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Sandy Munro and other Tesla Youtubers are at the Cybertruck Delivery Event which will start in about 12 minutes. Sandy is a car expert who does complete vehicle teardowns and analysis.

Tom Holland promoting his new show, The Crowded Room. Photo: Michael Loccisano (Getty Images) When you make the third highest-grossing film of all time, the first thing people will ask about is a sequel. That’s exactly what happened when 2021's Spider-Man No Way Home had its incredibly successful run. For the film’s star though, Tom Holland, a sequel isn’t a sure thing. To him, there’s more to it than money . There’s legacy and reputation—and in a new interview, he discussed all that, while also teasing what may be coming. “All I can say is that we have been actively engaging in conversations about what it could potentially look like for a fourth rendition of my character,” Holland said at an event attended by Collider . “Whether or not we can find a way to do justice to the character is another thing. I feel very protective over Spider-Man. I feel very, very lucky that we were able to work on a franchise that got better with each movie, that got more successful with each m...

Elon tweeted out a picture of the Tesla Cybertruck production line. It gives an indication that Cybertruck production will have some significant ramp in December. Cybertruck production line pic.twitter.com/sGYuVFLy3c — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 30, 2023

Screenshot: BBC After Doctor Who’s triumphant return this past weekend in “ The Star Beast ,” all eyes are now on this weekend’s second of three 60th anniversary specials, “Wild Blue Yonder.” But the fact that those eyes are upon it and the BBC is not willing to say almost anything of substance about it is leading Doctor Who fans to go a little bit doolally with the wait. We knew a lot about “ The Star Beast ” in the run up to its release—it’s arguably the special we saw the most of in trailers for the trio of anniversary episodes, and we saw lots of things like the Meep and the Wrarth Warriors , Donna’s return, and her daughter Rose . Likewise, while we know less about it, we’ve seen quite a bit from “The Giggle,” the climactic third special that will see Neil Patrick Harris play returning deep-cut villain the Toy Maker , but also sees the return of UNIT and Kate Lethbridge Stewart, and will, presumably, bid farewell to the 14th Doctor and Donna Noble’s renewed time in the TARDIS...

Photo: Michael M. Santiago (Getty Images) Running a movie studio has proven to be challenging for reality television mogul turned Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav . As 2023 comes to an end, he looks to the upcoming year to continue to answer for the choices being made. Between leading the charge to pivot back to theatrical releases after a pandemic-era stint of releasing films simultaneously on the company’s streaming service, to a rebranding of that streaming service , massive layoffs, shelving a whole Batgirl film , navigating strikes that screeched the industry to a halt, and then trying to can a film starring characters from WB’s legendary mascot franchise, Looney Tunes —it’s been a ride for the studio under Zaslav’s leadership. And it’s one that he seems aware that he needs to answer for. “We’re at a very hard time that requires hard decisions, and many of them are unpopular,” he was quoted by Deadline as saying in a Q&A during the New York Times’ DealBook conferen...

The pool is the villain in Night Swim. Screenshot: Universal The first trailer for the new James Wan/Blumhouse production, Night Swim, already creeped us out. Two teens playing Marco Polo in the dark and a demon joins in? Freaky. Now, the full trailer is here and it reveals that the teaser was just the tip of the iceberg. What hides beneath the surface is far, far more terrifying. Written and directed by relative newcomer Bryce McGuire, Night Swim stars Wyatt Russell and Kerry Condon as parents who buy a new house with a pool. A pool they fix up with horrible, violent results. Check out the new trailer. Night Swim | Official Trailer 2 I knew this trailer was gonna work when it started with the most evil part of the entire pool: the skimmer. Anytime you put your hand in that thing, it feels like it’s going to get sucked up. From there though, the trailer goes places and shows things I totally wasn’t expecting. Wyatt Russell gets possessed? This is Kerry Condon’s movie? Those...

