Voyager 1 Is Glitching Out and More Top Science News of the Week

Back on Earth, doctors issued a dire warning against holding in a sneeze. Click through to see our favorite space images from this year. Passant RabieRead More Key Ingredient for Life Spotted on Saturns Ocean Moon Good news, everyone! Illustration: Caltech/NASA-JPL / Photo: Rail Photo/Construction Photography/Avalon (Getty Images) / Photo: SpaceX / Screenshot: AstroForge / Image: oleschwander (Shutterstock) / Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute / Image: PeopleImages.com - Yuri A (Shutterstock) / Image: Petr Student (Shutterstock)...

December 16, 2023 · 1 min · 208 words · Joshua Lopez

30 Years AfterDoom’s Release, These Are the 30 Best-Worst Ways to Play the Game That Started It All

If anybody remembers the old Can it run Crysis? On the flip side, Can it run Doom? has a separate connotation. Believe it or not, these are not even the weirdest ways folks have found to play Doom.Gif: YouTube - Sprite_TM / Ancient / SeanHodgins But theres more than memes propelling folks to find new places to play Doom. And, of course, lets not forget a whole heap of nostalgia for the original game....

December 15, 2023 · 1 min · 95 words · Jon Lopez

50 Years Ago Today, Sarah Jane Smith ChangedDoctor WhoForever

It added an immediately iconic creature to the shows monster canonin the Sontarans. But its most lasting contribution, and its greatest, will forever beSarah Jane Smith. If there was a story to be found, Sarah Jane Smith was going to find it. Image: BBC What cruel fate it is that Sladen left us with so many of those adventures still left untold. But it also clearly broke Doctor Whos heart, too....

December 15, 2023 · 1 min · 125 words · Tiffany Maldonado

Ad Company Claims ‘It’s True. Your Devices Are Listening to You’

The AC is on its last leg! the company uses as an example. Cox Media Group and its marketing subsidiary did not immediately respond to Gizmodos request for comment. Photo: Wachiwit (Shutterstock) Past research has shown very little evidence that your phones microphone is listening to you. However, CMG Local Solutions seems to be making ad deals with active listening as a product. So is this legal? Screenshot: CMG Local Solutions...

December 15, 2023 · 1 min · 165 words · Mary Anthony

Apple Is BringingThe Murderbot Diariesto TV

Hideo Kojima will team with A24 on his Death Stranding movie. Alexander Siddig will join Foundations third season, while John Waters will join Chuckys. Plus, another new look at the Doctor Who Christmas special. Image: Tor To me, my spoilers! Were developing a third one now. The franchises rulebook has been opened up to where anything is possible. Death Stranding A24 has partnered with Hideo Kojima on the upcoming Death Stranding movie....

December 15, 2023 · 1 min · 84 words · Margaret Gutierrez

Apple Shuts Down Flipper Zero’s Ability to Shut Down iPhones

Flipper Zero is a small multi-tool able to mimic NFC, RFID, or other radio signals. Still, Flipper Zeros natively doesnt have this unique denial of service (DOS) capability. ZDNetwent ahead and tested the latest Extreme firmware against the iOS 17.2 update. The Flipper Zero is billed as a fun tool for tech enthusiasts, but it has also been used to perpetrate annoying and more serious attacks on various devices.Photo: Flipper...

December 15, 2023 · 1 min · 125 words · Michael Hensley

AreRebel MoonandArmy of the DeadNow the One True Snyderverse?

Whether you know the word or not, odds are youve heard it. Tales of the Snyderverse willecho from here to eternity. Its been quite the ride. Zack Snyder filming Rebel Moon.Image: Netflix However, in the past few years, Snyder has been making new films with his own characters. It explores a huge universe, one fully created and overseen by Snyder himself. Wow, thats a cool question. Snyder with actor Charlie Hunnam....

December 15, 2023 · 2 min · 291 words · Lori Kelly

Everything We Know About the Samsung Galaxy S24

Titanium is also coming to the Ultras chassis to better position it against the design of theiPhone 15s Proseries. The newISOCELL Zoom Anyplacetechnology is supposed to help with that. It will likely come bundled with the Galaxy S24 Ultra. This is a photo of the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra. Next year, it comes in titanium!Photo: Florence Ion / Gizmodo Wouldnt the Galaxy S24 look just as nice? Fortunately, titanium was an option on the Ultrasmanufacturing pipeline....

December 15, 2023 · 1 min · 178 words · Ariana Middleton

Google Finally Stops Handing Your Location Data to Cops

We know this isnt perfect, and that Google still collects untold gobs of information about all of us. But this is definitely a good thing. Historically, Google has been one of the biggest suppliers in the police location data pipeline. Photo: Diego Thomazini / Shutterstock.com (Shutterstock) Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But we cant stop there. All tech firms currently collecting location data must follow suit and stop facilitating geofence warrants....

December 15, 2023 · 1 min · 110 words · Penny Williams

Google Just Made Repairing Your Pixel Phone Much Easier

Google just announced a solution for that. Well, to preserve your data. Not dropping your phone in the toilet. The Pixel 8 is in blush (left), and the Pixel 8 Pro is in blue(right).Image: Florence Ion / Gizmodo In a recentblog post, Google introduced three new ways to repair yourPixel phonethat are less of a hassle. The Repair Mode ensures your data is protected and kept private during a repair....

December 15, 2023 · 1 min · 183 words · Tammy Noble

Grok Gets Some Competition, ChatGPT Gets Depressed, and More of the Top AI News Stories This Week

What happened with AI this week? It could totally reshape how European nations relationship to the technology. But a lot of less consequential if no less weird and entertaining stuff happened this week. Image: Maurice NORBERT (Shutterstock) The French AI startup Mistral released a new large language model and its apparently pretty good. A British court decided that its totally cool for a software program to make legal rulings. News from the future, delivered to your present....

December 15, 2023 · 1 min · 77 words · Blake Miller

HowOne PieceCreator Eiichiro Oda Gave Notes for the Netflix Show

Guided by Oda, Litman worked on shaping the structure of the series in its first-act character arcs. When I was taking the meetings, we were still kind of deep in in the pandemic. I was able to go and watch some of the anime on Netflix and I loved it. Image: Netflix We received notes from Oda once the episodes were done and he was very happy with everything. He gave us really great constructive [and] really interesting notes, Litman said....

December 15, 2023 · 1 min · 189 words · Sabrina Dean

Ilya Sutskever’s Team at OpenAI Built Tools to Control a Superhuman AI

OpenAI needs to design small AI models to teach superhuman AI models. Currently, OpenAI uses humans to align ChatGPT by giving it good feedback or negative feedback. Hes no longer leading the company forward but he still may have a role there. Screenshot: OpenAI Much of the study used GPT-2 to train GPT-4. We believe it is now easier to make progress on this problem than ever before. There was significant speculation thatOpenAI was close to AGIin November, though much of it was inconclusive....

December 15, 2023 · 1 min · 153 words · Caroline Murray