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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Paramount’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] has been thrown into further disarray with the departure of Scream 7 director Christopher Landon.

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Final Fantasy VII Advent Children is Returning to Theaters
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Before there was a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that blew the doors off its own canon, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] lived on through various spinoffs that expanded the world of the classic RPG. One of those was [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the 2005 CG film which followed on from the events of the original game. If you’ve never seen it, or it’s been …
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The X-Men Will Rise to a New Relaunch Next Summer
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Back in 2019, Jonathan Hickman gave Marvel’s mutants a soft reboot in the form of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Now living on the sentient island of Krakoa and taking active steps to no longer be a punching bag for humans, the stories that have spun out of this have kept the X-Men books going for almost five full years now.…
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Aquaman's Good Vibes Kept It Afloat for Only So Long
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Almost every [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] released in the last [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] has done so with [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that can’t help but talked about. In many cases, said baggage helps inform why the film [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], but in other cases, it gets in the way of what makes an individual film rise or fall despite a game effort from…
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Star Wars: Rogue Squadron Should've Existed This Weekend
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Ever since The Rise of Skywalker in 2019, Disney has struggled with getting [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] off the ground. In the years since, Lucasfilm has had a nasty habit of announcing things for the series and then not making them, if they [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] at all. And it all dates back to December 10, 2020, where…
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Godzilla Minus One, Across the Spider-Verse Among Oscars Finalists
[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...] are a few months away, and it won’t be long before we’re hearing about [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for the 2024 ceremony. Earlier in the week, a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for 10 categories were revealed, and while they contained some of 2023's expected hits, other inclusions were interesting surprises.

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All the Jonathan Majors Trial Updates, and More Top Pop Culture News of the Week
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A rough 2023 for Marvel got even messier last week as the conclusion of Jonathan Majors’ legal proceedings saw the actor charged with reckless assault. But while there was plenty of legal drama this week, there were even more stories from the io9-verse you may have missed, so check them out here! —James Whitbrook
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Theme Park News From Disney, Universal Studios, and More Fan-tastical Destinations
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Here’s what’s going on at major tourist destinations in Orlando, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York City, and abroad. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] just opened Zootopia at the Shanghai Disney resort and we have a look at its wild animatronics and cute in-universe food. Las Vegas is lifting spirits with immersive showings of The…
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Jedi Survivor Was the Best of Star Wars We Got This Year
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]This year has been jam-packed with new Star Wars, with three new seasons of TV in [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 [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and oodles of books and comics that saw us revisit legends or the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Even as we await its return to the big screen, Star Wars remains ever-present—but one new story in particular…
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40 Most Memorable Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Movie Moments of 2023
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A moment can make a movie. You’re sitting there, you’re watching something, it’s fine, and then boom: a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] something you thought was just okay [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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For All Mankind Is the Best Show You Aren't Watching, But Why?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]That [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] isn’t one of the biggest shows in the world might make sense, if not for other shows like Ted Lasso, The Morning Show, or Severance. All of them are originals [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], one of those streamers maybe you subscribe to while a show is on and then cancel, or mess around with for a…
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AI's World-Ending Capabilities Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s become popular amongst the denizens of Silicon Valley to claim that AI could end the world as we know it. However, this week provided more than a few examples of why that isn’t true. AI isn’t going to pose a threat to humanity anytime soon. The AI products that exist don’t even perform their limited function…
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Rings Around Uranus, Leather Made of Human Skin, and More Top Science News of the Week
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The week’s top three stories on the science beat all made me a little uncomfortable, to be honest. The news that scientists found a credible link between having a cat during your childhood and later being diagnosed with schizophrenia was troubling. Then there was the 2,400-year-old leather than turned out to be made…
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The Best Phones You Can Buy in 2023
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The smartphone audience is so wide that it’s difficult to settle on just one best phone of 2023. Some of us want huge screens, fast processors, and tons of memory. Other people want the very best camera so they can share photos on social media. And then there are the folks who want the best budget phone and/or best…
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NASA's Detonation Engine Revs Up for 4 Minutes in Breakthrough Test
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]NASA just put its new propulsion system to the test, powering a 3D-printed rotating detonation rocket engine for a sustained burn that lasted three times as long as the first test.
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2023 Was a Great Year for Foldables, If You Could Afford One
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Last year, I [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] whether foldable smartphones would ever be affordable. I wanted to see them take off after falling in love with the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. This year, I got my answer. It’s a resounding “No,” especially with the foldable market as it is right now. Even with the recently launched [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], a flip…
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What to Know About the Google Play Store Ruling, the Apple Watch Ban, and More
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The recent Google Play Store ruling could be [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Meanwhile, you only have a couple more days to buy a new [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Catch up on the biggest product news of the week in our roundup. - Jorge Jimenez
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How to Check If Something Online Was Written by AI
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Generative artificial intelligence is [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] these days, including on the web: advanced predictive text bots such as ChatGPT can now spew out endless reams of text on every topic imaginable and make all this written content natural enough that it could plausibly have been written by a human being.

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Dec. 24 Is Your Last Chance to Get an Apple Watch Series 9
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The latest Apple Watch’s big main draw was the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], but now the wearables maker is performing a more lethal kind of double tap on its [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...]. The company has already taken the device down from its online store, and in just two days, you’ll be cut off…
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Gundam: Witch From Mercury Director Makes It Clear: They're Wives, Your Honor
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]When Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], it did so by taking a step forward in the franchise’s history that few other series had the chance to make explicit in their own prior [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. But after parent company [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on what was, in the show, a textual…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Midjourney released an upgraded version of its AI image-generating service, Midjourney V6, on Thursday. The update is a significant improvement that has truly wowed users with its shockingly realistic photos and attention to detail. It may not be here for long, so here’s how to get V6 working now.

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Djimon Hounsou Explains Why Rebel Moon Is a Unique Franchise Starter
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Few actors in the entire world are more [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] than Djimon Hounsou. The man who most people first met when he did Steven Spielberg’s Amistad has since made an incredible career for himself jumping [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. He’s worked with Marvel. He’s worked with DC. He’s been in…
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Webb Spots Ancient Supernova in a Gravitational Lens
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Last month, astronomers focused the Webb Space Telescope on the galaxy MRG-M0138 and found something surprising: a supernova in the ancient universe, magnified for your viewing pleasure by the gravitational lensed galaxy.
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All the Fictional Characters Who Helped Us Survive 2023
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s been a year of ups and downs, so in 2023 we’re particularly grateful for one source of reliable joy: [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Here are the fictional characters—be they live-action, animation, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], or from galaxies far, far away—that helped guide us through.

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Peacock Hopes Ad-Free NFL Quarters Will Pull It Out of a Death Spiral
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Anthropic Could Be Headed for an OpenAI-Style Showdown
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Anthropic is reportedly in talks to raise $750 million from Menlo Ventures, which values the startup at $15 billion, according to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Like OpenAI, Anthropic also has a complicated board structure with misaligned values, and this recent influx of cash begs the question: is Anthropic bound to be the next AI…
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SpaceX Falls Short of Elon Musk’s 2023 Goal for 100 Falcon 9 Launches
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]With just 11 days left in the year, it’s clear that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk will not reach his stated goal of achieving 100 Falcon 9 launches in 2023. Nonetheless, the company’s achievements during the calendar year are damn impressive, with 2024 poised to be even more remarkable.

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Anxious and Joyless? You Might Just Be Sleep Deprived
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Not getting enough sleep is bad for both your physical health and your emotional well-being, as new research shows. The study, a review of existing data from clinical trials, found that even short bouts of sleep deprivation can reduce people’s positive emotions and make them more anxious.
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Lego's Latest Technic Set Will Let You Move Heaven and Earth
[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 mechanical construction sets mostly [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—lots of cars, trucks, bikes, even the occasional plane. But while it has dipped into the world of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] before, its latest addition is one of its best ideas outside of its typical wheelhouse. Within the wheelhouse…
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The Most Disappointing Gadgets of 2023
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While 2023 was a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and had some clever innovations to show off, not everything was a smash hit, to say the least. Whether it was subpar performance, a troubled launch, or a glaring design flaw, these products disappointed us the most.

This year’s picks, like the Apple iMac or the GoPro Hero 12,…
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Tinder's $500 a Month Membership Tier Has Me Embracing Loneliness
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Tinder isn’t the best at reading the room or taking a hint. Even though its announcement of the outrageous [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Tinder Select, led to considerable [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] back in September, the company has recently been expanding the membership offering by inviting additional users to apply for it.

