Stephen Graham Jones Talks Comics, Cosplay, and Cons

Stephen Graham Jones, a bestselling horror author who has written incredible novels like The Only Good Indians and My Heart Is a Chainsaw, is back, and this time he’s part of something new. True Believers is Jones’ first comic, and he co-wrote it alongside Joshua Viola. The artis … | Continue reading


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Fortnite Influencers Push Shell’s Propaganda on Kids

The oil company Shell is facing some heat from climate activists for its collaboration with the influencers of the popular battle royale video game Fortnite, during which the game’s young user base was encouraged to participate in a gas-fueled virtual road trip.Read more... | Continue reading


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Lawsuit Alleges SpaceX Underpays Women and Minorities

In another discrimination accusation against SpaceX, the private space company is being sued by a former employee for alleged underpayment of women and minorities.Read more... | Continue reading


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The Time-Travel Slasher Film Totally Killer Is Exactly That

Totally Killer, a new Blumhouse film that hits Prime Video today, blends three of my favorite genres: time travel, horror, and whodunit. It’s about a teenager who travels back in time to stop a masked killer, teaming up with her teenage mom in the process, and it’s every bit as e … | Continue reading


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Take a Look Inside Isaki Uta's New Manga Anthology

Is Love The Answer? became the English-translated debut of Isaki Uta when it debuted earlier this year, a touching manga with a nuanced exploration of asexuality and aromanticism. But now Uta and Irorodori Comics are taking to crowdfunding to bring more of their work to English a … | Continue reading


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Glowing Mammals Are Really Common, Actually

Move over monotremes and the range of rodents known to glow: over one hundred other furry creatures do, too, new research shows, vastly increasing the number of mammals known to show the spooky trait.Read more... | Continue reading


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Wheel of Time's Busy Season Finale Managed to Elevate Its Best Character

The Wheel of Time, based on Robert Jordan’s popular novels, just wrapped up its second season. It has a more modest budget than Prime Video’s other big fantasy series—and less buzz than something like HBO’s House of the Dragon—but it consistently delivered juicy intrigue while ta … | Continue reading


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The World’s First Fully Reusable Rocket Gets a Name

Stoke Space’s goal to develop the world’s first fully reusable rocket just got a major boost, as a hefty new $100 million investment pushes the aerospace startup’s total funding to $175 million.Read more... | Continue reading


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Malaria Comes to Arkansas: State Reports First Locally Acquired Case

One of the world’s most dangerous infectious diseases is encroaching further into the U.S. This week, health officials in Arkansas reported a locally acquired case of malaria, the first ever documented in the state. At least three other states have reported local cases of the mos … | Continue reading


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12 Times Elon Musk's Headline Decapitation Hilariously Backfired on Him

Of all the bizarre decisions to come out of Twitter following Elon Musk’s takeover last October, removing headlines might be the dumbest. The social media platform has officially beheaded all links in a curious crusade against news organizations and the platform’s shrinking user … | Continue reading


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Neil Gaiman Really Just Wants to Write

Neil Gaiman told the Times that while he loved being active on the set of Good Omens, writing a new children’s book has stood in stark contrast to the many strictures of being on set: “I’ve realized how much I don’t like showrunning. I love making stuff up. I love writing it down … | Continue reading


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Castlevania: Nocturne Will Return for Season 2

Castlevania: Nocturne concludes with plenty left open as to just what could go down in more seasons of the spiritual continuation of Netflix and Powerhouse Animation’s adaptation of the legendary Konami games. So it’s good news, but perhaps not surprising, that the streamer has a … | Continue reading


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OpenAI Apparently Wants to Make Its Own AI Chips on Top of the 'iPhone for AI'

Due to a shortage of processors needed to run OpenAI’s intense software as well as the exorbitant costs associated with operating it, the makers of ChatGPT are reportedly considering making their own AI chips.Read more... | Continue reading


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The End of Coal Culture

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.Read more... | Continue reading


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Hands-On Impressions With Microsoft's Surface Laptop Studio 2

Gizmodo Editor-in-Chief Dan Ackerman walks us through Microsoft's most powerful Surface system yet. | Continue reading


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MGM Resorts Refused to Pay Ransom but Lost $100 Million in Wake of Cyberattack

MGM Resorts refused to pay a ransom to the group that hacked its systems last month which shut down its online hotel booking system, locked guests out of their hotel rooms by de-activating their key cards, and disrupted the technology in its slot machines. MGM reported that it re … | Continue reading


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Loki Is Back—and This Time, He's Got His Own Multiverse of Madness to Fix

The death of He Who Remains (Jonathan Majors) triggered the branching of the sacred timeline at the end of Loki season one, with the threat of more Kangs rising. Season two picks up immediately where we left off. Read more... | Continue reading


