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The sleepy week between Christmas and New Years is for hangouts and hangovers. That is unless you work at Apple. Click through to check out the latest moves in tech and cheers to new beginnings. Image: Apple/Getty / Image: Rockstar Games / Image: Warner Bros., Sony, Crunchyroll / Photo: T. Schneider (Shutterstock) / Photo: kovop / Shutterstock.com (Shutterstock) / Photo: Chris Strother/Netflix / Photo: Dustin Chambers/Bloomberg (Getty Images) / Photo: Paul Harris (Getty Images) / Photo: Hadrian (Shutterstock) / Screenshot: Gizmodo / YouTube...

But not all friends are friendly in Star Wars. Did you ever worry you were laying things on a little too thick? The great unknown in writing is toeing a line and trying to not tip the scales too much. Image: Respawn/EA/Lucasfilm I think from talking to a lot of players, were proud with how the portrayal landed. So long as Cal feels that, then we feel like were succeeding....

Lets watch some movies. (And sometimes, just the ones that we like most.) Heres the best of whats streaming in January 2024. Cats, Echo, Superman, Preacher, and The Mummy are streaming this month.Image: Universal, Marvel, WB, AMC, Universal Whats coming to Prime Video in January 2024? Whats coming to Hulu in January 2024? Whats coming to Disney+ in January 2024? Whats coming to Max in January 2024? Whats coming to Paramount+ in January 2024?...

Christina Chong teases an epic return to Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Robert Rodriguez could be bringing The Faculty back to life. Plus, get a look at Evils return and a glimpse of What Ifs 1602-inspired episode. Image: Toho I dont feel the need to rush the next live-action film. Good films are all about quality. Civil War Varietyreports Alex Garlands Civil War runs 109 minutes long. Photo: Paramount+ Theyre doing stuff, but not with me....

Normally, I wouldnt care what my mini PC looks like. Its just the box I stick next to my monitor for on-the-go computing needs. At least, thats how I originally felt about your average NUC. Taking the Ayaneo Mini PC AM01 on the road for the Christmas break proved more than enough for my daily writing and computing tasks.Photo: Kyle Barr / Gizmodo Its not the smallest, nor the largest model on the market....

All annual memberships will increase by $15 to $220 per year. Want to take an ebike instead? Thats now going to cost an extra $0.20 per ride, capped at a total of $4. Citi Bike depends on corporate sponsorships and user fares to pay for its large-scale bike-sharing system. The company said it needs more from riders to pay for more bikes and stations.Photo: Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group (Getty Images)...

Big Tech went on a murder spree in 2023. This happens every year, but in 2023 we saw more than the usual amount of fat trimming. Big Tech didnt just murder products people were using, it shuttered services that people depended on. Google Stadia finally met its end in January this year, but it was just a drop in the bucket for the number of products and services the company killed in 2023....

Apple told Gizmodo the wearables are already available for purchase again in some select stores. The items should be available in even more Apple shops by Dec. 30. The ITC has until Jan. 10 to contest the appeal for a longer stay. If you’ve been jonesing for a new Apple Watch, you’ll have at least the next few weeks to get one.Photo: Florence Ion / Gizmodo All this surrounds a patent dispute thats finewoven itself into a knot over the past few months....

Because everyone needs his GPUs to power their AI dreams. Its a unique position to be in, but how did Jensen Huang get here? And what is he doing with this opportunity of a lifetime when hes not on the conference stage? Image: Justin Sullivan, Simon Dawson, Noah Berger (Getty Images) Microsoft and Meta bought150,000 Nvidia H100s and H800sthis year, which cost about $30,000 each. Joe Biden deliberately setUnited States foreign policyto limit Nvidia chips getting into the hands of Chinese companies....

Physicists at CMS are trying to change that. Higgs bosons are thought to decay into dark photons, which then would decay into displaced muons. The CMS Collaboration is working to constrain the parameters at which that process would occur. A superconducting CMS magnet at CERN.Photo: Lionel FLUSIN/Gamma-Rapho (Getty Images) Thanks to these improvements, if dark photons exist, CMS is now much more likely to find them. Despite their longevity, they are difficult to spotwhich is why no one has done so yet....

The collaboration betweenthe Pokemon CompanyandDwarf Animation Studiosis endearing, hilarious, and an inspired concept. Its well-executed, taking the beloved game and anime property and putting it into a clever and soothing medium. Its so cute and feel-good! Image: Netflix He just gave me big anime eyes and tilted his head. Watch Pokemon Concierge onNetflixnow. Want more io9 news? News from the future, delivered to your present. Get your finest dark clothing and all your creepy things, part one ofWednesdayseason two is dropping in August....

We got on really well from the beginning, actually. It was really nice, Skrein said. Michiel is a good dude. Ed Skrein (left) and Michiel Huisman as Daario Naharis on different seasons of Game of Thrones.Screenshot: HBO Hes a really good dude, and I loved spending time with him on set. If I think of him as any character, its Gunnar from Rebel Moon. As the actor sees it, thats all just part of the biz....

What happens when you hack a cybersecurity researcher? Kaspersky, a Moscow-based security firm, presented new details regarding zero-day vulnerabilities in Apple products on Wednesday. Kaspersky researchers are calling this the most sophisticated attack theyve ever seen, exposing a previously unknown hardware feature. Photo: Hadrian (Shutterstock) This is no ordinary vulnerability, said Kasperskys Boris Larin in aresearch paperWednesday. The vulnerability, which researchers call Operation Triangulation, was presented at ahacker conferencein Germany this week....