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There’s plenty of talk around what AI can do right now, with new language and machine learning models popping up seemingly every day. It’s easy to lose track of all the areas where artificial intelligence is impacting our lives, including the topic of this particular article: Removing unwanted people and objects from…Read more...

You like your vacation days? You like your little paid scraps of freedom, personal leave, and sick time that allow you to indulge in frivolous human needs like going to the doctor, seeing faraway family, or resting when ill? Well then, you better not fall behind at work, because all of it could legally disappear in an…Read more...

Star Trek: Picard is a show that, for its first two seasons, vacillated wildly between whether or not it wanted to be a self-serious look at how time had changed and wounded Jean-Luc Picard, or a daring, often unhinged heroic adventure for its titular hero. Its third season has been as strong as it is nostalgic, but…Read more...

Officials in Texas want to make sure the state’s science textbooks don’t paint oil and gas in a bad light. The Texas State Board of Education shifted its guidance to schools last month, asking that they focus on the supposedly “positive” aspects of fossil fuels in educational material, E&E News reported.Read more...

In 79 A.D., Mount Vesuvius lay waste to a library in Herculaneum that was owned by the father-in-law of Julius Caesar. Now, former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and some scientists are giving $250,000 away in prizes to the person or team who successfully uses modern technology to decipher scrolls recovered from the site of…Read more...

It’s been 30 years since a NASA spacecraft went to Venus, a yellowish planet 67 million miles from the Sun and 141 million miles from us. Venus is often thought of as a sibling planet to Earth, both being rocky worlds close enough to the Sun to bask in its heat. And yet, at some point in their histories, the two…Read more...

Just a reminder: like Marvel’s various Netflix series combined to create a Defenders crossover series, its sister company Lucasfilm has similar plans for its sprawling Star Wars TV universe. Lucasfilm head honcho Kathleen Kennedy mentioned it back in 2020, but in a new interview with the Wrap the grand overseer of…Read more...

Axiom Space revealed its new Moon suit yesterday during an event held at NASA’s Space Center Houston. It’s the first Moon-specific suit since the Apollo era and a key component of NASA’s Artemis program, which seeks to return humans to the Moon later this decade. Here’s what we learned about the new suit, dubbed AxEMU.Read more...

Ben Affleck is currently promoting both his new equity-first production company and the biopic Air, but of course the Hollywood Reporter is going to ask him some questions about Batman. He’s briefly appearing as the DC hero in The Flash, but that doesn’t mean he’s keen to return to the character in a greater…Read more...

When it came out in 2019, the HP Elite Dragonfly was easily one of the best laptops out there for traveling businesspeople. It was thin, light, powerful and flashy enough to show off at high end coffee shops or wherever rich people congregate. However, because of the vPro platform and a host of features that made it…Read more...

Microsoft is now putting its AI into all of its 365 apps, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and more. What’s more, Microsoft said it will be accessing your data, including anything you might have in your OneDrive, email, and beyond, to personalize all the content this so-called “Copilot” generates.Read more...

Sometimes, the only thing that can get you through a long day of work is having a hot meal halfway through it. That’s not always an option if you’re stuck on a construction site, or even on the road, unless you’ve brought along Makita’s latest power tool: a cordless microwave that zaps instead of cuts.Read more...

With the rise and proliferation of advanced, large language model chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, everyone and their mother seems to be talking about AI. Tech companies from Microsoft to Google to Amazon to Snapchat to LinkedIn are either rushing to create their own, comparable text-generating tech or incorporating…Read more...

When Eric Heisserer agreed to act as the showrunner for Netflix’s Shadow and Bone series, he had one condition. Netflix had to get the rights to Six of Crows for him too. According to Variety, he stated that having access to those characters was absolutely essential for him to sign onto the show. Now, it seems like…Read more...

Over the last 80+ years, the various Batman comics have had their highs and lows. But no Batman comic has ever been as consistently delightful—and certainly not as heartwarming—as CRC Payne and Starbyie’s Batman Webtoon, Wayne Family Adventures. Happily. the lowkey tales of the extended Bat-family will soon be able to…Read more...

