Were interested to see how Dorothys journey will be incorporated alongside Elphaba and Glindas. Also, were holding space for more memes. And its not even the onlyPredatorflickhitting next year! © Warner Bros/Lucasfilm/Nintendo Lets hope it lives up to the hype. And yes,Metroid Dreadwas awesome. ButPrime 4promises to be so much bigger and more ambitious. ©Sunrise/Khara I cant wait to have every entry in one of my favorite series finally playable in one place....

Social media has always been chock full of bad ideas, horrible analogies, and downright idiotic observations. Some of the tweets are funny, some are odd, and others are just plain lies. To be clear, this list is far from comprehensive. © Gizmodo There are way too many bad tweets to count. But this is a snapshot of some particularly bad tweets from the past year. Heres hoping for better tweets in the year 2025....

That precedent: Pais own crackdown on Chinese companies. Back when Pai was head of the FCC, he designated two companies headquartered in China asnational security threats. Wild how that kinda thing just happens. Ajit Pai testifies during an oversight hearing© Jonathan Newton-Pool/Getty Images If anything, Pais position is more principled than Trumps, so credit where its due. News from the future, delivered to your present. The Funniest Memes About JD Vance Killing the Pope “Sowwy I made you dead....

Theyre speeding toward a faster future in China, thanks to a new model of high-speed bullet train. For comparisons sake, the states rail operators current CR400 trains operate at about 220mph (350km/h). Frances TGV trainhit 357.2 mph back in 2007, which remains a record for conventional wheeled passenger trains. Mechanics check the conditions of high-speed trains at a maintenance base© FANG DONGXU / Feature China/Future Publishing via Getty Images But in practice, the TGV averages speeds of around 175mph....

The days between Christmas and the New Year are a listless, liminal time. Where to even start. The problem was H1-B Visas. Tesla CEO Elon Musk (L), co-chair of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), carries his son “X” on his shoulders, as he walks with US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (2nd L) and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy (C), before a meeting with members of Congress at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on December 5, 2024....

You cant legally put money on the fate of Luigi Mangione in the United States. From sports betting to Counter-Strike skins, gambling is having a moment in America. Sites like Polymarket, PredicIt, and Kalshiexploded in popularityover the past year. Luigi Mangione leaves Manhattan Criminal Court on December 23, 2024 in New York City.© Photo by Adam Gray/Getty Images Popular bets on the site trend along with the news. Unless those markets are checked by U....

An increasingly diverse coalition is forming in opposition to OpenAIs plan to restructure itself into a fully for-profit company. It received numerous tax and other benefits from its non-profit status. Previously, Hintons been more modest, putting the odds at just 10 percent. Geoffrey Hinton, , who won the Nobel and Turing prizes for his work on artificial intelligence.© Pontus Lundahl/Getty Images The courts must intervene to ensure AI development serves the public interest....

Tony Todd Born December 4, 1954, Todd made his acting debut with the 1986 filmsPlatoonandSleepwalk. From there, much of his storied resume consisted of genre fare. Jon Landau Jon believed in the dream of cinema. © Warner Bros, Getty Images, Lionsgate He was my right hand, and I was his. […] I am grateful for every year, every day, every minute we had together. A part of myself has been torn away....

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is dead at the age of 100. Carterdiedat his home in Plains, Georgia on Sunday, nearly two years after he first began hospice care. Guinea worm is a parasite with such longstanding notoriety that itsreferencedin the Old Testament. Jimmy Carter delivering a lecture on the eradication of the Guinea worm in 2016.© Eddie Mullholland-WPA Pool via Getty The larvae reach our intestines, where they fully mature and mate....

LG is promoting its latest 45-inch panel, which offers flexibility beyond bendability. LG said theres a total of eight different configurations. The pixel count is effectively equivalent to the height of 4K, at 3,840 by 2,160. © Image: LG If you plan to game on such a setup, youll want to run games that offer ultrawide support. At least the LG Flexible OLED is rated for Nvidia G-Sync and AMD FreeSync Premium....

Suchirs apartment was ransacked, thepostby Ramarao (who goes by the shorter Rao surname on X) reads. Sign of struggle in the bathroom and looks like some one hit him in bathroom based on blood spots. Gizmodocontacted Ramarao for comment but we have not heard back. OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji’s death in a San Francisco apartment was ruled a suicide, but his parents want a deeper investigation.Sean Gallup/Getty Images OpenAI referred to aprevious statementexpressing condolences to the family....

Theres one potential party guest that you definitely want to steer clear of this New Years Eve: norovirus. Though norovirus is often associated with cruise ships, its a prolific source of gastrointestinal misery everywhere. While cases are rarely life-threatening, about 100,000 Americans are hospitalized as a result of it annually. A 3D illustration of norovirus particles.© Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library via Getty But 2024 has been an outlier even compared to typical trends....

With every new year comes new works that are set to go into the public domain. Also being freed into the public domain arePopeyeandTintinsearly cartoons. (There are, of course, alreadymultiple Popeye slasherson the way.) © Disney Books and plays Characters Movies Musical Compositions Want more io9 news? News from the future, delivered to your present. Image: Fair Use