Tesla gained a victory in a lawsuit against its driver-assistance software on Tuesday. A California jury ruled that Tesla’s autopilot feature was not at fault for the crash that killed a Tesla driver and injured two passengers in 2019, according to a Reuters report.Read more... | Continue reading
Fossilized lampreys from the Jurassic period have surprised a team of paleontologists by their size and well-preserved feeding structures, indicating the creepy fish were already predatory 160 million years ago.Read more... | Continue reading
A woman’s newly adopted cat may have brought her an unwelcome gift: a bacterial germ that caused her months of diarrhea. In a new case report this month, doctors say that the woman’s bout of recurrent Clostridioides difficile could have been fueled by her cat, who also tested pos … | Continue reading
Just because Hugh Jackman is returning as Wolverine doesn’t mean he didn’t die already. From the day it was announced that Jackman was joining Ryan Reynolds in the upcoming third Deadpool movie, the stars were adamant that the events of Logan, James Mangold’s 2017 classic, happen … | Continue reading
Canada banned WeChat on government-issued phones on Monday, roughly two years after the Biden administration lifted American bans on the Chinese “everything” app. The Chief Information Officer of Canada says WeChat presents an unacceptable level of risk to privacy and security, i … | Continue reading
Today may be Halloween, but there’s another big holiday this week: Godzilla Day, which marks the anniversary of Godzilla’s release on November 3, 1954. As is tradition, Toho International has an array of festivities planned, including some that require you to stomp no further tha … | Continue reading
A group of artists suing generative AI companies for allegedly using their copyrighted works are down, but not out, following a recent federal judge’s order. On Monday, the judge presiding over a case brought by three visual artists dismissed the majority of the claims levied aga … | Continue reading
The best part about one company revolutionizing video-sharing on the internet is that it gets the say in how awful that experience can be. After beginning to roll out a healthy nudge to turn off ad blockers or subscribe to the platform’s ad-free Premium offering, YouTube is now f … | Continue reading
This past August, the Power Rangers series turned 30 years old. While not entirely on the level of popularity as some of its other superheroic peers, there’s no denying the semi-tokusatsu franchise is in the hearts of fans and a certain generation. And like all long-running franc … | Continue reading
The first cats were domesticated thousands of years ago, but we still don’t seem to have much control over them. Many people let their cats come and go as they please, perhaps forgetting—or not caring—that domestic cats kill billions of birds and mammals each year. Over half of p … | Continue reading
Apple showcased its new line of M3 Macbook Pros and iMacs just in time for spooky season. | Continue reading
Before Marvel Comics became Marvel Comics, the company had a whole host of different iterations and identities over the Golden Age of comics—and did so much more comics material than just superheroes. And now, in gloriously remastered high definition, you can experience a chillin … | Continue reading
Atari may not be the megalithic corporation seen in the movie Blade Runner with its logo plastered on massive holographic billboards, but the company’s most recent efforts have centered on becoming the main player for the retro revival. One of the most-lauded companies helping to … | Continue reading
Apple’s payment practices requiring subscription-forward apps to exclusively accept payments through Apple Pay violated antitrust laws, according to a Dutch regulator ruling reported by Bloomberg on Tuesday. The Dutch Authority for Consumers & Markets ruled that Apple violated Eu … | Continue reading
It’s almost time for the Pumpkin King to go full Sandy Claws as Halloween Town makes way for Christmas Town—but don’t worry, the holidays can stay haunted with the latest collections inspired by Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas.Read more... | Continue reading
Windows 11's big annual update is live and rolling out. Version 23H2 includes everything Microsoft announced at its September event, including the ability to use the company’s AI assistant, Co-Pilot, with a keyboard shortcut. It also makes Teams an official default app, so if you … | Continue reading
Pinterest reported its highest monthly active users ever on the platform Monday at 482 million in the third quarter. The photo board service says user growth was largely driven by Gen Z users who are the fastest-growing, most engaged users on the platform.Read more... | Continue reading
Captured through the powerful lens of X-ray telescopes, the ethereal expanse of a pulsar wind nebula is revealed in unprecedented detail. | Continue reading
Not even Elon Musk’s Tesla—which was touted as a vehicle manufacturing unicorn meant to dent the climate crisis—can withstand those pesky macroeconomic trends. Tesla’s valuation has just fallen as the electric vehicle market seriously cools down. Read more... | Continue reading
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown—released on CBS in 1966, now streaming on Apple TV+—was one of the earliest made-for-TV Halloween holiday specials, and has now become an annual viewing tradition for many. Read more... | Continue reading
Two NASA astronauts are gearing up for their first spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) for maintenance work in low Earth orbit, marking just the second time two women will exit the station together.Read more... | Continue reading
Believe it or not, after two decades, Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive is getting a TTRPG. This isn’t breaking news—it was announced well before Gen Con this year—but the reveal of its three team writers and designers is. Additionally, MCDM has announced that in December it … | Continue reading
Deep into the night before All Hallows Eve, Apple’s Cupertino spaceship headquarters was shrouded in a dense, black fog as if preparing to release a malevolent force upon the world. Thankfully, when the fog cleared, what we had instead was three new chips, a MacBook Pro update, a … | Continue reading
Government leaders in more than 40 countries are signing a pledge agreeing never to pay a ransom to cybercriminals again. U.S. President Joe Biden introduced the International Counter Ransomware Initiative in 2021 and will discuss countries agreeing to push back against cybercrim … | Continue reading
