Inde Navarrette is continuing her rapid rise in Hollywood, signing on to both star in and executive produce Apple Original Films’ upcoming sci-fi thriller The Waffle House Index. Apple has acquired the project, which will come from Apple Studios with Plan B Entertainment producing. Louis Paxtonis set to direct from a screenplay written by Andrew…
PlayStation is going back to where it all began, this time one brick at a time. Sony Interactive Entertainment and the LEGO Group have officially revealed the first-ever LEGO PlayStation, a detailed recreation of the original PlayStation console and controller that celebrates more than 30 years of the iconic gaming brand. Revealed during PlayStation’s latest…
The animation industry is facing an existential threat in the form of generative AI. Entertainment execs remain adamant that the tech is the answer, allowing fewer workers to accomplish more in less time — a thinly-veiled attempt, critics charge, to pinch pennies and churn out lower quality content. Marketing teams are also frequently caving to…
New York City just instituted a sweeping ban on schools using AI in the classroom through the start of high school, along with other restrictions on the technology. Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the one-year moratorium on Wednesday, calling it the “most comprehensive of its kind anywhere in the country.” “The tech industry wants us to…
As if a million white collar workers suddenly cried out in terror at once, a great disturbance in the AI force forced down every major AI chatbot service — a brief moment of reprieve from our AI empire overlords. OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, and X’s Grok mysteriously went down Thursday morning, and we…
AI-powered robots briefly took over the European Parliament this week to showcase the continent’s creators as the bloc races to compete in a field dominated by China and the United States.
Nearly two dozen AI hyperscalers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, have agreed to the federal government’s new framework for building data centres in Canada. “If you build in Canada, you must build responsibly, transparently and for Canadians.” AI Minister Evan Solomon AI Minister Evan Solomon announced the framework and its signatories at an event in…
A decade ago, launching a technology company meant raising significant capital early, hiring engineers quickly, and spending months or even years building before heading to market. AI is rapidly compressing that timeline; Founders can now test ideas faster, launch products earlier, and prove demand with smaller teams and less upfront capital. “The time is now…
A new study finds that composite metal foam (CMF) could significantly improve automobile safety during frontal collisions. Using computational models to run detailed simulations, researchers found that incorporating CMF into automobile “front rails” would allow them to absorb more energy during high-velocity impacts.
An international research team has announced the first-ever successful observation of gravity’s effect on a falling quantum object, demonstrating a connection between gravity and the quantum world first predicted by Albert Einstein. The research team said the result does not unify quantum mechanics and gravity, nor does it prove that gravity is a quantum phenomenon….
