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‘Wizard of Oz’ blown up by AI for giant Sphere screen

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-12-30 20:49:34

In Brief The massive Las Vegas venue known as Sphere will be screening its first classic movie, “The Wizard of Oz,” starting on August 28. And as detailed in a segment on CBS Sunday Morning, this isn’t just a matter of taking the existing movie and projecting it on Sphere’s 160,000 square foot, wraparound LED screen. Instead, Sphere Entertainment CEO James Dolan said a 2,000-person team is creating a new experience. That includes using AI to both increase the resolution of the existing film an

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Open Channel: What’d You Think ‘Fantastic Four: First Steps’?

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-12-30 22:30:28

Nearly five full years after Marvel Studios first planted its flag and announced it was coming, the Fantastic Four finally made their MCU debut this weekend. Given the last tries at bringing these heroes to the big screen, and how Marvel treated those characters back when it didn’t own them, it seemed there wasn’t really anywhere for the Four to go but up. But things have changed in the past five years, and now there’s more pressure than ever for them to stick the landing, particularly since thi

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How to Watch England vs. Spain From Anywhere for Free: Stream UEFA Women's Euro 2025 Final Soccer

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-30 18:00:05

It all comes down to this, as defending champions England take on 2023 World Cup winners Spain on Sunday in the Women's Euro 2025 Final at St. Jakob-Park. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch this match as it happens, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if the game isn't available where you are. The Spaniards have lived up to their pre-tournament billing as the team to beat throughout Euro 2025, having glided through the group phase scoring 1

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Cable Bacteria Are Living Batteries

news.ycombinator.com Niko Mccarty 2025-12-26 10:12:57

Under a cloudless August sky, I sailed upon an InterCity train from København station to Aarhus, an 8th-century Viking settlement that is now the second largest city in Denmark. After disembarking, I trekked toward the local university to a door marked INSTITUT FOR BIOLOGI. Upon entering, I was greeted by Ian Marshall, a lanky Australian professor with graying hair, who ushered me into his first floor laboratory. Dimly lit, the room was thick with the scent of wet earth. Large plastic buckets l

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Resizable structs in Zig

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 11:43:57

In this post I will make the case for the concept of a “runtime resizable struct” in Zig. I will then design an API by exploiting Zig’s powerful comptime functionality. If you want to skip straight to the implementation, a minimal proof of concept is available as a package on GitHub. Zig has support for many kinds of collection types in its standard library. All of them can broadly be broken down to two primitive backing types for contiguous data storage: [N]T – arrays, when you always know t

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Resizable Structs in Zig

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-30 17:43:57

In this post I will make the case for the concept of a “runtime resizable struct” in Zig. I will then design an API by exploiting Zig’s powerful comptime functionality. If you want to skip straight to the implementation, a minimal proof of concept is available as a package on GitHub. Zig has support for many kinds of collection types in its standard library. All of them can broadly be broken down to two primitive backing types for contiguous data storage: [N]T – arrays, when you always know t

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Best 3D Printing Filament and Which to Buy in 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-30 16:00:00

CNET staff -- not advertisers, partners or business interests -- determine how we review products and services. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. There are plenty of great reasons to pick up a 3D printer, but it's important to find a filament that works for you. Choosing the wrong filament will lead to clogs, a stringy printing process and ultimately having to start all over again. Filament is the material used for FDM 3D printing, and there's certainly no shortage of opti

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The 21 Best Movies on Amazon Prime Right Now (August 2025)

wired.com Matt Kamen 2025-12-30 05:00:00

In Recent years, Netflix and Apple TV+ have been duking it out to have the most prestigious film offerings, but some of the best movies are on Amazon Prime Video. The streamer was one of the first to go around picking up film festival darlings and other lovable favorites, and those movies are all still there in the library, so if they flew under your radar the first time, now is the perfect time to catch up. Our picks for the best movies on Amazon Prime are below. All the films in our guide are

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U.K. starts enforcing online age check rules

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-12-30 16:29:26

In Brief A U.K. law requiring that pornography websites verify the age of their users took effect Friday. The BBC reports that around 6,000 porn sites have said they will start verifying users’ ages to comply with the Online Safety Act, although at least one major site was not requiring age checks as of Friday morning. The law also requires that online platforms prevent children from being exposed to harmful content, which is why sites like Reddit, Bluesky, X, and Grindr have also begun askin

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Hurricane Season Is Here: Here's What Really Happens When Your Internet Goes Out

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-30 11:00:00

Internet and power outages often linger briefly after big storms pass through, making it difficult to check in on loved ones. But sometimes, those internet networks can take much longer to repair. Over 974,000 homes and businesses experienced power outages after Hurricane Helene swept through rural mountain communities on Sept. 27. It was a hurricane that no one in the western Carolinas could have expected, a “one-in-1,000-year" storm worsened by prior rainfall and the region's rugged mountainou

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New Speed Test Results Reveal the Fastest Internet Service Provider in the US

