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Image: LucasfilmFans of the original Star Wars-inspired ride will now be able to travel through all the eras of the live-action stories from a galaxy far, far away. Disney Parks’ Star Tours - The Adventure Continues recently announced that characters and a new setting from Disney+ series The Mandalorian, Ahsoka, and Andor are set to join the current slate of galactic travel destinations at Disneyland, Walt Disney World, and Disneyland Paris. Even outside of Galaxy’s Edge, Lucasfilm’s original E-ticket ride is still one of…

Gyanda Sachdeva, LinkedIn’s VP of product management, spoke with Gizmodo for the latest installment of our “AI Unlocked” video series.Watch the interview above and check out the transcript below. The transcript of this conversation has been lightly edited for length and clarity.Thomas Germain: Everybody’s worried about AI stealing their job, but now LinkedIn has a new suite of tools that are going to help you find work. And today we’re talking to LinkedIn’s VP of product management about what the future of AI in the job…

Have you seen a tweet from Grimes making fun of her former partner, Elon Musk, for saying that wealthy ex-wives are destroying Western civilization? The Grimes tweet is fake. The musician didn’t actually poke fun at Musk over the comment. The Musk tweet, on the other hand, is completely real.Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl Tweet“’Super rich ex-wives who hate their former spouse’ should filed be listed among ‘Reasons that Western Civilization died,’” the billionaire SpaceX CEO tweeted on Wednesday.Musk’s very real tweet was a…

A few years ago Star Wars fans got to see the story of Han Solo and Leia Organa’s wedding—in the current canon, at least—unfold in the pages of Beth Revis’ The Princess and the Scoundrel. But now readers young and old will get to see Star Wars’ fairy tale wedding in a new light, with a gorgeous new picture book about the galaxy’s most iconic power couple.Illustrated by Sophie Li and written by Revis, Someone Who Loves You will re-tell the moments of Han and Leia’s wedding ceremony on Endor after the Rebel’s victory over…

Mad Max: Fury RoadImage: Warner Bros.If you subscribe to Apple TV+ for its outstanding line-up of sci-fi TV shows (For All Mankind, Foundation, Severance, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, the just-announced Neuromancer), there’s a bonus waiting for you next time you sign on. While you’ll still find mostly Apple-produced projects, there’s now a category marked “Limited Time: Great Movies on Apple TV+” filled with licensed titles.While the selection isn’t huge, and it doesn’t dig very deep into the genre realm—sorry, horror…

OpenAI’s founders published a scathing response to Elon Musk’s lawsuit Tuesday night, claiming that Musk made a power grab to achieve “absolute control” of the AI startup in 2017. The emails reveal Musk was originally on board with making the startup less open-sourced and profitable, even though he is now suing OpenAI for those reasons. The key difference is that Musk is no longer in charge.Did Elon Musk Regret Buying Twitter? | Walter Isaacson Interview“In late 2017, we and Elon decided the next step for the mission was…

The oldest Star Wars attraction at Disney Parks is about to become its most up-to-date: as was previously teased, Star Tours — The Adventures Continue is expanding to include the main characters from Disney+ series Ahsoka, Andor, and The Mandaloria, as well as a new setting in Peridea, the planet seen in Ahsoka.It’s an excellent day to be an Andor fan in particular, since it was just confirmed that the first season of the critically acclaimed Star Wars series is getting a Blu-ray release April 30. But first, starting…

Anthony Daniels poses with C-3PO at a Japanese Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker fan event on December 11, 2019.Photo: Christopher Jue/Getty Images for Disney (Getty Images)There are Star Wars collections—and then there are collections from people who are Star Wars. A very rare trove of franchise memorabilia is now up for sale at Los Angeles auction house called Propstore, and it’s direct from the collection of Anthony Daniels, who played C-3PO for over 40 years.Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, Daniels admitted he felt…

The ‘Meth Lab Oompa Loompa Lady,’ whose real name is Kirsty Paterson, has been through a lot over the past week, but even she wasn’t ready for the latest twist in her story. After being forced to learn an AI-generated script for a disastrous Willy Wonka-themed event in Scotland and facing hordes of hate on X/Twitter, Paterson got a message from someone she never expected: Chrissy Teigen.Let’s Eat a Chocolate Xbox Controller“Somebody get the Wonka meth lab girl on Cameo immediately—while it’s still hot,” Teigen said in a…

Image: Warner Bros.There’s a lot of sandworms in Dune: Part Two. We even get to learn a lot about how to start riding them, thanks to an extended sequence where Paul is trained in mounting the massive creatures. But getting off of one? Only one man currently knows that beyond Arrakis, and he’s keeping it very secret.Prepping the Sandworm Scenes in Dune: Part TwoVilleneuve apparently gets a lot of questions about dismounting sandworms, which he described as a “crazy Uber system” during a recent interview with Indiewire.…