OpenAI’s Superalignment team, charged with controlling the existential danger of a superhuman AI system, has reportedly been disbanded, according to Wired on Friday. The news comes just days after the team’s founders, Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, simultaneously quit the company.Read more... Read more ›
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It’s Cannes season, and along with advanced screenings of upcoming movies, studios are looking at what films to buy for domestic or international distribution. One of the films on the market during the festival is The Monkey, which found a US distributor in Neon.Read more... Read more ›
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Since its Early Access release back in 2017, Motion Twin and Evil Empire’s Dead Cells has become one of the most popular roguelikes of the current gaming generation. The two studios may have recently ended development on the game, but it’ll still live on the form of the animated series, Dead Cells: Immortalis.Read more... Read more ›
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Palmer Luckey says it’s a “certainty” that artificial intelligence systems will kill innocent bystanders in wars of the future, according to a recent interview the tech mogul did with Bloomberg News. This is why Luckey stresses it’s absolutely crucial to keep human beings in the loop when AI systems are deployed by…Read more... Read more ›
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The latest iPad Airs and iPad Pros breathed fresh life into Apple’s tablets just as they seemed to be getting stale. Love them or hate them, the new Pros and Airs are pretty damn powerful, with the M4-powered tablet being practically just as capable as the most recent baseline MacBooks, but with the extra benefit of a…Read more... Read more ›
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Details surrounding the death of John Barnett, a corporate whistleblower who was in the midst of suing aviation giant Boeing when he was found dead in a parking lot earlier this year, have finally been revealed.Read more... Read more ›
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Think about the expectations. Nine years ago, you released maybe one of the best films ever made. It won a ton of Oscars, made solid money at the box office, and has since only risen in respect and reverence. And now, you’re going back. Not just to that world, but to that story and those specific characters.Read more... Read more ›
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While Marvel’s had no trouble incorporating unresolved material from previous movies into its recent fare, the studio took its sweet time bringing back threads from 2008's The Incredible Hulk. Abomination showed up in She-Hulk after a brief punch of a cameo in Shang-Chi, and next year’s Captain America: Brave New…Read more... Read more ›
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Reuters reports that the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace locals that cover workers at Boeing and fuselage supplier Spirit AeroSystems will be holding trainings Friday to better equip their members on rules and regulations regarding whistleblowing. Read more... Read more ›
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Ask anyone who plays video games extensively, and they more than likely have at least two studios they go to bat for. We all have developers who, in our eyes, can’t really do any wrong (even though they can and sometimes do); maybe it’s because they were responsible for a life-changing gaming experience, or maybe it’s…Read more... Read more ›
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With Memorial Day weekend coming up and summer vacation not far behind, here’s some of our favorite Disney-inspired fandom fashion, accessories, and other fun essentials to throw in your luggage.Read more... Read more ›
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If you’re looking for booze with an extra bit of buzz, you’re in luck. Microbiologists in the U.K. have just created beer using yeast sourced from the guts of Africanized honey bees, a.k.a. killer bees.Read more... Read more ›
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A team of marine researchers with the Minderoo—UWA Deep Sea Research Centre got a treat recently, when a rare deep-sea hooked squid (Taningia danae) mistook the crew’s baited camera for prey. The team captured the remarkable footage about 3,281 feet (1 kilometer) beneath the waves in the South Pacific, north of the…Read more... Read more ›
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Who could have guessed that John Krasinski would be so good at making horror movies? His directorial debut was A Quiet Place, he followed it up with A Quiet Place Part II, and now he’s made IF, not a horror film by genre but a horrible film in quality. We reviewed the film quite unfavorably here but now that it’s in…Read more... Read more ›
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Alkaline water will improve your metabolism, boost your liver health, and even help you fight off cancer—at least according to its fans. The actual truth, however, is far more mundane. There is little good evidence for these and many other health claims attached to alkaline water, and the only thing that it’s clearly…Read more... Read more ›
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Hertz gambled and lost when it placed its big EV bet on Tesla a few years ago. It was a chance for the rental car company to shake up the industry, instead the company bought 30,000 Teslas, got scared away by depreciation and expensive repairs and now wants to get rid of them. While all those used Teslas looked to be…Read more... Read more ›
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Two things are true when listening to the head of a movie studio. One, they’re not going to say anything bad about their movies, and two, they definitely know everything happening with those movies. That’s why a new interview with the chairman of Sony Motion Pictures Group, Tom Rothman, should both be taken with the…Read more... Read more ›
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This weekend, The Phantom Menace turns 25—and while we’ve celebrated the ways the film brought so much to Star Wars in the past, for its 25th anniversary we wanted to look back at a few different things, big and small, that make Phantom Menace so great all these years later, whether you caught it on the big screen agai…Read more... Read more ›
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Conspicuously absent from the incredible news this week that Nicolas Cage was coming to Prime Video to play Spider-Man Noir was a single mention of Silk: Spider-Society, another Spider-Verse show that has been in the works for a long, long time.Read more... Read more ›
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The New York Police Department plans to use drones to respond to some 911 calls in a new program, according to testimony delivered Thursday at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing in Washington, D.C. And while that’s concerning enough, one Republican congressman had some ideas about how to improve the idea.…Read more... Read more ›
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OpenAI’s Superalignment team, charged with controlling the existential danger of a superhuman AI system, has reportedly been disbanded, according to Wired on Friday. The news comes just days after the team’s founders, Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, simultaneously quit the company.Read more... Read more ›
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The third and final episode of “Tolerance Is Extinction,”the season finale of X-Men ‘97, had a lot to pay off—not just from the plot threads it wove throughout its own debut season, but in bringing to a head years of lingering character work dating back to the original X-Men: The Animated Series. But in just a few…Read more... Read more ›
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It looks a bit like a boat, or a stout fedora. So what the hell is this rusty brown gossamer of a space cloud?Read more... Read more ›
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The last thing an alcoholic wants to see is YouTube ads featuring alcohol, which can trigger the desire to drink. The same goes for someone who has perhaps experienced a miscarriage and continues to see YouTube ads for diapers and baby clothes, sending people into a spiral of depression. But if you’re struggling with…Read more... Read more ›
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Game emulation has been a tried and true pastime on PCs and Macs for a while now, but it’s a whole new frontier for folks who are only used to their regular, unmodified iPhone. Apple updated its rules earlier this month, and now there’s a building wave of old console emulators streaming onto iOS. If you’re getting…Read more... Read more ›
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According to Apple analystMing-Chi Kuo, there’s a possibility we could get a longer battery life on the upcoming iPhone 16 Pro Max, which will be expected to launch later this year. Read more... Read more ›
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Sci-fi Western Outer Range released its second season on Prime Video this week, bringing more time-travel shenanigans for the people of Wabang, Wyoming—especially the families of Royal Abbott (Josh Brolin) and Wayne Tillerson (Will Patton). The show’s giant hole still contains more secrets than answers, and just like…Read more... Read more ›
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The International Space Station (ISS) was caught looking a little undignified in a new photo captured by an imaging satellite in orbit.Read more... Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s Neuralink is now accepting applications for a second patient to receive its brain-computer interface, just five months after Noland Arbaugh became the first human to have the startup’s technology surgically implanted. The second patient will receive the same fame and life-changing technology Arbaugh has…Read more... Read more ›
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Alkaline water will improve your metabolism, boost your liver health, and even help you fight off cancer—at least according to its fans. The actual truth, however, is far more mundane. There is little good evidence for these and many other health claims attached to alkaline water, and the only thing that it’s clearly…Read more... Read more ›
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