There is a “significant likelihood” that the Icelandic volcano Fagradalsfjall will erupt “in the coming days,” according to the country’s meteorological office. The volcanic activity is primarily occurring in the island’s southwest, northeast of the fishing town of Grindavík.
Source: Gizmodo – Iceland Prepares for ‘Considerable’ Risk of Volcano Eruption
Although the season of Hollywood strikes came to an end when SAG-AFTRA closed its picket lines last week having secured a tentative agreement with the AMPTP, it’s not over yet—ahead of the union membership vote on the potential three-year contract, SAG-AFTRA has released a summary of the deal to read online.
Source: Gizmodo – SAG-AFTRA’s Strike-Ending Agreement Still Has Some A.I. Worries
If you have an old Gmail account lying around that you haven’t used in a while, make sure to use it before December 1, or Google will permanently delete it. By ‘in a while,’ Google means two years. That’s the criteria they have set for the amount of time that should have passed for them to consider an account inactive.
Source: Gizmodo – Here’s Your Reminder to Sign in to Your old Gmail Account Before Google Deletes It
A new international trailer for Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom gives us new footage. The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon expands its cast for season 2. Plus, what’s to come on Rick and Morty and Fear the Walking Dead’s final episodes. Spoilers, away!
Source: Gizmodo – Coyote vs. ACME Could Now Find a New Home Outside of Warner Bros.
Tesla will charge customers of its new Cybertruck a hefty penalty for reselling their vehicle within the first year of ownership, according to a recently added section of the vehicle’s order agreement.
Source: Gizmodo – Tesla Cybertruck Owners Will Face Absurd Resell Penalties
Optical illusions and puzzles share overlapping vibes. Mental trickery, ‘aha’ moments, cross-eyed frustration. Did you know that the Neural Correlate Society holds an annual contest for the Best Illusion of the Year? This year’s winner created a LEGO model of Harry Potter’s Platform 9 ¾, complete with a seemingly…
Source: Gizmodo – Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: Can You See Through These Illusions?
Since the start of the year, Netflix has been giving out a drip feed of information for Zack Snyder’s sci-fi action flick Rebel Moon. With almost a full month to go before it finally becomes a thing you can watch, a new trailer was shown at the streamer’s Geeked Week event, and it continues to look like the biggest…
Source: Gizmodo – Rebel Moon’s New Trailer Promises Even More Space Opera Grandness
The 1992 anime adaptation of Yoshihiro Togashi’s YuYu Hakusho is one of those series that hit at just the right time for a generation of animation fans, not unlike Dragonball Z. At a time of live-action adaptations of popular animated material, it wasn’t entirely unexpected to hear the series would be getting one of…
Source: Gizmodo – Netflix’sYuYu Hakusho is Here to Bring Some Spirit to Your Holidays
In the nine months since Ant-Man & the Wasp: Quantumania hit theaters, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has gone through some sizable upheavals. More recent weeks have been particularly heavy with discussions about the megafranchise’s future, something that Marvel itself has quietly acknowledged by pushing back three of…
Source: Gizmodo – Open Channel: Tell Us What You Thought of The Marvels
Filmmaker Robert Butler passed away earlier in the month on November 3 at 95 years old, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Source: Gizmodo – Robert Butler, Star Trek & Batman TV Director, Has Died at Age 95
Earlier in the year, it was reported that Warner Bros. Discovery had successfully sold off its upcoming comic book show Dead Boy Detectives over to Netflix. During this weekend’s Geeked Week event, the streamer showed off the first trailer for the show, and the young sleuths duo looks they’ll be getting up to some…
Source: Gizmodo – The Dead Boy Detectives Are Here to Solve Some Ghostly Mysteries
The Terminator franchise is making a comeback, but as an anime series for Netflix.
Source: Gizmodo – Terminator is Back, This Time as An Anime
Along with being one of the biggest platforms to watch anime, Crunchyroll is also a hub to read manga on your phone or computer. While not as big as say, Shonen Jump, it’s managed to stick around for a little over a decade…which makes it tragic irony to reveal that the service is going to be delisted a full month…
Source: Gizmodo – Crunchyroll Will Discontinue Its Own Manga App Next Month
The Man of Steel is staying right where he is on the calendar. On X (formerly Twitter), director/writer James Gunn revealed his next film, Superman: Legacy, would be sticking to its previously announced date of July 11, 2025 now that the SAG-AFTRA strike has (seemingly/hopefully) reached its end.
Source: Gizmodo – James Gunn is Keeping Superman: Legacy In Its Original Release Slot
Days ago, Warner Bros. Discovery announced it’d shelved another film: Coyote vs. Acme, which was intended to be the newest film for the Looney Toons brand. Originally meant for Max before getting bumped up to a theatrical release, WBD said the completed film would be vaulted and never see the light of day. And much…
Source: Gizmodo – Coyote vs. Acme’s Cancellation Has Broken Its Crew’s Heart
This past summer, Warner Bros. released its other swan song to the DCEU in Blue Beetle. If you were one of the folks who didn’t see the movie when it was in theaters back in mid-August and forwent the physical release in favor of streaming, good news: it’s hitting Max next Friday, October 17.
Source: Gizmodo – Blue Beetle Suits Up on Max Next Week
As 2023 stumbles towards its close, it’s clear we’re preparing to enter a world that will soon be filled to the brim with robots. Science fiction tells us that AI will soon gain sentience and inevitably crush humanity in its never-ending quest for power. I’ll believe it when I see it. For now, the robots that surround…
Source: Gizmodo – The 10 Saddest Robots Ever Built
We live in a multilingual world, which is represented in the billions of pages published on the web—but just because a website isn’t written in your native tongue doesn’t mean that you can’t read it. All of the most popular browsers come with translation tools built-in on desktop and mobile, so you don’t have to limit…
Source: Gizmodo – How To Translate Websites in Any Browser
Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodo’s weekly roundup where we do a deep dive on what’s been happening in artificial intelligence.
Source: Gizmodo – Sam Altman Tried on Steve Jobs’ Turtle Neck This Week
Following the news Wednesday night that the SAG-AFTRA strike had come to an end after nearly 120 days, supporters have been waiting to hear more details about the tentative agreement. Today, union president Fran Drescher, national executive director and chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, and others held a press…
Source: Gizmodo – SAG-AFTRA’s Board Approves Tentative Agreement With the AMPTP