Virgin Orbit is pausing all impending operations after announcing it is furloughing the majority of its staff in a companywide effort to cut costs and secure investor funding. The company informed its staff of the furloughs at a meeting on Wednesday, telling employees they would receive further information next week,…Read more...

There’s a new ChatGPT app for the Apple Watch called Petey, and if Siri had feelings, she’d definitely be worried. You can speak to Petey using voice-to-text and hear it read back responses in a cute little robot voice, then share its AI answers over text or email.

As down-and-out crypto exchange FTX struggles through the miasma of Chapter 11 bankruptcy, seeking to recoup funds needed to make customers and investors whole, the company now says there was around $3.2 billion dolled out to former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and five other members of his inner circle before the collapse.Read more...

Smile 2 is happening. Daredevil: Born Again is heading to court. Amazon’s Blade Runner 2099 series has found a director. Plus, the Court of Owls is coming to Gotham Knights, and what’s next on Superman & Lois. Spoilers now!

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Fully intent on being the next Skynet, OpenAI has released GPT-4, its most robust AI to date that the company claims is even more accurate while generating language and even better at solving problems. GPT-4 is so good at its job, in fact, that it reportedly convinced a human that it was blind in order to get said…Read more...

Two days ago, the U.S. Armed Forces claimed that a Russian Su-27 aircraft crashed into a U.S. Air Force MQ-9 drone over the Black Sea, causing the MQ-9 to fall into the water below. Today, U.S. European Command has released declassified footage of the incident.

The Land Rover is as known for being a truly capable off-road adventure vehicle as it is a toy for those who only dress like they’re ready for the wild. With Lego’s new Defender 90 model, Land Rover fans can have it both ways: equip the off-roader for the great outdoors or strip it down for a cleaner design ready to…Read more...

The fight between the U.S. and China over TikTok reached a new infection point on Wednesday when the Biden administration demanded that ByteDance, the social media app’s Chinese owners, sell off its stakes in the app or get ready for a possible ban.Read more...

Do you ever open Instagram, Twitter, or TikTok and feel like the world is spinning rapidly off its axis? And that you’re just along for the ride, powerless to slow things down?

Netflix hit Shadow and Bone’s second season follows up the heists and twists of season one, offering another glimpse inside the magical world of Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse. While the pacing of the series is exceptionally fast and the three main plotlines feel cramped, the show still delivers an exciting-enough plot,…Read more...

Evil Dead Rise has its world premiere tonight at the SXSW Film Festival before arriving in theaters in April. And while it won’t feature Bruce Campbell’s Ash Williams, Lee Cronin’s film will include some other important series characters, like the Book of the Dead, and blood. Lots of blood.Read more...

Have you psychologically and emotionally recovered from Guillermo del Toro’s twisted, Oscar-winning, stop-motion-animated adaptation of Pinocchio? Perhaps you’re still trying to scrub Disney’s creepy, lifeless, live-action Pinocchio movie out of your mind? Good news—you have plenty of time to heal before A Series of…Read more...

Thanks to innovations in 3D printing, anyone can now get an action figure customized with their own likeness through Hasbro’s Selfie Series program—assuming they’ve got the patience to wait a few months for it to be made. Disney’s new Tron Identity Program promises customized action figures in about 16 minutes by…Read more...

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As the Axiom-2 crew prepares to take off to the International Space Station (ISS) in a few weeks from now, NASA is already looking ahead to the third private mission to the orbiting space station later this year, in a mission that will once again involve Axiom.Read more...

Elon Musk’s car company is facing yet another set of lawsuits. This time, not about the CEO’s chaotic tweet habits, nor alleged civil rights violations at a California factory. Rather, Tesla is being sued over claims that the company has violated antitrust, right-to-repair laws.

The Mandalorian is a show that rarely wants to sit in its worldbuilding. Things are said, they are present in the moment they need to be, and then it moves on to the next thing, like its wandering mercenary hero. But this week it tried something different—taking a leaf out of the book of its Star Wars streaming…Read more...

