Step into a slice of New Orleans at Tiana’s Palace, a new themed dining concept at Disneyland inspired by The Princess and the Frog.
Source: Gizmodo – A Foodie Tour of Tiana’s Palace at the Disneyland Resort
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Sony Pulls Plug on X/Twitter Integration on PS4/PS5
Tweeting out your latest PlayStation platinum trophy on a PS5 is going to get a little tricky. PS4 and PS5 owners received a message Monday saying the integration of X, formerly known as Twitter, will be coming to an end next week, as first spotted by users on X.
Source: Gizmodo – Sony Pulls Plug on X/Twitter Integration on PS4/PS5
These AI Companies Want to Bring You Back From the Dead
Fantasies of immortality and extended life preservation are likely as old as humanity itself, but new advances in robotics and advanced artificial intelligence models are inching those transhumanist tales closer to reality at a rapid pace. AI researchers and entrepreneurs eager to cash in on our deepest-rooted anxiety…
Source: Gizmodo – These AI Companies Want to Bring You Back From the Dead
MacBook Pro 16-inch With M3 Max Review in Progress: Powerful, Sleek, but Still the Same
Note: this is still a review in progress, so we’re giving it our 4/5 rating, and we’ll be coming back to share how well the battery and screen brightness holds up. Check back with us in the coming days for the full score.
Source: Gizmodo – MacBook Pro 16-inch With M3 Max Review in Progress: Powerful, Sleek, but Still the Same
Rick and Morty's Best Season 7 Episode Yet Digs Into a Meaty Moral Question
Ahead of Rick and Morty’s seventh season, all anyone cared about was the new voice actors replacing Justin Roiland. Four episodes in, the show itself has reclaimed the spotlight, with last night’s standout “That’s Amorte” offering some particularly poignant and gross food for thought with its storyline.
Source: Gizmodo – Rick and Morty’s Best Season 7 Episode Yet Digs Into a Meaty Moral Question
Live Reveal: Euclid Space Telescope's First Glimpse of the Dark Universe
The European Space Agency’s $1.4 billion Euclid space telescope is charged with revealing the dark universe—the 95% of the cosmos we don’t see. On Tuesday, the telescope’s first images will be revealed live.
Source: Gizmodo – Live Reveal: Euclid Space Telescope’s First Glimpse of the Dark Universe
How Brie Larson's Captain Marvel Becomes a Mentor in The Marvels
The Marvels finally hits theaters this week with the cosmic team-up between Captain Marvel (Brie Larson), Ms. Marvel (Iman Vellani), and Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris).
Source: Gizmodo – How Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel Becomes a Mentor in The Marvels
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT-4 Turbo During First-Ever DevDay
Sam Altman, OpenAI cofounder and CEO, revealed Chat GPT-4 Turbo at the company’s first-ever developer conference called DevDay in San Francisco Monday. The new model supports 128,000 tokens of context, equivalent to a 300-page book and sixteen times ChatGPT-4’s context limits.
Source: Gizmodo – OpenAI Launches ChatGPT-4 Turbo During First-Ever DevDay
At Last, Doctor Who Christmas Specials Are Officially Back
After teasing the return of Doctor Who’s traditional Christmas special, the BBC and Disney have confirmed that Ncuti Gatwa’s debut episode as the Doctor will air on Christmas Day 2023—the series’ first holiday broadcast in six years.
Source: Gizmodo – At Last, Doctor Who Christmas Specials Are Officially Back
A Fix for Apple WatchOS 10.1 Battery Drain Issue Is 'Coming Soon'
If you are Apple Watch has recently had issues with its battery life, there may be some relief on its way. Sort of. Apple recently sent an internal memo with a few Apple Authorized Service Providers saying that a fix for some Apple Watches suffering from excessive battery drain after updating to WatchOS 10.1. was…
Source: Gizmodo – A Fix for Apple WatchOS 10.1 Battery Drain Issue Is ‘Coming Soon’
Crunchyroll Is Launching 2,400 Pop-Up Shops This Holiday Season
If you have an anime fan on your holiday gift list—or even someone you think might want to get into anime—Crunchyroll, which just launched a linear channel and a Prime Video channel, would like to help you out. The anime purveyor is launching Crunchyroll Fan Shops in over 2,400 Walmart stores across the U.S.
