The holiday season is upon us and that means you’ll be looking for things to do with your friends and family. Sure, you could sit around and binge something, but it’s always nice to get out of the house and do something. Something like going to the movies! Yes, despite what some recent grosses might suggest, movie…
Source: io9 – All the Genre Movies Coming to Theaters This Holiday Season
Beyond the basics of life that we all have to be thankful for, each and every year brings us pop culture that helps make our lives more enjoyable. That goes for movie, games, trends, characters—anything that has brought us some joy and happiness in the past year or so. And, as we’ve been doing the last few years,…
Source: io9 – The Pop Culture We’re Thankful for Getting Us Through 2023
Whether you’re a gadget guru or a complete Luddite, Gizmodo’s Tech Gift Guide will make you look like a rockstar gift-giver this holiday. Spoil a loved one (or, hey, yourself) with a new TV, phone, or smart mug—and we’ve even got ideas for kids and pets . Trust us: You can elevate your gift-giving game beyond a…
Source: io9 – The Best Tech Gifts of 2023
Just when you thought The Karate Kid universe couldn’t get any bigger, it just did. The star of the original franchise as well as Cobra Kai, Ralph Macchio, is teaming up with action movie legend, and star of the 2010 Karate Kid remake, Jackie Chan, for a brand new Karate Kid movie.
Source: io9 – A New Karate Kid Movie Will Star Jackie Chan and Ralph Macchio
Hidden amid its trademark satire of average American life, The Simpsons is riddled with mathematical Easter eggs. The show’s writing staff has boasted an impressive pedigree of Ivy League mathheads who couldn’t resist infusing America’s longest-running sitcom with inside jokes, scattered about like sprinkles on…
Source: io9 – Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: The Simpsons Invented This Surprisingly Tough Geometry Task
OpenAI announced Sam Altman has departed the company on Friday. Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati has been appointed interim CEO to lead OpenAI. The news comes just weeks after OpenAI’s DevDay, where Sam Altman announced some of the company’s biggest advancements yet.
Source: io9 – OpenAI Fires CEO Sam Altman
Russell T. Davies teases a more human Doctor for David Tennant’s latest Doctor Who incarnation. Scarlett Johansson has an update on her Tower of Terror movie. Has The Last of Us found its Abby? Plus, what’s coming on Quantum Leap. Spoilers, away!
Source: io9 – Superman: Legacy Casts Another Deep Cut Comics Character
New research seems to show the potential of a CRISPR-based gene therapy meant to neuter certain forms of cardiovascular disease. In the world’s first human trial of the therapy, people given the highest doses experienced significant and long-lasting reductions in their low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C). The…
Source: io9 – Cholesterol-Lowering Gene Therapy Shows Early Promise in First Human Trial
On Tuesday, Maine residents voted overwhelmingly in favor of a new automotive right-to-repair ballot initiative forcing car manufacturers to provide independent mechanics and technicians with the same diagnostics they give to authorized repair shops. The landslide vote comes months after the Biden Administration backpe…
Source: io9 – Maine Overwhelmingly Votes ‘Yes’ for Right to Repair Cars
This week’s lovely puzzle was brought to my attention by one of our readers, Nicolas Audet. Nicolas says it was used as a brain teaser for a finance job interview. I have to hand it to Wall Street on this one—it’s a delightful little puzzle. Thanks for sharing, Nicolas!
Source: io9 – Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: Can You Pass This Finance Job Interview Test?
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 company employees.
Source: io9 – As Banks Write Down X, Musk Offers Employee Stock Options
Daredevil: Born Again has been, uh, born again. Again.
Source: io9 – Daredevil Has Its New Showrunner, Directors, and Tone
Google users can now make plans through a new Maps update that will generate events and activities by typing “things to do” into the search bar. Activities like art exhibitions or lists providing inspiration for things to do will now populate, giving photo-first results to users, according to a Google news release…
Source: io9 – Google Maps Now Uses AI to Find Where People Are Having Fun
It’s the season of horror movies—but if you don’t have the time or the fright tolerance to watch a feature, why not stream a spooky TV episode instead? Here are 10 to get you started, with animated and live-action picks; please share your favorites (and where to watch them!) in the comments below.
Source: io9 – 10 Eerie TV Episodes to Stream for Halloween
Leica, one of the oldest, most venerable camera companies in the world, has debuted a new $9,500 camera that, among other things, is designed to fight the scourge of digital manipulation. The M11-P is specifically marketed to professional photojournalists, and, in addition to producing beautiful images, includes a new…
Source: io9 – Leica Hopes Its New ,500 Camera Can Save Photojournalism From AI
If you’ve seen The Conjuring 2—or even if you’re just a fan of ghost lore—you know the broad strokes of the story behind The Enfield Poltergeist, based on a much-publicized haunting case in late-1970s north London. Just in time for Halloween, the new Apple TV+ series aims to dig even deeper into the mystery.
Source: io9 – Apple TV+’s The Enfield Poltergeist Pokes Into the Case That Inspired The Conjuring 2
The Moon’s crater-covered countenance was previously thought to be a youthful 4.42 billion years old, give or take about 10 million years. But now, samples of crystals taken from the rocky satellite half a century ago indicate that the Moon is about 40 million years older than we knew.
Source: io9 – Apollo Mission Samples Reveal the Moon Is More Ancient Than We Thought
Star Trek loves itself a cave episode. You can do a bunch of different stories in similar looking sets, you can restrict which members of the cast are the focus, you can thrust unlikely pairings together and force them to bounce off each other. Caves are good! Lower Decks not only agrees with this, but uses what is…
Source: io9 – Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Ode to Caves Is Bigger Than Just One Set
New research appears to provide a long-sought answer about the mysterious cicadas that emerge after years in the ground: do they eat during the brief time they spend as adults before dying? The study found evidence of plant DNA in the guts of some adult cicadas, but not in the guts of those that freshly reached the…
Source: io9 – Mystery Solved: Adult Cicadas Do Eat During Their Brief Time Above Ground
Frank Herbert’s sci-fi classic Dune ends with an intense showdown between Paul Atreides and Feyd-Rautha, two sides of an epic war that’ll decide the fate of a trade, a planet, and a galaxy. In the film adaptation, Dune: Part Two, Atreides is once again played by Timothée Chalamet, and Feyd-Rautha, the heir-apparent to…
Source: io9 – Austin Butler Forced Timothée Chalamet to Raise the Bar in Dune: Part Two