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Last-Minute Pop Culture Holiday Shopping Guide for Procrastinators
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Time’s just about up for holiday shopping, and the pressure is on for anyone doing last-minute runs to the mall or searching online for the quickest delivery. If you’re looking for that perfect [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Wonka, or Disney100 gift—don’t worry, io9's got you covered with this handy list of…
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California Could Solve Its Water Woes by Flooding Its Best Farmland
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Gizmodo’s Top Five Gadgets of 2023
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Jupiter 3 Satellite Pushes SpaceX Rival Closer to Starlink Internet Speeds
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Following the launch of its next-generation satellite, Hughes Network Systems is now starting to offer faster internet speeds to compete with its main industry rival SpaceX.
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SpaceX’s Starship Explodes—Twice—and More Top Moments in Spaceflight for 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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Finally, a Telescope Named 'Einstein' Is Heading to Space
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Einstein Probe, an X-ray telescope managed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, will be ready to launch next month. The probe will look for transient events in X-ray light and try to answer some fundamental questions about black holes and gravitational waves.
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Godzilla Minus One's Director Is Open to a Sequel
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Doctor Who’s Millie Gibson introduces her new companion, Ruby Sunday. Snowpiercer’s unaired final season will appear... somewhere. Time is up for Shining Vale. Plus, Frank Darabont could direct some of Stranger Things’ final season, and a new look at What If? season two. Spoilers, away!

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LG's Latest OLED Can Go From a Mere 240Hz to a Blistering 480Hz With Just a Click
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Just when we thought gaming monitors were already going a little too hard on high refresh rates, LG shared Thursday details on a few of next year’s pro gamer monitors that put too much stress on the “pro.” The company’s upcoming display is yet another 4K OLED that can hit 4K resolution at 240 Hz. Sounds solid; I guess…
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Logitech Astro A50 X Review: Ditching All Your Dongles Means Dealing with a Mess of Wires
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The initial pitch for the $380 [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] sounds like an infomercial. It’s as if a revived, gamer-ified Billy Mays made a 30-second TV pitch sounding off: “Are you tired of shoving all those dongles in your consoles? Do you hate that it’s so hard to use the same headset across all your…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]At one moment in [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], characters are running through a mutated jungle, chased by lion-sized cockroaches while avoiding violent, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. In another moment, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] are standing around, their hair flowing wildly, delivering wooden dialogue that’s almost as painful for…
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Users Flock to Threads as X Suffers Largest Outage Since Musk Takeover
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Over 90,000 users on X experienced an outage on Thursday morning, marking the platform’s most severe outage since Elon Musk’s takeover in October of 2022, according to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Data from Google Trends shows that many users rushed to Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads during the outage.
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Behold the Mega Lake: Earth's Largest Lake in History Lands in Guinness Book of Records
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The largest lake in Earth’s history is now in the Guinness Book of World Records. The Paratethys—or Lake Paratethys, if you will—and contained 10 times more water than all of Earth’s modern lakes. In other words, it’s long overdue for its place in the Guinness Book.

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Not Being Able to Burp Actually Sounds Pretty Horrific
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A life without burps might sound like a blessing, but a new study shows it’s anything but. Researchers interviewed patients with the rare condition retrograde cricopharyngeus dysfunction (R-CPD), which makes them unable to burp or belch, about how it affected their daily life. Not only did patients report unpleasant…
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An Influential AI Dataset Contains Thousands of Suspected Child Sexual Abuse Images
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]An influential machine learning dataset—the likes of which has been used to train numerous popular image-generation applications—includes thousands of suspected images of child sexual abuse, a new academic report reveals.
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The Coolest Dinosaur-Age Discoveries of 2023
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Dinosaurs’ reign on Earth ended explosively (and then dustily, as we’ll mention in this story) when an asteroid slammed into Earth some 66 million years ago. But the dinosaurs—and the diverse ancient creatures they shared the planet with—have kept many secrets locked away in their fossilized remains, secrets which…
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The People's Joker Will Finally Get a Theatrical Release in 2024
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Last year the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to The People’s Joker, a queer, comedic re-imagining of Batman’s legendary foil in a Gotham City where crime was outlawed. Warner Bros, naturally, immediately [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and the film looked like it was destined for a life of limited showings at…
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How a Balloon Over Antarctica Will Help NASA Study the Mysterious Space Between Stars
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A new NASA experiment will take to the skies on a balloon, scanning the space between the stars of our galaxy and listening for cosmic ingredients to understand how the Milky Way evolved over time.

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A Potential Warner Bros and Paramount Merger Could Be Hollywood's Next Megacorp
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]All eyes are on [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...] after the CEOs of each company met Tuesday in New York City to explore a possible merger. According to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Warner Bros. Discovery CEO [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] met with Paramount Global CEO Bob Bakish and Shari Redstone, who owns Paramount’s parent company, about…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]NASA’s curious Jupiter probe is getting chummier with the planet’s most erratic moon, Io. The Juno spacecraft will carry out the closest encounter any mission has had with the volcanic moon in over 20 years, collecting valuable clues about its mysterious activity.
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The New York Times Asks Court to Destroy ChatGPT
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The New York Times [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement on Wednesday, asking that ChatGPT be destroyed, along with any other large language models and training sets that have used The Times’ work without payment.
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Zack Snyder Discusses the Vast Universe of His Netflix Sci-Fi Epic, Rebel Moon
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Zack Snyder knows what he’s doing. Whether it’s using his considerable popularity [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], or focusing on every single piece of minutia in a movie, the filmmaker is completely aware. So, of course, when it comes to his[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], he more than anyone knows when he’s referencing the sci-fi…
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The Dumbest AI Moments of 2023
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]AI’s effect on our world will be dramatic, but nothing will ever be as dramatic as the collective freak-out we all had about the emerging technology in 2023. With billions of dollars on the table and the promise that AI will transform every corner of modern life, everyone from businesses, to regulators, to regular…
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Man Gets Eye Exam, Learns He's Had a Splinter Stuck in His Cornea for 15 Years
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Talk about an eyesore. In a case report this month, doctors have described finding a wooden splinter lodged inside a man’s cornea for apparently 15 years. Amazingly, the man’s vision appears unaffected by the foreign object and doctors have opted to simply monitor him for now rather than try to remove it.
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The Best Places to See Fossils in the United States
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Into fossils? Taking a road trip across the country and looking for a side quest? Perhaps you’re just looking for an escape from modernity writ large. Well, these are the places for you. More than 320 dinosaur species have been named in the United States and most of the states have produced at least one dinosaur…
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io9's Favorite Rewatches (and Replays and Re-Reads) of 2023
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Sometimes, you need a little comfort food—and at io9, that can mean “re-watching [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]” or “guzzling midnight margaritas while watching [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]” or “picking up a book and rediscovering [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].” We love new releases, don’t get us wrong, but we also dig revisiting past…
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Apple's 12 Most Embarrassing Product Failures
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Apple is one of the most globally respected technology companies, having built its reputation on creating reliable, high-end products with innovative features. The Cupertino tech giant has such an impressive track record that its next project—whether that be an [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] or something else entirely —is already assumed…
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Elon Musk’s xAI Jumps on the Bandwagon of Rich Startups 'Benefiting Humanity'
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI organized in Nevada as a for-profit benefit corporation, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] reported on Tuesday. The company behind the Grok chatbot is the latest AI startup to give itself an unusual corporate structure that, on paper, prioritizes the public good alongside its profits,…
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Sorry Elon: Chinese Company Overtakes Tesla as Most Popular Electric Carmaker
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]2023 was a bad year for Elon Musk. Even before [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the billionaire’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] took Musk from media darling to a near-laughing stock. His bid to take SpaceX pubic is [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] after its satellite internet business Starlink brought in [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Christopher Nolan Has High Praise for Zack Snyder
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Director Zack Snyder is famous not just [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], but also for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. And while most of Snyder’s fans vocalize that on social media, one of the biggest did so via traditonal media. His name is Christopher Nolan.
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Zack Snyder's Sci-Fi Epic Rebel Moon Scores Big for Netflix
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is used to topping the box office, but his latest release has conquered a different playing field. While [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] had a limited theatrical release before its arrival on [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], his newest, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], went straight to the streamer, and seems to be reaping the…
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Being a Hypochondriac Might Help Send You to an Early Grave, Study Suggests
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Being overly worried about getting sick may, actually, help send you to an early grave, new research out this month suggests. The study found that people diagnosed with hypochondriasis were noticeably more likely to die during the study period than those without it. An increased risk was seen across both natural and…
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Iconic SpaceX Booster Falls and Breaks in the Ocean
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A Falcon 9 first-stage booster broke apart after completing its 19th mission, tipping over on the floating droneship in the Atlantic Ocean due to high winds.
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One of the Doctor Who Christmas Special's Best Scenes Was a Disney Suggestion
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Anal Bead Cheating Scandal Returns, This Time with Chinese Chess
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Just when I thought I was out, the anal beads pull me back in. Months after the drama between world chess champion Magnus Carlson and young prodigy Hans Niemann [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the internet isn’t willing to let go of the idea that board game experts can cheat with the aid of vibrating sex toys…
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Freewrite Alpha Is the Little, Expensive E-Typewriter That Could
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Temuera Morrison Isn't Sure About the Future of More Book of Boba Fett Yet
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Saw XI producer Mark Burg talks about the future focus of the franchise. Michelle Yeoh discusses returning to Star Trek. Toho is now considering its options after the huge success of Godzilla Minus One. Plus, Glen Powell talks Twisters. To me, my spoilers!

