Boeing’s Latest Problem: A Cargo Plane’s Exploding Engine

Video footage of the problem was captured by onlookers and shared widely on social media. BREAKING REPORT : Atlas Air Boeing 747-8 from Miami International Airport CATCHES FIRE MID AIR.. DEVELOPING..pic.twitter.com/Qk6QLZ6U7E Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto)January 19, 2024 What caused the mid-air inferno? Photo: PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP (Getty Images) Gizmodo reached out to Boeing for comment and will update this story if it responds. It is also investigating the Miami incident. News from the future, delivered to your present....

January 20, 2024 · 1 min · 77 words · Alexandra Hartman

Boulders Covered in Weird Dust Found on the Moon

The AI turned up 130,000 images of rocks with compelling features, half of which the researchers reviewed. Their research ispublishedin the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. On the Moona rocky satellite devoid of winds and erosiondust is not just a powdery irritant. Intriguing rocks were identified near the Reiner K crater on the Moon.Image:NASA LRO/NAC The team concluded that the boulders were ejected when the crater Reiner K formed. However, when the dust is compacted, the overall brightness usually increases....

January 20, 2024 · 1 min · 119 words · Bradley Smith

Deep Sea ROV Encounters Unknown Octopus Species and More Science News of the Week

Meet the dorado octopus, a newly described deep sea cephalopod with some seriously alien features. Click through for our top science stories from this week. News from the future, delivered to your present. Photo: Schmidt Ocean Institute / Photo: Astrobotic / Photo: Axiom Space / Photo:Jiannan Meng/ Photo: John Deere / Illustration:Daniëlle Futselaar (artsource.nl)/ Image: M-Production (Shutterstock) / Image: SpaceX / Image: JAXA / Image: JAXA

January 20, 2024 · 1 min · 66 words · Lisa Oneill

Self-Checkout on the Outs, Google Search Kind of Sucks, and More

Tech is having a moment where everyone is wondering if its all that great. Dont worry though, the Silicon Valley billionaires are planning their ownutopia, but youre not invited. Heres a roundup of some of the big tech stories of the week. Photo: Reshetnikov_art / Shutterstock.com (Shutterstock) / Photo: Tyler Nottley / Shutterstock.com (Shutterstock) / Photo: Bloomberg / Contributor (Getty Images) / Photo: Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times (Getty Images) / Photo: Courtesy of Georgia Tech / Photo: VCG/VCG (Getty Images) / Image: Melnikov Dmitriy (Shutterstock) / Image: lidiasilva (Shutterstock) / Graphic: Microsoft / Screenshot: California Forever...

January 20, 2024 · 1 min · 107 words · Michael Morrow

The Samsung Galaxy S24 Bets Big on AI, Apple Watch Ban Saga, and More

Catch up on the biggest product news of the week in our roundup. News from the future, delivered to your present. We still need to see it to believe it. Image: Ubisoft / Image: PhoneDog / Photo: Florence Ion / Gizmodo / Photo: Florence Ion / Gizmodo / Photo: Florence Ion / Gizmodo / Photo: Florence Ion / Gizmodo / Photo: Dan Ackerman / Gizmodo

January 20, 2024 · 1 min · 65 words · Elizabeth Holden

Wait,Madame WebIs a Period Piece?

Ever since Sony revealed it was working on a solo movie forMadame Web, folks have had questions. How is this going to connect towhichever Spider-Manis swinging around now? If youve watchedthe trailer, one of the questions may be when this movie is set. Image: Sony Pictures/Marvel (What is it with women-led superhero movies being set two or three decades ago?) According to entertainment reporterJeff Sneider, thats a reshoots choice. If true, it paints the films existence in an even weirder light than before....

January 20, 2024 · 1 min · 103 words · Brandi Harris

A Year After the Toxic Train Derailment, Is East Palestine Safe?

