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Christopher Lloyd’s Disembodied Head Comes to Life in This ‘Wednesday’ VFX Reel

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-10-10 09:00:20

Living, talking, disembodied heads in jars bring the perfect amount of ghoulish mirth to any given project—just ask Futurama. But rarely has the idea been executed with more advanced skill than in season two of Wednesday. In a new behind-the-scenes video, the VFX whizzes at Scanline VFX and Eyeline Studios walk us through the creation of Professor Orloff, a character that comes to vivid life thanks to actor Christopher Lloyd and some very cutting-edge technology. Casting Lloyd—who played Uncle

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World Nuclear Association Welcomes Microsoft Corporation as Newest Member

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 04:01:18

LONDON, UK –World Nuclear Association is proud to announce that Microsoft Corporation, one of the world's leading technology companies, has officially joined as our newest member. This landmark membership underscores the growing recognition of nuclear energy as an essential foundation for powering the digital economy and achieving ambitious climate goals. A Transformative Partnership for Clean Energy Leadership In order to meet growing electricity demand globally, the world not only needs to c

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SpaceX Strikes Wireless Gold With EchoStar Sale. Expect Better Coverage With These Carriers

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-11 08:31:00

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has acquired $17 billion worth of EchoStar’s wireless spectrum, the two companies announced on Monday. The coveted chunk of spectrum, which is used to transmit cellular data through the air, exists in the 1.9 and lower 2GHz spectrum bands. The news comes six weeks after SpaceX launched its satellite texting partnership T-Mobile, called T-Satellite. SpaceX’s Starlink internet service is now poised to dramatically increase its direct-to-cell coverage, which allows users to text

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Microsoft doubles down on small modular reactors and fusion energy

news.ycombinator.com Efosa Udinmwen 2025-10-11 12:16:39

Microsoft is chasing carbon-free energy while data demand keeps rising The World Nuclear Association gains unprecedented visibility through Microsoft’s membership Small modular reactors are being framed as digital infrastructure’s next foundation Microsoft has officially joined the World Nuclear Association (WNA), making it the first global technology company of its scale to do so. The announcement comes at a time when the nuclear industry is attempting to position itself as a necessary part

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‘Sherlock Holmes’ May Get the Animated Treatment From a ‘Shrek’ Producer

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-10-11 17:00:35

Here’s a duo you don’t expect: Sherlock Holmes and Shrek. There won’t be any content crossover if a new animated Sherlock Holmes series—tentatively titled Animated Sherlock—gets off the ground, but the shared behind-the-scenes interests are there. Also of note, the series wouldn’t adapt the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle source material but rather a novel series that puts a more risque twist on his classic tales. As Variety reports, Animated Sherlock would tap into The Unexperguated Adventures of Sherl

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This Cult Classic Vampire Movie Is Ridiculously Underrated, and It's Free on Tubi

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-11 21:15:03

Vampires have been popular on the silver screen ever since they burst onto film in 1922 with Nosferatu. Over the last 100+ years, myriad vampire flicks have stolen the hearts of audiences, from The Lost Boys to Abigail. Novelist Anne Rice's vampires have always been wickedly popular -- in particular because of the Tom Cruise/Brad Pitt blockbuster Interview With a Vampire -- but there is more to her world than just Louis and Lestat's story. Don't miss any of our unbiased tech content and lab-ba

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Starlink direct-to-cell satellite connectivity expanding beyond T-Mobile

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-10-12 17:27:56

SpaceX and the company behind Boost Mobile have struck a deal that will bolster Starlink’s direct-to-cell satellite mobile service. EchoStar has agreed to license AWS-4 and H-block spectrum to SpaceX. The agreement is worth up to $17 billion with half in cash and half in SpaceX stock. For iPhone users, the deal will also expand Starlink’s satellite mobile service beyond T-Mobile, which is currently the exclusive U.S. mobile service provider with Starlink service. In connection with the transa

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Dan Ives to become chair of company that will buy Sam Altman-backed Worldcoin for its treasury