The Malapert massif region near the Moon’s lunar south pole is one of several possible locations where NASA astronauts could land later this decade. A new image from the space agency’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals it to be a bleak, dreary, and beautiful place for us to visit.

Midjourney is launching a monthly print magazine, “Midjourney.”Read more...

OpenAI’s ChatGPT has taken the world by storm since its release in November 2022, and has demonstrated its ability to pass medical licensing exams, write erotica, and even trick a TaskRabbit employee into solving a CAPTCHA for it. Now, companies want a piece of the pie. Over the past few weeks, companies like…Read more...

After a week mired in old controversy rearing its head once again, Samsung has officially detailed how its smartphones take such high fidelity photos of the moon. While most of what’s in the post isn’t anything we haven’t heard before, Samsung’s response to this week’s confusion over its moon-shooting capabilities is…Read more...

Two U.S. Senators proposed legislation on Wednesday that would track all balloons in the nation’s airspace in the wake of four balloons shot down last month, including one identified as a Chinese surveillance balloon. The proposal was issued by Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Arizona) and Sen. Ted Budd (R-North Carolina) to ensure…Read more...

Anyone hoping to stay ahead of the next viral outbreak might want to avoid TikTok, new research suggests. The study, published Tuesday in BMJ Global Health, found that TikTok videos discussing the viral disease monkeypox, which spread widely around the world and infected tens of thousands of Americans last year, often…Read more...

A new analysis of 30-year-old images taken by the Magellan spacecraft suggests that a volcanic eruption happened on the planet between 1990 and 1992. In other words, Venus is a living planet.

The Razer Blade 16 is finally here, following in the footsteps of Apple after the Cupertino company shifted its MacBook Pro design to a 16-inch model. This lets the high-end gaming laptop continue to claim the “MacBook of gaming laptops” title for another year, but even if Razer hadn’t upped the computer’s screen…Read more...

California has been grappling with storm after storm since November. The state, which was just up until recently plagued by extreme ongoing drought, is now instead at the mercy of too much rainfall all at once.Read more...

Warner Bros. has announced that James Gunn will officially direct DC’s latest cinematic reboot of the Superman franchise, Superman: Legacy, for a 2025 release.

Texas-based Firefly has been tasked with placing a lunar lander on the far side of the Moon, where it will drop off a pair of communications experiments.Read more...

Netflix’s Wednesday was an audience smash, but Jenna Ortega, the show’s young star, still seems a little baffled as to why it got so popular. In a new interview with the Times UK, Ortega reveals that when she first got the offer to play the role she didn’t immediately jump at the chance to star in the series.Read more...

You may have heard: President Biden approved an enormous fossil fuel development in the Alaskan Arctic on Monday. The Willow Project,a planned $8 billion oil and gas extraction endeavor by ConocoPhillips, is set to move forward in the state’s North Slope—despite fierce pushback from climate and other environmental…Read more...

LinkedIn is using generative AI to simplify the process of writing job listings, filling out resumes, and updating your profile, the company announced on Wednesday. The new feature will be similar to ChatGPT and the company said in a press release that it will “unlock opportunities” and “elevate your career.”Read more...

Guillermo del Toro loves a monster, and there are few monsters more iconic than Frankenstein’s. While rumors of his adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel have been circulating for a while, the cast has been all smoke and mirrors. Today, Deadline reported it has sources close to the situation who attest that three actors—…Read more...

Remember the BlackBerry? Remember how BlackBerry was getting its own movie? Well, now we’ve got our first trailer, which depicts the rise and fall of the infamous company that brought us the phone that ensnared CEOs, celebrities, and even presidents in its grip.

A ransomware gang is threatening to release SpaceX’s prized business secret: the design of its rockets. The Lockbit gang claimed it breached Maximum Industries, a fabricator of rocket parts for Elon Musk’s rocket company based in Texas, and pilfered “3,000 drawings” from the contractor, according to the gang’s website.Read more...