Gods will be killed on Prime Video. That’s where Kratos and Atreus, the stars of the popular God of War video game franchise, will soon hang their weapons as Sony and Amazon have announced a live-action TV show based on the series is on the way. The news was first teased back in March but now it’s official.

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7 Things We Learned From NASA’s Wildly Successful Artemis 1 Mission
NASA’s Artemis 1 mission concluded with Orion’s immaculate splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday. Seemingly a billion years—and most assuredly a few billion dollars—in the making, the mission ended far too quickly for space junkies like me. But in those short few weeks, it managed to nail all its primary…
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There Were 15 Million Excess Deaths Worldwide in First 2 Years of Pandemic, WHO Estimates
The covid-19 pandemic caused far more death and destruction in its first two years than official numbers indicate, a new study from the World Health Organization has found. The authors estimate that there were about 15 million excess deaths linked to the pandemic in 2020 and 2021, with a likely majority of these…
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Russian Trolls Are Using Under-Moderated Right-Wing Sites Like Truth Social to Post Manipulating Content
New research finds Russian groups targeted former President Donald Trump’s social media platform Truth Social during the 2022 midterm elections. The report, conducted by the Stanford Internet Observatory and Graphika, found that Russian groups have moved on from Facebook and Twitter, where they are largely blocked, to…
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Why Google Isn’t Rushing Forward With AI Chatbots
The success this year of powerful new generative artificial intelligence models like Open AI’s ChatGPT and Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion, have laid the groundwork for a new era of AI tech set to explode even further in 2023. Google, though equipped with its own powerful (but definitely not sentient) LaMDA AI chatbot…
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Scream VI Heads to the Big City in Its First Teaser
Fun fact: The Ghostface mask, best known as the headwear of whoever decided to kill people in the various Scream movies, was created several years before the first Scream debuted in 1996. So it’s entirely plausible that a multitude of people on a subway car would be wearing Ghostface masks on what I have to assume is…
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YouTube Will Tell You if You're Being Too Mean in Comments
YouTube wants you to stop being mean. As YouTube comments continue to serve as a place to harbor negativity and bad tempers, the platform is rolling out a way to let you know if your comment is too rude.

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Space Man Adam Driver Fights Dinosaurs—That's It, That's the Movie
I have never been more quickly sold on anything in my life than watching Adam Driver pick up a sci-fi assault rifle, pointing it at a T.Rex, and opening fire.

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Jack Dorsey Takes the Blame for Even Building Twitter's Moderation Tools
Twitter co-founder and ex-CEO Jack Dorsey has not had it easy the past few weeks. After being hounded on the internet by mobs of Elon Musk fans wanting his blood for what’s been presented in the so-called “Twitter Files,” Dorsey finally came out late Tuesday not to apologize for banning former President Donald Trump,…
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Updates From Deadpool 3, The Flash's Final Season, and More
Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania producer Stephen Broussard teases the stakes of the film. Warrior Nun is no more at Netflix. Plus, you’ll be waiting a while for Marvel to return to Echo. Spoilers get!

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Super Nintendo World Opens This February at Universal Studios Hollywood
Prepare to level up at Universal Studios Hollywood in 2023 with the opening of Super Nintendo World on February 17. The video game-inspired land finally makes its United States debut after the opening of the first Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan back in 2021, and in advance of the release of …
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Free Speech Warrior Elon Musk Bans Twitter Account That Tracked His Private Jet
Twitter has permanently banned @ElonJet, the popular bot account that tracked CEO Elon Musk’s plane, days after the account’s owner accused the social media platform of shadowbanning it.
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ChatGPT Wrote a Terrible Gizmodo Article
ChatGPT, the machine-learning fueled chatbot, has been widely acclaimed for its ability to interact with users and generate “human-like” text. Since its launch by OpenAI on Nov. 30, more than a million people have signed up to use the program, marveling at its talent for spinning up short stories, rap lyrics,…
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Smucker's Goes After Small Business Making Crustless Sandwiches for Trademark Infringement
J.M. Smucker Co. has issued a warning against a small business in Minnesota that’s selling peanut butter and jelly sandwiches without a crust, according to a new report from the Star Tribune. The food giant alleges a crustless sandwich called Gallant Tiger infringes on the trademark protections of its Uncrustables…
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Patty Jenkins Clears Up Wonder Woman 3 and Rogue Squadron Rumors
Patty Jenkins has been in the news a lot over the last few months. First with the removal of her Star Wars movie, Rogue Squadron, from Disney’s schedule, and then the even more shocking news that Wonder Woman 3 had been canceled by DC.
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Mega-Popular Board Game Gloomhaven Polymorphs Into an RPG
If you’re one of the nearly 5,000 backers of the 2017 smash-hit board game Gloomhaven—or one of the more than 83,000 backers of its sequel, Frosthaven—you should probably be aware that the tabletop board game is moving to, uh, a different table, I guess. Game designer Isaac Childres has announced Gloomhaven will soon…
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Bugs Bunny Finally Wins His First Emmy
The legendary figurehead of Looney Tunes, the one and only Bugs Bunny, just celebrated 80 years—and he’s just received his first Emmy. Bugs’ current voice performer, Filipino Canadian and proud animation fanboy Eric Bauza, won the Children’s and Family Emmy Award for “Outstanding Voice Performance in an Animated…
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More Spider-People Revealed in Across the Spider-Verse Concept Art
The latest trailer for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is jam-packed with Spider-People—but don’t worry, there are more. In addition to the awesome, emotional trailer for the highly anticipated sequel, Sony released a few concept images of other characters coming to the multiverse who are not in the trailer, and…
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Massive Winter Storm Sweeps Across the U.S.
A large winter storm hit the western U.S. this weekend and is expected to continue its icy tirade across the rest of the nation, bringing blizzards, tornadoes, and flooding along with it.

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This Oddly Polite Chatbot Will Fight With Comcast Support So You Don't Have To
If odd digital interpretations of classic movie posters and strangely sexual selfie photo collages on Instagram still haven’t convinced you of generative artificial intelligence’s merits, maybe saving a few bucks will. That’s part of the idea behind a new ChatGPT chatbot from the company DoNotPay, which it says can…
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From Liftoff to Splashdown: NASA Releases Supercut Video of Artemis 1 Highlights
After traveling more than 1.4 million miles (2.2 million kilometers) on a historic journey to the Moon and back, NASA’s Orion capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday following its near-perfect test flight.
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