Learn to Read All Over Again With This Spectacular Speculative Story
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Apple Apologizes for Ad That Crushed Creativity
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Apple apologized on Thursday for a new iPad Pro commercial that featured several creative objects—including a piano, video cameras, and cans of paint—being destroyed by an industrial crusher, telling [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that it “missed the mark.” The ad was met with fierce backlash from people who thought Apple’s ad was at odds…
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29 Hilarious Finalists From the Comedy Pet Photo Awards
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Pets are our loving companions and offer moments of levity even when times are tough. Though it’s hard to say whether they understand humor, they certainly provide us with plenty. From cats stuck in stone walls to dogs stuck in cat doors, our domesticated animals give us something to live for—and occasionally laugh at.
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Marvel's Fantastic Four Casts Ralph Ineson as Galactus
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]After some recent casting announcements that came with no details attached (Paul Walter Hauser, John Malkovich), [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]—which already has Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as the main heroes, plus Julia Garner as Silver Surfer—has just unveiled a doozy: [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]
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Radio Silence on Abigail and Making a Modern Universal Monsters Film
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Universal Pictures’ latest horror release [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is now available to watch on-demand at home, for those who missed it in theaters or wanted to wait for a scary movie night in. The kidnapped vampire ballerina romp directed by Radio Silence filmmakers Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin is a bloody bonkers ride…
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OpenAI Says It's Not Making AI Porn
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]On Wednesday, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] released a draft of its [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] that details how it intends its AI models to behave. There is a section focusing on NSFW content that gives the impression that the company is exploring ways to make[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], but the company says that is not happening.
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Asus Hopes Its Upgraded 'ROG Ally X' Can Compete Against the Steam Dec
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is barelya year old, but the gaming handheld built to rival the [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] (at least, the one that came the closest to dethroning Valve’s handheld goliath) is coming back with an upgrade. Details are rather sparse, but the update could include a new coat of paint, better storage, more RAM,…
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An Ode to the Sound Naboo Blasters Make
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is almost unmatched for [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] callouts. The snap-hiss of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. The penetrating wail of a TIE Fighter shrieking into view, the alien cacophony of Mos Eisley cantina. The prequels added to this catalogue massively, from the quivering bass…
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Still Have Your Eclipse Glasses? Use Them to Look at This Massive Suns
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]The Sun is a hot mess right now. Solar maximum is fast approaching, and a giant dark spot on the surface of the Sun keeps growing while spewing radiation out to space in the process.
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Bumble Founder Shares Odd Future of Dating: Your AI Dates My AI
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...][Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] Founder and Executive Chair Whitney Wolfe Herd defended her dating app’s new AI feature on stage in San Francisco on Thursday. She went on to describe a version of the future where “AI-dating concierges” message each other on a human’s behalf.
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It's a Planet of the Apes, and We're Just Living in It
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]All the way back in 2011, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] seemed like it’d be an unremarkable but potentially solid movie. No one really knew what to make of Fox doing a prequel/reboot of the classic sci-fi series, especially since it’d already tried a decade prior with Tim Burton’s divisive [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]. That wariness…
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The Numbers Behind Furiosa: A Mad Max Story Are Mind-Blowing
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]“Do you have it in you to make it epic?” That’s the question [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] in Furiosa: A Mad Max Story, and for at least one person that answer is yes. George Miller,[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], does have it in him to make it epic. And, before you even see the movie, there are literal numbers to prove it.
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224 Injured After Glitchy Diabetes App Drains Insulin Pump Batteries
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]At least 224 people have been injured after an iPhone app called t:connect drained the battery on its accompanying insulin pump, called t:slim X2, causing the pump to fail to deliver insulin. The FDA issued a Class I recall of the app on Wednesday, according to a press release, the most serious type of recall issued…
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Anthropic Founders Publicly Needle OpenAI Execs
[Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]Dario and Daniela Amodei, siblings and founders of [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...], fired indirect jabs at [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] while not stating the company’s name on Thursday. The founders told a San Francisco audience that Anthropic’s AI was the best in the world, and defended their competitive advantage over industry leader, OpenAI.
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