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2025-10-13 05:50:21

Wedbush Securities' Dan Ives is joining a new company focused on accumulating Worldcoin (WLD), the native token of the blockchain used in Open AI creator Sam Altman's biometric identity verification startup, World. Eightco Holdings, a tiny company that currently trades on the Nasdaq under the ticker "OCTO ," announced Monday that Ives, Wedbush's global head of technology research, is now chairman of the board of directors. It also announced a $250 million private placement to implement a buying

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The 49 Best Shows on Netflix Right Now (September 2025)

wired.com Matt Kamen 2025-10-11 16:00:00

Streaming services are known for having award-worthy series but also plenty of duds. Our guide to the best TV shows on Netflix is updated weekly to help you know which series you should move to the top of your queue. They aren’t all surefire winners—we love a good less-than-obvious gem—but they’re all worth your time, trust us. Feel like you’ve already watched everything on this list that you want to see? Try our guide to the best movies on Netflix for more options. And if you’ve already comple

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Starlink Halves the Cost of Its Dish for New Sign-Ups

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-12 20:00:00

For households in rural areas or regions where traditional ISPs still fall short, Starlink has become a lifeline for fast, reliable internet. The satellite service has opened up access in places that once had few options, and now it's rolling out one of its most affordable offers yet for new customers. Right now, the Starlink standard kit is marked down to $175, which is a 50% cut from its usual $349 price. Unlike past promotions that were limited to certain areas, this discount is available na

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Clarity or accuracy – what makes a good scientific image?

news.ycombinator.com Frankel 2025-10-08 21:02:40

Flashes of Brilliance: The Genius of Early Photography and How It Transformed Art, Science, and History Anika Burgess W. W. Norton (2025) As someone who has spent a career visualizing science, Flashes of Brilliance felt like reading a love letter to the power of the photographic image. This beautifully written book, by writer and photo editor Anika Burgess, is a thoughtful, personal and witty meditation on how imagery does much more than just document a scene. Will AI jeopardize science photog

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The Biden-Era Plan to Pay Travelers for Airline-Caused Delays Is Dead

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-13 04:39:00

For a brief moment, it looked like US travelers might finally get automatic cash when an airline's own problems wrecked their plans. The Department of Transportation, under former President Joe Biden, drafted a rule requiring carriers to pay passengers at least $200 and up to $775 for the longest holdups. The compensation would cover meals, hotels, ground transport and rebooking when disruptions were within the airline's control. But no longer. On Sept. 5, the Trump administration's DOT offici

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What the Hell Is Going on With Crypto Billionaire Justin Sun and Donald Trump?

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-14 01:30:06

World Liberty Financial’s crypto token WLFI started trading on exchanges Monday, which was great news for President Donald Trump’s family, who holds a reported 22.5 billion tokens. The move instantly created billions in wealth for America’s ruling family of fascists (at least on paper). But Justin Sun, a pro-Trump crypto billionaire who reportedly bought about $75 million of the token, says his wallets have been frozen. And nobody is sure why. The Trump family was instrumental in launching Wor

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OnePlus and Hasselblad are ending their five-year partnership

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-14 09:42:17

OnePlus and Hasselblad are ending their five-year partnership , according to an official blog post. The smartphone maker has started developing its own camera system, which it has dubbed the DetailMax Engine. There was no reason given for the split, though OnePlus heaped praise on Hasselblad in that blog post. It lauded the camera maker's "obsession with precision and detail" and opined about "nights in the lab chasing the perfect balance of light and shadow." The company also said that "Hassel

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I'm a Lifelong Soccer Fan. How Hisense Is Powering My FIFA World Cup Excitement

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-14 08:00:00

I've lived in the United States my whole life, but my family is from Colombia. We visited relatives often when I was a kid, and those trips usually involved three things: soccer, soccer and more soccer. Most afternoons were spent kicking a ball around the finca, or a nearby parking lot, or even a dirt road. And every time a game came on, the entire town shut down for a couple hours as people crowded around whatever TV or radio they could find and enjoyed the broadcast. Soccer is more than a spo

