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The 46-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft is on the fritz again, and this time it may be critical. As one engineer said, this is, by far, the most serious since Ive been project manager. Here are our top science stories from this week. Illustration: NASA, ESA, CSA, Leah Hustak (STScI) / Illustration:Caltech/NASA-JPL/ Image: Alex Gerilich/TU Dortmund / Image: Rich Graessle (AP) / Photo:Wikimedia Commons/ Photo:Matthew Kapust, Sanford Underground Research Facility/ Photo: NASA / Photo: Sholten Singer (AP) / Screenshot:YouTube...

Click through for our top product news and reviews from this week. News from the future, delivered to your present. Meta Pissed Off Everyone With Poorly Redacted Docs Meta is being very transparent on accident. Screenshot: Twitter/X @M1Astra / Photo: Kyle Barr / Gizmodo / Photo: Florence Ion / Gizmodo / Photo: Florence Ion / Gizmodo / Photo: Justin Sullivan / Photo: Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto (Getty Images) / Photo:Clément M/Unsplash/ Photo: Florence Ion / Gizmodo...

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This week, Tucker Carlson conductedan interviewwith Vladimir Putin for his show on X. Ill say this: This interview is easily the funniest thing Ive seen all year. There are multiple layers to the humor. Photo: GAVRIIL GRIGOROV/POOL/AFP (Getty Images) For one thing, Carlson was forced to fly to the Kremlin to conduct this interview. This, in and of itself, is funny. The memes inspired by the episode have been plentiful and hilarious....

TheStar Warsfandom got into a tizzy earlier this week whenEmpire Magazineteased something. Thanks to Empire, were going back to the Prequels, babyyyyyyyy! At time of writing, Disney hasnt put the poster will be up for sale. Image: Matt Ferguson/Lucasfilm The Phantom Menace originally released on May 16, 1999. Back then, its big cliam to fame was being the first new movie since Return in 1983. And the end result…was not what older fans really wanted....

This articleoriginally appeared on Quartz.com. Because chips arecostly, well-resourced tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon are building their own in house. The US government is stepping in, too. Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO.Photo: Denis Balibouse (Reuters) Altmans new project is aimed at solving chip constraints for OpenAI. OpenAI would agree to be a significant customer of the new factories, the publication noted. The project could span years although even with a $7 trillion price tag, its success isnt guaranteed....

The trade notes that despite drawing from the same source material, the series are actually quite different. Want more io9 news? News from the future, delivered to your present. Three-BodyScreenshot:YouTube Get your finest dark clothing and all your creepy things, part one ofWednesdayseason two is dropping in August. Pacific Rims TV Show Drifts to Prime Video Good news for giant robot fans.

Anumberofvideos onlinewould appear to show cars being manipulated and unlocked via the Flipper. YouTubers and TikTokers have uploaded videos where they appear to hack vehicles key fobs quite easily using the rig. And for any modern vehicle with rolling codes, its practically useless. Photo: Pixelsquid (Shutterstock) The Flipper has already been banned in Brazil andAmazon banned sales of the deviceon its platform last year. We previouslypredictedthat the Flipper would face additional bans....

This story was originally published byGrist. This is the one the climatologists have been warning us about for 20 years, one character declares. In the real world, Category 5 is synonymous with the biggest and baddest storms. Hurricane Dorian makes landfall on North Carolina’s Outer Banks on September 6, 2019.Image: NOAA But some U.S. scientists are making the case that it no longer captures the intensity of recent hurricanes. According to the study, the world has already seen storms that would qualify as Category 6s....

His latest tactic: Giving up his phone number and using X exclusively for calls and texts. By default, only mutuals can call each other on the platform. Xenabled audio and video callson the platform last October. Only people who pay for X Premium, which starts at $8 per month, can call other users on the app.Illustration: Jody Serrano / Gizmodo / Win McNamee / Getty Images Platforms like WhatsApp also use confirmation codes through SMS when people want to create an account....

Apple engineers deal with a lot of confidential information, but leaking those secrets could land you in jail. Zhang worked on Project Titan, the codename for Apples autonomous car division, starting in 2015. One video showed him leaving Apples campus with a box of hardware. Photo: Chen Yuyu/VCG (Getty Images) The former Apple engineer confessed to taking documents from Apple and pleaded guilty to his charges. Its unclear what happened to XMotors....

Theres a new Apple image editor, if you know where to look. The project is called Multimodal Large Language Model Guided Image Editing (MGIE). There are a lot of AI image editors on the market right now. Screenshot: Hugging Face / Gizmodo If youve ever tried to use them, however, you know it can be a little frustrating. In many cases, the AI has a hard time understanding exactly what youre looking for....

I absolutely have been working towards that and hoping towards that, but well see what happens. It might be a version of it that no one expects. Because what happens after that? Danai Gurira, Chandler Riggs, and Andrew Lincoln at the new Walking Dead premiere.Photo: Frazer Harrison (Getty Images) Maybe we give all the characters their own shows again? Now, to be fair, if this reunion was a one-off and kind of tied everything up?...