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On Friday, TriStar Pictures released Here, a $50 million Robert Zemeckis-directed film that used real time generative AI face transformation techniques to portray actors Tom Hanks and Robin Wright across a 60-year span, marking one of Hollywood’s first full-length features…
An eruption of Indonesia’s Lewotobi Laki-laki stratovolcano rained debris and ash on villages on the island of Flores.
As I followed a friend down a flow-y, undulating single-track trail, I started laughing. Unlike my mountain bike-riding companion, I was on a gravel bike, the new Trek Checkpoint SL 7 AXS Gen 3. You might be wondering why a…
India is eyeing a 2028 launch for its Chandrayaan-4 moon sample-return mission, followed by an uncrewed lunar lander and rover in collaboration with Japan.
A study using a mock dating app found that people retain better memories of faces they chose to match with than of those they did not choose. People who were short-term oriented, sexually attractive, and had higher mate value were…
A new study published in the British Journal of Clinical Psychology has shed light on how individual characteristics and demographic factors may affect the timing of ADHD diagnoses. Using data from a large sample of children in Ontario, researchers found…
Henry VIII’s favorite warship, the Mary Rose, sank in battle in 1545. Archaeologists successfully raised the ship in 1982, along with thousands of articles and the remains of 179 crew members—all remarkably well preserved thanks to the anaerobic conditions of…
Disposable vapes are indefensible. Many, or maybe most, of them contain rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, but manufacturers prefer to sell new ones. More than 260 million vape batteries are estimated to enter the trash stream every year in the UK alone.…
The South Taurid and North Taurid meteor showers peak in early November. Here’s everything you need to know about this month’s doubleheader of shooting stars.
X, formerly Twitter, is now letting blocked users see posts made by the people who blocked them. “We’re starting to launch the block function update,” X’s engineering team wrote yesterday. X previously said that after the change, “If your posts…
