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28  mars     23h30
Ernie Hudson on Filming Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire and the Fan Base
Artem Golub and Germain Lussier    Read more...
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Enter the World of How To Train Your Dragon at Universal’s Epic Universe
Sabina Graves    Soar with Toothless and Hiccup at Universal Epic Universe, which will soon boast an imaginative world of Vikings inspired by DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon. Details for the Isle of Berk area, one of the five new cinematic portals of Universal Orlando’s newest theme park, have just been...
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How to Turn Off Find My iPhone
Florence Ion    So you’ve decided to go off the grid with your iPhone. There are legitimate reasons for shutting off Find My iPhone, like when taking in the device for repair or selling it to another party, so this walkthrough is for you.Read more...
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A Quick Guide to Luna Snow, the Marvel Heroine You’ve Never Heard Of
James Whitbrook    Yesterday, Marvel revealed yet another upcoming video game:Marvel Rivals, a team based multiplayer shooter inspired by the likes of Overwatch and Valorant. But among its roster of stalwarts X Men Storm and Magneto, Guardians of the Galaxy members Star Lord and Rocket, and of course, more than a few...
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This Is a Sputnik Moment’: NYC Is Adding AI Metal Detectors to the Subway
Oscar Gonzalez    NYC Mayor Eric Adams has a new plan to make the city’s subways safe: metal detectors. But these are not just any metal detectors because these detectors come with AI. As for how well they work, it’s not looking so good. Read more...
    20h45
A Data Broker Reportedly Tracked Visitors to Jeffrey Epstein’s Island
Lucas Ropek    A data broker compiled a report on the geographical movements of visitors to Jeffrey Epstein’s pedophile island, culling it from mobile data that it acquired via unknown means, a new investigation by Wired reveals. Read more...
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Scientists Find Evidence in Mice That Inherited Alzheimer’s Could Be Transmittable
Ed Cara    A new study this week points to a potential transmission risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers found evidence in mice that an inherited form of the neurological disorder can be passed on via bone marrow donation. While such a danger has yet to be confirmed in humans and likely to be infrequent...
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Apple Sues Former Engineer for Leaking Products He Hated to ’Homeboy’
Maxwell Zeff    Apple filed a lawsuit earlier this month against former software engineer Andrew Aude, alleging he leaked info about products he wanted to kill to a journalist saved in his phone as Homeboy. The secret projects included Apple’s new Journal app and the Vision Pro, first reported by MacRumors...
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35 Years Later, Heathers Has Been Often Imitated, Never Duplicated
Cheryl Eddy    Heathers was released in theaters March , , capping a decade of teen movies more defined by John Hughes comedies The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off than wickedly acidic satire. Other high school centric films in included Say Anything, Dead Poets’ Society, and Bill Ted’s...
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Watch Live as the Most Metal’ Rocket Sets Itself on Fire for the Final Time
Passant Rabie    The grand Delta finale is upon us, as United Launch Alliance ULA prepares to launch its last Delta IV rocket and bid farewell to an iconic rocket family that dates back to the Cold War. Read more...
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Russell T. Davies on Why Doctor Who’s Disney Partnership Is So Important
Cheryl Eddy    If you watched the Doctor Who th anniversary specials, the most recent Christmas special, or even just the trailer for Ncuti Gatwa’s first season as the Fifteenth Doctor you have absolutely noticed the famously low budget show’s suddenly far more glorious production values. It’s a big result of...
    19h21
Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison
Maxwell Zeff    Sam Bankman Fried was sentenced to years in prison on Thursday by Manhattan Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan. A jury found Bankman Fried guilty of one of the largest white collar crimes in history roughly five months ago. The year old could be in jail until he’s .Read more...
    19h05
TikTokers Are Convinced the Solar Eclipse Will Break Our World ’Simulation’
Matt Novak    A total solar eclipse will happen on Monday, April, putting on quite a show for roughly million people who live within the totality the places on the Earth that will be completely shielded by the Moon as it comes between us and the sun. But there are more than a few people on platforms like...
    19h00
Rooster Teeth’s Red vs. Blue Will End With a (Feature-Length) Bang
Cheryl Eddy    News dropped earlier this month that Warner Bros. Discovery is shuttering Austin, Texas based animation company Rooster Teeth and now one of the studio’s most beloved titles is getting a big send off. Red vs. Blue: Restoration, the web series’ th season, is arriving in May, and it’ll be released...
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Family Requests ’Mamma Mia Star Be Replaced With AI in BBC Documentary
Maxwell Zeff    Sara Poyzer, an actress who starred in the stage production of Mamma Mia for over years, will be replaced by AI in an upcoming production for the BBC. Sobering... said the star in response to a crass email from producers posted in a tweet Tuesday.Read more...
    18h35
iPad Pro OLED: Everything We Know So Far
Kyle Barr    This guide was updated on March , , at : p.m. ET to reflect the latest information from Bloomberg and other sources.Read more...
