Facebook’s parent company Meta Platforms has moved beyond trying to connect humans and is ready to focus on building robotic ones. According to a report from Bloomberg, Meta is planning to pour money into a new project to build AI-powered humanoid robots. Meta reportedly plans to start the project by building a robot capable of […]
Madame Web’s Love Language Is Hitting People With Cars
The season of love is in the air once more, but a different anniversary is joining it this year: it’s been one year to the day since Madame Web‘s web dared to connect us all, often in spite of itself. In the last 12 months I have found myself embracing the camp period movie vibe that Madame […]
Will it run Crysis? LinuxPDF is Linux running inside a PDF file via a RISC-V Emulator and I can’t believe it works
Chromium browsers can turn a PDF into a working Linux environment under emulation Chrome’s disabled JIT compiler hampers performance High school-aged developer has form for impressive PDF projects, such as running Doom inside one A high-school student has achieved another coding feat, getting a lightweight Linux distribution to run inside a PDF document. Ading2210 developed […]
Amazon Is Making It Harder to Move Your E-Books Around
Amazon is once again demonstrating that buying things in today’s world does not mean you actually own them. The company is closing a loophole that enabled owners of Kindle books to strip them of their anti-piracy protection and take them elsewhere. Some avid digital books enthusiasts prefer other e-reading applications to Amazon’s Kindle—perhaps because another […]
Meta Building Big-Ass Undersea Internet Cable
Meta says it is going to invest multiple billions of dollars over the next few years to build a new subsea internet cable that will span 50,000 kilometers, longer than the Earth’s circumference, and reach five major continents. Project Waterworth, as it is called, is Meta’s first undersea cable project that it is developing on […]
Look out, AI video could soon flood YouTube Shorts
There are some unbelievably great, if abbreviated, films to watch on YouTube Shorts. A lot of them may soon be more literally unbelievable thanks to Google‘s AI video creation model Veo 2. YouTube has released Veo 2 to the Shorts platform, augmenting YouTube’s Dream Screen AI tool and letting you produce AI-fueled flicks based on […]
The Deleted Cobra Kai Scene That Would’ve Changed Everything
Cobra Kai marks the end of a journey that began in 1984. That’s when a young New Jersey boy named Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) moved to the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California and learned karate to defend himself from classmates in a dojo known as Cobra Kai. The story has spanned five (now […]
I want to store a whopping 1 Petabyte of data: Guess how much that’ll cost?
According to OpenAI 01, over 25,000 movies have been released on Blu-ray since the format went mainstream about 20 years ago*. I wanted to know what would be the best way to store all of them in a small and manageable space. For this exercise, I assume that the average size of a Blu-ray movie […]
$25 Smart TV? It’s Possible, Just Add an Amazon Fire TV Stick at Its Lowest Price
Looking to jump into streaming without spending a fortune? Amazon’s Fire TV Stick HD might be exactly what you need. This compact streaming device transforms any TV with an HDMI port into a full-featured smart TV, giving you access to virtually every streaming service out there – all controlled by a voice remote that makes […]
Record-Breaking Thermal Lake Discovered Over 400 Feet Underground
Several years ago, a team of Czech speleologists discovered a massive underground system of hot springs in Albania. Little did they know that it would lead them to the largest known subsurface thermal lake in the world. “[Following] the high column of steam coming out of the limestone massif, we managed to find an abyss […]