This story was originally published byGrist. It would be beautiful if it werent so toxic and deadly. By DeHavens estimate, he spends as many as 15 hours a week wading through the waterways. A large plume of smoke rises over East Palestine, Ohio, after a controlled detonation of a portion of a derailed Norfolk Southern train on Feb. 6, 2023. Three days earlier, about 50 cars, including 10 carrying hazardous materials, derailed in a fiery crash....

January 19, 2024 · 5 min · 1014 words · Pamela Carlson

A ‘Cookie Pledge’ Claims It’ll Free You From All Those Annoying Cookie Popups

Tired of dealing with popups begging you to accept cookies? A lot of companies switched their whole systems over rather than building special European versions of their websites. Its a privacy improvement, but the downside is the web bombarding everyone on the planet with cookie popups. Photo: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images (Getty Images) (Credit toTechspotfor translating it for my plebeian, English-speaking eyes.) Then, the whole rest of the internet is supposed to voluntarily follow the tech giants lead....

January 19, 2024 · 1 min · 167 words · Brandon Thomas

Astrobotic Feared ‘Catastrophic Situation’ If It Didn’t Destroy Peregrine Lunar Lander

The Pittsburgh-based companylost contactwith Peregrine at around 3:50 p.m. ET, with the spacecraft potentially performing a control reentry over the South Pacific at 4:04 p.m. That was certainly a tough moment for all of us. With that in mind, Astrobotic was faced with the difficult decision on what to do with the spacecraft. Peregrine reentered through Earth’s atmosphere on Thursday.Image: Astrobotic For more spaceflight in your life, follow us onX(formerly Twitter) and bookmark Gizmodos dedicatedSpaceflight page....

January 19, 2024 · 1 min · 84 words · Richard Mccormick

DeepMind Co-Founder: AI Is Fundamentally a “Labor Replacing Tool”

Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodos weekly deep dive on whats been happening in artificial intelligence. And there it is. Suleyman makes this sound like some foggy future hypothetical but its obvious that said labor replacement is already happening. Mustafa Suleyman at a session of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. For companies, the benefits of this are obvious. You dont have to pay a software program, nor do you have to supply it with health benefits....

January 19, 2024 · 2 min · 359 words · Russell Willis

Fate of Japan’s History-Making ‘Lunar Sniper’ in Doubt After Power Malfunction

Japans SLIM touched down on the Moons surface Friday at 10:20 a.m. ET (12:20 a.m. Saturday Japan time), right on schedule. Prior to the landing, all telemetry readings seemed normal. Conceptual view of SLIM on the lunar surface.Image: JAXA Broadcasters on JAXAs livestream withheld any confirmation of success until a status report was received. Normally, targeted landing areas on the Moon are measured at scales 10 times that size. We are still trying to confirm the situation, a JAXA spokesperson said at 11:15 a....

January 19, 2024 · 2 min · 218 words · Christina Williams

Hazbin Hotel’s Creator on the Inspirations Behind Her Cult-Beloved Series

You see, Heaven annually sends angels to exterminate their numbers, a practice Charlie wants to end. Sabina Graves, io9: Take me back and tell me about the inspiration for Hazbin Hotel. Your fans embracing the pilot online to get it to series is such an amazing journey. Image: Prime Video Vivienne Medrano: Honestly, it was. Ive always been really, really influenced by adult comedy. It really just changed the entire trajectory of my career....

January 19, 2024 · 2 min · 377 words · Mr. Scott Aguirre

Here Are All the Apps You Will and Won’t Get on the Vision Pro

A few big-name apps are not coming to theVision Pro, and there are a few surprises that will. Expect AppleTV to be front and center, especially as the company pushes its new Immersive Video format. Of course, Apple needs to lead the pack in available apps. Photo: Dan Ackerman / Gizmodo These include the likes of TikTok. The current slate of apps available for the Vision Pro seems sparse, at least to start....

January 19, 2024 · 2 min · 261 words · Sarah Young