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Discovery of natural few-layer graphene on the Moon They report the discovery and direct microscopy visualization of natural few-layer graphene in the CE-5 lunar soil samples, by utilizing a variety of characterization techniques. Graphene is embedded as individual flakes or formed as part of a carbon shell enclosing the mineral particles. The result reveals one ... Read more

Amateur footage captured by Gongyi citizens and posted on Chinese social media shows Tianong-3, nine-engine test stage igniting and taking off. Hold-down clamps and other structures usually prevent takeoff during a firing test. The stage is seen climbing into the sky before halting, apparently with its engines shutting off, and falling to Earth. The stage ... Read more

Wade and Peter in Deadpool & Wolverine. Image: Marvel Studios Marvel Studios recently released new photos from Deadpool & Wolverine and while they’re not groundbreaking, each is our best look yet at characters on opposite sides of the spectrum. On the one side, there’s Cassandra Nova, the evil, likely main villain in the film played by The Crown’s Emma Corrin . Then there’s Peter, one of Wade’s best friends played by Rob Delaney. That’s one of the new images above, featuring Wade (Ryan Reynolds) and Peter at work together. It’s from a scene early in the film that screened at CinemaCon 2024 and you can read all about it here . Basically, Wade and Peter are car salesman and while Peter wants Wade to go back to being Deadpool, Wade does not. This is before the birthday party you see in the trailers. Then here’s another photo of Peter that looks more like it’s from Superstore than a superhero film but hey, he’s great so we like it. Image: Marvel Studios Finally, here’s ...

DARPA and Northrop Grumman have made a new drone with X-plane designation XRQ-73. The Series Hybrid Electric Propulsion AiRcraft Demonstration program is known as SHEPARD. SHEPARD is an X-prime program, leveraging the series hybrid electric architecture and some of the component technologies from the earlier AFRL/IARPA Great Horned Owl (GHO) project. “The idea behind a ... Read more

The Supreme Court overruled the Chevron Deference. This ruling has existed for 40 years. It was the courts letting regulatory agencies of the US government decide about ambiguous situations. The courts would decide about facts but let the agencies interpret many things. The Agencies are not allowed to make things up as they go along. ... Read more

The Babysitter Photo: Tony Rivetti Jr., SMPSP While this list isn’t quite a “horror comedy” grouping— as much as we love horror comedies —what follows are 10 Netflix picks that will leave you feeling satisfied and entertained, and possibly a bit grossed-out and terrified along the way. What more could you ask for, really? Thanksgiving THANKSGIVING - Official Trailer (HD) A tasty treat any time of year, Eli Roth’s 2023 make-good on his screamingly fun fake movie trailer from 2007's Grindhouse combines classic slasher holiday antics with “did that just happen?” splatter. Stream on Netflix . X X | Official Trailer HD | A24 Little did we know, when Ti West’s X hit theaters in 2022, that a new horror franchise was being born—and Mia Goth was becoming a new kind of scream queen. Trilogy-capper Maxxxine hits theaters July 5 , so there’s no better moment to remember where (deep in the heart of Texas, circa 1979) the character’s Hollywood dreams got their sticky beginnings....

Image: Warner Bros. Discovery Summerween gives theme park fans a preview of what to expect this fall at Universal Studios , Disney Parks and Six Flags, with major IP coming to all the seasonal offerings. From Beetlejuice Beetlejuice getting its own pop-up afterlife walk though, to Stranger Things and The Conjuring Universe moving to Fright Fest at Six Flags, to Ghostbusters returning at Universal Studios, there’s a lot of horror haunt fun on the way. Plus the Guardians of the Galaxy jump aboard the Treasure Disney Cruise, Oogie Boogie Bash tickets go on sale, and Disney says goodbye to Genie+ as Tiana’s Bayou Adventure finally opens. And over at Universal Studios Orlando, Danny Elfman makes an epic announcement while cinema classics are celebrated all summer. Spooky summer fun and more awaits in this week’s theme park news ! Beetlejuice Beetlejuice “The Afterlife Experience” Tickets are set to go on sale July 3 at 10 a.m. PT through www.BeetlejuiceExperience.com for WB’s imm...