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What to Know About NASA's Unprecedented Psyche Mission to a Metallic Asteroid

Wedged between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, the main asteroid belt contains over 1 million rocky objects, but perhaps few of them are as intriguing as Psyche. The metal-rich asteroid might have once been an ancient planetary building block that was stripped of its outer rocky … | Continue reading


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Google's Keyboard Cap…Cap Actually Types, and You Can Make One Yourself

Imagine yourself as a single cap on a keyboard. Perhaps you’re an oft-used letter like “A” or instead the lonely, remote “~” key. If you’re one of the former, you wince every time that giant hand looms over you, the hammer falling with inexorable speed toward your head. You depre … | Continue reading


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Watch Live as Amazon's First Internet Satellites Launch to Orbit

The Elon Musk versus Jeff Bezos space rivalry intensifies on Friday as ULA's Atlas 5 rocket is set to launch two prototype satellites for Project Kuiper. | Continue reading


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Remember That Letter Calling for a Pause on AI? It Didn't Work

On March 29, 2023, more than 500 top technologists and business leaders signed onto an eye-catching open letter begging artificial intelligence labs to immediately pause all training on any AI systems more powerful than Open AI’s GPT-4 for at least six months. The consequences fo … | Continue reading


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DIRECTV Is the Latest Provider to Announce a Price Hike

Hey, if the likes of Netflix and YouTube Premium and Discovery+ can increase their prices—and they’re just a few recent services that’ve done so—why not DIRECTV? As of November 5, DIRECTV’s satellite service and DIRECTV STREAM customers will both be paying more.Read more... | Continue reading


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Microsoft Reportedly Hopes to Close Activision Deal Next Week

The biggest acquisition in video game history appears to be coming to a close. After Microsoft offered to buy Activision Blizzard nearly two years ago—and faced a barrage of government hurdles along the way—the tech company is reportedly readying to close the sale.Read more... | Continue reading


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Meta's New AI Dating Coach Will Kink Shame You (Unless You're Into Foot Stuff)

Last week, Meta introduced AI chatbots to its family of apps, including Instagram, Facebook Messenger, and WhatsApp. The bots include a variety of personas built for different purposes such as cooking and travel, and several based on celebrities including Snoop Dog and Mr. Beast. … | Continue reading


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It's Time (Variance Authority) to Talk Loki Season 2 in Our Spoiler Discussion Zone

It’s oddly fitting that well over two years have passed since the first season of Loki, because time is always a piece of the puzzle. Loki introduced the Marvel Cinematic Universe to the multiverse in an unforgettable way, branching the franchise’s most popular villain off from t … | Continue reading


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All the Star Wars Movies Will Soon Be on More TV Channels

Disney just made a new TV deal for all 12 Star Wars movies that will allow them to play not just on Disney+, but its own suite of broadcast and cable channels as well as those owned by Turner Broadcasting.Read more... | Continue reading


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Delicious in Dungeon's New Trailer Serves Up a Gorgeous Fantastical Feast

Of all the fantastical manga crying out for a sumptuous adaptation, Ryōko Kui’s Delicious in Dungeon has long ranked high over the last decade of its serialization. And now that it’s finally happening, it looks to have been worth the mouth-watering wait.Read more... | Continue reading


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Man Whose AI 'Girlfriend' Encouraged Him to Assassinate Queen Elizabeth II Gets Nine Years in Prison

A man who was encouraged to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II by his chatbot girlfriend was sentenced to nine years in prison by a UK judge on Thursday. Jaswant Singh Chail was just 19 years old when he scaled the wall of the late queen’s Windsor Castle home, armed with a loaded cro … | Continue reading


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It’s a Wonderful Knife Reimagines a Classic Tale With a Slasher Twist

The weather outside is about to get really frightful with more holiday killers on the loose in horror films this year, including the ghostly figure in It’s a Wonderful Knife. Read more... | Continue reading


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Scientists Print Skin That's More Human-Like Than Anything Before It

A team of scientists may have developed a breakthrough in wound repair: bioprinted skin that’s closer to natural skin than ever. In experiments with mice and pigs, the researchers found their skin was able to accelerate wound healing with less scarring than usual. It’s possible t … | Continue reading


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Meta May Ship Far Fewer Quest 3 Headsets than Quest 2

How’s that whole metaverse thing going? Well, according to one top analyst’s sales expectations for the Quest 3 mixed reality headset, not as well as Meta might hope. That, plus the news that Meta keeps firing people from its Reality Labs division responsible for making the compa … | Continue reading


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Loki Season 2 Brings New Faces and New Dilemmas to the Sacred Timeline

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is back on the smaller screen to tell the larger story of how the Time Variance Authory operates outside of the Sacred Timeline in Loki season two.Read more... | Continue reading


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Let's Get Ready to Jiggle: Fat Bear Week Is Here Again to Soothe Your Soul