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The Paradigm

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-12 16:30:19

Over the past decade, some of the most remarkable AI breakthroughs—AlphaGo, AlphaStar, AlphaFold1, VPT, OpenAI Five, ChatGPT—have all shared a common thread: they start with large-scale data gathering (self-supervised or imitation learning, or SSL) and then use reinforcement learning to refine their performance toward a specific goal. This marriage of general knowledge acquisition and focused, reward-driven specialization has emerged as a the paradigm by which we can reliably train AI systems to

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What’s the Story Behind ‘Tron: Ares?’ Our Report From the Set

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-10-16 13:00:57

“I have to ride a lightcycle.” That was my first thought last year when the invite arrived to visit the set of Disney’s new sequel, Tron: Ares. It seemed like a logical request. When you think of Tron, you think of lightcycles. They’re a huge part of both 2010’s Tron: Legacy and 1982’s Tron. And yet, I had to wonder, were there even lightcycles in this movie? What exactly WAS this movie? Coming out 15 years after the last one, with basically a whole new cast, it seemed any concept of what the fi

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‘Talamasca: The Secret Order’ Promises Vampire Intrigue Galore in New Trailer

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-10-16 13:45:26

While Interview With the Vampire fans will have to wait until 2026 to pick back up with that series—retitled The Vampire Lestat for its rock n’ roll-infused third season—Anne Rice’s world expands in just a few weeks with Talamasca: The Secret Order. AMC has just shared a full trailer after that teaser in July, and it teases supernatural secrets, psychic menace, and danger-filled dark rooms. Talamasca runs just six episodes, but AMC is calling it a “first season,” so make of that what you will.

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Sami Raimi’s ‘Magic’ Remake Officially Moving Forward

gizmodo.com Gordon Jackson 2025-10-17 01:00:02

Supergirl gets a logo, Elisabeth Moss gets her own Substance treatment, and Young Frankenstein elects Cary Elwes as the President of the United States. Perfect Girl Deadline reports K-pop star Jeon Somi is set make her acting debut alongside previously announced cast members Arden Cho (KPop Demon Hunters) and Adeline Rudolph (Mortal Kombat II) in Perfect Girl, a horror-thriller described as”Scream meets Black Swan.” Naturally, the story concerns “a brand-new K-Pop super group preparing for the

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Voyager – An interactive video generation model with realtime 3D reconstruction

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-18 06:07:16

中文阅读 We introduce HunyuanWorld-Voyager, a novel video diffusion framework that generates world-consistent 3D point-cloud sequences from a single image with user-defined camera path. Voyager can generate 3D-consistent scene videos for world exploration following custom camera trajectories. It can also generate aligned depth and RGB video for efficient and direct 3D reconstruction. Sep 2, 2025: 👋 We release the code and model weights of HunyuanWorld-Voyager. Download. Join our Wechat and Discor

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Voyager is an interactive video generation model with realtime 3D reconstruction

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-19 02:07:16

中文阅读 We introduce HunyuanWorld-Voyager, a novel video diffusion framework that generates world-consistent 3D point-cloud sequences from a single image with user-defined camera path. Voyager can generate 3D-consistent scene videos for world exploration following custom camera trajectories. It can also generate aligned depth and RGB video for efficient and direct 3D reconstruction. Sep 2, 2025: 👋 We release the code and model weights of HunyuanWorld-Voyager. Download. Join our Wechat and Discor

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Tencent Open Sourced a 3D World Model

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-19 22:07:16

中文阅读 We introduce HunyuanWorld-Voyager, a novel video diffusion framework that generates world-consistent 3D point-cloud sequences from a single image with user-defined camera path. Voyager can generate 3D-consistent scene videos for world exploration following custom camera trajectories. It can also generate aligned depth and RGB video for efficient and direct 3D reconstruction. Sep 2, 2025: 👋 We release the code and model weights of HunyuanWorld-Voyager. Download. Join our Wechat and Discor

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The Middle Earth

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-16 06:09:29

One of the most engaging books I have read this year is A Little Learning: A Victorian Childhood, by the novelist Winifred Peck (1882-1962). Looking back from the 1950s, Peck describes her education at a number of different schools in the last decades of the 19th century – a time when the opportunities available to women, and ideas about how girls should be educated, were changing very rapidly. Though she came from a scholarly and successful family (her father was a bishop), Peck’s chequered ed