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Jony Ive Poaches Lead iPhone Designer to Work on OpenAI Hardware Device
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Tang Tan, Apple’s lead designer for the iPhone and Apple Watch, is stepping down to join Jony Ive’s hardware firm LoveFrom, according to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]’s Mark Gurman on Wednesday. Tan is the latest Apple designer to join Ive, which is assembling an Avengers-like team with Sam Altman to create the next era of hardware…
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Paramount Parent Was Hacked Last Christmas, Told Customers a Year Later
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The parent company that owns a controlling stake in Paramount, CBS, and thousands of theaters across the U.S. got hacked late last year, but it took them a full trip around the sun to let any of the tens of thousands of impacted customers know that their data was potentially compromised.
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AI Might Finally Make Windows 11 Usable
The lonely “Windows” button on most modern keyboards is an old joke turned into a bore. The key is a lonely, barren island sitting between “alt” and “ctrl” that’s long proved more of a nuisance for a wayward finger that strays a little too far southwest than it is a usable function. While some might find the key good…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]How can you tell if a dinosaur is female or male? It’s one of the most basic aspects of biology and yet, for the most part, it continues to be a mystery in paleontology. We don’t yet know the sex of most extinct species, even if those in museum displays have gender-specific names like [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] or [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Amazon Will Inject Ads Into Prime Video Starting Jan. 29th
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The last major ad-free streaming service is going away. Starting Jan. 29th, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] users will start seeing advertisements appear on movies and TV shows for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], according to an email sent to subscribers on Tuesday. To keep Prime Video ad-free, you’ll need to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], on top of the $139 a…
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Firefly's Alpha Rocket Put a Satellite in the Wrong Orbit
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Following a successful liftoff, Firefly’s Alpha rocket seems to have misplaced its payload due to a second stage anomaly.
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GTA 5 Leak Reveals Includes Eight Unreleased DLC Expansions
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]On Christmas Day, a big GTA 5 leak revealed that Rockstar Games had some single-player DLC planned for the open-world crime sim. Though none of them were released, what was uncovered by online sleuths is interesting all the same.

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One Piece's Editor Explains How the Netflix Show Crafted Compelling Backstories
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Getting to know the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is one of the greatest joys in watching the new live-action show based on Eiichiro Oda’ global franchise. “Tell No Tales,” the third episode, digs into Zoro’s origins in a creative way, and io9 was excited to talk to editor Eric Litman about how the story came…
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Mt. Gox Victims Report 'Double Repayments' From 2014 Bitcoin Hack
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Well, that’s one way to see your investment pay off. In 2014, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, suffered a notorious hack that stole 850,000 Bitcoins from the platform. Victims are finally starting to get their money back on Tuesday, nearly 10 years later. However, some are reporting Mt. Gox…
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Physicists Designed an Experiment to Turn Light Into Matter
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Plasma could be wrangled to collide photons and yield matter, according to physicists who ran simulations to explore the practical applications of a world-famous equation.

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Siri Will Stop Being an Idiot in 2024. Your Life Will Never Be the Same.
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]I want to love Siri. I really do. Every day, I walk around with a little robot that lives in my pocket and responds to simple commands. It is a full-blown miracle, the kind of thing our ancestors could only dream of. The problem is Siri’s an idiot. My digital assistant and others like it from Google and Amazon are…
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2023 Was the Year Companies Found Out
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The Final Ranking of DC Extended Universe Films
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]That only 10 years have passed since the first film in the DC Extended Universe seems absurd. Somehow, through all the ups and downs, it feels like we’ve lived with [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], Ben Affleck as Batman, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Ezra Miller as the Flash, Ray Fisher as Cyborg, and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for…
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Burger King Giving Discounts If Facial Recognition Thinks You're Hungover
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Brazilian wing of Burger King announced a surveillance technology marketing stunt this week called the “Hangover Whopper,” celebrating the booze-filled days between Christmas and New Year’s with facial recognition. All you have to do is hold your bleary-eyed visage up to a camera, and the company says its…
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Joker 2: Folie à Deux Reveals New Looks at Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]As we near the end of the year, there’s at least a visual update on Todd Phillips’ [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Surprisingly we haven’t gotten a trailer for the Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix musical with the release of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]’ [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] or The Color Purple. Then again, the studio’s been hiding that…
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NASA Astronauts Test Out Moon Elevator for 2025 Landing Mission
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Ahead of NASA’s long-awaited [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the space agency is testing an elevator that will carry astronauts from their spacecraft to the lunar surface. If all goes as planned, this elevator will be ready for the Artemis 3 and 4 missions, ambitiously set for 2025 and 2028.
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Rebel Moon 2's First Trailer Ties Everything Together
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]No matter [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] the first part of Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon, odds are you’re curious about what happens next. Kora (Sofia Boutella) has assembled [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and brought them back to Veldt. The evil Admiral Atticus (Ed Skrein) [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. And it all seems to be building to a…
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The Ominous Link Between Rare Disease Outbreaks in 2023
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On Doctor Who, Christmas (and Friendship) Is Magic
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]When you’ve been around for 60 long years like [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] has, growth and evolution is the name of the game. Not just in new places each week, new heroes and friends and villains along the way, but the show has adapted and built its own riff on genre after genre of storytelling thanks to its remit. But as Doctor Who…
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OpenAI Pissed Off Developers by Phasing Out Plugins for GPTs
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Sam Altman needs developers to build useful tools with ChatGPT, but his company is pissing them off right now. Just before Christmas weekend, OpenAI emailed plugin developers, people building practical tools with ChatGPT, asking them to turn their work into GPTs.

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Another Deep Space Nine Star Wants to Return to Star Trek
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]David Oyelowo has an update on his sequel to The Rocketeer. The next Saw movie might have already found its place in the chronology. Zack Snyder wants to take on a young James Bond. Plus, behind the scenes on Doctor Who with Ncuti Gatwa. Spoilers, away!

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5 Real Medical Treatments That Sound Like Sci-Fi
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Modern medicine has extended our lives and reduced suffering in all kinds of ways. Many of the impactful interventions we have available today have been around for a long time, like antibiotics, most painkillers, and various forms of cancer screening. But every once in a while, scientists come up with novel treatments…
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Biden Won't Save The Apple Watch
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The White House has left Apple without hope of federal intervention to keep the current-gen Apple Watch on store shelves. The Biden administration has officially declined to veto restrictions on the company’s wearables due to an ongoing patent dispute, despite the Cupertino tech giant’s pleas. So much for the season…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Few disciplines are as full of drama and surprises as archaeology, and this year was no exception. Archaeologists and anthropologists mined ancient genomes, excavated Roman weaponry from caves near the Dead Sea, and found a still-standing shipwreck at the bottom of Lake Huron. Click through for some of our favorite…
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2023 Was the Year of the Handheld Console, and 2024 Will Be Better for It
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]This past year was a tipping point for the games industry. There have been some [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] alongside devastating industry turmoil, including [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 [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. There’s a sense of foreboding entering into 2024, but there’s at least one thing we can…
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Where to Stream All the Golden Globe Nominees for Best Picture
[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...] will be handed out January 7 on CBS (the Oscars, meanwhile, aren’t until March 10), so if you’re taking advantage of holiday downtime to catch up on your awards-season viewing, here’s a handy guide to where you can stream the nominees. Not every title is available for home viewing, but most are…
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How to Add a Panic Button to Your Web Browser
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]If you’re not breaking laws or causing harm, it’s really up to you what you look at on the internet—we won’t judge. But there might be occasions when you don’t want someone in close proximity to see the contents of your open tabs, and that’s where a browser panic button, capable of shutting down your browser with a…
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Shure Aonic 50 Gen 2 Review: Scary Good ANC and a Battery That Refuses to Die
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The outside world is loud. Sometimes too loud. If you commute, you know this all too well. A good pair of active noise-canceling headphones is exactly what you need to enjoy a little peace and quiet, even on the noisiest train. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] has good ANC; you could even argue it’s too good.
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Year in Review: io9 Staff Picks
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]There have been so many words written about the expanse of genre here at io9, and 2023 was a wildcard of a year for entertainment (including [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]), theme parks, and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. We covered a lot of ground, from union-strong solidarity during the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes to…
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Tell Us What You Thought of Ncuti Gatwa's Debut in Our Festive Doctor Who Spoiler Discussion Zone
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s Christmas, and that can only mean one thing we’ve been waiting [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and also [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]: Doctor Who is back for a festive treat, and it’s bringing a new Doctor and companion, and a whole new era, along for the ride. Need somewhere to talk about everything that just happened? We’ve…
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Horror Fans Had a Screamingly Good 2023
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In early 2023, io9 gazed into a blood-splattered crystal ball and made a list of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Some of the titles we were excited about delivered; others did not—and perhaps most excitingly, several releases we knew nothing about in advance swooped in and scared the hell…
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Aquaman 2 Leaves the DCEU in a Fitting Place, Actually
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Unless something truly crazy happens, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] will be the final film in the DC Extended Universe that began 10 years ago with Zack Snyder’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. It was a universe dominated by Snyder’s decisions, which resulted in some [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...]. And while Lost Kingdom completel…
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[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 earlier this week after a long and fairly grim season. You won’t be surprised to learn that it’s got another season in the works, once again courtesy of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].

