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Paramount May Not Be Done With ‘Transformers’ Movies Yet

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2026-02-21 15:25:09

After 2024’s Transformers One came and went, it’s been a question of whether we’d actually see the Autobots and Decepticons on the big screen. The answer now appears to be “yes,” and not just because Paramount’s still pretending that crossover with G.I. Joe is happening. According to Matt Belloni at Puck News, the studio is spinning up several Transformers movies. One is said to be helmed by One director Josh Cooley, and will be live-action. The other is said to be coming from ex-franchise stew

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New benchmarks show SteamOS outperforming Windows 11 on Lenovo's handheld PC

techspot.com Cal Jeffrey 2026-02-24 23:03:00

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust That's called progress: SteamOS started life as a lightweight Linux-based system built for Valve's Steam Machines that never really picked up steam (pun intended). Now, it powers the Steam Deck and various other handhelds. New benchmarks show that the gaming OS outperforms Windows 11 on similar hardware. A recent Ars Technica report tested five demanding PC games on Lenovo's Legion Go S handheld, r

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DirecTV's New $20 Streaming Bundle Is Tailor-Made for Your Kids

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-02-26 03:02:00

After introducing Genre Packs this past February, DirecTV is launching a new streaming option called MyKids for $20 a month, the TV provider announced Thursday. The offering is aimed at cord-cutters and joins the Genre Pack lineup as an affordable family-friendly package with live channels from Paramount, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and a Disney Plus subscription at no extra charge. Signing up for the MyKids pack doesn't require a satellite subscription, and you get access to a selection of

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Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-27 16:40:10

Nearly a decade ago, Ars testing found that Valve's "Steam Machines"-era version of SteamOS performed significantly worse than Windows when SteamOS's Linux game ports were tested on the same hardware as their Windows counterparts. Today, though, Ars testing on the Lenovo Legion Go S finds recent games generally run at higher frame rates on SteamOS 3.7 than on Windows 11. The performance advantage is yet another way that Valve's upstart OS is differentiating itself from the "default" Windows inst

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Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-28 04:25:39

Nearly a decade ago, Ars testing found that Valve's "Steam Machines"-era version of SteamOS performed significantly worse than Windows when SteamOS' Linux game ports were tested on the same hardware as their Windows counterparts. Today, though, Ars testing on the Lenovo Legion Go S finds recent games generally run at higher frame rates on SteamOS 3.7 than on Windows 11. The performance advantage is yet another way that Valve's upstart OS is differentiating itself from the "default" Windows insta

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Your next job? Managing a fleet of AI agents

zdnet.com Joe Mckendrick 2026-02-28 14:01:21

akinbostanci/Getty Images Agentic AI is moving fast, but are we ready for it? "We're all going to be CEOs of a small army of AI agents," predicted Erik Brynjolfsson, director of the digital economy lab at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and founder of Workhelix, recently quoted in The New York Times. "We have to think, OK: What is it we really want to accomplish? What are the goals here? And we have to think a little bit more deeply about that than we have in

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Paramount Plus with Showtime is getting a rebrand

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2026-03-02 23:14:21

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. ”Paramount Plus with Showtime” has always been one of the more awkward bits of branding to come out of the streaming era, but soon subscribers will know the tier by another name. This week Paramount informed Paramount Plus subscribers that Paramount Plus with Showtime — the platform’s most expensive tier that features Showtime progra

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New Firefox Add-On Policies

news.ycombinator.com Scott Devaney 2026-03-03 17:59:38

We’ve updated Add-on policies for addons.mozilla.org (AMO). Here’s a summary of the changes and their impact on AMO’s publishing process. Our main objective was to simplify and clarify Add-on policies for the developer community. The following policy updates will take effect on 4 August, 2025. “Closed group” prohibition lifted Closed group extensions are typically intended for internal or private use among a relatively small group of users. In the past AMO did not allow closed group extensions

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Scientists use bacteria to turn plastic waste into paracetamol

news.ycombinator.com Nicola Davis 2026-03-04 23:34:04

Bacteria can be used to turn plastic waste into painkillers, researchers have found, opening up the possibility of a more sustainable process for producing the drugs. Chemists have discovered E coli can be used to create paracetamol, also known as acetaminophen, from a material produced in the laboratory from plastic bottles. “People don’t realise that paracetamol comes from oil currently,” said Prof Stephen Wallace, the lead author of the research from the University of Edinburgh. “What this

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Steam adds more accessibility features

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-10 16:16:06

Steam has introduced a new batch of features for improved accessibility in the latest beta of the gaming client. The platform is adding a sliding scale for adjusting UI size, a high contrast mode to make text and buttons more distinct from the background, and a reduce motion setting to disable select animations and page transitions. These three features are available for devices running SteamOS and in Steam's Big Picture Mode, which displays a full-screen user interface for easier legibility. I

