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Tesla Optimus humanoid bot has been shown walking before. There is a new video from Elon Musk showing the Optimus bot walking without the white covering pieces. There is the possibility that we are being shown an end to end neural net system controlling the Optimus. All neural net is what the latest Tesla FSD ... Read more

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Image: Lucasfilm The most recent Star Wars films were famously divisive , with negativity spewed by toxic fans unfortunately grabbing most of the headlines. But some fans found things to love about the movies, like new favorite characters—something that continues to surprise star Daisy Ridley , who’ll soon play Rey Skywalker again on the big screen. Speaking to Collider , Ridley said she “never thought too much about my place” in the sprawling realm of the galaxy far, far away, but “it still surprises me when people are kind about [Rey] particularly ... It’s still so thrilling. I think I love her as a character and I loved the characters around her and I love the people in it. It feels quite wonderful.” Knowing that there’s so much goodwill floating around for Rey has helped Ridley in preparing to return to the character for Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s now-in-development New Jedi Order film . “I always feel lucky to be part of it, but [the excitemen

Screenshot: Paramount It is a banner week for questionable Star Trek anniversaries, but while earlier this week we found at least something to admire in Voyager’s bold exploration of the Warp 10 threshold and space-amphibian evolution, there is very little to admire in the other major milestone. Thirty years ago today, The Next Generation took us to Planet Scotland in “Sub Rosa,” where Beverly Crusher exchanged all thought of character agency for 40 minutes in exchange for some generational family ghost lovin’. Yes, my friends, it’s the ghost candle sex episode. But how bad can the ghost candle sex episode really be? The answer is very . Very bad. Screenshot: Paramount On the planet Scotland (okay, it’s Caldos IV, a planet that has been terraformed to basically be Scotland, where everyone dresses like it’s the turn of the 20th century and the governor regularly reminds people there’s things like public caber toss events happening, just so you really know it’s planet Scotland)

Kaiser Permanente, Oakland’s largest private employer, has issued a memo directing workers in downtown Oakland to stay in their buildings for lunch and work. Kaiser has office all over the Bay Area and operates in multiple states. I, Brian Wang, worked for Kaiser for seven years (2010-2017). Kaiser Permanente operates 39 hospitals and more than ... Read more

Image: Hasbro In the world of Transformers, Optimus Prime is the guy . The traditional leader of the Autobots is the most popular character in the entire franchise and for good reason. He rules. You’d imagine it couldn’t get much bigger than him, but thanks to Hasbro, Prime is about to get a lot bigger. Hasbro just announced its newest HasLab project and it’s set in the world of Transformers. It takes the biggest, most famous Transformer of them all, Optimus Prime, and combines him with the Autobot next in line for the Matrix of Leadership, Ultra Magnus. Together, the pair create the massive Omega Prime, which measures almost two feet tall when combined. Plus, every Transformer needs a sidekick, and Prime gets him in the form of Bluebolts. Based on the 2001 Transformers: Robots in Disguise designs, Omega Prime is available now for $250 but will only be released if 10,000 people pre-order in the next 40+ days. As of publication, about 3,000 already have signed up. There are also

Ian Ousley as Sokka on Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender. Image: Netflix In a new interview, the cast of Netflix’s upcoming adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender revealed a crucial change from the animated show , one that makes sense on the surface, but maybe not in context. Netflix’s highly anticipated live-action version of the show will be out February 22 and—as has been the case with previous adaptations like Cowboy Bebop and One Piece—fans are likely to be highly critical of every decision made. After all, Netflix has adapted these properties due to their popularity, so there’s a delicate balance between keeping what makes the original, beloved animated show work, but also justifying its live-action existence. So, for example, in the original Avatar show one of the main characters, Sokka, starts with a very problematic, but also very purposeful, character flaw. He’s sexist. “‘Girls are better at fixing pants than guys, and guys are better at hunting and fighting,” is

Kerry Washington and Charlize Theron in The School for Good and Evil. Photo: Helen Sloan/Netflix Netflix has horror movies galore —and is currently on a sci-fi high thanks to Zach Snyder’s Rebel Moon duology. It’s got dystopias covered, too, with Squid Game’s second season coming later this year. But the streamer also has plenty to offer in the way of the fantasy genre, including a current Oscar hopeful . Here are nine movies, and one brand-new TV show, to help scratch your fantasy itch! Nimona Nimona | Official Trailer | Netflix Making it to Netflix at all after an unusually long production process was already a triumph for this delightful animated adventure—and now, Nimona is a newly minted Best Animated Film Oscar nominee . Watch on Netflix . Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO | Official Trailer | Netflix Speaking of the Academy Award for Best Animated Film, you can also find last year’s winner on Netflix—a stunning stop-motion interpret

