The memo was sent to staff in November, so plans could have changed in the meantime. Six new AI wearables in a single year would smash Metas hardware record for any other year. In 2024, the company launched its revampedRay-Ban Meta glassesand theMeta Quest 3S. © Photo: Florence Ion / Gizmodo Zuckerberg teased third-generation smart glasses technology during the companys fourth-quarter earnings call. These reports further hint the company is developing glasses with a heads-up display, internally dubbed Hypernova....

Those itching to play camouflage dress-up wont have to wait much longer. Players who noticed the store page posted the release date and trailer to theResetEraforums (viaEuroGamer). It includes several classic cutscenes from the original 2004 game redone in Unreal Engine 5. © Photo: Kyle Barr / Gizmodo Does it look more detailed than MGS3: Snake Eater? The big surprise for the trailer was the snapshot of the Ape Escape monkey in the final few seconds....

Some notable improvements to a branch of computer science are coming down to conjuring up the right incantation words. OpenAI has reportedlycried fowlabout the Chinese DeepSeek team training off its model outputs. The irony is not lost on most people. A new language model with reasoning capabilities was trained by researchers using less than $50.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The model essentially piggybacked off all the training of Gemini, getting a cheat sheet....

But Neelix hasnt been phasered, as the Doctor quickly realizes: heshad his lungs removed. What follows is genuinely one of those earlyVoyagerscenarios that speaks to the series incredible potential. Want more io9 news? © Paramount News from the future, delivered to your present. © Paramount © Paramount © Paramount

Fans ofBuffy the Vampire Slayer, its time to dust off those leather coats and boots. Hulus new revival, which only has a pilot order so far, is being steered byEternalsdirector Chloe Zhao. Wed always been aligned on that, but this time I heard something different in her voice. © Twentieth Century Television We laughed, we cried, but mostly we both talked about how much this show means to us. The prospect of new series with a new team of women is really exciting....

Now the company that enabled the whole fraudulent operation is staring down a$4.5 million fine. Most of the callers ended up with a prerecorded voicemail left in their inbox. That, as it turns out, is how you end up facilitating a spam call operation. © Shutterstock The FCC doesnt quite see it that way andproposed a $4,492,500 fineagainst Telnyx for the whole fiasco. Thats going to take a lot of Google gift cards to pay off....

BeforeThe Gorgecomes to Apple TV+ next week, we spoke to Derrickson about that and more. Germain Lussier, io9: So I want to start with tone and genre. Its romance, its sci-fi, its action, its horror, its political thriller. Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller in The Gorge.Image: Apple TV+ Its all these things. io9: Part of what makes that romance work is that its very intimate. Basically its just two characters for the entire movie....

Their stand-ins included the bacteriaBacillus subtilisandPseudoalteromonas haloplanktis, as well as the archaeaHaloferax volcanii. Motility is a small organisms ability to move independently. By testing both groups, we can make life detection methods more reliable for space missions. A Martian landscape.NASA They put the microbes in one chamber, L-serine in the other, and waited. According to the study, this is normally difficult to achieve even with advanced microscopic techniques. This method is easy, affordable, and doesnt require powerful computers to analyze the results, he added....

Apollo 17 astronautsthe last humans to walk on the lunar surfacecollected the sample. The Oval Office gets a redesign each time a new president assumes position. News from the future, delivered to your present. White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino watch as President Donald Trump speaks to journalists in the Oval Office on January 20, 2025Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images...

Instead, Williams and Wilmore would return on board a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. NASA launched its Crew-9 mission in September 2024 with two astronauts instead of four. News from the future, delivered to your present. The two Starliner astronauts, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, inspect safety hardware aboard the International Space Station.NASA Trump Plans Private Dinner for Largest Buyers of $TRUMP Crypto Trump’s corruption knows no bounds.

The doctor is holding her ground against the insurer, and accused the company of gaslighting and harassment. The letter also noted that people called for violence against UHC execs and employees. As to Potters claim about the phone call, the letter said it was on her not the insurer. NEW YORK, NEW YORK - DECEMBER 23: (EDITOR’S NOTE: Alternate crop) Luigi Mangione leaves Manhattan Criminal Court on December 23, 2024 in New York City....

Marvels First Family has had almost as long ahistory in adaptationas theyve had in the comics themselves. Despite being the new member of the titular team, HERBIEs role onNew Fantastic Fourwas pretty slight. The secret behind the great F.F. © Marvel Studios cartoon show controversy, revealed at last! Want more io9 news? News from the future, delivered to your present. © Marvel/NBC © John Byrne, Joe Sinnott, Glynis Wein, and Tom Orzechowski/Marvel Comics

Not long after, another prolific ransomware group, known as Blackcat or ALPHV, abruptlystopped operating. Reliable data on the number of ransomware attacks and their full impact is hard to come by. And victims whose sensitive data has been compromised oftendownplay attacksand keep the details of payment negotiations secret. Ransomware was less lucrative in 2024 compared to years past.© JL Stock/Shutterstock News from the future, delivered to your present. You May Also Like The Secretary of Defense keeps getting caught using Signal, a remarkable feat....