It’s hard to imagine that the next Marvel movie is out in just a few weeks, but here we are—The Marvels is set to fly into cinemas November 10 and we’re only just getting our first extended look at the film. At least it’s a pretty fun one?Read more... | Continue reading
As American-based tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon begin to chase the seemingly unstoppable tidal wave of generative AI, Chinese company Alibaba wants in on the action too. The e-commerce giant is reportedly readying to release its own large language model that will compete … | Continue reading
Not one, but two giant crocodile movies are on the way. Get a sumptuous look at Studio Ghibli’s The Boy and the Heron in a new video. Plus, it’s spaghetti Thursdays on the next episode of Rick & Morty. Happy spoiloween, everybody!Read more... | Continue reading
Microsoft’s generative AI work assistant Copilot will debut to millions of enterprise customers Wednesday. Chief Information Officers around the country are stepping up training in preparation for the Microsoft 365 product launch, according to the Wall Street Journal, and it may … | Continue reading
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The UK is currently dealing with an alarming rise of crypto—the diarrhea-causing intestinal parasite, not the baffling currency. In a report this month, health officials documented a much higher number of cases than expected so far in 2023. It’s not clear yet why crypto is surgin … | Continue reading
It’s Halloween eve, and Apple brought along a few new desktop products to bask in the dark joys of spooky season, most notably a new Space Black color for the company’s leading laptops. Gizmodo had the opportunity to trick or treat through the new M3-powered laptops and desktop P … | Continue reading
In a not-so-spooky event on Halloween Eve, Apple revealed the details of its latest MacBook Pro and iMac desktop computers. Both lineups have been refreshed with Apple’s new M3 silicon, the company’s first 3nm process outside of the iPhone.Read more... | Continue reading
Invincible creator Robert Kirkman tells io9 about the casting process for the Prime Video series. | Continue reading
Last Thursday, Hasbro had an investor’s call to discuss the third quarter, and while Hasbro itself might be going through a rough time, with lower-than-expected earnings, Wizards of the Coast was once again the high earner for the company—bolstered by two big releases.Read more.. … | Continue reading
Hasbro’s 6" line of Star Wars action figures, the Black Series, launched a decade ago, and has gone on to give us many great representations (and some not so great) of Star Wars heroes and villains from across the galaxy. It is, however, absolutely insane that it will take until … | Continue reading
Android users can finally join the realm of the easy login life. Google revealed Monday that Credential Manager will arrive on Android devices beginning Nov. 1, ushering in the next phase of the company’s conversion to passkeys. This also means Android users will finally have the … | Continue reading
In It Follows, an unstoppable entity stalks its victims to the ends of the Earth. It’s slow, steady, and it can’t be stopped. So it’s almost fitting that while it took a long time, now, after a 10-year wait, a sequel is finally on its way to us.Read more... | Continue reading
The PlayStation Pulse Explore earbuds will be available on Dec. 6, allowing holiday shoppers just enough time to grab the wireless, low-latency buds for $199.99, Sony revealed Monday. The earbuds will be the only Bluetooth headphones on the market compatible with the PlayStation … | Continue reading
After traveling millions of miles over the past two years, the Lucy spacecraft has almost reached its first destination. NASA’s asteroid probe will briefly rendezvous with Dinkinesh in the main asteroid belt on Wednesday to prepare for its future visits of Jupiter’s Trojan astero … | Continue reading
If the ship’s going down, at least the employees all get a piece of the pie. As X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) continues to devalue itself with decisions that are scaring off advertisers and pissing off users, owner Elon Musk is at least willing to offer some stock to … | Continue reading
Google CEO Sundar Pichai upheld the company’s decision to pay out billions of dollars to remain the top global search engine at the U.S. anti-trust trial on Monday, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. Pichai claimed he tried to give users a “seamless and easy” exp … | Continue reading
In a surprise move, Lionsgate has signed an interim agreement with SAG-AFTRA for the upcoming Hunger Games prequel film, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Variety reports. This means that the actors—including top-billed Tom Blyth and Rachel Zegler—will be able to promote this f … | Continue reading
Health officials in Austria are the latest to warn the public to stay away from sketchy sources of semaglutide, the active ingredient in popular weight loss drugs Wegovy and Ozempic, following recent reports of severe adverse effects linked to counterfeit products. Residents have … | Continue reading
This week the Doctor Who universe is expanding with the official launch of what is now being dubbed “The Whoniverse”—a streaming home for over 800 episodes of Doctor Who and its spinoffs from the BBC... and now, its first original programming.Read more... | Continue reading
Google will invest up to $2 billion in Anthropic, a competitor to OpenAI, ramping up the race between artificial intelligence companies, originally reported by The Wall Street Journal Friday. Amazon committed a $4 billion investment to the startup and its AI assistant Claude last … | Continue reading
The Biden Administration is moving forward with a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence executive order aimed at creating new standards for AI safety and setting up new guardrails to prevent potential misuse. Today’s executive order marks a key inflection point in AI regulati … | Continue reading
This actually makes perfect sense, considering Poltergeist is about ghosts that gain access to a suburban family via their TV: the 1982 Steven Spielberg-produced and co-written horror classic, which spawned two sequels of varying quality and a tepid 2015 remake, may be getting a … | Continue reading
No aquatic reptiles today can match mosasaurs, ocean-dwelling creatures of the Cretaceous period that looked something like a cross between a whale and a shark. Now, a group of researchers have discovered a mosasaur that they believe bridges the gap between two iconic species in … | Continue reading