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Game of Thrones' Nine Voyages Spinoff is Becoming Animated
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]HBO’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is keeping the Game of Thrones train going along, but it’s not the only spinoff for the fantasy series in the works. In a newly released blog looking back on 2023, author [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] revealed he and HBO have a number of animated series in unofficial development—as in, they haven’t been…
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Open Channel: What Are You Looking Forward to in 2024?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In terms of entertainment, 2023 was a big year all around. We got many [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that were excellent in their own special way, while the majority of reliable brands and franchises [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in greatness or took a few hits with their new entries. And on this, the final day of the year, it’s time to think…
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io9's Top 100 Posts of 2023
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The year is ending, but the posting never stops. io9 wrote thousands of stories in 2023, from breaking news to analysis and critique of the biggest films, TV shows, comics, and games in our worlds. Here’s a look back at the 100 you, our dear readers, read and shared the most. Thanks for sticking around for another…
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Tom Wilkinson, Beloved Character Actor, Passes Away at Age 75
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]British actor Tom Wilkinson died on Saturday. He was 75, and per [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], his family say his death was at home and “sudden.”

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Batman Returns Writer Talks Plans for Scrapped Catwoman Spinoff
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Before and particularly after the movie starring Halle Berry, it appears to be a rule that you don’t have [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in a live-action movie without Batman getting top billing. But that wasn’t always the case—back in 2018, we learned the thief very nearly got [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] where she would’ve been played by…
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Marvel Teases More What If...? Adventures to Come
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Today marks the season two finale for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. I haven’t watched it yet, but by several accounts, it sounds like this has been a pretty solid season with a standout episode that focuses on the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Ahead of this season’s premiere, Marvel Studios revealed [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] was in the works,…
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Twitter Was 2023's Best Movie Theater
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Whatever else you can say about X, previously known as [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], it’s never really boring. The 17-year-old social media site that we’ve stuck around with always has something going on; in the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], it can be either funny or so odd that you can’t help but laugh.

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Doctor Who's Holiday Time, the DCEU's Sendoff, and More Top Pop Culture News of the Week
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It’s the final week of 2023, but the news hasn’t stopped quite yet. As the year wound down, the io9 crew found time to look back on the year’s events, say goodbye (and possibly hello?) to some old friends, and return to some haunts we left behind. Check them out here!—James Whitbrook
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How Many of These Stupid-Hard Puzzles Can You Solve?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In 2023, I posed 23 challenges as part of the Gizmodo Monday Puzzle series. Some require a bit of math, and others a light familiarity with physics; but most can be solved through logic and creative thinking. For each of the following puzzles, I provide a link to the solution, but I suggest you resist the temptation…
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Spinner BT Hands-On: JBL's First Ever Turntable Is the Most Gen-Z Thing I've Used This Year
JBL recently did something somewhat out-of-the-box and experimental: launching its first-ever wireless turntable. It’s called the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and released it a couple of weeks ago, just in time for the holiday season.
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Bloody New Year Has All the Cheesy '80s Horror You Crave, and Then Some
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The title Bloody New Year feels overly obvious: surely, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in which [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. And while there’s a bit of that, this 1987 British release—also known as Horror Hotel and the far more spoiler-y Time Warp Terror—is also far, far weirder than…
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Star Wars Jedi: Survivor's Writers on Giving Cal a Scene-Stealing Counterpart
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Respawn’s Star Wars Jedi games are firmly embedded in the years before the original trilogy, and keep the focus on a core cast of wholly new heroes and villains. It’s what made [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] from earlier this year so excellent: the games take advantage of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] from the timeline and offer up…
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The Best Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy Streaming in January 2024
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Happy New Year! Let’s watch some movies. Welcome to io9's latest edition of the Nerd’s Watch, where we pare down the enormous lists of new films and television shows arriving on all your favorite streaming services into the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror titles we think you’ll like most. (And sometimes, just the ones…
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Honoring the Inspiring Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Luminaries Lost in 2023
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Every year, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to actors, directors, artists, composers, writers, creators, and other icons in the realms of horror, sci-fi, and fantasy that have passed. Let us celebrate their everlasting impact on genre together. Here are the luminaries whose work has impacted the lives of so many and will live…
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Toho Wants to Take Its Time Making Its Next Godzilla Movie
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Christina Chong teases an epic return to Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Robert Rodriguez could be bringing The Faculty back to life. Plus, get a look at Evil’s return and a glimpse of What If’s 1602-inspired episode. Spoilers, assemble!

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A SpaceX Booster Falls and Breaks, and More Science News of the Week
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Our top science stories this week include a physics experiment to turn light into matter, an update from NASA’s Juno mission (it’s about to make a close encounter with Jupiter’s moon Io), and a roundup of the best archaeological discoveries of 2023.
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Siri's Not Dead Yet, Jony Ive Comes Out of Hibernation, and More of the Biggest Tech News
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The sleepy week between Christmas and New Year’s is for hangouts and hangovers. That is unless you work at Apple. For the folks in Cupertino, this week was all about trying to get the Apple Watch unbanned and scrambling to find a new lead designer for the iPhone.
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See a Rover’s Day on Mars in 10 Seconds
What were you doing on November 8, 2023? I couldn’t say for myself, but I can tell you what NASA’s Curiosity rover was doing: sitting still on its 4,002nd day on Mars, taking snapshots of the Martian surface.

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Wonka's Surprisingly Sweet Box Office Helped Cure Warner's Aquaman Blues
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]We snickered [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 we scratched our heads once we saw [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—especially the parts revealing Hugh Grant’s Ooompa-Loompa character. But one should never doubt the power of chocolate... or a singing, dancing, Timothée Chalamet, because Wonka is a hit.
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Dry January Could Lower Your Cancer Risk
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]In case you need it, here’s another reason to go all-in on Dry January: Scientists with the World Health Organization found that reducing or eliminating alcohol consumption can lower your risk of oral and related cancers. The findings are the latest to indicate that even modest drinking isn’t harmless.
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Citi Bike Rings in the New Year With a Price Hike
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]New York City and New Jersey residents who are already exasperated by periodic increases in MTA subway fares are going to lack even more options for cheap public transit. Out of the blue on Thursday, Citi Bike suddenly [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] its bike share program was raising prices across the board, impacting annual paying…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Jensen Huang was BFFs with everyone in Silicon Valley this year, becoming the only person to walk across all three conference stages of Microsoft, Amazon, and Google. Why? Because everyone needs his GPUs to power their AI dreams.

