Disney celebrates its legacy in Wish—a movie filled with the company’s own mythology that also has bold allegorical similitudes to its recent history, all weaved into a powerful fairytale.
Source: Gizmodo – Disney’s Wish Illuminates a Century of Magical Animated History
A gold-capped laser transceiver attached to the asteroid probe Psyche saw its first light on Tuesday, sending and receiving data through laser beams from far beyond the Moon for the first time.
Source: Gizmodo – NASA Probe Transmits Groundbreaking Laser Message From 10 Million Miles Away
If you’re behind on what’s happening with the robot uprising, have no fear. Here’s a quick look at some of the weirdest and wildest artificial intelligence news from the past week.
Source: Gizmodo – From Fake Drakes to Robo-Weathermen, Here Are the Top AI Stories You Missed This Week
The season finale of Goosebumps hits Hulu and Disney+ today, wrapping up the fun that started during spooky season with the return of Slappy in a new reboot of the seminal YA horror series inspired by R.L. Stine’s YA horror books.
Source: Gizmodo – Goosebumps’ Showrunners on Season One’s New YA Horror Universe
Discord is shutting down its AI chatbot, Clyde, in December. Considering it was introduced just earlier this year, why it’s being shut down so soon is unclear.
Source: Gizmodo – It’s Time to Say Goodbye to Clyde, Discord’s AI Chatbot
Tom Hardy confirms filming has resumed on Venom 3. Eli Roth digs deep into designing Thanksgiving’s villain. Harley Quinn will return to Max for another season. Plus, get a look at Disney’s Percy Jackson series. Spoilers, assemble!
Source: Gizmodo – Even More Fantastic Four Casting Rumors Point Towards a Legendary Villain
Gather ‘round, weary shoppers, and rest with me for a moment beneath the veil of the celestial canopy, where stars twinkle like forgotten spells and the moon casts its silvery incantations upon the world. As the world around us transforms into a realm of holidays and merriment, I, a grizzled explorer of the online…
Source: Gizmodo – The Strangest Gift Ideas From the Bowels of the Internet
Google is having a hard time catching up with OpenAI. Google’s competitor to ChatGPT will not be ready until early 2024, after previously telling some cloud customers it would get to use Gemini AI in November of this year, sources told The Information Thursday.
Source: Gizmodo – Google’s ChatGPT Competitor Will Have to Wait
Including the unusual, hard-to-find, totally new and strangely wonderful, we’ve got a selection of gifts and games that will be appreciated by both hardcore tabletop roleplayers and people who are curious about TTRPGs but might not know where to start. Most—if not all—of these products physically came out this year,…
Source: Gizmodo – Gifts for the Tabletop Roleplayer Who’s Curious About What Else Is Out There
And there it goes. The astronaut tool bag that floated away during the most recent extravehicular activity outside the International Space Station (ISS) appears as a tiny white speck in this new astronomical image.
Source: Gizmodo – New Image Shows That Lost ISS Tool Bag Zipping Around in Earth Orbit
AI is the name of the game for this year’s chips, particularly for Qualcomm’s mobile processors. The chipmaker has announced the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 processor for mid-range Android devices with promises of improved AI performance.
Source: Gizmodo – Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 Doubles Down on AI for Android’s Mid-Range Devices
Finally, Iman Vellani can geek out publicly about going from Marvel fan to Ms. Marvel and The Marvels star to Marvel Comics writer.
Source: Gizmodo – Iman Vellani Details Her X-Men Comics Writing Process
The ‘90s are about to become hot again, both on the small screen and in your comic book shop.
Source: Gizmodo – Marvel Goes Back to the 1990s With These Throwback Covers
Well, we have our first quarter of the MCU’s Fantastic Four. Yesterday, reports broke revealing that Pedro Pascal is likely to end up playing Reed Richards in the upcoming Matt Shakman-directed film, provided Pascal isn’t too busy with other projects, namely Gladiator 2 and new seasons for The Mandalorian and The Last…
Source: Gizmodo – What Does Superhero Casting Mean Anymore?
Exoplanets pushing their atmospheres away may explain a gap in exoplanet masses, according to a team of researchers that recently studied data from NASA’s retired Kepler Space Telescope.
Source: Gizmodo – Retired NASA Telescope Reveals Clues to the Elusive ‘Size Gap’ in Exoplanets
Just when you thought his reputation couldn’t get worse, TikTok has officially canceled Osama bin Laden. Somehow, videos promoting Osama bin Laden’s letter explaining his reasoning for orchestrating the 9/11 terrorist attacks have gone viral this week and TikTok is responding with a crackdown on bin Laden stan…
Source: Gizmodo – TikTok Has Canceled Osama bin Laden
Next week, Doctor Who turns 60, and it’s preparing for a blockbuster celebration in the days and weeks to come, with a re-colored release of one its most iconic early stories, a trio of brand new specials, and a new Doctor arriving on Christmas Day. We can’t judge just how good the 60th has it just yet—but what about…
Source: Gizmodo – Doctor Who Anniversaries, Ranked
The surface of the Moon is littered with defunct hardware from past missions that are now buried amongst the lunar regolith. A recent crash site left a distinct and curious mark, creating two impact craters of equal size. Scientists examining the collision believe that there may have been an undisclosed object that…
Source: Gizmodo – Chinese Rocket’s Moon Collision in 2022 Carried Mystery Object, Experts Say
Cult-beloved cult-movie series Mystery Science Theater 3000 has big plans for its crowdfunded 14th season, with a 48-hour version of its traditional Thanksgiving marathon styled as a telethon to help it reach its goal. Ahead of next week’s “Mega Turkey Day Marathon Telethon,” io9 got a chance to talk to MST3K…
Source: Gizmodo – Mystery Science Theater 3000’s Creator Talks Turkey Day and Season 14
Here’s an AI tool you probably hadn’t considered. Google’s AI-powered Search Generative Experience (SGE) is getting a slew of updates this December, including a feature that lets you dream up a product out of thin air with artificial intelligence, and then search the web for something similar that exists in the real…
Source: Gizmodo – Google Shopping Will Hallucinate AI Products and Then Find You Something Real to Buy