Season 7 Sets Max Streaming Date
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] wrapped up Sunday night with “Fear No Mort,” another standout episode in what’s been [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]’ [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. But if you don’t have Adult Swim access and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] what you’ve been missing—including [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—here’s…
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Netflix Avatar's Showrunner Discusses Losing the Original Creators
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Volkswagen Bows to Touchscreen Criticism, Will Bring Back Physical Buttons
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]There’s more than nostalgia making folks pine for the days of knobs, dials, and buttons. Touchscreens are fine for all-in-one devices but not for something as simple as controlling a car’s air conditioning. Volkswagen had to learn the hard way that just because something can be put in a touchscreen doesn’t mean it…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A diligent surveyor of the night skies, NEOWISE is sadly approaching its fiery demise as the Sun’s erratic outbursts are causing the infrared telescope to gradually fall out of its orbit before it eventually burns up in Earth’s atmosphere.
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Updates From Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire and More
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Kung Fu Panda director Mike Mitchell hopes there’s more movies in the series’ future. Get a new look at a brooding Lestat in Interview With the Vampire season two. Plus, get a look at Hulu’s fantasy anime/live-action hybrid Dragons of Wonderhatch. Spoilers, away!

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Insomniac Hack Exposes Wolverine Video Game and Employee Passports
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Developers at Insomniac Games working on the upcoming Wolverine video game just had over a terabyte of internal data leaked on the dark web, according to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. A ransomware gang, Rhysida, leaked 1.3 million files on Tuesday that expose key details about PlayStation’s new Marvel video game and passport scans of…
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The Cage Fight With Musk Never Happened, but Zuck Won 2023
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]This summer, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk blew the internet’s mind by [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] they would fight each other in a “cage match”-style brawl. The rival tech execs were feuding over their [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and their proposed solution to this rivalry was to beat the crap out of each other…
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Timothée Chalamet Isn’t Sure Why Dune Spoilers Are a Thing
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Americans Have a Snack Problem
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Your snack habit may be even more calorie-dense than you think, recent research suggests. A study estimated that snacking contributes to around 20% of an average American’s daily caloric intake, and these snacks often add little nutritional value. The scientists found, though, that people with type 2 diabetes seem to…
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Marvel Star Jonathan Majors Found Guilty of Reckless Assault
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Marvel Drops Jonathan Majors as Kang After Assault Trial Verdict
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Upcoming SpaceX Launch to Include First Direct-to-Cell Starlink Satellites
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]SpaceX is gearing up to launch the first batch of Starlink satellites with direct-to-cell capability, with plans to test the technology in Earth orbit so that it can expand its reach on Earth beyond the range of cell towers.
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OpenAI’s New Board Members Are Now the Boss of Sam Altman (If They Want to Be)
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]OpenAI has a new Board of Directors following its November skirmish, but they can still overrule CEO Sam Altman on any decisions he makes, according to a set of guidelines the company [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. That means if OpenAI creates [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] (AGI), an AI system smarter than humans, the Board will…
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Tolkien Estate and Amazon Win Court Case for Lord of the Rings Rights
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Elon Musk Gets the John Oliver Treatment
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s been a long year. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]? That was only six months ago even though it feels like it had to have been at least two years ago considering all that has happened since then. Elon Musk, especially, has been in the news constantly and rarely for anything positive. Yes, he finally managed…
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Growing Up With Cats Linked to Higher Schizophrenia Risk
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Growing up with cats could have a strange effect on your mind, new research suggests. The study, a large review of existing literature, found that cat ownership at a young age was associated with a noticeably higher risk of developing schizophrenia and related disorders—a risk possibly fueled by increased exposure to…
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Huge Mortgage and Loan Company Suffers Data Breach Impacting 14 Million People
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]If you’ve ever bought a home with the help of the mortgage and loan firm Mr. Cooper, there’s a good chance that your personal information has been stolen by cybercriminals.
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The Fictional Characters We Lost in 2023
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Buy the New Apple Watch Now Before It’s Banned
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Hasbro Unvaulted Some of Its Rarest Toy Projects, and Sold Them Out Immediately
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—a crowdfunding drop line that lets the toymaker make some truly wild toys it could never feasibly release to the mass market, should enough collectors [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—is meant to be a one and done thing. The campaign starts, and if it hits its goals, when it ends pretty much all that’s ever…
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Uranus Is Luminous and Ringed in New Webb Telescope Image
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Indie Film Fans Now Have a New Prime Video Channel: Film Movement Plus
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Amazon's Warhammer 40,000 Deal Is Now Really, Really Real
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In the grim dark future of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], there is only... contract negotiations? [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Games Workshop announced that it was working with Amazon Studios to bring the universe of its [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Warhammer 40,000 to film and TV. Today it did so again, but now it’s even officialler.
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The European Union opened a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] into Elon Musk’s X on Monday examining the platform’s role in spreading ‘illegal content’ around the Israel and Hamas war. X has come under fire recently for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on the platform, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in the process.
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Wheel of Time's Madeleine Madden on Egwene's Powerful Journey
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] had [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—but none so moving or haunting as [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], played in [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] by Madeleine Madden. io9 got a chance to speak to the actor about her character’s harrowing, powerful journey.

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The Soaring Highs and Stark Lows of Spaceflight in 2023
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s time to look back at spaceflight in 2023, a real “two steps forward, one step back” kind of year, filled with highs, lows, and everything in between.

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Bipartisan Lawmakers Want to Know Why the Hell Apple Is Blocking Beeper Mini
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Apple’s recent move to block Beeper Mini, the app that [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], has caught the eye and a fair bit of ire of several U.S. congresspeople. Now lawmakers are calling for an investigation into the tech giant over “potential anticompetitive treatment” of the smaller…
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Updates From Doctor Who and the Future of Avatar
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Twisters screenwriter Mark L. Smith discusses the sequel. A new Percy Jackson clip introduces Grover. Hiding In Time is coming to Amazon. Plus, what’s coming on For All Mankind. Spoilers, away!

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Adobe Officially Cancels $20 Billion Figma Acquisition
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Adobe and Figma [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to end their acquisition plans on Monday after European regulators found the deal would hurt competition in the digital design space. The $20 billion acquisition would have combined the world’s leading product design software, Figma, and the world’s largest and most recognized supplier…
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Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: Suss Out Your Team's Average Salary
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Last week, I posed this [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]: You and nine of your coworkers are sitting in a conference room when somebody wonders aloud about the group’s average salary. Everyone is curious, but nobody feels comfortable sharing their own pay with the group. How can you all learn your average salary without anybody learning any…
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How To Build Your Own Custom ChatGPT Bot
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Avatar's VFX Artists Prepare to Unionize
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]2023 has been a union-heavy year, and in the case of Disney, it’s seen the formation of entirely new unions. VFX artists at both [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] successfully unionized this year, in what some referred to as a “hot labor summer.” Turns out, it’s more of a hot labor year, because the team behind James…
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Echo's New Trailer Wants to Show You How Hard It Is
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DC's Jungle League is a Team of Damn Heroic Apes
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