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Pokémon Concierge Delivers a Chill, Feel-Good Hour of Cuteness
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Pokémon fans of all ages will delight in the island vacation vibes of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and wish it was a real place after binge-watching the series on Netflix. The stop-motion animated show is a gem that makes the world of Pokémon feel even more magical with funny and heartfelt mini-stories. The colors and textures…
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Ayaneo Mini PC Hands-On: A Fist-Sized Macintosh-Like That's as Cute as It Is Mundane
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Normally, I wouldn’t care what my mini PC looks like. Why would I? It’s just the box I stick next to my monitor for on-the-go computing needs. It doesn’t need all the flashing lights and LEDs of an ultimate gaming rig, it just needs to function. At least, that’s how I originally felt about your average NUC. Then I…
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The Last of Us Was the Most-Pirated Show of 2023
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Piracy is [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in the entertainment industry, no matter how much studios try to fight it—and in an age where the streaming industry is feeling [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] like cable television [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—it’s going to remain that way for the foreseeable future. But that doesn’t mean it’s not interesting to see what…
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Rebel Moon's Ed Skrein on Co-Starring With His Game of Thrones Replacement
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Fans of Game of Thrones will remember that a key character, hunky sellsword Daario Naharis, looked rather different in season four after debuting in [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—and now the two actors who played him, Ed Skrein and Michiel Huisman, are sharing the screen in [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
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Physicists Hunt Dark Photons as Large Hadron Collider Gets More Powerful
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Scientists working on CERN’s Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment have [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] the latest data in their search for a long-lived exotic particle known as the dark photon.
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Everything Big Tech Killed Off in 2023
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Big Tech went on a murder spree in 2023. We saw the end of many once-loved products and services, all swallowed up into the great dark pit of corporate consolidation. Few companies kept their knives sheathed, and if this year taught us anything, 2024 is likely to be just as bloody.

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The Best Movies You May Have Missed in 2023, and Where to Stream Them
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]No one can see [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] out in a year. Heck, no one can even see [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in a year. These days, even if it’s literally your job, so many movies come out from all across the world, and on so many different platforms, that even if you spent all day [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] you’d…
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Wegovy and Other New Weight Loss Drugs Actually Work—so What's Next?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Few prescription drugs have entered the public consciousness as abruptly as Ozempic and Wegovy have in recent years. Novo Nordisk’s brand-name medications have become as synonymous with weight loss as Viagra and Cialis are with erectile dysfunction. But while 2023 has made it clear that these and similar drugs really…
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Let’s Eat a Chocolate Xbox Controller
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Russell T. Davies Teases One of Doctor Who's New Mysteries
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Bendy and the Ink Machine is headed to the big screen. Pixar’s Jay Ward teases the future of Cars. Could the Quantum Leap revival actually give Ben his happy ending? Plus, get a look at the car-themed heroes of the next Super Sentai series. Spoilers now!

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Researchers Uncover the ‘Most Sophisticated’ iPhone Exploit Ever
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]What happens when you hack a cybersecurity researcher? Kaspersky, a Moscow-based security firm, presented new details regarding zero-day vulnerabilities in Apple products on Wednesday. Kaspersky researchers are calling this the most sophisticated attack they’ve ever seen, exposing a previously unknown hardware…
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Now’s the Time to Buy the Apple Watch Series 9 Before It Gets Banned Again
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Everybody seems to have taken a bite out of Apple as of late, but the company was finally offered a lifeline on Wednesday after the U.S. Court of Appeals granted a stay of the ongoing Apple Watch import ban. This will last for at least the next week or so as Apple continues its appeal of the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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The New York Times Asks Court to Destroy ChatGPT
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The New York Times [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement on Wednesday, asking that ChatGPT be destroyed, along with any other large language models and training sets that have used The Times’ work without payment.
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Zack Snyder Discusses the Vast Universe of His Netflix Sci-Fi Epic, Rebel Moon
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Zack Snyder knows what he’s doing. Whether it’s using his considerable popularity [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], or focusing on every single piece of minutia in a movie, the filmmaker is completely aware. So, of course, when it comes to his[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], he more than anyone knows when he’s referencing the sci-fi…
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The Dumbest AI Moments of 2023
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]AI’s effect on our world will be dramatic, but nothing will ever be as dramatic as the collective freak-out we all had about the emerging technology in 2023. With billions of dollars on the table and the promise that AI will transform every corner of modern life, everyone from businesses, to regulators, to regular…
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Man Gets Eye Exam, Learns He's Had a Splinter Stuck in His Cornea for 15 Years
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Talk about an eyesore. In a case report this month, doctors have described finding a wooden splinter lodged inside a man’s cornea for apparently 15 years. Amazingly, the man’s vision appears unaffected by the foreign object and doctors have opted to simply monitor him for now rather than try to remove it.
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The Best Places to See Fossils in the United States
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Into fossils? Taking a road trip across the country and looking for a side quest? Perhaps you’re just looking for an escape from modernity writ large. Well, these are the places for you. More than 320 dinosaur species have been named in the United States and most of the states have produced at least one dinosaur…
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io9's Favorite Rewatches (and Replays and Re-Reads) of 2023
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Sometimes, you need a little comfort food—and at io9, that can mean “re-watching [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]” or “guzzling midnight margaritas while watching [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]” or “picking up a book and rediscovering [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].” We love new releases, don’t get us wrong, but we also dig revisiting past…
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Apple's 12 Most Embarrassing Product Failures
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Apple is one of the most globally respected technology companies, having built its reputation on creating reliable, high-end products with innovative features. The Cupertino tech giant has such an impressive track record that its next project—whether that be an [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] or something else entirely —is already assumed…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI organized in Nevada as a for-profit benefit corporation, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] reported on Tuesday. The company behind the Grok chatbot is the latest AI startup to give itself an unusual corporate structure that, on paper, prioritizes the public good alongside its profits,…
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Sorry Elon: Chinese Company Overtakes Tesla as Most Popular Electric Carmaker
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Christopher Nolan Has High Praise for Zack Snyder
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Director Zack Snyder is famous not just [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], but also for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. And while most of Snyder’s fans vocalize that on social media, one of the biggest did so via traditonal media. His name is Christopher Nolan.
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Zack Snyder's Sci-Fi Epic Rebel Moon Scores Big for Netflix
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is used to topping the box office, but his latest release has conquered a different playing field. While [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] had a limited theatrical release before its arrival on [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], his newest, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], went straight to the streamer, and seems to be reaping the…
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Being a Hypochondriac Might Help Send You to an Early Grave, Study Suggests
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Being overly worried about getting sick may, actually, help send you to an early grave, new research out this month suggests. The study found that people diagnosed with hypochondriasis were noticeably more likely to die during the study period than those without it. An increased risk was seen across both natural and…
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Iconic SpaceX Booster Falls and Breaks in the Ocean
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A Falcon 9 first-stage booster broke apart after completing its 19th mission, tipping over on the floating droneship in the Atlantic Ocean due to high winds.
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One of the Doctor Who Christmas Special's Best Scenes Was a Disney Suggestion
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]When the BBC announced that it was [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to bring Doctor Who to its international streaming audience under the show’s latest era, there was some bristling that the House of Mouse would have [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], rather than simply financial involvement. But speaking on [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] influence on…
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Anal Bead Cheating Scandal Returns, This Time with Chinese Chess
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Just when I thought I was out, the anal beads pull me back in. Months after the drama between world chess champion Magnus Carlson and young prodigy Hans Niemann [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], the internet isn’t willing to let go of the idea that board game experts can cheat with the aid of vibrating sex toys…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]To celebrate Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary last year, the BBC made a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]: for the first time, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] of Doctor Who, from episodes from 1963 all the way up to the then-airing anniversary specials, would be made available to stream in the UK in one place, on the BBC’s own streaming…
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Patrick Stewart Agrees His Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Cameo Was Truly Awkward
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Of all [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] might be the one that most made us wonder “wait... what just happened?” Patrick Stewart, Professor X himself, brought the X-Men into the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Sam Raimi’s 2022 sequel, but filming his cameo…
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Is Netflix’s Daredevil Canon to Echo?
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Scientists Lightly Zapped People’s Brains and Made Them Easier to Hypnotize
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Researchers at Stanford University say they’ve made the sort of discovery that you’d expect to see in a piece of science fiction. In a controlled and randomized trial published this week, they found evidence that people can be made more susceptible to hypnosis with just two short sessions of non-invasive brain…
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OpenAI’s Plan to Give Everyone Custom Chatbots Drops Next Week
[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 marketplace of customizable versions of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], is launching next week according to an email OpenAI sent to developers on Thursday, first reported by [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. The GPT Store is part of CEO Sam Altman’s plan to give everyone AI agents that are useful and is OpenAI’s vision for the future.
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Pokémon Concierge's Psyduck Is for the Millennial Pokémon Fans
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] thrives on a generational crossover that has made it one of the most popular and endearing franchises in the world—from those of us who trod through the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] as kids, to new generations who hopped on board in [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], there’s a connection that transcends years. But as an older…
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The Author of Ready Player One Has Launched His Own Torment Nexus
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Ernest Cline, the bestselling author of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], apparently never learned the lesson of his own book. The novelist—whose [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] depicts a dystopian world in which people forego societal engagement for the illusory pleasures of a Matrix-like video game world—has decided to launch his own “metaverse”…
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Night Swim Treads Water But Ultimately Sinks
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Night Swim is, undoubtedly, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. If you want to see a movie about a pool trying to kill a whole lot of people, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Beyond that though, it’s hard to pinpoint what exactly the movie wants to be. It’s not quite scary, but it can be kind of tense. It’s not cheesy, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Wait, Is Bitcoin Going to Die?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The price of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] crashed nearly [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], falling from $45,000 to below $41,000 in mere hours, hurting crypto’s best bull run in a year. But what, or who, could have been the culprit behind the crash? The day before, CNBC’s host of Mad Money, Jim Cramer, directed his powerful investing advice towards…
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The Year Ahead in TV
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Sabina Graves covers genre television for Gizmodo, with a focus on inclusion in front of and behind the camera. You can follow her coverage [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and email story ideas and tips to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Swarming Robots, DNA, and Bitcoin: The Wild List of Stuff Heading to the Moon Next Week
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander is slated to blast off on Monday, January 8, carrying an assortment of goodies, including cutting-edge scientific rovers, bitcoin, and a piece of Mount Everest. No doubt, this ain’t your grandfather’s Moon mission, as the era of commercial space deliveries is now upon us.