Denis Villeneuve directing Arrival. Image: Paramount After spending several years on Arrakis, director Denis Villeneuve said he wanted to go somewhere else for his next project. And while we don’t know “where” that is, we do know “when.” Warner Bros. just set a December 18, 2026 release date for Villenuve’s next movie, which is described as an “event film.” It better be too, because, as it stands now, the other movie set to release on that date is a new Star Wars film. In the aftermath of Dune: Part Two’s release earlier this year, Villeneuve not only spoke about making a third Dune, Dune Messiah, but was attached to at least one other project . That’s Nuclear War, based on a non-fiction book by Annie Jacobsen that attempts to paint a realistic picture of what an actual nuclear war, and its fallout, would look like. This 2026 film could be that or, in a huge twist, it might actually be Dune Messiah. Deadline seems to think it’s Dune and the Hollywood Reporter teases the same....

Screenshot: Lucasfilm This week’s episode of The Acolyte makes for one of the most brutal half-hours of Star Wars action we’ve had in a while, as a group of Jedi come face to face with the sinister threat of the Stranger— a masked monster that proves a lot more than they could’ve ever anticipated handling. Suffice to say, things don’t go well for the Jedi. But how not-well? We decided to rank the apparently myriad ways you can punk them. 8) Not Even Being Worth Showing Screenshot: Lucasfilm This poor guy. Imagine you get to be a Jedi in the episode of a Star Wars show where there’s just a load of Jedi—a load of Jedi getting to do a cool ass big fight sequence against a Dark side baddie! And then you exist entirely to be a surprise corpse reveal at the start of the episode, without even a swing of your lightsaber. That’s gotta sting. 7) Not Even Being Worth Showing, But More Ominous Screenshot: Lucasfilm We’re cheating for a moment jumping back to the end of episode f...

Using the AIs will be way more valuable than AI training. AI training – feed large amounts of data into a learning algorithm to produce a model that can make predictions. AI Training is how we make the AI that is useful. AI inference is where we do useful and valuable things with the trained ... Read more

Gif: Lucasfilm With a swing of a wrist gauntlet, and the head-butt of a sinister helmet , The Acolyte’s mysterious dark Stranger carved a path into Star Wars history this week with a single, shocking move: strikes that sent the laser blades of his Jedi foes sputtering out of existence. But while we’ve seen lightsaber-resistant material in Star Wars plenty already, what could cause this strange effect? An infamous material from the Expanded Universe. What Is Cortosis? A very rare and very brittle material, cortosis was first introduced in 1998 novel I, Jedi by Michael Stackpole. On top of its rarity, cortosis was extremely difficult to mine due to its conductive properties. Like several other materials in the galaxy far, far away, it was capable of resistance to standard energy weapons like blasters—but unlike others, cortosis found a niche with the discovery that it could also conduct the energy of a lightsaber blade, shorting out the weapon for a period of up to several minutes...

SpaceX has launched over 1,000th Starlink satellites in 2024 alone. SpaceX now has over 6,600, providing high-speed internet to 79 countries worldwide. Most of the satellites are Version 2 Mini Starlinks with increased bandwidth. SpaceX has been deploying Direct-to-Cellphone Starlinks since January 2024. This will enable enabling global texting, calling, and browsing with existing unmodified ... Read more

Gif: DC/Max Warner Bros. has released the incredible ending credit sequence of its new Suicide Squad anime series, and whatever you feel about the DC team’s morally dubious director, Amanda Waller , you owe it to yourself to give it a watch. ♡7/5 放送開始／Premieres June 27♡ TVアニメ「異世界スーサイド・スクワッド」ノンクレジットED／Suicide Squad ISEKAI Non Credit ED Movie What’s so striking about this—disregarding its exquisite animation and execution—is that what initially feels like a left-field Task Force X parody is, upon a moment’s consideration, strikingly in-character for Waller. Her attitude constantly vacillates from a righteous fury to a completely not-giving-a-shit attitude—which, somehow, she manages to convey in both measures here. What’s cooler than not trying to be cool, but still managing to be cool, anyway? Nothing short of commanding a clandestine organization of government-funded supervillains on a series of life-or-death missions, that’s what... and she knows it. It doesn’t hurt having Ha...

