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Image: Nintendo EPD/Nintendo via Polygon How to complete ‘The Northwest Hebra Cave Crystal’ puzzle and receive Rauru’s Blessing Continue reading…
Although Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference has always had a focus on software, the company always manages to include a few surprise hardware announcements during the event’s keynote address, and this year didn’t disappoint with our first look at the next chapter in Apple’s best-selling laptop, the MacBook…Read more...
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With great Lego animating power comes great responsibility, apparently. Or so 14-year-old Preston Mutanga discovered after his elaborate, Lego-animated recreation of the Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse trailer went viral. Instead of just receiving praise from Spider-Verse producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller over…Read more...
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The European space industry, lagging behind other industry players, is now seeking its own commercial vehicles that can transport cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) and future low Earth orbit destinations.Read more...
The Little Mermaid is only the newest of Disney’s animated adaptations. As live-action takes on Moana, Hercules, Lilo and Stitch, and Snow White are all churning their way through the Mouse House production factory, the man leading the “reimagination” is Walt Disney Pictures president Sean Bailey, who has at least 50…Read more...
A team of astrophysicists has determined through simulations that the debris shed by dying stars may be a source of gravitational waves—those ripples in spacetime predicted by Einstein over a century ago.Read more...
Superman’s newest action-comedy revival ages Kal-El down to a young man in his 20s just starting out in Metropolis. Originally called My Friend Superman, it was quietly put into production amid the Warner Bros. reshuffling in 2021 and 2022, and is now a month away from its official release on Adult Swim. Check out the…Read more...
Former NBCUniversal advertising chief Linda Yaccarino assumed her role as Twitter CEO today, taking the reigns from the company’s mercurial owner, Elon Musk, who months ago promised he would give up the CEO role once he “found someone foolish enough to take the job.”Read more...
<div><img class="type:primaryImage" src="https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--T0-BE_O0--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/bcf663a6707639bba524869bf09daaf2.jpg"><p>Companies are beginning to dive into the AI workforce headfirst—at least that’s what the data are saying. A new report says that AI is responsible for almost 4,000 job cuts last month alone.<br></p><p><a href="https://gizmodo.com/jobs-ai-ai-jobs-chatgpt-layoffs-1850505874">Read more...</a></p></div>
Editor’s note: This is part of a series profiling researchers advancing science with high performance computing. Maria Girone is expanding the world’s largest network of scientific computers with accelerated computing and AI. Since 2002, the Ph.D. in particle physics has worked on a grid of systems across 170 sites in more than 40 countries that support CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), itself poised for a major upgrade. A high-luminosity version of the giant accelerator (HL-LHC) will produce
Jiusheng Chen’s team just got accelerated. They’re delivering personalized ads to users of Microsoft Bing with 7x throughput at reduced cost, thanks to NVIDIA Triton Inference Server running on NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs. It’s an amazing achievement for the principal software engineering manager and his crew. Tuning a Complex System Bing’s ad service uses hundreds of models that are constantly evolving. Each must respond to a request within as little as 10 milliseconds, about 10x faster than t
Go behind the scenes to see how those LEGO stop motion movies come to life with the magic of Disney.Read more...
Over the weekend, Twitter co-founder and CEO of Block Jack Dorsey officially put his outsized weight behind a leading anti-vaxxer for president. Dorsey can now join other tech execs like his strained friend Elon Musk endorsing extremist political candidates, helping to spread even more misinformation online like water…Read more...
The month of June is packed with blockbuster movies, and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is leading the charge.Read more...
Since its release in February, Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur has been one of the more charming Marvel shows we’ve gotten, animated or otherwise. Throughout the series’ first season, the titular crimefighting duo (voiced respectively by Diamond White and Fred Tatasciore) have gone up against a variety of Marvel villains,…Read more...
Throughout all the trailers and promos released for Barbie, it’s clear that director Greta Gerwig is going for a splashier, brighter color palette than most live-action blockbusters these days. Pink is the most pervasive color in the footage shown thus far, and as it turns out, the film basically had a monopoly on the…Read more...