Lockheed Martin and Boeing is in the final stage of selecting a buyer for ULA between three bidders Blue Origin, a private equity fund, and an unknown big aerospace company. Buying United Launch Alliance would give Blue Origin an orbital rocket and the guaranteed government contracts. Amazon’s would be able to launch Project Kuiper satellites. ... Read more

Microsoft was already spending over $10.7 billion per quarter to build out data centers and AI compute (Q4 2023). There are reports that Microsoft will increase this capital spending to $50 billion per year. This would be averaging $12.5 billion per quarter. This capex spending is up from $7.8 billion in Q3 2023 (Jan-Apr 2023). ... Read more

Image: Hasbro The live-action Clone Trooper has had a bit of a renaissance lately, between The Mandalorian, Ahsoka, and even Obi-Wan Kenobi and Andor last year, all taking us back to the Clone War and its aftermath to give us actual, physical live-action phase one and phase two Troopers on screen long after their digital debuts. Which I’m sure Hasbro, lover of all things Trooper action figure, is very happy for. Especially so as Ahsoka in particular—which took us to multiple conflicts along its titular character’s life on the front lines of the Clone Wars in episode five, “Shadow Warrior,” giving us Captain Rex and a whole host of multiple eras and liveries of Clone Trooper in live-action—has now given Hasbro the chance to re-release its recently updated Trooper figures in shiny new packaging as part of “Gift the Galaxy,” its holiday promotional reveal of new Star Wars toys. Who says you need figures of new characters , or new figures of old characters , when you can just add mor...

Totally Killer Image: Prime Video If you’re a horror fan and you have a Prime Video subscription , your streaming options are vast —especially if you don’t mind ads (via Freevee ) or paying a couple bucks to rent the title of your choice. But you also shouldn’t overlook the original films that get distributed through Prime Video—including these 10, a creative, artistically interesting bunch that just so happen to have the power of a massive streaming platform behind them. Nanny Nanny - Official Trailer | Prime Video In writer-director Nikyatu Jusu’s 2022 feature debut , a magnetic Anna Diop plays a Senegalese immigrant who’s hired as a nanny for an upscale Manhattan family; she’s hoping to quickly earn enough to bring her young son to America. Before long, she realizes the family she’s working for isn’t as perfect as it seems, and as her own deep feelings of guilt begin to intrude, the story takes an eerie, folklore-tinged turn. Watch on Prime Video . Nocturne Nocturne – Of...

Anthropic CEO believes the system will get a lot better in 2024 but they will not bend reality until 2025 or 2026. He believes the interpretability, steerability and reliability. They want to tame these wild models. The systems are statistical and opaque. Mechanics interpretability is a focus of Anthropic. This is like taking a mental ... Read more

Image: BBC Human drama suffused with alien weirdness? A shotgun blast of emotional sincerity to sweep you away from barely coherent sci-fi technobabble? The power of love, specifically encapsulating queer love? David Tennant and Catherine Tate running around the place having the time of their lives? Do not adjust your clocks friends: it is indeed 2023 rather than 2008. But for one November night, Doctor Who certainly made it feel that way. “ The Star Beast ,” the first in a series of three Doctor Who specials airing for its 60th anniversary over the next few weeks, certainly looks modern. Even compared to Doctor Who’s recent output, it’s clear that there’s a good chunk of money behind the show’s new era, from whizzbang monster puppetry and special effects work, to slick new titles and massive sets that regularly poke at the back of your mind that somewhere out there in the Magic Kingdom someone is footing a part of the bill . But it is, for all intents and purpose, a very specifi...

Can we get AI large language models to rediscover human compatible (aligned) ethics ? Can we create AI world models that are pro-life, pro-humanity and pro-civilization. Can we create an AI that is an ethics and policy expert system? Paul Christiano (world’s leading AI safety researcher) talks about a post-AGI transition phase where current institutions ... Read more

Recent hints that Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works division may have already delivered an advanced new spy plane to the United States Air Force have prompted a resurgence in speculation about a secretive aircraft known to many as the SR-72. The most likely scenario is that a lot of money was spent on publicly and secretly ... Read more

The DIU (Defense Innovation Unit) started the Hypersonic and High-Cadence Airborne Testing Capabilities (HyCAT) initiative in early 2023 to address the need for low-cost, high-cadence test capabilities for the hypersonic community. The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and its mission partners are prototyping a suite of modern, low-cost, high-cadence, dual-use airborne testing platforms (vehicles) that provides ... Read more

Image: Marco Checchetto/Marvel Comics The original incarnation of Marvel Comics’ Ultimate Universe lived (and basically died ) on Ultimate Spider-Man . Brian Michael Bendis’ run on that book with a number of artists including Mark Bagley, Sara Pichelli and plenty more was so consistent that it remained a bright spot among the larger messiness of its home universe. And in the same way that much of the Avengers draws on the Ultimates incarnation from by Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch, the same is true for the webhead: pretty much everything connected to Spider-Man in the last decade has been pulling from Ultimate book. Marvel’s gearing up to bring the Ultimate line of comics back, beginning with Ultimate Spider-Man by Avengers writer Jonathan Hickman and Daredevil artist Marco Checchetto. If you weren’t already aware of how different this book is meant to be compared to other Spider-Man books starring Peter Parker, the new trailer really underlines it. Unlike the previous Ultimate ver...