Image: Universal Destinations and Experiences The highly anticipated Epic Universe at the Universal Studios Orlando Resort has officially announced its franchise worlds. Universal’s fourth theme park will feature portals to a new Super Nintendo World , the Universal Monsters’ Dark Universe (it lives!), the Wizarding World of Harry Potter’s Ministry of Magic , and the island of Berk from Dreamworks’ How to Train Your Dragon . The new immersive destination will feature these familiar worlds for fans to explore, but will also introduce a cosmic concept that’s out of this world with Celestial Park, which will serve as a pre-game theme park experience centralized at Epic Universe before you venture off to its other realms. Universal Creative has aimed for the stars in creating a new destination it hopes will inspire week-long vacations between Universal Studios Orlando and Islands of Adventure. “Epic Universe is built on an amazing concept: the idea that you can go into a world throug

Screenshot: Crunchyroll Last year, Witch From Mercury radically improved the already pretty great world of Gundam by adding an amount of lesbianism that not even its parent company could deny . Alas, sapphics have yet to see a successor to the gay mecha throne yet, but lovers of men and giant robots may have found their own show to claim this season in Bang Brave Bang Bravern. Produced by Granblue Fantasy architects Cygames and directed by the legendary mecha designer Masami Ōbari, Bang Brave Bang Bravern is set in a near future where the nations of the world have developed the first generations of militarized mecha suits called Titanostriders—but are suddenly outmatched when much of the planet is laid low during a surprise invasion by the Deathdrives, highly advanced alien mechas that vastly outgun the best humankind has to offer. That is, until the world gets a weapon of its own to fight back with: falling from the stars seeking a pilot and burning with a desire to save the Ea

The US Tower 22 base at the intersection of Jordan, Syria and Iraq was attacked and three US soldiers were killed and dozens were seriously injured. US Air Force and military mobilization to the Middle East is happening now. There was already deployment of the some of the US Navy and thousands of marines. The ... Read more

Image: Shudder The influential career of Italian horror master Dario Argento gets a well-curated tribute in Dario Argento Panico. Simone Scafidi’s new documentary features interviews with the director as well as famous collaborators and admirers, including fellow boundary-pushing filmmakers Guillermo del Toro , Gaspar Noé , and Nicolas Winding Refn . Scafidi (who also made 2019 Lucio Fulci spotlight Fulci For Fake) frames his reflections on Argento’s past with current footage of the 83-year-old artist at work on his next screenplay. We never learn its contents, but the implication is clear; Argento, whose most recent release was 2022's Dark Glasses , is still devoted to the career that made him famous in his 20s. Dario Argento Panico charts that career from its very beginnings; even before his directorial debut, 1970 giallo The Bird With the Crystal Plumage, his screenwriting talents led him to work with one of his idols, Sergio Leone—another was Alfred Hitchcock—on 1968 sp

Toronto, Canada, January 29th, 2024, Cyberwire In an era where online threats no longer discriminate by business size, Control D, powered by Windscribe VPN‘s robust security expertise, announced today the launch of ‘Control D for Organizations‘. This modern DNS service democratizes cybersecurity, making it accessible to businesses of every size, from budding start-ups to late ... Read more

Image: Nico Delort & Suzanna Collins/Scholastic Suzanne Collins’ first Hunger Games novel released in 2008, and went onto become a massive franchise. In the wake of last year’s successful prequel film, Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes , Scholastic is building upon that momentum by bringing the first book to life again with an illustrated edition. This new version will feature over 30 pages of black-and-white illustrations by French artist Nico Delort . In a press release, Collins called Delort’s work “striking,” and reminiscent of John Tenniel’s artwork for Alice in Wonderland or Fritz Eichenberg’s wood engravings in Wuthering Heights. “I’m thrilled with Nico’s scratchboard artwork,” she wrote, “and feel it will have the same lasting influence on a new generation of Panem readers.” As seen over on Entertainment Weekly , the art is going off Collins’ original novel rather than what’s in the movie, which offers a new way to look at Katniss and the world of Pane

Astrolab’s Flexible Logistics and Exploration (FLEX) rover is built to enhance Lunar and planetary mobility. In November, 2023, Lunar rover developer Astrolab announced eight customers have signed contracts worth more than $160 million for its first mission to the moon in 2026. They signed customers to fly payloads on Mission 1, a flight of the ... Read more

