Who among us hasn’t dreamed about Nicolas Cage? What might it be like to hang out with the Oscar winner, to watch him work or see how he chooses his incredible array of movies? From The Rock, National Treasure, and Renfield, to Adaptation, Wild at Heart, and Mandy, Cage is one of those actors whose career has been so…
Source: Gizmodo – How Nicolas Cage’s Dream Scenario Came to Life
We’ve barely upgraded our Apple devices to the new versions of their operating systems, and already, there’s a delay on next year’s software updates. But it’s for a good reason, according to sources familiar with the pause.
Source: Gizmodo – Apple Delayed Next Year’s iPhone Software To Deal With This Year’s Software Bugs
There’s officially a new and fierce competitor for Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy (semaglutide) when it comes to weight loss. On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration approved the drug tirzepatide, developed by Eli Lilly, as a treatment for obesity. The weekly injectable drug will be sold under the brand name Zepbound.
Source: Gizmodo – FDA Approves a New Obesity Drug Poised to Dethrone Wegovy
Yesterday, Nintendo and Sony Pictures teamed up to deliver the shocking news that they were working on a live action adaptation of The Legend of Zelda. Even more so, they’d found their director already in Maze Runner and Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ Wes Ball. But it turns out Ball has had a long, long time to…
Source: Gizmodo – Wes Ball’s Old Tweets About a Zelda Movie Are Fascinating Hindsight
Social media might be addictive, but it turns out quitting is complicated. A study out Wednesday from the UK’s Durham University asked 51 moderate to heavy social media users to stay off the apps for one week. Participants had a decrease in negative emotions and feelings including boredom, but they reported a drop in…
Source: Gizmodo – Keep Scrolling: Social Media Detox May Not Improve Mental Health
Rick and Morty’s currently in its seventh season, but it was much earlier in the Adult Swim show’s run that people started realizing how involved its fan base really was—remember 2017’s Szechuan sauce kerfluffle?
Source: Gizmodo – Rick and Morty’s Dan Harmon on the Adult Swim Show’s Outspoken Fan Base
If you were in charge of selecting the Lego minifigures for a massive celebration of a decade of Marvel Cinematic Universe films and beyond, you’d have plenty of priorities on your list. Heroes, villains, Earth’s mightiest movie stars. Lego decided it had so many options, it could throw in Marvel Studios head honcho…
Source: Gizmodo – Lego’s 5,200-Piece Avengers Tower Set Even Comes With a Kevin Feige Minifigure
The Marvel Cinematic Universe gets the team-up we’ve been waiting for since Captain Marvel and Ms. Marvel with The Marvels.
Source: Gizmodo – The Marvels Delivers a Cosmic Punch of Fun and Avenging Action
OpenAI’s ChatGPT and API experienced a major outage Wednesday morning affecting millions of users, two days after Sam Altman’s DevDay, where the company tried to entice developers to build on OpenAI products. This is the longest major outage for the company’s API, the main product used by developers, in nine months…
Source: Gizmodo – ChatGPT Experiences Major Outage as It Expands Features
Texans overwhelmingly voted to put billions of dollars towards creating backup energy for the state’s often broken power grid, by funding natural gas power plants. The results of this week’s voting day come over two years after millions experienced outages during a deadly winter storm that likely led to the death of…
Source: Gizmodo – Texans Vote in Favor for Fund to Fix Faulty Grid
In an effort to cut cost for the sake of the development of its next generation spaceplane, Virgin Galactic will lay off a number of its employees and save on expenses in hopes of bringing in future profits from its commercial flights.
Source: Gizmodo – Virgin Galactic Preps for Its Next Tourist Spaceplane…by Laying Off Staff
Earlier this year, io9 revealed the cover for LySandra Vuong’s Covenant, Oni Press’ graphic novel publication of the wildly popular Webtoon digital comic. Today, we’re thrilled to share the first chapter from the book, as well as some commentary from Vuong, aka Explodikid, ahead of the April 2024 release.
Source: Gizmodo – Read the First Chapter of LySandra Vuong’s Covenant Graphic Novel
Apple released 14 and 16-inch variants of the MacBook Pros touting its newly-released M3 chips. It doesn’t bring a lot of new upgrades and doesn’t make much sense if you’re on an M2-series chip already. However, if you’re one of those Intel or M1 MacBook Pro holdouts, now might be the time for a change.
Probably one of…
Source: Gizmodo – 14-Inch Apple MacBook Pro with M3 Review: The Start of the M3 Era Has Begun
WhatsApp has recently been added to Apple’s App Store for Mac. I know it seems weird that it wasn’t there this whole time. You’ve not gone crazy, I swear.
Source: Gizmodo – WhatsApp Finally Got Added to Apple’s App Store for Mac
General Motors recalled 950 of its Cruise robotaxis on Wednesday after a pedestrian was dragged under the vehicle in San Francisco last month. The company said the recall was “voluntary” and would include a software update to its autonomous vehicles’ post-collision response.
Source: Gizmodo – Cruise Recalls Robotaxis Following a Dragging of Pedestrian
Who you gonna call when there’s an incoming apocalyptic death chill scenario? Ghostbusters!
Source: Gizmodo – Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’s First Trailer Makes Climate Change the True Fear
Google sent a letter to European regulators asking them to free up Apple’s iMessage for all platforms, according to a report from the Financial Times Wednesday. The EU Commission said Apple is gatekeeping iMessage in September, and Google’s letter unnecessarily chimes in to say “we agree.”
Source: Gizmodo – Google Asks Regulators to Liberate Apple’s Blue Text Bubbles
Millie Bobby Brown will sleuth again in Enola Holmes 3. Hear Alan Tudyk sing about farts in a new clip from Disney’s Wish. Plus, more looks at the return of The Santa Clause. Spoilers get!
Source: Gizmodo – Sony’s Legend of Zelda Movie Has Found Its Writer, Too
Samsung aims to take a stab directly at the heart of Google’s big AI ambitions with its upcoming phones. The next range of Samsung mobile devices coming next year will be bursting at the seams with generative AI, including a new assistant chatbot.
Source: Gizmodo – Samsung’s ChatGPT Rival Could Come to the Galaxy S24
Rockstar Games decided Wednesday to acknowledge that yes, there is a trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI and that it will premiere next month.
Source: Gizmodo – Rockstar Is Ready to Show You GTA 6… Almost