    18h25
How to Reset an iPad
Dua Rashid    If you want your iPad to go back to looking the way it did when you first got it, you can reset its settings to default without losing your data.Read more...
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Unmarked Remains in West Virginia Are Actually George Washington’s Descendants
Isaac Schultz    Twenty five years ago, a team of researchers excavated a cemetery in West Virginia hoping to find George Washington’s little brother. Five graves were unearthed, and after testing small bones retrieved from these burial sites, tentative identities have been assigned. A new DNA analysis has now...
    18h00
Hasbro’s New Deadpool and Wolverine Figures Are Not Deadpool & Wolverine Figures
James Whitbrook    Truly, it is the week of here is merchandise featuring Deadpool and Wolverine, but it’s definitely not Deadpool Wolverine merchandise, because licensing takes time. Just after we got to see some rad Logan and Wade art, Hasbro has announced two updated movie figures of the irascible mutant duo....
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Japan’s SLIM Moon Lander Just Won’t Die
Passant Rabie    The Japanese SLIM lander is still clinging onto its unfortunate existence, surviving a second lunar night while lying face down on the Moon.Read more...
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Melissa Barrera Speaks Out on Her Scream Firing Fallout
Cheryl Eddy    The Scream revival, which kicked off in and found continued success with last year’s Scream VI, took a major detour in November when star Melissa Barrera was fired from the franchise by production company Spyglass, which took issue with social media posts Barrera had shared regarding her...
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The Greatest App of All Time Day 28: Google Earth vs. Calculator
Rhett Jones    Welcome back to Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time Duolingo’s surprise performancein the bracket was cut short in yesterday’s tournament and the unstoppable Flashlight advances to the Final Four. Today we have Google Earth taking on Calculator.Read more....
    16h00
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Never Quite Clicks
Germain Lussier    At the very least, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire delivers on its biggest promise. You get to see lots of giant creatures fighting other giant creatures. Godzilla and Kong are just two of many and, when they fight in fantastical looking settings with eye popping color and lighting, there’s an...
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How to Reset Your MacBook
Kyle Barr    You’ll sometimes need to commit the dirty deed and reset your Mac when unfortunate circumstances arise. Thankfully, you’ll need to follow a few simple steps to reset your Mac or MacBook to factory settings. Don’t worry, if everything goes well you should be able to keep your most important...
    15h27
First Look: Samsung Music Frame
Kyle Barr    It’s a picture frame It’s a speaker No, it’s... a speaker frame. Since Samsung first showed off its new Music Frame at CES, we’ve been jonesing to spend time in front of it to see whether it will knock our socks off or offer a gentle kiss of sound on the cheek. After checking out Samsung’s latest...
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The Many Lives of Asajj Ventress
James Whitbrook    It’s been years since Asajj Ventress stalked her way into Star Wars canon five years after her actual debut, in ’s Star Wars: Clone Wars and the Clone Wars DCG series. Since then, she has walked many paths along the road to the one we found her in this week, when she returned in The Bad...
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Long-Lost Bombs From the World Wars Are Increasingly Likely to Blow Up, Scientists Say
Isaac Schultz    Live ordnance from both the First and Second World Wars are more likely to detonate as they age, according to a new study published in Royal Society Open Science.Read more...
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Your Essential Guide to Having the Best Possible Solar Eclipse Experience
George Dvorsky    The big day April is almost upon us. Millions of people across North America are in the midst of planning for the Great North American Eclipse, and we’re here to help you get the most from this once in a lifetime event.Read more...
    14h45
How to Get Google’s Circle to Search on Your Samsung Galaxy Smartphone
Florence Ion    Google’s Circle to Search is arguably one of the best new features for Android devices in a long time. It’s also one of the first to roll out with a major Samsung flagship launch. Read more...
    14h00
Updates From Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and More
Gordon Jackson and James Whitbrook    Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Bride of Frankenstein movie gets a shorter name and a new cast member. Get a look at not one, but two young vampire movies. Milla Jovovich has signed up for Brad Anderson’s new sci fi thriller. Plus, what’s coming on Invincible. Spoilers, away Read more...
    13h35
Police Robot Dog Shot Three Times by Barricaded Suspect, Police Claim
Jody Serrano    The Massachusetts State Police claim one of the members of its bomb squad has gone above and beyond in the line of duty and taken bullets for the team. However, the officer in question is not a human or even a canine, but rather Roscoe, the police’s specialized robot dog created by Boston...
    13h20
Florida May Just Be Too Valuable for PornHub to Pull Out
Lucas Ropek    A slew of conservative states have recently passed age verification laws for websites and, in response, Pornhub has gotten in the habit of shutting off service in those states rather than acquiescing to local regulations. The company has already shut off service in six states, including Texas, Utah...
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These Custom Toys Are More Art Than Action Figure
Germain Lussier    Human instinct dictates that when we see a toy, we want to open it. It’s why old toys that are still in their box are so valuable. Everyone who bought them as a child opened and played with them, making ones still in the package much rarer. But what if there were toys that went against that...