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LIGHTSPEED Presents: 'A Saint Between the Teeth' by Sloane Leong
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]io9 is proud to present fiction from [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Once a month, we feature a story from LIGHTSPEED’s current issue. This month’s selection is “A Saint Between the Teeth” by Sloane Leong. You can read the story below or [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on LIGHTSPEED’s website. Enjoy!

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iPhone Finally Gets Buttons With This Handy Keyboard Case. Just Don't Call It a BlackBerry
If you’re one of those folks still grumbling about the lack of a physical keyboard on iPhones 17 years after Apple released its first smartphone, Clicks might have a solution so long as you have deep pockets. The company’s new $139 creator keyboard straps onto your iPhone and turns it into an [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]-like…
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NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX Brushes the Sun on Its Way to New Asteroid Target
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]New mission, who dis? The spacecraft formerly known as OSIRIS-REx had an impromptu close encounter with the Sun as it follows a newly crafted route to a second asteroid, using one of its solar arrays for shade.
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Rebel Moon Goes Apocalyptic Chic at Forever 21 in Its Weirdest Crossover Yet
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The sci-fi fantasy universe [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] unleashed in [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] has inspired a new collaboration between [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and fashion brand Forever 21. Today the marks the launch of the limited-edition Forever 21 x Rebel Moon collection, with looks that jump right off the screen and into your…
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We'll Get to See NASA's Sonic Boom-Less Supersonic Plane Next Week
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]NASA’s supersonic experimental plane—the linchpin of the agency’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—is set to roll out of its warehouse in the California desert next week. We’re gassed for the big moment: the X-59 has been in development for six years, and, if successful, it will demonstrate supersonic flight without sonic booms.
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Researchers Say There’s a 5% Chance That AI Will Cause Human Extinction
[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...] says there’s a 5% chance that AI will become uncontrollable and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. In the short term, researchers estimate AI will become significantly more advanced, able to create a Top 40 pop song and write an NYT bestseller before 2030. So at least our AI overlords will…
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FDA Investigating Whether Wegovy and Similar Drugs Can Cause Hair Loss, Suicidal Thoughts
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Wegovy and similar weight loss drugs may cause more side effects than currently recognized. The Food and Drug Administration is now looking into whether these new generation obesity drugs can trigger hair loss, suicide ideation, and food aspiration, based on adverse event reports linked to their use. These reports are…
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Feds Claim SpaceX Illegally Fired Employees Over Criticism of Elon Musk
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Elon Musk’s private space venture is facing yet another unlawful labor practice accusation, this time for allegedly firing employees who were critical of the controversial SpaceX CEO.
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John Ridley Boldly Proclaims His Scrapped Marvel TV Show Was 'Eternals But Good'
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]There are almost as many Marvel what ifs (not that one) as there are Marvel projects out there these days, but one of the most fascinating could’ve-beens is one of the MCU’s oldest: [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] from [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. It never materialized after its announcement, but now the scribe has lift the lid…
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Could a New Doctor Who Spinoff Already Be in the Works?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Todd McFarlane says that 2024 is the make-or-break year for his Spawn movie. Out first look at David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds is here. Plus, Vincent D’Onofrio teases Kingpin’s portrayal in Echo. Spoilers get!

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[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...], “All toasters toast toast.” Well, sure enough, they… don’t, but some non-toaster devices could be well adapted to aid me with making a quick BLT. Now Microsoft, in all its wisdom, has decided to take its [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] design and finally add a slot on top—not for discs—but for bread. Why turn a…
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Yes, Some New Windows Keyboards Are Getting a ‘Copilot Key' to Quick-Access AI
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Microsoft’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] has PC makers dancing along to the siren song of big tech’s new big obsession. Along with the newly-announced [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], there’s one small tidbit of information that isn’t nearly as engrossing but could prove to be Microsoft and the largest PC maker’s push to…
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Google Just Disabled Cookies for 30 Million Chrome Users. Here’s How to Tell If You’re One of Them.
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Today marks the first of many upcoming moments of silence in [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. As of this morning, the Chrome web browser disabled cookies for 1% of its users, about 30 million people. By the end of the year, cookies [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—sort of.
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Dell's Is Betting Big on AI With Its New XPS Laptops
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Remember the Dell [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] released at CES last year that we weren’t the biggest fans of? Dell just released a revamped version of that, called the XPS 13, along with two new XPS size variants, the XPS 14 and the XPS 16. All of these are, you guessed it, AI PCs.

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23andMe to Data Breach Victims: It's Your Fault!
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]What happens when a company loses a bunch of user data? Typically, they apologize and sheepishly beg for forgiveness. Not so with 23andMe. The popular genomics company, which suffered a [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] last year, has instead opted to tell pissed off customers that they probably should’ve picked a better…
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The Culture War Is Already Coming for Star Wars' Rey Movie
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Somehow toxic fandom has returned and at the mere mention of Star Wars and women, no less. Nonsensical virulent misogynistic notions abound as Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy and the director of the studios’ upcoming [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy have found themselves in the crosshairs of troll pundits and anti-woke…
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2024 Is a Hell of a Year in Star Trek History
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The year 2024 is shaping up to be solid for Star Trek in our own reality—we’ve got the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], work is underway on [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], and we’ve got the future of Strange New Worlds, Prodigy, and Lower Decks to look towards (and [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]?). But in Star Trek itself, this year…
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Twitch Is Being Weird About Nudity Again
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Are you naked under that censor bar? Well, Twitch might not let you stream. A [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] posted on Wednesday clarifies that Twitch will not allow suggested nudity adding to the platform’s ever-growing [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] for exactly how your body needs to be covered while streaming.
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1.75-Billion-Year-Old Fossils Are Oldest Record of Oxygenic Photosynthesis
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The story of life on Earth can’t be told without photosynthesis, the process by which plants (and some other lifeforms) convert sunlight into chemical energy. Now, a team of researchers has announced the discovery of fossilized photosynthetic structures—the oldest yet known—from a staggering 1.75 billion years ago.

