Scientists seem to have found a kink in the armor of super gonorrhea. In a large-scale clinical trial reported this week, the experimental drug zoliflodacin was found to be just as effective as other frontline antibiotics at treating the stubborn bacterial infection. The results will pave the way for zoliflodacin to…
Source: Gizmodo – Super Gonorrhea May Have Met Its Nemesis
After landing back to Earth from Virgin Galactic’s latest suborbital flight, planetary scientist Alan Stern and science communicator Kellie Gerardi received a ton of text messages from other researchers asking, “How do I get to do that?”
Source: Gizmodo – NASA Scientist Flies to Edge of Space for Suborbital Research
You probably know Jupiter, the rotund fifth planet from the Sun, as orange and tan with a big red splotch. But the Hubble Space Telescope recently imaged the gas giant in ultraviolet light, giving the world a very different look.
Source: Gizmodo – You’ve Never Seen Jupiter Look So Much Like Cotton Candy
Inspired by the impact of chance in everyday life, BalletCollective, an experimental dance group in New York City, collaborated with Sam Leigh (Anamnesis), an award-winning tabletop roleplaying game designer, to create a totally new and unique expression of the medium: a ballet inspired by a TTRPG.
Source: Gizmodo – Roleplaying Games Enter the World of Ballet in a Unique New Performance
Godzilla isn’t just a monster movie icon, the king of all kaiju: he is a king of looks too. In the nearly seven decades he’s been stomping around the box office, Godzilla’s gone through more appearances than most cinematic legends ever could. From his earliest days to his smashup with Kong in Warner’s Westernized…
Source: Gizmodo – Every Version of Godzilla, From 1954 to 2023
Unlike a lot of other upcoming movies, Deadpool 3 is still on track to open as scheduled, in May of 2024. In a new interview, director Shawn Levy explains that much of the Ryan Reynolds-Hugh Jackman Marvel movie was already filmed when the SAG-AFTRA strike shut down production. He also dropped in a hint about some…
Source: Gizmodo – Shawn Levy Dropped a Big Star Wars Homage Into Deadpool 3
You have an opportunity. If you turn back now, you can live out the rest of your days without absorbing the cosmic horror that is the music video for “Now and Then,” or as Paul McCartney’s marketing team puts it, “the last Beatles song.”
Source: Gizmodo – Peter Jackson’s Video for The Beatles’ AI Song Has Some Jump Scares
Loki (Tom Hiddleston) travels through dying timelines to find his team—but has to decipher what’s really reality, as everything is crumbling—in Loki episode five, “Science/Fiction,” now streaming on Disney+.
Source: Gizmodo – Loki Gives Its Hero His Own Place in the Multiverse
Netflix has plenty of titles sorted into its horror, sci-fi, and indie categories. But its skimpy “cult” section contains a hodgepodge of genres that feels decidedly random. We’ve picked out five that Netflix thinks are cult movies—followed by five more, found elsewhere on the streamer, that also fit the criteria.
Source: Gizmodo – 10 Ways to Get Your Cult Movie Fix on Netflix
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 – Elon Musk and Other Doomers Gave the AI World an Aneurysm This Week
Max customers who currently pay $15.99 a month for the “legacy ad-free” plan might have noticed an email this week with an ominous subject line: “Upcoming changes to your Max subscription plan.” For once, the missive wasn’t about an outright price increase—but subscribers will have to kick in more if they want to hold…
Source: Gizmodo – Legacy Ad-Free Max Subscribers Will Soon Lose Access to 4K Streams
In a surprise move, Marvel has just lifted the lid on its mysterious crime thriller series Echo, spinning out of the events of Hawkeye—but honestly, most of the surprises aren’t about the story of the show itself.
Source: Gizmodo – In Echo’s First Trailer, the Shadow of the Kingpin Looms Large
Of all the moves made with Doctor Who in recent years, few proved as divisive as “The Timeless Children”—the season 12 finale that saw Jodie Whittaker’s 13th Doctor face the Master on their homeworld, and discover the truth behind the Time Lords’ origins. But as much as new eras of the show like to play with past…
Source: Gizmodo – Russell T. Davies Doesn’t Want Doctor Who to ‘Unwrite’ Chris Chibnall
New research may change the narrative over how mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, has become a human problem. Researchers found evidence that strains of the virus have been circulating between humans since at least 2016, years before it caused a surprise global epidemic in 2022. Though reported cases of the viral…
Source: Gizmodo – Monkeypox Has Been Evolving in Humans Since at Least 2016, Study Finds
As NASA’s Lucy spacecraft zoomed past its first asteroid on Wednesday, its mission scientists made a surprising discovery of a bonus space rock.
Source: Gizmodo – Seeing Double: Lucy’s First Target Asteroid Has a Tiny Moon
69 years ago today, the movie industry was changed forever as Godzilla stomped its way into Japanese theaters, revolutionizing the monster movie as we would come to know it for generations. Now, he’s doing much the same as Japanese theatergoers head to see Godzilla Minus One—and although we’ve got to wait a little…
Source: Gizmodo – Celebrate Godzilla’s 69th Birthday With a Stunning New Minus One Trailer
Neopets is still kicking around 24 years after its first release, and now it’s planning its big comeback, of sorts. World of Neopia CEO Dominic Law, who now leads the company that bought Neopets for $4 million back in July, emphasized that the team is done with those obtuse efforts at monetization like NFTS. Instead,…
Source: Gizmodo – Forget NFTs, Neopets’ Big Revival Hinges on ‘Phygital’ Products
Succession star Brian Cox has joined the parade of actors fighting against artificial intelligence, calling it a “human rights issue.” Cox, who’s known for playing Logan Roy in the series, equated using AI to replicate an actor’s likeness as “identity theft” in an interview with Sky News this week, adding that he…
Source: Gizmodo – ‘I’d Have Told Them to F*ck Off’: Succession Star Brian Cox Says AI Is a Human Rights Issue
Stephen King hypes up the new Salem’s Lot adaptation. Natalie Holt teases what to expect in Loki’s season two finale. Plus, what’s coming on Quantum Leap, and another snifter of new Godzilla Minus One footage. To me, my spoilers!
Source: Gizmodo – The Last of Us Season 2 Will Keep You Waiting a Long, Long Time
On Friday, Google and real estate group Lendlease called off plans to build 15,000 homes in the San Francisco Bay Area, as housing developers continue to exit the troubled region.
Source: Gizmodo – Google Abandons Massive Plan That Would Have Built 15,000 Homes in San Francisco Area