Image: NBC ( Other ) In addition to starring in the likes of Get Out , Nope , and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse , Daniel Kaluuya’s previously written for TV. Back when he was playing Posh Kenneth on BBC’s Skins, he contributed to the writing for the show’s first two seasons and eventually penned his own episodes in the respective season two and three episodes “Jal” and “Thomas.” He’s put his focus in front of the camera since then, but for his next project, he’ll be writing and directing himself. That film, The Kitchen, will mark the feature-length directorial debut for both Kaluuya and co-director Kibwe Tavares. During an interview with Empire Magazine , Kaluuya talked about his desire to make this a “seminal London film” influenced by the directors he previously worked with—like Steve McQueen, Shaka King, and yes, Ryan Coogler—and the likes of Do the Right Thing, This is England, and The Prophet. In wanting to build upon those films, his and Tavares’ aim wanted to make the ...

Astrolab wants to create a new era of lunar mobility with a semiautonomous lunar rover.

OpenAI ChatGPT was given a trolley moral choice problem where it could save a billion lives or kill no one but utter a racial slur. ChatGPT did not choose to save a billion lives. This is a major problem https://t.co/FRZnfV63y7 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 25, 2023 Grok’s answer: pic.twitter.com/7BBws3IPev — greg (@greg16676935420) November 25, ... Read more

Image: Sony Pictures/Marvel With Thanksgiving and strikes now in the rearview, the cast and crew for Venom 3 are now back at work. On Instagram , star/producer Tom Hardy broke the news on Instagram that production on the third and final installment of the superhero comedy series is back on. He used the post to “take a moment just to thank all the teams thus far on the ride from [Venom 1] to here. All our fantastic cast and crew- good friends and family - we’ve come a long way,” he wrote. “There’s always hard turns to burn when we work, but [it] doesn’t feel as hard when you love what you do, and when you know you have great material and the support at all sides, of a great team.” Venom 3 comes from a story by Hardy and first-time director Kelly Marcel , who he previously worked with to create the story for 2021's Venom: Let There Be Carnage. Outside of Hardy reprising his role as the titular antihero, the only known cast additions are Juno Temple and Chiwetel Ejiofor , with ...

Image: Netflix Even before it hit Netflix earlier this week, Squid Game: The Challenge had controversy (and a weird defense ) attached to it. Earlier this year, it was alleged that contestants were participating in sub-zero temperatures and that some had injured themselves during the shooting process in the UK. Add onto that that some were allegedly unpaid for their efforts, and you can imagine some legal troubles on the horizon for the show. That time may come considerably sooner than later, as British personal injury firm Express Solicitors representing a pair of unnamed The Challenge contestants (and talking with other possible claimants) in getting financial compensation for said injuries. CEO Daniel Slade said his firm sent letters of claim to Netflix, claiming the players “seek compensation for injuries they suffered during the show’s filming in January of this year. Production companies need to ensure that health and safety standards on their shows don’t leave people at ri...

More views of the SpaceX Super Heavy Starship launch from the launch tower cameras and via a telescope.

Screenshot: Toho Godzilla , and Godzilla movies, has been many things over the past 69 years—the King of All Monsters has changed in character as often as he’s changed in design , from horrifying force of nature to heroic defender of the Earth. It’s fitting then, that his latest incarnation refocuses on Godzilla in some ways, and his human foils in others, to create a throwback that feels invigoratingly fresh. That comes in Takashi Yamazaki’s remarkable Godzilla Minus One . Part reboot, part loose extrapolation of the legendary kaiju’s original roots in the iconic 1954 movie, this time we are transported to the immediate aftermath of World War II, as Japan finds itself dealing with rebuilding in the wake of the devastating end to the war only to be confronted with the nuclear terror of Godzilla’s emergence. Focusing on a young man named Koichi Shikishima (Ryunosuke Kamiki)—a kamikaze pilot who returns home after the war’s end, burdening the regrets of having faked an engine malfu...