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-30 15:00:00

There's been a lot of talk about internet speed lately. From various company taglines -- "Don't take slow for an answer" -- to the latest news about Japan's internet data transmission record, it's all about the speed. This week, Ookla released its Speedtest Connectivity Report for the first six months of 2025, and AT&T Fiber topped the list as the country's fastest fixed internet service provider. (Ookla is owned by the same parent company as CNET, Ziff Davis.) What does that mean? Does it tell

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Users claim Discord's age verification can be tricked with video game characters

news.ycombinator.com Amelia Hansford 2025-12-30 09:23:36

Discord’s new age-verification tool may not be as rigorous as it seems, after users reportedly discovered it can be tricked using video game characters. The instant messaging and VoIP platform, commonly used for gaming, implemented an age-check tool earlier this month for UK users in anticipation of a new set of laws aimed at restricting potentially harmful content for under-18s. The Online Safety Act, passed in 2023, requires service providers that host user-generated content to implement age

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‘Predator: Badlands’ Just Feasted on Its Comic-Con Audience

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-12-30 16:45:26

After the new Predator: Badlands trailer Fox released earlier this week, a Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con seemed unnecessary. That trailer had incredible action, massive creatures, super high-tech weapons, and Elle Fanning as an android being worn as a backpack. We are fully seated. What more could a fan of the franchise want? Well, apparently, a lot more, as Badlands director Dan Trachtenberg was joined by Fanning and others to show fans even more from their November 7 film. Fifteen minut

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A Creepy Corn Maze Awaits at the ‘Clown in a Cornfield’ Activation

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-12-30 21:50:14

Clown in a Cornfield is a million-dollar title—so eerie, so evocative, and so perfectly descriptive of Eli Craig‘s horror movie, which hit theaters earlier this year. It’s headed to Shudder and AMC+ August 8, but even if you’ve been waiting to catch it on streaming, there’s much to scream about with its San Diego Comic-Con immersive experience. Why? Well, for one thing, it’s a haunted corn maze—and even though it’s indoors, it’s still dark and spooky as you’d expect. The queue drops you right i

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Vince Gilligan’s New Apple TV+ Sci-Fi Show Is Coming Real Soon

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-12-31 02:00:55

Amid all the hubbub of San Diego Comic-Con weekend, Apple TV finally unveiled its new sci-fi drama series, Pluribus, created by Breaking Bad creator and Better Call Saul co-creator Vince Gilligan. Although Pluribus is Gilligan’s first venture into sci-fi, it will feature a familiar face: Rhea Seehorn from Better Call Saul. Apple TV’s press release for Pluribus, like its teaser poster, doesn’t reveal much about the show in terms of what viewers can expect from its story, aside from Gilligan’s na

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‘Invincible Vs.’ Will Occupy Its Own Unique Corner of the ‘Invincible’ Universe

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-12-31 06:30:35

After turning The Walking Dead into a multimedia empire, Robert Kirkman has been hard at work doing the same for Invincible. First there were, of course, the comics. Then the awesome Prime Video animated show. There have long been talks of a potential live-action movie. And, next year, the franchise’s first full-fledged video game is coming, called Invincible Vs. And while little is known about the game, set for release in 2026, Kirkman spoke to press about it at San Diego Comic-Con. What we pr

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Forming Standards for a Better Future Working Together

computer.org Jasmine Ang 2025-12-31 05:00:39

An interview with Yonghong Tian, recipient of the 2025 Hans Karlsson Standards Award Yonghong Tian stands as a global authority in the field of artificial intelligence and multimedia systems. Formerly serving as the Dean of the School of Electronics and Computer Engineering, now Vice-Dean of Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School and Dean of the new School of Science and Intelligence, and a Boya Distinguished Professor at Peking University, China, Professor Tian has made groundbreaking co

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Breaking Bad creator's new show streams on Apple TV+ November 7

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-31 11:41:50

Apple has announced that Pluribus, a new science fiction drama from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, will premiere on Apple TV+ on November 7. Gilligan was confirmed to be working on the project back in 2022, when Better Call Saul's Rhea Seehorn was also announced as its primary star. Alongside the premiere date, Apple also released a short (somewhat ominous) teaser for the series that shows a hospital employee mindlessly licking donuts. Pluribus is supposed to follow "the most miserable pe

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Nullable but not null

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-31 11:22:02

When working on backend applications, especially those with evolving database schemas, it’s common to see a recurring pattern: A new field is added to a model. To avoid locking the table during the migration, the field is added as nullable. The application logic is updated to start filling in this field. A backfill job runs to populate the existing records. The field is left as nullable. People often forget the final step which is updating the schema to make the field non-nullable once the dat

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Breaking Bad creator’s new sci-fi show hits Apple in November

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2025-12-31 16:09:17

is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories. As promised, Apple has finally revealed Pluribus, a new show from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan that’s coming to Apple TV Plus. In addition to a very brief teaser involving some gross donut behavior, the streamer also confirmed that the show will premiere on November 7th. The show has been in the works for a while, as Apple first