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Steam is adding screen reader support and other accessibility tools

theverge.com Adi Robertson 2026-03-11 12:00:15

is a senior tech and policy editor focused on VR, online platforms, and free expression. Adi has covered video games, biohacking, and more for The Verge since 2011. Valve is introducing accessibility features for players with disabilities in its latest beta for Steam Big Picture Mode and SteamOS. The features — listed in full and explained here — include options to modify the Steam UI, like a high contrast mode, as well as a built-in screen reader for SteamOS. In its post, Valve describes the

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How Hourglass Vision Transformers Are Redefining Camouflaged Object Detection

computer.org Enrique Quezada 2026-03-12 03:58:20

Introduction While camouflage gives wildlife and military vehicles a strategic survival advantage, it poses challenges, both for human and computer vision systems. It is difficult enough to detect objects designed to blend with their environments, but when the objects have blurry edges, the detection process is even more problematic. However, in a paper written for the 2025 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Jinpeng He, Biyuan Liu, and Huaixin Chen of the Uni

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The Interpretable AI playbook: What Anthropic’s research means for your enterprise LLM strategy

venturebeat.com Ross Teixeira 2026-03-14 12:01:08

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei made an urgent push in April for the need to understand how AI models think. This comes at a crucial time. As Anthropic battles in global AI rankings, it’s important to note what sets it apart from other top AI labs. Since its founding in 2021, when seven OpenAI employees broke off over concerns about AI safety,

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Jensen Huang hits back at Anthropic CEO's warning that AI will eliminate half of white-collar jobs

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2026-03-18 19:51:00

What just happened? Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's recent warning that AI could wipe out about half of all entry-level white-collar jobs in the next five years has been disputed by Nvidia boss Jensen Huang. It's not the first time the two companies have clashed, and Anthropic has hit back with claims that Huang is putting words into Amodei's mouth. Amodei made his ominous prediction about AI's impact on entry-level, white-collar jobs in May, warning that the eradication of these positions will le

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A Study of the Winston Red: The Smithsonian's New Fancy Red Diamond

news.ycombinator.com Gabriela A. Farfan 2026-03-18 14:13:14

ABSTRACT Red diamonds are among the rarest gems on Earth, especially Fancy red diamonds that are pure red and unmodified by brown, orange, or purple. At 2.33 ct, the Winston Red diamond is the fifth-largest Fancy red diamond known to exist and the only Fancy red diamond on public exhibit. On April 1, 2025, it was unveiled in a new exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. This is the first scientific and historical study conducted on this noteworthy stone.

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This Chinese Spacecraft Is Traveling to One of Earth’s Quasi-Moons

wired.com Javier Carbajal 2026-03-20 23:00:00

The China National Space Administration has shared the first image from its Tianwen-2 probe, which is en route to Kamo’oalewa, a near-Earth asteroid. The image was captured by a camera onboard the probe, which is currently more than 3 million kilometers from Earth, and shows one of its wings with its solar panels deployed. It is also the first glimpse the CNSA has offered of its space probe, which launched on May 29 on a Long March 3B rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Zeyuan To

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Computing’s Top 30: Harini Hapuarachichi

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2026-03-22 20:00:22

In medieval Europe, kings wore diamonds to absorb the gemstone’s purported powers of strength and invincibility. Today, researchers are seeking to harness those same storied powers to fuel quantum computing’s next leap. Among those researchers: Harini Hapuarachichi, a computational physicist and postdoctoral research fellow at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)—and one of Computing’s Top 30 Early Career Professionals for 2024. In the following Q&A, Hapuarachichi discusses her g

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Bliss – The story behind one of the most famous photographs (2012)

news.ycombinator.com Ap Staff 2026-03-20 10:08:45

Image: Charles O’Rear photographed this hillside near his home one winter’s morning when the landscape took on an almost dreamlike quality ©Microsoft Corporation ‘Bliss’ is an image of a green, lush hillside, partially lit by bright sunshine. Above the hillside there’s a bright-blue sky peppered with cumulus and cirrus clouds. Low down in the frame, a dark line indicates a division between fields, and the foreground is dotted with yellow wildflowers. Beyond the gracefully sloping hillside, di

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Latest Tech News

Paramount May Not Be Done With ‘Transformers’ Movies Yet

New benchmarks show SteamOS outperforming Windows 11 on Lenovo's handheld PC

DirecTV's New $20 Streaming Bundle Is Tailor-Made for Your Kids

Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds

Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds

Your next job? Managing a fleet of AI agents

Paramount Plus with Showtime is getting a rebrand

New Firefox Add-On Policies

Scientists use bacteria to turn plastic waste into paracetamol

Steam adds more accessibility features

Steam is adding screen reader support and other accessibility tools

How Hourglass Vision Transformers Are Redefining Camouflaged Object Detection

The Interpretable AI playbook: What Anthropic’s research means for your enterprise LLM strategy

Jensen Huang hits back at Anthropic CEO's warning that AI will eliminate half of white-collar jobs

A Study of the Winston Red: The Smithsonian's New Fancy Red Diamond

This Chinese Spacecraft Is Traveling to One of Earth’s Quasi-Moons

Computing’s Top 30: Harini Hapuarachichi

Bliss – The story behind one of the most famous photographs (2012)

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