Cubesats built with commercially available components and materials and lacks on-board propulsion to maintain its orbital position last about one year. It is possible for them to last 2-5 years but there is increasing chances of failures. If you were planning a science or commercial mission in space, then you would to plan to get ... Read more

Image: Paramount Even though the Covenant are the other side of Halo’s ongoing conflict, the first season of Paramount+’s TV series largely represented them through a human proxy named Makee. With the upcoming second season , the coalition of alien races is set to become a more prominent threat, and that means they’ll be getting more proper screentime. Talking to Collider , series director Otto Bathurst revealed there’d be a pair of main characters on the Covenant side of the war. Season one made them hard to understand—literally, as they had their own language—and connect with. His hope is that the new perspectives will provide a deeper connection and understand their religious fervor for the titular ringworld. And through this unnamed duo, we’ll “spend time and understand their motives are and what they want. [...] The enemy will be much more characterized and accessible.” Pablo Schreiber, who plays Master Chief, backed up Bathurst’s words, promising the show “definitely [goes]

Image: 20th Century Fox Remember Jennifer’s Body ? 2009 audiences weren’t really thrilled to see Megan Fox play a high schooler eating teenage boys, but more recent audiences have been able to groove on its wavelength more. It’s now got something of a cult classic status, and for writer Diablo Cody , the turnaround’s been so strong that she’s apparently got eyes to do another one. Looking back on the horror-comedy with BloodyDisgusting , Cody confessed how Jennifer’s initialrelease and muted $31.6 million box office left her feeling “pretty humiliated.” Back then, things were rough for both her and Fox, who’d already been caught up in the muck of the second Transformers movie months earlier. Pre-release, the belief on 20th Century Fox’s end was that it’d do pretty well with the young adult crowd, and the studio had tried to give it an extra boost by revealing that Fox and co-star Amanda Seyfried (who played Jennifer’s frumpy best friend, Needy) would kiss at some point in the fil

There is a common internet accusation. I write some articles on a topic and then there is some accusation if there is a financial connection. These question are from naive people who do not understand the internet, journalism or business or viable scams. Are the sources above pretending to not have bias? Brian Wang, Do ... Read more

Barry-1 has 2 Quantum Drives: QD1 (Blue Arrow, internal) & QD1-TC (Green Arrow). Both are designed to produce thrust in the same direction (Red Arrow). QD1-TC is expected to produce about 2x the thrust of QD-1. CEO Richard Mansell said it has two drives a 0.25mN and a 0.65mN drive. If they are fully successful, ... Read more

Image: The Stanley Hotel ( Other ) Stephen King’s The Shining was heavily inspired by his time at Colorado’s Stanley Hotel. In the past, it’s taken advantage of the 1977 novel’s success—the 1997 TV miniseries used it as a filming location, and King’s hotel room 217 is now advertised with his name. But if that’s not enough, Blumhouse is now giving the Estes Park location an additional horror boost. The production company will use the Stanley to curate a 10,000-ft exhibit described as a “mini-Academy Museum dedicated to horror,” said Colorado film commissioner Donald Zuckerman. Nicknamed ‘Blumhouse Space,’ the exhibit will feature material from Blumhouse’s extensive horror lineup of films, TV, and games. CEO Jason Blum called the hotel “hallowed ground for horror fans...and a natural extension for [us]. Fans are going to get closer than ever before to their favorite films, though they may want to keep their distance with a few of the ‘items’ in our collection.” Per the Denver Po

The IVO quantum inertia drive is in orbit now and will be turned on within one to ten weeks and then operated for many weeks or months. The IVO quantum inertia drive is very controversial because it would go against many theories in physics. Let us assume the 52 millinewton drive using 1 watt of ... Read more

Image: Lucasfilm Grand Admiral Thrawn’s return at the climax of Ahsoka heralds the beginning of a Star Wars story long in the making—whatever Dave Filoni has planned in adapting one of the most famous stories in the old Expanded Universe, Heir to the Empire , across TV shows and even a movie. But another element from that saga could answer a very important question: doesn’t a Grand Admiral need a few starships? From what little we already know about the Imperial Remnant’s plans to rally around Thrawn’s return , there’s few indications just what kind of fleet he will command beyond his flagship, the Star Destroyer Chimera, that accompanied him, Ezra, and a whole bunch of space whales to Peridea and a whole other galaxy at the end of Star Wars Rebels. But Heir to the Empire and its sequels, Dark Force Rising and The Last Command, offered him a mystery weapon that stretched across generations of Star Wars even before we really knew those generations: the Katana Fleet. And maybe it c