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M5 iPad Pro: Four new features are coming later this year

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-31 21:05:17

Apple has new iPad Pro hardware launching this fall, packed with an M5 chip and a few other feature updates. Here’s everything we’re expecting from Apple’s latest iPad Pro model. Brand new M5 chip This one’s a no-brainer, of course. But it’s also one of the most substantial updates coming. Just like last year’s M4 iPad Pro, Apple is expected to once again debut its brand new M5 not in a Mac, but rather an iPad. Details on the M5 chip’s upgrades are unknown, but we can expect the standard boo

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VSCO launches dedicated 'Capture' app with live previews

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-31 21:40:05

VSCO, the photo filter and editing app that spawned an entire culture , has released a dedicated camera app called VSCO Capture. The free iOS‑only app is a camera with live previews where users can choose from over 50 different presets with real‑time film effects and manual settings like shutter speed and exposure for fine‑tuning. The app takes the guesswork out of how your photo will look after you apply VSCO's iconic filters. “VSCO Capture is a direct response to our community’s desire to get

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Traveling this summer? Consider this before using airport Wi-Fi and charging ports

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-12-31 21:42:00

Carles Navarro Parcerisas/Getty Images The next time you travel through an airport, you should probably be a little leery of using the public Wi-Fi or USB charging ports, according to the TSA. In a reminder posted on Facebook, the TSA warns that while these freebies are designed to be useful, they can actually be dangerous if a fellow traveler has bad intentions. Also: How to use public Wi-Fi safely: 5 things to know before you connect Using a process called juice jacking, someone can instal

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Efficient Computer's Electron E1 CPU – 100x more efficient than Arm?

news.ycombinator.com Dr. Ian Cutress 2025-12-31 18:30:44

We've been building general-purpose CPUs wrong for decades, apparently. That's the bold claim from Efficient Computer, a new startup stepping into the embedded market with their Electron E1 chip. For too long, our processors have been stuck in a control flow model, constantly shuffling data back and forth between caches, memory, and compute units – a process I think we can all agree that burns significant energy at every step. Efficient’s goal is to approach the problem by static scheduling and

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Reindeer Flee to Cities as the Arctic Bakes in Unprecedented Heatwave

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2025-12-31 21:10:14

For two straight weeks, Finland has been roasting under record-high temperatures. The country is facing its most intense and persistent heatwave in its recorded history, which has brought beach weather to towns above the Arctic Circle. Friday marked the 14th consecutive day that at least one part of Finland reached a temperature above 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius), according to the Finnish Meteorological Institute. Local weather stations across the country have also reported record

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Games Look Bad: HDR and Tone Mapping (2017)

news.ycombinator.com View All Posts Promit 2025-12-31 14:26:37

This is Part 1 of a series examining techniques used in game graphics and how those techniques fail to deliver a visually appealing end result. See Part 0 for a more thorough explanation of the idea behind it. High dynamic range. First experienced by most consumers in late 2005, with Valve’s Half Life 2: Lost Coast demo. Largely faked at the time due to technical limitations, but it laid the groundwork for something we take for granted in nearly every blockbuster title. The contemporaneous revi

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100X More Efficient Than ARM Processors – Electron E1

news.ycombinator.com Dr. Ian Cutress 2026-01-01 00:30:44

We've been building general-purpose CPUs wrong for decades, apparently. That's the bold claim from Efficient Computer, a new startup stepping into the embedded market with their Electron E1 chip. For too long, our processors have been stuck in a control flow model, constantly shuffling data back and forth between caches, memory, and compute units – a process I think we can all agree that burns significant energy at every step. Efficient’s goal is to approach the problem by static scheduling and

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Pebble is officially Pebble again

theverge.com Victoria Song 2026-01-01 02:01:22

is a senior reporter focusing on wearables, health tech, and more with 13 years of experience. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. Good news for Pebble fans. Not only are the Pebble watches coming back, they’ll also officially be called Pebble watches. “Great news — we’ve been able to recover the trademark for Pebble! Honestly, I wasn’t expecting this to work out so easily,” Core Devices CEO Eric Migicovsky writes in an update blog. “Core 2 Duo is now Pebble 2 D

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Google Maps brings music controls back, but the fix isn’t perfect

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-01 06:00:56

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Media playback controls are back in Google Maps. Google confirmed earlier this week that the disappearance was a bug. The fix is likely being issued as a server-side update. Google Maps has long had media playback controls to minimize distractions when navigating. However, earlier this week, those controls suddenly disappeared without warning. Now it appears Google has brought the controls back. After reports started coming in about the missing playb

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nullable but not null

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-01 05:22:02

When working on backend applications, especially those with evolving database schemas, it’s common to see a recurring pattern: A new field is added to a model. To avoid locking the table during the migration, the field is added as nullable. The application logic is updated to start filling in this field. A backfill job runs to populate the existing records. The field is left as nullable. People often forget the final step which is updating the schema to make the field non-nullable once the dat

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