Need help figuring out how to program smart lights to turn on at dusk? You can ask AI for help with that. Google’s generative AI-powered feature called the “Help me script” started rolling out to beta testers this week. It can help you figure out robust home automation. All you have to do is copy and paste code.
Source: Gizmodo – Google’s ‘Help Me Script’ Can Help Automate Your Smart Home
Disney and Pixar have released the first teaser for their follow up to Inside Out, and the world of emotions is about to get much bigger—and panic-induced.
Source: Gizmodo – Inside Out 2 Prepares for the Wild World of Teenage Emotions
After wrapping up a lengthy mission in Earth orbit nearly a year ago, Space Force’s spaceplane is ready to take off again for the seventh flight of the Shuttlesque test vehicle.
Source: Gizmodo – Space Force’s Elusive Spaceplane Is Launching on SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy for the First Time
Microsoft being annoying about ads, forced surveys, or pushy polls is nothing new. You might remember when they started rolling out ads in the Windows 11 Start menu. These appeared in the guise of ‘notifications’ repeatedly convincing users to start using Microsoft’s services such as OneDrive. They also tried sticking…
Source: Gizmodo – Microsoft Can’t Stop Being Annoying About OneDrive
Anonymous video chat app Omegle, known for pairing strangers and weirdos together in a kind of raw, extended social experiment, finally threw in the towel after years of abuse. The site was forced to shut down due to a settlement from a recent lawsuit alleging the site gave free rein to sexual predators.
Source: Gizmodo – Omegle Kills Off Anonymized Video Chat After Years of Abuse
The Boys sets the stage for its 2024. Netflix teases the arrival of its live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender series. Eddie Murphy gets on the bad side of an elf in his new Christmas movie for Amazon. Plus, Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson will headline an apocalyptic music movie. To me, my spoilers!
Source: Gizmodo – Marvel’s Kevin Feige Teases When to Expect the X-Men In the MCU
OpenAI’s global outages for ChatGPT and its API yesterday were due to a Distributed Denial of Service (DD0S) attack, according to a post on the company’s outage page Wednesday evening. CEO Sam Altman said the company was planning to go live with GPTs, its new customizable chatbots, for all subscribers on Monday in a tw…
Source: Gizmodo – ChatGPT Blames Outages on DDoS Hackers, GPT Rollout Stalled
Nearly 120 days after authorizing an actors strike, SAG-AFTRA may have finally locked down a deal.
Source: Gizmodo – SAG-AFTRA Has a Tentative Deal That Could Bring the Hollywood Strike to an End
Even as audiences gobble up salacious rumors about purported crises at Marvel, and perhaps an end to the dominance that superhero media has had on blockbuster moviemaking in the wake of a string critical and financial misfires, people love reading about people talking about comic book movies like they’re here to stay.…
Source: Gizmodo – Chris Nolan Doesn’t Want to Talk About The Batman, Because That’s All Anyone Will Talk About if He Does
Have you ever seen AirPods that look exactly like Apple’s, but the box would say something like ‘Abble AirPods?’ Sometimes, manufacturers of counterfeit products don’t even change the company’s name on the box in an attempt to trick the consumers into thinking that they are genuine products.
Most of us are aware of…
Source: Gizmodo – CT Scans Show Why Fake Apple AirPods Sound So Awful
A new payload has been added to Firefly’s upcoming mission to the far side of the Moon, one that will explore the lunar subsurface to find out if it can support future infrastructure.
Source: Gizmodo – NASA-Funded Mission to the Moon’s Far Side Is Starting to Look Pretty Cool
Nextdoor, a popular neighborhood app, is prioritizing its “commitment to shareholders” over its commitment to employees by eliminating a quarter of its staff to meet shareholder expectations, the company said in a 2023 Q3 report Tuesday. The layoffs are reportedly part of an effort to reduce Nextdoor’s personnel…
Source: Gizmodo – Nextdoor Lays Off 25% of Staff as a ‘Commitment to Shareholders’
No matter what you think about the House of Mouse, the Force, or Marvel’s many assorted heroes and villains, there’s no denying Disney+ has might behind it. According to today’s quarterly report, which you can read here, the streamer now has more than 150 million subscribers worldwide, a number that includes India’s…
Source: Gizmodo – Disney+ Adds Nearly 7 Million Subscribers, Still Loses Money
Many people are carrying potentially harmful genes, research out this week has found. Scientists analyzed the genes of people living in Iceland and found that one in 25 people appear to have genetic variations linked to a shorter lifespan. The most dangerous variants were those tied to cancer.
Source: Gizmodo – Lots of People May Carry Life-Shortening Genetic Variants
Google’s AI ecosystem continues to grow as the company expands its partnership with Anthropic, which will now run on Google Cloud’s fastest AI-accelerating chips. This comes on the same day Google rolled out generative AI search capabilities worldwide, powered by PaLM2, putting AI in front of billions of people who…
Source: Gizmodo – Google Gives ChatGPT Competitor a Boost
Barbie wielded a lot of box-office power this year, raking in over a billion dollars at the global box office and making history as Warner Bros.’ highest-grossing film of all time. But one monster hit wasn’t enough to bring Warner Bros. Discovery into the realm of profitability, according to today’s company earnings…
Source: Gizmodo – Barbie Helped Mitigate Warner Bros. Discovery’s Losses as It Bleeds Streaming Subscribers
First responders in Texas are fighting a fire from a chemical plant explosion north of Houston on Wednesday morning.
Source: Gizmodo – Chemical Explosion Near Houston Creates Huge Fire, Residents Told to Avoid Area
We knew earlier this year that Lucasfilm had cooled off on working with Marvel Studios’ Kevin Feige for a Star Wars movie project, in the studio’s latest shakeup of killing most of the upcoming movies it announces these days. But now, as The Marvels takes to the big screen, Feige has confirmed that he’s no longer…
Source: Gizmodo – Kevin Feige’s Star Wars Movie Is Really, Really Dead
It takes a whole lot of power and data to both train and run the AI models that have big tech so enamored. To support its AI ambitions on Bing Search, Microsoft leaped into the welcoming arms of cloud computing giant Oracle, all the better to help feed the ever-hungry multi-headed hydra that is AI.
Source: Gizmodo – Microsoft Calls on Oracle for Backup in AI Fray
A hiker was rescued from a cliff edge on Saturday after allegedly following a Google Maps trail that didn’t actually exist, making him one of several hikers who followed the same trail to get stranded. A search and rescue team responded to reports of a hiker stranded on Mount Fromme in Vancouver, Canada, who attempted…
Source: Gizmodo – Hiker Rescued After Following Google Maps On a ‘Dangerous,’ Non-Existent Trail