27  mars     22h40
Florence Pugh Takes Us on a Tour of the Thunderbolts Set
Sabina Graves    There’s a new crew of ne’er do wells joining up to save the world in Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts. The new film starring Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova, this era’s Black Widow, has started shooting in Atlanta, Georgia and the actress has given fans a look behind the scenes of the shoot.Read more...
    21h30
Lush’s Slimy New Shrek Collection Brings the Swamp to the Spa
Sabina Graves    Shrek’s swamp comes home with a spa upgrade thanks to a new Lush collection featuring an all star ensemble of Shrek characters, including Donkey, Princess Fiona, Gingy, and the big green ogre himself. It’s the latest Lush collaboration with Universal Pictures after a successful Super Mario Bros....
    21h15
NASA Rockets Set to Probe the Moon’s Shadow During Upcoming Eclipse
Passant Rabie    As the Moon wedges itself between Earth and Sun, temporarily dimming the day’s light over parts of our planet, three rockets will take to the skies to observe how those brief moments of darkness affect Earth’s upper atmosphere.Read more...
    20h55
Twitch Changes Policy to Deal With New Butt Streaming
Oscar Gonzalez    Twitch has once again redefined its policy regarding nudity on streams. This time around, it seems like you can stream parts of your body but don’t do it for the entire playthrough of Baldur’s Gate . Read more...
    20h45
Apple Users Are Getting Bombarded With Reset Password’ Requests
Jody Serrano    Apple users are being targeted by an elaborate and annoying phishing scam that aims to change their password and lock them out of their devices, according to a new report from Krebs on Security. In some cases, the scammers have even called individuals and pretended to be Apple Support.Read more...
    20h30
Disney’s War With Ron DeSantis Might Finally Be Winding Down
Sabina Graves    Nearly two years after a highly public feud kicked off between the Walt Disney Company and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis involving the takeover and subsequent renaming of of Disney’s Reedy Creek Improvement District as the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District a settlement has been reached....
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Astronomers Watch in Real Time as Epic Supernova Potentially Births a Black Hole
Isaac Schultz    A team of astronomers recently captured a series of images of a distant star as it wentsupernova, providing a remarkable play by play of stellar death and possibly the birth of a black hole.Read more...
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10 Things AI Chatbots Can Do Besides Yap
Maxwell Zeff    ChatGPT has quickly become a household name, but many of us are struggling to figure out what to do with it. We all know that ChatGPT can yap quite a bit, but generative AI chatbots have some practical applications that have nothing to do with text generation. The bots continue to get better at...
    19h45
Rebecca Hall on Filming Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Artem Golub and Germain Lussier    Read more...
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A Supposedly Safer Hair-Straightening Ingredient Could Be Damaging People’s Kidneys
Ed Cara    A woman’s hair care routine seems to have given her repeated bouts of kidney damage. In a new case study this month, her doctors describe how the woman’s use of hair straightening products containing a certain ingredient likely injured her kidneys. The ingredient, called glyoxylic acid, has been...
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Everything We Know About the Google Pixel 9
Florence Ion    This guide was updated on March , , at : P.M. ET to reflect the latest leaks at Mobiles.Read more...
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How to Restart an iPad
Dua Rashid    Just as screenshotting on an iPad works, restarting an iPad works differently on devices with and without a home button.Read more...
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X-Men ’97 Just Sped Through One of the Greatest Stories in Comics History
James Whitbrook    Adaptation is always a challenge but it’s a particularly daunting one in the case of comic books, where a new medium has to reckon with translating sagas told across years of issues and continuity fluxes. For the most part, X Men ’s latest episode navigates this task the best it can, but the...
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This Website Plays Every Keanu Reeves ’Whoa’ in Movie History
Lucas Ropek    Keanu Reeves has been in a lot of movies and in almost every single one he manages to say whoa at least once. Now, a website developer has helpfully created a site where you can listen to every single Reeves whoa that exists. Read more...
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Carrie-Anne Moss’s 10 Most Memorable Genre Performances (So Far)
Cheryl Eddy    The first association most fans have with Carrie Anne Moss is the black clad badass Trinity in The Matrix and that makes sense. The sci fi thriller, which was released years ago this weekend, brought Moss widespread acclaim, and the movie became an instant classic. With The Acolyte, which will...
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Wi-Fi’ Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means
Matt Novak    Have you ever thought about where the term Wi Fi comes from Most people would logically assume it’s a shortened version of some highly technical description for the tech that allowed computers to access the internet wirelessly. But those people would be wrong.Read more...
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The Walking Dead Lawsuits Are Like Zombies, They Just Don’t Die
Germain Lussier    In The Walking Dead universe, three things never die: zombies, spinoffs, and lawsuits. Just as the show’s sixth spinoff enjoys newfound success, so too has a lawsuit brought against its network, AMC, which at one point almost ended, but has since returned. Read more...