Tech Billionaire Tries to Ease Fears of Hawaii Takeover by Donating $150 Million to Hospitals

On Tuesday, Benioffsaid thathe would be donating millions to Hawaiis healthcare system. The moneywill go tothe Hilo Medical Center as well as Hawaii Pacific Health. Additional funds will go to UCSF Health in San Francisco. Photo: Stefan Wermuth/Bloomberg (Getty Images) Nothing is more important than the health of our community and access to care for all who need it. News from the future, delivered to your present.

March 5, 2024 · 1 min · 67 words · Nicole Henderson

The Coolest Items on Sale From Anthony Daniels’Star WarsCollection, From Heads to Cookies

There are Star Wars collectionsand then there are collections from people who are Star Wars. I had all this stuff, almost all of it was in cupboards, drawers, and in attics. Nobody was looking at it, nobody was treasuring it, if you will. Anthony Daniels poses with C-3PO at a Japanese Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker fan event on December 11, 2019.Photo: Christopher Jue/Getty Images for Disney (Getty Images)...

March 5, 2024 · 1 min · 103 words · Brandon Fields

The Greatest App of All Time Day 5: Snapchat vs. Vine

Welcome back to Gizmodos March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! A dozen years ago, our first challenger noticed that society had a problem. People were sending each other nudes that later came back to bite them in the ass. Graphic: Gizmodo A messaging platform that auto-deletes images and text. (Yes, all of those things are related.) It has seen many of its original features like Stories cannibalized by competitors, particularly Instagram....

March 5, 2024 · 1 min · 194 words · Luke Koch

The Last of Us10th Anniversary Vinyl Box Set Looks Awesome

Its also known for having an excellent soundtrack. Now, for the games 10th anniversary, adeluxe vinyl boxed setis coming. Some seriously cool-looking cover art is also part of the mix. Screenshot: X News from the future, delivered to your present. Two banks say Amazon has paused negotiations on some international data centers. Pacific Rims TV Show Drifts to Prime Video Good news for giant robot fans. Screenshot: vinylmeplease.com (Other)

March 5, 2024 · 1 min · 69 words · Amy Raymond

The New Super Sentai Show Asks ‘What IfFast and FuriousActually Had Superheroes?’

Its a very silly debut, leaning more toward Sentais comedic side than the straight laced superheroic fare. Want more io9 news? News from the future, delivered to your present. Image: TV Asahi Image: TV Asahi Image: TV Asahi

March 5, 2024 · 1 min · 38 words · Lori Williams

The ‘Meth Lab Oompa Loompa Lady’ Is Selling Greetings on Cameo for $25

I need a Cameo. Patersoncurrently charges $25 for video greetingsand $3 for texts. Her response time is 24 hours. After becoming an infamous meme, Kirsty Paterson is trying to turn the experience around—as she should.Illustration: Jody Serrano / Gizmodo / Cameo / House of Illuminati However, the reality was a far cry from what was promised in the AI images. Paterson was one of the actors hired to work at the event and played an Oompa Loompa....

March 5, 2024 · 1 min · 121 words · Matthew Johnson

This Man Got 217 Covid-19 Shots, Is Completely Fine

The mans vaccine shenanigans werefirst reportedby German authorities in spring 2022. The teams subsequent paper on the unusual case waspublishedthis Monday in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases. The researchers found documentation of 108 shots, some of which overlapped with those found by the authorities. A healthcare worker preparing a vaccine shot.Image: PhotobyTawat (Shutterstock) But the man claims that he had actually gotten 217 vaccinations over the course of 29 months....

March 5, 2024 · 1 min · 153 words · Melissa White

This Potentially Inhabited Moon Is Churning Out Enough Oxygen for 1 Million Humans

The scientists estimated oxygen production from the moon based on the amount of hydrogen outgassing from its surface. Europa generates about 1,000 tons of oxygen every 24 hours, enough for a million (breathing) humans. Europa is like an ice ball slowly losing its water in a flowing stream. A JunoCam image of Europa.Image:Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Image processing: Kevin M. Gill (The new papers figure corresponds to about 26 pounds of oxygen per second)....

March 5, 2024 · 1 min · 99 words · Anthony Kelley

Watch Mind-BlowingSpider-Man: Across the Spider-VerseArt Come to Life

Spider-Man was the very first hero I became obsessed with at a young age, he said. My mom [even] made me a Spider-Man Halloween costume in first grade. The chase to end all chases. A tiny crop of the full image.Image: Scott C I started by freeze-framing the chase scene to take a stab at pick out all the Spider-people. That was just an insane task to give a shot to figure them all out, he said....

March 5, 2024 · 1 min · 201 words · Victoria Hester

We Finally Know When to ExpectHouse of the DragonSeason 2

Superman has found its latest Perry White. Rebecca Ferguson is teaming up with Chris Pratt for Timur Bekmambetovs new sci-fi movie. Get a look at Fallouts retro world in three new posts. Image: HBO Plus, whats coming on the next episode of Halo. To me, my spoilers! The Unknown Bloody-Disgustingalso reports a horror film based on Glasgowsill-fated, A.I. Photo: Paramount+ scripted Willy Wonka Experienceis now in development at Kaledonia Pictures....

March 5, 2024 · 1 min · 143 words · John Thomas

We Might Be Just a Few Years Away From an Ice-Free Arctic

An ice-free Arctic isnt entirely free of ice. On average, icecovers6 million square miles (15.5 million square kilometers) of the Arctic Ocean. Thats a significant decrease, but the researchers behind the new study dont want us to lose hope yet. The ice sheets on the Arctic Ocean may disappear for months at a time.Photo: Ulf Mauder (AP) As of now, an ice-free Arctic is inevitable under all emissions scenarios. It doesnt end when the Arctic goes ice free, Jahn said....

March 5, 2024 · 1 min · 111 words · Brittney Carter

7 Brutal Jabs Against Elon Musk From the $128 Million Lawsuit Over Twitter Severance Payments

And it gets even more pointed in its attacks from there. And their lawyers arent holding back when it comes to ways to describe Musk. Musk agreed tobuy Twitter in early 2022for $44 billion before trying to back out of the deal. Elon Musk at the premiere of Lola held at the Regency Bruin Theatre on February 3, 2024, in Los Angeles, CaliforniaPhoto: Michael Buckner/Variety (Getty Images) News from the future, delivered to your present....

March 4, 2024 · 1 min · 75 words · Donna Lee

Anthropic Sets a New Gold Standard: Your Move, OpenAI

Anthropic released three tiers Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku which range from most to least capable. Opus shows us the outer limits of whats possible with generative AI, said Anthropic in ablog postMonday. Claude 3 Opus is our most intelligent model, with best-in-market performance on highly complex tasks. Anthropic’s Co-Founder and CEO Dario Amodei.Photo: Kimberly White (Getty Images) It can navigate open-ended prompts and sight-unseen scenarios with remarkable fluency and human-like understanding....

March 4, 2024 · 2 min · 273 words · Tammy Diaz