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Roku Claims New Pro Series 4K TVs Will Optimize Your Settings With AI
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Roku doesn’t want you to consider it the “budget” TV brand you find at all-you-can-shop brick-and-mortar stores like Wal-Mart or Target. The company wants a piece of that premium TV pie, even as it already reigns as the top TV streaming platform for the U.S. and Canada. The company has [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] its plans to expand…
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Starbucks App Traps Users in ‘Vicious Cycle’ of Shaken Espresso, Says Consumer Advocate
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A consumer protection group alleged Starbucks’ mobile app traps users in a vicious cycle of beverage buying in a December [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to Washington’s Attorney General. The coffee chain’s mobile app allegedly uses “dark patterns” to make low funds on a Starbucks Card unusable, forcing you to add $10 or lose that money…
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The Year Ahead in Animation
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Justin Carter is a weekend editor that covers entertainment for the io9 section on Gizmodo. He lives in Kansas City, Missouri, and you can follow his coverage [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Story ideas and tips can be sent to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...].
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Buckle Up: Driverless Cars Can’t Get Traffic Tickets In California
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Last year, California gave autonomous vehicle companies [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on the streets of San Francisco. Almost immediately, the cars demonstrated they weren’t ready for the road. The taxis caused traffic jams, drove around in bizarre unpredictable patterns, and in at least…
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Urine Luck Because Scientists Figured Out Why Pee Is Yellow
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Scientists say they’ve finally answered an age-old question: Just why is our pee yellow? In new research, a team found the enzyme produced by gut bacteria that plays a major role in turning our urine mellow. Curiosity aside, the discovery may actually help scientists better understand the gut microbiome and how it can…
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The Only Version of Return of the King Worth Watching Missing From Max After Streaming Bug [Updated]
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Bad news for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] who’ve made re-watching [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] extended editions an annual New Year tradition: the third film in the trilogy, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—is only available to stream in its theatrical version.
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ULA's Vulcan Centaur Rocket Set to Launch Monday, a Challenge to SpaceX
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]On Monday, January 8, United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur could finally perform its first flight. ULA has been a rock in the spaceflight industry since its founding in 2006, and with this pending launch, the company is ready to take its next bold step into space. Here’s what you should know about America’s latest…
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How Echo Deals With Hawkeye, Daredevil, and Kingpin
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] the new [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is that it was designed to be enjoyed without having watched other shows and movies from Marvel Studios. There are connections, of course, but the first episode of the show in particular has some [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] while also doing something other…
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The Quadrantids: How to See Hundreds of Shooting Stars Tonight
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Meteor lovers, rejoice. The year’s first big shower is upon us. Here’s everything you need to know if you want to catch a glimpse of these fireballs.

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Samsung's New Robot Vacuum Is Scarily Intelligent
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Robot vacuums have always used sensors to detect furniture and identify your spaces, but of course, you’d expect one coming out in 2024 to be significantly more intelligent. In the era of AI-powered everything, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] the Bespoke Jet Bot Combo, a smart vacuum/mop/steamer robot that knows when it needs…
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First Trailer for The First Omen Holds Devilish Promise
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]SpaceX is gearing up to test its Starlink satellites’ ability to connect directly to cellphones in the U.S., launching the first six satellites under a temporary license with the hopes to expand its connectivity reach beyond that of traditional cell signals.
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BBC Responds to Anti-Trans Doctor Who Complaints: Lol, Lmao, Etc.
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Doctor Who viewers are willing to accept a lot of things—[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], farting skinsuit aliens, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] with Christmas number 1 ambitions, the existence of travel in time and space in general. But some of them just couldn’t deal with a singular trans character appearing in recent episodes. To…
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Microsoft’s ‘AI Browser’ Edge Is a Precursor to the ‘AI’-ification of Everything
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Microsoft is trying to rebrand its Edge internet browser. No longer should its name remind you that its icon shortcut sits alone and forgotten at the edge of your Windows desktop. Now Microsoft is trying to claim Edge is on the cutting edge of AI. The Redmond tech giant has started calling its native internet explorer…
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Jack Black Adds Minecraft To His List of Video Game Movie Roles
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Adam Wingard teases some major Kaiju easter eggs in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. The cast of Madame Web look forward to this, the year of Madame Web. The First Omen teases its deadly delights. Don Lee goes hunting in the apocalypse in a new Netflix series. Plus, Echo squares off against Daredevil in a new clip.…
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GE Profile's New Indoor Smoker Lets You Barbecue Inside Your House, Minus All That Pesky Smoke
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]GE Profile’s new indoor smoker will let you enjoy the pleasures of having a smoker in your kitchen instead without all the fuss of owning an outdoor smoker.
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Steven Yeun Drops Out of Marvel's Thunderbolts
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]What you’ve heard is true: The Walking Dead alum [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is no longer in the cast for Marvel’s upcoming Thunderbolts movie.

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Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked 2024 Will Hopefully Reveal the Galaxy S24's New AI Chatbot
After the dopamine hit of CES 2024 wears off, we’ll need something else to carry us through the first month of the new year. Fortunately, we’ll have Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked to look forward to. The company has officially announced its next flagship smartphone series will be revealed on Wednesday, Jan. 17, at the SAP…
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Steamboat Willie Horror Game Devs Swear They're Not Making Neo-Nazi References
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A decade ago, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] was “move fast and break things.” There is now an important, wordy update to that motto as a holistic piece of advice: move fast on exploiting [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and... don’t maybe do some anti-Semitism along the way?
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13-Year-Old Becomes First Person to Beat Tetris on NES
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Classic puzzle game Tetris has been around for over three decades, and in that time, plenty of people have[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], usually by[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] like a digital demolitioner. That’s a challenge in and of itself, but now, someone has taken the concept of “beating Tetris” to the…
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Montana and North Carolina Lawmakers Just Came for Pornhub, So Now You Can’t
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]After months of edging, Montana and North Carolina lawmakers have finished off Pornhub. Users in those states lost access to the adult site on Jan. 1 as new laws require people to verify their age to watch porn. That would have meant uploading a picture of your ID before you watch sorority sisters figure out how to…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Say it with me, “The Claw.” What does that name evoke? Saturday morning cartoons? Timeless Pixar classics? PC maker MSI hopes you’ll start to instead think about gaming, as it’s the latest company to offer up its version of a Steam Deck, and this one indeed shares quite a few similarities to Valve’s original handheld…
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Asus Says One Laptop Screen Is Good, but Two Is Even Better
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Alienware's New M16 Gaming Laptop Now Has Less Junk in the Trunk
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Alienware’s laptops have, for a long time, been a bit on the big side. That’s especially true in one particular dimension we’ll be gentle and refer to as the M-series laptop brand’s “posterior.” Alienware returned to the drawing board and redesigned the m16 so it’s smaller thanks to its contracted rear and makes some…
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Alienware's Latest QD-OLED Gaming Monitor Is a Real Curveball With 4K at 240Hz
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Hz wars have come, and Alienware is beaming down from its spaceship to put its own foot into the refresh rate arena with a pair of large, frankly beautiful-looking displays that pack a wallop in the QD-OLED gaming monitor scene. Boy, howdy, that curved 32-inch, 4K QD-OLED monitor is a real doozy.
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I Can't Stop Thinking About Lenovo's Hybrid Windows and Android Laptop
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]I’m a sucker for a 2-in-1, and doubly so if it’s featuring the two operating systems I rely on daily. Lenovo has announced its laptop lineup for the year in tandem with CES 2024. The upcoming refreshes include updates to its gaming and work laptops and the ThinkBook series, including the ThinkBook Plus Gen 5 Hybrid,…
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This QD-OLED Alienware Monitor is a Real Curveball
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XReal Believes Its $700 AR Glasses Can Top the Apple Vision Pro
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]XReal just revealed its Air 2 Ultra AR Glasses and seems pretty confident about them being the perfect alternative to the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Unlike Apple’s painfully expensive $3500 spatial computer headset, the Air 2 Ultra will just set you back $700. They’re also quite decent-looking thanks to a titanium ring frame…
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The Most (and Least) Likely Eligible Genre Films to Be Nominated for Best Picture
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Awards season [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] the world, but for most movie fans, one award matters more than all the others: the Oscar. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] are voted on by the people who work on them, from actors and directors to costume designers and set builders. It’s widely considered to be the most prestigious and…
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Waymo’s 70-MPH Robot Roadrunners Hit Desert Highways This Month
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]If you’re driving on the freeway around Phoenix anytime soon, keep your eyes peeled for a car driving itself. Waymo will start testing its autonomous vehicles on Arizona highways this month, the company [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Monday. The driverless robotaxi service, from the same parent company as Google, is branching out from…
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Future Moon-Orbiting Space Station Takes Shape With New Airlock Plans
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is contributing to the lunar outpost that will be built around the Moon, building the Gateway’s airlock module in a sign that the gulf country will be more involved in NASA’s Artemis program.
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CES 2024: All the Latest News From Las Vegas
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CES 2024 is here, and tech companies worldwide are showcasing all upcoming tech products for this year and beyond. There’s going to be a lot of cool stuff coming out of the show, but don’t worry; we will be your useful guides on this tech-filled journey.

