Новости за 18.01.2024

David Benioff and Dan Weiss are currently promoting their upcoming sci-fi series for Netflix, 3 Body Problem, but that doesn’t mean people have stopped asking them about Game of Thrones. It’s been five years since it ended, and though they say they miss working on the HBO hit, they’re also in no hurry to return—ever.

The internet is quickly becoming a slurry of AI-generated garbage, and Google has decided to just let us all marinate in it. Anyone online can see that Google Search is getting worse, but now it’s becoming clear why. Google News is boosting AI-generated garbage over real, human journalism, according to a report from 40…

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom already has its home release dates, and they’re closer than you may think. While there’s no word yet on when it’ll debut on Max, the film will be available digitally next week on January 23, ahead of its DVD/Blu-ray/4K release on March 12. One would expect the Max date to be somewhere in…

A team of scientists found a compact object 40,000 light-years from Earth that is either a very massive neutron star or an itsy-bitsy black hole, but they’re not sure which.

In a modern movie landscape dominated by mega franchises, 2024 is looking mighty odd indeed. Yes, we’ve got films coming from DC, Marvel, Transformers, Lord of the Rings, and a few others, but almost all of them are slightly off-brand. The Transformers and Lord of the Rings movies are animated. The biggest Marvel and…

Japan chooses to go to the Moon, and it’s doing so with a strong emphasis on accuracy. With SLIM, the nation’s space agency is aiming for an autonomous, high-precision landing within an impressive 328 feet (100 meters) of its intended target inside Shioli Crater.

An outbreak of measles in Philadelphia is growing larger. This week, health officials announced a newly discovered case of the highly contagious viral disease in the area—the ninth reported to date. Many of these cases, including the latest one, have been traced back to a single day care center, and most if not all…

In a few months, one of the most infamous episodes of Star Trek ever made will turn 28, a title that manages to whip Trekkies up into a frenzy worthy of a courtroom drama in just a single portmanteau: “Tuvix.” Perhaps one of the most stinging indictments of Voyager’s episodic nature, there’s good reasons it’s still so…

The saga of Peregrine is coming to a tragic end, with the lunar lander scheduled for reentry through Earth’s atmosphere after failing to touch down on the Moon.

More than 75 million people use Alexa, but by Amazon’s standards, the service is a total failure. The problem is Alexa doesn’t make any money, and the service is a huge drain on company resources. Apparently, Amazon has a last-ditch plan to save its digital assistant by supercharging it with AI and charging you for…

Why play classic Monopoly, with its boring old Boardwalk and all those railroads, when you can play a snazzy special edition branded to your favorite pop culture property? The options for Monopoly variations are startlingly robust. Here are 10 we found—all currently available online—that stood out for being…

Just Wednesday, it was announced that the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit refused to extend the pause on the temporary ban on Apple Watches and ordered it to officially halt sales of the watches by 5 pm ET on Thursday, January 18.

According to 9to5Mac’s latest report, Apple has finally managed to execute…

Zipping far above Earth, it’s not exactly easy for satellites to find a corner gas station when the fuel gauge gets low. To tackle this cosmic conundrum, a Space Force-funded initiative is working on an innovative solution to refuel distant satellites on-the-fly.

Google pledged to stop tracking user visits to abortion clinics shortly after Roe v. Wade was overturned in June 2022, which killed off the United States’ largest federal abortion protection. The measure aimed to protect abortion seekers from prosecutors, especially in the 14 states where abortion is now banned.…

Samsung devoted the vast majority of its latest Unpacked showcase to AI. Even if the star of the show is still the Galaxy S24, Samsung wants all its fans to hitch themselves up to the AI bandwagon, but once you look at the fine print, the company may also need users to pay up for at least some of these or future…

At Universal Studios Japan, Super Nintendo World’s “jumping” Donkey Kong ride puts visitors in the mine-cart action of the video game, broken tracks and all. That’s right, you’ll be experiencing a very realistic simulation of being in Kong’s cart and jumping onto a completely different rail on this coaster set to open…

Just Tuesday, we reported on Apple trying to circumvent the import ban by dropping the blood-oxygen monitoring sensor on it. Until the new watches without the sensor were out, the ban was temporarily lifted, allowing Apple to start selling again. CNBC just reported that the Cupertino company has again been banned…

Smartphones, AI, and rings, oh my! Samsung is at it again, coming out with its latest Samsung Galaxy S24 series phone with a list of long-expected features, a new titanium frame on the $1,300 Ultra edition, and a whole smattering of artificial intelligence surrounding every feature for its latest flagship phone. Oh,…

Unlike certain other io9 staffers, I’m not too much of a gamer—but I am a big horror fan, and that’s what made me interested in 2015's Until Dawn, an interactive tale about a bunch of kids stranded on a mountain haunted by past tragedies and crawling with menacing creatures. It’s like being inside a horror movie!…

Sam Altman, the Jimmy Neutron-looking mega-millionaire who heads OpenAI, had a lot to say at this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. During an interview, Altman implied that his industry should lean into nuclear power to keep up with its growing energy footprint. That’s not exactly a surprising…

A female mammoth that lived 14,000 years ago made a trek across hundreds of miles of tundra to a hunter-gatherer settlement in central Alaska, according to a team of scientists that recently scrutinized isotopes in the tusk.

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