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Reuters recently published a special report claiming that Tesla has rigged the algorithms in their vehicle software to display rosy range estimates on the dashboard readout and that Tesla has even organized a special team who is tasked with canceling range related service appointments. If a Tesla customer complains about range. Tesla does a remote ... Read more

There are at least a dozen publicly announced or rumored replication efforts. Iris Alexander claims to have replicated and seen some Meissner effect. There is a partial list of the known professional and amateur efforts at replicating the LK-99 superconductor experiments. It is partial because something this potentially huge and this simple will have hundreds ... Read more

Image: Zoltan Boros/Wizards of the Coast Corporations all around the world are getting into AI , and you can now count Hasbro among them. Earlier in the week, the publisher of tabletop games such as Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering revealed its new partnership with Xplored, the developers behind the digital board game platform Teburu. In the press release, Hasbro’s gaming senior VP Adam Biehl said its partnership with Xplored would allow the company to “deliver innovative gameplay to our players and fans, limitless digital expansions to physical games, seamless onboarding, and powerful AI-driven game mechanics.” When asked by GamesRadar for more information, Biehl said AI would be used to generate experiences that could react to player decisions right away and potentially streamline rules to make it easier on newer players. The partnership also lets Hasbro study Xplored’s technology, particularly when it comes to Teburu: last year, a virtual tabletop solution for ...

Hyun-Tak Kim wrote a paper on diamagnetic shielding for high temperature superconductors in 2001. Hyun-Tak Kim is one of the six people who wrote the LK-99 room temperature superconductor paper. He is very familiar with diamagnetism. Hyun-Tak was brought in a few years ago when the Korean team knew they needed help to get it ... Read more

Image: Toei Animation Bandai’s Digimon franchise is deeply beloved and hit at just the right time for kids who grew up in the 90s. But it’s one of those properties whose earlier installments have been difficult to get physical releases of for one (usually rights-related) issue or another. Fortunately, things are about to change, because several older Digimon media are making the jump to Blu-Ray. As revealed during this weekend’s Otakon, Discotek acquired the licenses for both the English and Japanese versions of the anime’s second season, commonly known as Digimon Adventure 02 . It’s the first time the season has has a Blu-Ray release, and it’s been upscaled in AstroRes, similar to how Discotek handled the first season. The English dub will have its own standalone release first, followed by a Japanese version later on, and they’ll both have different extras: the English Blu-Ray gets art galleries, while the Japanese version’s have yet to be finalized. Along with Adventure 02...

I, Brian Wang, was interviewed at the Brighter with Herbert Youtube channel on Robotaxi, Robotrucks, robofactories and roboEverything. Tesla will succeed with Full Self Driving and Teslabots. It may still be two or three more years until the full robotaxi level is reached. It could even be five years but the progress is and will ... Read more

Image: Lionsgate/Twisted Pictures We’ve known for some time now that Saw X was on the horizon, and would return to the series’ roots of people having to escape these  elaborate traps or die gruesomely. The question that’s been on folks’ minds, especially when it was revealed that Tobin Bell would return as John “Jigsaw” Kramer was, how? Since the post- Saw 3 films have played around with the timeline so much, what’s the context for the long-dead character’s return? Set between the events of the first two Saw movies, but definitely playing in the same space as Saw VI in 2009, Saw X sees Kramer go to Mexico for a risky procedure to remove his cancer. After it’s done, he realizes that not only was he not cured, the entire thing was part of a long-running grift to defraud people in similarly desperate situations. Being who he is, Kramer decides to kidnap the doctor (Synnøve Macody Lund) in charge of the whole operation and her staff who helped sell the scam (played by Steven...

Image: Gabe Ginsberg (Getty Images) Over the years, Seth Rogen’s made a name for himself in adapting (and sometimes providing his acting talents to) lesser known comics or properties like Invincible and The Boys . You’d think by this point, and with those he’d have jumped ship to something bigger—namely Marvel or DC, similar to what indie directors have done in the past. But it sounds like Rogen’s fine where he is, and doesn’t plan on changing that up anytime soon. Talking to Polygon about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem , the outlet asked Rogen what was stopping him from handling a Marvel or DC project, and he was candid in admitting to being afraid of that kind of commitment. Specifically, a fear of “The Process” that Marvel uses for all its movies and shows which he admitted to not having any inside knowledge of. He noted that it seems to be working out “very well” for the studio, but wondered if that process is one he and frequent collaborator Evan Goldberg wou...

Image: Disney Animation Mickey Mouse is one of the most famous characters in animation and Disney’s most iconic character . Throughout the decades, the character’s been kept alive in animation through numerous means, from the toddler show Mickey Mouse Funhouse to the likes of Kingdom Hearts for more older audiences. Sadly, one of those works is now officially over. Disney confirmed on Friday that its long-running Mickey Mouse shorts —which include the original 2013 titular series and its 2020 sequel, The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse— are officially over. The newly released episode, “Steamboat Silly,” serves as a finale to the whole enterprise, and brings things semi-full circle for the icon. The 9-minute short sees present day Mickey interact and have adventures with his 1928 incarnation that originally debuted in Steamboat Willie. Official Clip | The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse: Steamboat Silly | Disney+ Since 2013, Disney’s produced over 120 Mickey Mouse shorts, w...

Screenshot: Max Jeff Bergman will soon be back as Bugs Bunny in Max’s Tiny Toons Looniversity . While promoting his upcoming documentary Looney Legends in Conversation , the voice actor   discussed playing the Looney Tunes icon for the past few decades, including Space Jam: A New Legacy . Bergman’s life changed when he happened upon a talk with the legendary Mel Blanc, the original voice of Bugs Bunny and a thousand other cartoon voices; now, he’s working with Blanc’s son, Noel Blanc, on the Looney Legends documentary. “I think I was a little lost in college. I wasn’t sure, like: ‘Am I going to be a standup comedian or do I want to do TV?’ ‘Do I want to be in film?’ I didn’t really think about animation. I didn’t know that was was possible,” Bergman shared. “So when Mel Blanc was appearing at my college and I just happened to see that, [I thought], ‘Maybe that’ll be kind of cool, he does voices.’ I don’t know what got into me, but a few months later, I was obsessively workin...