Image: Álvaro Martínez Bueno and Jordie Bellaire/DC Comics Three years ago, DC blew the lid off the comics industry with the launch of The Nice House on the Lake —a tense, gripping tale of isolation as a group of friends found themselves brought together to ride out the end of life as we know it, guided by an alien being masquerading as one of their closest friends. Now, the apocalypse is worth revisiting... with a new cast of humanity’s final chances . In April, DC confirmed that James Tynion IV , Álvaro Martínez Bueno, Jordie Bellaire, and Andworld Design would team up once again for a new, 12-issue cycle of comics set in the same universe as The Nice House on the Lake with The Nice House by the Sea. Like On the Lake, By the Sea will feature 10 survivors brought to a lavish abode as the rest of the world falls apart in a calamitous doomsday. Just like before, those 10 survivors have been brought together by one singular, alien figure, this time a mysterious being known as Max. B...

Image: Paramount The live-action Transformers movies aren’t really what you’d “beloved.” Despite making a lot of money, most of them aren’t especially well-regarded critically, and fans of the original property don’t exactly take to them well. They occupy a weird space in Hollywood wherein those initial five movies actively didn’t care in any fashion about being disliked . Here’s a series that did its own thing for a full decade, and if you didn’t groove with them, they basically said that’s on you and went about their business. Now on one hand, there’s something to be said for a blockbuster franchise that just doesn’t care what people think. On the other hand, that lack of care is how you wind up with Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen , potentially the most confounding, bonkers sequel to ever exist in the modern movie era. Originally released on June 24, 2009, it constantly feels like it’s moving to the beat of its own drum, except it’s split off from the rest of the band and i...

SpaceX launched Falcon Heavy again and again we had the beautiful double rocket booster landing. SpaceX Falcon Heavy is the rocket that is lifting the biggest and most important missions for NASA. There have been 10 out of 10 Successful Falcon Heavy double booster recoveries. Three of the next 6 Falcon Heavy launches over two ... Read more

Several hundred pounds of weight savings from less EMI (electromagnetic interference shielding) materials would reduce EV (electric vehicle) weight which will reduce batteries needed for EVs. This will reduce EV cost by $2200. This will be the impact of 99.7% efficient inverters.

Pasqal, French Quantum Computer Company, has successfully loaded over 1,000 atoms in a single shot within their quantum computing setup, a significant leap towards scalable quantum processors. This milestone demonstrates the feasibility of large-scale neutral atom quantum computing and enhances the potential to solve complex optimization problems and quantum simulations. Key highlights include: Successful trapping ... Read more

Gif: MGM It’s halfway to Christmas and even so you’re not ready to behold the confoundingly chaotic trailer for Red One. The Chris Evans and Dwayne Johnson holiday action movie directed by Jake Kasdan (Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle) is set for release on November 15 from Amazon MGM. Starting off with a swole Santa Claus (J.K. Simmons) lifting weights (to keep those cookie calories down, presumably) with the help of the commander of the ELF Task Force—played by Johnson as “The Rock if he were Santa’s bodyguard”—isn’t much of a stretch for an action movie, sure. It’s more the incomprehensible series of plot slop that follows, which leaves us wondering what this is movie trying to be, outside of a Christmas version of Taken? The buff-butt snowmen fight scene on the beach is only the tip of the head-scratching choices here. Take a look for yourself in the trailer below: RED ONE | Official Trailer We have so many questions! Just in this clip we get a jacked Santa being benched a...

CATL is using condensed battery (500 Watt hours per kg) is developing electric aircraft started with smaller planes, ranging from 1-ton to 8.8-ton, Zeng said at the BEYOND International Science and Technology Innovation Expo on May 22 in Macau. CATL was already test-flying 4-ton aircraft, but reaching a commercial level will require success with aircraft ... Read more

Image: AMC The members of the Theatre des Vampires have captured Claudia (Delainey Hayles), Louis (Jacob Anderson) , and Madeleine (Roxane Duran) with the help of Armand (Assad Zaman), to be put on trial for the murder of Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) in a very special production. The result is season two of Interview With the Vampire’s most heartbreaking episode, “I Could Not Prevent It.” It’s directed by Emma Freeman and written by showrunner Rolin Jones and Kevin Hanna—and though Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles fans know what’s about to happen,the changes from the source material make it all the more gut-wrenching and elevate the original text. It’s damn near one of the best hours of television committed to screen. Image: AMC After Armand’s betrayal—despite his assurances that everything we’re about to witness is something he could not “prevent,” though we all know well he weaponizes incompetence—it’s pretty much a cold open with Claudia, Louis, and Madeleine in the middle o...