Source: Gizmodo – Crunchyroll Is Launching 2,400 Pop-Up Shops This Holiday Season
Nia DaCosta Explains Why She Finished The Marvels Remotely
Amid a sea of salacious reports about the current hectic state of Marvel Studios in a report by Hollywood trade Variety last week—including rumors that the studio could attempt to reunite its original Avengers stars for a new film—one unexpected detail that sparked a swirl of commentary wasn’t really about Marvel at…
Source: Gizmodo – Nia DaCosta Explains Why She Finished The Marvels Remotely
College Students Dump Dating Apps as Bumble CEO Steps Down
Young people are breaking up with dating apps, according to a new poll from Axios, showing that 79% of college students don’t use any dating apps. A decline in interest from dating apps’ core demographic is wreaking havoc across the industry, as Bumble’s CEO and founder Whitney Wolfe Herd steps down a day before the…
Source: Gizmodo – College Students Dump Dating Apps as Bumble CEO Steps Down
SpaceX's Starship Rocket Could Fly Again in the Coming Weeks
SpaceX is preparing to launch its Starship rocket for the second time, aiming for mid-November for another flight test of its launch vehicle after the first one didn’t go so well.
Source: Gizmodo – SpaceX’s Starship Rocket Could Fly Again in the Coming Weeks
Netflix's Stranger Things Play Wants to Put Vecna's Origin Story on Stage
Stranger Things is still charting the long and winding path to its final season, between the Hollywood strikes, and the not-so-simple prospect of bringing an end to what is arguably Netflix’s most defining original series. An unexpected melding of those two issues? A West End play depicting the origin story of big bad…
Source: Gizmodo – Netflix’s Stranger Things Play Wants to Put Vecna’s Origin Story on Stage
Crypto Bros Report Burning Eyes and Skin at Bored Ape Bacchanal
What began as a jovial conference celebrating crypto culture and flashy nonfungible tokens this weekend ended with multiple attendees in a hospital believing they were going blind.
Source: Gizmodo – Crypto Bros Report Burning Eyes and Skin at Bored Ape Bacchanal
Tyson Recalls Dino Chicken Nuggets After Consumers Report Metal Pieces
Tyson Foods announced that it is voluntarily recalling almost 30,000 pounds of its famous (and delicious) dinosaur-shaped nuggets this weekend after some consumers reported finding little bits of metal in their patties.
Source: Gizmodo – Tyson Recalls Dino Chicken Nuggets After Consumers Report Metal Pieces
Updates From Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Rick & Morty, and More
Rebecca Sugar is open to returning to Steven Universe. J.J. Abrams’ Constantine series for DC and Max is no more. Plus, what’s to come as Fear the Walking Dead nears its end. To me, my spoilers!
Source: Gizmodo – Updates From Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Rick & Morty, and More
Enter ‘Grok,' Elon Musk’s Anti-Woke Chatbot
Elon Musk unveiled ‘Grok’ Saturday, a snarky, anti-woke AI chatbot that has access to all tweets, giving real-time knowledge about the world – if you can call everything on X ‘knowledge’. It’s built on Grok-1, the first large language model from the billionaire’s artificial intelligence company, xAI.
Source: Gizmodo – Enter ‘Grok,’ Elon Musk’s Anti-Woke Chatbot
Ancient 'Lazarus' Primate Was North America's Last—Until Humans Arrived, Researchers Say
You may think Nebraska and China have little in common, but the two places definitely share one ancient similarity: the presence of a 30-million-year-old primate lineage which headed to North America millions of years before modern human ancestors would evolve.
Source: Gizmodo – Ancient ‘Lazarus’ Primate Was North America’s Last—Until Humans Arrived, Researchers Say