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In an interview with io9, director Na Hong-jin and actress Hoyeon discussed the ambiguous conclusion of their sci-fi film 'Hope' and addressed speculation about future installments. The pair offered insight into their creative intentions behind the ending without confirming concrete sequel plans.
X has rolled out a new feature letting U.S. users trade stocks, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies directly from ticker mentions on their timelines. Tapping a Cashtag now shows a live price chart and related posts, with a 'Trade' button that routes users to partnered brokerages like Interactive Brokers, Moomoo, Gemini, Kraken, and Coinbase to complete transactions.
Researchers excavating a historical site near Lima uncovered a sealed mausoleum dating back roughly six centuries, predating Incan rule in the region. The tomb had escaped disturbance by both colonial-era and modern looters, leaving its contents largely undisturbed until the excavation team identified and opened it.
Snap has introduced SPECS Intelligence, an AI system that learns a user's goals, relationships, and daily routines by connecting to their apps and tools. The tool aims to proactively surface useful information, such as meeting prep details or travel itineraries, without requiring users to ask for it, and it will now extend beyond its original platform to iOS and Mac devices.
During a 33-hour period when Matt Mullenweg was placed on leave by Automattic's board, interim CEO Mark Davies and Chief Legal Officer Andy Missan each approved the other's exit agreement. The deals grant both executives a year of salary, accelerated equity vesting, stock option exercise rights, and extended health coverage, totaling roughly $8.15 million combined. Mullenweg fired both men upon reclaiming his role, and Automattic is now weighing whether to honor or legally contest the payouts.
Apple announced that iOS 27.2 will give developers the choice to display an alternative version of its App Tracking Transparency prompt in the European Union, with modified wording and formatting plus an optional 'Additional Information' button. In Germany, France, Italy, Poland, and Romania, this alternative prompt will be mandatory rather than optional due to local legal requirements. The change stems from Apple's recent settlement with German antitrust regulators over its ATT rules.
A Stanford research team removed a large section of a mouse's brain and replaced it with tissue grown from human stem cells known as brain organoids. The goal was to give these lab-grown clusters of neurons a living, connected environment closer to an actual brain than a petri dish can offer.
A technical guide details Cyclomatic Complexity (CC), a decades-old code metric originated by Thomas McCabe in 1976 that counts independent execution paths through a method by tallying branching constructs like if, while, for, case, and logical operators. It outlines the scoring scale—1 for a single path, roughly 10 as McCabe's recommended ceiling, and above 25 flagged as excessive by Microsoft's CA1502 analyzer—and shows how to compute, visualize, and interpret it in .NET codebases alongside test coverage and IL-level analysis.
Netflix has released a trailer for 'Sacrifice,' a dark comedy directed by Romain Gavras starring Chris Evans and Anya Taylor-Joy. The film follows a cult leader, played by Taylor-Joy, who resorts to extreme measures involving an erupting volcano to try to save the world.
Speaking at the Fast Company Innovation Festival, RuPaul's Drag Race winner Bob the Drag Queen described how comfort with improvisation and imperfection has shaped her approach to entrepreneurship. She shared a lesson tied to 'Top Gun: Maverick,' a film she admitted she has never seen, to illustrate how confidence can outweigh flawless preparation.
Science Corporation CEO Max Hodak will speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026's Beyond Screens session about his company's biohybrid brain-computer interface, for which it has recruited a leading neurobiologist to run the first U.S. human trials. Hodak, a Neuralink co-founder, argues that keyboards and screens will eventually give way to interfaces built directly around brain activity.
Langdock, a Berlin-based enterprise AI platform serving roughly 13,000 organisations, has dismantled its US holding company and reorganised into a Societas Europaea registered in Germany. The switch, which began in early 2026 and cost several million euros, reverses the common practice among European startups of setting up US parent entities to attract investors.