If you’re driving on the freeway around Phoenix anytime soon, keep your eyes peeled for a car driving itself. Waymo will start testing its autonomous vehicles on Arizona highways this month, the company announced Monday. The driverless robotaxi serv…
Lees meerThe United Arab Emirates (UAE) is contributing to the lunar outpost that will be built around the Moon, building the Gateway’s airlock module in a sign that the gulf country will be more involved in NASA’s Artemis program.Read more...
Lees meerA mission to land a private U.S. lander on the Moon, and the first U.S. lander since the Apollo era, looks to be ending before it even had a chance to get started. Read more...
Lees meer“JFK was an interesting man.” At least, that’s the first thing you read if you follow the top Search result for variations of “Did JFK support the death penalty?” Google turns up 7.5 million results, but for some reason, it starts you off with a Go…
Lees meerNearly six years ago, Mark Hamill made the most shocking and scandalous of Star Wars revelations he could possibly ever make, sending the already perpetually tumultuous fandom’s heads spinning: he had never met Natalie Portman, aka his own goddamn s…
Lees meerIn recent years, “drop tests” have become a popular way to test the durability of new iPhones and their cases. As you might expect, these “tests” typically involve dropping the item from a pre-established height—whether that’s a bridge, a helicopter…
Lees meerIt was inevitable that once Mickey Mouse entered the public domain via early Disney short Steamboat Willie, projects exploiting the icon’s newly accessible status would follow. News of horror flick Mickey’s Mouse Trap broke last week, complete with …
Lees meerGoogle has been the dominant search engine since the early 2000s, but Jeff Bezos is betting that AI will change the way people find information on the internet. Bezos invested millions in Perplexity AI last week, a startup that hopes to revolutioniz…
Lees meerLG announced a new transparent TV at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. Gizmodo’s staff got to check it out in person, and it’s gorgeous. LG claims this is the world’s first wireless transparent OLED TV and is calling it the Signa…
Lees meer“JFK was an interesting man.” At least, that’s the first thing you read if you follow the top Search result for variations of “Did JFK support the death penalty?” Google turns up 7.5 million results, but for some reason, it starts you off with a Go…
Lees meerA silky shark with a chunk taken out of its dorsal fin regrew much of its lost appendage, according to photographs taken of the fish nearly a year apart. Research describing the elasmobranch’s recovery is published in the Journal of Marine Sciences.…
Lees meerMiles Morales has more than a few problems to work out by the end of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. First and foremost, he’s gotta figure out how to get off Earth-42, where he’s been captured by an alternate version of himself as the Prowler. …
Lees meerUpdate: 2:07 p.m. ET: A fourth update from Astrobotic, issued around 1:00 p.m. ET, is exceptionally discouraging. “Unfortunately, it appears the failure within the propulsion system is causing a critical loss of propellant,” the company noted on X. …
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Lees meerUpdate: January 8, 12:54 p.m. ET: Astrobotic issued a third update at 12:34 p.m. ET, and the news is more encouraging. “We have successfully re-established communications with Peregrine after the known communication blackout,” the company stated on …
Lees meerThree weeks ago, Wizards of the Coast made the bold declaration that use of generative AI tools at any stage of the creative process for Magic: The Gathering products was forbidden. Little did it know that declaration would soon be smashing a prover…
Lees meerIf you have several thousand dollars burning an Apple-shaped hole in your pocket, then get your eyes ready and shave your head for good measure because Apple’s long-time coming “spatial computer,” the Vision Pro, will finally make its way into Apple…
Lees meerAstrobotic’s 6-foot-tall shiny probe ran into early trouble on its way to the Moon, and is currently unable to point its solar panels towards the Sun for power.Read more...
Lees meerElon Musk smoked weed on camera with Joe Rogan. There are numerous stories about the billionaire taking drugs including cocaine, LSD, psychedelic mushrooms at parties all over the globe. He’s discussed using ketamine with a prescription, but there a…
Lees meerIt seems like not as many people took the chance to see The Marvels in theaters as Disney and Marvel may have liked, given how the studio quietly stopped publicly updating its box office and then very publicly decided on who it could blame for that.…
Lees meerOver the weekend, Apple users finally began receiving their piece of the ‘batterygate’ settlement in the form of $92 payments, as first reported by MacRumors. Apple admitted to slowing down old iPhones back in 2017 without notifying users, saying i…
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