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Pearl – An Erlang lexer and syntax highlighter in Gleam

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-16 15:30:43

Pearl An Erlang lexer and syntax highlighter for Gleam! Pearl is a lexer and syntax highlighter for Erlang, written in Gleam. The lexer is based on glexer and just , allowing you to convert Erlang source code into tokens. There is also an API which allows you to highlight Erlang code using ansi colours, html or a custom format. Heavily inspired by contour . gleam add pearl@2 import pearl pub fn main ( ) { let code = " -module(hello). -export([hello_world/0]). hello_world() -> io:fwrite( \" H

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We Finally Know What the Upcoming ’28 Years Later’ Sequel Is About

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-10-20 17:15:39

This summer’s 28 Years Later ended on a maddening, disturbing cliffhanger. Spike (Alfie Williams) decided to leave his family and its safe village to explore the world, only to run into the insane Jimmy (Jack O’Connell) and his jumpsuit-wearing gang. What did this have to do with the film we’d been watching? What did it have to do with what’s coming next? We finally have some answers. Those answers are coming in 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, which opens in theaters January 16, 2026. That’s a

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The tariff apocalypse is here

theverge.com Mia Sato 2025-10-20 17:34:13

As President Donald Trump’s August 29th deadline for new tariffs rolled around, the first thing that I thought of was 2026 planners. In July, Trump signed an executive order essentially killing a little-known but highly consequential trade rule, which meant that purchases coming from abroad — like $100 in planners and accessories — could enter the US duty-free. My preferred planner, the Hobonichi Techo, is printed and shipped from Japan. With the de minimis exemption removed, my tax bill could b

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'World Models,' an old idea in AI, mount a comeback

news.ycombinator.com John Pavlus 2025-10-20 19:53:29

The latest ambition of artificial intelligence research — particularly within the labs seeking “artificial general intelligence,” or AGI — is something called a world model: a representation of the environment that an AI carries around inside itself like a computational snow globe. The AI system can use this simplified representation to evaluate predictions and decisions before applying them to its real-world tasks. The deep learning luminaries Yann LeCun (of Meta), Demis Hassabis (of Google Dee

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Sony WH-1000XM5 Deal: $100 Off Sony’s Last-Gen Flagships

wired.com Brad Bourque 2025-10-20 20:52:00

Some people always want the newest version, but if you're willing to compromise a little, you can have Sony's noise-canceling WH-1000XM5 (9/10, WIRED Recommends) for just $300 from Amazon, a steep discount on their usual price. Even though their successor is available, they still offer an extremely good value and number among our favorite active noise-canceling headphones, particularly when you can save $100. For years now, Sony has been pumping out generation after generation of the WH-1000XM

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'World Models,' an Old Idea in AI, Mount a Comeback

news.ycombinator.com John Pavlus 2025-10-21 00:53:29

The latest ambition of artificial intelligence research — particularly within the labs seeking “artificial general intelligence,” or AGI — is something called a world model: a representation of the environment that an AI carries around inside itself like a computational snow globe. The AI system can use this simplified representation to evaluate predictions and decisions before applying them to its real-world tasks. The deep learning luminaries Yann LeCun (of Meta), Demis Hassabis (of Google Dee

Topics: ai like model models world

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Sony WH-1000XM5 Deal: $100 Off Sony's Last-Gen Flagships

wired.com Brad Bourque 2025-10-21 01:52:00

Some people always want the newest version, but if you're willing to compromise a little, you can have Sony's noise-canceling WH-1000XM5 (9/10, WIRED Recommends) for just $300 from Amazon, a steep discount on their usual price. Even though their successor is available, they still offer an extremely good value, and number among our favorite active noise-canceling headphones, particularly when you can save $100. For years now, Sony has been pumping out generation after generation of the WH-1000XM

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Pearl – An Erlang lexer and syntax highlighter in Gleam

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'World Models,' an old idea in AI, mount a comeback

Sony WH-1000XM5 Deal: $100 Off Sony’s Last-Gen Flagships

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Sony WH-1000XM5 Deal: $100 Off Sony's Last-Gen Flagships

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