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Historic Moon Mission Is Falling Apart After ‘Critical’ Fuel Loss
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A mission to land a private U.S. lander on the Moon, and the first U.S. lander since the Apollo era, looks to be ending before it even had a chance to get started.
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Dumbest Google Result of the Week: ‘JFK Death Penalty’ Brings Up Some Kid’s Middle School Essay
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]“JFK was an interesting man.” At least, that’s the first thing you read if you follow the top Search result for variations of “Did JFK support the death penalty?” Google turns up 7.5 million results, but for some reason, it starts you off with a Google Doc that appears to be a middle schooler’s homework assignment.
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Galaxy's Most Deadbeat Son Mark Hamill Has Finally Met His Star Wars Mom
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iPhone Survives 16,000-Foot Drop From Alaska Airlines Plane That Blew Apart Mid-Air
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Mickey Mouse Horror Movie Makers Are as Cynical as You'd Expect
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Jeff Bezos Is Betting This AI Startup Will Dethrone Google in Search
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Google has been the dominant search engine since the early 2000s, but Jeff Bezos is betting that AI will change the way people find information on the internet. Bezos [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in Perplexity AI last week, a startup that hopes to revolutionize search with AI-generated answers and make Google a thing of the past.
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LG Just Announced a Fully Transparent TV
LG announced a new transparent TV at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. Gizmodo’s staff got to check it out in person, and it’s gorgeous. LG claims this is the world’s first wireless transparent OLED TV and is calling it the Signature OLED T (T for transparent).

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A Wounded Shark Regenerated Its Torn-Up Dorsal Fin, Photos Show
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]A silky shark with a chunk taken out of its dorsal fin regrew much of its lost appendage, according to photographs taken of the fish nearly a year apart. Research describing the elasmobranch’s recovery is [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in the Journal of Marine Sciences.

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Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse Will See Miles Tackling His Multiverse of Problems
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Miles Morales has [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to work out by the end of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. First and foremost, he’s gotta figure out how to get off Earth-42, where he’s been captured by an alternate version of himself as the Prowler. Then, he’s gotta deal with the revelation that his origin was the…
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Private Moon Lander Peregrine Is Already in Big Trouble [Update]
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Update: 2:07 p.m. ET: A fourth update from Astrobotic, issued around 1:00 p.m. ET, is exceptionally discouraging. “Unfortunately, it appears the failure within the propulsion system is causing a critical loss of propellant,” the company [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] on X. “The team is working to try and stabilize this loss, but given the…
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Magic: The Gathering Posts, Defends, and Then Backtracks From Obviously AI Art
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We Now Know When You Can Finally Throw Down $3,500 for Apple's Vision Pro
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]If you have several thousand dollars burning an Apple-shaped hole in your pocket, then get your eyes ready and shave your head for good measure because Apple’s long-time coming “spatial computer,” [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], will finally make its way into Apple fans’ hands Feb 2. The Cupertino company [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Monday that you’ll find…
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Elon Musk Denies He Has a Drug Problem After Bombshell Report
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Elon Musk [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] with Joe Rogan. There are numerous stories about the billionaire taking drugs including cocaine, LSD, psychedelic mushrooms at parties all over the globe. He’s discussed using ketamine with a prescription, but there are anecdotes that Musk took the drug recreationally with his brother…
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The Marvels Heads Home Starting Next Week
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]It seems like not as many people took the chance to see [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in theaters as Disney and Marvel may have liked, given how the studio quietly stopped publicly [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and then very publicly decided on who it [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. But now, people will get a chance to see what Carol, Monica, and…
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Apple Sends Out $92 Payments to Users Whose iPhones Were Slowed Down
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Over the weekend, Apple users finally began receiving their piece of the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] settlement in the form of $92 payments, as first reported by [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. Apple admitted to slowing down old iPhones back in 2017 without notifying users, saying it was part of delivering “[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]”
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ULA's Vulcan Centaur Rocket Makes Debut by Launching First US Lunar Lander Since Apollo
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Update: January 8, 10:41 a.m. ET: Vulcan Centaur took off right on schedule, successfully blasting off from the Cape Canaveral launch pad and delivering Peregrine on its historic mission to the Moon.
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Updates From Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2, Godzilla x Kong, and More
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Emma Stone offers a vague Cruella 2 update. Get a look at Ghosts’ return. Echo prepares for a showdown with the Kingpin. Plus, what’s coming on For All Mankind, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, and more. Spoilers get!

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HP Omen Transcend 14 Is a Darned Cute Gaming Laptop That Packs a Wallop
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]I don’t usually opt for white tech, mostly because I have the nasty tendency to stick my expensive stuff where it’s dustiest. But HP’s new Omen Transcend 14 and 16 gaming laptop might push me over the edge. Its bright-as-hell rainbow LED keyboard does something for me against that pearly white scheme, but ignore the…
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Trend of the Week: Silicon Valley Has the Woke Mind Virus on the Brain
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]This week in trends, Big Tech bros could not stop talking about the woke mind virus. Many Silicon Valley leaders crowed that the ousting of Harvard’s President was the beginning of the end for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts, which they described as “immoral” and “illegal.”
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Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: Do You Really Understand How Calendars Work?
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]‘Tis the season for New Year’s resolutions. As we all sign up for gym memberships or invest in a Peloton that will just gather dust by March, I resolve to work out your brain this year. January 1, 2024 is a Monday. So what day was January 1 last year? Because of the regularities in how we slice and organize time, you…
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Unisteller's Latest Telescopes Make Stargazing as Easy as Flipping Through Your Phone
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The winter nights may be long, but they don’t have to be dull, even for folks with small apartments who don’t have room for an extra big telescope. Unistellar’s latest telescope, the Odyssey, is half the size and less than half the weight of the company’s last big release from 2023. However, with a few taps on your…
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Ke Huy Quan Gets Back in the Action Game with With Love
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Todd McFarlane's Ready to Make the Spawn Movie If Hollywood Won't
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Every other year or so, Todd McFarlane has promised that no, really, the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] totally [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]! And each time, it’s started to feel less and less like a sure thing, even as Hollywood’s been more than willing get adaptations for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] to the big or small screen in a timelier manner.

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The Last of Us Gathers Multiple Wins at Creative Emmy Awards
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Last night saw the Creative Arts Emmy Awards show, during which [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] came away the breadwinner with eight wins under its belt.
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Julia Garner Joins Leigh Whannell's Mysterious Wolf Man Reboot
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The path to [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and Blumhouse’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—known here as Wolf Man—has been slow going. But on Friday, the movie added a new star to its cast in Ozark’s Julia Garner.
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The Moon Is About to Become a Graveyard
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]An upcoming launch will usher in a new era of commercial payloads being dropped off to deep space destinations like the Moon. As we gain greater access to space, things are going to start getting weird.

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What's in my Backpack: CES 2024 Edition
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Every year I attend [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], I often regret leaving something behind. The thing is, I’m not a heavy packer; I’ve been at this work travel game long enough that I figured out how to fit a week’s worth of clothing, amenities, and comforts in a suitcase that fits in the overhead bin. But I need a ton of stuff to make the six…
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Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis is Finally Coming Out
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Nearly five years ago, acclaimed filmmaker [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] talked about his plans to finally create a movie he’s had cooking in his head since the ‘80s. He even tried to make it during the early 2000s, but 9/11 made that impossible, since he felt it would be in bad taste. But twenty years later, he’s finally made [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Midnight Suns Is Marvel Messiness Worth Coming Back To
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Firaxis and 2K’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] was one of my favorite games of 2022, but it ended up falling by the wayside in 2023. Amid a deluge of great games and an busy year, it was hard to carve time out for the tactical RPG. But as 2023 wound down and with 2024 just days into being, I’ve [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] and…
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[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Dreamworks’ live-action remake of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] has added an old new face to its cast. [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], who voiced the viking chief Stoick the Brave across the animated films, will reprise his role as the remake’s flesh-and-blood version.

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NASA's Quiet Supersonic Plane Preps for Flight and More Top Science News of the Week
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]NASA’s supersonic experimental plane—the linchpin of the agency’s [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—is set to roll out of its warehouse in the California desert next week. We’re gassed for the big moment: the X-59 has been in development for six years, and, if successful, it will demonstrate supersonic flight without sonic booms. -…
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Arcane's Newest Teaser Introduces a Furry Foe
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Star Wars Drama, Doctor Who Complaints, and 2024 Previews in the Culture News of the Week
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The first week of 2024 is over, and we celebrated by looking ahead—with what to read, what to watch, and what Lego to buy, of course, as well as a celebrating just how weird 2024 is in Star Trek’s timeline. There’s all that, Doctor Who continuing to ride its current high, and what to expect out of a public domain…
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The Little 4K Projector That Could, an Actual Xbox Toaster, and More Product News of the Week
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]As the Consumer Tech team prepares to head to Las Vegas for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] next week, we cannot stop thinking about LG’s adorable 4K projector while also wondering what an Xbox-inspired BLT would taste like. Oh, and we also rounded up the top product stories of the week.
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