It’s time once again to pay tribute to the utmost of ursines. That’s right, it’s yet another annual installment of Fat Bear Week. People will get the chance to vote for 12 of the plumpest brown bears living at the Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska all through next week. … | Continue reading


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Samsung Adds SmartThings to Its Soundbars and Smart TVs

Never mind that Google took over the week with its Pixel device announcements. Samsung held a keynote for its developer’s conference today, and it announced its new soundbar, the HW-Q900C, which can act as a centralized SmartThings smart home hub.Read more... | Continue reading


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Amazon Will Pay You $1 Million for Alien Footage From Your Ring Doorbell

Your ring camera is not only going to be the source of an Amazon-fueled Big Brother dystopia—it may also capture evidence of extraterrestrial life. On the off chance that you record an alien being on your Ring camera, the tech company is willing to pay you for it. Read more... | Continue reading


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Biden Suspends 26 Environmental Laws to Build Border Wall

President Joe Biden is suspending 26 environmental laws to build a border wall in south Texas, a move announced by the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday. The laws include the Clean Air Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Endangered Species Act, and National Environmental Pol … | Continue reading


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Why Saw X Works So Damned Well

Saw X is a film that only works because it’s the 10th film in the franchise. This story could not have been told by the second or third Saw movie; if this movie were to exist at all, it could only come now, and the franchise is better off for it.Read more... | Continue reading


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Star Trek: Lower Decks' Exploration of the Ferengi Does Deep Space Nine Justice

In a galaxy of compelling species, the Ferengi are one of Star Trek’s most peculiar, and most fascinating. Growing from not-quite-threatening villains in their TNG debut to a fascinating capitalist foil to the Federation’s post-scarcity utopia in DS9 through characters like Quark … | Continue reading


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Oldest Human Footprints in North America Really Are That Old, New Dating Confirms

Fossilized human footprints at White Sands National Park in New Mexico are every bit as old as the 23,000 years-and-change they were dated at in 2021, according to new analysis published in Science.Read more... | Continue reading


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The Original Pixel Watch Is Also Getting Wear OS 4

Google announced today that the original Pixel Watch will be getting the Wear OS 4 “later this year”. We were already aware that the new Pixel Watch 2 is releasing with Wear OS 4 but it will be available for the 2022 model as well.Read more... | Continue reading


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Watch the Freaky Trailer for Blumhouse's Killer Pool Movie

Blenders, lawnmowers, kitchen knives. These are common household items you expect to see featured in a horror film. You don’t expect to see the serene things. You don’t expect to see things known for their beauty. You don’t expect to see a killer pool. Read more... | Continue reading


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Astrophysicists Clock Highest-Radiation Blasts Ever Recorded From a Pulsar

Pulsars are one of the strangest celestial bodies in space. These cosmic lighthouses emit periodic bursts of radiation from their magnetic poles, and now a team of researchers claim they have detected the largest burst ever recorded from a pulsar. Read more... | Continue reading


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CD Projekt Red Is Working on a Live-Action Cyberpunk 2077 Series

When Cyberpunk 2077 first launched after years of anticipation, a litany of bugs—and not even of the thematically cyberpunk kind—and other misgivings led to a disastrous landing. But in the years since, bolstered by goodwill updates and interest through collaborations like Netfli … | Continue reading


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Comcast and Charter's Streaming Box Has Arrived

The heyday of traditional cable may be over, but that doesn’t mean the two biggest companies in the U.S. aren’t trying to evolve with the times. Late last year, Comcast and Charter Communications announced they’d be teaming up on a streaming box to deter cord-cutters—and now, Xum … | Continue reading


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From Solo to Team: Northrop Grumman Joins Voyager Space on ISS Replacement Project

Breaking up is hard to do, especially when there’s a commercial space station on the line. Northrop Grumman is abandoning its plans as a solo contractor to develop a replacement for NASA’s International Space Station, and is instead partnering with Voyager Space to work on Starla … | Continue reading


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16 Burning Questions We Have After Ahsoka

As the end of Ahsoka season one drew closer, we all had the same thought. “There’s no way this is all being wrapped up this season.” And, now that we’ve seen the finale, that’s certainly a fact. Series writer and creator Dave Filoni’s ending did bring most of his characters to th … | Continue reading


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Video Shows NASA Probe Dispatching Asteroid Sample Capsule to Earth

NASA has released a new video capturing the moment when its OSIRIS-REx probe released a canister containing materials from asteroid Bennu. | Continue reading


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Star Wars' Next Collectible Card Game Is Coming Early Next Year

Star Wars has a long, long history with the collectible card game medium, but as the likes of Magic dabbles with high-profile crossovers and Disney itself gets in on the market with the wildly popular launch of Lorcana, its nearly time for the galaxy far, far away to return to th … | Continue reading


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